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she's available in hotels. a little. of this it is called us photo twist. the story. countering the city. schools malls. as a good up until the struggle for this to become the hutto. president medvedev says the u.s. shouldn't be jealous about a new security arrangement between russia and europe which would help everyone speaking at the global policy forum jaroslav he also said the speed of development in russia shows only those with more memories still accuse the country of

totalitarianism. russia's republic of north of the victims of yesterday's car bomb attack in its capital central market the blast killed seventeen more than one hundred sixty injured. and takes a look at why a growing number of americans have been converting to islam since nine eleven despite accusations that the media is fueling antagonism towards muslims. eleven pm in the russian capital thanks for being with us here on r t. we start with the global policy forum in jaroslav all which has been hearing from the russian president dmitry medvedev tells the 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 those who say russia isn't democratic have very bad memories. has been following the discussions. the bottom line. presently 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 many like young mature open democracy and democratic institutions are intensively developing and russia can present a better said he personally wouldn't want to be 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 idea of a new european security architecture the idea which first appeared to georgia's military invasion and so the said to you know this two thousand and eight mission in bed it 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 up to protect people up sell the city because only russia really did that present a better place saying that the current european security institutions are unsustainable and that they should be pulled to reflect the present realities so what he is suggesting is to adopt a new european security treaty but he is nevertheless stress 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 u.s. 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 because 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 world would be in the framework of the international law russia will continue to cooperate with the wrong people reporting from our teaser catarina grouch of 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 was at the form. 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 says he sees little chance of russia developing as a parliamentary republic that's an opinion shared by journalist sergei brylin 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 someone on the scene at the moment is that the party system set is becoming a proper process system. needs gets established i think these are good chance for the presidents to discuss for they points to the parliament when fixing things and then finding checks and balances within the executive but if you think you can so

you've raised the idea of a strong executive these comes when you look at how the management of the case may be another two hundred years little bit parliamentary democracy if these one the country where. commentary from journalist sergei brylin although the forums discussions touched upon some serious topics the debates were also lighthearted as our tests are so i discovered. 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 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 doing because talking and talking and talking so hopefully how to this would happen and of course we have 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'd like to see that 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. that's when passion used to the moderator of the question of the meeting presentation doesn't correspond to the discussion here. so well after all the serious talk now. celebrating its one. of the participants some of them will be participating in the activities planned for them so there will be more fun observations from artie's tests ourselves. while the forum seventy four year old

italian prime minister announced that he's throwing his support behind an italian institute aiming to prolong the average human lifespan to one hundred twenty years during a visit to see vladimir putin afterwards berlusconi's ideas seem to interest the fifty seven year old russian prime minister. we will leave until we're one hundred twenty years old. yes but you have to bear in mind that this is the average life expectancy i was told that leaders live much longer. so we will still be prime ministers when we are one hundred twenty no i'm not sure that's possible the job of prime minister whereas you want believe me i haven't had a single day off this year i don't think you prime minister putin have had much time to rest recently either. i have some ideas about a couple of days of joy and holiday we'll talk about it later. officially of the global policy forum has now ended but either saturday there will be much more live

coverage at r.t. from jaroslava because that's when the city moves into party mode and start celebrating its millennium and we'll be following it all right here. when the news is. when it's something really crucial what you want to get down to. special coverage. just the latest news from the. wrong special guest discussions on the stage in providing security and stability of the present day world. question. switching gears now to the day's other major story yesterday's deadly terror attack in north overshadowed president medvedev the timing jaroslava he told the meeting that there is no point in being soft on terrorists that 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 those injured are now being treated in moscow hospitals several more will been sent to the capital later three suspects are in they are in custody including the owner and the owner of the car that was used in the attack has been identified. over reports from a lot of the first funerals have been held. two lives hand in hand interrupted at the moment when yes i'm on my man and had total a grandson no new which had a nativity got across central market they see the boy was quarreling with his brother about writing and buying so grandma promised to buy a little and lure a new one a moment later their dreams were wiped out by the blast. we would the markets i went into a shop was 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 my son died

