using the micro-blogging site of the california governor arrived in moscow he's visiting alongside high tech executives to look at russia's silicon valley with a view to investing and schwarzenegger has been talking to them this morning auntie's childness father was there. as soon as he landed here in moscow the first person to address him was president of a degree welcome to via twitter as you just said welcome to moscow. or was very happy to be hazy he's very pleased to be back in moscow he has been here loss of time throughout his life and his career as a sportsman is nothing he is a film star now is the governor of california and so he's very happy to be here there was lots of pictures of him smoking a cigar very enthusiastic and also rowing. and so we did hear from him a little earlier on he does seem very happy to be once again back in moscow we have to remember that also he's very warmly welcomed not only by the delegates doing business but also most a fun small state people he was one so you know i move east on a symbol of freedom

a symbol of americans when he was talking to the delegation here and just saying that russia holds extraordinary potential for doing business not only in terms of innovation on the much talked about hope possible silicon valley that is still to the project outside of most states but also in terms of cars and also in terms of food and sports and that is a worn area at the even sports area here in moscow that he has very fond memories of now was a kid when i was fifteen years old i was in vienna. in sixty one watching the world weightlifting championships and the russians just destroyed everybody i mean they just said the most extraordinary lived and there was a guy by the name of yuri flash off who was heavyweight champion and he was big he looked good he was he looked like an intellectual so you had glasses

found there found out that he was an engineer and he was a very well educated man but tremendous strength and determination and endure and send us this monster guy. that's what i want to do when they grow up say the prime focus of the governor of california arnold schwarzenegger is visit to moscow is to do business and he does seem incredibly enthusiastic about doing that. and that we'll have more my california governor's visit in our business update around fifteen minutes time the ballots arin focused on historic parliamentary poll which international observers have praised as being fair and free but opposition politicians on election watchers say there were violations which could overshadow the next government's attempts to be due to my eyes itself and my mentality of office can often brings us to developments in the troubled southern city of los first time in over cover ports 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. 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 russian 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 there has been an unusual splash of activity among voters here in kyrgyzstan one hour before the. observers have found that suspicious so far

none of the record number of twenty nine political parties registered for this election appeared to be natural leaders and that is because most of the parties have rather similar political agendas very. few people here. party to vote for now only five or six of them can make it to the parliament. are equally divided between the parties. perhaps weakness a similar parliamentary. as we have seen. parliament could form a government coalition. which witnessed horrific ethnic violence. that was a situation. where we are now. and it's also the most reason. the voting was held in

the home fashion. 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 week violence was basically caused by the fact that the sea is divided into the various and the kookiest population and they had these ethnic clashes between each other and the local was vexed me that allegedly many of them were going to vote the king to the point stations and couldn't find the means on the eligible list so the very issue still has to be cleared out because all we did was by your years and by it was back nationals and in july there were massive ethnic clashes between the two on gangs walked around the city destroying businesses and destroying 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 modest

figures and thousands of others were injured and thousands more had to flee their homes and at the moment most of the quarters of the city still remain nearly in ruins and are just only beginning to recover now and that's why the situation is still quite unstable and anything is possible concerning the locals reaction on the outcome of the vote one hundred they can form a european security observer in case donna says it's not a question of whether they'll 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 it be open government will it be good governance in the sense of transparency so any potential corruption is going to find or will it be the usual that for example

majority government will be the new regime which has just taken over the transition government and they were marginalized completely those who are supported by those in the south or on dawson and but can leaving some instability there these are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two is time on. your way dotty are still ahead for you the indian women who lose everything after losing their husbands. life is not easy for windows on the fringes of society yet there are organizations working to overcome centuries of prejudice to give weirdos a chance to live with dignity the struggle faced by millions of indian women abandoned by their families because of the stigma attached to it it's. around half of children up for adoption in america are black yet their chance to find their 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 find

a caucasian child and accept a black orphan into their home or not is going to chicken explains. people like to emulate their showbiz i don't speak bay 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 in what the child what kind of. 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 of 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 sandra 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 want their adopted children to 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 wasn't even 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 seventeen month old queen was adopted by two moms we've had to face the challenges that. we just were. up for the job they chose to raise their two adopted children in a very ask equally diverse neighborhood of 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 so african american by and large our family is largely irish english german and french canadian you know so smart additionally

