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president medvedev it says the u.s. shouldn't be jealous about a new security arena agreement between russia and europe which would help everyone speaking at the global policy forum he also said the speed of development in the country those with four memories to accused russia of the qatari and.

russia's republican north mourn the victims of yesterday's car bomb attack in its capital central market. seventeen more than one hundred injured. and r t looks into why a growing number of americans have been converting to islam since nine eleven the spite accusations that the media is fueling antagonism towards muslims. nine pm in the russian capital thanks for being with us here on r.t. we start with a global policy forum in jaroslava which has been hearing from the russian president dmitri medvedev told the u.s. to overcome what he described as jealousy towards moscow's proposed new european security deal and in

a speech concentrating on democracy he said that those who say russia isn't democratic have bad memories or he. has been following the discussions. the bosun line on to present the bed of speech was that time has come not just to talk not just to criticize each other but time to find global solutions three main topics dominated today's disk. sions 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 for 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 we had many like young which were 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 a long 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 reformers instead of believe it is 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 in bed have 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 it 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. well the new european security architecture the idea which he had showed me off to george's military invasion and sell the say to you know it was two thousand and eight mission invented today said that at that time neither nato no four boys see the organization for security and cooperation in europe were helpful you could stand up to protect people up sell the city it was only russia that presently betty was saying that the current european security institutions are unsustainable and that they should give both to reflect the

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 bedside russia will help iran to fight its place in the world would be in the framework of the international law

russia will continue to cooperate with the wrong. parties academy retroviral reporting there the new european security forum or framework will take years of discussion but it's still necessary so says political science professor craig calhoun from new york university who attended before. 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

a little chance of russia developing as a parliamentary republic it's an opinion shared by journalists who's 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 you see in the moment is that the party system set is becoming a proper process system. it's gets established i think these are good chinese for the presidents to discuss for the points of the parliament when fixing things and when finding checks and balances within the executive but if you can so you've raised the idea of us throwing these activities comes when you look at other measures of the cats maybe another two hundred years that would be parliamentary democracy if these one the country where. perspective there from journalist sergei brylin of talking with us earlier here on r t now although the forums discussions touched upon some serious topics the debates were also lighthearted artie's test

ourselves some of that first hand. the people who have been there for dissipating this for they've been to a lot of forums and they're very sort of used to this and with the weather outside of atlanta recessions or sometimes even in the players that 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 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 we're talking and talking and talking so hopefully how to do this some 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 went up there and just started to improvise with total money i'd like to see that it was not very well informed about the tactics to be discussed it disappear in this section of my administration interest prepared the speech has prepared. she used to next to the moderator of this portion of the plenary meeting this presentation doesn't correspond to the discussion here. so well after all the serious talk now. celebrating its one thousand the anniversary and the participants some of them will be participating in the activities planned for them so there will be more fun reporting for our. tests are still up well many of the ideas that dmitri medvedev outlined at the forum came from his article go russia written about a year ago it's measures to kick out corruption and kick start modernization with the ultimate aim to reduce dependency on its natural resources the president's press secretary to tell you told us how the progress is going.

you know the president made a bed with gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently and 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 now 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 on as an unbiased law enforcement personnel in without all this it will be hard for russia to secure a good place on the global scene. near and catch that full interview with the next hour here on r.t. now officially the global policy forum is now over but on saturday there will be

more live coverage from the arsenal that's when the city moves into party mode and begin celebrating its millennium at our table be following it all. when it's something really. what you want to get down to. special coverage. just the latest from the. special guest discussions on the way the modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. question. turning now to our other main news here on r t yesterday's deadly terror attack in north of setia overshadowed president medvedev this time in your office level he told the meeting that there is no point in being soft on terrorists responsible that they must instead be destroyed the republic is holding an official day of

mourning for the seventeen victims of a car blast that hit the capital central market. over reports from where the first funerals are being held. 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 someone crying people are remembering the dead and the victims there bringing flowers if you walk on this street right now you actually walk in on glass it cracks under your feet and just a couple of meters away there is no asphalt analog it's just all broken glass the explosion was so powerful that it smashed windows from the house is on the street many people in political constant sided to become blood donors and rounded up one

hundred fifty have already donated their blood and more steel cueing in hospitals to the local authorities are repairing the damage how it was 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 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 all the victims who are praying are for the injured as well over a hundred of injured are still in hospitals in what it costs 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 he's here at the moment and he's leading the investigation are they have been reports that police has detained three suspects they crawl belong to men coming from in the shade 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 invest. ok disqualify the case as an act of terrorism they also say that the bomb contains metal parts and it's 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. is our side of the touch over reporting from the site of the terror attack and lot of some one hundred sixty people were hurt in that blast the eleven with the worst injuries are now being treated here in moscow r.t. spoke to a father of one who lost a child and is watching another clinging to life. we would the markets and ones into a short was my mother the wife and two sons. and then an explosion i rushed. around one of those to them. was one and

a half years old my three year old son is known so that three doctors as. there were. still are fine he will be eleven injured were brought to the capital last night by emergencies ministry plane and other aircraft has arrived in vladikavkaz to take more people to moscow more than one hundred remain in hospitals in the north of safety and capital seven said to be in very serious condition. the notorious chechen militant wanted internationally for terrorism has pledged more attacks in russia doku umarov had posted a statement online after the bombing of lot of and so on and on the same day washington said militants operating in the north caucasus are linked to al qaeda and that's a change in the u.s. approach to the problem as artie's guy in a cheeky on reports. this time russia and 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

terrorist 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 mall school mantra

