arrived. he's visiting alongside high tech executives to silicon valley with a view to investing. for us right. take us through some of. impressions of this visit according to his tweets anyway. well certainly kerry he seems to be having a good time in russia he did arrive in the first thing that he did was send a tweet to president medvedev where he said i have landed in russia and i can't wait to see president medvedev which point the president responded back in good form with twitter as well saying welcome to russia and i can't wait to see you at skolkovo which is where we are right now which is where the delegation from silicon valley will be coming to tour the facility as well but just shortly thereafter the governor decided to send some pictures via twitter as well one of the twitters him happy driving from the airport with a cigar in hand which is very very short. but then also some very very stunning

photos that have gotten a lot of attention arnold schwarzenegger riding the metro system and showing solidarity with the metro system and talking about his experiences there so so far he seems to be having a good time and arnold schwarzenegger is not just a governor he in fact is an international superstar as well who has won many of the hearts of the people of russia and they have grown up with his movies like terminator and one of them which is right he where he was filmed in eighty seven and eighty eight in new was released in fact during his filming of that movie he was not allowed to film in red square itself so they secretly had to film in a way where one of the interesting bits of russian history and arnold schwarzenegger there but also russia means a lot to arnold schwarzenegger as well in fact there was a specific power lifter who he met when he was younger and he decided he wanted to emulate that man become self be educated as well and these are his words about.

connection to russia. there was a kid i was fifteen years old i was in vienna in one thousand sixty one watching the world weightlifting championships and the russians just destroyed everybody. i mean they just had the most extraordinary lift and there was a guy by the name of your roof last off who was a heavyweight champion and he was jay gandy gk he looked good he was he looked like an intellectual so he had glasses on and they never found out that he was engineer and he was a very well educated man but been tremendous strength and determination and endure and send us this monster guy and said i'm a self that's what i want to do when i grow up. so governor schwarzenegger in his element sharing his stories with the public about his experiences in russia so he

say in his element definitely ulysse hasn't come all this way just to ride the metro and tweet his pictures has. all that is true he is part of a delegation from silicon valley which is a high tech portion of california to help with the development and provide insight into the development of skolkovo here in the outskirts of moscow also he has said that russia is a place for modernization for innovation not just in technology but as well as sports and culture as well and also the possibility of investment of american investment in russia so he's part of a team that is here to assess the situation and also to dmitri medvedev he has a good relationship with the russian president he was in california touring the silicon valley facilities back in june of this year and that's where he sent his first tweet but really it is a business trip as well in fact one of the things that he has talked about is democracy in fact he was a little bit mocking of it this is what he had to say about being surrounded by

democrats. i'm a republican. the democrats have a democratic. idea of a democratic think about this we have a democratic legislature in the assembly and in the senate we have a democratic control and a democratic. you had up until recently a democratic governor a democratic. state and everyone around me. even a night to go to sleep. i go to sleep. but all joking aside he did comment about how russia is a young. and he hopes to help support russia in all of its endeavors while he is here he's also going to be going to know as well as to tour the area there to talk

about business and investment opportunities there as well so an important trip for the governor arnold schwarzenegger while he's here in russia a charismatic visit indeed. thanks very much for that. and we have more on the kind of front to govern this visit in our business update that's around fifty minutes time. now around half of children for adoption in america 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 find a caucasian child and accept a black hole from them to their home going to church you can expect. 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 getting

a child we're just very that was our primary focus we really weren't interested too much in what the child looked like a. 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 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 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 a report here says parents were willing to pay thirty thousand dollars more for a non african-american baby colored blossoms 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.

