often extraordinary rhetoric but also frees quite exuberant and also teaches behavior singing dancing what have you he's always all there making making a scene or causing a ruckus always in the center of attention so you have these two countries which a lot of political analysts to see as heading the pack which are going to upset the current political establishment in the world political powers and of course that cannot please the west's all too much so you know having said that our what are the two what are russians are going to discuss during this two day visit other than his own visit to moscow while a lot of things are actually first and foremost russian made as well or are they working on establishing a russian as well and bank that idea has been based in two thousand and eight when the world was trying to get out of the economic crisis and moscow and caracas have to up with their own way of dealing with that issue of course also cooperation in the nuclear spear in this sphere of military cooperation there russia's been selling in israel of planes tanks and also other military equipment also russia

has volunteered to will conduct an extensive social establishment program in that in israel and for the low income families building not only housing but schools and a social system as he's as well so all of the is on the table for them is all the presidents and what the russian president as well but today you can go to this is going to take a little bit easier he's going to real lecture in the afternoon and most do and then head over the informal dinner with the russian president dmitry medvedev leader in leave the arena you know why the sense of venezuela is a socialist states but he's keen to promote that it's actually a new kind of democracy because it actually mean by that. well you have to understand venezuela is a known as for. like i said for the leader of who is always making a ruckus and is being closely critiques of why the west is securely why the good night. stays for saying guys this is essentially a dictator but let's have

a listen let's have a look at a report which will explain that maybe what a lot of countries in the west in particular see as a dictatorship or socialism is in fact the purest form of democracy that exists in today's political world. welcome to democracy one o one style. there is a people's revolution underway here what is indisputable is that it never would have happened without this man coming to power the figure larger than life at times as president. the idea that social reforms prioritize the country's majority poor activated participatory democracy in this country. a system which invites the poor not just to vote but to get involved in the political process itself supporters of this process or the president are known simply and perhaps more vaguely as. in the wealthy neighborhoods it's called communism. but in the slums it has

a very different meaning far away from the businesses the malls in the fancy hotels in the inner city or the slums of caracas this is a loved one of the hundreds in the country the concept here come from the bill a very in revolution it was introduced to them by president chavez the idea of participatory democracy happened here in las vegas of the community leader isn't president chavez it's freddie mendoza here during more than thirty five years we've been fighting achieving improvements to our condition of living he is the guidance for the community decisions these are the policy makers of those decisions they are schoolteachers and bank tellers and the unemployed regardless of who you are or what you do for a living everyone has an equal say in how this part of the body oh is governed it doesn't matter if it's in the middle of the night or raining whatever time it is the communal council is present and available for all of the neighbors of the cabinet that are negative. for cultural activities for sickness for whatever's

needed for the windows i says there's not much funding coming from the government but if you walk into most homes here you'll see a photo of the president it's mainly what he symbolizes not what he represents chavez as a human he may make mistakes but as a people as a person who cares for other people who are around who are people and what he symbolizes is a people's first agenda these projects here don't have anything to do with party they're actually government funded over here you have an internet section where people can actually come and use the internet for free and just over here is the supermarket has the subsidized food it's another project or one of the missions of the chavez government there's also a number of clinics around this area most adopters are funky but the food at this government supermarket is heavily subsidized compared to regular supermarkets cheap food is also accompanied by cheap resources the nationalization of the country's

oil supply has given them a small and cheaper gas than water even transportation it's truly a spectacular view for the two thousand residents who commute from the st augustine buddy goes at the top of this mountain down into the city daily it's a subsidized transportation project implemented by the top of the experiment and it's often referred to it's free to ride that's helping the poor tremendously and the city back in the vaguer the people describe how the revolutionary process has given them a new opportunity when we go back up and as we were filming those benefits some became quickly suspicious of our presence do you want to know what's going on well the thing is we want to know why you're filming because if you guys are from the cia and then you'll send it to them they're in the north american empire right now we're trying to film these government funded projects that a lot of the people here are a paranoid of the media and because we're coming from the states they're saying that where the state affiliate in the u.s. that we're running mainstream probably mainstream propaganda that's shining the chavez government in a bad light but we're actually here for the show. the government is funding all

