now leading up to this point there's already been a lot of controversy of course in the past eighteen years and of the recent past few days leading up to today and it's been reported that he had met with kremlin officials prior to this and he was granted a holiday for him to think about retirement basic which basically means a voluntary resignation because according to russian law there are two ways that a federal official of a region could do suppose and one is it's either we seek but one by seeking dismissal and the other is of course by the order of the head of state and we know that in this case the order had come from the russian president was a very highly anticipated decision not just in political circles muscovites themselves have been there waiting for a decision for the decision to be made by the president now currently the president is in a shanghai and listen to what he had to say but. i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in europe. and it is a legal reason for his dismissal it's happened for the first time but i do not rule

out that such cases might happen again i cannot work with officials i can't trust the legacy of wish i was very visible in their promenade here in moscow let's just talk about the landmarks that he's left here in moscow people credit him for having given the moscow a facelift one of the most famous landmarks here is the defeat for a living prize the saviour's it's beautiful a lot of tourists go there and of course he's credited for that but on the other hand you have this structure behind me peter the great satchel which muscovites. see as one of the ugliest structures here in the city and it's quite funny that the contrast of these two landmarks is very much like the contrast of his career the polarize opinion that he has created because of his populist policies and because of the way he is and over the last eighteen years so really you've got two sides of the good and the bad that bush has done in his career the consultation for the nomination of a new mayor will be done by the united russia party pretty soon now for a bit more. background on why this was such a controversial person now here is

a report filed by my colleague that i get up to. the constant feature of the moscow mayor he's a legendary cab has been the subject of amusement throughout his eighteen years in power selling his custom made silver cap at an auction of kindly granted a moscow nursery home the one million u.s. dollars it raised his mayorship meanwhile needs more than just one cab to cover the bald spots of his career he started making his fortune on the economic crisis of the late ninety's rumors of money laundering have haunted many of his multi-million dollar construction projects across the capital there's lots of problems in the city namely there is no affordable housing for the most collide soon there is a problem of people cheated by the construction pyramids these two and others have to be dealt with before any question about future employment of them is to be discussed while the country was losing money during the recent economic downturn in

two thousand and nine income increased however the mayor claims it's not his money but he's wife's going about doing that is russia's only female billionaire she was a property development company and many claim its list of political clout that lands her the deals both in wash and abroad coffees known free strong anti-gay stance never authorizing and even cracking down on gay pride parades national parts of our society with healthy morals do not accept they just don't accept other over the last summer many blamed him for mishandling the severest mock situation in moscow the city of short on talks most for almost a month as wildfires raged while he was on vacation out of the city. this is one of course every specialist should be responsible for what they are interested with if for example the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays but a next day after the small go the. little has dissolved which was the case this

time and i think it is unacceptable he should have been here half an hour after the smoke looks like has been concentrating a lot on his house rather than that well the city's residents but i don't drink maybe i'm missing out on something but for more than thirty years i haven't had a drop. in the money that the russian government annually allocated to improve infrastructure rarely make it to the ramshackle roads of moscow he's also been criticised over the deconstruction of the city's historical and architectural heritage after his long cost footprint will stay on the streets of the russian capital and then artsy. now for more international perspective on the cough sucking i'm now joined by reinhard head of the moscow office of a german political foundation hello to you so there is a wide consensus that in the early ninety's cough took moscow out of complete chaos what could happen to the city now after his dismissal. well you know very badly.

i can't hear you but i think what you asked is why he was popular and i mean why not anymore i think in the ninety's it was very popular because he was a very stable person in a very unstable country and moscow was a stable city in comparison to other cities in comparison to other parts of russia i lived during that time and for me at that time a very very good job also he was not a typical bureaucrat he was a guy who went to the to the people and that was very very popular at the moment. he overdid it i think. the mayor of moscow after all is not the prime minister not the president and if there is a change in politics in the country the mayor of moscow should take that into consideration and i think he didn't do that i mean we have. with your do nothing but as i was saying earlier in one thousand nine hundred ninety when liskov took over moscow. it was in

