for your invitation to make this visit to vietnam. it ended opens a new page in our relations with him and thank you very much. the man michael. so dear colleagues i would like to hear to ask your questions now unfortunately we cannot have much time in the. way the. information agency or at least. have a question for both presidents what do you think. of the current relations between russia and vietnam since our countries have established such as a partnership relations in two thousand and five and. thank you michael . well i would like to be the first harasser shipley's member. bit numb and russia have always been very warm friendly relations. those relations have been of strategic nature since long ago and. it will work. very. well but only recently we established official strategic relations and diversity as those relations have been developing steadily this shows first of all we have a high level of confidence and trust that characterizes our relations. very highly thinks of russia's role in the regional and international global p

vietnam. or now let's get some more details on the austrian summit was also used catherine i was up on our joins me live from hundred noise so catarina you've been following the events tell me what's what's come out of a surface. so far of course this summit has been very productive like as many readers have said like most of the summits a lot of work has already been done the russian president meeting with taking part in today's addresses and working sessions also said that russia's involvement in the asia pacific region is of a. nature and he hopes that his relationship with the asia pacific region countries as a very good potential showing and economically developing economies and countries he hopes that that relation between those countries and russia will only grow and prosper of course many issues were addressed during the a.c.n. working sessions of for example the issues of natural disasters which of course this region is specifically prone to specifically hurricanes tsunamis underwater

vietnam in the twenty first century it might look like a throwback to cold war times but it's not the case vietnamese modernizing its economy growing at an increasing rate and it's looking to his old allies to help spur that alone. we're cooperating with many countries but among them is one old friend an old reliable friend we trust greatly russia. russian cars are on the streets of vietnam while vietnamese streams are a much loved delicacy on the russian dinner tables last year alone the trade turnover between the two countries reached almost two billion dollars with both hoping to increase to ten billion. russian money big companies are flowing to vietnam bringing millions of dollars of investment which is a good sign of healthy relations. but the biggest venture is still ahead russia has to build vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for georgia some environmentalists to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they turned the central province haiti's locals call it the land of sand and so on. there is no rain here now it's

vietnam. and on the sidelines of that summit moscow and washington valves to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint anti-drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton. but the operation hasn't met with everyone's approval afghan president hamid karzai has criticized the joint mission for what he called a violation of his country's sovereignty he says afghanistan is committed to stemming the flow of narcotics but such operations should be carried out with the prior consent of the afghan government and still ahead for you this hour. russia's new drink driving ban is getting tough as it aims

a long friendship between vietnam and its strongest ally communist brother u.s.s.r. its vietnamese name could be translated as rising dragon and it seems the drug on its tail flying high twenty years on after the collapse of the soviet union russia is among vietnam's closest partners riven ocean r.t. vietnam. and on the sidelines of moscow and washington valid to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint anti-drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed four. seized almost a ton. and still ahead for you this hour russia's new drink driving ban is. the country's shocking record of road but some say it's going too far plus. the high ranking a. little. more from the state of the art security hardware

vietnam has already signed up for its first nuclear power plant. another spy scandal could be on the horizon with reports claiming georgia has rounded up twenty members. tbilisi is yet to confirm or deny the report but says it will respond in the coming days. and america chooses political satirist jon stewart as the most influential man of the year putting their trust in comedians politicians for president obama to make it into the top twenty. and taking us up to the next update in thirty minutes we have our interview show spotlight talks with russian film director alexy about his new film the edge and its chances at the oscars.

i followed that by volunteering to go to vietnam in the state department. before that, working backwards, i had worked at the rand corporation mainly on nuclear planning and crisis planning. in vietnam i used as a civilian the training i'd had still earlier in the marine corps. i'd been a rifle platoon leader and a rifle company commander. and i was able to use that training in vietnam to see the war up close. >> belva: there were instances within this documentary where you hear the voice of president nixon speaking. was it difficult obtaining those tapes and the kinds of information to go with the printed material that you had? >> hard for me to hear it? >> belva: yeah. >> it was -- it's funny. i have found that his expletives deleted in the white house version of those can be said on a.m. because it's the president speaking, without getting bleeped out. but i think i won't test that out on your program. but it was very striking to realize how much attention the president had been giving to me and the possibility that i would tell the truth about his admin

vietnam. and on the sidelines of that summit moscow and washington vowed to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program new european security architecture russian a foreign minister sergei lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to also praised the successful joint anti drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed a full abs and seized almost a ton of heroin. and former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener says it's a shame washington couldn't come around to the view of eradication until russia forced it to act. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's going to reluctance in the united states to even go after the drug trade in afghanistan it's been a policy of the military to let it go and that's tragic and it's unbelievable t

