officials he was given granted a holiday to think about retirement will basically voluntary resignation and of course we know that he was not going to quit now according to russian law there are two ways that a federal official of a region could lose his post it's either seeking dismissal or of course an order from the head of state as we know that in this incident in this case it is an order from russian president dmitri it's a very highly anticipated decision not just in political circles but muscovites as well. i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in the. and it is a legal reason for his dismissal i cannot work of officials i can't trust. to me it's obvious that professional relations between the president. and with. the president. to act to return the situation back to.

leave behind a very visible legacy let's start with moscow itself has been credited for giving be a city a facelift one of those a baby cries the savior cathedral which because of him was rebuilt and people are saying that this is one of the most beautiful landmarks here they give him credit for that but on the other hand there's also right behind me if you can see through the reindeer peter the great and muscovites think it's one of the marks here in the city now the contrast between the opinions of these two martyrs very much like the opinions he's getting from the public is a very polarized opinion now to just have a bit more background on. such a controversial person. the constant feature. his legendary cap has been the subject of amusement throughout his eighteen years in power selling his custody needs to have a cap it's an option of kind of a grant it's almost a nursery home. the one million dollars it lays his mayorship meanwhile needs more

than just one cat to cover the bull spontaneous he started making distinctions in the economic crisis of the ninety's members 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 that there is no affordable housing for the most provides there is a problem of people cheated by the construction pyramids used to and others have to be dealt with before any question about future employment of the mill to be discussed while the country was losing money during the recent economic downturn in two thousand and nine was close income increases however the mayor claims it's not his money but his wife says even about doing it is rushed in your female bilinear about she was a property development company and many claim its list of political clout that lands her the deals both in russia and abroad he's known for his strong anti-gay

status never authorizing and even cracking down on gay pride parades now sure or possible a society with healthy morals do not accept my wife's shit they just don't accept your great they're going to go for their last summer may blame him for mishandling disabused mob situation most of the city choked on top six more for almost a month as wildfires rage while he was on vacation out of the city mill for micah's this it's all of course every specialist should be responsible for what they are and just like you said up with him if for example the mayor of moscow they want to move back for a day's third and next day after the smog actually has dissolved which was the case this time and i think it is unacceptable for you he should have been here half an hour after the small looks like school has been concentrating a lot on his house rather than that of this city's residence then appears i don't drink maybe i'm missing out on something but for more than thirty years. i haven't

had a drop of. the money that the russian government anyone on a case to be 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 he's long gone footprint will stay on the streets of the russian capital and then the artsy moscow. and while moscow via cell wearing out there is sacking a former c.b.s. correspondent in moscow july first sounders described the honest achieve as a bulldozer. across a thousand years. was a combination combination of four kinds of per piece though he was really a renaissance prince running the city state he was in american terms a combination of mayor daley and robert moses the great city builder who ruthlessly did things he was a little dictator he was a kind of robin hood he would put his finger on the pulse around the throat of the

new landlord street people building buildings making money in moscow and force them to do other things there was a time when your. was quite particular popular because he ripped off the rip off artists who are making money on the new book moscow and did things like build christ the savior cathedral i think his legacy will be that he is a bulldozer bulldozers get things done but they sometimes are rude and crude if you were to go back and look in the middle of the one nine hundred ninety s. i think a lot of muscovites would say we'll take off with all his rough edges because he got a lot done because he did have a populist unfortunately i think many times people are influenced by their spouse. which prompts wife elaine into live now but hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption business and some of that sloshed over a man who stayed in his job just to. yuri luzhkov will

have a mixed legacy but his legacy is evident on the new face of the new moscow. there's no coming your way later in the problem including a pig behind the cash. i think there's a north korean leader kim jung il time to jail in a possible step toward the red transfer of power i was so outraged about what he's could mean but this could mean for pyongyang thracians with the rest of the wild. and. so much american office is claiming it's a trend trolls have been touring for decades and. the israeli navy has forced a boat carrying jewish actually it's on their way to blockaded gaza to divert to the israeli port of ashdod those onboard include a holocaust survivor an israeli man who lost his daughter in

a palestinian suicide bombing the group organizing the trips out it was to show that many jews don't support israeli government policy towards palestinians. we've had the better world order we on the international waters crew and up into the boat being taken to our own we hope they will be released. immediately. treatment. of the authority authorities we believe the blockade will be illegal and illegitimate and we want any of them to make a. public statement amar will hope that the collective punishment of the people of god and child of the blockade of gaza and the new dog will be the group within the weapons. declaration on behalf of many to the israeli government for the public. are not being conducted. or in our name

and are not in our interest and we do not believe they are in the interest of the very good it's very well. almost four months ago nine pro palestinian x. rays died in an israeli raid or another eight thirteen launched from turkey a un report described the force as disproportionate and courteau and this time a london based group juries for justice for palestinians organized a voyage and rather have found of a non-governmental organization and really pleased that government should share the same courage as the people taking part in the thirteen. hard to know what to expect especially after what happened months ago within marmora but it is true though that this is a jewish check in this is a jewish ship and this is a jewish if a made every effort to to reach the guy the real story is in the message of solidarity sent by jews on this ship with their muslim brothers in gaza 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 relieve her ship 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. north korean leader kim jung il has made his youngest son a four star general in a promotion theme as the first step towards handing over power on portland was made hours before convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades the historic me thinking you know they awarded him. another family member top post famous helping extend the communist in a third generation. detention is turned on north korea for the first workers party meeting in thirty years there