a state of complete chaos what do you think could happen to this major city now since he's been dismissed. i think. clearly is in a much much better shape in the ninety's but because moscow is the center in russia and a lot of foreign investment is going to russia you have you need a different infrastructure you need a different approach than you had in the ninety's and in that sense i think moscow is lacking behind them as far as i understand the president the prime minister i thinking of changing that and put in as far as i understand that's not possible with me on this call for the former mayor now so you made a mind a glimpse into the possible economic consequences for moscow was involved in quite a few business of financial deals what could be the future for the economic side of moscow here. i think since moscow is very popular among foreign investors as far as i understand there won't be any changes i think this will go on clearly if not

only the mayor goes but his administration in general you need people who are fast and understand what happened and want to change but in general i think the life from moscow will go on and still in a very positive way now the sacking of bush will become does little surprise that the order was actually offered the chance to resign with dignity why do you think he chose another option. i think the risk off deserved to resign in dignity. but i think again he was underestimating the president of the prime minister. as far as i understand he had the chance to rethink and possibly resign on its own whatever the terms are which i clearly don't know. still i think now all he has resigned forcefully and still i think the country the city should give him after all go after all the good farewell all right ron howard croom head of the moscow office of a job and political foundation sorry for bringing you out into the rain today but

thank you for your time. well from a strictly controlled communist ideology to an arrow of innovation and a new generation of open minded people that's how russia's president has described china after you visited the world's biggest technology fair in shanghai expo two thousand and ten. friends and future innovations what better place to come together then the shanghai expo where russia and china are the stars of tomorrow let me go to the main message of russia's exposition in chiang hai we're establishing your friendly relationship with china for decades to come in. president medvedev opened russia today and met with steve think pain deputy chair to hu jintao and the man seen as time as most possible future leader rang the ground for what could be a partnership that shifts and shocks global power. being the most likely future leader of china it's unlikely they discussed with medvedev

concrete plans for the future but they probably talked about mutual approach to russia china relations and global issues that has spent most of the day together and took a good look of what china and russia have to offer. process brazilian is a favorite this time around with its top talking energy companies putting on their best show so it was a good start in that if you're at this expose we're demonstrating the latest results in science and high tech and showcasing cooperation with our chinese colleagues but it's all part of a bigger picture push for rapid modernization and when you go to nations this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies and institutes and of its development is certainly the choice of our country who are following this path and will do everything for our economy to modernize change and in depth to modern life. and russia understand china is a great way to start made in china had

a significantly different connotation just some few years back that's right take a closer look at the backs of your i pads and i pods they were most likely assembled here rushdie's china is the friend with whom to lead a fire partnership bringing them into the future and past reporting from shanghai and these are now a party. boat carrying jewish activists attempting to reach blockaded gaza has been forced to divert to the port of ashdod in israel by israeli warships among those on board is a holocaust survivor and an israeli man who lost his daughter in a palestinian suicide bombing well most of. months ago nine a pro palestinian activists died in an israeli raid on another aid flotilla launched from turkey a un report described the force as disproportionate and brutal this time a london based group jews for justice for palestinians organize the voyage it says not all jewish people support israel's policies towards palestinians i'll talk to

a yellow of the founder of the non-governmental organization or who is live for us in tel aviv hello to you so this voyage was organized by a jewish group can expect to be treated differently by the israeli forces than those involved in other attempts to break the blockade perhaps. well it's so important to break the blockade it's hard to know what to expect especially after what happened months ago with the marmora it is true though that this is a jewish in this is a jewish ship and this is a jewish ship and made every effort to to reach you guys are the real story is in the message of solidarity sent by jews on this ship with their muslim brothers in gaza. will these constant attempts to sail to gaza to break the blockade actually do any good for the people of gaza. it's a very good question you know this ship had on board it toys for children musical

instrument prosthetics fishing nets and and they brought a lot of hope and the military can confiscate the toys take away the music but they can't take away the hope and i think of this is where the power of this ship is this is where the power of courageous initiatives by people lies when people take the step forward to break a blockade if they share hope and that is where the potential we have for breaking this blockade now because it's time to break the blockade comes just hours after the and to be it's really a hold on building settlements in the occupied territories what are the chances of dialogue now between the two sides because the palestinian side said there's no dialogue if the settlement continues if the construction continues. the chances for dialogue depend on what happens from here on in we all know what's happened to bring us to this point and the israelis and the palestinians disagree what we need real right now is real leadership and between me and you if the

