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party's top stories a close call from brazil two presidential favorites as the race to lead one of the world's fastest growing economies is forced into a runoff also this hour. president bush is entering his not only go beyond the diplomatic surge the down going to decent president advantage of slams the anti russian hysteria among top officials and bella rumors but hopes positive relations between the two countries won't stand. a court in thailand rejects america's call to drop new charges against specter of russian arms dealer viktor brute which again stalls u.s. extradition proceedings. and while britain's leading coalition party gets together to talk money troubles the conference friend sounds the alarm over a loss of civil rights and domineering e.u.

. this is the first to say that ben's trucks a big assembled in russia plunging right to. russian come us more in twenty minutes . a warm welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me nice and now way first up brazilians are having trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to line up a successor dilma rousseff fell just short of becoming the country's first female president in the first round she now faces opposition leader jose serra in the race to the top arches more lister reports now from sao paulo. brazil is one of the only countries who has managed its way out of the financial crisis and to a growing a quick clip that other countries would envy they're expected to grow seven point

five per cent this year it's the largest economy in south america the largest a second largest economy in the western hemisphere and part of the bric bloc of brazil russia india and china there seem to symbolize the shift in global economic power from the g seven developed nations to the developing world of which all of them are newly advanced economies that are seen as holding great potential so certainly everyone is looking to this election to see what direction the leader will take if you talk to people in the political world who deal in diplomacy or trade or the economy they say before lula brazil had a self confidence prague problem and he was really the first leader who stepped up to the international plate and said we are a player and we are going to matter and really held court diplomatically and broker trade ties but if you talk to people at home here what brazilians what average brazilians would say his crowning achievement is is helping to narrow the vast gap between the rich and poor in this country and to get a better sense of that and what they were hoping for we've been out here in brazil

reporting here's a look at what's going on. on the streets of brazil after eight years of this like a miracle because. there's a pretty close to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter of their kauai hope that the female candidate a woman to make history in my country that has summed up the loudest voice on the streets and in the polls ahead of the elections for a new head of state while many credit the outgoing ones lula to sylvia was starting a silent revolution for the poor. ahead of election day was heard loud and clear they believe his handpicked successor is the one to continue fighting for and. she is duma rousseff lulu's choice for president a little known bureaucrat his. if of staff who rose up to against the dictatorship when she was young i she promises to lead the country down the same road as her

mentor get them about what's changed in this last years is in the poor neighborhoods for the lower class because the other governments just pretended to help it's lula brazil's president that brings all of these people into the street it's his name they're screaming but as to whether jill not his successor would be able to continue what he started in this country when you talk to people they believe one hundred percent that she is the one that deals with brazil is going to continue to rise though his competence has helped popularity some activists familiar with lula's politics past and present are convinced record for i think she's going to have some difficulties because dilma doesn't have the same history lula has and in a country that was long a colony and where the years until lead the rich and elite still held the power for some in that world a dilma presidency would be. terrible for me terrible without horizons very sad and black horizons that this was you have to have people with academic culture and not

popular culture in upscale neighborhoods it's the leading opposition candidate who most closely fits that description and appears favored at those polls jose serra is a more conservative choice. you know so i use a little government has been constantly role is aligned himself with people who are democratic. hugo chavez. but in this brazil what you don't see or hear. she's saying is the brazil that is in power a world you see now in the favelas the slums we're looking from and both of those it's important for you to be able to choose the future of your country once invisible to the world now one can go to with more duma but they may have people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their. lauren mr r. t. paulo brazil. well brazil could be just the breath of fresh air that the developed

countries of the west need but are smart enough from the russian academy of sciences latin american institution thinks that emerging powers have what it takes to beat the challenges of the modern world international situation. and the world has. been made some new blood some new idea of some new structures a new approach of build a foreign policy will be international relations because of the quantity and quality of the global problems. the point oh don't leap there ways and means to resolve those problems i think that all of the developed countries all of the west as such is no longer able to resolve those problems alone we must absorb some new ways of thinking new philosophy with new ideas and i think over the course of the. international relations of that rising brazil china india

and russia of course. in other news groups has been whipping up some russian sentiment of late so president medvedev is now trying to clear the air using cyberspace and an online video but medvedev says the fellow russian leader is using aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign r.t. sarah firth takes a closer look. that is bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in better ways and saying that it's based almost entirely on entourage and slogans and i can say shouldn't russia's own willingness to provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership itself the person i'm afraid of his use his behavior in the past often to deal with the cold topics such as this and this time we've heard him using it as over stones to the russian leadership such as

