kyrgyzstan's pausing for breath ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary vote with the trolls on alert for any on the rest. of the baton is passed from countries like united states to countries like china brazil russia as finance leaders gathered to brainstorm recovery many say the world economy is getting in a voice from the united states. would need russian explorers for braving freezing cold or to state their country's claim to the art expression of.

what i see coming to live from moscow ten am here in marina joshua welcome to the program security is 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 rag by political chaos and asked me conflict it also take power away from the presidency for the first time in central asia as he explains saturday is the last day before the start of the parliamentary vote here in kyrgyzstan which means at this point all political rally is now bring a bit and voting ballots are already being spread out at polling stations across the country twenty two million political parties are taking report this is definitely an all time record for just on the country's interim president rows of them by about. he's 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 social sector something which is seen really clearly especially here in the south of the country 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 way of ethnic violence in june most of the city's population or nationals however around one third of the population are banks and numerous armed gangs are all of this city be showing shops and cafes and lighting up a hell says and 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 turned with the start of 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 party 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 gang the elections here in the city will be observed by monitors from the always see russia and the c.i.s. eighty two. polling stations have been set up the election was proposed by the interim government in april after an ex-president called one big mikey of course taking down from power as

a result of mass protests across the whole country especially like today's capitol scared and the opposition to control of the country and promised reform so once again on sunday the nationwide call measure you know action will be held here in kyrgyzstan and we should be able to find out the preliminary results as soon as on monday. europe is going off reporting there now as the world struggles with a recession there are fears that some countries could use their currencies as a canonic weapons while financial leaders discuss a recovery they say that the global economy is trying to break off from the u.s. arches 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 breaking away from 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 called leave much more depended upon those countries than on the developed economies 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 double bass the so-called bric countries are still on the ascent brazil's economy. estimated to grow seven point five percent this year with optimism to spare. will be more than seven point four

percent. and rounding out the r i c in 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 is to be made in china isn't lost on american politicians looking for someone to blame recalls help foreign companies trying to lose jobs to make it 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 are going to obviously it can't 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 and definitely much better than what 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 the as their economies grow far from u.s. soil so to do their role behind these doors for lester our team washington d.c. . webster tarpley an investigative journalist says the bric countries which resist the u.s. are developing in their own ways. the big thing is you're dealing with

a system you're not just dealing with the us 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 under bretton woods up until one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 and 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. now we

have more on the i.m.f. meeting in our business border coming your way in about ten minutes time also coming up in the program here in our team expensive deals where we forded how much it costs to be an entrepreneur in georgia also. if you roll over here in the forest you will turn into a pig. a supporter of roaming free find out who is flying to rescue lobbyist for us that's ahead. but russia's arctic expeditions have man 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 quite into the major part of the region's treasures at seems they have got lucky as our team is a katrina 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 dock with their colleagues on board the academic break the third

group is the flagship of the northern fleet of beer chill floating laborious iran to hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the claim that the bridge is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results for mr but. today we are fully confirm the geological outline or relief at the bottom of the bridge which we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards so you miss with. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi beam eco sound known as. 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 the whole spectrum of the oceans depth there are no depths that new cannot measure. the principles

compared to say using the similar quick. the american icebreaker healy for example works with the same sound it is convenient to analyze and compare don't say collected by the same standards. russia is in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un and sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with the cleats the russian president's been boy to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. where you did some say the russians do and in the arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do that the arctic belongs to russia they're working in accordance with all international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. and other deepwater eco sound will do each part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on

a movie. and gas information on the models of reach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be a vase stand in popular image a nation but it is that still major that it contains a quarter of the world's untapped falso fuels flotsam gold diamonds and other precious metals around 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 arctic race exceeding the pressure of r t from the island of visa in the arctic the georgian president cites fair elections at a free media showing his country as a good place to do business and but many in his home one say version of democracy is that all odds with their experience business mcwane corruption and kickbacks are a way of life a status reports. the thoughtful patchwork berths and central police see 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 if you years ago it was taken from its previous owner by the government gold has any 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 but he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay the market you're going to be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything underneath my business to this day. immediately after seizing the property of the government solved it off since then google has been trying hard to get his business back if you go to the

route six complaints asking them why they made me give up my business but the authorities are silent so we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance it. a human rights activist says this case is not unique according to the salient have been numerous cases recently where the georgian government has illegally seized buildings wound and other property from private individuals large and small companies this is. when your thirty's openly use police in the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other way to cool it tara it's a kind of official racketeering aggressive illegal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly they make a our second team is responsible for terrorizing the business sector. some georgian entrepreneur spoiling the greed and political ambitions of the country's leaders

