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from all studios here in central moscow this is r t with twenty four hours a day security is being stepped up and campaigning is in kind of a stand ahead of sunday's crucial. and actions the vote to create central asia is first parliamentary democracy. 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 end instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so kyrgyzstan has been plagued by violence and the seldom 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 street protests across the entire country especially in

the capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the entire country in a state of chaos people were protesting policies which went to people living in poverty and failed to increase the quality of life in kyrgyzstan for years the interim government held referendum which voted to build a parliamentary republic which is a milestone not only for kyrgyzstan but for the entire central asian region since if 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 the region are ruled by authoritarian 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 there is skepticism on the ordinary people here in kyrgyzstan who say that this election won't we. improve their lives because simply not ready for such a transition and probably won't be as effective apart from political unrest there just as also been suffering from ethnic violence in june there were very ethnic clashes here in the city of osh where we are now which is populated by a curious and 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 a fragile here in the south of the country and in fact at the moment meaning people even going to the polling stations on sunday there have already been reports of threats sent out to the local population of mess for many people at the moment the main priority is to rebuild their homes and businesses after june while 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 part in this election promising that it will provide the long awaited stability of saudis 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 moscow is moving closer to getting a new man the united russia party has presented four candidates to president medvedev. several surprises there. the details. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party to the president. on that list includes the deputy prime minister. now he's considered a strong from and a full of the position by many commentators so no surprise that he's being included

in the list he's also considered 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 hand but also on the list we have russia's transport and communications minister igor levitin and the governor. of valery he actually spent ten as the full of a deputy up until two thousand and five and to nine hundred ninety six when the pope was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice. and an assassination attempt against him after an explosion near his home which he survived the suddenly interesting bit of background will not come to the only female of the group with mila. and now she is the current at the moment and her poll actually includes a lot of the social issues such as unemployment and health care and she is

considered one of the most experienced candidate having worked in the government since ninety 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 man. i think all four candidates are perfectly capable of becoming mayor of moscow the city's leader who would be responsible for upholding the quality of life. 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 reforms now muscovites going to be taping at the some of the social programs initiated under. this code that will be taking things such as we travel on the most the pension is a benefit to teachers but there are certainly many issues that they need that will

still be attempting to solve issues such as police in and of course the constant headache muscovites which is the traffic problems that's an ongoing that will be some of the issues facing now another major key role that the new base will be to gain the public's trust especially ahead of the parliamentary elections that will be happening at the end of two thousand and eleven knows this is lack of trust of the cited as one of the main reasons the for the dismissal of the new mayor will now have around a good to make an impact on that must have by all the controversy surrounding this because he was always very good at bringing out a united russia from the muscovite party going to be hoping that he'll have a select it will have the same sources sway with the public ahead of the elections next year. reporting there will still to come in the program for you this hour the

race for the arctic it's heating up. russian scientists say they have evidence to support the countries to retore claims in the resource rich region. the georgian president has proposed a new constitution that supposed to put the country of course towards becoming a european style democracy where the many business can say that because version of people's rule is it all with their experience there has been entrepreneurs who claim corruption and kickbacks of the real forces in the country. the so-called patchwork belts in central police e is the perfect place to relax and have your full taken on the way yo. it's 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 put in 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. 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 the mafia chief and they'll be breaking 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 great goal has been trying hard to get his business back if he goes for 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. 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 our second team is responsible for terrorizing the business sector. some georgian entrepreneur explain 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 powers who entrepreneurs in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government in june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand u.s.

dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official. call 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 a corruption free 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 the trick of tearing into police see is getting stronger does. well plenty more ahead for you here on our t.v. including pigs to the rescue. but he's not on a mission to save people he's a latvian superhero squealing on little bugs and making sure the country's forests they claim. that story come first russia norway denmark the

u.s. and canada all nations locked into a race to claim the vast resources thought to sit beneath the arctic region russian research as they're working as hard as anyone in the far north to support their nations' claim ortiz a country went to meet them. 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 lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the claim that the man also read is part of russia's continental shelf they had of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost a year but. today we have four we confirmed the geological outline or