a chanson actions recently but his main point being that really rather than making an enemy of russia they'd be much better placed to be thinking on their internal issues but if. president lukashenko is entering this not only go beyond diplomatic sent down right indecent he's obviously concerned about a lot of things which ringing order to our economy russian journalist talking about a russian opposition even what happens to some of our retired and some time officials the president of it seems should be looking into the interior affairs of his own country such as for instance the multiple disappearances have been russian citizens but it's russia like other countries is concerned over these people and actually this has been described as a feature of the recent leadership this creation of an external enemy in the public consciousness that the worse in the past this is easy directed at the us on the west in general at this time it seems that russia has become the main target another thing the president addresses in his book he talks about the fact that the

better russian people are still considered russia's closest neighbors and that's a big good. said culture and he also makes it very clear that despite the tensions in the capital recently with things such as the gulf between the sun the other russia has provided support developing his base in the past and we. i'm deeply convinced that russia always has and will consider to be the key. his davits neighbors we are united by a long shared history culture common joys and griefs good neighborhood has been the reason we've been helping ever since the fall of the soviet union twenty years ago the scope of our aid effort no matter what people might say has been huge this year alone we've made discounts on oil shipments to bella reuss worth approximately two billion dollars in total shipments to bella routes have been subject to committal concessions the reason we did that was because we sincerely believe that our nations were inseparable this is why i was extremely surprised to see the bill of

russian authorities taken up and he russian rhetoric. in the summer thought to be one of the main problems that have caused the sudden suddenly overlay since the team valorise in russia and we know that what happened there was that every stress thing to cut off transit routes the supply of oil and gas and search essentially that she was result but it's certainly one of the things that seem to give rise to the sudden increase in this anti russian rhetorical but the overall point the president medvedev making his focus was so much better rather than making an enemy of russia to be focusing on the problems internally. arts use our furthur reporting there from moscow where president midges full video blog is on our website right now at our dot com also online for you a month in the arctic a month expedition is headed for the north pole to explore the consequences of

climate change their party is on board you can read the walk updates online. questions politicians don't want to answer are being raised on the sidelines of the u.k. coalition's leading parties conference the freedoms own is anxious over the erosion of civil liberties in the country as well as what it sees as the domination of britain by the e.u. or am it is in birmingham where the conference is being held high there laura now it seems the euro skeptic meeting organizers chose the right time we have riots in europe against austerity measures and talk of course of the single currency teetering on the brink of collapse what's happening in the freedom zone. that's right and it's of course a bit of a coincidence that days of the events that we've seen going on in europe because we

are on the fringes of the conservative party conference here. but nevertheless we did see a big demonstrations across europe a europe wide day of action last week one hundred thousand people gathered in brussels to protest against austerity measures which are a result of the european debt crisis we also had news from ireland which is teetering on the brink of collapse if reports are to be believed the coast of rescuing arash banks is now being estimated. to almost fifty billion euros that means that it's now got the biggest budget deficit among developed economies and ten times the budget deficit is the recommended by e.u. guidelines so it's really crunch time fall into. they meant i the these new austerity measures which they going to implement all things that's all they will have to go to the new and i.m.f. i looks forward no you know much as greece did in that that would take healing humiliating way but there are just serious skeptics got this here if we didn't say

and we've also been talking to libertarians and people who are concerned about the operation of civil liberties. and to that end i'm joined by will stay and say hey folks he said influential political. pull thanks very much for talking to us now you're a busy and advocates of freedom of speech what do you think is the biggest threat to civil liberties in the u.k. civil liberties but your freedom of speech is very thin to buy a privacy law as we go system over here where rich people can throw money at lawyers and injunction to prevent you through the courts from telling the truth because you just don't have the financial muscle so get the truth out and in terms of public record right how do you feel well i think private individuals do have a right to privacy is no reason to go off to a cool civilians people want in public life but if you are in public life and you take public money then the public has a right to know everything about you know particularly if involves money so for instance just recently the foreign secretaries. appointment of