was one and a half years old my three year old son is now in surgery doctors if i see if is life there were a lot of people in the market. it's terrifying last breath again yes i'm on met all most every morning before go into the market their day rafiq i felt seguin 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 her things and headed to the logic of cars her small family makes their leaving from selling fruit and vegetables and a year ago moved closer to the central market used as your versions will work closely to show other ones too they're selling grapes another was selling lemons they were as a risk with them who hold the herd but she was badly injured her leg was ripped off

the chair diabetes and they couldn't stop the blood. crying over the last many people in 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 let it go because russians the citizens ukrainians and everybody's all bring flowers to the scene and in a blunt to help the injured. the glass is cracking under the feet of those who come to the gates of the central market to music echoes in the empty streets interrupted only by those claiming in repairing the area people try to stay closer to each other as if this close this can help them to live

through all the tragedy in. our. notorious chechen military wanted internationally for terrorism has pledged more attacks in russia doku umarov posted a statement online after the bombing and lot of have cars on the same day washington said militants operating in the north caucasus are linked to al qaeda that's a change in the u.s. approach to the problem as artie's guy nature 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 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. remember you can always find this and a whole lot more on our website r g dot call along with video blogs and a whole lot more for you to explore here's what's online right now. three thirty million dollars in one month but how many years in prison russian police tracked down a gang of hackers that had been infecting people's computers and then offering to debug them for a small fee. and the ship carrying the works of art to russia that sank in the eighteenth century will be pulled up from its sea for resting place you can find more on the hundred million dollar operation and other stories that are dot com.

turn to other news now on r t on the whole but not canceled 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 met with worldwide condemnation president obama described the burning ceremony as a recruitment bonanza for al qaeda saying it would put american lives at risk but meanwhile a new figures in the u.s. show a rise in the number of people who converted to islam since nine eleven. meets americans who've recently become muslims and how they and their adopted relevant religion are sometimes misconstrued in the us 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 when can very 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 betraying her by changing. my religion to something that she didn't know about back tracked 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 as long as you know people thought it was so i believe that just like everybody else but as villains 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 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 a 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 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 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. reassure either our t. annandale virginia. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the cause of a huge a huge explosion that killed at least four people and destroyed more than fifty homes in california remains a mystery a local utility company did however confirm that one of their gas lines ruptured any inferno the explosion sent flames through a neighborhood in the southern san francisco now these 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 river 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 is let up but more is expected over the next coming days. there have been clashes between riot police and

protesters in greece after 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 protest against pay cuts greece was on the brink of bankruptcy in may. all of the latest business news with kareena melican coming your way in a few moments here on r t. every month we give you the future best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our jeep. with. this data data generated from an electrical grid. you can do to do it in california. or the energy sources the simpler. let's go to support.

her welcome to us 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 the round we had a fifty million tonnes this is still lower than russia where waste we boosted its cargo handling by eleven percent to each almost eight hundred million tons. in russia both the artist 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 a percent talking the trend was last telecom up seven percent having to be at work on 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 russian a thousand driving russian stocks this week and quite a few names to mention or so after us are all still to come performance just based on local news primarily sites that are 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 when i stop the weeks because from where the new money coming into the. global year of global fund some of the emerging market funds are getting some information 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 produces 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. thirteen percent year of the

world grain market the prolonged export ban not only rocked international markets but also he did domestic one russian wheat prices were based on export prices set on the trading floors in london now russia's consumers and producers clung to in 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 very stringent export policy important policy or form. minimal prices you know what's the point of the commodity exchange there won't be any price discovery if tomorrow you're going to put a huge 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 at output increases again then 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 expert ben intended to protect russian consumers by keeping green 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 tests.

culture is that so much money can which of course you might find it comes in the early days it's an angry all pervasive right wing media particularly television and radio are enormously influence.