for them 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. whatever obviously. parents they came to the adoption agency pulled their second. african-american by and large our family is largely irish english german and french canadian you know so smart usually 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. you know we've got to the head few the indian women who lose everything off to the using their husbands. life is not easy on the fringes of society

yet they're all going to visions walking toward them centuries of prejudice to give reduce the chance to live with dignity the struggle faced by millions of indian women abandoned by their families the stigma attached to the deaths of their husbands. the ballots are in focus stones historic parliament poll which international observers have praised as being fair and free. politicians and election watchers say there were violations which could overshadow the next government's attempts to the judge to mars itself in a moment on this kind of brings us the developments in the troubled southern city of orange first and italian overcover 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 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 the parliamentary delegation of observers has proved that the legitimacy of this election is something that still needs some digging to do before claiming that the election was fair the so for not on the record number of twenty nine political parties registered for this election appeared to be natural leaders and that is because most of those parties have rather similar political agendas only five or six of them can make it to the parliament but if the votes are equally divided between the parties that might perhaps weakness a similar parliamentary stalemate here in kyrgyzstan as we have seen any when the country's parliament couldn't form a government coalition. ok well let's turn to the southern city of osh now which witnessed horrific ethnic violence in the summer. that was the situation there as

the county. where we are now is a. city and it's also one of the most unstable reason because you know it. was held in a calm fashion a lot of people were on the streets on sunday and view night was relatively calm as well although i did speak to some of the representatives of the it was very unusual since this ethnic violence was basically called fact that this city is divided into the lose various. ethnic clashes between each other and the local. allegedly many of them. to vote came to the polling stations and couldn't find their need. on the elevator on the list so the very issue still has to be cleared out because we did go bike reviews and bios back at 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 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 possible concerning the locals reaction on the outcome of the vote with andrew mcentee a former european security observer in kc a stone says it's now a question of whether they'll be a fair transition of power somehow and the political culture is 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 just going to fight 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 will marginalize completely those who are supported by if there was an assault on dawson and but can and leaving some instability there these are questions which really have to be to be answered maybe in a week or two years time. or you can get updates on our last stories on our website as well as video reports assistant blogs tell us you can see right now just to take . exclusive follow us on the alleged russian government want to bother us read the documents provided by the white also. russian scientists continue their talk to get additional to collect evidence on the country's claims to nutrition some breakthrough discoveries already in the bag.

a flight carrying the polish president's wife has had to make an emergency landing while she was returning from paying tribute to the previous leader who died in the plane crash in april the aircraft carrying on a come off scott reported engine trouble off the taking off from small hence it and they there around one hundred kilometers away and other routes she had been taking part in commemorations tomorrow plane crash which killed president kaczynski and his wife from dozens of top officials. let's update you now on some other world needs chile's trapped miners are insurance from coast to rescue to expect from wednesday and escape show off has been completed there and then are being given high calorie drinks and to prepare them to be pulled six hundred twenty two meters

to the surface three workers have been stuck underground since the mine collapsed months ago. police in belgrade have clashed with right wing rioters trying to disrupt again cried much like one hundred people are thought to been injured and the police officer is tempted to pull back out again protest it's rotten through homemade explosives as well as damaging cars and buildings it was serbia's first sanctions game watch which is divided really in the country. and the burst reservoir containing toxic sludge in hungary is now on the verge of complete collapse authorities are warning of another deluge just days after waves of rats that swept through several towns killing seven and engine over one hundred by residents of a pen to wait off the grain cracks were spotted in the remaining wall of the storage pool that in a factory. now 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 them cast aside by their own families and granting reports that's pushing some of india's most of a movement in the edge of society. a corpse lies on the streets over in the alley in northern india but no one stopping the dead woman was a good point to carry bad luck even in death in traditional hindu ism when a woman's husband dies she is considered to be a liability for the family the marriage is legally possible but from the party it's a patriarchal 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 you could do what he wants and he deprived a woman from those things hard work 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

darvon and spends her time reading hindu scriptures. and why did i have. i have to complete. the link i gave you. not done 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. my husband died of cancer and used up all those savings and paying fast treatment once he died no one 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 and eighty five in the house and face it's been a long journey for one woman who came here two years ago. most people come to when done because the helpless in the beginning i felt alone and would cry all the time

but slowly every time i just have any light here life is not easy for widows on the fringes of hindu society yet that 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. towns and villages not to abandon them in the first place got in saying r.t. . and then ten minutes time our team reports on the lethal dangerous some of us on the subject ourselves to every day you know why the food we choose can be the killer in the kitchen. forty two thousand americans die each year car accidents will be a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms because five hundred sixty thousand of us here part is easy the more devastating they kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year.