a very inexperienced handsome young man as his special flies of course some interest but the reason people look so it wasn't because of their relationship or because it was public money at stake but it was their relationship as well i mean there was definitely an implication that william hague has had a sexual relationship with that man and you were one of those who was responsible for putting that out there i think well i never said that but i did say they showed a bedroom together and they did buy. a suit spend you know good weekends away i think that's the old as someone who publishes gossip and all those sorts of rumors what sort of moral obligation do you feel that you have to check facts before you put them into the public to marry motivation you have to check if i. you know i'd like to get it right so i don't get it right. readers would go away if my reputation is such that was getting things wrong on that story on the facts they did share a hotel room together i was right and what do you think that the growth of the blogs for their office looks of people like you out there now and the that new

technology you think infin infringes people's freedom in any way i don't see how it infringes people free freedom to it's more accessible and more people can publish and it's democratized the media some extent whereas in the past to be a few news channels a few powerful newspapers now everyone can call bush and you can see around the world in china around all these places where people are blogging and they're in hansing the prospects of freedom as someone who conducts his life on the internet spends a lot of time online presumably do you think that the state strikes the right balance between days to protection against getting information out there. in the u.k. they have a system of data protection which basically. companies and corporations have to tell their customers we're going to do the data and they can't share the data without permission i think as long as people are told what's happening to the data and how that's ok i don't think we need any more regulation on that front and i'm

still finding it every day about we you have been involved with wiki leaks giving them information and with it with their with their spokesman jay and i saw he's been in the media a lot following swedish allegations of molestation do you think that wiki leaks is discredited now because of that but wiki leaks isn't discredited but i wonder if somebody was trying to discredit julian it's all a bit old what the circus i said you know some the charges were dropped i don't know any of the facts about that matter but just after he's made a major embarrassment and he gets an old story about him is maybe the constant but i don't believe those conferences ok thank you very much that was the influential bloke akido for talking. i'll be back in the next hour with more libertarian guests and you're a skeptic all right looking forward to hearing from you laura emmett for now live in birmingham. now on the way soon on our t.v. we have a martial art master class. in this board it's just hands and feet

and it's not just boring to watch actually a lot of the moves are pretty useful for itself to fans or a girl like me and is going to teach me something artie's guy nature can warms up for a traditional russian combat technique that sparring our fighting spirit stateside . but first a criminal court in thailand has rejected a request by the u.s. to drop a second set of charges against alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot the decision dense washington's plans to have the man extradited to the u.s. and face trial on terrorism related charges a new hearing is expected to begin in bangkok on october fifth or two sean thomas is following developments. the united states has been trying to get add victor boot and have him extradited to the united states for quite some time in fact since two thousand and eight in march when he was arrested in a hotel in bangkok and in fact in august august twentieth of this year the high

court in thailand said that it was possible for booth to be extradited and so it looked like everything was set for the united states if convicted in the united states on the charges that he was indicted for that are both would be receiving a life imprisonment however has a back up plan because this is an international crime and international courts are where have you is kind of a political chess game as a backup plan just in case the high court did not rule in the united states favor us filed extra charges and it's those extra charges that are hampering of things at this moment in time because of the high court ruled that victor boot should be extradited to the united states asked if those second charges could then be dropped so that they could expedite the process however a court ruled that those charges cannot be dropped because they are now part of the court system in thailand right now so it's a waiting game and what we do know is that it delays the entire process victor boot is a former air force officer who claims he is a legitimate businessman but he's

a long been suspected of being one of the most notorious and prolific arms dealers in the world in supplying arms to different conflict zones around the world in fact he's nicknamed the merchant of death by some well in two thousand and eight in march in bangkok there was a sting operation where u.s. agents posed as far as members to buy arms from him at that point he was arrested but he was arrested in thailand which started this process to have a extradited to the united states a russian ancient finding technique adopted by the k.g.b. has found a new following across the world so much so that twenty ten hand to hand fighting world cup finals are being held in the u.s. for the first time always up for a challenge our very own correspondent by nature can got in the fighting spirit r.t. . for comedian a lawyer louie his sham hand to hand fighting is still new. he mostly does judo and teaches thai boxing but this russian born sport takes the best elements of many

fighting techniques. when you think about it it's more real than anything else plus an artistic aspect to it which is you don't get to spend a lot of times on the floor which is more. and real it is the k.g.b. use this method of fighting it's now tossed to russian special forces and it's a growing sport and with this going international. a program developed by the k.g.b. to this one another try to think. i mean that's a real game unlike in mixed martial arts russian hand to hand fighting has rules and limitations which newcomers are still getting used to he xan lost the fight against an american compadre are. more than enough to win but it's not so bad as long as the girls are happy the boy is like the boys and definitely when they get