leaders of the palestinians and of the israelis can show the same courage of the people on this boat and others around the world i think we have a chance to break the impasse and continue with these talks for peace now tell me what have your experiences working with me or what do you will publish on israelis want for the future. it's a great question or it is really for our future it's a network for peace that enables thousands of peacemakers israelis and palestinians hundreds of them are in gaza it allows us to network and to communicate for peace and as the founder of this network what i see every day is the desire on both sides palestinians and israelis want to overcome our differences want to see the other end. human and want to really work together for peace so this network is working right now on exemplifying and the peace that we want online and on the ground we're

helping realize this with interaction information and inspiration and we really were enabling a movement for peace a movement that can help us realize our goals for peace and i will just add me peace org is a free and open network for everyone to join everyone is invited to join us today or ride spokesman for n.g.o.s live from tel aviv thank you. well north korean leader kim jong il has promoted his youngest son kim jong un to the rank of general and what's seen as the first step of a power transition and came before the country's ruling workers' party gathered for its biggest convention in decades no official announcements were made on the issue of succession has been shrouded in mystery but as r.t. is getting us out of a reports that practice is not uncommon in north korea. and the twenty first century everything is global and all kinds of information is available online but

there remains a lot of mystery in the world wide web that is north korea that many are pretty trade secrets but like an exception steve was one of you to visit the place and hopefully will share his impressions a alex so tell me you were in place yang what's it like what's your biggest impression be honest with you when i was going there i felt a little nervous haven't read all the stories about north korea in the west media that it's a scary place it's all the different sort of scary things when i arrived there i thought it was nothing like that but the one thing we should rescue the most of the first days and first hours thing is i saw a building on the other side of there over my hotel it had no curtains on windows and i asked one of the assistants why is it like he said well if you have curtains in north korea it means you have something to hide so i got the impression that this society is open to its own government whilst its government is closed to the

rest of the world it is the societies close to the world as well world attention is turned on north korea for the first workers party meeting in thirty years there are rumors of a man change but that according to those in the know is premature. i don't think we should expect any dramatic changes right away because power in north korea is built on the principles of succession and continuity kim jong il became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy ideas and not as some destroyer of the foundations or as the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il's successor. north korea's nuclear ambitions troubled the west and the secretive states tightlipped policies and everything has been successfully used as a tool by countries such as the united states. the united states in particular need a bad guy in the region to justify their military presence in the southern part of the korean peninsula and japan and for deploy missile defense systems there which

they've done somewhat more actively than in europe until now the us and allied military presence in the region was justified by the soviet threat but it's been twenty years without a soviet threat however the united states is not going to give our military alliances a stablish during the cold war and now it is very convenient to have a bad guy in pyongyang that can be used as a scapegoat for everything. to north korea the soviet union was the very opposite of a threat especially in the korean war of the early one nine hundred fifty s. the u.s.s.r. came to see as many socialist states in largest possible was happy to aid its fellow communist regime against u.n. troops but the veterans of those battles only recently got the chance to talk about their memories for them it was yet another war they didn't exist for. i was there for a year and a half and when we came back we couldn't talk about it couldn't even hear and those that died were buried and the notes to their families would read killed in the

course of duty where when how that was not open for discussion it was hard but it was tough out there of course seventy seven out of seventy eight green cities were destroyed almost completely and yet everywhere i went by saw people trying to rebuild homes roads everything we'd see women on the road carrying their kids and their belongings to a new town and would give them lifts we weren't allowed to but we did. when the eastern european communist bloc shall apart its influx into the north korean economy plummeted despite the fact a close relationship is maintained by moscow n.p.r. the veil of secrecy is not helping to boost economic development north korea remains one of only five communist states in the world and by far the most mysterious country on the map gas units are r t moscow. the nuclear arsenals of the world's main powers are generally considered to be

ultra secure and well guarded even so some claim they can be protected from extraterrestrial meddling a group of former american military officers say aliens have been showing interest in the u.s. on russia's nukes but decades so chicken reports. perhaps few things say normal or routine more than a daily dose of coffee a cup of calm in what can on any day be out of the ordinary. out of the ordinary like a nuclear holocaust out of the ordinary. let's say there is an attack from where doesn't matter. if that were to happen nuclear payback wouldn't happen. that's a claim made by the men in this room our missiles began going into what's called

