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a close call for brazil's 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 because interest not only go beyond the diplomatic sent down going to president medvedev slams the anti russian hysteria among top officials in belo rumors bob hope positive relations between the two countries will stand firm. and while britain's leading coalition party gets together to talk money troubles the conference fringe sounds the alarm over a loss of civil rights and a domineering you. also reported in thailand rejects america's call to drop new charges against specter of russian arms dealer viktor brute which against all of us

extradition proceedings. and seven pm in moscow and this is r t coming to you live and he said no way and our top story this hour brazilians are having trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to wind up a successor dilma rousseff held 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 floor and 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 grow in a quick clip that other countries would envy they are expected to grow seven point five per cent this year it's the largest economy in south america the largest is second largest economy in the western hemisphere and part of the bric bloc of

brazil russia india and china there seem to civilize the shift in global economic power from the g seven developed nations to develop. the 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 problem 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 he. has spread pretty close to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter benteke out i hope that the mayor candidate a woman to make history in my country that is 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 one. was starting a silent revolution for the poor. ahead of election day it was heard loud and clear they believe his handpicked successor is the one to continue fighting for and you know she is a duma rousseff lulu's choice for president a little known bureaucrat his chief of staff who rose up to against the dictatorship when she was young. 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 in his name they're screaming but as to whether jill not his successor would. able to continue what he started in this country when you talk to people they believe one hundred percent that she's the one that deals with brazil is going to continue to rise though his confidence has helped popularity some activists familiar with lula's politics past and present aren't convinced record for i think she's going to have some difficulties because dilma doesn't have the same history will has and in a country that was long a colony and where the years until the 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 the exhibition was you have to have people with academic culture and not popular culture in upscale neighborhoods is 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. is the brazil that is in power a world you see now in the favelas the slums we're looking from 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 able to read more duma but they may have people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their own songs. lauren lyster r.t. paulo brazil this is part of the roof has been whipping up some anti russian sentiment of lights out president medvedev is now trying to clear the air using cyberspace and an online video medvedev says the belorussian leader is using

aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign or to sarah her took a closer look. and if it is a bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in better ways and saying that is based almost entirely on entourage and slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness to provide support and also direct criticisms 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 spawns to develop russian leadership like his ations and actions recently but his main point being that really rather than making an enemy of russia they'd be much better place to be focusing on their internal issues but he. was president lukashenko is entering this not only go beyond all diplomatic sent downright indecent he's obviously concerned about a lot of things which bringing order to our economy russian journalist talking to

belorussian 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 of delhi russian citizens with russia like other countries is concerned over these people and actually this is being described as a feature of batteries in 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 is russia has become the main target another thing the person with the dresses in his book he talks about the fact that the better russian people are still considered russia's closest neighbors and that he be good. to see a shared culture and he also makes it very clear that this by the tensions in the capital recently with things such as the gulf between his son 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 greece good neighborhood has been the reason we've been helping belarus 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 all shipments to buy the roost 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's other eastern russia and we know that what happened there was barely starting to cut off transit routes for the supply of oil

and gas and third essentially that she was result but it's certainly one of the things that seem to have given rise to the sudden increase in this anti russian word to it but the overall point the president medvedev making his focus was saying much better rather than making an enemy of russia to be focusing on the problems internally. r t sarah firth reporting there from moscow well president ridge's full video blog is on our website right now r t v dot com also online for you a month in the arctic a massive expedition is heading for the north pole to explore the consequences of climate change there are two years on board and you can read the block updates online.

the questions politicians don't like to answer are being raised on the sidelines of the u.k. coalition's leading parties conference the freedom zone 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. . it is in birmingham where the conference is being held high there laura it seems like a good time for these heroes skeptics to make their point with europe wide mass demonstrations against severe government cutbacks and of course more leading economists saying the euro is on its last legs i assume the reaction there is on the same line. that's rising it has you're right it's hard to imagine a better time for the zero skeptics to meet we are on the fringes of the conservative party conference say this is merely a coincidence really but these people are gathered as we see rising on rest in europe really after summer of relative calm last week we saw huge demonstrations notably in brussels well hundred thousand people gathered to protest these

austerity measures that are a result of the european debt crisis and of course as well as in trouble it's edging closer to divulge as it's been revealed that bailout island's banking sector is going to cost almost fifteen billion euros that means that the irish budget deficit is one of the biggest amongst developed economies and ten times. so it's really crunch time for ireland we see this latest round of austerity measures work always looks as if islands may have to go cap in hand. and that much is greece had to do it in such a humiliating way and still bit more about that i'm joined by douglas cause well he's a member of parliament for the conservative party we're going to talk a little bit about. what effect will that have on the whole would you say but i think. demonstrates if i may say the folly of having pan-european policies.

