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hello welcome to watch it all to you here on build off sophie shevardnadze of let's have a look at our main news stories. it's a day of mourning in russia republic of north ossetia after a car bomb tore through a crowded market in its capital killing seventeen and injuring more than one hundred. words of warning president bit says parliamentary democracy could be a catastrophe for russia as he speaks at the second day of the international forum . and only if they are diverse area of nine eleven will report on how many americans are converting to islam despite the extreme reaction by some people against it.

what is just one pm here in the russian city of will bring you full coverage of the global policy forum which is known as second the final day. at first republic of north of setia is holding an official day of mourning for the victims of the deadly terror attack and its capital. suicide bomber is believed to have been behind the car explosion which killed seventeen people and injured one hundred thirty seven. of our reports now from the city where the first funerals are already taking place . we are at the exact street and logic of cause what the explosion has happened the central market is always there the car has been parked there and the whole area is still blocked by the police the investigators have been working here all night and people are still coming to the sides are some of them was standing in silence just watching some more crying people are remembering the dead and the victims there

bringing flowers if you walk on this street wide now you actually walking on glass it cracks under your feet and just a couple of meters or what there is no asphalt and a longer just only broken glass think splosion was so powerful that it smashed windows from the houses there are on this street many people in political constant sided to become blood donors and round one hundred fifty have already donated their blood and more steel cueing in hospitals today local authorities are repairing the damage how it was is at the moment and security is tight and in logic of cars you can see more police officers everywhere also security has been tightened on the border between north a city and the neighboring republic. the day of mourning is declared today a see it here and people will be praying in churches in logic of cars and through our with the republic we will be praying to the victims who are praying are full

the injured as well over a hundred of injured are still in hospitals in logic of ten of them are unconscious and doctors do not know their names and they don't know where they are coming from the head of the russian investigation committee is here at the moment and he's leading the investigation are they have been reports that police has detained three suspects but we haven't received any confirmation so far would we do know is that they crawl belong to men coming from the owner was identified but he is not the one who was behind the wheel of the movement of. a criminal case has been launched and investigators qualify the case as an act of terrorism they also say that the bomb contained metal parts and this is what made it worse and resulted in so many people being injured today in cars the first funerals will be taken place as well. well those most hurt in the terror attack have been airlifted to moscow by the

emergencies ministry along with relatives eleven people including a child in coma were on board a specially equipped plane which landed in the moscow region during the military will be receiving special care in moscow hospitals their condition is reported is very serious the russian government has promised compensation for the families of the victims of those injured in the below. the u.s. state department says militants operating in the north caucasus have links to al qaeda their statement also says washington is willing to help moscow in its fight against terrorism in the region archies gannett you can 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 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 its name. it into 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 not of 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 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. political scientist dr what did photos believes that the bombing in the southern russian city of ca's is just 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 attack 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 what prime minister putin said is correct the jihadist 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. now it is their. here in here our slava live where russian president dmitri defensive has warned that some forms of parliamentary democracy in russia could spell disaster speaking at the second and final day of the global policy forum here he said it could lead to a dangerous level of instability and that democratic reforms have to be done carefully and cautiously or will be getting reaction to that and to what else is in

store at the conference where other world leaders are also due to speak and we can cross to our correspondent. is there going at all. a very stark message from dmitri medvedev tell us more about what was in his speech and what's been the initial reaction. yes the second day of the global policy forum as was i would anticipate at the speech of the russian president dmitri medvedev he still currently talking to political analysts from around the world and the main point they've been saying is that there's a lot of improvement at russia so when certain people say about the modernization for example still very slow in russia but there's no other alternative for russia to move forward russia must engage in modernization important point that he has made in the past and he made again today is that russia's dependence on raw materials for example on natural resources this is not the way forward for russia

to russia will have to find a way to go beyond that dependence in order to move forward he did get into parliamentary democracy how it's probably will not work in a rush i think he gave an example of china taking china into an example of the kind of government that they have or they might not work over here so there's a lot of issues being discussed here being brought to the table whether one will work in one hundred or the other and those issues again of terrorism security energy security that is organized that will brought about yesterday india working sessions and we have had some very very interesting opinions coming from participants but first let's hear from the leader of the liberal democratic party and also the state duma deputy chairman. why isn't anyone talking about and evaluating the builder birth group they get together once a year and the decisions they make are the ones that are actually put into effect

