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a look now at our team's main news stories time for action and his keynote speech here in europe follow president medvedev outlines his stance on global security we called on the u.s. to step up efforts to form a new international defense structures. did see a day of mourning in russia's republic of mosul set to offer a car bomb tolls through a crowded market in the capital killing seventy eight injuring more than one hundred. and on the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven our t. investigates why so many americans are converting to islam. despite the extreme reaction by some people against him. it is now three pm here in the russian city of bringing

a full coverage of the global policy forum and it is that forum that russian president dmitri medvedev made a keynote speech today with leading political analysts from all over the world well on the second and final day of the forum to meet the rich range of talk to global security different systems of democracy and economic modernization russia's leader called on the u.s. to step up efforts to create new security institutions that could incorporate existing military and political structures. said the some officials in washington madi of an end of the russian proposals for a new european security treaty addressing the issue of modernization to make sure there's no alternative to changes of economic and political systems in the country while journalists are gabriel low who is also member of the russian council on defense and foreign policy says parliamentary democracy won't work in russia for another hundred years. this country has experienced something similar points in the

gulf with problems for the system and that sound is up in one thousand nine hundred three by bronzy conflicts in the sounds almost the russian parliament has been bought it says as far as the sort of experience isn't a surprise the governing this country running these countries in. this country it requires a very strong executive also the diversity of different ethnicities living in the country so a strong executive is a must see requirement for russian political system i constantly see how it can be achieved through parliamentary chocolates as far as the russian constitution goes. the president's name says he's candidates for the post of prime minister who is then approved by the parliament and if the parliament doesn't approve him for three consecutive times the parliament is all so the mechanics of you know the more complex than just the simplistic here things i don't really see on the horizon the

possibility of russia becoming a parliamentary democracy it wouldn't work here but what we are witnessing in the moment is that the party system. is becoming a proper party system once it's gets established i think there's a good chance for the president to discuss for the appointment of the parliament when fixing things and finding checks and balances within the executive but if you can so you raise the idea of a strong activist country and you move to a parliamentary democracy because maybe another two hundred years that will become interesting because if these one now the country where. those there are really of also some comment to from professor craig from new york university he told us that agreeing on a new european security framework will take years of discussion but reforming the current security structure is still necessary. i don't think that there has been a resolution about the proposal for the new european security security treaty but i

do think that there is now a relationship of mutual respect between president medvedev and president obama and between the two countries and that includes the other european countries that would have to be partners to any sort of agreement so in my view the discussion has to continue possibly for years before there is a resolution the disaster would be if any country breaks off the discussion and refuses to keep this process moving forward because we do need to reach an agreement and a new framework i expect that this forum will inform and to add ideas to that discussion and it will add momentum to it russia has made a very strong and constructive proposal for the nature of this new agreement but it will only become a real ingredient when a whole number of different countries come to some sort of understanding should nato be replaced or what is the role of nato what are the role of the other european security agreements now with the new foreign policy of the european union

in which it has upgraded its role as a fault foreign policy there's even more complexity to the discussion. and just let you know we've got plenty more coverage from the global policy forum here and jaroslav in the coming hours also this year the city is marking its most out over story and we'll be covering the celebrations do later today on saturday. when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial when you want to get down to brass tacks when you bring special coverage. this time the latest news from the global policy forum line broadcasts special guests discussions on the you know modern state in providing security and stability in the present day world. question.

russia's republic of north as such here is holding an official day of mourning for the victims of the deadly terror attack in its capital. because of course this as this forum just kicks off and one of the main focuses is security for. suicide bombers believed to be behind car explosion which killed seventeen people the evidence injured one hundred thirty seven. reports now from the city with the first funerals already taking place. we are at the exact street and logic of cars 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 the i was standing in silence just watching someone crying people are remembering the dead and the victims there bringing flowers if you walk on this street right now you actually walking on glass it cracks under your feet and just

