here we stand is taking a breather ahead of tomorrow's general election the security forces sweep the streets for any sign of unrest. the baton is passed from countries like united states to countries like china brazil russia. the world's finances are heading east as top experts gathered in washington to boost the economy and any say america's power is on the way. and russian explorers are breaking the polarizing stakes their countries claim to the arctic's frozen well.

and they are watching r t coming to live from moscow welcome to the program securities 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 ravaged by political chaos and asked in a conflict it will also take power away from the presidency for the first time in central asia as a corpus going off explains. saturday is the last. of the nation wide parliamentary vote here in kyrgyzstan which means at this point all political rally is now we're headed 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 old time. good for if you're 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's 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 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 roamed of the city showing shops and cafes and awaiting helset 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 really 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 the elections here in the city will be observed by monitors from. we always 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 it 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. you were going off reporting there and it is the world struggles with the recession and there are fears that some countries could use their currencies as a comic weapons while financial leaders discuss a recovery many say that the global economy is trying to break off from the u.s. artie'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 based 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 the

summation 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 is to be made in china isn't lost on american politicians looking for someone to blame calls for help foreign companies chinese jobs to make it when mills could 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. can't be because of you so it has to be because of

china's 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. . and webster tarpley an investigative journalist says the bric countries which

resisted 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 nine hundred seventy one things were better why not go back to that why not take the page 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 the 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 and we have more on the i.m.f. meeting in our business more to come your way in just about ten minutes time also coming up here in our team expensive deals more of how much it costs to be an entrepreneur in georgia and. if you know it's there in the forest you will turn into a pig so far for her growing free find out who is flying to rescue obvious forests as i have. rushes to arctic expeditions have mad 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 our teams are getting their cello 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 academic break up the third group is the flagship of the northern fleet if their chill floating lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spanned seventy days and beyond gathering evidence to support the claim that the model simply is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost sure but due to the media today we are fully confirm the geological outline or relief at the bottom of the bridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards so you may as well not. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi being eco sound known as quantock spark 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's practically covers the

whole spectrum of the oceans depth there are no depths if you cannot measure. your 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. russia is 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 the clays the russian president in war to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. for you to freeze some say russians do in antarctica on a common night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia going to the world. and in accordance with international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. and now the deepwater eagle sound will

do part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie. and gas information on the models of 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 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 grace it's in the r t from the island of visa in the arctic the georgian president cites fair elections at a free media showing his country it's a good place to do business and but many in his home once a version of democracy is at odds with their experience businessman claim corruption and kickbacks are

a way of life as down as blots can our reports. the thoughtful patchwork berths and central police see is the perfect place to relax and have your portal 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 but in 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 but he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them our future and they'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

solve it off since then google 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 so we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance it. 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. when your thirty's openly use police in the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other way to call it terah 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

entrepreneurs' blame 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 large cheering the two powerful entrepreneurs in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand us dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official. golf feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find justice for this mayor 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 do 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 of tearing into police he is getting stronger does. check out our website for more stories that we're online for you throughout the day here's a taste of what's streaming live right now at our to. a circus act that almost ended in tragedy in ukraine a wind turned against his team or leaving him seriously injured and. the brand new soyuz rocket blast off into orbit as three astronauts head for their stand at the international space station for more had to r.t. dot com. i was tickled at some other stories from around the world and gary in village may be hit by its second toxic sludge spill in a week people are being evacuated from calling tara near the scene of a burst reservoir monday that spewed 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 chemical had reached it. suspected taliban fighters in southwestern pakistan have attacked thirty tankers carrying fuel for nato troops only say ten armed man fired small rocket to the park tankers setting them alight armed groups have stepped up attacks on nato convoys since the cross border ear strike 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 mine is reached cameras will be used to check whether a capsule can be safely deployed for the shaft to bring the man to the surface the country's mining minister said it will be three days before the rescue process begins. and china has denounced the nobel prize committee in norway after awarding

this year's peace prize to a jailed rights activist some of the norwegian ambassador in protest and said giving the award to a convicted criminal violates nobel. principal's warning ties with local be harmed fifty four year old luce about was jailed for eleven years for some version of the nobel committee president said he deserved the prize for his nonviolent fight for human rights in china. now there is an unlikely superhero patrolling the forests of latvia targeting anyone who acts like a hog this self-styled pig man has vowed to put in air until littering which has blighted the country's wards and even artist on barton could not escape his trotters. a legend on the trot this is the pig man 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 besotted snuffling super swine 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 tough 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 but we managed to find the owner and find him two hundred lots there are still lots that are and it wasn't long before we found some potential literacy of our own there. but they were keen to show they were on pig mom's side it's a no four problem. i love it all the way it's done this man and your campaign pass it 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 school children lobbies parliament and keeps on the hoof rooting out literacy and raising public awareness in fact he's become quite a lot of the and celebrity. where the world has for superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the ensuite mond's people 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. i'm soon going to have to clean up my act tom barton artie

latvia. keeping up appearances and staying there for longer is the goal for me and martin and her is now in moscow out team take us to the world of beauty from spas to salons across the heart of the russian capital. from botox to muscles the experts as a range of cosmetic treatments available all the stuff speak english here the price of competitive popular with red and women age ranges i'm told this sort of muscle is here with not only the plot circulation but all said beast. stay with us and watch the full version in about ten minutes time here in our team

but before that we'll take a look at the world of business with you. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news one issue is set to dominate the annual meetings of the i.m.f. of the world bank this weekend finance ministers and heads of the central banks are

calling for a halt to the currency wars which threaten to undermine all the work that's been done to restart the global economy you know the movies of our ports. then you have been is not 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 but q global trade in the proves 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 export ng 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 helps 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 expected in this war it's exports of gas and oil are priced in dollars while the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominated by tradable boards or tradeable manufactured goods anyway they have been a biker morning where the relative comparative advantage of russia is there regardless of the change 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 us and the push for you on revaluation the risk for the coming year is that currency wars will slow global growth you know they do indeed have a business r.t.

. question great always is to sell such a five percent minus two shares in its subsidiary of trans container the government has permitted a state owned monopoly of 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 of the hot button dollars into fox or. 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 is any help whether france is also in talks to joint on the subject of current gas supplies gazprom c e o alex a molester as it may 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 is mostly driven by domestic demand. and here's how the markets closed in russia dollar for

a second day as courage and vessels prices fell the rules to make and carly are among the major losers judging more than two percent on 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 food costs for the year and almost all gains were raised by friday stephen push ups gets planes. in the last couple of days we're 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 of the have two percent higher for all the major global indices and the russian market as well fears of a currency war will top the agenda of the i.m.f. and 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 thats all the business news for now you can get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business.