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welcome do. not say i don't build on. top news stories first it's a day of mourning in russia's republic of. a troll through a crowded market and its capital getting nineteen and injuring more than a hundred. may seem to our minds bankers and power brokers are in the russian city. for a second st louis has ideas and ideologies and dealing with the world's biggest problems. and sparking outrage as a threat by us plus starts above. is postponed to speak to americans who recently converted to islam and say there is no place for extremism in production.

as niam here in the russian city of us live what will be a bring can give the full coverage of the global policy forum held here for the second year in a row but first to top story russia's republic of north assessor was holding an official day of mourning for the victims of the deadly terror attack in its capital . alone suicide bomber is believed to have been behind the car bomb blast which killed nineteen people and injured hundred thirty six our correspondents on live reports from the city. we are in logic of cars at the moment yesterday our car which was parked near the central market exploded and this powerful explosion ripped through the city and resulted in many victims and for the whole night investigators have been at the scene working because the blast was so powerful they need all this time. to get the details the people to the whole cd is so moved by

what has happened that they were coming to the market to the scene of explosions through the whole night they were eating flowers they were crying and of course they will live in candles also there are those who want to become blood donors and over one hundred fifty came to the hospitals yesterday and the doctors say that many more are expected to come today to local authorities are also working there repairing the damage to housing is because many windows were smashed out by this powerful blast even back windows of the houses just next just in front of this market today latika of cars is declared a day of mourning and so in many churches here in the sea to people will be praying over the victims or with those who are in hospitals still to you all victims have died in the hospital one of them. seventy nine year old man one hundred people are still in hospitals many of them are in severe condition and

ten are unconscious the head of a russian investigation committee he's here in logic of cars at the moment and he is leading the investigation there have been reports that police detained three suspects but we haven't received any official confirmation of this so far also what investigators can say now the bomb was stuffed with metal parts and this made the damage even worse and resulted in so many victims. those most current in the terror attack have been airlifted to moscow by the emergencies ministry along with their relatives eleven people including a child in a coma where on board a specially equipped plane which landed in the moscow region during the night and they will be receiving special care when it happens hospital their condition is reported as very serious. the u.s. state department says militants operating in the north caucasus have links to al

qaeda statement also says washington is willing to help moscow in its fight against terrorism in the region. has more. this time russian the u.s. seem to be on the same page the u.s. state department said the terrorist attack in gaza as you mentioned is part of international terrorism and those who are responsible for it are international terrorists and they have connections to al qaida they also said it's a common goal for russia and the u.s. to work together to fight those terrorist groups but washer and the u.s. had in always being on the same page like that for years russia tormented by a number of horrible attacks had been saying it's a common danger these guys are international terrorists and we need help to find them to fight them but a while ago the common understanding of the common wisdom among many in the west was that those attacks are just part of separatist movements in russian caucuses

and russia kept saying those terrorists are getting funding from abroad and a number of them were trained abroad but internationally it had been treated like some sort of a domestic fight against insurgents while now things seem to be changing the u.s. has acknowledged that groups operating in russia have for international ties few months ago shortly after deadly suicide bombings in the moscow metro the u.s. state department included the person who claimed responsibility for the attacks its name. in its list of most wanted terrorists and that was probably the first time that they did sort of think forty people died then in that attack or modify also claimed responsibility for the attack on on the train traveling from same piece of work to moscow that was in november of last year well the russian security services would give a lot to have this man behind bars and now they seem to have some help from the united states in that in that fight but

dr weil eat. the bombing in the south and russian city of logic of course is just a part of a worldwide terrorist war against democracy. well this attack suicide attack in the northern caucasus is not just a local attack by a local terrorist it is considered internationally and even here in america as a jihadi terror against democracy in russia as a whole they don't want to go through the political process and beyond that as we see around the world whatever you have suicide bombers you see also a threat against international democracy and freedom we've seen this before it has a history attacks by the hardest movement linked to al qaida worldwide inside russia in dagestan in chechnya in this part of the caucasus have all the goal of basically bringing down the political process first locally in these local provinces and republics and then as much as they can try to form. russia as