are rumors of imminent change but that according to those in the know is premature . became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy ideas and not a sound a story of the foundations or is the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il 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. 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 emerges possible was happy to

a 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 that didn't exist. i was there for a year and a half and when we came back we couldn't talk about it we couldn't even hint those that died were buried and the notes to their families would read killed in the course of duty where when how it was not open for discussion it was hard for what it was top of their of course seventy seven out of seventy eight green cities were destroyed almost completely and yet everywhere i went i 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 fell apart its influx into the north korean economy

plummeted despite the fact a close relationship is maintained by moscow and pyongyang 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 international security expert dr jim walsh says they promotions. rushed and hasty because internal conflicts in the country could threaten his family as politicians to. the youngest kid was only twenty something years old he has no experience when kim jong il was young his father kim il some took twenty years to groom him for this position this is a rush job they are rushing this through for a person who is really has no experience and that's why they appointed sort of it again for medieval times a region came as a point of his brother in law to sort of hold things together until the youngest son is old enough to take over but how long will that last will the military want

to have a greater say in what's going on will others want to fight for power how will react during a period of vulnerability these are all big questions with potentially big consequences and they'll have to be answered first before we see what kind of leader the youngest son turns out to be in north korea the danger is not that north korea is going to turn around and attacks a country with nuclear weapons it really it has a nuclear device but it really doesn't have a working nuclear weapon and it's not interested in that to begin with ironically and as hard as it is to believe what the north koreans really want is a good relationship with the united states normalized relationship and relationship with the greater world because they're having economic problems and they would like to grow out of those and they're trying to use the nuclear weapons as bargaining leverage in trying to come to some sort of accommodation i'm from a strictly controlled communist ideology to an era of innovation and a need generation of up and minded people that's how present that it has described china to have visited the world's biggest technology fast when i opened russia's

exhibition pavilion at the shanghai expo and that it was accompanied by chinese vice president xi jinping a man tipped to become the future leader of this country and he said in our report . friends and seizure and of a sentence what better place to come together than the shanghai expo where russia and china are the stars of tomorrow the bus line you go to the main message of russia's exposition in shanghai. freely relationship with china for decades to come . the president made it over to russia today and met with steve think pain deputy chair of the foods in power and the man seen as china's most possible future leader of the ground for what could be a partnership that shifts and shocks global power. is the most likely future leader of china it's likely they discussed with very concrete plans for the future but all of it probably talks about mutual approaches to russia

china relations and global issues. it is about most of the day together and took a good look of what china and russia have to offer. russia billion is a favorite this time around with its top talking energy companies putting on their best show so i always look you look 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 of russia's push for rapid modernization when you go to this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies in 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 adapt to modern life . and russia understands 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 russia china is the friend with whom to solidify a partnership bringing them into the future and past reporting from shanghai and he's now a r.t. let's look at some other news from around the world at least thirty people are missing after a massive my flight in northwestern colombia poting a bus when the landslide cascaded down a mountain enveloping the road dangerous conditions have forced the rescue effort to be suspended heavy rains across colombia have to. flooding and claimed at least seventy four lives in recent weeks. the german government has approved a controversial plan to use them live with nuclear power plants by environmentalists had greeted the decision but the industry's angry too over plans over plans to tax extra profits from atomic energy the new plan goes against a previous government pledge to phase out nuclear reactors the twenty twenty two minutes the say germany's energy security will be assured but green activists claim

the moves driven by the interests of. belgian aspace have been shot due to twenty four hours try to control is over one hundred flights have been counseled in brussels as workers protest. this city's international airports have been shot key hubs for the headquarters of the european union and nation bureaucracies the striking patrollers say that action could last until thursday. when you could also mills of the world's main power 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 officers says aliens have been showing interest in the u.s. and russia has nukes for decades now cedric moon investigates. yes. 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's an attack from where it doesn't matter. if that were to happen if nuclear payback wouldn't happen. because. that's the claim made by the men in this room are 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 ten nine eight and it's not just in the united states also. in russia the idea like in one 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 when a u.f.o. was hovering above the missile base identical to what occurred here i think we can rule out that who 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 in out of the ordinary day is about to unfold. remember the saucer set up moon r. t. washington d.c. . i'll be back with the headlines in ten minutes time now as speculation about change of the top in north korea intensifies talks are now explode on the region xander tells us about meeting the reclusive states need a kidney o'neill on his analysis of the country's current challenges that's an interesting moment.