older i was always curious what's on the mind of the hot and sweaty guy when his on the man it may be girlz meet one of today's winners russian you go out or you and you don't think about anything but your next move once you get distracted in anything except the fights you're down you should never allow the thought that you're losing if you have the slightest guarantee that you will lose an idea which could be applied to any situation in life the president of the hand to hand fighting federation says it's not the kind of sport that's only for the sake of sport. this sport teaches how to fight right unlike mixed martial arts we just get out there and punch the other guy as hard as you can it's more about technique did i mention he is also a lawyer in the main. the king is just one day he decided he was going to stand up for himself with a message that russian special forces knew involves gone bad for stuff like that but in this sport it's just hands and feet and it's not just fun to watch actually

a lot of the moves are pretty useful for itself to fans for a girl like me and is going to teach me something so something really simple i'm going to put my hands on you ok so you use your week ahead to push from one elbow. and you come with your right you see that which is on this arc to show you so i use my left which is my week i hit and i come back we're going right ok other than. fighting for our tea in the state of pennsylvania we're going to take a short break here on our t.v. and you will be here with a live business update after the break. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

hello and a very welcome time to delve into the world of business sense let's start from some news from the automotive sector the first macedo trucks are being assembled in russia at a plant operate to buy time and come on the plan to not only own the volga is a joint venture between the russian and german companies seders benz trucks with can assemble four thousand five hundred vehicles a year and other models will be introduced as soon as the market expends. in other news from the sector the company best known for lager has lifted sales by more than a third so far this year after the us has registered it should return to profit in

twenty ten the russian carmakers sold about three hundred seventy thousand cars in the period such as six percent more than the same time last year the company's benefiting from the successful cash for clunkers program in russia and subsidized loans from the government. to look at the markets now you got stocks of flats to negative in early trading investors see little reason to make big moves at the start of a busy week including economic and earnings reports. the markets are in the black this hour shares of mixed energy shares are making strong gains for us methodists up almost two percent from its slightly behind with one point three percent of gains. and european stocks are continuing to slide despite strong results in the u.s. com makers dialer and b.m.w. both fell sharply down one point nine percent and three point two percent respectively with the m.-w. still reeling from a car recall an announced on friday. turning to currencies the ruble is slightly

high against the dollar but it dipped against the euro the strong oil prices supporting doable but has not driven it much higher more i'm joined by paul michael of h.s.b.c. has to michael thank you very much for joining us so what is driving the global currency market this week. well there's a lot of event here is this week in terms of key u.s. data coming out i mean we have to bear in mind that is the beginning of the month so to speak or to get payrolls out on friday but also we're going to have the c.b. rate decision on thursday so the market is going to be very much fixated with these two pieces of events coming out. why is the bought the u.s. economy still way on the dollar while budget deficits best of the year are all the chorus is doomed to change. you know well that's a very good question and i think will really come to realize over the last few months is that you know the euro was excessively sold by the market particularly

back in may and i think they've come to realize that that was a bit too excessive and that's been unwinding and why the year was partly holding up is because by default it's not by merit like you say there's a lot of bad things going on in the euro zone and i think really have to say to yourself that the fed is on the cusp of doing more quantitative easing but the e.c.b. is not going to and that's again the key reason why the euro is holding up reasonably well at present it's michael why is the ruble not benefiting from the problems of the dollar and here. well i think that the market was a little bit spooked by some of the trade in the balance of payments data which came out of russia and helped push the ruble a little bit lower but that said we think it's going to trade relatively stable versus the basket at least for the next the next few months but you know if you could see the situ situation change again i mean if the oil price first start to go a lot higher than obviously the ruble will be much more back in play the u.s. is still putting pressure on china to stop holding down the yuan how will this story end. it's been an ongoing story for some time and i think that it's probably

going to be heating up as many international policy makers are meeting around the i.m.f. meetings in the g twenty meetings and we also have to bear in mind that are going to u.s. mid-term elections come to beginning of november and indeed the china currency issue particularly for the us the political machine or or policy makers there is going to be very very red hot and i think that the pressure is going to stay on in quite an intense manner. and what about all the major currency we have not mentioned yet the japanese yen is there a risk of far the intervention by tokyo i think that the risk is still quite high i know that they've been quiet for a couple of weeks now which is puzzled the markets somewhat but i think that they must be looking at their their intervention strategy so far has been is actually somewhat poor and i think the market is slowly testing them but that's a bit the bank of japan rate decision tomorrow perhaps we'll introduce some more quantitative easing type measures.