news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day.

kyrgyzstan's pausing for breath ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary vote was trolls on alert for any of the rest. of the. countries like the united states to countries like china brazil russia. as finance leaders gathered to brainstorm a recovery many say the world economy is getting a divorce from the united states. and it will need russian explorers who are braving freezing cold temperatures to stake their country's claim to the arctic's treasury.

this is our day coming to live from moscow where it's nine am the saturday morning i'm marina joshie welcome to the program so you are being stepped up across kyrgyzstan on the eve of a landmark poll while fears remain of possible violence sunday's parliamentary vote is hoped to bring stability to the country a rag by political chaos an ethnic conflict it will also take power away from the presidency for the first time in central asia as he has been off explains. saturday is the last day before the start of the nationwide parliamentary vote here in kyrgyzstan which means at this point all political rally is now bridget and voting ballots are already being spread out at polling stations across the country twenty nine political parties are taking part this is definitely an all time record for a cure just on the country's interim president roosevelt is pushing to build a parliamentary republic where the head of state is more of a formal figure rather than the one at power however several political parties

including the one headed by the country's former prime minister felix school for or against this idea many analysts say that the interim government has failed to provide enough stability and this election is coming too soon the country's economy is in a really poor shape and so is the source sector something which is seen really clearly especially here in the south of the country or so where we are now is give you stands for second largest city many people call it the second capital and it's still recovering from a massive ethnic violence in june most of the city's population or nationals however around one third of the population are whose backs and numerous armed gangs are roamed of the city showing shops and cafes and lighting up the health system the violence lasted for several days until the interim government finally managed to take control of the situation mobilizing the army but by that time according to

the most modest figures hundreds of people were killed and several thousand were injured and most of the city's big districts have been nearly completely destroyed and now many people fear the violence could be turning with the start off the voting previously the police have arrested a man here in or suspected of sending s.m.s. messages to the local threatening them and pushing them to vote for a specific. the authorities are on high alert in the city they're holding special tactic drills and have mobilized most of the police force here in washington and also have recruited volunteers and also around five hundred swat like commandos have been flown in here from the capital the elections here in the city will be observed by monitors from the only see russia and the c.i.s. eighty two polling stations have been set up the election was proposed by the internal government in april after an ex-president called one big mikey of was

taken down from power as a result of mass protests across the whole country especially in the capital bishkek and the opposition to control of the country and promised reform so once again on sunday the nationwide parliamentary election will be held here in kyrgyzstan and we should be able to find out the preliminary results as soon as on monday. here in the spin off reporting there and as the world struggles with a recession is there a fear of currency wars could be used as weapons while financial leaders discuss a recovery many say that the global economy is trying to break off from the u.s. r.t.s. lauren lyster found out whether the shift in power already happened. financial leaders are getting together from all over the world this week to figure out how to boost the global economy at the annual i.m.f. and world bank meetings but many are talking about a break up the world is. the united states as the consumer of last resort in the

financial world that's not called divorce but decoupling and everyone from a flurry of wall street analysts to nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz are using the word now to describe this shift in power the baton is passed from countries like the united states on to countries like china brazil russia. india and beyond and you know growth in the global call will be much more dependent upon those countries than on the developed economies it explains how while the u.s. economy continues to look more bleak with analysts such as goldman sachs forecasting fairly to very bad scenarios of meager one to two percent growth or an all out double dip recession i would almost consider a double dip a base the so-called bric countries are still on the ascent brazil's economy is estimated to grow seven point five percent this year with optimism to spare this nation with maybe a. little bit more than seven point five percent. and rounding out the

r i c and that acronym russia india and china are estimated to post four point two five nine point seven and ten point five percent gains respectively china's growth as an economic power on r.g.p. and children story made in china isn't lost on american politicians are looking for someone to blame for recalls help foreign companies create chinese jobs to make it with males would skyrocketing unemployment nor is it lost on the obama administration we believe it's very important to see more progress by the major emerging economies to more flexible. market oriented exchange rate systems geitner has increased complaints about china under valuing its currency ahead of the i.m.f. meeting you have to pick a reason why things aren't going to. be because of you so it has to be because of

something else and china is a very easy target but while politicians try to hold things together citizens are decoupling from the u.s. economy to people who once left their countries to come to the u.s. for opportunities are heading back home the opportunities are going to be much better than one they are here they're setting up shop in countries poised to grow even as the u.s. teeters on the edge of decline while nothing appears different from the outside of the annual world bank and i.m.f. meeting here in washington nothing sounds different about the u.s. pressing for its agenda of more fiscal stimulus and currency regulation inside changes afoot as these global governing institutions figure out how to incorporate the power of the new emerging economies showing that as their economies grow far from us soil so too does their role behind these doors or lester r. t. washington d.c. . webster tarpley an investigative journalist says the bric countries which resist the us are developing in their own ways. the big thing is you're dealing with the

