you know this is artie broadcasting around the clock a welcome to the program our top story now the ballots are in for kurdistan's historic parliamentary poll which international observers have praised as being fair and free but there are still some doubts among opposition politicians and election watches that there were violations which could overshadow the next government's attempts to the judge to mei's itself in a moment totties evil preschool brings us the developments in the troubled southern city of osh first let's turn it over koval reports from the capital bishkek. some members of the opposition claim that they believe this election was unfair they say that they have seen people here voters being dragged around town from one polling station to another and being forced to vote several times one of the opposition leaders school has. at least three cases have been filed on the matter of

violations that have taken place during the elections and parliamentary delegation of observers has that the legitimacy of this election is something that still needs some digging to do before claiming that the election was fair despite the fact that according to preliminary reports by the international observers here has gone smoothly but russian observers have found violations that should be looked into. for example that has been unusual. among voters here in kyrgyzstan one hour before the ball has ended and washing observers have found that suspicious so for non of the record number of twenty nine political parties registered for this election appear to be natural leaders and that is because most of the parties have rather similar political agendas very. few people here. only

five or six of them can make it to the parliament votes are equally divided between the parties. perhaps weakness a similar parliamentary. form of government. which witnessed horrific violence. that was a situation. where we are now. and it's also more. reason because you know it's a voting was her old. fashioned. not a lot of people were on the streets on sunday and the night was relatively calm as well although i did speak to some of the representatives of the it was very small commission since this as nic violence was basically caused by the fact that the sea

is divided into the was there and he could use population and they had these ethnic clashes between each other and the locals backs told me that allegedly many of them were to vote reporting became to the polling stations and couldn't find the means on the electoral lists so the fact is you still have to be cleared out because we did move by your views and by inspecting nationals and in july there were massive ethnic clashes between the two on gangs walked around the city destroyed businesses and destroyed homes and the violence lasted for several days until the interim government was finally able to take control of the situation mobilizing the army but unfortunately by a bad time hundreds of people were killed and that's according to the most moderate figures and thousands of others were injured and thousands more have to flee their homes and at the moment most of the quarters of the city still remain merely in ruins and are just only beginning to recover now and that's why the situation is

still quite unstable and anything is farcical concerning the locals reaction on the outcome of the vault and you mckenty a former european security observing stand so it's not a question of whether there will be a fair transition of power. somehow in the political culture it's felt that while the power is being taken away from the presidency towards the parliament to get into the parliament nevertheless the prize is the presidency so that's a curious situation the question is will there be a real cultural shift politically and in the way that government is run will be open government will be good governance in the sense of transparency so any potential corruption is then to find or will it be the usual that for example a majority government will be the new regime which has just taken over the transition government and they were marginalized completely those are supported by if there was an associate on dawson and but. leaving some instability there these

are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two as time you know with still ahead feel we report from india's city of withers'. life is not easy for windows on the fringes of hindu society yet there are organizations working to overcome centuries of prejudice to give reduce the chance to live with dignity using their husbands and then abandoned by their families but there's little refuge for these women. around half of children for adoption in america are black their chances of finding a family are remarkably slim compared to white children part of the blame is being put on white couples who would rather spend thousands of dollars to fund the caucasian child and accept a black orphan into their home what is going to chicken explains. people like to emulate their show because i don't speak they don't seem to be following the stars when it comes to adopting children many still see things in black and white color was not an issue with this family when they adopted illinois we were much more

interested in having you know getting a child's words free that was our primary focus we really weren't interested too much with the child. little you know why is one of very few black children in america adopted by a white family a study carried out by a group of economists suggest that african-american babies are five times less likely to be adopted then children have any other race some say one reason for this is misrepresentation of the black community in the media when you see things on television and you often see our children portrayed in a very negative way well that has a connotation for individuals that may be interested in adopting and while we have come a long ways in this country racism is still prevalent sanders says families need to be prepared before they decide to adopt a child of color and once a child goes into african-american child goes into a family that is caucasian that family is no longer caucasian that family becomes

a family of color at that point ok so the whole family dynamic changes it seems not a whole lot of adoptive parents in the u.s. are willing to change their family dynamics most lump their adopted children look more like them and the majority of parents willing to adopt in the united states are caucasian but almost half of the children available for adoption are black the report here says parents were willing to pay thirty thousand dollars more for a non african-american baby. if you look around your table and your guests are all of the same color then you shouldn't be adopting a child of a different color but race doesn't seem to be an issue for thousands of americans who go to china or india to adopt. but when it comes to domestic adoption color makes a difference while there are still signs of prejudice in the american adoption field there is no prejudice in this home a seventeen month old queen was adopted by two moms we've had to face the

