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president medvedev says the u.s. shouldn't be jealous about a new security agreement between russia and europe which will help everyone speaking at the global policy forum in jaroslav he also said the speed of development in the country shows only those with poor memories still accused russia of totalitarianism. russia's republic of north mourns the victims of yesterday's car bomb attack in capitals central market the blast killed seventeen alot more than one hundred sixty injured. and r t looks into why a growing number of americans have been converting to islam since nine eleven despite accusations the media is fueling antagonism towards muslims. ten pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story we start with

the global policy forum which has been hearing from the russian president dmitri medvedev told the u.s. to overcome what he described as a jealousy towards moscow's proposed new european security deal added a speech concentrating on democracy he said that those who say russia isn't democratic have very bad memories or he has been following the discussions. but bottom line. present the bet of speech was that time has come not 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 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 and democratic institutions in tacitly developing and russia and present a bed of said he personally wouldn't want to live in another country in a country which would have chosen another way. he said listen i strongly disagree with those who say there is 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 idea of

a new european security architecture the idea which. should be off to georgia's military invasion and sell the say to you know this two thousand and eight midterm inventive today said that at that time neither nato no or i always see the organization for security and cooperation in europe were held for. good. stand out to protect people up sell the staples only russia that presently betty was saying that because her into european security institutions are unsustainable and that they should give full to reflect the present realities so what he is suggesting is to talk to european security treaty but he never the less stressed that there are certain obstacles on the way to that goal. which 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 the 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 that russia will help iran to find its place in the wealth within the framework of the international law russia will continue to cooperate with the wrong. artie's of katarina grouch over reporting the new european security framework will take years of discussion but it's still necessary according to social 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 delivering his views on democracy president medvedev said he sees little chance of russia developing as a parliamentary republic it's an opinion shared by journalist sergey brin 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 some what we see in the moment is that the party system set is becoming a pro process system. needs gets established i think these are good chinese for the

presidents to just cause for they points to the parliament when fixing things and when finding checks and balances within the executive but if you can so you've raised a deal with strong executive these country and you look at how the management of the capital city may be another two hundred years that would be parliamentary democracy if these one the country where. commentary from journalist sergey brin talking with us earlier now although the forums discussions touched upon some serious topics and debates they were also lighthearted moments artie's tests are saw some of them firsthand. 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 you can 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 of doing because we're talking and talking and talking so hopefully how could this 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 you're willing. to be discussed at this fear in the section of my administration interest prepared the speech has prepared the room that's when fashion used 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 that of the participants some of them will be participating in the activities planned for them so there will be more fun. terry there are marty's tests are so are many of the ideas that dmitri medvedev outlined at the forum came from his article goal russia written a year ago it sets out measures to kick out corruption kick start modernization with the ultimate aim to reduce russia's dependency on the country's natural resources the president's press secretary and i tell you told us about the progress . of this the problem is that you don't get the president gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently in it was not unflattering in the meaning of critical i think previous period in previous achievements no on the contrary they were giving credit but it was stated that the mood 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 up to date judicial system until we combat corruption and have fear and bias courts and and by law enforcement personnel in without all this it will be hard for russia to secure a good place on the global scene. and you can watch the full interview one twenty minutes here on r t officially the global policy forum is now over about a saturday there will be more live coverage from jaroslav all that's when the city moves into party mode and start celebrating its millennium and our team will be there following all of it. when the new season. when something really. what you want to get down to. special coverage. just the latest news from the. special

guest discussions on the state. security and stability of the present day world. question. turning now to the other major story we're following here on our team in yesterday's deadly terror attack in north overshadowed president made better his visit to jaroslav all he told the meeting that there is no point in being soft on terrorists that instead they must be destroyed the republicans holding an official day of mourning for the seventeen victims of the car blast that hit the capitol central market a suicide bomber carried out the attack that also injured more than one hundred people some of them children eleven of the injured are being treated in moscow hospitals several more will be sent to the capital later three suspects have been detained and the owner of the car that was used has that identified artie's excitedly couch over reports from vladikavkaz where the first funerals have been taking place. to live hand in hand interrupted at the moment when yes i'm on my man

and had total a grandson no new which had been at the clinic across central market they say the boy was quarreling with his brother about writing them by so grandma promise to buy a little and noor a new one a moment later their dreams were wiped out by the blast. we would the markets i went into a shop as my mother wife and two sons stayed outside and then an explosion i rushed out and saw all four of them on the ground i lost two of them. was one and a half years old my three year old son is now in surgery doctors of fighting for his life there were a lot of people in the markets still is fine. yes i'm on met all most every morning before go into the market there dave i think i felt sick and stayed home yes and went alone to sell grapes and never came back. this is a father and his one and a half year old son who died and this is his wife she was injured legs and hands

