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 and 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 but 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 with officials i can't trust. me it's obvious that professional relations between the president and. with. the president and. act to return the situation back to normal.

leave behind a very visible legacy let's start with moscow with self has been credited for giving the city a facelift one of those of christ the savior cathedral. 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 rain be a 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 that he's getting from the public is a very polarized opinion now to just have a bit more background on. such a controversial. story. the constant feature of the. his legendary cap has been the subject of amusement throughout his eighteen years in power selling his custom made silver camp it's an option kindly granted nursery home the one million. his dollars if you waste his mayorship meanwhile needs more

than just one cap to cover the bald spot. he started making distinction in the economic crisis of the 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 but 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 are 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's even about doing that is russia's only female billionaire but she was a property development company and many claim its list of political clout that lands her the deals both in russia and abroad is known three strong anti-gay stance

never authorizing and even cracking down on gay pride parades now sure or flaws of our society with healthy morals do not accept my wife's shit they just don't accept they're great they're going to go for their last summer may blame him for mishandling disabused not situation most of the city choked on toxic smoke for almost a month as wildfires rage while he was on vacation out of the city mill for micah's this betrayal of course every specialist should be possible for what they are and just like you said up with him if for example the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays the next day after the smog. dissolved which was the case this time and i think it is unacceptable 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 residents and their peers but i don't drink maybe i'm missing out on something but for more than thirty years i haven't had a job. the money that the russian government and the kids to improve infrastructure

really make it to the ramshackle roads of moscow he's also been criticized over the deconstruction of the city's historical and architectural heritage after he's long gone coast footprints will stay on the streets of the russian capital and then the artsy. and while most clients are weighing out that sacking the former c.b.s. correspondent in moscow jonathan sunday is described the past achieved as a boat. across eighteen years yuri but highlights was a combination combination of four kinds of per pupil he was really a renaissance prince running a 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 or on the road there was

a new landlord to the people building buildings making money in moscow and force them to do other things there was a time when your remark that he was quite popular 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 will take coffee with all his rough edges because he got a lot done because he did have a populist edge unfortunately i think many times people are influenced by their spouses. you know but hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption business and some of that slaughter. 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 and there's more coming your way later in the program including a peek behind the curtain as secretive north korean leader kim jung il promotes his son to gen in a possible site step towards a. transfer of power i will talk to experts about what this could mean for pyongyang its relations with the rest of the world. and atomic amiens before american offices claim extra terrestrials have been touring for decades down the aisle to the. israeli navy has forced a boat carrying jewish activists on their way to blockade of gaza to divert to these rarely post of ashdod those on board include a holocaust survivor and its reading man who lost his daughter. side bombing the

group organizing the trip said it was to show that many jews don't support israeli government policy towards palestinians. we've had the better world we are the international waters the crew and. the boat being taken to our own we hope they will be released. immediately. treatment of the authority authorities we believe the. illegal images. and we want any of them to make a. public statement a model that we can come back that i mean to the people of god and the child of the blockade of gaza and to. the group with the weapon. of many. of the israeli government or the public theater bob you are not being

conducted. or in our name and are not in our interest and we do not believe there are in the interest of the greater good zero development. almost four months ago nine pro palestinian activist died in an israeli raid or another aid for the team launched from attacking a u.n. report described the force as a disproportionate and brutal time in london breakthrough victories for justice a police team is organizing for at and ala rather have found a non-governmental organization in the piece called all governments should share the same courage as the people taking part in different teammates. it's hard to know what to expect especially after what happened months ago with the marmora but it is true though that this is a jewish this is a jewish ship and this is a jewish if a made every effort to to reach gaza 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 real leadership and between 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 of four star general in a promotion seen as the first step towards hunting of a power point was made before conventional the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades at the historic meeting awarded he. and other family members to oppose the moves of helping extend the communist and to into a third generation. of. world attention 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. 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 distort 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. 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 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 that didn't exist for. 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 that was not open for discussion it was hard for what it was tough for there 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 and national security x. that dr j. walsh says they promotions about by kim jung il are russian hasty because internal conflicts in the country could threaten his family's part in a city. 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've appointed sort of again from medieval times a regent kim has appointed 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 attack 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 and now it has been strictly controlled communist ideology of innovation and new generation of open minded people that's how president medvedev has described china to have visited the

walls biggest technology fast will help and russia's exhibition pavilion at the shanghai expo but that it was accompanied by chinese vice president xi jinping a man tips to become a future neato his country and he said now export pool. friends and future innovations what better place to come together than the shanghai expo where russia and china are the stars of tomorrow. the main message of russia's exposition in shanghai. china decades to come to the present as they did open russia day and met with steve think pain in the tears of friends in power and the man seen as china's most possible future leader laying the ground for what could be a partnership that shifts and shocks global power. mean is the most likely future leader of china it's likely they discussed with me very concrete plans for the future of. russia trade relations and global issues. that is

