it's proven to be a consistent spin in the neck for the united states because it seems to be killing pulling even more weight in that gym is fear so you have the leaders of two countries one of these in particular has proven feet and indeed magic and very often ostentatious leader. all very well very well known for his sometimes harsh and extraordinary expressions so a lot of things to be discussed today you have to remember that russian mazola have a very close cooperation in the field of the military exchange russia has been. russia has been sending a lot of tanks then i moved three planes over that way also the russian as well are going to discuss a further establishment of the rush was russia going to ireland bank that idea was pissed of for the first time in two thousand and eight when the world was trying to get out of the economic crisis and the two countries decided to go their own way it looks like they are quite successful heading in that direction also while compression like nuclear fields as well as discussions about russia building yeah.

building schools our housing for the low income families in venezuela basically putting up an entire social established establishment for the poor population of the south american countries felt a lot of things on the agenda for the leaders of the two countries but first and foremost on the first day of president chavez is going to take it easy he's going to read a lecture in the most go library and then going to have to have an informal dinner with the russian president in the evening so in the why this sense of venezuela is a socialist state to use to promote that it's such a kind of democracy but what does it actually mean by that. well you have to understand that a lot of social and social reforms have been put in place by the israeli president in his home country and a lot of those reforms will give a lot more power to the poorer population. all this country and they actually have

a say not only in their socialized they not only get to vote but they also have to the also get a chance to hold a very active political stance and participate in the political life of the country as this report shows. welcome to democracy one o one the us well us 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 reformers 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 presidents 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 in las vegas the community leader is in 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 supposed to 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 will take care of their negative for cultural activities for sickness or whatever's needed far away from the businesses the malls and the fancy hotels in the inner city or the slums of caracas the concept here come from the bill of varying revolution it was introduced to them by president chavez the idea of participatory democracy happens here jan hoffa's r t could act as venezuela. well still ahead for this hour

we take you to a place of historical greatness and power still draw crowds joy artie's a close up to me not to mention to russian city that is the country that used to vent but it's not even the student. getting to the top in u.s. politics can be tough enough especially if you're a woman but aside from nancy pelosi and hillary clinton some of the next crop up being accused of swaying there it is with emotional fear campaigns and snazzy p.r. it's going to church you can reports that's especially true of one republican rising star who is 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 reached the

obstinate 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 she's 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. many say christine uses the same tools as her fellow mama grizzly sarah paling the most effective of which is still king fears and experiences in their country is going to grow p.r. experts say experience has little to do with becoming good media darling in america all you have to know is how to push the right buttons the people make their 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 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 power would want it. we're going to see a lot more anger and also less effectiveness in the congress that is not able to do what it needs to get done 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 to do the flashy the superficial they love

the quick quote from the pretty face even if the treated 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 policies 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 cast the last laugh come november. comes into like i r t washington d.c. . dated twenty four hours a day called this is what house without. grandma knows best and there's no soviet comeback world because response to get. us.

taking the fight against drugs to follow the background on the controversial. obscenity she. called. millions of americans are unemployed and being national debt is soaring but it's wall street bankers still believe they deserve to be paid a record high a hundred forty four billion dollars in bonuses this year or trend for cost of joe seventy says people are staying quiet because the finance is found base among 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 contrary and that's why the

people are with their 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 conch reserve one hundred and ninety four. so it's the main stream media that kids sucking up to these to these greedy pigs that tempers the people down from taking to the streets rather than chastising them ages wink and smile and say next in the news we're saving those people in chile. while the wall street wound conjures up massive bonuses max keiser and stacy herbert silly 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. that 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 out that she's a witch and not try to distance herself that she's away from her witchcraft past. the u.s. is losing another key supporter in afghanistan after it to the 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 it comes after dutch troops left in august and hunted at the start of it all out next year if they contributed more than three thousand soldiers to afghanistan the hundred twenty

thousand strong contingent decision is just the rules are there for training soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan the u.s. meanwhile is increasing its presence that nato mission in not enough troops on the ground. in libya the project says it is wrong because it doesn't do any more soldiers. it's important to understand the domestic politics in each of the member states and in the case of italy for example me last year a group of italian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing there was an opera from the political establishment it's really obviously they're saying they'll begin a process in two thousand and eleven that will conclude in two thousand and 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. without a some other international stories starting in northern chile where the miners ordeal is over but the shift supervisor was there last week three twenty four hour

operation to get him honest here. two months trapped underground. to look for. through the most safely after this is open to the expected stooping to check some hoe. now found the empty as the last rescue worker has been when she got out strange for the mine closed good. iran's president is in lebanon touting his country's efforts to help rebuild the close to two thousand and six war with israel but it's feared that mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit will inflame really tense relations in. this part political groups and the reigning supported is below the president plans to visit villages near the country's border with israel seen as being provocative. with its take time to show you more of what the world's largest country has to offer as we look at

russia close up. yes this time we travel to have an economic growth which is over five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow it's one of the country's most ancient cities with over millennium a history of growth is also known as the place where russia's first democracy emerged and it's seen its fair share of boom times and bloodshed salty's that explains. the city of nod as a place of major historical interest in medieval times it was a european wide trading center and also a freedom loving republican unlike almost anywhere else in russia so it's all surprising to the city authorities are trying to capitalize on its history right now they've got two thoughts which they face having to attract more people and also the people they do attract making them stay longer and spend more money now talking about the reason for people might want to come to know god there is no view of its