in the oil and gas projects in both vietnam and russia. and we also as parser cooperates in third countries as well. now we're also boosting our cooperation in the investments and economies fair. in vietnam. and i would like to see more russian investments in this economy. and the parties have taken a closer look. at the possibility of creating a free trade zone between vietnam and russia and the customs union that russia is a member of. i. would also like. to see a train trade turnover to reach three billion three billion dollars by two thousand and sixteen so there is a great potential for cooperation and we're also boasting cooperation in the sphere of politics and security. russia is a very important partner of ours in this here and there are also very many spheres where we can cooperate. include in this sphere of science and technology medicine and health care. and have made many important agreements today. and i would like once again. to underline our high appreciation of mr medvedev spares a top country. and we are grateful to russi

vietnam. still have for you this hour here on our team tank top. taking the big easy carry out the pen so did that at the time you. cd really does provide a unique of the cheetah to see the footage of the big fish and the thing that we have these big income but that you wait to. actually sarah first gets on board the latest super eagles and the russian military arms expert. before that russia has a zero tolerance approach to drinking and driving but still alcohol is blamed for around two thousand deaths a year and opponents of the last think it's actually too strict they say new breathalyzers are so effective just eating food can push motorists over the limit. operation mini break the driver is in full swing it's the latest attempt to combat russia's drink driving problem one of the worst in the world these offices are equipped with brand new breathalyzers and all go zero tolerance more with allows no alcohol at all and to drive the system. instead of arresting more people who are reckless seen and drop people undeterred by the new laws and the the

a long friendship between vietnam and its strongest ally the big communist brother u.s.s.r. its vietnamese name could be translated as rising dragon and it seems the drug got its tail flying high twenty years on after the collapse of the soviet union russia is among vietnam's closest partners riven ocean r.t. vietnam. and on the sidelines of the summit moscow and washington vow continued talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergei lavrov off met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint anti drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics trade on thursday russian u.s. special forces conducted the first of a major of a joint operation against drug produces in the region they destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of time when. u.s. drug policy spokesman robert we know says it's a shame that washington couldn't come around to the view of eradication of crops until russia forced it to act fortunate that it has taken

vietnam. and on the sidelines of that summit moscow and washington vowed to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and a new european security plan the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to praise the successful joint operation in afghanistan and agreed to go. on thursday the russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first joint operation against produces in the region destroyed for almost a ton of. this. new drink driving ban is getting tough as. some say it's going too far plus. the high ranking officials. will have more from the state security hardware exhibition that's just taken place outside moscow. a story still to come but first a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia are off to reports that twenty people have been caught allegedly spying for moscow with many experts say this could be a p.r. stunt but tbilisi. has more now from georgia. what we do know about this story is that twenty pe

russian cars are on the streets of vietnam while vietnamese streams are a much loved delicacy on russian dinner tables last year alone the trade turnover between the two countries reached almost two billion dollars with both hoping to increase to ten billion. russian money big companies are flowing to vietnam bringing millions of dollars of investment which is a good sign of healthy relations. but the biggest venture a still had russia is to build vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for georgeson environmentalist to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they chose the central province mench on haiti's locals call it the land of sand and so on. there is no rain here now it's raining but it's for the first time in the last few months and as a result few people live in here and that makes it an almost ideal place for a future project and the plans include a power stations within the next two decades we think the first unit we launched by twenty twenty it will provide us with cheap and safe energy to meet up to fifteen percent of

vietnam. and on the sidelines of that summit moscow and washington vowed to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and a new european security plan the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against that narcotics trade thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region it destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin. well still ahead for you this. on russia's new drink. as it aims to cut the country's shocking record of road but some say it's going to. go to the high ranking officials. specialized in military equipment like this heavily on the. security hardware exhibition that's just taken place outside. first a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia after reports of twenty people have been caught allegedly spying

vietnam. still to come for you here on ars he zero tolerance russia's new drink driving ban is going. to cut the country's shocking road but some say he goes too far. to. find out why americans trust t.v. comedian more than anyone else much more than the president that's in just a couple of minutes right here on alt. a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia after reports that twenty people have been caught allegedly spying for moscow georgian officials have so far refused to confirm or deny any parts of the story but have said they will soon make a statement artie's peter all of a tries to shed more light on the story. well on friday the reuters news agency was reporting that twenty people had been arrested in georgia accused of spying for moscow the report cited a source saying that all twenty were georgian citizens however way yet to hear any official response from the georgian sides over those arrests now we may not hear until perhaps november the fifth when the georgian f

vietnam. era silence of that summit and we had members capital hanoi russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton they praised the first. and russia nato and iraq operation in afghanistan which happened on thursday lavrov said it set an example for others but added it shouldn't stop there and agreement to share information on drug trafficking and terrorism has been made between moscow and washington and as our teams are in english the reports russia has been trying to bring the scale of the drugs problem to u.s. attention for quite some time. in a puff of smoke. for drug producing labs in the mountains on the border between afghanistan and pakistan more than a ton of heroin and morphine destroyed in the process this is rushing nato working together closer than ever before in its first ever joint operation on a grand scale this courtney's number trees in the mountainous area and leaves pakistan we used about seventy special forces units three l