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 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. on the whole but not cancelled the u.s. pastor who threatened to burn copies of the koran on saturday's anniversary of the nine eleven terror attacks says the event has only been postponed and not called off hear szell threat had been met with worldwide condemnation and president obama described the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for al qaida and said it would put american lives at risk meanwhile a new figures in the u.s.

show a rise in the number of people converting to islam after nine eleven or he's pretty mad americans who have recently become muslims and how they and their adopted religion are often misconstrued in western media. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian converted last year the first of ramadan my mother. he was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was crying a lot. that i was betraying 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 it really was you know people thought it was so i believe that just like everybody else but as billings got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the must stop 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 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 sat down in 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 is

what i had seen on t.v. and in the united states they say a culture of islam a phobia just doesn't make sense it's a right for practice your religion that's what this country was founded on just had somebody asked me the other day oh so are you against america now and it's like ok . i'm a you i'm a 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 billings says she's proud to be a muslim if no one in the world wants to talk to me and my friend i still don't regret it the happiness that might not make sense to those around her. reassure either party annandale virginia. turning now to some other international headlines because of a huge explosion that killed at least four people and destroyed more than fifty homes in california remains a mystery the local utility company did however confirm that one of their gas lines ruptured in the inferno the explosion said flames through

a neighborhood in southern san francisco at least thirty people are in the hospital many of them in critical condition firefighters are still working to contain the blaze. a torrent of mud has hit a tiny village in southern italy after heavy rains broken nearby rivers banks a twenty five year old woman is missing she was working at a coffee bar when she was swept away by the mudslide the rain has let up but more is expected over the next coming days. muslims around the world are celebrating the festival of marking the end of the holy month of ramadan millions flock to mosque to join in the special prayers on a special morning prayers before st celebrations festivities could last for three days and are a time for gifts and family gatherings following the previous month of fasting between dawn and dusk. all leaders business news coming your way after a short break with korean american stay with us. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get

a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our g. . o. welcome to business good to have you with us they head of russia's technology corporation was not only has called for a shake up of the legal and tax system here speaking during a visit to us not a ravenous to set the value of russia's not ultimately when it's the equivalent of thirty billion dollars corporation has so far eighty two projects ahead of us nano

. says there's little hope for an efficient high tech sector on the current conditions. as you would if it was a kind of reading efficient venture funds as well as other infrastructure to develop new technology is almost impossible the current legislation would like an efficient legal framework for venture funds investing you three examples of startups existing legislation is completely outdated for such forms of business our tax system also is really for change we have prepared some proposals and we want to push them forward. now russia's state duma has adopted a law on the skulk of us science and technology center observers say the most important cause allows startups to be in operation before skulk about physically built. the law does have a provision which allows those who is going to be qualified as a participant of the skull cover to start there too it is as soon as a law is passed not waiting for this three years before this cocoa will be

constructed in russia india will start the joint production of medium range transport aircraft the agreement involves hindustan aeronautics and two russian companies transport the familiarity and rules about an export each country will invest three hundred million dollars into the venture capital medium range transport aircraft and widely used for cargo they plan to build two hundred jets initially one third being sold on global markets the first jet will roll off the line no earlier than in two thousand and sixteen. police said was a giant raid on video pirates in thirteen countries but top hollywood executive tells r.t. the must fight the world's worst offender russia which is bootleg you cross the globe they will push reports. nine in ten d.v.d.'s in russia are fake and the problems only getting worse the industry gold gold warns the nation's ballooning into an export of piracy russia has become an increasing problem and

concern for us because many titles are first came for it in russia and then distributed worldwide in elementary to about an eighteen billion hours a year. in the hearts of moscow you can openly buy our phones before their official release and three d. blockbusters for two you wrote a fifth of the recommended price. point. even if we. put all thor at ease a launching a mass council strike on tuesday night investigators seized forty nine huge servers across europe hosting copyrighted material for free offices also stormed the mall sco h.q. of korean electronics giant l g which used unlicensed versions of photoshop and

coral drool. business salty's obtained this new forty nine page white list of top russian films from next month internet service providers must kill a moth to roast uploads of these movies without waiting to be notified by film producers m.p.'s will hit transgressors with the strict new and piracy law. we are ready to raise penalties for offenders and hate fines for providers who fail to delete illegal content that you finally prosecutors of opened a probe into the go bush the more we inspected a court spokesman told this channel they will make the holy of pirates holies quit its life of crime even if that means it's closures than your bushel business r.t. . and public holidays took some of the steam out of the markets this week according to the director of international equity sales at critter.