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world festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and will an exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. not a close call for brazil's two presidential favorites is the race to meet one of the world's fastest growing economies is forced into a runoff we've got the latest also this hour. president because entering is not only go beyond diplomatic sent down with indecent president would bet of slams the anti russian hysteria among top officials in better roost but hopes the positive relations between the two countries will stand firm. 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 e.u. . according thailand rejects america's call to drop new charges against suspected russian arms dealer victor book which again storms us extradition proceedings. this is a scene from moscow just after ten pm here now gadhafi with his son kevin now in with a top story and brazilians are in trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to line up a successor. fell just short of becoming the country's first female president. in the first read she became favored on the promise that she will keep to her previous socialist policies the outgoing president known as lula is widely acclaimed for being the man who made brazil one of the world's biggest and fastest growing

economies but the water so full of the face opposition leader said to keep the legacy going lower listed reports tonight from. on the streets of brazil after eight years of this like a miracle because he is. his spirit bring it close to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter benteke out i hope that the female 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 ones lula da silva was starting a silent revolution for the poor. head of election day was heard loud and clear they believe his handpicked successor is the one to continue fighting for and. she is doing the rousseff lula'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. what's changed in these 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 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 what do you want 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. i think she's going to have some difficulties because dilma doesn't have the same history. 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 that this 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 by law 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 swans were looking from it but that's about it's important for you to be able to choose the future of your country once invisible to the world now one able to didn't do much but they may have people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their own songs. lauren

lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. butler has been whipping up some anti russian sentiment of late so president medvedev is now trying to clear the air using cyberspace in an online video my vet of says the better russian leaders using aggressive told towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign are the sort of first took a closer look. that is a bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in bellary and saying that it's based almost entirely on entourage and slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness to provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership so the person misstated 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 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 if. president lukashenko is entering this not only go beyond any diplomatic scent they're downright indecent he's obviously concerned about a lot of things to our economy russian journalist talking to about a russian opposition even what happens to some of our retired and tire officials the president. 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 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 that 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 because. a shared culture and he also makes it very clear that despite the tensions in the capital recently with things such as the gulf this meeting with some other russia has provided support both in the past and we. i'm deeply convinced that russia always has and will consider to be the key. who says to its neighbors we are united by a long shared history culture common joys and greece 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 those shipments to buy the roofs worth approximately two billion dollars in total shipments to baton rouge 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 that. taken up and he russian rhetoric. in the summer thought to be one of

the main problems that have caused the sudden. overlay shin's between brother russia and we know that what happened there was. cut off transit routes for the supply of oil and gas and certain eventually 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 with tore it up but the overall point the president making this focus was so much better was making an enemy of russia to be focusing on the problems internally. first reporting there from moscow and the president vet it was full video blogs and fact is on our website if you like to catch up with the nazi and already it's r t dot com our home page and while we're talking about our home page also online tonight a month from the arctic massive expeditions heading for the north pole to explore the consequences of climate change their parties on board to you can read the blog

updates on line r.t. dot com. the criminal court in thailand has rejected a request by the u.s. to drop a second set of charges against alleged russian arms delivered to boot the decision dense washington's plans to have the man extradited to the u.s. to face trial on terrorism related charges and you'll hear it's expected to begin in bangkok on october the fifth thomas has been following the latest recent 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 so it looked

like everything was set for the united states if convicted in the states on the charges that he was indicted for victor boot would be receiving 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 the u.s. filed extra charges and it's those extra charges that are hampering of things at this moment in time because 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 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. yahtzee shown thomas reporting there on a long drawn out process in spain let's get some perspective on what's been happening now can goodman is from trying day books a publisher who specializes in investigative writing which tries to challenge the mainstream media versions of events he joining the us and i could see it on the launch time signal what are the chances you think the victim posts of his legal team to at the end of the day find a way of using this development to their advantage and maybe delay matters until the first exhibition ruling expires all is it just delaying the inevitable do you think. well i think they will try to use that to delay the inevitable i think that thailand tiger government is kind of stuck between

a rock and a hard place obviously they're being played in as just pieces in an international game between russia and america. but they don't want to seem as if they were pressured by america even though they have been that's why they think they're waiting for this whole thing to play out all the way through the courts and of course it was america's own fault for adding keeping extra charges on once the the original charges were deemed by the time were to be political in nature and there wasn't even a minimal amount of evidence to convict anything with what america has promised thailand's fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way of course so is russia so it's an international high stakes game of international chess that unfortunately victor boot is stuck in the middle of it because the final decision about whether or not to substitute the united states does rest with the thai prime minister what you think might sway his hand. well once again the.

pressure from you know from the united states and also from russia there was also talk from viktor boots lawyer that an assistant to the prime minister had visited bood in jail in april before that time he had been a boot side sort of and then after april they were hoping that victor boot might have some information on the former prime minister who was in hot water in thailand but he refused to give any details of that he says he didn't even know him after that then and the system to the prime minister were more on america's side and wanting to kind of demonize the victor boot so there could be some behind the scenes things going on that we're not we don't know about the public give us a good moment of pressuring me to push it i want to push a bit more on that yes she said that i've been suggestions that could have been some political push within. their own end is that really viable. i think so it's been it's been claimed by the lawyers and the person did visit him