across the globe and especially here in europe parliaments are nothing compared to them the chief players on the security scene seem to be clubs like to build a burgers their members are mostly retired politicians including members of the european union and this presents a problem but we must first overcome anti russian feelings in europe so we can build a new system of security and stand up to these builder bergs together. so we have the issue of security that's the theme of today today the second day of today's forum now security and the form of government is very closely that we've been speaking to some of the participants and they are giving their opinion whether security. which form of government which form of democracy specifically and again as we've heard russian president dmitry medvedev say parliamentary parliamentary democracy may not work and brush and we've heard that there are several types of democracies that people here have been debating. wondering what is the market see

in the first place so now let's hear from an interesting debate that what happened yesterday from mr emanuel wallerstein he's from yale university. arrived at no consensus in fact part of the office if there was a complete dissenters on all the major issues. the problem of democracy is very simple everybody today everybody today every politician today says that his country or in power politician in a power says that his country's democratically however true for every country and i'm wary of virtually every country for the world you know when you say something not practical to be sure inside the country and there are people in other countries who will say about you every country i world it is not democratic so obviously there is this agreement on what the word means on the first was literally democracy running through repeat that but there's no consensus about what it seems 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. on a lot of political pressure and everybody wants to be democratic race say and everybody wants to use their own definition know what it means to be democratic it's healthy to have an open debate and. discussion about what that means. are the possibilities and whether it's all or nothing and that's one of the things some people would say it's either yes or no if you're either a democrat or a sure they're not going to write it and some people would say no there's a continuum and then there are some people who say you can only possibly have. a universal standard of what the market she is and other people in the jargon is a democracy with a natural. so we know that there's

a lot of been going on here we've heard from russia's side but let's not forget there are other heads of state current and former we have a south korean president lee myung bak and also former prime minister of japan as well as italian prime minister silvio berlusconi so definitely we will see a lot of different opinions as to what works for one country what works for another country will be very interesting to see what comes out of the second day of this global policy forum. ok thanks very much indeed. we will continue our coverage of the global policy forum here in the other self in the head but also this year the city is walking its millennium anniversary and we'll be covering the celebrations due 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 global policy forum

line drawn special guests discussions on the stakes in providing security and stability in the present day world. question. 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 are postponed the initial threat has been met with worldwide 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 a number of people converting to islam up to nine eleven his preassure there are reports on how americans who recently become muslims and they say there's no place for extreme 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 to watch the first of ramadan my mother. she was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. 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 are 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 you and 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. you 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 these converts 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 sat down the class and opened my career on 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 to open up going on 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 property 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 still regret it a happiness that might not make sense to those around her. to reassure either party annandale virginia. serbia is dropping a challenge to kosovo's independence that the united nations great has removed the section of a un resolution that called a course of a suspension an acceptable the e.u. urge serbia to withdraw its draft and focus instead on its prospects for e.u. membership modified resolution of the results of a compromise which is why the twenty seven member e.u. and serbia three of us to see to from serbia two years ago after decades of conflict in this war thought called the voice or thinks it has much to lose from

the agreement to oil everything. 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 a 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 secession 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 will react. and to some other news in brief now at least one person has died and around thirty are injured after a massive fire in a residential district near san francisco is believed to have been caused by a gas pipe explosion presidents heard a loud blast before dozens of homes where engulfed firefighters are trying to contain the twenty metre high flames and stop them from spreading to nearby buildings. with nearly thirty passengers on board has been hit by a freight train in brazil killing at least nine people further fifteen were injured when the train smashed into the bus and dragged to the old almost

a hundred meters an investigation has begun police believe the bus driver missed the stop sign. well that's all from us for get we'll be bringing you a full load of coverage from the global policy forum here in the russian city if you have a day and every i will be talking to the people trying to come up with the old so as to be big questions being posed here and of course we'll bring you all the other news updates from russia across the world in a few moments we'll get the latest business news. from our moscow studio stay with us. this is mara region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of this you go to a valley i t far can tell ya he has completed the id particle has r. and d.

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a six million tonnes that's the first increase in two months and suggests that american grain producer stop taking russia's export markets russia suspended greater next fall so it's expected to return to the market next year so i think it's about reports. the last one and a half months has wiped out the work of six years during which russia built a thirteen percent share of the world grain market the prolonged export ban not only rocked international markets but also he did domestic one russia weak rises were based on export prices set on the trading floors of chicago in london no rush . just 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 ban in place if you're going to have a very stringent export policy imported policy or farm

domestic 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's needs this year russia 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 they were in is there and they will be able to get it. and i think that in the next couple of years of russian at output increases again van 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 individual business r.t. . gas problem 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 eight billion dollars that's despite the company's expectations that the revenues will fall by four percent the money will go on key gas transport projects plants and russia's far east along with the north and south through the pipeline project analysts expect further increasing of gas from an investment program into twenty eleven while revenues are still unlikely to rise because of the unstable demand for the council. and.