a lot of white people and we need i would prefer a little more color in our family. going to shut down our washington d.c. where you can get this know your thoughts on the issues raised in that report you can do that dot com and so i'm going to do all the reports and announce including. you see files on the alleged russian government want to bring us the documents provided by two groups one. russian scientists continue to get position to collect evidence on countries that claims to treasure some breakthrough discoveries are already in the bag. president 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 over the war in afghanistan but it's thought to be angry at not being involved with a high enough level. military contributor to the news this signals deep problems within the bombs in history. there washington d.c. right now he's on do they have it assault from the water box in the white house also known as the politburo referring to a civilian advisers to us president obama according to bob woodward's obama's 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 don't buy these semi a free show excuse for his departure from the inner circle of the decision makers in the white house regarding the f.x. traders in fact thought the decision to push out general james jones only refer

to it regarding the af back strategy in general and his ambivalence where the strategic are not regarding the u.s. commitment to afghanistan and pakistan that's number one political challenge for the white house the current us president is 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. a flight carrying the polish president's wife has had to make in the mission city landing returning from paying tribute to the previously the who died in the plane crash in april baker of carrying on a comrade reported engine trouble taking off from smolensk than that around the hundred kilometers away. she'd been taking part in communications to mark thank raf like him present the chance to be his wife and dozens of top officials. let's

update you now on some of the world needs this hour chile's trapped miners on which includes from coast to rescue which is expected them wednesday and a skate shop has been completed and then you can write kind of drinks and medication to prepare them to be six hundred twenty two meters. thirty three with up and stuff. on the ground since the mine collapse two months ago. police in belgrade have crashed with right wing rioters trying to disrupt a gay pride march over a hundred people for to be injured most of us officers tentacle back again protesters rotters also threw homemade explosives as well as damaging cars and buildings it was so obvious first sanction of the day which was divided many countries. on the burst reservoir containing toxic sludge and hungry is now on the verge of complete collapse authorities are warning of another deluge just days after the waves of red slowly swept through several towns in seven

injured over one hundred five residents of apparent evacuated after writing cracks were spotted in the remaining wall of the storage pool that the factory. becoming over there is painful enough but in india it's just the start of the problems they face centuries of male dominated culture is leaving them cost assigned by their families and charan singh reports that's pushing some of india's most of the women on the edge of society. a corpse lies on the streets over in the only northern india but no one stopping the dead woman was a brutal point to carry bad luck even in death in traditional hindu wisdom when a woman's husband dies she is considered to be a liability for the family the marriage is legally possible but from the pond it's superior society and man wanted some of the to frame it in such a way that everything is to his advantage which has been coming to that he could

remarry he could do what he wants and he did pray woman from those things are great balance feels she has nothing left to live for as a widow she was deserted by her extended family so she traveled to the holy city of darwin and spends her time reading hindu scriptures. i have new family i have to complete my life. that's fine if not don't so she's fine. 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. that look and sound and my husband died of cancer they used up all osei vincent paying for his treatment once he died nobody would look after me so i came to rid of him the social service organization guided of service runs two homes for

windows in the city yeah one hundred eighty of them in the house and fed it's been a long journey for one woman who came here two years ago. most people come to when done because they're helpless in the beginning i felt alone and would cry all the time but slowly every time i just had to my new life here life is not easy for weirdos 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 u.s. thousand villages not to abandon them in the first place got in saying r.t. new delhi. just over an hour's time r.t. reports one of the food dangerous some of us on which the subject ourselves to be every day we look at why the food we choose can be the killer in the kitchen. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill

themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us a year part is easy the more devastating they kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. basis he's a staffer he's up next. hello and welcome to the business bulletin global financial leaders gathered in washington d.c. at the weekend for the annual meeting of the i.m.f. president of the bank andrey kostin explained how the so-called currency was impacting the group. russia's not that it can walk in this kind of conflict you know russian exchange rate is based on a completely market principles and i think the important conclusion from these

should be that russia should develop. at the national conference for more and more particularly in the trade. trade with. emerging market economies i think that's what russia should do i think that's what we started to do but we should speed up this process the governor of california arnold schwarzenegger is in moscow to visit silicon valley's russian namesake and skolkovo he's 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 raise the profile of the government's flagship innovation project investors believe russia can boost its high tech sector if it focuses on a new original business model not blind imitation all the countries in the world would like at some point to replicate silicon to our i personally don't thing that silicon valley can the replicated the other elements which work. are good education

