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tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our g. taking a breather head of to morrow's general election security forces sweep the streets for any sign of unrest. from countries like united states to countries like china brazil russia the world's finances are heading east. come together in washington to boost the economy many say america is on the wane. and russia explores the polarized. countries claim to the arctic's frozen well.

worldwide news from the heart of moscow. welcome to the program. security is being stepped up across could a stand 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 rocked by political chaos and ethnic conflict it would also take power away from the presidency for the first time in central asia you go to skin off reports twenty nine political parties are taking part this is definitely an all time record for your just done because she's in term 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 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 where we are now is kyrgyzstan's second largest city and it's still recovering from a massive way of ethnic violence in june of most of the city's population or the nationals however around one third of the population are and numerous armed gangs are roamed of this city be showing shops and cafes and awaiting helset and the violence lasted for several days until the internal 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 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 more to 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 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 if you're just capital scare 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 go to is going to reporting that now as the world struggles with

recession there are fears that some countries could use their currencies as economic weapons while financial leaders discuss a recovery many say that the global economy is trying to break off from the u.s. long list of found out whether the shift in power has 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 brit you know 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 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 double bass 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 was good may be. we will be 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 looking for

someone to blame for recalls help foreign companies group chinese jobs making 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 are going to obviously it can't be because of you so it has to be because. 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 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 that as their economies grow far from us soil so too does their role behind these doors or lester our team washington d.c. . webster tarpley an investigative journalist says the bric countries which was this the u.s. saw developing in their own way. 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 nine hundred 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 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. we do have more on the i.m.f. meeting in our business bulletin that's coming your way in just about ten minutes time also coming up though expensive deal we report on how much it costs to be an entrepreneur in georgia and. if you roll over here in the forest you will turn into

a pig super puerco roaming free find out who's a trying to rescue a lot of us forests that's ahead for. russia's two arctic expeditions have met in the middle of the ocean to share their breakthrough discoveries team of scientists on board the floating workshop have 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 a teaser considering the trouble 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 icebreaker the third group is the flagship of the northern fleet if you chill floating laborious training around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the believe that the man also greek 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 a leaf at the bottom of the luminous overage we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi being eco sound known as quantock spec it's hard to see and impossible to touch but it's talking to scientists from the board 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 they 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 compared to 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 cleats the russian president's been void to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the core to fulfill the mission. for you to be some say what are the russians doing in the arctic on a pole a night we're not going to ask anybody want and when we should do the arctic belongs to russia i'm going to be working in accordance with all international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. and now the deepwater eagle sound will do eaves part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie ice flow and gas information on the man also breach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be of ostend embassy in popular image a nation but it is that still major that if contains a quarter of the world's untapped also feels flotsam gold diamonds and other

precious metals around sixty percent of total octave gas lies in the russian exclusive economic zone so even without the models of reach being divided it seems that russia has already won the coming arctic race exceeding the pressure of r t from the island of visa in the arctic the georgian president sides fair elections and free media showing his country is a good place to do business in but many in his homeland say release version of the mocker see is at odds with their experience businessman claim corruption and kickbacks are a way of life and his political 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 if you years ago it was taken from its previous owner by the government getting all his 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 he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them off 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 salted 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 we have not received a single response here why is it going to violence. 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. 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 and legal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly to 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 so 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 us do not. call feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find 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 the corruption free 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 such record tearing into police see is getting stronger does. well you can always check out our website for many more stories we are online for you throughout the day and here's a taste of what's streaming a live right now at our dot com a circus act that almost ended in tragedy in ukraine

a lion turned against his tenure leaving him seriously injured and. a new soyuz rocket blasts off into orbit as three astronauts head for their stint at the international space station for more just head over to r.t. dot com. by now let's check out some other world news making headlines this hour and a hug and garion village may be hit by its second toxic sludge spill in a week people are being evacuated from call on tar near the scene of a burst reservoir on monday that spewed 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 chemical had reached a. suspected taliban fighters in southwestern pakistan have attack thirty tankers carrying fuel for nato troops in afghanistan police say the men fired small

rockets at the park tankers all of them alight it all comes after islamabad close to a key afghan border in protest of nato helicopters killing three pakistani soldiers in an airstrike last week also nato says that four british troops were killed in a separate insurgent attack. in chill a 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 through the shaft to bring the men to the surface the country's mining minister said it would be three to eight days before the rescue process begins. in china has denounced the nobel prize committee in norway. after awarding this year's peace prize to a jailed rights activist beijing summer the norwegian ambassador in protest and said giving the award to a convicted criminal violates nobel principles warning that ties with all slow

