and they don't call the shots in media coverage of of any topic ok well let's not forget where that last story came from in the first place many thanks to my guest today in washington and to new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember cross talk rules. and you can. start. to.

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minister now i let's take a look at our main news stories. as the better says the u.s. shouldn't be jealous about a new security agreement between russia and europe which would help everyone and advance of also told before on here with the pace of developments in the country only those with more memories still accused russia of to tallent terry. and in other news russia's republic of north of mourners the victims of yesterday's car bomb attack in its capital central market blast killed seventeen and left more than one hundred injured. also on our t.v. look into why a growing number of americans have been converted to islam since nine eleven despite accusations the media is fueling antagonism towards muslims.

so we start with the global policy forum here in jaroslava which has been hearing from the russian president today. told the united states to overcome what he described as jealousy towards moscow's proposed new european security deal he said the new system would actually unite current institutions to make everyone more secure and in a speech concentrating on democracy he said those who say russia isn't democratic have very bad memories are getting a great job but has been following the discussions. the bottom line. presently bed of speech was that time has come not to. just to talk not just to criticize each other but time is to find global solutions three main topics dominated today's discussions democracy modernization and efficiency very simple things very simple ideas but how to achieve them there is indeed no consistency on that and the question is whether there should be consistency over that every country should go

its own way russia's president russian president dmitry medvedev take on that is that nothing is very straightforward these days and this is what the forum is about as well the central topic democratization and democracy experiences around the world diversified experiences the heated argument was about what is democracy in the first place and where it can be described with some adjectives and indeed many like young which are open democracy to name just a few presently very have been saying that democracy is a process in the first place and that you cannot criticize another country for the wrong democracy and despite democracy is a word which really provokes controversial reactions in the society and he explained why because for many people democracy is associated with a time when reform was instead of liberties and prosperity brought forward to many

people in russia but things are changing times that brought new realities and democratic institutions are intensively developing and russia and present inventive said he personally wouldn't want to live in another country in a country which would have chosen another way and. i strongly disagree with those who say there's no democracy in russia and that there's authoritarian tendencies here it's not true that russia is a democracy beyond any doubt it's young it's immature it's still not perfect and experience but it's a democracy nonetheless there's a way to go but we're ready to work on. in some countries democracy is being imposed but it doesn't work that way and we've seen many examples of that again presently that is promoting the idea of a new european security architecture the idea which first appeared shortly off to georgia's military invasion and so the said to you know best two thousand and eight mission inventive today said that at that time neither nato know for i've always

seen the organization for security and cooperation in europe were helpful you could stand up to protect people up sell the city because only russia can really do that presently betty for saying that the current european security institutions are unsustainable and that they should give gold to reflect present realities so what he is suggesting is to adopt a new european security treaty but he nevertheless trast that there are certain obstacles on the way to that goal. that would we need to create an institution that will bring together nato and non nato members and other structures my us counterpart president barack obama never avoids discussing this issue he does not say that is harmful or unnecessary but i would suggest that among our american partners a certain jealousy exists with regard to this idea however it is necessary to rise over this jealousy and try to look the truth in the eye without the creation of the

system a world will not be able to survive we can help each other here of course when talking about global security john this didn't miss an opportunity to ask the president about what he thought on iranian nuclear issue by far one of the hottest topics on the international news agenda presently bet it said that russia will help iran to find its place in the world would be in the framework of the international law russia will come out seen huge to cooperate with the wrong your stupidity. because you know groucho reporting there now we have course have been speaking to lots of analysts and experts absolutely know and one delegate in for the talks on security was dr good from university he told us that preventing iran from going nuclear won't stabilize the middle east as long as israel possesses atomic weapons this is what he had to say. the fact is that israel does have more nuclear warheads than the people's republic of china house. israel does not admit it has nuclear

weapons but it also doesn't. saying that it has nuclear weapons so whenever we speak about the beach in a security solution to the middle east of course he's got to speak but his words nuclear weapons as well you can't deny iran the right to nuclear weapons you cannot accept indian nuclear weapons you cannot accept a stunning nuclear weapons you can't accept israel in your core weapons but do not allow iran to to take whatever it seems appropriate to a guaranteed security. plenty of opinions have been expressed in the discussions here lots of different views and work keeping you up to date of course social science professor craig calhoun spoke to us to us from new york universe think he's been here at the forum and he says he thinks that although a new european security framework will take years of discussion it is nonetheless absolutely 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. while giving his views on democracy president medvedev said he sees little chance of russia developing our parliamentary republic well it's an opinion shared by journalists or gave her a lot of was also a member of the russian council on defense and foreign policy. 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 these are good chance for the presidents to just cause 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 executive this country mukhtar parliamentary democracy the cats maybe another two hundred years that would be parliamentary democracy if these one now the country where. thoughts there from journalists or gabriel off although the forms discussions touched upon some very serious topics the debates were lighthearted ati's tests are silly i watched as the talks gained momentum. the people who have been there for dissipating this for they've been to a lot of forums and they're they're sort of used to this and so whether outside of the plenary sessions or sometimes even in the players' sessions and you see them

laughing you see them agreeing to disagree especially when it's a very very sensitive topic and when they went outside you're talking to them about politics they'd prefer to talk about how beautiful their country is or how much they like russia perhaps or how much they'd like to visit moscow and so these things come out and one other thing is they've been career diplomats career politicians are are academics and they always tell me you know one thing that the younger generation should do is they should do a better job than we're doing because talking and talking and talking so hopefully how could this of action would happen and of course we have italian prime minister silvio berlusconi said that he had been misinformed about the topic that he was supposed to talk about so basically he went up there and just started to improvise was that the money i like to see that i was not very well informed about the topics to be discussed at this fear and this section of my administration interest prepared the speech has prepared the room that's when passion used to the moderator

