the somalia region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. park can tell ya he has completed the house r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center furbished with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but it is the samoa region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region.

the thai court rejects a us for a quest to drop press truck fresh charges against alleged russian arms smuggler victor boot. brazil faces a second round of voting in its presidential elections after the front runners failed to secure fifty percent of the both. president bush and his interests not only go beyond diplomatic since the downlink indecent. audience video blog present anything that benefic uses his fellow russian counterpart alexander lukashenko of anti russian rhetoric despite this he claims positive new remains positive that close ties between the countries will prevent. also this hour the u.k. becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the news influence that's according to the

freedom zone. the largest event on the fringe of the conservative party conference . six am in moscow good to have you with us here on our. our top story judges in thailand will decide on tuesday whether alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot should answer to a second set of charges a court earlier rejected a request to have them dropped denting u.s. plans to have him extradited on terror related charges artie's sean thomas has been following developments. the united states has been trying to get addict reboot 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 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 court 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 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 artie's shon thomas reporting can goodman from the trying day from trying daily books a publisher that specializes in investigating writing says victor boot is stuck in a high stakes game and likely get it 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 chess pieces and 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 are 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 one sleeve 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 boots on anything but america has promised thailand fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way of course so as russia so it's an international high stakes games of international chess then unfortunately victor boot is stuck in the middle of that 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 him face trial in america but being in a prison 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. brazil's presidential elections are going to a second round runoff after the main competitors failed to secure enough votes for

it out white and right when this comes despite a push by the popular outgoing president lula da silva to line up his chief of staff as a successor dilma rousseff fell just short of the fifty percent threshold that would have made her brazil's first female president her popularity is based on the promise to continue with the policies that have made brazil one of the world's biggest and fastest growing economies have to face opposition leader jose serra at the end of october ortiz laura lister has more from sao paulo. on the streets of brazil after eight years of this like a miracle because of. his spirit bring it cools to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter of bad luck 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. 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 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 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 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 what do you want with brazil is going to continue to rise until he's calm. events 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 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 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. she's saying 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 ignore or 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 louis. dr case coning is an expert on brazil a new track university says of dilma rousseff wins the election she's likely to continue lulu's legacy. i think mrs who shifted to most likely to win the second round will by and large continue to move policies and if international economic your circumstances remain favorable to brazil she will most likely. continue brazil the powerful for economic expansion and increasing political significance unchanged in principle you have to remind of course that was very active

internationally and also very able to engineer a good relationship cross the globe and the reputation of his likely successor mr to say if he's maybe less. 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 have will very likely deepen their economic and diplomatic relations over the next four to eight years there's no doubt about it questions politicians don't like to answer are being raised on the sidelines of a conference of the u.k. coalition governments leading party the conservatives 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 laura and it is in birmingham where the 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. as we see rising and resting after a summer of relative calm last week we saw huge demonstrations notably in brussels where hundred thousand people gathered. their results of the european debt crisis island of course as well as in child closer to default 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 guidelines also 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 cause 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. interest rates 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 policy and what should i say. a lot of good money has been thrown off and i suspect the. money will be thrown off to 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. endless public. have merely turned a private folly into

a public liability with catastrophic 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 was it done is it 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 i.e. membership and i will campaign for withdrawal 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 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 are 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 well that member of parliament talking at the freedom zone here on the fringes of the conservative party conference in birmingham. bellerive seems to have whipped 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 belorussian leader is

using aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign for if it takes a closer look. well in his footage 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 on accusations of russia's unwillingness 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 school 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 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 the downright indecent he's obviously concerned about

a lot of things 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 the roost it seems should be looking into the interior affairs of his own country such as for instance the multiple disappearances of the russian citizens but 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 to another thing the person would address this in his book he talks about the fact that the better russian people still considers russia's closest neighbors knew that she they could share this we shared culture and he also makes it very clear that despite the tensions the topic recently with things such as the gas the speech in

the sun the other russia has provided support both in the past and we. i'm deeply convinced that russia always has and will consider better root. to be the closest of its neighbors we are united by a known 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 those shipments to bella reuss 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 the brunt of russian authorities have lately taken up anti russian rhetoric. in the summer thought to be one of the main problems that of course is suddenly. going over relations between 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 sir 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 book as he was saying much better was making an enemy of russia to be focusing on the problems internally. i was artie's sara for a reporting from moscow president medvedev as full video blog is on our website right now r t dot com here's a look at what's also online. a month in the arctic massive expedition heading for the north pole to explore the consequences of climate change our team is on board the blog updates online.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a toxic waste the reservoir in hungary has burst killing at least two people and injuring dozens more three others are missing after red sludge from an aluminum factory flooded two villages it contains high levels of poisonous metals which can burn the skin and eyes the army's been deployed to help rescue people trapped on top of their houses. a controversial dutch and be known for its strong anti islamic uses on trial for inciting hatred it stems from a speech heard wilders made while he compared islam to naziism and called for the qur'an to be banned but the court failed to move forward with the case as wilders exercised his right to silence his lawyer also accuse the judge of bias and requested the substitution if convicted wilders faces up to a year in prison. angry employees from the chilean mine where thirty three men are trapped underground have rallied over nonpayment of salaries and also demanding to