these projects that are beneficial for the people to understand why this mission of the united states runs so deep that one must travel back to the. jan hunter's could not because venezuela. still ahead for this we take you to a place of historical greatness and power that still draw for the crowds. joy and peace closeups meaning and the ancient russian city that sweetness to some of the countries where these debates it is now a haven. for getting to the top in u.s. politics can be tough enough especially if you're a woman but aside from nancy pelosi and harry clinton some of the next crop popping accused of swing voters with emotional fear campaigns and snazzy p.r. is going to check on reports that's especially true of one republican rising star who's also raising eyebrows. it to

christine o'donnell a republican nominee for senate just weeks to become a household name in america among her credentials she campaigned against masturbation you're going to be pleasing each other and if he already knows what pleases a man he can please himself then why am i in the picture she even preached abstinence the sad reality to tell going to slag off. x. yeah yeah i'm a young woman in my thirty's and i remain chaste right and there was a time the chaste woman even said she would try the dark arts tablet in which some would argue she blurted it out ages ago and it's no longer valid so where is she standing now when running for a seat previously held by vice president joe biden i'm not aware. i'm nothing you've heard i'm you but i'm going to hear many say christine uses

the same tools as her fellow mama grizzly sarah pailin the most effective of which is stalking fears and experiences to see that our country is going rogue p.r. experts say experience has little to do with becoming a media darling in america all you have to know is how to push the right buttons the people make the decisions not on principles but. on emotions and when you know how to manipulate emotions you can get even the worst candidates the most preposterous candidates but the media genic women seem to be especially good at fears and steering emotions in this election season meet sharon angle a woman who came from nowhere to become a republican frontrunner for senate among her wishes to take the united states out of the un phase out social security and shut down the tax service although few believe that these candidates will gain actual political. how work but what if

we're going to see a lot more anger and also less effectiveness in the congress that that is not able to do what it needs to get done we're not going to do anything too crazy that we won't be allowed to some blame the media for giving so much coverage to candidates whose qualification is questionable the american media is so screwed up on matters of substance and so ready they're to do the flashy the superficial they love the quick quote from the pretty face yet what the real power for women is actually the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and the secretary of state hillary clinton they do the real work and have the real power even if the pretty faces don't get political power they are popular enough to raise issues and affect politics now is the time when many americans are disappointed at washington for not delivering on promises women are generally good at expressing their disappointment they're even more successful when they do it in a nice red suit with snappy quotes and

a big smile on their face for now these women with their lack of qualifications seem to be a laughing matter in the political arena but there is the big question who will have the last laugh come november. into like our t. washington d.c. . when the news is updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com has water swelling up for you today obama's going knows best and there's no soviet come back more on moscow's response to claims that russians are trying to storm gets him from. taking the fight against drugs too far in the background story to the jailing of a controversial russian drug rehab center chief kidnaping trying to get it out he don't come right.

here. millions of americans are unemployed and the national debt is soaring but wall street bankers still believe they deserve to be paid a record high a hundred forty four billion dollars in bonuses this year well trained for cost seventy says people are staying quiet because the finance is fanbase in the mainstream media is distracting the crowd. you have a complete disconnect here going on between these white shoe boys with their one hundred forty four billion dollars and the rest of the country and that's why the people are there kind of numb about this when you break this number down we're talking about one hundred forty four billion dollars that would rank number forty nine in the g.d.p. he of the world's contraries of one hundred and ninety four contrie so it's

the maybe stream media that keeps sucking up to these to these greedy pigs that tempers the people down from taking to the streets rather than chastising them they just wink and smile and say next in the news we're saving those people in chile while the wall street wand comes out massive bonuses max keiser and stacy herbert relates to whether it really is some kind of magic that's needed to save the u.s. economy. greenspan says us creating scary deficit as borrowing rises borrowing just bit like he acts like it is the public doing these bankers his cronies his friends yeah again this is the ideology of a psychopath and we need witches and government to break the spell of the economics is exactly right christine o'donnell should play up that she's away and not try to

distance herself that she's away from her witchcraft past. the u.s. is losing another key support in afghanistan after italy announced plans to pull out of the campaign italian foreign minister says the withdrawal will start next summer and should be completed by two thousand and fourteen comes off the dutch troops left in august one of that decided it will without next yeah if they contributed more than three thousand soldiers to understand twenty thousand strong . decisions just for korean soldiers were killed. at a start u.s. meanwhile isn't using it. in the troops and ground. the project says it will ease with noise because it doesn't want to means soldiers

