in this part of the world and on the other hand of course we have an israel which is it was just proven to be a consistency in the neck for the united states today because it seems to be killing pulling even more weight in and that him is fear 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 alberton military exchange also the russians who are going to discuss it further establishment of the russian soil and they their idea was pitched 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 call their old way and looks like they are quite successful heading in that direction also because of pressure to make nuclear fields as well as discussions about russia to schools our housing for the low income families in business who are basically putting up an entire social established establishment for the poor population of the south american countries lots 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 future's going to see read a lecture in a more school library and then going to have an informal dinner with the russian president in the evening well that is well and seems to improve the united states largely due to the fact that it seems to possess the very kind of democracy that the united states continuously talks about and claims to possess but the same time doesn't value israel our world is being considered as a socialist country does that there a democracy and does allow the people of the country to run this state more on that and therefore compiled by my colleague to call the parties. welcome to democracy one o one venice well a 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 times as president is 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 in las vegas or the community leader isn't president chavez it's freddy 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 there are negative for cultural activities for a sickness for whatever is 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 a very in revolution it was introduced to them by president bush job the idea of participatory democracy happens here r t could out because venezuela. well still ahead few this hour we take you to a place of historical greatness and power but still a draw for the crowds. trying artie's close up to me not garage ancient russian city that's witnessed some of the countries not used to events but is now a haven peaceful bt. well 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 popping accused of swayne voters with emotional fear campaigns and snazzy p.r. is going to chicken 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 and why am i in the picture she even preached abstinence the sad reality to tell going to slam going to. x. yeah yeah i'm a young woman in my thirty's and i remain chaste right and there was a time that chased women even said she would try the dark arts i was telling 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 many say christine uses

the same tools as her fellow mama grizzly sarah pailin the most effective of which is stoking fears and spears a senior manager is going to grow 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 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 front runner 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 but what if. we're going to see a lot more eager and. less effectiveness in the congress said that is not able to do what he's 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 pretty faces don't get political power or they're 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

have the last laugh come november. second r.t. washington d.c. . these updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com ahead what else were lining up for you today grandma knows best and there's no soviet comeback or on moscow's response to yet more claims that russians are untrue stories mrs obama. taking the fight against drugs to far in the background on the jailing of a controversial russian drug rehab center chief kidnapping drug addicts dot com. millions of americans are unemployed than 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 the trend for cost of job so then to says people are staying quiet because the finance is fanbase among the mainstream media is destructing 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 with a kind of nama about this when you break this number down with 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 contraries so it's the mainstream 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

they says wink and smile and say next in the news we're saving those people in chile. well while the wall street one conjures up massive bonuses max keiser and stacy herbert later look at 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 raw is borrowing just like he acts like it is the public doing its these bankers his cronies his friends yeah again this is the ideology of a psychopath and we need which is in 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 a witch from her witchcraft past.

the u.s. is losing another key supporter in afghanistan after it in the announced plans to pull out of the campaign italian foreign minister says the withdrawal start next summer and should be completed by two thousand and fourteen he comes off to dutch troops left in august and canada decided it without next year and he contributed more than three thousand soldiers to afghanistan and twenty thousand strong foreign contingent but just days ago or italian soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan u.s. meanwhile is increasing its presence there then to patients or to the. troops on the ground among. local strategy project so it's these withdrawing because he doesn't want to means 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 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 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. there are some other began to national stories and starting in northern chile where the miners ordeal is finally over the shift supervisor was the last to be freed in the twenty four hour operation to bring the miners to the surface of the more than two months trapped underground for thirty three minutes safely and in much better physical condition one hundred expected but they're still being given to hospital it is now highly empty as the last rescue worker has been reached out searching the strange of the mind to be closed for good. iran's president is in lebanon turned to his country's efforts to help rebuild a small coastal nation after the two thousand and six war with israel but it's fair

that mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit will inflame already tense relations between the u.s. backed political groups and rein supported his but now the president plans to visit villages near the country's border with israel are 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 north waziristan province four of the dead were reported to be foreigners from the central asian states of turkmenistan uzbekistan its latest in a series of u.s. operations in pakistan targeting taliban and al qaeda insurgents. let's take some time out now to show you more of what the world's largest country has to offer as we look at russia troops up.

yes this time we travel to a leaky novgorod which is more than five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow it's one of the country's most ancient cities with a millennial history of good ideas also known as the place where russia's first democracy emerged and it's seen its fair share of boom times and bloodshed as artie's ego or god never expects. the city of love great as the place of major historical interest in medieval times it was a european wide trading center and also a freedom loving republican like almost anywhere else in russia so it's not surprising that 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 reasons why people might want to come to no good 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 spanned from finland today edge of siberia for the first. you know we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity many people have forgotten but we are keeping the memory alive. russia's all the slavic city of god was founded more than a thousand years ago centuries before st petersburg it became russia's gateway to the west novgorod filled the whole of europe with furs and 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 how did so government military commanders were invited from neighboring states the question of

which no grown up was a glimpse of what an ancient russian might have been like 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 carter the way the assembly bell in fifteen seventy nagar became the setting for one of the bloodiest chapters in russia's history we were going to. win 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 bang distaff on the floor that was a signal for his henchmen to round up the citizens of north 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 it moscow needed political power st petersburg its economic significance and later the soviets desecrated its religious symbols for building of