challenges that straight people down with this or. for the job they chose to raise their two adopted children in a very ask equally diverse neighborhood are racists and they are here too but i think in other parts of the country it's worse so here people don't even bat an eye . or a black boy you know whatever obviously. parents they came to the adoption agency put their second child african american by and large our family is largely irish english german descent and french canadian you know so smart usually a lot of white people and we need i would prefer a little more color and in our family. going to shut down our washington d.c. . way to get updates on the last story on our web site as well as video reports expert analysis and blokes here's what else you can see at the dot com exclusive

follow us on the alleged notion that dan rather want to publish less documents to be more like also. russian scientists continue to arctic expedition to collect evidence on the country's claims to the polar trigger for some breakthrough discoveries meeting in the bank. president barack obama is losing another key figure with the resignation of his national security adviser general james jones the military veteran of forty years has been pivotal in decision making of the war in afghanistan but it's thought to be angry at not being involved at a high enough level. computer to contribute to believes this signals deep problems

within a bomb as mr. there washington d.c. right now he's under the heavy assault from the water box in the white house also known as the politburo referring to raise and wiser's your u.s. president obama according to bob woodward's of bombers wars allegedly it was because of these words and attributed to general james jones who was pushed out preliminary from his position as a national security adviser however i killed by these semi official excuse for his departure from the inner circle of the decision makers in the white house regarding this after that strategy in fact thought to decision to push out general james jones only refer he is attitude regarding the f.x. strategy in general and he is ambivalence whether it's strategic i'm not regarding the u.s. commitment to afghanistan and pakistan that's number one political challenge for

the white house the current u.s. president he's too much concerned about the inside political wheeling and dealing and not about the challenge host of the u.s. policy in afghanistan and pakistan. that sub they can now and some other news this hour chile's trapped miners are inching closer and closer to rescue which is expected on wednesday escape showoff has been completed down there and given high tide of drinks and medication to prepare them to be pulled six hundred twenty two meat and. three conceptions stuck underground since then and perhaps two months ago . police in belgrade have clashed with right wing riots is trying to disrupt again trying to much one hundred people afford to miss the police offices attempting to hold back today protests and iran says also through homemade explosives as well as damaging tunnels and buildings it was said the is the first

ascension day which is divided in the coming. the burst reservoir containing the toxic sludge in hungary is an example of collapse authorities are warning of another damage just days on the plains of what's already swept through several towns killing seven injuring hundreds by restaurants are prepared to evacuate after great cracks were spotted in the remaining of the storage pool in the factory. while becoming a widow is painful enough but in india it's just the start of the problems they face centuries of male dominated culture is leaving the costa side of it and found its cry and sing reports that's pushing some of india's most vulnerable women to the edge of society. lies on the streets over in dolly northern india but no one stopping the dead women to work to get it bad luck even in death in traditional hindu ism when a woman's husband dies she is considered to be alive pretty for the family the

marriage is legally possible but. it's a patriarchal society and man wanted. to frame it in such a way that everything is to his advantage which has been coming to that he could remarry you could do what he wants and he did pray woman from those things. balance he has nothing left to live for as a widow she was deserted by her extended family so she traveled to the holy city of indaba and spends her dying reading into scripture. and why did i have my family you know i have to complete. the indigo given. not to find. shunned by society sixteen thousand widows stay in this city because it's associated with the hindu god krishna the lover go on whom they believe they are now married to they can be found on the streets with many forced to beg for scraps

of food. and suddenly my husband died of cancer used up all those savings and painful last treatment once he died no one would look after me so i came to bring down the social service organization guided of service runs two homes full griddles in the city yeah one hundred eighty live in the house and fed it's been a long journey for one woman who came here two years ago michael the most people come to her in dublin because the helpless in the beginning i felt alone and would cry all the time but slowly in retirement i just had to my new life here life is not easy for widows on the fringes of hindu society yet they're all going to visions working to overcome centuries of prejudice to give weirdoes a chance to live with dignity the bigger challenge would be convincing families across the us towns and villages not to abandon them in the first place got on scene r.t. . our fifteen minutes time out he reports on the danger some of us on what's any subject ourselves to every day we look at why the food we choose could be the

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yourself and become free. see what nature community. almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. weekend to make changes the society was immediate. families and the odd but it wasn't possible to change the country's regime so quickly and with oh ma. ma on a close only fundamental change is in the state them people's minds want to arm.