a country and as a democracy but this is not isolated to russia what we need to see is how similar networks operate in afghanistan bomb civilians in baghdad in algeria in london and madrid and we last year had almost the same attempt here in new york times square almost similar prime minister putin said that muslims in general should have the prime role in resisting jihadism in fighting terrorism russians should be with them the international community should back them and support them but what prime minister putin said is correct. the salafist and all their allies around the world including in russia they do target first the muslim moderates but again look at the high profile killings benazir bhutto prime minister former prime minister of pakistan prime minister hariri of levanon members of the parliament in baghdad so the jihadist at the end of the day are targeting muslims first and the response

should come from civil society if they should be in the front line we should support them the international community should support them. so some of the world's finest minds some of the planet's most pressing problems the commission of course here in the russian city of which is gearing up for the second and final day of the global policy forum there were some big name speakers yesterday and. the conference today now to get down to some of the details live to our correspondent. at the heart of adults hi tess us so we're gearing up for the second day of discussions on some world leaders are due to address the conference who are some of the big names we can expect. that's right this is the second day of the global policy forum and we are expecting a lot of big name security have been stepped up of course we are expecting a russian president dmitri medvedev you're also expecting. president the former

prime minister. and of course italian prime minister silvio berlusconi so we have a large contingent from asia a large contingent from western europe we are expecting them to sit down with each other and discuss have one on one conversations and we're also expecting them to be briefed on the working sessions that happened yesterday on topics such as terrorism organized crime. security and of course we have representatives from you when you have representatives from nato so again we have gathering some of the most important people in the world and already this conference on its second year has been compared to before and so again we're going to be expecting a lot of big names today so we're looking forward to what they have to say to the participants of this forum. and. that will be discussed today which will illustrate just how important relevant to today's world that this forum is tell us more about

. right so yesterday we had four working sessions but today we have one agenda on the table and that is the intersection panel on the treaty of your. securities and european security is going to be at the heart of the discussions today they're going to talk about whether a new architecture of security for the region is going to be a necessary new legal framework now there are there are different size different opinions to this of course some are saying that perhaps we should look at the similarities between the different policies and systems that are already in place and use this as a something so that if we remember this european security policy has been proposed by a russian president. two years ago and a draft was made last year although this is a russian initiative it has become a global concerns of that's why we have people from around the world coming here to discuss all the way from asia from western europe because the security of the euro atlantic area is very important to the security of the world and therefore today we

will see they will analyze the weaknesses of the strengths of the current policies and see if there are actually practical and possible solutions they can come up with to counter the threats that the world is facing today. all right thanks very much indeed for that. throughout the day of course another thing which is going to be discussed at the forum is a logical go russia written one year ago by president dmitri medvedev. to a great deal of debate spoke to the president's press secretary not that it's about to find out why. the. president gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently in it was not unflattering in the meaning of critical of the previous period and previous achievements no on the contrary they were giving credit but it was stated that the model of development russia had chosen and pursued until now is no longer viable

the president named a number of reasons that stand in the way of the country's development corruption was named as a major reason for delay in development it is true that no competition is possible until we have a well built up. day judicial system until we can match corruption and have fear unbiased courts and on as an unbiased law enforcement personnel in without all this it will be hard for russia to secure a good place on the global scene in the midst of media. and you can see the full version of that interview with the president's press secretary in the next hour here on r.t. and we will continue our coverage of the global policy forum here in get us lovely in the hours ahead this year the city is marking its millenia man averse harry will be covering the celebrations two days here today and tomorrow. when the news is. when it's something really crucial what you want to get down to.