. during the last nine years of the campaign that hasn't been a real serious effort to address the issues in a coherent strategic fashion i think in the last few months we've seen much more of a serious attempt to mean just the most recent troops arrive the full amount of troops on the quote unquote as we refer to as a surge is only right of the summer so it's going to take time before you start seeing any results is going to take about twelve to eighteen months but obviously you have to understand that it's important to understand the domestic politics in each of the member states some a similar some a difference and in the case of italy for example me last year a group of italian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in september of two thousand and nine there was an uproar from the political establishment will complete the messages coming from different ministries from the opposition and then within a week after there was more of a coherent response it's really obviously they're saying they'll begin a process in two thousand and eleven that will conclude in twenty fourteen but

between now and then anything can happen and in that sense i think it's more of the placate the domestic situation the domestic response in the country to the last killing of the soldiers last week. now to some other big international stories and starting in northern chile where the miners all deal it's funny over the shift supervisor was the last to be freed in the twenty four hour operation to bring the models to the surface after more than two months trapped on the ground of the mine and collapsed due to work for thirty three minutes safely and in much better physical condition hardly expected this treating our checks or has very high and rescue workers are also being looked down on the stage for the mine to be closed. iran's president is in lebanon touting his country's efforts to help rebuild the starvation off the two thousand and six war with israel but it's feared that's mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit will inflame the already tense relations in the. u.s.

backed groups on rainy and so forth has been our president to preserve religious preferences border israel seen as being provocative. pakistani officials say u.s. drone attack has killed at least eight militants near the border with afghanistan the strikes targeted a house and cars in the north waziristan province for the dead were reported to be foreigners from the central asian states of ston is based on is the latest in a series of u.s. operations in pakistan targeting taliban and al qaeda insurgents. let's take time out now to show you more of what the world's largest country has to offer as we look at russia close up.

is this time we travel to have a leaky novgorod which is over five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow is one of the country's most ancient cities with over and then human history of the world is also and that's the place where russia's first democracy emerged it's seen its fair share of boom times and bloodshed as you go on their expense. each year they gather in the small city of novgorod to celebrate the past at a time when novgorod was the capital of a trading empire that spans from finland today edge of siberia for they from the start that the worst of it you know we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity your money people are forgotten but we are keeping the memory alive. russia's all the slavic city not god was founded more than a thousand years ago centuries before st petersburg it became russia's gateway to the west numbered fill the whole of europe with furs and candle what becoming one of the most prosperous cities on the continent once upon

a time this was not just the heart of a powerful trading republic but possibly the birthplace of russia's democracy. at the sound of a bell the city population assembled on the main square there they voted on the most important issues facing the republic a new ruler was elected after an old one died each part of the city had its own self government and military commanders were invited from neighboring states and at the version with which the poem that no grown up was a glimpse of what an ancient russian might have been like that instead of authoritarianism it could have been freedom and democracy. but it was not to be moscow princes keen to get their hands on its riches subjugated the city and even come to the way the somebody in fifteen seventeen number became the setting for one of the bloodiest chapters in russia's history we won because they were going when

ivan the terrible came for a visit a feast was laid out for him then just as the guests were getting drunk he suddenly got up and banged his staff on the floor that was a signal for his henchmen to round up the citizens of no command and begin torturing them for two weeks a thousand people were killed every day the legend says a river is reddish in color because of all the blood that spilled into. political power st petersburg its economic significance and later the soviets desecrated its religious symbols for building a bridge as. that is the biggest tragedy before world war two the soviet authorities melted down most of the enormous bells whose unique peel charm across the city from saints a fierce cathedral oldest church. passionately that it might one day return. we have all the blueprints if only we had the money we could rebuild them exactly as they were my only dream in life is so here's and so here's bells

ringing out over the city again. the whole city has to be happy with what he. hopes of the rebirth glories. of the number of. in ten minutes time fasten your seatbelts has we hear from russia's high flying female air about champion. the business news and stephanie. hello and welcome to the business program russia's central bank says it will allow for a more volatile ruble after widening the trading bond against the us dollar and the euro it broaden the range by fifty copecks in each direction it gives the ruble to maneuver before the central bank intervenes the central biceps he had says the trade imbalance was needed as there is no inflation targeting he said the move will