imposed uniformly across europe has had her monetary policy and her interest rates set in the interest of the whole of europe rather than in the interest of the irish economy and the car crash that we see is the consequence the lesson we need to draw from this is that for europe to do well we should not be european policy we should be allowing member states to set their own policy and what should i say. a lot of good money has been thrown off and i suspect that more good money will be thrown off the bad and it's still not going to solve the problem i think perhaps the thing to do is to to let some of this bad debt go bad endless public bailouts have merely turned a private folly into a public liability with the consequences if there's an option for countries like portugal ireland and spain to just drop out of the year is a well i personally would like to see the euro readjusted to reflect the fact that you know you cannot have i believe monetary union imposed. diverse economies we

were told that when we created the euro in the e.u. it would bring about. unification economic unification i don't think this is half done is it prevented member states such as portugal running their economy in their best interest and something's got to give to people. two does not equal five and of course as with any economic situation it reflects directly on the social situation we've seen a lot of unrest in countries across europe will that continue and will we see unrest in the u.k. do you think as a result of austerity cuts that will be announced here where there's democratic legitimacy in the state because the government is chosen by the people i suspect that people will be prepared to put up with quite a lot similarly where the government is responsible and the government violent has been pretty responsible in sharing the pain and confronting the problem then i think you know people have been prepared to put up with far more where i think there is a danger is where people feel that it is

a an alien. government in brussels that is in effect imposing budgets on them and there i think we may see problems but you know i think other european countries the face the sort of problems that are in faces could well learn from the way that their government has handled it by making sure that they have sensible cuts upfront about it and they make it clear that you know everyone's got to pay for something that you advocate pulling out of the european union that is that really a realistic thing now i believe eventually that we will have an in out referendum on membership and i will campaign for us to withdraw from the e.u. i think the e.u. imposes a lot of nineteen fifties and sixties solutions on. the twenty first century it doesn't really allow us to be competitive we've had ten years of the so-called lisbon agenda it came to nothing we're losing market share we're losing economic competitiveness and the problem with europe is that basically it means that there's

not democratic dynamics over public policy so in public policy sphere of the public policy sphere europe is not doing as well as it can and should we're losing our dynamism the best way to i think solve this is to amicably withdraw from the e.u. i can't help noticing that countries around the world that's interesting rather well and incidentally getting quite good market share in europe are quite often countries that aren't actually members of the e.u. i think eventually we will have a referendum and i believe those of us who think we will be better off outside the e.u. will will will win it for forty years diplomats and politicians have been able to determine your policy we need to i think put it to the people and see if they're happy with what the politicians and the diplomatic elites have done in our name i don't think they've done a good enough job and how will this as a relatively small country be competitive outside. i think will be more competitive it's precisely because we've stayed out of european monetary policy for example that we're not in the dire straits that ireland and other member states are. i think we could become more flexible more innovative more adaptable truly global

players by being outside the e.u. by being inside the e.u. we're not able to innovate we're not able to adapt our trade policies we're not able to do things that we could do if we were on our own i can't help noticing that countries like australia a lot smaller than we are in terms of. population and their economic size are doing pretty well small countries that are able to be flexible and innovate are able to adapt and do very well big block countries and big block units that are run by unaccountable bureaucrats and not doing so well so coming out of the e.u. i think would be good for us i think also it would be good for the european union it would show people right across europe that actually having brussels run your country for you is not good. if you could figure that because well thank you very much that was douglas caldwell that member of parliament talking about the freedom zone here on the fringes of the conservative party conference in birmingham as europe is once again rocked by on rest thanks to the economic crisis right laura i

met live in birmingham thank you very much for that. 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 and you hearing is expected to begin in bangkok on october fifth artesian 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 boot to be extradited and so it looked like everything was set for the united states if convicted in those states on the charges that he was indicted for victor boot would be receiving a life imprisonment however has a back up plan because this is an international crime an 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 the things at this moment in time because the high court ruled that a 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 the the 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 now 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 him extradited to the united states. well investigative journalist daniel estulin has interviewed viktor bout in thailand he says that even though further delays could work in boot favor the chances for his legal team to win are quite slim. you have ninety days from the twentieth of august for the united states government to extradite victor wood and now with the new charges being put against bulled this could actually delay the proceedings because even if tomorrow the judges rule against bolt and by all looks it actually they i think they will because today's developments are the core of the judges who are very much against big trouble and finally they agreed to postpone the case until tomorrow where again there's going to be no witnesses just the the reading of the decision on the second set of charges of the united states government that said the defense team can theoretically appeal that so that would actually take it beyond the initial ninety days i talked to my people in the state

