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every month we give you the future we hope you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join your knowledge update on our jeep. campaigning is over in could have just gone ahead of sunday's vital parliamentary vote security services are on high alert with the shadow of violence looming over the central asian republics. candidate and now in the running to become the new most good amongst the names of a few surprises. plus kickbacks rockets hearing corruption and intimidation that's the treatment some georgians claim they're getting from their very own government.

live from the russian capital this is r.t. welcome to the program security is being stepped up and campaigning is now a foot bitten in kyrgyzstan ahead of sunday's crucial elections the vote it will create central asia is first parliamentary democracy you've got a piece going off reports on why the authorities believe taking power away from the president is necessary for the country's stability. this is truly a crucial vote because it's meant to and instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so. has been plagued by violence and parts of the country where we are now are among the most affected areas and there are fears that this violence could flare up once again during the election the former soviet republic has been struggling to achieve normality since former president. was overthrown from power

in deadly street protests across the entire country especially in the capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the country in a state of chaos people were protesting by policies which led to many people living in poverty and fields to increase the quality of life in kyrgyzstan for years the interim government held. them which voted to build a parliamentary republic which is a milestone not only for kyrgyzstan but for the entire central asian region since this election will be held successfully it will change the way. it's planned that the president's powers will be curbed well the prime minister will have more power than the formal head of state this is significant for central asia since traditionally countries in this region are ruled by authority leaders and this way . from such a political model for the first time in central asia twenty nine political parties

are taking part in this election which is an all time record for kyrgyzstan however there are genders or relatively similar to one another i have to say there is skepticism on the ordinary people here in kyrgyzstan to see that this election and improve their lives because simply not ready for such a transition. won't be as effective apart from political unrest kyrgyzstan has also been suffering from ethnic while. in june there were deadly ethnic clashes here in the city of osh where we are now which is populated both ways and was back in nationals and as a result hundreds of people were killed thousands were injured and thousands more had to flee their homes and at the moment peace is really threatened jail here in the south of the country and in fact at the moment meaning people fear even going to the polling stations on sunday there have already been reports of threats sent out to the local population of why

a mess for many people at the moment the main priority is to rebuild their homes and businesses after june as well it's rather then to vote for any politician but despite this the authorities are still calling for the people to go to the polling stations to take poured in this election promising that it will provide the a long awaited stability of stories are on high alert across the entire country both police and volunteers are monitoring the streets of the city's international observers have already arrived at the region and authorities say that everything is ready for the vote on sunday. as you go to peace going to reporting well moscow is moving closer to getting a new man the united russia party has presented full candidates to president medvedev and there have been several surprises with the sort of. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party to president. on that list includes the deputy prime minister. now he's

considered a strong from run a full the position by many commentators so no surprise that he's being included in the list he's also you consider a very close ally of prime minister putin having worked with him extensively during his presidency and now in his role as prime minister so he's certainly a very strong candidate but also on the list we have russia's transport and communications minister igor levitin and the governor of new girl valerie have now he actually spent ten as the former mellish called deputy up until two thousand and five and a ninety ninety six when i was running for that position and shot was running for the position of vice and he was wounded in an assassination attempt against him after an explosion near his home which he survived but suddenly the interesting bit of background on that comes that they're the only female of the group that mila.

and now she is the current at the moment and her bowl actually includes a lot of the social issues such as unemployment and health care and she's considered one of the most experienced candidate having worked in the government since nights ninety four and also in her position at the moment perhaps one of the best place to deal with some of the issues the president the fate of his already highlighted as will be some of the main challenges facing whoever will become the new. i think all four candidates are perfectly capable of becoming mayor of moscow the city's leader will be responsible for upholding the quality of life. issues carrying on the policies in effect and dealing with future challenges the capital demands a series of new solutions which we will discuss with the new mayor. one of the main challenged. is it going to be these social reforms now muscovites going to be taping at the some of the social programs initiated on to this boat that will be

taking things such as we travel on the must pay much attention to and benefit the teachers but there's certainly many issues that they need but i will still be attempting to resolve issues such as police in the course the constant headache muscovites which is the traffic problems that's an ongoing problem that will be some of the issues facing now another major a key role that the new face will be to gain the public's trust especially head of the parliamentary elections that will be happening at the end of two thousand and eleven knows this lack of trust of the cited as one of the main reasons that the foreman dismissal as the new mayor will not have run a good to make an impact on that muscovites up all the controversy surrounding this because he was always very good at bringing out a united russia vote from the muscovite and the party going to be hoping that he'll

have the select this will have the same sources sway with the public ahead at the elections that. reporting that now still to come in the program here on our t.v. the race for the arctic is heating up russian scientists say they have evidence to support the country's territorial claims in the resource rich region. the georgian president has proposed a new constitution but supposed to put the country on a course towards becoming a european style democracy however many businessmen say mathile saakashvili is version of a people's rule is at odds with their experience that he has met on cipro news who claims that corruption kickbacks so they know the real forces in the country. the so-called patchwork baths 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 gold here'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 you could. they said that they know where my son's school is and they could save him up and bust him for drug possession he said that they will make me sells 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 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 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. when your thirty's openly use police and 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 and legal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly that make 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. 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 the corruption free in the me to do 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 record tearing into police see is getting stronger does. and there's plenty more ahead if you hear one odds he including a pig man to the rescue but he's not on a mission to save people he is