about most of the day together and took a good look of what china and russia have to offer. russia's brazilian is a favorite this time around with its top talking energy companies putting on their best show so. here at this exposure 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 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 innovative 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 time not 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 said no way. and let's now look at some other news stories from around the world kilometer madge's this is say there's no hope of any civil that was after a month slide swept away a bus route thirty on board on a mountain road president juan miguel sung to his visit to the scene where rescue officials say it will take at least a week to recover the bodies buried under thousands of tons of the heavy rains across colombia have triggered slides landslides and floods claiming at least seventy four lives in recent weeks the victims were changing buses when disaster struck on a road already blocked by a reverse landslide. the city of paris has withdrawn its embezzlement case against former french president jacques chirac the decision follows his and

his party's consent to pay three million dollars in losses sustained by the city during his tenure as tommy smith from nine hundred seventy seven to the mid ninety's and there's been an angry reaction on protests over the deal sure raucous still to face a separate trial of corruption charges within the next few months. belgian as space has been shunted to twenty four hours try traffic control is over one hundred flights have been counseled in brussels as workers protest over personnel moving from the city's international athletes have been shot key hubs for the headquarters of the european union and nato bureaucracy is striking control it saying that action could last until saturday. then you could also knows of the world's major powers of attorney considered to be ultra secure and well guarded even so some claim they can be protected from extra terrestrial meddling a group of american officers have been showing interest in the us and russia's

nukes for decades now cedric moon investigates. six hours perhaps a 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 doesn't matter. if that were to happen if nuclear payback wouldn't happen. but. that's a claim made by the men in this room are missiles began going into what's called a no go condition or on launchable essential or 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. a and it's not just in the united states also. in russia the idea like in one thousand 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 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 of moon our t. washington d.c. now back with the headlines in ten minutes time now as speculation about changes at the top in north korea intensifies he talks to an expert on the region i've been to tells us about me saying they were curious as to its leader came young male and his analysis of the country's current challenges that's in just a moment. the

seven 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 there it happened so that for centuries korea was detached from the rest of the outside world this has to do with the fact that back in the middle ages that frequently suffered from invasions by the mumbles and japanese this convinced 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 down the world do you think that this policy of isolation will help north korea progress economically yeah there has been much talk in the west about north korea opening up with some of 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 rest area

broke out in the media recently around the fact of the swedish department store down selling jeans manufactured in north korea if the west is really interested in north korea developing some industries straight to enter foreign archives and thus 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 mind safety and well being it will be absolutely an significant in terms of economic competition the same apply it to the joint north and south korean the complex and great song or free trade agreement was signed between us and south korea several years ago which has not yet been ratified but at the refusal of the us to include spoon was and for all the consumer goods manufactured area into the agreement was one of the stumbling blocks of the us to not agree for a few million dollars to enter the market and yet it's hard to imagine how this could threaten the u.s. on one of the economies at the. moment 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 haven't told us conclusion we cannot explain everything entirely by north korea. of course much depends on the past and the tradition of the 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 there never too keen really to do things 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 the military presence in the southern part of the korean peninsula and to permit and deploying their missile defense systems there that's something that's going on there are somewhat more actively done in europe where indeed until 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 alliance as established during the cold war now it's very convenient to have a bad guy and pyongyang 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 would have 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 the 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 thirty years since the previous party congress money

leaders who used to be members of the governing politburo and secretary 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 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 of some of the stronger of the foundations or the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong un some sense or

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 was not very widely known and i don't think that kim jong il is going to quit entirely you know he will continue ruling the country as long as it's you know from the circumstances allow that's why the decisions to be made by the conference will in their essence be shaping the environment under circles going into the new successor some advisors who would guide them through the challenging situation north korea is in these days.

ahead i gather this is all see the headline. no doubt russian president and finest man you were additional ten even decades the road jumps eight hundred sometimes controversial get the votes of your biggest city. a film on subways or a time to time push through a tale of killing nine guns a bone vessel carrying international jewish outfits has been forced to abandon its mission by israel. russia persists in the vision of the future and shyla expo twenty one with the countries in mind simple submission for a billion and visited by president beecher rivetted on the with chinese president xi jinping the mountain to the next leader. coming up next the kaiser report.

and this is the kaiser report markets finance and scandals we break it on down for you this way you know exactly who's doing what though let's bring in stacy herbert to get more of the details stacey herbert talk to me a wal-mart's midnight baby formula bread line so this follows on bill simon the c.e.o. of u.s. operations for wal-mart speaking at goldman sachs's retail conference i don't need to tell you that our customer remains challenge you need not go farther than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month about eleven pm customers start to come in and shop fill their grocery basket with big.