science centers entrepreneurs of course investors and capital is something which puts it all together and i would imagine that. if these elements are replicated it should work anyplace in the world obviously in russia where this huge talent. business r.t. asked the man in charge of the scope of the project why russia needs a new center for innovation when it already has so many universities and science institutes. main task of school is to bring technologies into the market and into the russian economy and our efforts will be focused on this that's why nobody should think that this project is an alternative to existing research centers or is just a logical development of existing innovation projects. and say you know a follow international gary fowler says that russia's innovation potential is one

of the best in the world. if you look at moscow and we just look around at the the infrastructure here the cars that are here what we see is more potential in russia than any other place on the planet quantifiably there's a very exact number but there's just a feeling that she and i talked to some of the top venture capitalists in the delegation and they're very very impressed with this. and that take a look at how the two markets the nikkei is closed for a public holiday on monday in hong kong the hang seng rally to a six straight session these are. the gains on expectations of the us. and european markets a flat to positive in the early trade on monday that tracking gains on wall street weaker than expected u.s. labor data out on friday has raised hopes that the federal reserve may further stimulate the u.s. economy. and here in moscow both russian markets are making gains amid session on

monday and outperforming on the my sex with the top karina up two and a quarter percent this. moving one percent. russia top two europe's charts in september for the largest amount of retail construction on the way but even though it's a pos turkey and france retailers say the size location and number of shops remain inadequate the 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 . to the share of big players in various sectors of retail is now about six percent this market is far from consolidation obviously the regions are more inclined to

develop local brands larger. tailors 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 for those. properties specialists say russia needs to build more shopping space for large chains and crack down on disorganised outlets and down to zero markets but that can come from management development group says rush respond to copy europe. so the situation in russia is ridiculous right building and less morals when not meeting demand because our country is fundamentally different we have a large distances and lack of trading space in residential 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 st ives and individual merchants only then will small business be able to thrive. as that you're. a third of russia's g.d.p.

passes across the shop counter last year the country's trade turnover approached five hundred billion dollars half of that is spent on food and other arguments for local shops are 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 and then a couple of up business r.t. . and now back to our top of business story what it was at the innovation for brings us this update. first thing they get did when he arrived into russia was just sweets roses leader dmitry medvedev to say how excited he is to be in the country it was all very symbolic as california's governor is in town to help transform russia's economy into a center of world innovation so the power of one day is also a country a world leading brands such as twitter the head of the u.s. chamber of commerce here believes it can happen this high tech developments that

you may not call r. and d. but that have been and can be incremental improvements on current business processes and technology and american companies can bring a lot to that they can work with russian companies will also make contributions so in addition to the kind of r. and d. we're looking for the big breakthrough in five years or ten years is also the very important aspect of modernizing the economy right now the incremental improvement that will make russia much more efficient on his ball with him dozens of silicon valley startups and venture capitalists and they've been inside the groups call to the hotel here telling russian ministers how the silicon valley being built on the outskirts of russia's capital can succeed we spoke to one such investor i think the biggest. the biggest hurdle for russia is not going to be the infrastructure or the availability of great scientists i think it's going to be the ability to create an

entrepreneurship and innovation culture which means that the government needs to provide the infrastructure but then get out of the way and let the people create these opportunities and really not be hindered you know in terms of not having infrastructure but there has been to see skolkovo where russia silicon valley is being built technology joints intel north korea and siemens have already joined up to the project and we expect more to commit after this visit. as also the business news of this hour but of course you can always find the stories if you log on to our website that's our last basis.

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this is our main stories we're covering this hour. president of harvard swapping cyber greetings as a cover for new. signs up some high tech investment and focus on russia's silicon valley with a view to investing. counties on the way a central asian country that was owned by ethnic clashes during the summer chooses its next government opposition politicians think the election wasn't as fair and free as being claimed. white american couples who want or don't shunning children. to a thousands of dollars to a patient brains to death threatens the racial prejudice is being blamed on the negative portrayal of that in the us media. next talk to russia's finance minister as the country takes

a step nearer to joining the world trade organization.