if you. are from first impression. he starts on t.v. dot com. campaigning is a voting card to get ahead of sunday's parliamentary vote security service is on high alert with the shadow of violence looming over the central asian republics. candidate and now in the running to become the new marriage must get in amongst the names of the surprises. plus the kickbacks racketeering corruption and intimidation that's the treatment some georgians claim they're getting from their own government.

live from our studios in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day security is being stepped up and campaigning is now a bit ahead of sunday's elections the vote will create central asia as first parliamentary democracy. reports on why the authorities believe taking power away from the president is necessary. 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 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 deadly 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 who were protesting like he was policies which went to people living in poverty and failed to increase the quality of life in kyrgyzstan for years the interim government held in wide referendum which voted to build a parliamentary republic which is a milestone not only for kyrgyzstan but for the 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 this region are ruled by 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 improve their lives because simply not ready for such a transition and probably won't be as effective apart from political unrest there just on has also been suffering from ethnic violence in june. there were very ethnic clashes here in the city where we are now which is populated both ways and i can nationals 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 fragile 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 mess for many people at the moment the main priority is to rebuild

their homes and businesses after june while it's rather than to vote for any politician despite this the authorities are still calling for people to go to the polling stations to take in this election promising that it will provide a long awaited stability forty's are on high alert across the entire country both police and volunteers or monitoring the streets of the city's international observers have already arrived at the region and all thirty see that everything is ready for the vote on sunday you were reporting that the battle to become the new mayor of moscow was down to the final four the united russia party has handed a list of contenders to president dmitri medvedev who'll now have to decide who will lead the russian capital in the future so the details. of this. full names that have been submitted by the united russia party to the president. on that list include the prime minister. now he's considered a strong from manifold

a position by many commentators so no surprise that he's being included in the list you all say consider a very close ally of prime minister putin having worked extensively during his presidency. as prime minister as he says very strong hand but also on the list we have transport and communications minister the victim. and the governor of new girl valerie no he actually spent ten. calls a deputy up until two thousand and five and to nine hundred ninety six when. was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice. nation against him after an explosion. which she survived the sudden interesting bit of background. the only female of the group that miller did not 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 candidates 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 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 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 challenges going to be reforms now muscovites going to be taping of the some of the social programs initiated and to the full scope that will be made things such as

a free travel of the most the pension is a benefit to teachers but there are certainly many issues that the new i will still be attempting to solve issues such as police in the course the constant headache muscovites which is the traffic problems. that will be some of the issues facing now another major key role the face again. public trust especially ahead of the parliamentary elections that will be happening at the end of two thousand and eleven now is the lack of trust of the cited as one of the main reasons that the. dismissal as the new model now have around here to make an impact on that must get by all the controversy surrounding this because he was always very good at bringing out a united russia from the muscovite the party going to be hoping that whoever it's the lech this will have that same source of sway with the public and head elections

next year. so if reporting there will still to come in the program this hour for you the race for the take is heating up. evidence to support the country's territorial claims in the resource rich region. a look at the future of the u.s. dollar as emerging economies seek to separate from the greenback seems to be heading for divorce. those stories still to come but first the georgian president has proposed a new constitution that's supposed to put the country on a course towards becoming a european style democracy however many businessmen save the. version of people's rule is that with their experience and he has met entrepreneurs who claim corruption and kickbacks of 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 a few 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 he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them our future and don't be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything underneath 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 if you go to my

roots six complaints asking them why they made me give up my business but the authorities are silent so we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance it. a human rights activist says this case is not unique according to the salient have been numerous cases recently where the georgian government has illegally seized buildings wound and other property from private individuals large and small companies this is. when your thirty's openly use police and the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other way to cooling it tara it's a kind of official racketeering aggressive and legal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly you can make a 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 a large chimney to powerful 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 rest of 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 groups in free to me to go also lost their businesses due to pressure from the state it's nothing but spin and even though only a few want to speak out it looks like the movement against such record tearing into police see is getting stronger does. the head of the international monetary

fund is urging nations not to use their currencies as economic weapons of self defense dominique strauss kahn says the global financial crisis is not over with the likes of the u.s. struggling to avoid a double dip recession and as artie's lauren lyster reports some countries are already riding the wave of the dollar's downfall. 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 the much more depend upon those countries than on the developed economies explains how while the u.s. economy continues to look more bleak with analysts such as goldman sachs forecasting fairly to very bad scenarios of meager one to two percent growth or an all out double dip recession i would almost consider a double dip a base 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 this nation 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 still made in china isn't lost on american politicians looking for