and this is the woman who died. twenty years ago when life in georgia became difficult for ethnic as a reason like many in her village quiet and hospitable yes a man packed his things and headed to logic of cars her small family makes their leaving from so in fruit and vegetables and a year ago moved closer to the central market used to work closely to show the ones to the grapes another was silly lemons. with them who hold it but she was badly injured so leg was ripped out of diabetes and they couldn't stop the blood crying over the last many people and logic of course refused to believe the blast really happened the main question for many remains why. these are barbarians monsters not humans these people have neither nationality nor humanity nor decency i think it was deliberately planned to bring this tragedy to the republic this is the sixth time something like this has happened they choose big holidays to cause

racial hatred but they want to achieve it. grief and sorrow has united the people and logic of cause russians the citizens ukrainians and other is all bring flowers to the scene and donate blood to help the injured. the glass is cracking under the feet of those who come to the gates of the central market the music echoes in the elf destroys interrupted only by those claiming to know a pair in the area people try to stay closer to each other as if this close this can help them to live through the tragedy in. our see from. our own torrijos chechen militants watch it internationally for terrorism has pledged more attacks in russia. posted this statement online after the bombing in water and some 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 the problem as artie's garnett kyon reports.

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 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 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 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 is the name of it into its list of most wanted terrorists and that was probably the first time that they did this sort of thing 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. 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 the initial threat had been met with worldwide condemnation president obama described the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for all 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 an eye eleven are met americans who've recently become muslims and how they and their adopted religion are often misconstrued in u.s. meat. loaf. 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 i converted last year the first of ramadan my mother. was afraid that i was going to marry someone who would be. she was 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 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 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 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 mike 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 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 saw. a happiness that might not make sense to those around her. to reassure either party

annandale virginia. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the cause of a huge explosion that killed at least four people and destroyed more than fifty homes in california remains a mystery local utility company did confirm that one of their gas lines a ruptured inferno the explosion sent 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 story of mud has hit a tiny village in southern italy after heavy rain 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 led out but more is expected over the next few days. there have been clashes between riot police and protesters in greece following demonstrations about the government's austerity measures the protests come ahead of saturday's economic keynote address by the

country's president four thousand police have been assigned to security duties but the police union says it's staging its own protest against the pay cuts greece was on the verge of bankruptcy in may. and that brings us to all the latest business news with kareena melican coming your way in a few moments stay with us here on r.t. . for the field we've gone to. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers.

how welcome to business 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 around we had a fifteen million tonnes this is still lower than russia where waste went off we boosted its cargo handling by eleven percent to each almost eight hundred million tons. in russia both the audience and my six finished the week in the red as u.s. treasuries continue to slide and it shares let the drop. from last nearly half talking the triangle's last telecom up seven and going to be at world com three percent. public holidays took some of the steam out of the markets this week according to the director of international equity sales at xander the heart of. russia still primarily driven by the violence coming out from the states coming or

coming out from continental europe japan and china there are very few suffer specifically russia that hasn't been driving russian stocks this week and quite a few names to mention or so after was still a calm performance just based on local news from earlier so i'd start seeing 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 on next couple weeks because there is a new money coming into the. global. emerging market funds are getting something falls and that is 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 producers are taking russia's export markets russia has to spend a great exports though it's expected so it turned to the market next year that it has more. in the last one and a half months has wiped out the work of six years russia build a thirty percent share of the world grain market the prolonged export ban not only

rocked international markets but also he didn't mystique one russian wheat prices were based on export prices on the trading floors in london now russia's consumers and producers clung to prices and green is sitting in storage the government has sitting on domestic exchanges but specialists see it would be impossible to set a price with export ban in place if you're going to have a stringent export. import policy or form. minimal prices for 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 terrified only important thing the world has become dependent on the c.s. for wheat supplying thirty percent of the world's needs this year russia being covered by the u.s. in. 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 and is there and they will be able to get it. and i think that in the next couple of years of russian air output increases again of and they will enter the market again and they will be able to secure more market share to regain its market share russia will need a bumper harvest next year and that's looking unlikely russia's green producers who are going green waiting for better prices and can barely afford to plan next year's crop the export ban intended to protect russian consumers by keeping grain in the country could ultimately hurt them didn't mean to do a business r.t. that's all from me in the business team here but you can always find most stories on our website at www dot com slash costs.

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