. >> he lied about vietnam. what else is he lying about? >> joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger. dorothy rah bid wits and james toronto. and dorothy, all politicians lie or at least opponents accuse them of lying, is this ad fair? >> you mean fair being truthful? yes, it's fair. is it kind? no, it's a really perfect example and he's a perfect expression of political lying at its worst, it reveals character in a very fundamental way. you cannot say as often as he does in that, in that ad, in vietnam when we came back. can anybody be so absent minded and gotten the details of the military career, such as he did not serve in the war? and what really happened is that, this is an exposure after he was out there. >> he was in the marine reserves. >> he was in the marines, but the point is that the amount of bluster that went into defending this lie was telling, because it told you something about his attitude toward the electorate. perfectly clear expressions of w

dollars and will certainly help vietnam stablish stability in its energy sector vietnam of course suffers from a lot of blackouts or a lot of electricity shortage it helps president.

dollars and will certainly help vietnam stablish stability and its energy sector vietnam of course suffers from a lot of blackouts are a lot of electricity shortage it helps president himself said help the country establish itself within the twenty first century world the arena has a strong suit.

vietnam preferred russia shows that there is a revival of sorts of. relations between our two countries i don't think that. one can see here that russia's revival is fair now it's a premature to say that but it's a long way here to think i'm ok it's often a expert in moscow state university the national ations thanks very much indeed for your opinions here. are you watching r t live from moscow now in georgia and russia could be one step away from a fresh spy scandal with reports tbilisi detained twenty people for alleged espionage and friday according to an anonymous source quoted by reuters the detainees are all georgian and are suspected of creating a spy network to gather secret information from moscow the georgian interior ministry has so far refused to comment and says it won't do so until the end of the week russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said moscow is not aware of any details as there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries observers say the lack of clarification from tbilisi is an indictment of the authoritarian way th

particularly about vietnam and democrats of a certain age. john kerry came to public prominence in 1971 by testifying before the senate about all of these fancy full stories of war crimes. they had a story about going to cambodia in -- in 1968. >> paul: okay, understood. you have the case of mark kirk a republican running for senate in illinois at the minimum exaggerated his service in the military. he had two clear -- >> he had two clear misstatements he said he won something called the intelligence officer of the year award which doesn't exist. if it does he never won it. on his website there was a statement he served in operation iraqi freedom. this was the same excuse blumenthal had, stateside that was -- >> paul: what is the different between kirk and blumenthal? >> there's a difference of degree. saying i served in vietnam, saying when we came back and repeatedly saying, it is a more serious lie. but on kirk too. >> paul: dorothy is there a distinction would you draw? >> yes, but the same truth holds for both. which is, it is inconceiva

this morning linda mcmahon put up an ad showing blumenthal's past mistake about his service in vietnam. says in several occasions he was in the country. turns out he was not. that's a focal point of a very nasty debate tonight. >> in a race in which the poll shows is only a three-point spread within the margin of error among likely voters. let's look at the dualing ads in the connecticut race. >> sure. >> the kind of ceo linda mcmahon wants is the kind of senator she would be. as ceo mcmahon laid off workers and took millions in bonuses. linda mcmahon, a bad ceo, a worse senator. >> would you lie about serving in a war? >> we have learns something very important since the days i've served in vietnam. >> he covered one lie with another. >> since the days that i've

and when i was in vietnam, come on. >> here's linda mcmahon. let her do her thing. we don't have to do it. let's hear what linda mcmahon has to say about him. >> and we need people who know how to create jobs. we need people who have walked in those shoes. we need people who have experienced when things aren't so good. i've been bankrupt. i've come back from bankruptcy. i've had the opportunity because of the american dream and this country to grow and to experience what a lot of our folks are experiencing now. mr. blumenthal doesn't have that experience. he's been on the government payroll all of his life. >> that is an effective shot. she's got two. first, this guy lied about vietnam. secondly, he's been on the government payroll his whole life. i don't know if she can win, but if there's any two messages -- >> she's been exploiting wrestlers. she's been taking advantage of workers and saying we don't -- >> okay. i don't have any idea. this is the flip of the coin, this baby. i want to know who's going to defend carl paladino. here he goes, t