someone to blame 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. can't be because of you so it has to be because it. is a very easy target but while politicians try to hold things together citizens are decoupling from the us economy to people who once left their countries to come to the us for opportunities are heading back home the opportunities are going to be 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 to add their economies grow far from u.s. soil so too does their role behind these doors or lester r. t. washington d.c. . and we'll have more on the i.m.f. meeting and business bulletin that's coming your way in just a few minutes from now here on now let's have a quick look at some other international news this hour the hunger in village of qana has been evacuated due to the threat of a second toxic sludge the weakened will of a nearby reservoir may collapse hungry 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's little sign it's been significantly polluted. and says it will reopen a key border crossing used to transport supplies to nato troops in afghanistan it was closed in protest at nato helicopters killing two pakistani soldiers in an air strike the blockade caused tension with washington and left stranded trucks vulnerable. two attacks in the latest incident suspected taliban militants armed with rockets set fire to around thirty tankers carrying fuel. thirty three chilean miners trapped underground since august to be reached by the drill digging a rescue tunnel now a specially designed capsule will be tested before it starts to bring the men up to the surface one by one these mining minister says it could take anything for 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 the fire was caused by an explosion on the upper deck and officials say tragedy was prevented by the

fact there were several other vessels nearby to help the burning craft. a north korean t.v. is broadcast rare footage of the country's leader kim jong il with his son kim it's widely rumored that the youngest king who is in his twenty's is being groomed to take over as the country's leader kim made his official political debut a week ago when he was given the rank of general and appointed one of north korea's top military commanders. russia norway denmark the u.s. and canada are all nations locked into a race to claim the vast resources horde to sit beneath the arctic region and russian researchers are working as hard as anyone in the far north to support their nation's claim or to use a pattern of trover and 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 break up the fir drip

is the flagship of the northern fleet if their 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 breached is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost a year but. today we are fully confirm the geological outline our relief 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 spec 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 brings

it to our competitors are using 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. rushes in a hurry to collect evidence for its appeal occasion to the un sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with the clays 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 did some say the russians doing in the arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody want and when we should do the arctic belongs to russia they're working in accordance with all international treaties and who will work day and night if necessary. and now the deepwater eco sound will do its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be

installed on a movie. and guess 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 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 exceeding the pressure of r t from the island of visa in the arctic. and you can get the latest on everything we're covering here on screen here and on our website. is a quick look at what's online there right now. due to modernize soyuz rocket has blasted off into space on its way to the international space station to find out about its mission log on to our web site.

also on the web site today not to crack up you can find out why a russian prima ballerina is risque photo shoot proved too much for the in the state on. the temperance update for the moment i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime though we can business with charlotte is coming your way in just a moment stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every

month we give you the future we help 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 us for technology update on our jeep. and i welcome to the business program with me that i was following global finance chase a 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 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. says no domestic solution to global problem even if it is understandable that some individual contrary facing huge capital inflow wants to resist this kind of volatility and source of instability and possible bubbles so i'm not blaming the injuries 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 a system. for europe and all bank officials economic growth in it back in their region because the area is home to many 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. 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 that 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 finance ministers 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 about has the background. when you

have been is known. 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 helped heal you now not everyone can grow their way the whole world can governments are making matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst of paper money china and the leaders in the currency war the us has announced a new round of money printing which drew down its currency internees premier warned that pressure to revalue the yuan would result in social instability and economic disruption in china russia is a spectator in this war its exports of gas and oil price in dollars well the ruble

tends to pull the oil price russian experts. dominated by tradable boards or tradeable manufactured goods in a way they have been a like a morning where the relative competitive advantage of russia is there regardless of the exchange rate more or less so with this respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is of less significance to russia. true countries like china. and the. the risk 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 create a metaphor i think the real pinnacle or cali were among the main losers and had more than ten percent on life that problem was the only game. only r.t.s.

around half a percent. now despite a strong start to the way 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 days 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 of commodity prices and the markets have pulled back i mean overall 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 sell strong 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.