of discussion of the plenary meeting this presentation doesn't correspond to the discussion here so well after all the serious talk now of. celebrating its one thousand that aversive the participants some of them will be participating in the activities planned for them so there will be more fun. soros earlier there is interesting to say he was now in true telly and full of scripts to sparge back to the desk where it came from best laid plans lots of fun there while on a more serious note most of the ideas that came from to me to be made of that he outlined they came in fact from his article gold rush which was written i do year ago it sets out measures to kick out corruption and kickstart modernization with the ultimate aim to reduce russia's dependency on its natural resources well the president's press secretary to mco over told us how all that is actually going. was the problems that president medvedev 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 and up to date judicial system until we combat corruption and have fair 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 way she missed them. and we'll bring you that full interview with mark over in just under twenty minutes time so that officially the global policy forum is now of hope you've enjoyed our

coverage of it but it continues go nowhere we're still in you know later on tonight and tomorrow because tomorrow is when the city moves into party mode and begin celebrating its millennium live coverage of that here on this channel and we hope you can join us. when the news is. something really crucial when you want to get down to brass tacks. special coverage. this time the latest news from the global policy for life. special guests discussions on the modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. question. and i want to take you through the rest of the day's top news stories and of course

the main one yes the big deadly terror attack in northwest said to you that overshadowed president visits time here in europe he told me to there's no point being soft with the terrorists responsible he said but you must be destroyed your public in fact is holding an official day of mourning now for the seventeen victims of the car blast that hit the capital central market parties over reports from the logic of calls where the first few rules have been held. 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 them 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 away there is no asphalt any longer just all of broken glass the explosion was so powerful that it smashed windows from their house is there are on this street many people in constant cited to become blood donors and rounded up one hundred fifty have already donated their blood and more are still queuing in hospitals today local authorities are repairing the damage how it was is at the moment and security is tight and 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 north a 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 victims who are praying are full the injured as well. over a hundred of injured are still in hospitals in what it cost 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 there have been reports that police has detained three suspects 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 explosion 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 any of this is what made it worse and worse all of it in so many people being injured today in cars the first funerals will be taken place is well. scene of so much tragedy and destruction of our correspondent examine the could show over reporting from the site of the terror attack in body because let's not forget some one hundred thirty others were also hurt in the last eleven victims with the worst injuries and now in

moscow for treatment spoke to a father who lost one child is watching another one fight for his life. we would the markets i went into a short was my mother wife and two sons stay don't sign and then an explosion i rushed out and saw all four of them on the ground the last two of them. was one and a half years old my three year old son is now in surgery doctors of fight you for his life there were people in the stairs fine. of course many victims of this tragedy the injured were brought to the moscow region last night by an emergency ministry plane their condition is reported as very serious the russian government is promising compensation for the families of all the victims of the blast on the sideline this into the story as well a notorious chechen militant wanted internationally for terrorism is pledging to

korea more attacks on russia doco more off post in a statement online after the bombing invited us on the same day washington said militants operating in the north caucuses are linked to al qaida that's a change in the u.s. approach to the problem as our team is going to do you can explains. this time russian the u.s. seem to be on the same page the u.s. state department said the terrorist attack in flight after all 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 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. broad 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. let's take a look now at some other interesting stories from around the world on hold but not canceled the u.s. pastor who threatened to burn copies of the koran on saturday's anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks so the event has only been postponed not called off. threats have been met with worldwide condemnation you may recall president obama described the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for al qaida saying it's going to put american lives at risk meantime new figures in the u.s. show a rise in the number of people converting to islam after nine eleven previous read it makes americans next who recently become muslims and finds a way in their adopted religion are often misconstrued in the us me. 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 last year the first of ramadan my mother. she was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was crying a lot. 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 are 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 believed it just

like everybody else but as villains got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the most stuff a 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 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 and open 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. i'm 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 rights a proper 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 us 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. to reassure either party annandale virginia. well that's all for us from here tonight as our live coverage from the global policy forum wraps up folks ever so much for being with us as we follow the big discussion attempting to find some answers to the big questions facing the world but it's not over we're staying in europe because tomorrow the city celebrates its millennium and you can see all the festivities right here live on our team and what a beautiful view we do have indeed so much more to come but to the president will update the headlines for you in a couple of minutes time does business before the criminal comes here after

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you can do to do it in california preparing for alternative energy sources helpless and black and. let's go to support. her welcome to visit here in r t thanks for joining me russian seaports have increased cargo handling by eight percent so far this year that's compared with the same period in two thousand and nine cargoes total there all we had are fifteen million tonnes this is still lower than russia where waste and off we boosted its cargo handling by eleven percent to each almost eight hundred million tons. in russia both the artist and my sex finish the week in the red as u.s. treasuries continue to slide and it shares that the drop. from last nearly half talking the trend was well off telecom up seven and going to be at one point three percent so. public holidays took some of the steam out of the markets this week

according to the director of international equity sales at all kitty alexander's a heart of. rush is still primarily driven by events coming out from the states and they're coming over from coming out from continental europe japan and china there are very few supper specifically russian it hasn't been driving a russian stocks this week and quite a few names to mention those soft of us are all still accomplish just based on local news primarily besides that we've seen sort of the market a little bit sideways again although to be honest with you there is a potential momentum gaining place we probably going to see some substantial rise and i stopped the weeks because there's a new money coming into the. global year of global fund some of the emerging market funds are getting some inflows america's great export as are expected to raise their forecast for full year exports to thirty six million tons that's the third increase in two months and suggests that american grain produces are taking russia's export markets russia has suspended grain exports though it's expected.