a leaf at the bottom of the bridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi-billion 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 covers the whole spectrum of the ocean's depth there are no depths if you cannot measure. it. compared to say using the similar equipment the american icebreaker healy for. 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 appeal occasion to the un sheffield for twenty thirty the same year another applicant canada comes up with these claims the

russian president's envoy to both says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. or 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 international treaties and who will work day and night if necessary. and all the deep water eco sound will do its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie. and gas information on the breach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be 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 iran sixty percent of total shock to gas lies in the russian exclusive economic zone so even without the models of reach being divided it seems

that russia has already won becoming grace it's in the pressure of the art from the island of bees in the arctic. and you can get the latest on everything we're covering here on our web site that. time is a quick look at what's there right now for you. blasted off into space on its way to the international space station to find out about its mission you can log on to the ups majority. also not new to crack the russian. risque photos she proved too much for the state.

but now some other international news this hour here in. the village has been evacuated future of a threat of a second then huge of toxic sludge it's feared the weakened wall of a nearby reservoir may collapse hungry declared a state of emergency off to 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 it has been significantly polluted. pakistan says it will reopen a key border crossing used to transport supplies to nato troops in afghanistan was closed in protest at nato helicopters killing two pakistani soldiers and their strike that caused tension with washington and left stranded trucks vulnerable to attacks and the latest incident suspected taliban militants armed with rockets set around thirty tankers carrying fuel. thirty three chilean miners

trapped underground since august to be reached by the drill a rescue tunnel that was specially designed capsule will be tested before it starts to bring the men up to the surface. one by one chile's 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 the burning lithuanian ferry off the coast of germany several people were injured with some of them taken to hospital by helicopter was caused by an explosion on the upper deck fishel say tragedy was prevented by the fact there were several other vessels nearby to help the burning cross. when his mission to protect the forests from those who acted like swine's his identity unknown his duty find a litterbugs and exact revenge. went to meet a twenty first century superhero who's dressed as 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 a little like this this besotted 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 were there in the forest you will turn into a pig and he's not just how ming it up this old boy isn't all. the border about once a forest warden called us and said he'd found the remains of a car by the serial number to find the owner and find him two hundred lots they're still out there off and it wasn't long before we found some potential literacy of our own there. but they were keen to

show they were on pigman side it's a no for problem. i love it all the way it's done this man and your campaign 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 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 ha ha i'm soon going to have to clean up my act tom barton artie latvia. keeping up appearances is a major preoccupation for many muscovites as you may gather well that's why this week the team delves into the world of beauty everything from spirals to salons in the russian capital. with only eleven around the world this is the only algorithm a spy in the whole of russia and the french british company also presents various treatments from countries around the world such as iraq oh turkey malaysia and russia to name just a few hours 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

bora the bora. very nice it is to. and that beauty tours coming on about ten minutes from now here on t.v. well now let's check out the we can business with charlotte that's next. and i welcome to the business program with me that i was following 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 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's 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 downed trees which dry 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 resistance. for europe and all bank officials in the economic growth in their back in their region because the area is

home to many long. economy is going to be a monstrous age recovery. country director for russia explains why russia has better prospects for many other developing 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 to an exact number it's in 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 observed that at this point so there's more reassurances and the private russian companies can we can meet our 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. it's the economic equivalent of nepal critics say could lay waste to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage 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 and a country your exchange rate goes down it's one of the things that helped feel you now not everyone can grow their way around the whole world can governments are making matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst of paper money china and the u.s. are the leaders in the currency war the us has announced a new round of money printing which drew down its currency internees premier warned that pressure to revalue the yuan would result in social instability and economic

disruption in china russia is a spectator in this war its exports of gas and oil price in dollars well the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominate the tradable boards or tradeable manufactured goods in a way they have been a like a morning where the relative competitive advantage over russia is there regardless of the exchange rate more or less so with this respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is of less significance to 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 a metaphor i think the real cynical or cali were among the main ling's this and

more than ten percent of them i think problem was that i am. 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 were actually have seen the markets give up almost all of the gains by general early in the week that 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 in this is the russian market as well now german energy companies that express their interest in the south stream pipeline among them b. 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. in france is also in talks to participate on the subject of current gas supplies head of gas problem oleg 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 are rising gas prices 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.