over the taiwanese holiday to when nobody else was around the prison to say yes or no and whether he was there or not so the whole thing seems kind of shady to me. if victor boot is extradited to america who knows if he'll get a fair trial if he's next day to america and stands trial in america itself i think then. everything will be in public but probably what might happen is that they would like to extradite him but not have them face trial in america but being in a prison in another country. as they have done with other people so that we don't know the american people don't really know what's going on while it's all playing out in no doubt there's a fair wall to go in it yet but ken good one from trying to book thanks for your story today. thank you questions politicians don't like to answer being raised on the sidelines of a conference of u.k. coalitions leading party 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. artie's the emirates and burning them for us for the conference is being held. it is hard to imagine a better time. on the fringes of the conservative party conference. merely a coincidence these people. as we see rising unrest in europe after a summer of relative calm last week we're still huge demonstrations notably in brussels where hundred thousand people. of the european debt crisis island of course as well as in child closer to default as it's been revealed that. banking sector is going to cost almost fifteen billion euros that means that the irish budget deficit is one of the biggest among. ten times what e.u. guidelines are 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 to

the e.u. and the i.m.f. much as greece had to deal with in such a humiliating way and still bit more about that i'm joined by douglas because well he's a member of parliament for the conservative party we're going to talk a little bit. situation what effect will that have on the euro as a whole would you say well i think on a draw the need demonstrates if i may say the folly of having pan-european policies . imposed uniformly across europe on. interest rates in the interest of the whole of europe rather than in the interest they are should come to me 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 more and more fair in policy and what should i say. a lot of good money has been trade off and i suspect the. money will be turned off 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. merely turned a private folly into a public liability with castro for consequences if that option for countries like portugal ireland greece 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 across the continent of 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 happened what you've done is it's prevented member states such as portugal italy ireland running their economy in their best interest and something's got to give two plus two does not equal five that you advocate pulling out of the european union and that is that really a realistic thing now i believe eventually that we will have

a referendum on the membership and i will campaign for us to withdraw from the e.u. i think the e.u. imposes a lot of nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's 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 to have a 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 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 quite often countries that actually members of the e.u. i think eventually we will have a referendum and i believe those of us who think we would be better off outside the e.u. will win carl's well that member of parliament talking at the freedoms and here on

the fringes of the conservative party conference in birmingham. well it was more of our europe correspondent a russian ancient fighting technique adopted by the k.g.b. brings from a new following across the world so much so in fact that the twenty ten hand to hand fighting world cup finals are being held in the u.s. for the first time i was up for a challenge a correspondent a feisty garroted you can go into the fighting spirit for tea. for comedian a louis his sham hand to hand fighting is still new. he mostly does judo and teaches tai boxing but this russian born sport takes the best that laments of many fighting techniques. when you think about it it's more real than anything else plus as an artistic aspect to it which is you don't need to spend a lot of times on the floor which is boring. 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. program developed by the k.g.b. to. one another try to think because of the k.g.b. guys i mean that's a real deal it's not a game unlike in mixed martial arts russian hand clan fighting has rules and limitations which newcomers are still getting used to he shot and lost the fight against an american compander. 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 all authority i was always curious what's on the mind of the hot and sweaty guy when his on the mant maybe girlz meet one of today's winners russian you go out or . if you don't think about anything but your next move once you get distracted in anything except fight your down you should never allow the thought that you're

losing if you have the slightest that is guaranteed that you know lose a ninety. 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 but. this sport teaches how to fight right unlike mixed martial arts we just get out there and punch the other guys hard as you can it's more about technique did i mention he sham is also a lawyer in the making it's just one day he decided he was going to stand up for himself that that russian special forces use 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 who are fragile girl like me and is going to teach me something something really simple i'm going to lay hands on you ok so you need to push for my elbow. and you come with your

right you see which is on this i can show you so i use my left which is my weak my head and i come back. ok i'll do that. fighting for our tea in the state of pennsylvanian. and leaving a story in tells us why europe's losing global influence some what it can do to improve its position in just a few minutes here on this channel business first this monday evening for a quick break. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. line

once you're going to be soon which brightened moony balance from fines to aggression. stunts on t.v. don't comb. hello time to have a look at the world of business the fastest seders benz trucks are being assembled in russia at a plant op right to buy diamonds and come on the plan to numbers night shelvey on the border is a joint venture between the russian and german companies who say it is spends

trucks the store can somebody four thousand five hundred feet closer 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 left its sales by more than a set so far this year after vos haas of 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 a six percent more than the same time last year the company's benefiting. 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 it looked like energy shares made strong gains for us nafta is up one percent gas from a slightly behind the point nine percent of gains the world's clinical grows more than one percent after posting a five times in results. russia's third largest

steelmaker in the little piece and less expectations for second quarter results that took its profits from general to june to five hundred ninety 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 horrible is slightly higher against the dollar but it dipped accounts to cure the strong oil price is supporting through a bull but has not driven it much higher whether that pull back hello if h.s.b.c. expects the russian car see 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 a winding 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 the key reason why the euro is holding up reasonably well at present. and the pharmaceutical industry is watching the world's biggest hostile takeover in six years beating french drug 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 if the so no three wants an acquisition to help replace revenue it is losing as some of its best selling products face competition from generic drugs russia second largest mobile phone. is to merge its assets with a gyptian company twill acquire one hundred percent of the tel and mobile company

wind along with just over fifty percent of egypt's. or skolnick groups or worse will in turn get a twenty percent stake in vimpel com along with one point eight billion dollars in cash. the world's largest producer sol is refinancing its biggest loan the indebted metals giant borrowed for the hope billion dollars to help pay for the twenty five cents stake in the world stage of their bond we financed the loan that originated with russia's state development bank be despite the repayment will sell slightly increased its total foreign. russia's of course a world diamond producer could launch an i.p.o. as soon as next year investment bank j.p. morgan values the company up to nine billion dollars business r t i asked analysts will they have you on of course as prospects the issue with this company is that it has a very large open my and it's running out of reserves at least mine.