special coverage. this time the latest news from the. policy for. wrong special guests discussions on the you know modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. question more on the. other news this hour here in the u.s. pastor who threatened to burn copies of the qur'an on saturday's anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks says his plans are not canceled but they are. the initial threat to be met with outrage president obama described the postponement of the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for al qaeda and said it would put american lives at risk meanwhile a new poll shows that the u.s. has seen a rise in the number of people converting to off to nine eleven. reports now on americans who've recently become muslims and say there's no place for extremism in

religion. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian converted last year the first of ramadan my mother. he was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was crying a lot fought that i was returning her by changing my religion to something that she didn't know about backtrack almost a decade ago to nine eleven today our fellow citizens our way of life. our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists many americans like caitlin billings remember that time in the united states very well i

was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what was going on if it really was you know people thought it was so i believed it just like everybody else but as billings got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the mistah office center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings who have found allah a new poll found that almost forty percent of americans believe that muslims should carry identification cards despite that twenty thousand americans every year decide to convert to islam be a convert say they don't regret their decision at all it's a choice that they must think about every day around the world since nine eleven muslims have battled bands of their religious clothing profiling in airports and discrimination in their everyday lives after joining a class to learn more about islam carl dodge also decided to become a muslim one of the big jokes that i've always made is before i actually set down

the class an open microphone everything i knew about islam i had learned from c.n.n. and when it comes to the mainstream media the depiction of converts can be somewhat extreme that pakistani officials have arrested adam gadahn this is the american born spokesman for al qaeda fox's work first there was john walker lindh the californian who converted joined the taliban and then did up fighting with them in afghanistan and then more recently it was jihad jane the blond haired blue eyed convert who allegedly recruited people to wage violent jihad and for many american muslims like dodge and billings the portrayal of converts is disturbing if those upset me a little bit because there's a lot of preconceptions people have been until i actually took the time. i'm to open up a koran and see what was written you know that was my only impression of islam as what i had seen on t.v. and in the united states they say a culture of islamophobia just doesn't make sense it's a rights of proper us religion that's what this country was founded on just had

somebody asked me the other day is also are you against america now and it's like ok. i mean you know u.s. veteran as well i served in the u.s. navy and so i do believe in this country no matter what unfolds around her billing says she's proud to be a muslim if no one in the world wants to talk to me and be my friend i still regret the happiness that might not make sense to those around her little over three a sure either party annandale virginia. serbia is dropping a challenge to coast of us independence at the united nations but wade has removed a section of a young resolution that called coast of us recession unacceptable now the e.u. urged serbia it was no its trafton focus instead on its prospects for e.u. membership in modified resolution is the result of a compromise forced by the twenty seven member e.u.

and serbia close of the seceded from serbia two years ago after decades of conflict called this war antiwar dot com nicholas malley thinks serbia has much to lose from the agreement. in practice it stands to gain absolutely nothing it stands to lose everything. the resolution was changed so that the e.u. would be less angry with serbia but what brussels is still demanding is pretty much an unconditional surrender a full abdication of state sovereignty or any sort of independent foreign policy i think there will be a colossal backlash against the government among the people there will definitely be some some significant changes coming down the pike i believe so honestly because the current government by by doing this has exhausted any sort of credibility any sort of claim to be defending the country has completely obliterated its electoral promises of fighting for kosovo and refusing to recognize it because the resolution as it reads right now is an implicit recognition of the session has alienated its

strongest allies in the world from russia to china and brazil and other countries and has done all this to basically score points with the e.u. and the e.u. itself doesn't really recognize this and will continue to apply pressure and humiliate the country and it's at this point just a matter of time before the people realize that they've been completely robbed of their birthright and of their entire country and then it's to knows how they would react. well before we cross back to moscow for the business news let's have a look at some of the world news in brief now a lawyer has broken out in a residential district francisco after what is believed to be a gas pipe explosion residents heard a loud blast before at least a dozen homes and go for fire just to try to contain the twenty metre high flames and stop them from spreading to nearby buildings there were some injuries but the exact number is still don't know. and that's one of the thirty eight

passengers on board has been hit by a freight train in southeast for sale killing at least nine people. were injured when the train smashed into a bus and dropped into long for almost a hundred meters and investigation has begun police believe the driver of the stop sign. the israeli air force is struck several sites and the girls are strip it's reported that hamas training base for security forces and some of the smuggling tunnels are being done some buildings and many callers have been destroyed leaving at least five people injured israeli officials say that the strikes. rocket or mortar attacks carried out two days ago. ok that's all from us for now but don't forget we'll be bringing you a full live coverage from the farm here and the russian. throughout the day we'll be talking to experts academics politicians every hour of course we'll bring you all the other news updates from russia and across the world as promised let's now