hello and welcome to the business program the governor of california arnold schwarzenegger is in moscow to visit silicon valley's russian namesake and skolkovo his part of a delegation of venture capitalists and investors taking part in the global innovation partnership forum which starts on monday the event aims to find a new original business model for the russian high tech sector without imitating the silicon valley. venture capitalist led by the governor of california and i got that coming to moscow to visit its russian namesake and spoke of a believes russia can boost its high tech sector if it focuses on the business model not blind imitation all the countries in the world would like at some point to replicate silicon valley i personally don't thing that silicon valley can the replicated the other elements which work these are good education science centers and to printers of course investors. but always something which puts it all

together and would imagine the. these elements are replicated it should work anyplace in the world obviously in russia with this huge talent. the man in charge of the scope of a project why russia needs a new sense of fit nation when it already has so many universities and science institutes. the main task of school cool is to bring technology into the market into the russian economy and will be focused on this and that's why nobody should this project is an alternative to existing research centers or is just a logical development of existing innovation projects. now let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are forming in the case is closed for a public holiday on monday in hong kong the hang seng is rallying for a sixth straight session reserved for shares are leaving with gains on expectations of further us in on it saying that the russian markets ended friday's session down

for a second day as crude prices fell there also nickel and among that the main indices more than two percent of the my sex that's from was the only game on the r.t.s. . place. and joining me now live for more on the innovation forum is correspondent daniel bushell now. so what can we expect from the visit. well he's back on the short snake in moscow and he's heading a delegation basically a mission some say as tough as any of his blockbuster films to bring a high tech revolution to a country that's considered whose economy is considered backward and a little bit still g. this delegation consists of startups famous companies like google and venture capitalist capitalists these are the people who look for opportunities around the

world to think they can support child season starts alston's technology startups which outperform the mall kids. there are critics of this game nobel prize winner on great game he turned down the opportunity to participate in russia's silicon valley which is doing being built here on the outskirts of mosco he said that this is another top down approach government led and it's storing cash at a situation which really should be baltimore and driven by the startups themselves a perfect person to talk about that would be gary fellow who has twenty five years experience in silicon valley working with startup the head of international gary thanks for joining us first thank you asians of russia as an investment opportunity it's for my my perspective it's a huge growth opportunity if we look at the emerging markets brazil russia india china russia has got the infrastructure now coming in place the technology expertise and the motivation to make it happen and it's just you can feel it inside

to change in the right i mean but it is government led to silicon valley this being built silicon valley than the original was you know sort of baltimore that's that's not a concern for you well the good news is you know you look at it from silicon valley we're starting garages and some work and valley but here the beauty is there's an infrastructure in place to be able to protect it to get it started it's an incubator if you will and i mean the question. that you're obviously here for you must expect a better return. then you can get in the us what sort of returns can we average in the us silicon valley almost all the returns can you expect here well if you look at you look at moscow and we just look around at the the infrastructure here place the cars that are here what we see is more potential in russia than any other place on the planet quantifiably there's an exact number but there's just a feeling that's here and i talked to some of the top than your capitals in the

delegation and they're very very impressed with this very fellow follow international thank you very much indeed consultants they helped to bring russian and american investors in companies together all the schwarzenegger is meeting investors and russian ministers here behind me in the exclusive ritz carlton hotel in moscow at the moment he's sort of giving them some tips and advice on what they can do and later he'll be going out to skolkovo to the start up the silicon valley being built on the outskirts of moscow so stay with us throughout the day. thank you very much standing i will be joining donna for more on the innovation forum the throughout the day. financial leaders from all over the world gathered in washington d.c. over the weekend for the annual international monetary fund and while bank meetings basting the global economy was the main focus and speaking exclusively with the president of the t.d. bank andrey kostin explained the ruthless position and the current seawalls. russia

is not that it can wall in this kind of conflict you know rush from the exchange rate is based on the completely market principles and i think the important conclusion from these three be that russia should develop. at the national current for more and more particularly in a trade with. trade with the. emerging market the core them is i think the thought that russia should do i think that's what we started to do but we should be dubbed this process russia talked to europe charts in september for the largest amount of retail construction underway but even though it's supposed fronts we tell us say the size location and number of shops remains inadequate clover reports. we dozens of shopping centers constructed in the past decade you might think russia is well stocked with retail outlets but you'd be wrong big retail

chains are poorly represented across the country and small retailers what americans call mom and pop stores struggled to find shop space. the share of big players in various sectors of retail is now only about six percent this market is far from consolidation obviously the regions are more inclined to develop local brands and large retailers have more power for buying and promotion so i think up to seventy percent of all trade will be in the hands of big companies within the next seven years. property specialists say russia needs to build shopping space for large chains and crack down on disorganized outlets and down door markets. from management development group says rush research wrong to copy europe. the situation in russia ridiculous build an endless mall and we're not meeting demand just because our country is fundamentally different we have a large distances and lacks trading spaces and residue. areas but nobody seems to

care about that building more roads and hypermarkets is more profitable and it's easier but we need a diversified retail market with street our individual merchants only then will small business be able to thrive. as a. third of russia's g.d.p. passes across the shop counter last year the country's trade turnover broached five hundred billion dollars half of that is spent on food and other argument for local shops for now out of town shopping centers dominate retail construction in russia and it's likely to remain at the top of europe's construction league. business r.t. and that's all the business news for the south but of course you can always find with stories if you look on twelve website that's slash business.

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