a just awful hans ski that is the biggest tragedy before world war two the soviet authorities melted down most of the enormous bells whose unique peal charm across the city from saints a fierce cathedral rushes oldest church chorus still haunts the just love who dreams 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 to here's and so here's bells ringing out over the city again. like the whole city just laugh has to be happy with what he's got and live with hopes of a rebirth of past glories. i'm now joined by simon richmond who's the coordinator of lonely planet guide for the whole of russia and so you've been here please tell me what your impressions are of the city does

it have anything to offer i has a lot 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. wonderful church full of old friends the monuments there was built to the miller millennium of russia as well this great sort of sort of metal structure in the center beyond on the other side of the river. 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 a city with lots of cute little churches so i think tourists would really love it here the special thing about it is that they're very tourist friendly which is quite unusual for russian city russian time they have a fantastic tourist office. very happy to help tourists prices 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 midway between moscow and some pizza spur get off it's 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 all sort of lonely planet guides here for the whole russia. on the business news you stephanie is up next and how the equity markets looking so fast it's a very good session for kerry actually in fact asian markets have hit two year high so i'll have more market news for you in just a moment russia's central bank says that one allow for a more volatile ruble after widening the trading bond against the u.s. dollar and the euro it brought in the range by fifty copecks in each direction it gives the ruble more room to maneuver before the central bank intervenes the

central bank's deputy head says the trading balance was needed as there is no inflation targeting he said the move will reduce the risk of speculative inflames of hot money. if the currency rate moves gradually from targeted to free float investors will have a harder time predicting its movement sus the volume of short term investment into the currency market decreases. the king southern route for gas to europe took another step forward on wednesday that's from travel to remain here where he said a government level agreement could be signed early next year already on board the south stream project of 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 with we came to an agreement with a group of experts who come to romania and carry out prepare a free work to understand whether we have mutual interests in this area after that

the experts will make a report at a corporate level and if we can cooperate we'll discuss it at the top management level we see the potential for cooperation in this fear and we do have an interest in it. the visit to request is also a veiled message to bulgaria which has been demanding stiff terms for allowing the pipeline to cross its touchy touchy on your public over reports from another south korean participant turkey on the latest with tons of pipeline politics. turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe what's bridge like position between ajax and europe which makes it and they're really not for rival international interests. the main battle lines for the south are an energy corridor are to supply gas to europe bypassing the current transit country ukraine the main pipelines of the running other gas from project and my blue car backed by the us and e.u.

and there are other smaller projects. but the country is ready to talk common it all of them. implementing one project doesn't mean that we can so another one has the capacity to develop each and every project because consumers need it there is demand we should think not only about today when there is a global crisis we should think about two thousand to fifteen thousand. and twenty when demand will increase even then it may be too much gas for europe analysts say some projects will likely be abandoned in the race to build new pipelines russia is trying hard to come first securing gas and customers analysts say we meaning turkey is agreement to live this hour stream through turkish waters came at a cost russia will have to invest have to three billion dollars into some all you pipeline strategically important for turkey big question is what will be the price

because now we see that first of all turkey wants russia to invest my project it's the first benefit and the first part of this payment the second. turkey wants to change. more cheap gas from russia in the byzantine world of pipeline politics russia will have to offer something in exchange for the support of all the contras along the pipeline fruits this week gazprom chief alexei miller is visiting vogue area and demand to discuss delivery of russian gas and the future of the south stream pipeline project. of business r.t. . and now let's take a closer look at how those actually markets are doing asian stocks are making gains on thursday regional resources shares again as commodity prices surge gold related shares are also rallying on the back of higher prices in hong kong has been

supported by rice on wall street overnight following strong results from the u.s. companies and the prospect of more global liquidity he said sentiment chinese data showing strong lending by price in september is also giving support. and here in moscow the r.t.s. has just opened point eight percent higher than the trends in flow blockheads and high commodity prices and why. it will start trading in just a few minutes it finished more than one percent higher on board and say energy may just let the game. neurosurgical may sell it eighty percent stake in the case three generating company that had an interest for the mere proton in who owns a blocking stake. so the generating company is not a core asset he valued the sake of up to three billion dollars but resell another shareholder interests said the price may range from two point four to two point eight billion dollars. three's shares rose often times announcement below the

acquisition price paid by norm nickel three years ago. south korean cinema chain cinemark wants to expand into russia's far east the plan is to open up to six of a massive tree russian cities over the next three years if the project is successful the chain and by law two groups will then look at expanding into russia's cultural region including moscow and st petersburg total investment in the russian market could potentially hit thirty eight million dollars. and that's over in the business for this but of course you can always find stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business.

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there is time to take a look at the headlines now here not russia and venezuela seeking to reinforce their cooperation as president chavez visits small scale in the first leg of a diplomatic tool venezuela is one of russia's key that's american partners and it's the ninth time the that has been to visit. with the u.s. midterm election just weeks away it's the women candidates who are spicing up the base but contenders such as republican christine o'donnell piece of playing on emotions instead of policies win over votes it's. the u.s. is losing another key supporter in afghanistan as its me and says it's pulling out

by two thousand and ten. comes just days off or ten soldiers were killed in the bomb it's. not many people want 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 fellow said lana thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today you were the most titled female aerobatics pilot in the world what is your secret and how do you decide to become a violet in the first place to stay or. 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 played a major role as well i had a good mr b. our system. of government clean.