system you're not just dealing with the u.s. you've got globalization is a system where you going to do about it one thing is fight those speculative flows you can see george soros is very worried about that but the other thing is floating rates themselves are bad they don't work on the bretton woods up until one thousand and seventy one things were better why not go back to that why not take the peg of the chinese to the u.s. as an island of stability and other people could also relate to that you could restore a system of fixed parities so that you'd have some certainty what the values of currency would be looking down the road and again the u.s. is the biggest enemy of this and the british along with them but for other countries it would be beneficial in other words if you want to be like china do what the chinese do what do they do they've block capital flows into china they're very strict on capital controls coming into china you can't just go in speculate in china and they make sure that they know what their currency is going to be worth

six twelve months down the road by keeping it pegged why not imitate that. we have more on the i.m.f. meeting in our business bulletin coming your way in just ten minutes also coming up expensive deals we reported how much it cost to be an entrepreneur in georgia. if you are in the forest you will turn into a pig. it's over for her roaming free find out who is flying to rescue obvious forests that's ahead. now rushes to arctic expeditions have met in the middle of the ocean to share their breakthrough discoveries a team of scientists on board the floating workshop has been looking for evidence of russia's claim to the major part of the region's treasures and it seems they've got lucky as artie's a cartoon or child reports. there is a perception that it's hard to find a living soul in the arctic but not today this is how members of russia's north

pole expedition with their colleagues on board the academics break up the fir drip is the flagship of the northern fleet if their chill floating lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the claim that the man also is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost a year but. today we are fully confirm the geological outline are a leaf at the bottom of the long manasseh bridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi beam eco sound known as spec it's hard to see and impossible to touch but it's talking to scientists from the bottom of the coldest ocean in the world. they can go as deep as twelve kilometers so it practically covers the whole

spectrum of the ocean's depth there are no depths it cannot measure. the principal competitors are using the similar equipment the american icebreaker healy for example works with the same sound it is convenient to analyze and compare collected by the same standards. rushes in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with these claims the russian president's envoy to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. where you dismissed some say the russians during an arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia we want. in accordance with international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. in other deep water equal sound will do

its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie. and gas information on the breach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be of ostend embassy in popular image a nation but it is that stimulated that it contains a quarter of the world's untapped falso fuels flotsam gold diamonds and other precious metals iran sixty percent of total shock to gas lies in the russian exclusive economic zone so even without the models of reach being divided it seems that russia has already won becoming grace it's in the r t from the island of visa in the arctic now the georgian president cites fair elections at a free media showing his country as a good place to do business in but many in his homeland same house version of democracy is at odds with their experience of businessmen say corruption and kickbacks are a way of life as dan has brought you know reports. the so-called patchwork births

and central police e. is the perfect place to relax and have your photo taken on the way out the historical building is now owned by a private company but a few years ago it was taken from its previous owner by the government getting gold he's an issue really still fears for his life he says in two thousand and seven he was approached by government agents who claimed he used illegal schemes to purchase the baths allegedly through the use of threats the officials forced the man to give up his business going to court says get a goal was not an option. they said that they know where my son's school is and they could say tomorrow and bust him for drug possession he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them off and i'll be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything but they need my business to this day. immediately after seizing the property of the government sold it off since

then great goal has been trying hard to get his business back. i wrote six complaints asking them why they made me give up my business but the authorities are silent we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance. a human rights activist says this case is not unique according to this eliot have been numerous cases recently where the georgian government has illegally seized buildings wound and other property from private individuals large and small companies. when your thirty's openly use police in the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other words coolant tera it's a kind of official racketeering aggressive illegal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly. team is responsible for terrorizing the business sector

. some georgian entrepreneurs' blame the greed and political ambitions of the country's leaders these businessmen say that in order to work safely and police see you have to make generous donations to the ruling party or a large so powerful intrapreneur is in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand u.s. dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official. goal feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find justice for this man and many others who have seen for themselves often president saakashvili his words differ from his deeds change can't come soon enough well georgian officials claim that they have created to corruption free to me to go also lost their businesses due to pressure from the state it's nothing but spin and even though only if you want to speak out it looks like the movement against such

rickety hearing and police see is getting stronger does. check out our website for more stories and we're lying for you throughout the day here's a taste of what's streaming live right now at r.t. dot com. a circus ad that almost ended in tragedy ukraine a wind turn against a steamer leaving him seriously injured. and a brand new so is rocket blast off into orbit as three astronauts head for their stint at the international space station for more head to our team dot com. and i will take a look at some other stories from around the world suspected taliban fighters in southwestern pakistan have attacked thirty tankers carrying fuel for nato troops police say ten armed man fired small rockets to the parts tankers setting that allied armed groups have stepped up attacks on nato convoys since

a cross border airstrike killed two pakistani soldiers official say it's the sixth such attack in just over a week. in chile rescue workers hope to reach within hours thirty three miners trapped underground for more than two months when the miners reach cameras will be used chef whether a capsule can be safely deployed through the shaft to bring the man to the surface and the country's mining minister said it would be three days before the rescue process begins. china has announced the nobel prize committee in norway after awarding this year's peace prize to a jailed rights activist summoned the norwegian ambassador in protest and said giving the award to convinced criminal violates nobel principles warning ties with could be harm fifty four year old luke. shell bowl was jailed for eleven years for subversion. the nobel committee president said he deserved the prize for his nonviolent fight for human rights in china. the