a superhero squealing on making sure the country's forests stay clean. russia norway denmark the u.s. and canada all nations locked into a race to claim the vast untapped resources thought to set beneath the arctic region and russian researchers are working as hard as anyone in the far north to support their nation's claim. went to meet the. 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 academics break up the fir drip is the flagship of the northern fleet of your chill floating lab or a tree iran to hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the claim that the man also bridge is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the

results almost too but. today we are fully confirm the geological outline are a leaf at the bottom of the loss of ridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi beam eco sound known as kongsberg 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 principles our competitors are using similar equipment the american icebreaker healy for example works with the same sound it is convenient to analyze and compared collected by the same standards. russia is in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un sheffield for twenty. 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 doing in the arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia they're working in accordance with the international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. in other deepwater eco sound will do its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie on ice flow and gas information on the among those who preach 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 fields 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 it's in the r t from the island of visa in the arctic. you can get the latest on everything we're covering here on our website dot com and here's a quick look at what's waiting for you online right now. has blasted off into space on its way to the international space station to find out about its mission to r.t. dot com. also not. find out why a russian prima ballerina is risque photo shoot proved too too much for the state opera.

just past the hour now here in the russian capital and some other international news. has been evacuated due to the threat of a second deluge of toxic sludge it's feared we can nearby reservoir may collapse hungary declared a state of emergency after thousands of tons of waste flooded several villages this week killing seven however despite the sludge reaching the river danube officials say there is little sign that has been significantly polluted. suspected taliban militants in southwestern pakistan have attacked nearly thirty times as carrying fuel for nato troops in afghanistan police say the men fired rockets at the convoy setting them all alight it comes. close to

a key afghan border in protest of nato helicopters killing two pakistani soldiers in an air strike last week. thirty three chilean miners trapped underground since august have been reached by the drill digging a rescue tunnel now a specially designed capsule will be ten. before it starts to bring the men up to the surface one by one. mining minister says it could take anything from three to ten days to begin the rescue process. more than two hundred passengers have been rescued from a burning lithuanian ferry off the coast of germany several people were injured with some of them taken to hospital by helicopter the fire was caused by an explosion on the upper deck officials say tragedy was prevented by the fact that there were several other vessels nearby to help the burning. but his mission to protect latvian forests from those who act like swine's his identity unknown his

duty to find the little bugs and exact revenge artist on barton went to meet her twenty first century superhero dressed like a pig. a legend on the trot this is the pig man snuffling for some rather unpleasant truffles he's the latvian state forest sun sir to 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 mean it up this old boy isn't all all week or about once a forest warden called us and said he'd found the remains of a car by the serial number we managed to find the owner and find him two hundred

laps there still out there off and it wasn't long before we found some potential literacy of our own there. there are those. but they were keen to show they were on pigment side it's an awful problem. i love it all the way it's done this man and your campaign that's 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 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 beyond celebrity. here where the world has for

superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the ensuite moons big 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 watson artie latvia. all keeping up appearances as a major preoccupation for many muscovites that's why this week the team delves into the world of beauty everything from spires to so long right here in the russian capital. with only eleven around the world this is the only algorithm aspire in the whole of russia and the french british company also presents various treatments

from countries around the world such as rocco turkey malaysia and russia to name just a few now and they're designed not just to make you look at a feel good but they also offer various health benefits and. here i'm having today is called the bora bora. and very nice it is too. and you can watch the beauty tour in about ten minutes time right here on our t.v. but first now it's time for the weekend a business update with shot. and i welcome to the business program with me they was fairly global finance jesus struggle to find a solution to difference is a very strange right 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 efforts misogynist exports by embracing weak occurrences 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 contrary 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 a long lasting solution what we need is more cooperation on the monetary side

and national much resistance. for europe and all bank officials as we become a crisis back in their region because the area is home to many many more young economies is going to be a long recovery. country director for russia explains why russia has better prospects for many over to that opinion economies. russia went into the crisis with a very strong fiscal position and a 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 the exact number it's the low teens percent of g.d.p. is the debt stock public but. you did have a large private debt but you know the crisis has absorbed that at this point so there's more reassurances that private russian companies can really 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 this isn't the 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 so unite i'm afraid of a has the background. when you have been is not mines it's the economic equivalent of the nepal critics say you could lay waste to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage let's kill global trade in the bruce his there's no question that global demand is a lot of there's not enough room for everybody to grow their way by x. forwarding 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 help. the only now not every one of the pros outweigh the whole world. governments are making matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst people 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 in this war it's exports of gas and oil price in dollars well through. the oil price russian experts. dominate the tradable board so tradeable benefactor good doing away. by commodity 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. certainly from store russia. through the countries like china. and the. the risk for the coming year is that currency

wars will slow global growth. business r.t. . russian markets closed on friday down for a second day as current and metal prices fell the real pinnacle of kali were among the main losers and shed more than ten percent on life that problem was the only gain only r.t.s. . now despite a strong start to the way for global stock markets driven by optimistic for call for the end of the year almost all gains were raised by friday stephen explains. 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 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 that

express their interest in the south stream pipeline among them be s.f. which is said to be thinking about joining the project at the moment gas problem 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 so than in eastern europe by tightening their belts the rising gas pumps gas output is mostly driven by domestic demand. and that's your update for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. it will.