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close call for brazil's two presidential favorites as the race to lead one of the world's fastest growing economies is forced to run off report tonight also this hour. president because our troops not only go beyond diplomatic sense they don't. present the better of slams the anti russian hysteria among top officials and by the roots 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. a course in thailand rejects america's call to drop the charges against suspected russian arms dealer vic to boot which again stalls us

extradition proceedings. this is r.t. from moscow thanks for being with us this hour it's just after eleven pm now here in the russian capital kevin zero in with the top stories of brazilians are having trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to line up a successor of fell just short of becoming the country's first female president in the first round she became favorite on the promise that she'll keep predecessor's policies the outgoing president owners lula's widely acclaimed for being the man who made brazil one of the world's biggest and fastest growing economies but so full have to face opposition leader who says set her to keep the lula legacy going artie's lower list of reports tonight from south.

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 of bad luck out i hope that the female candidate a woman will 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 lula distills was starting a silent revolution for the poor. head of election day it was heard loud and clear they believe his hand-picked successor is the one to continue fighting for and here 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. 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 there screaming but as to whether jill met 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 you want with brazil is going to continue to rise though his confidence 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 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 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 i got so i use a little government has been constantly role he's aligned himself with people who are democratic advantage 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 this bombs we're looking from it but that's about it it's important for you to be able to choose the future of your country once invisible to the world now one people truly can do much better they may have people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their own songs. loren mr r. t. paulo brazil this is. better o. sses 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 medvedev says the

better russian it is using aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign or to sarah first took a closer look. and if it 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 on two russian slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership so the person imitated his use his behavior in the past 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 sent 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 advertisers and some time officials the president. should be looking into the interior affairs of his own country such as for instance the multiple disappearances of delhi 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 that person would address in his book he talks about the fact that the better russian people are still considered russia's closest neighbors and that he big good. to see a shared culture and he also makes it very clear that despite the tensions in the poppy. with things such as against each 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. his davits neighbors we are united by shared history culture common joys and greece good neighborhood has been the reason. ever since the fall of the soviet union twenty years ago the scope of it no matter what people might say has been huge this year alone we've made discounts on those shipments to be worth approximately two billion dollars in total shipments to have been subject to commit . the reason we did was because we sincerely believe that our nations were inseparable this is why i was extremely surprised to see that. taken up the russian rhetoric. and we know that what happened there was. cut off transit routes the supply of oil

and gas. eventually that she was result but it's one of the things that seem to rise to the sudden increase in this. but the overall point the president. was making an enemy of russia. on the problems. there are different. full video blogs on the. blog. tonight.

the criminal court in thailand 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 hearings are expected to begin in bangkok on october the fifth thomas has been following 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 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 telling the truth 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 the things at this moment in time because of 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 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. but he's correspondent following that story shown thomas that i spoke to ken goodman from trying day books he's a publisher that specializes in investigative writing he says that to boot is stuck in a high stakes game and he's unlikely to get a fair trial in the u.s. i think the 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 so i 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 heaping extra charges on once the the original charges were deemed by the thai court to be political in nature and there wasn't even a minimal amount of evidence to convict boot on anything but america has promised

thailand fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way of course so is russia so it's an international high stakes games of international chess then unfortunately victor boot is stuck in the middle of it if victor boot is extradited to america who knows if you'll get a fair trial if he's next great 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 to be 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. goodman talking to them questions politicians don't like to answer being raised on the sidelines of a conference of the u.k. coalition governments leading party the conservatives the freedoms he's 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. lauren that's in birmingham with a conference is being held. it's hard to imagine

a better time. 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 rested after a summer of relative calm last week we saw huge demonstrations notably in brussels where hundred thousand people gathered. of the european debt crisis island of course as well as in child. to divulge as it's been revealed that. it's 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 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 but i think on a draw the demonstrates if i may say the folly of having pan-european policies. imposed uniformly across europe on an. interest rate in the interest of the whole of europe rather than in the interest 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 policy and what should i say. a lot of good money has been trained and i suspect the. money will be thrown 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. enlist

public. have merely turned a private folly into a public liability with castro for consequences if there's an 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 to cross 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 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 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 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 a 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 when that was douglas caldwell that member of parliament talking at the freedom saying here on the fringes of the conservative party conference in birmingham. and i was or am at our europe correspondent ok but now to our top story tonight that

close call for brazil's two presidential favorites in the voting there let's bring into the conversation dr kay scoldings an expert on the country joins us now from the tricks of the netherlands thanks for being with this is appreciated president lula has been widely praised as me for brazil's rapid ascension as an economic powerhouse do you think is chosen successor can keep up the pace if indeed she does win in the end because i think it will shift for the most likely to win the second drawn to rule by and large continue mr lush policies and if international economic circumstances remain favorable for brazil she will most likely. continue brazil on the path for for economic expansion and increasing political significance as a lot of talk isn't there of the international focus shifting towards emerging powers like brazil like russia india china do you think the bric bloc could ever replace the likes of the g eight for instance i don't think the bric will replace that you