history. 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 to the edge of siberia solution is stuck at the risk of i think you know we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity you know many 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 number and filled the whole of europe with candle wax becoming one of the most prosperous cities on the continent once upon a time this was not just the hope 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 i pushed upon 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 counter the way the somebody. in fifteen seventeen number became the setting one of the bloodiest chapters in russia's history we were. when ivan the terrible came for a visit a feast was laid out for him then just as the gas were getting drunk he suddenly got up and banged the staff on the floor that was a signal for his henchmen around up the citizens of no going to 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 this mosque political power st petersburg its economic significance and later the soviets desecrated its religious symbols for building of interest. is the biggest tragedy before world war two the soviet authorities melted down most of the enormous bells whose unique peal charmed across the city from saints a fierce cathedral oldest church. who dreams passionately that it might want to 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 his and so he is bells ring out over the city again. the whole city has to be happy with what he. hopes of a rebirth of glory. of

god for the whole of russia. please tell me what your impressions are of the city doesn't have anything to offer. tourists behind this is the kremlin which is a very old structure it dates back way back to the beginning of russia and inside you can see how wonderful church. the monuments there was built to the malone millennium of russia as well this great sort. a sort of metal structure in the center beyond on the other side of the river is jaroslav courts like a collection of old churches and buildings which is very picturesque. and the whole of the city as you can see is pretty green and park like and dotted with lots of cute little churches so i think tourists would really love it here the added special thing about not grove is that they're very tourist friendly which is quite

unusual for a russian city russian town they have a fantastic tourist office where they're very happy to help tourists the price for tells areas is not that expensive and if you are on a budget the tourist office will help you find a room in someone's home. and that's a great experience for foreigners to have so i think this can be an affordable place for people to visit and it's you know midway between moscow and some pizza spigot offers a completely different atmosphere i think it's a good place to visit ok thank you very much we've been speaking to simon richmond who's the coordinating author of lonely planet guides here for the whole of russia . live there in a few moments said mrs update and stay with us. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get voice ceased to face with the news makers.

hello and welcome to the business program russia's central bank says it will allow for a more volatile ruble off the widening the trading bonds against the u.s. dollar on the euro and broaden the range by fifty kopeks in each direction i guess the robot will learn to live up before the central bank intervenes essential by step if he had says the trading bond was needed as there is no inflation targeting he said the move will reduce the risk of speculative inflows of hops money. if the

currency rate moves gradually from targeted to free floating investors will have a harder time predicting its movements the volume of short term investment into the currency markets decreases the king southern route for gas to europe took another step forward on wednesday from say a travel to remain near where he said a government level agreement could be signed in the next year already on board the south stream project as a hungry greece slovenia croatia and austria that same it also announced that the two parties have agreed to proceed to the next stage of possible cooperation. we came to the agreement of a group of experts will come to romania and carry out prepared to understand whether we have a neutral interest in this area after that the. because you make you repeat it cool . if we can cooperate discuss it management level we see the potential for it. 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 western 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 have surpassed the hoff trillion dollar mark they've been gradually growing this year off to gaining only thirteen in the hall 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 tons since the beginning of the year. let's take a look at how the x. markets are performing asian stocks are only up on thursday oil and gold related

shares are rallying on the back of higher crude prices and in hong kong the hang seng is gaining after strong results from u.s. companies and lifted street on the prospects of global liquidity sentiment trying to use data showing strong lending by banks in september is also giving support. and here in moscow the markets will open for trade next hour the r.t.s. finished wednesday's session point eight percent hi i am one of my six the one percent in the black and as you may just find the gains of both the bourses bucking the trend was rough and if they've done a quarter percent close. no real cynical may sell it's eighty percent stake in the case three generating company the head of interest pitot in who owns a blocking stake in the us now. so the generating company is not a core asset value the state could up to three billion dollars but resell another shareholder of interoffice said the price may range from two point four to two

point eight billion dollars three shares rose up to put on its announcement that they're still below the acquisition price paid by neural cynical three years ago. so invested almost six and a half billion dollars over the next four years so producer will inject seventy percent of bop into russian mills and twelve percent in two u.s. based mills so is it going to expand its money interests in russia africa in the u.s. playing waco sukhoi says it's on course to deliver its first superjet lineup this year the company says it's an. alitalia about bought the first plane will go to. a super representative told brokers in russia's first major passenger jet since the collapse of the soviet union has so far one hundred fifty two. south korean cinema chain lotty cinema wants to expand into russia's far east the plan is to open up to sixty miles in three russian cities over the next three years the

project is successful the chain owned by lofty group look at expanding into russia central region including moscow and st petersburg total investment in the russian market could potentially hit thirty million dollars. i'm not sort of business news for this but of course you can always find the stories if you log on to our website that's all. business. the.

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so it's time for the headlines our hair on off to russia and venezuela seeking to reinforce their corporation as president chavez has its moscow on the first leg of a diplomatic talk there as well is one of russia's key and that's an american problem that has been going to be that has paid a visit. would be u.s. midterm election just weeks away it's the women candidates start seeing up the race contenders such as republican christine o'donnell being accused of playing on the emotions instead of policies to voters. the u.s. is losing another key supporter we have got to stop italy announces it has no two

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