these businessmen say that in order to work safely and believe see you have to make generous donations to the ruling party or a larger moves to power through entrepreneurs in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government during the election all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand us dollars these are official sums of money we can only guess how much they have to pay on official surface remarks and what we. call feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to point justice for this man and many others who have seen for themselves so 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 all if you want to speak out it looks like the movement against the trick continuing in tbilisi is getting stronger does. well check out our website for more stories and we are lined for you

throughout the day here's a taste of what streaming live right now if you have a circus act that almost ended in tragedy in ukraine a lion turn against his team or leaving him seriously injured and. a brand new so is rocket blast off into orbit as three astronauts have for their stand to the international space station for more had to r.t. dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and suspected taliban fighters in southwestern pakistan have attacked thirty tankers carrying fuel for nato troops police say ten armed man fired small rockets at a park tankers setting them alive armed groups have stepped up attacks on nato convoys since across the border airstrike killed two pakistani soldiers fishel say it's the sixth such a town 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 reached cameras will be used to check whether a capsule can be safely deployed through the shaft to bring the man to the surface the country's mining minister said it would be three to eight 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 regime some of the region of baster in protest and said giving the award to a convicted criminal violates nobel principles warning ties with to be harmed fifty four year old loop. hole was jailed for eleven years or some version of the nobel committee president said you deserve the prize for his nonviolent five for human rights in china. gary and tell me beheaded by its second toxic sludge spill in a week people are being evacuated from the town of colon tar the scene of

a burst. as of war on monday that he would out thousands of tons of waste killing at least seven earlier the country's prime minister said the river danube was no longer under threat even though the red toxic chemicals have reached it. now there is an unlikely superhero patrolling the forests of labia targeting anyone who acts like a hog this self-styled pig man has vowed to put on a until littering which has bleier the country's wards even artist who could not escape his trotters. a legend on the trot this is the pig snuffling for some rather unpleasant truffles he's the latvian 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 atop this old board 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 but we managed 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 pigment side it's an awful problem. i love it the way it's done this man and your campaign suit i can't see any more. when he started his work six years ago latvia's forests had become a pig sty with fly tipping and littering rife since then pig man who like all superheroes refuses to reveal his true identity has saved their bacon he works with

police educate schoolchildren lobbies parliament and keeps on the hoof rooting out literacy and raising public awareness in fact he's become quite a lot b. and celebrity. where the world has for superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the ensuite man you can see how this forest is terribly littered who else but me can clean it so i will do this i will clear up the latvian forests 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 ha ha i'm soon going to have to clean up my act tom barton artie latvia. giving out appearances and

staying there for longer is the goal for many martin andresen our moscow team takes us to the world of beauty from spas to salons across the heart of the russian capital. with only eleven around the world this is the only other time spoil in the whole of russia and the phrase beauty company also presents various treatments from countries around the world such as iraq o. turkey malaysia and russia to name just a few now and they're designed not just to make you look and feel good but they also offer various health benefits and this message here i'm having today is called the bora bora. and very nice it is too. and that is coming your way about ten minutes time before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with you but don't go away.

hello and a very warm 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 canned finance ministers and heads of the central banks are calling for a halt to the coral sea walls which threaten to undermine all the work that's been done tourist stop the global economy so even the base for. when you have been is non minds it's the economic equivalent of nepal critics say could lay waste to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage global trade in the proves his there's no question that global demand there's a lot of there's not an awful room for everybody to grow their way by export and that's the norm when you have a financial crisis in a region in a country your exchange rate goes down it's one of the things that helped heal you

now not everyone can grow their way the whole world can governments are making matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst of paper money china and 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 exports of gas and oil price in dollars well the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominated by tradeable votes or tradeable manufactured goods anyway they have been a biker morning where the relative comparative advantage of 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. and the. the risk for the coming year is that current to worse global growth. business r.t. . russian grail ways is to sell thirty five percent minus two shares in its subsidiary of trans container the government has permitted 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 according to officials trance containers total value might be up to one and a bit in dollars interfax 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 has just one european partner italy is any help whether france is also in talks to joint on the subject of current gas supplies gazprom see . 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. among the major losers judging more than two percent on the my six cats from israel again on the r.t.s. operand top of the set. despite a strong start to the week for global stock markets driven by optimistic forecast for the year and almost all gains were raised by friday stephen the ships gets planes. and the last couple of these 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 we closed 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 the i.m.f. 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

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