know what you already see happening there for the past two years with the financial crisis is to the g seven or to g eight in each form or configuration is increasing resulting of the past and it's now being changed into a g twenty in which among others also do for bric countries ordered three new ones russia which of course already the g eight are permanently participating and this will be very important at least for the coming decades into i'm sure for international deliberation or economic order but was she met us and what about relations between brazil and russia they've been on a strong cooperation drive in recent years how might change at the top in brazil as fact that future cooperation or do you think it'll go on unchanged. unchanged in principle all you have to remind of course i grew up was very active internationally and also very able to engineer a good relationship cross the globe the reputation of his likely successor richard

russo he's maybe less of a. of a capable of being maintaining a personal relations but in terms of policy objectives and approaches and shared interests i think brazil and russia and also brazil and china over will very likely deepen their economic and diplomatic relations over the next four to eight years there's no doubt about that but almost every year played out where watching the election close not case codings retreat university thanks for your thoughts on a program here at r.t. tonight much appreciated thank you for being so well these in brief now to bring you up to date with this monday night thousands of swedes have gathered in central stockholm to protest against the election of far right politicians to parliament demonstrations are also held in other cities the protests come after the anti immigration sweden democrats party won twenty seats cutting the ruling coalition's majority in the process because he's long been known for its tolerant immigration policy. vatican has weighed in to italian prime minister silvio berlusconi for what

it called anti semitic blasphemous and sexist jokes it follows a video showing berlusconi telling a joke about a jew during the second world war that was leaked on to the internet last week the vatican's official newspaper called it deplorable but a scolding it earlier been caught on video making offensive comments about a female political rivals appearance. suspected militants attacked and set fire to at least twenty tankers carrying all destined for nato and u.s. troops in afghanistan the pakistani taliban said it was behind the assault on the death of near islamabad in which three people died this is the second such attack in a country in the past few days comes of it strained relations between nato and pakistan stemming from across the border raid last week that left three pakistani soldiers dead. twenty three twenty moscow time just over an hour's time we focus on the human cost of the war in iraq our t. explores how the mass media puts into time and values ahead of real life stories

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a few minutes on r.t. after we brought you the latest business news. hello time to have a look at the world of business the first of the seders benz trucks are being assembled in russia at a plant operator by dialing and the plan to the on the volga is a joint venture between the russian and german companies say it is spends trucks the stores can somebody four thousand five hundred vehicles a year 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 larger has lifted sales by more than a third so far this year after the us has a right to set it should return to profit in twenty ten the russian car make a sold about three hundred seventy thousand cars of the period so just 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. that's how 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 now is up one percent gas from is slightly behind with point nine percent of games the world's political rose more than one percent after posting a five times in prius in best results. russia's largest filmmaker love a look at these endless 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 durable but has not driven it much higher whether pole makela if h.s.b.c.

expects the russian currency 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 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. and the pharmaceutical industry is watching the world's biggest hostile takeover in six years beating french truck make a sanofi has launched an eighteen billion dollar bid for genocidal corp it with

commerce a month off to the biotech company rejected an initial offer from sun if the sanofi wants an acquisition to help replace revenues it is losing some of its best selling products face competition from generic drugs russia second largest mobile phone. is to merge its assets with an egyptian company twill acquire one hundred percent of the tel and mobile company wind along with just over fifty percent of egypt's. new groups of worries will in turn get a twenty percent stake in vimpel call along with one point eight billion dollars in cash the world's largest producer to saul is refinancing its biggest loan the indebted metals giant borrowed for the hope in dollars to help pay for twenty five cents stake in the world stage of their bond while we finance the loan that originated with russia's state development bank b b despite the repayment will sell

slightly increased its total for its. russia's top world diamond producer could launch an i.p.o. as soon as next year j.p. morgan values the company up to nine billion dollars business are asked analysts full day view on. the issue of this company is that it has a very large. and it's running out of reserves at this mine and they would have to do an exploration of the cap ex for this exploration to figure i heard it ranges between two to six billion dollars it's over all topics the cap ex required for the particular on the ground mind. i guess the sooner the. better demand is likely to go all because this is diamonds are going to. be if you look at. these here will reduce saw. was the biggest market for luxury cars for example

and i believe strongly that. three police. united states is the biggest market in. the united states account within fifty percent of the global market but i think sure if china could replace it then there would be enough to mine that's all the business news for now but you can get more stores small website r.t. dot com.