reduce the risk of speculative inflows of hot money. and if the currency rate moves gradually from targeted to to free floating investors will have a harder time predicting. the. investment into the currency markets decrease. the key southern route for gas to europe took another step forward on wednesday guys from c.e.o. travel to remain near where he said a government level agreement could be signed early next year already on board the south stream project serbia hungary greece slovenia croatia and austria alexei miller also announced that the two parties have agreed to proceed to the next stage of possible cooperation. we came to be agreement with a group of experts who comes right maybe a carrier prepared to understand whether we have mutual interests in this area after that the experts will make a report at a cool level and if we can cooperate we'll discuss it management level we see the

potential for it ration in the spear and we do have interest in. russia and the e.u. could work together to modernize ukraine's gas transit system the french ambassador to ukraine told interviewers on wednesday that the proposal is on the negotiating table ukraine's already agreed to work with its neighbors but the ambassador says they still want russia's opinion russia provides about a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the european union most of which currently travels through ukraine the value of russia's international reserves has now passed five hundred billion dollars it's the first time in two years that russia's gold on foreign currency reserves was a pos the hoff trillion dollar mark they have been gradually growing this year after gaining only thirteen and a half billion dollars in two thousand and nine the year before they dropped by more than fifty billion dollars the central bank has actively invested in gold during two thousand and ten buying up one hundred tonnes the beginning of the year . and now let's take

a quick look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are on the state oil and gold related rallying on the back of higher crude. prices in hong kong the hindsight is gaining after strong results from u.s. companies lifted wall street on the prospect of move global liquidity sentiment chinese data showing strong lending by banks in september also lending support. and here in moscow the r.t.s. finish wasn't a session point eight percent higher. than one percent higher energy major gains on both the bourses bucking the trend was rough snuffed down a quarter percent are close. by. will hold a great show for swiss franc eurobonds next week it aims to raise several hundred million dollars in finance. bank have both issued euro bonds denominated in swiss francs. says the government should float part of the stake it holds in the bank on

the stock market and not so directly to a strategic investor. his biggest lender says tapping investors would stimulate the banking sector neurosurgical may sell its eighty percent stake in o.-g. k three generating company the head of interests volume of bhutan and who owns a blocking stake in a row cynical of the generating company is not a core asset he valued the stake of up to three billion dollars but resell another shareholder of interests said the price may range from two point four to two point eight billion dollars k. three shares rose up to put on its announcement. the acquisition price paid by numerous nickel three years'. service so plans to invest almost six billion dollars over the next four years still producer will inject seventy percent of that into russian mills and twelve percent in two u.s. based mills it's also trying to expand its money interests in russia africa and the

u.s. . plane maker sukhoi says its own cost to deliver deliver its first superjet line that this year the company says is in talks with lufthansa and alitalia about orders but the first plane will go to armenia is via a sukkot representative told. the russia's first major passenger jet since the collapse of the soviet union has so far one hundred fifty two. i'm not so the business news this hour but of course you can always find the stories if you log on to our website that's all t dot com slash business. hungry

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starts on t.v. dot com. now it's time for headlines now paramount russia and venezuela seeking to reinforce their cooperation as president chavez says it's small scale less likely to fanatic tool that is whether it's one of russia's he adopts an american audience and it's the ninth time leaders paid a visit. women candidates sauciness surgical balance of economic time campaign critics say that based on emotions of the policies that it's . the u.s. is losing another key supporter enough denniston as it's clear and says it's pulling out right two thousand and fifty comes just days or twenty soldiers were killed in a bomb attack. many people like to fly upside down when they're in an airplane but

on next guest does in fact russia's female stunt flying champion says it's no harder than riding a bike. well instances of a close knit line of thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today you are the most detailed female aerobatics pilot in the world what is your secret and how do you decide to become a violent in the first place just three or four that. it's a ludicrous quincy jones that i'm an aviation i wanted to try persia jumping and i signed up for air sports classes but also took sports gymnastics classes of the time which boyd and major role as well i had a good mr b. our system. of government clean days female pilots are a rarity and during world war two many women dreamt of becoming violent in one thousand nine hundred forty one but all three female air force.