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hello and welcome you with r.t. and i'm sophie shevardnadze. and we're coming to you live from an. all of top news stories this so it's a day of mourning in russia's republic of north a search for a call bomb tore through a crowded market in its capital killing seventeen and injuring more than one hundred. alternative approach russia's plans for a new european security treaty which would and cold war mentality bases and dissects it says the global policy forum in yugoslavia enters its second day. sparking outrage is a threat by the us post to burn copies of the koran is postponed all to speak to americans who've recently converted to islam and say there's no place for extremism in religion.

it's eleven am here and there rush in the city of us lovely and we will be bringing you full coverage of the global policy forum which is now into its second and final day but first to our top story russia's republic of set your is 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 wrecks. splosion which killed seventeen people and injured one hundred and to thirty seven our correspondent reports from the city. investigators have been working at the scene the whole night and people it seems like the whole c.t. was coming to the scene people were bringing flowers lightnin candles they're all united by the mine over the victims over one hundred fifty just yesterday decided to become blood donors and want to hospitals where the injured are taken and the

doctors are expecting that many more will be coming to the local authorities right now are repairing the damaged houses because the explosion was so powerful that all the windows were smashed out even the back windows of the houses at this street were smashed out this a curator measures in logic of cars a tie down and the moment you can see more police cars in the streets and the security has been tightened as well on the border between english eritrea and north a city here today not the city's declared it do your morning so we all churches throughout the cd and behold republic people will be praying over the victims and all were hungry and are of the injured are still in hospitals ten of them are unconscious and the doctors still don't know their names and where they are coming from the head of the investigation committee is now in logic of cars and he is leading the investigation there have been reports the police detained who are suspects but we haven't received any official confirmation so far what we do know

is that the car where the bomb was planted comes from english it is the owner of those identified but he isn't all the man who was behind the wheel at the moment of a terror attack or a criminal case has been launched and the investigators qualify the case as an act of terrorism they also say that the bomb contained mad all parts and this made the damage it wouldn't worse and that's why it was altered in so many people being injured. those most hurt 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 were aboard a specially plane which landed in the moscow region during the night it will be receiving special care in a capitals hospitals and their condition is reported as very serious they russian government has promised compensation for the families of the victims and those injured in the blast. 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 forty against terrorism in the region or to go to 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 it always been 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 a 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 it's. go modify it into its list of most wanted terrorists and that was probably the first time that they did a sort of think forty people died then in that attack or not of also claimed responsibility for the attack on on the train travelling from same place of work to moscow that was in november of last year while 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. let's go scientist dr weil it's

cyrus believes that the bombing ghana south and russian city of logic of gas is just a part of the world wide terrorists who are 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 you heard it 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 who've seen this before it has 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 of britain that muslims in general should have the prime role in resisting jihadism in fighting terrorism russia should be with them the international community should back them and support them what prime minister putin said is correct that your hardest solid first 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 we're here. but it's currently dealing with some very problems is hosting the second floor of the global policy forum to russia's plans for a new european security treaty which is a cold war mentality will be one of the main talking points world leaders are among those still address the conference which has already played host to big name speakers tackling some pretty big issues well for the latest developments from the heart of the global policy forum we can now cross to our correspondent. hi tessa's so the second days in full swing now what's been happening and who are the star speakers still to come. that's right is the second day of the policy global global policy forum that is and today we're expecting big names to come of

course russian president medvedev we're also expecting a south korean president lee myung bak former japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama as well as prime minister silvio berlusconi so we'll have a lot of big names we expect them to be sitting down with each other talking about the issues that were brought up yesterday we expect them to be briefed about the results of the working sessions yesterday with topics ranging from terrorism organized crime energy security as well as climate change and today as specifically for today on the table is an investigative panel on the treaty on the european security it basically is about infrastructure a political infrastructure of the euro policy in terms of security cooperation between the countries now this idea was brought about by russian president dmitry medvedev two years ago and in two thousand and nine they drafted russia drafted a proposal and so today it's being laid out on the table and we have

a large contingent from asia and europe and it is going to be on the international table for discussion it will be analyzed they will look at the pros and the cons of whether it is necessary or. whether they can actually come up with a treaty at this for now one of the main topics at this forum too was democracy and joining me today is a yale professor emmanuelle a while there seems and he was at a working session on the standards how democracy and diversity of experience says how long can you tell us a bit about whether that working session you actually reached a consensus at that session what issues were raised not i can tell you about the issues that were raised we arrived at no consensus in fact quite the opposite there was a complete dissenters on all the major issues. the problem of democracy was very simple everybody today everybody today every politician today says that his country or in power politician in a power says that his country is democratically however actually for every country and i'm worried virtually every country in the world you know when you say

something not radical be sure inside the country and there are people in other countries who will say about you any country world it is not democratic so obviously there is this agreement on what the word means on a first. literally democracy run through it for people is that but there's no consensus about what it needs to rule and there's no consensus about who are the people. given that it is. an open question about which there is enormous debate a lot of rhetoric. and a lot of political pressure. it as one of our participants said yesterday it was a mock receives a claim it's a claim you can have a proof it's happy possible to disprove it's proper it's perhaps possible to say by x.y.z. criteria a certain country is not democratic or vote even that there's not much agreement on what criteria try to carry her through it is not democratic so there we are