we're locked into vietnam. then president obama says something that i think is really important because biden said, look, what you're doing may not work. and if it doesn't work, and, of course, this is interesting that the vice president will speak to the president this way. you may get to the point where you've got to make a really tough god damned decision, man. not "mr. president" but "man." obama says, i'm not signing on to a failure. if what i proposed is not working, i'm not going to be like these other presidents and stick to it based on my ego or my politics, my political security. end quote. this is barack obama saying i'm not going to be lyndon johnson. >> larry: we'll be back with more. "obama's wars." don't go away. you struggle to control your blood sugar. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding ongly

and when i was in vietnam, come on. >> here's linda mcmahon. let her do her thing. we don't have to do it. let's hear what linda mcmahon has to say about him. >> and we need people who know how to create jobs. we need people who have walked in those shoes. we need people who have experienced when things aren't so good. i've been bankrupt. i've come back from bankruptcy. i've had the opportunity because of the american dream and this country to grow and to experience what a lot of our folks are experiencing now. mr. blumenthal doesn't have that experience. he's been on the government payroll all of his life. >> that is an effective shot. she's got two. first, this guy lied about vietnam. secondly, he's been on the government payroll his whole life. i don't know if she can win, but if there's any two messages -- >> she's been exploiting wrestlers. she's been taking advantage of workers and saying we don't -- >> okay. i don't have any idea. this is the flip of the coin, this baby. i want to know who's going to defend carl paladino. here he goes, t

you know there are some practical limitations when you go back to vietnam there are pictures that. help to end the war might the picture of the naked girl burning with napalm running down the street i think if we saw for one week babies dead on the ground women with their legs blown off if we watch that for one week i think people in this country would say no to war people say war is not an answer to conflict in the twenty first century i think the coverage of the tsunami proves that december twenty sixth this natural catastrophe that some of the media raced over and they showed us the pictures of people suffering what people cared about is seeing orphans is seeing women and men struggling and those that didn't make it and they poured out their hearts and their pocketbooks in this unprecedented generosity global generosity because the media focus the spotlight where it mattered and showed people suffering that's the role of the media we can do something about that . instead though the media doesn't usually do that and so people are cut off especially in the united states. come here

he spoke of the likelihood of naoto kan meeting the chinese wen jiabao during the summit in vietnam. >> meanwhile, japan's chief cabinet secretary said on tuesday that talks between the two countries' leaders is possible. >> japan's trade and industry minister says some rare earth metal imports from china have resumed but they're still far from normal. the shipments had virtually stopped after the diplomatic dispute between tokyo and beijing. speaking to reporters on tuesday, it was hinted that japan may send officials to china if exports of rare metals remain stalled. >> translator: if we cannot see any improvement on shipments, we may take some form of action around next week to ask china to improve the situation. >> defense ministers from the ten-member asean plus eight countries including japan and the united states have expressed concern over territorial disputes in the south china sea. >>> the meeting is the first ever regional security conference held in vietnam's capital hanoi on tuesday. vietnam's defense minister told reporters after the conference that japan, the u.s., and

more reporters were killed in iraq than during the entire vietnam war most of them are independents it's called shooting the messenger you have people on imbedded who risked their lives to go to iraq people like. april eighth two thousand and three reporter for al-jazeera had just come over from jordan and the u.s. military strafed the area he immediately died his wife ensured at the funeral said he breeds hate who is engaged in terrorism now. al jazeera had given the coordinates of the office several times to the pentagon maybe that was their first mistake later the same day the u.s. tanks shot at the palestine hotel where around one hundred international journalists were staying the attack killed jose couso a camera man for the spanish tell us think and told us just see a veteran reuters cameraman. around the room from a little bit. i have a friend a colleague who was at the palestine when it was shot when the reuters office was shot by the take which the u.s. military claimed that they take had drawn fire i've personally seen these tapes they showed the tape for several minutes before

troops missiles i don't let the state any people say the picture in vietnam of the little vietnamese girl who is napalm to help to turn the water around is no question in my mind that picture would be shown today later no question in my mind that that picture would be shown today and yet we are seeing picture after picture and broadcasting onto accuracy now on our show i know of children like that and we are not seeing them on c.n.n. well but be careful here about what you say you're seeing of c.n.n. and what you're not because you're not really right. we didn't you know there are some practical limitations when you go back to vietnam there are pictures that. help to end the war like the picture of the naked girl burning with napalm running down the street i think if we saw for one week babies dead on the ground women with their legs blown off if we watch that for one week i think people in this country would say no to war people say war is not an answer to conflict in the twenty first century i think the coverage of the tsunami proves that december twenty sixth this natural catastro