a couple of meters or what there is no asphalt only broken glass the explosion was so powerful that it smashed windows from their house is on this street many people in political constant sided to become blood donors and around one hundred fifty have already donated their blood and more steel cueing in hospitals to the local authorities are repairing the damage how this is at the moment and security is tight and in logic of that you can see more police officers everywhere also security has been tightened on the border between north the city and the neighboring republic. the day of mourning is declared today in most i see it here and people will be praying in churches in logic of gazans through our with the republic they will be praying to the think tim's praying are for the injured as well over a hundred of injured are still in. hospitals in let it go because 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 they have been reports that police has detained three suspects but we haven't received any confirmation so far would we do knew is that they belong to men coming from the owner was identified but he is not the one who was behind the wheel of the movement of the explosion a criminal case has been launched and investigators qualify as 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. next on the coach over there reporting from where that terror attack took place now where you have state

department says militants operating in north caucasus have links to al qaida their statement also says washington is willing to help moscow in its fight against terrorism in the region marty is going to carry us more. this time russian the us 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 of these guys are international terrorists and we need help to find them to fight them but a while ago the common understanding the common wisdom among many in the west was that those attacks are just part of separatist movements in russia. 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 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. all right well let's

discuss the possible consequences of the attack for security in the region with political analyst egos evan if he's from the moscow bureau of the macarthur foundation thanks for being with us this lunchtime it is appreciated give us give us your thoughts about what happened yesterday. well the bombing is the latest in the serious deadly terrorist attacks in troubled north caucasus. during several weeks the market in the logic of cause itself has been a target for deadly terrorist attacks for at least five times and the deadliest took place in nineteen ninety nine and in the recent weeks we know their way or several very serious incidents in the northern caucasus and before all of the bombing see in the logic of cause there was

a suicide attack on the military camp in. saw. these events should be on the lies not in isolation of the you know they have been saying all the calls of. deserving of investigators saying they believe these recent attacks were organized by the same militant leaders in the north caucuses does that suggest that there is a some kind of united terror network across these southern russian republics. well it's very hard to say right now and we know there are more than terrorists. networks and in many cases there is no centralized structure. just a network all of isolated trained groups saw and this is one of the main difficulties in combating more than terrorism so these particular event

may or may not be leading to still direct the terrorist attacks but from a political point of view will call this is a part of the big picture and the big picture either is and attempt to destabilize the whole region and important. the russian federation inside ethnic hatred in this particular case between us and english. and they have been tensions and the two ethnic groups and groups and the deadliest events took place in one thousand nine to two so. it's very difficult to combat. terrorism. this is ever the use of vehicles packed with explosives that has happened in these bombings is often a tactic used by al qaeda isn't it what does it tell us about links between militants

here in russia and elsewhere what could you read into that. well there is surely. a linkage between the extreme between the extremists all over the walled and. we have known a lot of facts indicating that the terrorists who operate in the northern caucasus had. have direct financial ideological and technical connections with the groups. and the terrorist groups in the middle east so it's always a combination of homegrown terrorism and international networks and north caucasus is not an exception from this perspective. he goes evelyn from the macarthur foundation thanks for being with us on the

program today it is appreciated. let's take a look now at some other world news 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 had been met with worldwide outrage president obama described the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for al qaida saying it will 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 islam after nine eleven parties are reports now on americans who have recently become muslims and say there is 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 right converted to live here the first of ramadan my mother. she was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was crying a lot to thought 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 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 a center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings who have found 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 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 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 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 right to practice 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 so our gratitude the happiness that might not make sense to those around her. to reassure either party annandale virginia. we of course are here in europe where the global policy for is taking place russian president dmitry medvedev is calling on the u.s. here to make the creation of a new world security structure a higher priority but speaking out the second and final day of the summit but rather said some officials in washington might even envy russia's own proposal for a new european security treaty there let's get more on more reaction to that now more from a form of self we're joined by chorus one of the country to use a lot of the heart of it all there today. so there's a lot more if you would about what was in dmitri medvedev speech on what the

reaction was to it. well kevin three main things democrats as ation modernization and efficiency this is what the us russian president was grilled on by i think tanks politicians and journalists from some thirty countries today and the main idea the main message he's been sending is that nothing is straightforward as for democracy the main topic of this year's forum global policy for many years but it's a process it's just not a word just not a term because many were asking what democracy is in the first place secondly whether any adjectives can go before the word democracy and yes we heard so many adjectives attributed to this work today well i would like to quote a little bit thrown president medvedev on what he said why attitude in russia towards democracy is really controversial he says it's largely associated with the ninety's for democracy in russia at the time when the leave it to cyprus parity were promised by reformers at that time instead brought forward t.v.