thank you so much for joining us. north korea remains one of the few mysteries today everything is known information about everything can be found easily but north korea maintains that shroud of secrecy while. you were it happened so that for centuries korea was detached from the rest of the outside world this is to do with the fact that back in the middle ages it frequently suffered from invasions by the mumbles and japanese feel for this convince the ruling class that the country would live better if it reduced its contacts with the surrounding countries to a minimum but today in the twenty first century when the economic ties back in the world do you think that this policy of isolation will help north korea progress

economically yet there has been much talk in the west about north korea opening up with them on its integration into the world community not up with you with whoever a real policy that's very often at all sorts of statements some sort of best period broke out in the media recently around the fact of the swedish department store down seven jeans manufactured in north korea if the west is really interested in north korea developing some industry straight to enter for an octopus and just having people interested in contacts with the outside world or working with it what's trapped with a cell in the box or a genius pulls to the western wall of safety and well being it will be absolutely and significant in terms of economic competition the same apply it to the joint north and south korean the destroyer complex in case song or a free trade agreement was signed between us and south korea several years ago which has not yet been ratified but that is what the refusal of us to include spoon was and forks and other consumer goods manufactured area into the agreement was one

of the stumbling blocks the us did not agree for a few million dollars to many of the markets and yet it's hard to imagine how this could threaten the u.s. and one of the economies. so in your opinion it's beneficial in some ways for certain countries like the united states for example to have korea isolated. so there's really a break with the unfortunately we have to draw this conclusion we cannot explain everything entirely by north korea. of course much depends on the past on the traditional wonder fear of opening up a war because that may lead to an dishonorable political consequences on the other hand and they say north korea needs to become a civilized country and to be integrated into the world community above their never too keen really do thing was to let it happen it's more of the west and the united states in particular need a bad guy in that region to justify their military presence in the southern part of

the korean peninsula and to perm and deploying their missile defense systems there that's something that's going on there are somewhat more actively done in europe where indeed into now the u.s. and allied military presence in the region was justified by the soviet threat but it's been twenty years now since the soviet union however the u.s. is not going to give up their military alliances established during the cold war now it's very convenient to have a bad guy in pyongyang that can be used as a scapegoat for everything let's try and. economical and political more towards the personal you've spent so much time in north korea i believe you've even met kim jong il personally what kind of a man is he want to say that kim jong il appears is an energetic and informed person who knows what he does and knows what to strive for i think stereotypes appearing regularly in western and frankly also in russian people are caissons

about some unpredictable politician and regime are absolutely ungrounded because an irrational and unpredictable politician would hardly be able to hold power in his hands for the past two decades when many revolutions broke out in many countries actually disappeared money expected the north korean regime to form. however for a number of reasons including purely pragmatic and realistic policy and the ability to play the enemy even some small thing as the north korean regime managed to survive if. you mention that the north korean leader knows what he wants for his country and from his country he's calling a party meeting that hasn't been held in thirty years and many in the west specifically are very excited trying to guess why exactly or what he's trying to tell the world by doing that what do you think that the purpose of the conference and the workers party meeting is. if we talk about detail the only thing known to

be on the agenda of the forthcoming conference are the elections for the governing bodies of the ruling party and it really makes sense for it's been forty four years since the previous conference and thirty years since the previous party congress money leaders who used to be members of the governing politburo and secretary have to have died at the central committee must by now have less than half the men from the original list so it appears to be high time for elections the second thing on the agenda which is perhaps the key thing is about the success. so to the incumbent leader it's no secret that there have been many reports about his we can't help now if kim jong il decides to follow in his father's footsteps and name his son as his successor there's very little known about the man what what do we know who is he what does he what does he what have what him he bring to north korea kim jong il

became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy and ideas not in some of the stronger of the foundations where the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il successor if it should be one of the sons for example i should not make any predictions as to which of them it could be as much talking with the third song anyway this would be a young person who hasn't earned it much authority in the party or the country and who is not very widely known and i don't think that kim jong il is going to quit entirely no he will continue ruling the country as long as you know from the circumstances and. that's why the decisions to be made by the conference will in their essence be shaping the environment under circles going to the new successor some advisors who will guide them through the challenging situation north korea is in these days.

this is our feel life from the russian capital the head of. that now down to russia president of fun as lot has made your initial call telling him to have the road. to call for the show yes i would also europe begin to take. a four months after israel that's hard to tell a flotilla killing no i gaza bound vessel carry international. activists have been forced to abandon its mission by israeli warships. vision of the future of the shanghai expo twenty eight and the country is not sufficient and then as i've been visited by president dmitry medvedev along with chinese vice president cheney the next leader. up next also he travels

a thousand kilometers south from moscow to rostov on don how a man on the road james brown has a busy time getting lessons in handbrake turns from a glamorous russian woman driver learning how to fight and horse ride like a crook cossack and in between surveying the region's a famed block in the city's treasures. one of russia's most important southern cities an industrial and cultural center with more than one point three million people this is a twenty first century town that's proud of its history where you can find cutting edge technology and people that still follow traditions that date back centuries this is very rare is an agricultural jewel covered with rich fertile soil and blessed with a mild climate it's the second most productive region in the country but if you want to appreciate it properly you really need somebody to give you a list. now that on this.