get the latest business news with from moscow studio. that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business america's great exporters sa expected to raise their forecast for full here exports to fetch a six million tonnes that's the third increase in two months and suggests that american grain producers on taking russia's export markets russia has suspended grade next fall so it's expected to return to the markets next chair save me a bit of reports. the last one and a half months has wiped out the work of six years in which russia build a thirteen percent share of the world grain market the prolonged export ban not only rocked international markets but also he did the mystic one russian we've brought this is were based on export prices set on the trading floors of chicago in

london now russia's consumers and producers come to green prices and green is sitting in storage the government has proposed sitting on domestic exchanges but specialists say it will be impossible to set a price with the export been in place if you're going to have a very stringent export policy imported policy or form. minimum prices for you know what's the point of the commodity exchange there won't be any price discovery if tomorrow you're going to put a huge tariff and only important thing for export tax or export bad or have a minimum price of often could be beyond the world level the world has become dependent on the c.s. for wheat supplying thirty percent of the world's needs this year russia's sheers being covered by the u.s. industry really but at higher prices but the united states has the supply to step in australia as well step in and supply that grain it will probably be more money

than the russian grain was the last couple seasons and so importers such as egypt north africa will have to pay more money than there used to or they were the last couple seasons but they were and is there and they will be able to get it. and i think that in the next couple of years of russian output increases again then they will enter the market again and they will be able to secure more market share to regain its market share russia will need a bumper harvest next year and that's looking unlikely russia's green producers who are going green waiting for better prices and can barely afford to plan next year's crop the expert ben intended to protect russian consumers by keeping green in the country could ultimately hurt them did mean to do a business. will boost investment by thirteen percent in the final months of twenty ten it will take the total sum for the year to about thirty five billion dollars that's just the company's expectations that the revenues will fall by four percent

the money will go on gas transport projects plants and russia's far east along with the north and south stream pipeline forgit analysts expect further increasing gas from some vestment program into twenty eleven while revenues are still unlikely to rise because of the unstable demand for the count's. a look at how the markets are faring this hour let's start with asia where the markets were high in early trey's this comes after heard oil gauges fewer people applied for jobless benefits in the u.s. and japan lifted its estimate for the second quarter economic growth and this is all they have slightly lost some gains the nikkei is stopped one point two percent on the hand saying it's flat to negative. there are some markets ended in the black on thursday with the r.t.s. finishing up over one and a hell percent in the mice it's just over a percent for us telecom was the biggest gain on that my sixty five cent banking and energy shares were also higher with me to be gaining three percent on the

r.t.s. shares will spare blank and finished up two point four percent. spare bank could offer a four point six billion dollar loan to resell this small bank chief garamond told reporters in get a slot the aluminum giant needs to refinance his debt to new should come back has also announced that the privatization of one point three percent stake in spirit one happened this year turning to its operations he added the script on spec its retail loads up for it to grow ten to fifteen percent in twenty ten. the anti-monopoly service has approved the x five retail group buying one hundred percent of the big chain store if the deal takes place six five will control twenty five percent of russia's grocery market the owners of cafe car have a receptive want to sell up because he was also looking at an i.p.o. value chain at one point seven billion dollars russian exchanges promise to offer

trade in the ruble and chinese yuan within months but businessmen say it's unlikely to have much impact for small and medium sized enterprises. really. recently it's really growing and we all know that it's all is to me yes two years dollars so when we get us dollar from our customer we are not sure how much we should pay to morrow to chinese vendors so this is a really big change risk for us frankly speaking i'm very skeptical they put into practice first to war and second into influence only big business maybe somehow we'll be utilized by companies who trade wrong material to try and maybe do it will be it will be more easy for them to trade. and something on real estate russia development fund or got out of a developed project with forty percent profits the.