it's a very important topic about which there is no agreement and will continue to do no . well having said that is it necessary to have just one definition of democracy and to have cooperation between countries well perhaps not but i mean everybody wants to be democratic they say and everybody wants to use their own definition of what it means to be democratic. you so we had for example participants from four major russian political parties and one was the party in power and three were parties that are you know opposition or representatives of the party in power so if the prophet is tried to democratic i mean three opposition party says not at all democratic so that was a very democratic discussion there was open debate bods to know what really matters and of course there were peoples from other countries who would have agreed to come to a choice democratic and being sure that russia was not about so

a difference of opinion so i could be end of the day what do you expect to come out of this for well out of this forum i'm not sure out of the debate about democracy it's healthy to have an open debate and discussion about what the turn means and i'm watching are the possibilities and whether it's an all or nothing question that's one of the thing some people would say it's either yes or no here is a democratic sure they're not going to write it and some people would say no she is a continuum you can be more democratic rule less them a crowded you can be somewhere in the middle there are countries in transition. from not being democratic at all to be really democratic so they're halfway there that's a kind of argument and then there are some people who say it can only possibly happen one meeting to gauge a universal standard of what democracy is and other people it's the jargon is it democracy with an actress or other people say it can be for riots here's

a real democracy and defense all right so well there you have a debt's mr a man while bowler c n n. we can expect more debate and more discussion at the second day of this a global policy forum. thanks very much and that was our correspondent says more from her throughout the day there at the forum there another thing which is going to be discussed at the forum is an altar call called russia written a year ago by president to between. it sets out a range of measures to kick up corruption and kick start modernization fresh economic development to reduce russia's dependency on its natural resources are to sponsor the president's press secretary in the toilets to find out how it's going. to programs that they don't get the message and 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 today judicial system until we combat corruption and have fear unbiased courts and an unbiased law enforcement personnel and 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. oh well we'll continue our coverage of the global policy forum here in the house level in the hours ahead this hour the city is marking its

millennial right adversary will be covering the celebrations to do later today and tomorrow. when the new season. when it's something really crucial what you want to get down to. special coverage. this time the latest news from the. policy for my. special guests discussions on the you know modern state providing security and stability of the present day world. question. of the news now here in the u.s. pastor who threatened to burn copies of the koran on saturday's anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks says his plans are not canceled but they all postponed the initial threat to be met with. president obama described the perspective of the burning ceremony as a recruitment. 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 nine eleven. reports all americans who've recently become muslims and say there is no place for extremism in religion . and you know a lot. 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 to fear the first of ramadan my mother. she was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be . she was crying. 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 that really was you know people thought it was so i believe 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 card 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 our 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 war 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 going around 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 are proper it's your 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 my friend i saw. a happiness that might not make sense to those around her little over three assure you there are tea annandale virginia. some of the world news in brief update at least one person. injured after a massive fall in a residential district near san francisco it's believed to have been caused by

a gas pipe explosion residents heard glass before dozens of homes were engaged to try to contain the twenty metre high flames and stop them from spreading to nearby buildings. a bus with nearly thirty passengers on board has been hit by a freight train in southeast brazil killing at least nine people further fifteen were injured when the train smashed into the bus and tractor to long for almost a hundred meters investigation has begun police believe the bus driver missed the stop sign. all right that's all from us for now but don't forget we'll bring you full live coverage from the global policy for him here in the russian city of u.s. levels throughout the day and we'll be talking to experts academics and politicians every hour of course we'll bring you all of the news updates from russia across the world that's no a get the latest business news with. studios. that's

trying times have a look at the latest from the world of business americas grain exporters are expected to raise their forecast for exposed to fetch a six minute that's the third increase in two months and suggests that american grain producers are taking brushless exports market russia has suspended grain was expected turn turn to the markets next year and i've been to all reports. the last one and a half months hence why don't the work of six years in which russia build a thirteen percent share of the old green market. expert not only international markets but also he did a mistake one russian we were based on export prices. said 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 purple 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 farm. minimum prices 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 or put 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 series this year russia's shares being covered by the u.s. industry but at higher prices but the united states has the supply step in australia as well step in and supplying 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 there were and is there and they will be able to get it. and i

think that in the next couple of years of russian ecb 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 export ban intended to protect russian consumers by keeping grain in the country could ultimately hurt them didn't mean to do a business r.t. . will boost investment by thirteen percent in the final months of two thousand and ten it will take the total sum for the year to about thirty eight billion dollars that's despite the company's expectations that the revenues will fall by four percent the money will go on to key gas transport projects plants and russia's far east along with the north and south through pipeline project analysts expect

further increasing of gas from some best program into twenty eleven while revenues still i'm likely to rise because of the unstable to month for the cats. now a look at how the markets are faring this hour let's start with asia where the markets are higher this comes after crude oil gained as fewer people apply for jobless benefits in the u.s. out of japan was to do its estimate for second quarter economic growth. and in most of the r.t.s. in the minds of start of the day on a negative note point three point two percent respectively energy shares are leading the. spirit bond could offer a four point six billion dollars loan to solve this month bank chief told reporters in the us live in the aluminum joint needs to refinance its debts to. graft has also announced that the privatization of nine point three percent stake in burbank one happened this year turning to its operations he added expects its retail loan

portfolio to grow ten to fifteen percent in two thousand and ten. the engine monopolist service has approved to expire retail group buying one hundred percent of the kopeikin chain store if the deal takes place expiry will control twenty five percent of russia's grocery market owners of coffee a register they want to sell off the cut was also looking at an i.p.o. valuing the chain at one point seven billion dollars. now russian exchanges promise to offer trade in the ruble and chinese yuan within months but business men 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 to your dollar so when we get your dollar from our customer we are not sure how much we should pay to morrow to train the vendors so this is a really big change.