would be harmed fifty four year old leo shall bow 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. while there is an unlikely superhero patrolling the forests of latvia targeting anyone who acts like a hog self-styled a pig man has vowed to put an end to littering which has blighted the country his words and even r.t. as tom barker could not escape his trotters. a legend on the trot this is the pig man snuffling for some rather unpleasant truffles he's the not the in state forest son search one of its greatest problems rubbish well just look at this mess scoundrels how could they little like this this persona outed snuffling 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 all are in the forest he will turn into a pig and he's not just hammering it up this old boy isn't all. the more about go to 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 black they're still out there off and it wasn't long before we found some potential literacy of our own there. there at that i. thought they were keen to show they were on pig mom's side it's a norfolk problem you put on your thought i love it all the way it's done to this man and your campaign that's it. i can't see anymore. 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 to save their bacon he works with

police educate school children lobbies parliament and keeps on the hoof rooting out literature 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 in superman man you can see how this forest is terribly littered who asked me clean it so i will do this i will clear up a lot of fear in 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 younger for

longer is the goal for many martin andrews and go out team takes us to the world of beauty from spas to salons all across the heart of the russian capital. to any eleven around the world this is the only algorithm spy in the whole of russia and the french british 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 at the 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 to. do stay with us you can watch the full version of that in a round target is time but first let's check out the business news with shot.

and i welcome to the business program with me charlotte i was folly global finance cheez have struggled to find a solution to difference is a very strange rate warning that's a currency war could harm the world economy as the international monetary fund's annual meeting got underway in washington policymakers warned the effort exports by embracing week of currencies may provoke protectionism and trade imbalances i.m.f. managing director dominique strauss kahn said that using currencies as a tool of economic policy can lead to very bad situations in that the i.m.f. wants to better identify how the actions of one economy affects others. there is no domestic solution to global problem even if. it is understandable that some individual contrie facing huge capital inflow wants to resist this current of

volatility and source of instability and possible bubbles so i'm not blaming ground riis. which try was one shot to limit the influence of the capital inflows but it cannot be long lasting solution what we need is more cooperation on the monetary side and national much assistance. for europe and also bank officials in the economic crisis back in their region because the area is home to many large young economies it's going to be a long recovery. country director for russia explains why russia has better prospects than many other developing economies. russia went into the crisis with a very strong fiscal position and very large you know world wealth funds and had reduced its debt to g.d.p. ratios so russia is a good risk if you think about it is when you know exact number it's the low teens

percent of g.d.p. it's a debt stock public that. you did have a large private debt but you know the crisis has observed that at this point so there's more reassurances and the private russian companies can we can meet their obligations so there is a lot of interest in russian financial instruments because it's a good risk compared to many other countries now the so-called currency wars has been one of the top issues the finest misses and heads of central banks of the i.m.f. meeting experts say it threatens to undermine all the work that's being done to restart the global economy the night i'm afraid of a has the background. then you have been is not 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 proves his there's no question that global demand is a lot 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 helps the only now not everyone pros outweigh the whole world. 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 pressured to revalue the yuan would result in social instability and economic disruption in china russia is a spectator in this war its exports of gas and oil price in dollars well the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominated by tradable boards or tradeable want to go to anyway. i could more detail is where the relative competitive advantage of russia is there regardless of the change rate

more or less so with this respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is of less significance for russia. true countries like china. and the. the east for the coming year is that currency wars will slow global growth you do need a business r.t. . russian market place on friday down for a second day is current and that's why i think the real cynical know are among the main elisa's and more than ten percent of them i think problem with their own. again only r.t.s. around half a percent. now despite a strong start to the we for global stock markets driven by optimistic forecasts for the end of the year almost all gains were raised by friday stephen explains and the last couple of these which will 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 well because the week about one of the have two percent higher for all the major global indices and the russian market as well now german energy companies they've expressed their interest in the south stream pipeline among them being a s.f. which is said to be thinking about joining the project at the moment gazprom is just want european partner italy's any but e.t.f. of france is also in talks to participate on the subject of current gas supplies head of gas probably like say miller says 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 and rising gas pumps gas output is mostly driven by domestic demand. and that's your update for this hour but you.