know if their jobs are secure company plane claims it does not have the funds to save the trapped miners let alone pay its employees salaries. a russian fighting technique adopted by the k.g.b. has found a new following across the world so watch though the so much so that the two thousand and ten hand to hand fighting world cup finals are being held for the us for the first time in the us always up for a challenge our correspondent guide a cheeky got in the fighting spirit for r t. for canadian elo louis 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 that laments of many fighting techniques. it's more real thing else plus as an artistic aspect to it which is you don't get 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 taught to russian special forces and it's a growing sport and with this going international. a program developed by the k.g.b. to. 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 the xan lost the fight against an american compadre. more than enough to win but it's not so bad as long as the girls are happy the boy is like the boy and definitely when they get all sweaty i was always curious what's on the mind of the hot and sweaty guy when he's on the mant maybe girlz meet one of today's winners russian you go out or. you don't think about anything but your next move once you get distracted in anything except

a fight you should never allow the thought that you're losing if you have the slightest. 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 what did i mention he sean is also a lawyer. here in the making is just one day he decided he was going to stand up for himself the message 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 self to fans who are fragile girl like me and christian is going to teach me something something really simple i'm going to put my hands on you ok so you use unique pen to push from one elbow. and

you come with your right you see what is on this earth to show you how i use my left which is my week i hit and i come back we're going ok other than. fighting for our team in the state of pennsylvania. look out folks has got to me an uppercut what next a leading french or a story and tells r.t. about russia's role in today's world politics and why the country is so often misunderstood by the west the internet coming up next stay with us.

everyone got a gun call structure of history and humanity prominent secretary of the french science academy and the woman who predicted the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight in her book laps of an empire is here with us today by super bowl sure about them called thank you very much my dumbed down course for your time. and your recent book between two walls you talk about russia can we presume from good title do you think russia still hasn't found its place in the wall media. at the use of sims was looking east was not exactly what the books as is set in russia has made this kind of decision but over the past ten years it's been pursuing two different hands rather than one which i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union does integrate its russian turned to europe because

europe did not offer one we welcome since the beginning of the century russia's foreign policy has been focusing on two directions rather than one on the one hand it focuses on the west while on the other hand because of its geographical position and yet it's decided to place itself as an asian and. it gives a greater pre-stage and influence in the world it's been pursuing this well as you for more than ten years now and it's great success. in your introduction you raise the question of whether russia should be fearless do you mean that the imperial russia and the soviet union which you were used to be afraid of are still alive. not only in europe the collapse of the soviet union it was not anticipated it happened overnight many countries primarily those who were under soviet influence based in european countries and the countries that used to be part of the soviet union but are now independent states did not understand russia and were afraid of

it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members they have showed their fares and passed them on to the e.u. saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it cease being an empire and we trusted now but at some peril past has been forgotten by now people have already understood that russia is pursuing its own path through so you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions just right i don't believe it i'd rather say there is some kind of a style but that's completely different thing what a country can forget overnight that it used to be a powerful empire but still washing people and specifically those in power of common sense and they understand too well that it's over and it's russia's future is not to be an empire but rather to build up its reputation and influence via soft power rather than by force skokie us now with what are the main types of russia faces today. because russia has the legacy of the soviet union and it will be

marked by the stigma for a long time yeltsin sat take as much independence as you can swallow and another day he sat your free get out of here many things about russia were forgotten people forgot that the soviet system was dominating and instead. fear and then got scared of the country that neither the power nor the ability to speak as poignantly with other countries all this was forgotten and this new russia was not understood as i see it and in your country are people suspicious of russia i don't know what to say to that or the thoughts of your current president nicolas sarkozy said in his election campaign it's better to shake hands with bush than with putin who would you shake hands with but. first of all i did a long comfortable talking about my president he's changed a great deal he was in love with america it was an example for him he did not know russia is of gary nor engine and hungary was affected by the soviet union to

a certain extent given by russia has come a long way and he chose russia and i agree with him it's in europe's interest and france's interests. and why has the course changed what is these changes related to realize that dialogue for a european countries the most important thing to build relations with russia he also realized russia was a european country which he didn't understand very well at first he also realized that europe was no longer strong it was falling out of the history of global relations it would have if it was cut from russia his current position which i think is very smart is not that russia should be part of europe russia is to vast for europe it would not adapt what we need he thinks is a model for relations. why does europe net russia now. russia is needed because the entire history.