department today in the united states who are watching very very carefully they said that a lot of phone calls have been made this morning from the united states to thailand obviously to the prime minister's office and finally in the development of the wood was brought to court today he was brought in wearing a bulletproof vest protected by thirty commandos government alleges that the russian government is actually trying to assassinate richard book which is if you want to talk about conspiracy theories this one takes the cake. of course begun hearings into last year's fatal nightclub fire in param in central wash up the fire was triggered when fireworks that were set off indoors sealy flames and smoke spread rapidly killing one hundred fifty six people in the stampede to evacuate the pack nightclub tragedy led to a nationwide safety checks that night but some places banned the use of indoor pyrotechnics the courts now deciding whether the club's owner and staff should be held responsible for the disaster they found guilty they could face up to ten years

in prison. let's take a look now at some other of today's news stories around the world a earthquake measuring six point three on the richter scale has struck off southern japan the epicenter was in the sea two hundred miles southwest of mohawk japan's meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for nearby island there are no immediate reports of any damage or injuries. and these five civilians have been killed in crossfire between pro-government forces and islamic militants in somalia's capital is the third day of intensified violence so far taking twenty lives and love scores wounded militants have been trying to overthrow the un backed government for more than three years. the united states concerned over new terror attacks are ramping up now a federal audit calling for workers at nuclear power plants to be trained in

spotting terrorists among employees it comes after the u.s. warned that attacks were imminent in europe and rising its citizens to be vigilant and alert since been echoed by britain and japan. and south korea has been showing off the security detail that it's putting in place to guard world leaders toward november's g twenty summit the anti terror measures are also designed to head off potential disruption caused by north korea officials are concerned that the north's power hand over credit cards terror. activity which has happened before in one thousand nine hundred seven agents exploded a passenger jet killing over one hundred people prior to the soul of the vix. and that's where the news folks this hour from our team we're going to take a short break and you get will join us with the latest business. hungry for the full stop we've got to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in signs and they're going to be from across russia and around the world. join us for their knowledge and update on r g. hello time to have a look at the world of business the fastest savers bens trucks are being assembled in russia a plan to operate to buy diamonds and come on the plan to the on the who is a joint venture between the russian and german companies sages spends trucks the store can somebody four thousand five hundred feet here and other models will be introduced as soon as the market expense. then all the news from the sector of the

company best known for logic has missed its sales by more than a set so far this year after vos hasa russia said it should return to profit in twenty ten the russian call make a sold about three hundred seventy thousand cars of 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. let's have a look at the markets now in moscow the markets finished monday's session in the black and as you shares made strong gains for us enough to stop one percent gas from is slightly behind with point nine percent of games the world rose more than one percent off the posting a five times in previous best results. russia's largest film. they could have a little peace and less expectations for second quarter results that took its profits from general to june to five hundred nineteen million dollars off to a loss in same period of two thousand and nine strong as steel prices boosted the

company's performance but is warning that third quarter profits will be weaker. not turning to current system is slightly higher against the dollar but it dipped accounts to cure the strong oil price is supporting for both but has not driven it much higher whether to pull back hello if h.s.b.c. expects the russian car seat to remain stable in the near term 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 or 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 eurozone and i think we really have to save

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 because the reason why the euro is holding up reasonably well at present. and the pharmaceutical industry is watching the world's biggest hole stop takeover in six years beating french drug to make us no fee has launched an eighteen billion dollar bid for genocidal corp the move comes a month off to the biotech company rejected an initial offer from sun iffy so no three wants an acquisition to help replace revenue it is losing some of its best selling products face competition from generic drugs. russia second largest mobile phone operator vimpel coleman is to merge its assets with an egyptian company it will acquire one hundred percent of the tel and mobile company went along with just over fifty percent of egypt's horse called. on the group so were this will in turn get a twenty percent stake convertible called along with one point eight billion dollars

in cash. the world's largest aluminum producer to sol is refinancing its biggest load in debt its metals giant forty billion dollars to help pay a twenty five percent stake in new roles in the cult stage of refinancing loans that originated with russia's state development bank. despite their payment roussel slightly increased its total boring. russia's top world diamond producer could launch an i.p.o. as soon as next year investment bank j.p. morgan values the company at up to nine billion dollars business r.t. asked analysts for their view on. the issue with this company is that it has a very large open. and it's running out of reserves at this mine and they would have to do an exploration of the caps what if it were rationed the figure i heard it ranges.