death toll at a home gary. that story has now reached seven earlier the country's prime minister said that the river danube was no longer under threat even though the red toxic chemical had reached it a reservoir burst spewed out thousands of tons of the sludge but the situation is now under control the cleanup operation is expected to take at least here. now there is an unlikely superhero patrolling the force of labia targeting anyone who asks like a hog the self-styled pig man has vowed to put an end to littering which has wired the country's awards even artist on barton could not escape his trotters. a legend on the trot this is the pig snuffling for some rather unpleasant truffles he's the not the in state forest some search one of its greatest problems rubbish well just look at this mess scoundrels how could they little like this this snow

falling super swine's spends his days charging around latvia trying to clean up the woods and make the culprits squeal for mercy there's even a legend to accompany him if you will turn the forest you will turn into a pig and he's not just how many touch this old boy isn't always the border about once a forest warden called us and said he'd found the remains of a car by the serial number to find the owner and find him two hundred lots there are still out there off and it wasn't long before we found some potential litter as of our own there. they were keen to show they were on pigman side it's a no for problem. i love it all the way it's done this man and your campaign bassett i can't see any more when he started his work six years ago latvia's

forests had become a pig stye with fly tipping and littering rife since then pig man who like all superheroes refuses to reveal his true identity to save their bacon he works with police educate school children lobbies parliament and keeps on the hoof rooting out literacy and raising public awareness in fact he's become quite a lot being a celebrity. here where the world has for superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the ensuite moons peak man you can see how this forest is terribly littered who asked me can clean it so i will do this i will clear up the latvian forest i promise meaning that if you're planning to litter you might reply more than you sound pig man could appear anywhere at any time so if i behave like a swine and do this. i'm soon going to have to clean up my act tom barton artie

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hello and a very well welcome to the business news one issue set to dominate the annual meetings of the i.m.f. of the world bank and washington they say what can finance ministers sound heads of the central bank song calling for a halt to the currency was which threaten to undermine all the work that's been done to restart the global economy so neither of these are. when you have been is known bombs or mines it's the economic equivalent of nepal critics say could lay waste to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage with q global trade in the bruce his there's no question that global demand there's a lot of there's not enough room for everybody to grow their way by act according that's the norm when you have a financial crisis in a region and a country your exchange rate goes down it's one of the things that helped heal you now not everyone can grow that way the whole world can governments are making

matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst of paper money china and the u.s. are the leaders in the currency war the us has announced a new round of money printing which drew down its currency internees premier warned that pressure to revalue the yuan would result in social instability and economic disruption in china russia is a spectator in this war it's an export of gas and oil priced in dollars well the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominated by tradable boards or tradeable manufactured goods anyway they have been a biker more detail is where the relative comparative advantage over russia is there regardless of the exchange rate more or less so with this respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is of less significance for russia than to the countries like china is the us and the push for you on revaluation the risk for

the coming year is that currency wars will slow global growth you need to invade a business r.t. . question grayle ways is to sell such a five percent minus two shares in its subsidiary trans container the government has a state owned monopoly or russian railways to sell almost five million ordinary shares of the company. the i.p.o. may be held in november but according to officials trance containers total value might be up to one hundred billion dollars into flux from. german energy companies have expressed their interest in the south stream pipeline among them which is said to be thinking about joining the project now gas brum has just one european partner italy's any help whether for france is also in talks to joint on the subject of current gas supplies gas from c e o alex a molester exceed last year's export volumes by three percent or more while northern and central european gas consumption is growing southern and eastern europe are tightening their belts the rise in gas from ford is mostly driven by

domestic demand. and here's how the markets closed in russia dollar for a second day as courage and metals prices fell the rules to make a will and carly are among the major losers shedding more than two percent on the my six cats from is the only gain on the r.t.s. operand top of the set. despite a strong start to the week for global stock markets driven by optimistic food costs for the year and almost all gains were raised by friday stephen to shop skates planes. and the last couple of days were actually have seen the markets give up almost all of the gains by general early in the week as the new worries have resurfaced about the outlook for two thousand and eleven the jobless situation in the states the fairly high level commodity prices and the markets have pulled back i mean overall because the week about one and i have two percent higher for all the major global in this is and the russian market as well fears of

a currency war will top the agenda of their i.m.s. on the world bank this weekend governments from the u.k. to the u.s. and japan have been cutting interest rates to lower their currencies we've seen already a lot of tensions between the u.s. and china in particular with respect to this issue and i do fear that these tensions will escalate and it could damage the global economy as a result the whole idea of printing money is in many respects to devalue money to make money cheap relative to goods and services. essentially to try to raise inflation the problem is that if the fed tries to reduce the value of the dollar against local goods and services in the u.s. it's also likely to drive the dollar down against other currencies as well as all the business news from now you can get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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