that's hostile to the business desk with staffing. hello and welcome to the business bulletin the governor of california arnold schwarzenegger is in moscow to visit silicon valley's russian namesake in skolkovo he's part of a delegation of venture capitalists and investors taking part in the global in the patient partnership forum which starts on monday the event aims to raise the profile of the government's fractious innovation project. and correspondent daniel bush openings us this update from the fore. 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 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 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 joined intel north korea and siemens have already joined up to the project and we expect more to commit after this visit investors believe russia can boost its high tech sector if it focuses on an original business model not blind imitation. all the countries in the world would like at some point to replicate silicon valley i personally don't think 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 i would imagine. though if these are replicated it should work and in place in the world obviously in russia where this huge talent business r.t. us the money in charge of the scope of a project why russia needs a new scientific innovation when it already has so many universities and science institutes. the main task of school cool is to bring technologies into the market into the russian economy. will be focused on this that's why nobody should think this is an alternative to existing research centers or is just a lot of existing univision projects that we should see follow international gary fowler says that russia's innovation potential is among 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 year and i talk to some of the top venture capitalists in the delegation and they're very very impressed with that. and let's have a quick look at how the active markets are performing european markets are edging slightly higher on monday tracking gains on wall street we could have expected u.s. labor data out on friday has raised hopes that the federal reserve and they further stimulate the u.s. economy. and here in moscow both the russian markets are making gains made session on monday energy names outperforming on the my sex to the left the top again are up two point two percent this hour thanks also in the office five point nine percent higher. global financial negotiators failed to reach agreement over the basement

of currencies at the i.m.f. the new meeting in washington a war of words continued between china and the u.s. each accusing the other of holding its currency down but russia's finance minister said the battle did not impact the rouble. remember there is not yet a currency war going on we are talking only about expectations that currency flows will become more powerful instrument for competition some day to day the clearest examples are usa in china the situation between them is unique but we can't say that there is a similar war in any other part of the world. and you can see a longer version of that interview with alexei kudrin at half past the even hours here on r.t. . at the same washington gathering the president of the bank andre causton said the crisis would forever change the role of emerging markets. one has to accept the changing role all the emerging markets the countries including russia china

brazil india in that in the national the quantum man. they're playing a more and more important role and in the couple of the key probably they will take on the man will surely be larger than the economy. well developed countries. russia topped europe's charts in september for the largest amount of rito construction underway but even though it's a past turkey and france retailers say the size location and number of shops remain inadequate. reports. we've 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 not only about six percent

this market is far from consolidation obviously the regions are more inclined to develop local brands a 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 for the. property specialists say russia needs to build more shopping space for large chains and crack down on disorganised outlets and down door markets but that can go from management development group says rush reason wrong to copy europe . the situation in russia is ridiculous by building endless 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 street outlets and individual merchants only then

will small business be able to thrive. 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 argument for local shops for now out of town shopping centers dominate retail. instruction in russia and it's likely to remain on the top of europe's construction league now going to business sauti. and that's all the business news for this hour but of course you can always find more stories if you log on to our website. slash business.

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is r t let's have a look at the main stories we're covering for you it's part of source and i guarantee president medvedev and swapping some of the greetings as a car for a cover that hits moscow to size up some high tech investments to focus on russia's silicon valley with a view to investing. because the stars vote count is underway as a central asian country that was too much ethnic clashes during the summit chooses its next government position politicians say the election wasn't as fair and free as is being claimed. white american couples who want to adopt a shunning got children to pay thousands of dollars to teaching babies to. the racial prejudice is being planed possible in negative portrayal of of that community in the us media. next autumn he looks into how the food you might think of as nourishment could actually be leading you into the grave you're not

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