but still the presidents democratic institutions which were formed started to be formed in the nine hundred ninety s. in russia i'm moving forward and the country general is moving forward and he personally wouldn't want to live in a country which would have chosen another more than. and here's what he said and why i think he thinks that palm tree democracy would not work in russia. she is a. we are modernizing our country and we've passed dozens of new laws to regulate the process however when analysts look at how it's going some of them say the changes are merely on the surface and that we need to change our political system altogether but the question is what exactly are we supposed to change we could of course envision a different political system in russia like a parliamentary democracy for example well our friends in kurdistan have already gone down that road but i must say that for us it would turn into

a complete catastrophe as i fear it already has for them the only changes we can meet under our current constitution must be made very carefully step by step so that we don't upset the fragile balance in the country. well for more on what this session with the president was about i'm now joined by one of its participants young shapira professor and political scientist at yale university mr shapiro thanks very much for joining us and what was your question to the president what was the answer my question to the president concerned the role of russia in promoting democracy elsewhere in the world. north korea burma iran much of africa and he gave a very interesting on so which i thought was heartening that. the best way russia can help promote democracy in the world is by being a successful democracy itself and being an example particularly an example of a country that has managed to democratize relatively quickly in the past twenty

years or so as compared with a two hundred year process and i mean all the democracies. so you didn't see russia taking an active or aggressive role in democracy promotion around the world for me that was heartening because we saw what happened when the u.s. tried. to do that in iraq. but mostly he hates russia. should be should spread democracy by demonstration not by imposition do they get it right that many are skeptical about whether russia can build democracy in its own country and you believe russia can actually contribute to building democratic institutions while i think. as you put it in your opening remarks which correct that we should really think of democratization as an open ended ongoing process not a single state of affairs and president medvedev is one of the first to acknowledge that democracy has a long way to go in russia. because while it's true that it falls short in many

particulars freedom of speech and particularly participation by the population. he made the point very very much mr speaker i'm really sorry we are short of time thanks very much for your insights here professor at. the global policy forum. yeah a lot more coming to come from the progress continues much more live coverage from here in europe on r.t. next that we've got business coming up. hello and welcome to business on cream alcan good to have you with us russian seaports have increased cargo hedley handling by eighty percent so far this year that's compared with the same period of two thousand and nine cargoes totaled around three hundred fifty million tons this is still lower than russian where

weighs the monopoly boosted its cargo handling by eleven percent to reach almost eight hundred million tons now in moscow the r.t.s. of them isaac started the day on a negative note both down point four percent at the moment energy shares are leading the drop and russia's biggest private bank alpha bank increased its profit to almost three hundred million dollars in the first half of this year. now moving on to a europe there doors of bank of the big story saying its biggest fall in more than four months worries that the bank needs to raise more capital closure to find more than five percent on the tax after it said it may sell eleven billion dollars worth of shares to use hit other european stock markets now russia and india will start doing production of medium range transport aircraft the agreement involves understand aeronautics and to russian companies transport. the and. export each country will invest three hundred million dollars into venture capital

medium range transport aircraft are widely used for cargo they plan to build two hundred jets initially one third being sold on global markets first jet will roll off the line no earlier than two thousand and sixteen. now the answer monopoly service has approved retail group buying one hundred percent of chairs. if the deal takes place x five will control twenty five percent of russia's growth market owners of fake i have already said they want to pick up is also looking at an i.p.o. value detainees one point seven billion dollars. that's all we have time for at the moment i'll be back with more and less what. question is that so much maybe we should call on it. if.