campaigning is over and ahead of sunday's final 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. amongst the names i would be surprised. plus the kickbacks rocketeer in 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 the twenty four hours a day security is being stepped off and campaigning is now a big stand ahead of sunday's elections the vote will create central issues first parliamentary democracy. reports 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 salan 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 specially in the capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the entire

country in a state of chaos people who are protesting policies which went to people living in poverty and fields 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 this 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 of all

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 the new parliament won't be as effective apart from political unrest there just on there's also been suffering from ethnic violence in june. there were deadly ethnic clashes here in the city of course where we are now which is populated by. 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 we fragile here in the south of the country and in fact at the moment many 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 then to vote for any

politician despite this the authorities are still calling for the people to go to the polling stations to take in this election promising that it will provide the 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. the battle to become the new mayor of moscow is down to the final four united russia party has handed the list of contenders two percent of who now have to decide who leads the russian capital in the future as the details. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party t. president. on that list includes the deputy prime minister. now he's considered a strong front of 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 have now he actually spent ten. deputy up until two thousand and five and to nine hundred ninety six when i was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice was we did 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 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 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 who ever will become the new. i think all four candidates are perfectly capable of becoming mayor of moscow the city's leader and be responsible for upholding the quality of life. issues carrying on the policies in effect and to dealing with future challenges the capital demands a series of new solutions which we will discuss with the new mayor. one of the main challenge. is it going to be reforms now muscovites going to be taping at the some of the social programs initiated. this call that will be made things such as we travel on the must pay much attention is a benefit to teachers but there are certainly many issues that they need that will

still be attempting to result issues such as police in and of course the constant headache muscovites which is the traffic. that's an ongoing that will be some of the issues facing now another major key role that they 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 full the dismissal the need not have around 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 from the muscovite party going to be hoping that he whether select it will have the same sources sway with the public ahead of the elections that. surface reporting that will still to come in the program 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. but first the georgian president has proposed a new constitution that's supposed to put the country and of course towards becoming a european style democracy with many business. version of people's rule is that olds with their experience and he has met entrepreneurs who claim corruption 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 getting all his an issue really still fears for his life he says in two thousand and seven he was approached by government agents who claimed he used illegal schemes to purchase

the baths allegedly through the use of threats the officials forced the man to give up his business going to court says get a goal was not an option. they said that they know where my son's school is and they could say tomorrow and bust him for drug possession but he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay the market you're going to be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything to need my business to this day. immediately after seizing the property of the government solved 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 this alien 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 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 illegal 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 chile observer to power through 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 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 to corruption free to me to go 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. well plenty more ahead for you here on our team including pygmy to the rescue. is not on a mission to save people he's a latvian superhero squealing litterbugs and making sure the country's forests stay clean. the first russian norway denmark the u.s. and canada all nations locked into

a race to claim the vast untapped resources thought to sit beneath the arctic region and russian research is a working as hard as anyone in the far north to support the nation's claim. over 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 dock with their colleagues on board the academic icebreaker the fur drip is the flagship of the northern fleet of your chill floating lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the believe that the man also 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 or a leaf at the bottom of the loss of bridge 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 it cannot measure. the principle of our competitors are using the similar equipment the american icebreaker healy for example works with the same. it is convenient to analyze and compare collected by the same standards. russia is in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with its 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 during an arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia we want. in accordance with international treaties and who will work day and night if necessary. and 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 of ostend embassy in popular image a nation but it is that stimulated that it contains a quarter of the world's untapped falso fuels flotsam gold diamonds and other precious metals around sixty percent of total arctic 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 its in the pressure of r t from

the island of visa in the arctic. when are some other international news here in r.t. the village of holland has been evacuated due to the threat of a second deluge of toxic sludge it's feared we can all 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 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 it was closed in protest at nato helicopters killing two pakistani soldiers in an airstrike the ten day blockade caused tension with washington and left stranded trucks vulnerable to attacks and the latest incident suspected taliban militants armed with rockets to set fire to around thirty tankers carrying fuel. thirty three chilled chilean miners trapped underground since august have been 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 chile's 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 in the waning ferry off the coast of germany several people were injured some of them taken to hospital by helicopter the fire was caused by an explosion on the upper deck i should say a tragedy was prevented by the fact there were several other vessels nearby to help but cry. also i want update this hour north korean t.v. is broadcast rare footage of the country's leader kim jung il with his son kim yong room it's widely rumored that the youngest kim who's in his twenty's is being groomed to take over as the country's leader he made his official political debut a week ago when he was given the rank of general and the pointed one of north korea's top military commanders. on

a mission to protect levin forrest from those who act like swine's his identity are known he's judy find that letter bugs and exact revenge ortiz talk barton went to meet a twenty first century superhero who was 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 sansar 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'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 will with her in the forest he will turn into a pig and he's not just how mean it up this old boer isn't all on. board 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 black 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 pigments 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 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. very the world has for

superheroes superman batman spider-man and the like the ensuite. 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 forests i promise meaning that if you're planning to litter you might reach more than you sound big 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. can't think of any more pig puns for you know by the way to get to the latest on everything we're covering here at our website that's on t.v. dot com here's a quick look at what's on the line for you right now. a new. rocket has blasted off into space on its way to the international space station to find

out about its mission simply log onto our web site. also the site cracker to cracker find out why a russian risk a photo shoot proved too much for the state all but. i'll be back with a look at our main stories in less than ten minutes from now in the meantime it's the weekend edition of the business news with charlotte. hello welcome to the business program with me that i was following global finance cheese's struggle to find a solution to difference is a very strange writes warning that's a currency war could home 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 column treat facing huge capital inflow wants to resist this current of volatility and source of instability and possible bubbles so i'm not blaming ground rules 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 a system. for europe and all bank officials in the economic growth and back in their region because the area is home to many large young economies is going to be a recovery. country director for russia explained to our why russia has better prospects than many other developing economies. russia went into the crisis with a very strong fiscal position very large you know. it had reduced its debt to g.d.p. ratios so russia is a good risk if you think about it when you know exact number it's the law. percent of g.d.p. is that that stock probably. you did have a large project but you know the crisis has absorbed at this point so there's more reassurances that private russian companies can be to 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 minutes as it 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 seen item and fed of a has the background. then you have been is not mines it's the economic equivalent of nepal predicts a goodly waist to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage let's cue 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 helps heal you now not every one of the pros outweigh 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. dominated by tradeable votes were traded on effect or goods anyway they had them in a micro morning where the relative competitive advantage over russia is. where regardless of the moral lapse or with respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is over or less significance to rush. through the country. and the. issue in the east for the coming year is that current two wars global

growth. business are cheap. russian markets closed on friday down for a second day is curried a metaphor i think the real pinnacle or carly were among the main losers and shared more than two percent of the mice 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 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 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 because of the weak 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 can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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