a no go condition or on launchable essentially they were disabled detailed in this report full of court sanction sworn affidavits the witnesses have described these craft s. disc shaped or cylindrical shape or spherical if you think what's being said inside this building is completely ridiculous you might want to consider something my name's robert hastings thank you for coming these are men who might know what may have gone on their former air force missile launch officers missile base officers who say u.f.o. spaceships flying saucers make nuclear weapon systems go haywire in one thousand nine hundred sixty six according to a launch officer david sure his missiles were temporarily activated just as his security guard was reporting a bright object moving from missile to missile to missile. and it's not just in the united states also. in russia. like

a nine hundred eighty two incident that happened in then soviet ukraine given the fact that these incidents have gone on over there including one incident of their missiles being temporarily activated want to u.f.o. was hovering above the missile base identical to what occurred here i think we can rule out that who are whoever our pilots in these craft are either american or russian. maybe they're right maybe they're wrong. maybe there is no way to ever know but if they are right and an out of the ordinary day is about to unfold. remember the saucers set up moon r. t. washington d.c. comics the latest business news with stuff. hello and welcome to the business bulletin as we've been reporting in the main news

the maire of moscow your english cough has been dismissed by president medvedev this cough has ruled the city for eighteen years and with it he's set the planning conditions for construction business r.t. spoke to the head of penny lane real estate about the impact of his departure almost real estate market. we expect very long period of. everybody nobody's approving giving any permits everybody is stuck waiting for new orders from the new czar they are all worried if they could do something wrong they're wall worried who orders to follow is the do no really know who will be tomorrow before everybody is stuck with going on. believe this would be huge harm to the industry.

let's take a look at the equity markets stateside stocks falling in the early trade despite positive data showing us home prices rose in july and ahead of a new. consumer confidence concerns over iras that are keeping investors cautious of. european shares are also firmly in the red weak banks and energy stocks are dragging on the footsie but some good economic data has lent a little support. group is still among the worst performers on the footsie reported a sharp drop in pretax profits. and here in moscow both markets are falling in the last hour of trade but lukewarm has a raise earlier losses on the telecom is making some gains p.t.v. has slumped down one and three quarters percent and energy majors are also tracking . in economic news russia's central bank has kept its key interest rate on the hold at seven and three quarters percent for the fourth month in a row bank officials say the risk of inflation is at an acceptable level they have

also previously stated that the possibility of a rate hike this year is very small. the world's largest element of producer wants to increase its cells in asia by fifty percent by the end of the year as a first step the russian companies signed a letter of intent with china's north industries corporation or no rinko to acquire a stake in its sales and marketing subsidiary under a long term contract riso would deliver up to two million metric tons of aluminum alloys to asia per year that's worth more than four billion dollars rinker will invest in resource production in siberia to increase the volume of high tech aluminum production cells on the chinese market. german engineering and electronics siemens plans to invest five hundred forty million dollars in its projects in russia over the next two to three years the company intends to build a number of plants to produce electronics equipment across russia it also plans to

build a wind farm in the country's far east it will build all the generating equipment from start to finish in a joint venture with rest and state corp russian technologies. and that's all the businesses for now but do join me at the mall in about an hour's time and of course you can always find most stories of you log on to our website that's r t dot com slash business. it with.

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on t.v. . it's now six thirty pm here in the russian capital you all with your headlines now the mayor of moscow is fired after eighteen years in power the president says he did because he no longer had confidence in the capital city top boss. a group of international activists on a jewish organized aid mission to blockaded gaza is forced to end its journey by israeli warships. the russian president ends a trip to china by meeting the man widely predicted to be the next leader of the people's republic. the secretive north korean leader kim jong il promotes his son general in a possible for a step towards

a hereditary transfer of power. well with north korean leader expected to name his successor any time now talks to an expert on not region. who met kim jong il that's next stay with us. in the twenty first century everything has become globalized there is practically nothing that a person can find on the internet on the phone or from known sources but north korea remains one of the very few enigmas in the twenty first century and to talk a little more about this in fact we got the chance to talk to the director of the far east studies of the russian cademy of science i think somebody should have been there seven thank you so much for joining us north korea remains one of the few mysteries today everything is known in from.