in that jim is fear so a lot of things to be discussed today you have to remember that russian mazola had a very close cooperation in the field of the military exchange also the russians were going to discuss a further establishment of the russian been to island bank that idea was just for the first time in two thousand and eight when the world was trying to get out of all think only crisis and the two countries decided to go their old way it looks like they are quite successful heading in that direction also was the first to make nuclear fields a lot of social reforms have been put in place by the as well the president in his home country and a lot of those reforms give a lot more power to the poorer population off his country and they actually have a say not only in their social life but 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 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 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 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 or 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 and negative for cultural activities for a sickness or whatever is needed far away from the businesses the malls in 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 john hoffa's r.t. could act as tennis while. russia is racing ahead to welcome some premium most of sports. russia's olympic city of sochi is also revving up to secure its place among the world's formula one we. must join our teams close up to. mention for. city that's witnessed some of the country's bloodiest events is now

a haven of peaceful beauty. 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 voters with emotional fear campaigns and snazzy p.r. is going to change 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 preached abstinence the sad reality to tell going to slag off and. yeah yeah i'm a young woman in my thirties and i remain chaste right and there was a time the chaste woman even said she would try the dark arts i was dabbling 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 stalking fears and spears to see their country 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 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 mongering

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 say that it's 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 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 cast the last laugh come november. in two like our t. washington d.c. . the need is updated twenty four hours a day tarty dot com as well tell us what on a day a grandma knows best and. come back more on moscow's response to yet more claims that she was trying to a story that's. taking the fight against drugs to far with the background of the jailing of a controversial russian drug rehab center a cheat. and drug addicts it's called right.

first. as well as being russia's next olympic city the resort of sochi is also hoping to bring formula one motor racing to town the deal is expected to be signed off later on thursday and witnessed by prime minister putin then he has the details. it might not only be the ski skates and sledges that will get sochi into they had lines in two thousand and fourteen in addition the city is accelerating towards the smoking tires of brokering race cars the contract needs to be signed off by the formula one owner bernard ecclestone and crossing our governor and. it will take two hundred million dollars to get the track up and running and cost the city about forty million a year for the rights to race russia has long been eager to be among the world championship venues and since the beginning of the decade most currents in

petersburg have been trying to secure pole position but rose in recession through a few obstacles in the way now with the green light for this project in sochi it's not a record one that will track thousands of fans organizers say the infrastructure and track could be used to host other motor sport events so if the contracts signed russian sports officials will have a reason of their own for some pain shower. this time out not to show you more of what the world's largest country has to offer as we look at russia close up. this time we travel to. which is more than five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow it's one of the country's most ancient cities with millennium of history not going to. the place where russians first baucus emerged and it's seen its fair

share of boom times and bloodshed as nazis explains. the city of good as a place of major historical interest in medieval times it was a european wide trading center and also a freedom loving republic 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 today edge of side their solution is to look at the risk of the canal goggles we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity many people have forgotten what we are keeping the memory alive. russia's all the slavic city novgorod was founded more than

a thousand years ago centuries before st petersburg it became russia's gateway to the west non-god 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 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 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 assembly. 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 guests were getting drunk he suddenly got up and banged the staff on the floor that was a signal for his henchmen to round up the citizens of no is 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 number of political power st petersburg its economic significance and later the soviets desecrated its religious symbols for bearing of it. is the biggest tragedy before world war two the soviet authorities melted down most of the enormous bells whose unique feel charmed 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 he is bells ring out over the city again. like the whole city has to be happy with what he's got. hopes of a rebirth of glories. the co-ordinating of lonely planet gods for the whole of russia. please tell me what your impressions are of the city doesn't have anything to offer i has a lot to offer 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 follow. the monuments there was built to the

malone millennium of russia as well this great city. 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 there is is not that expensive and if you are on a budget the source office will help you find a room in someone's home. and that's a great experience for us to have so i think this can be an affordable place for people to visit and it's midway between moscow and some pizza spin off is

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 of russia you go over a cliff there are millions of americans are unemployed and the national debt is soaring and wall street bankers still believe they deserve to be paid a record high of hundred forty four billion dollars in bonuses this year trend for kasich also then today says people are staying quiet because the finance is a fan 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 country and that's why the people are with a kind of numb 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 countries of one hundred and ninety four contraries take for instance is a guy steve schwarzman the c.e.o. of blackstone i think he's like worth about six billion dollars he complain that because of changes in tax rules he would have to pay more money quote he said it was the equivalent of the nazis invading poland the media let him get away with it they should have been stringing him up they should be ripping them apart to the equivalent of a holocaust denier but because he's a senior member of the white shoe club boys they make it really easy 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've winked and smile and say next in the news we're saving those people in chile. while the wall street ones comes up massive bonuses bucks kaiser and stacy herbert slayton 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 will stop our. just a bit like he acts like he is the public during these bankers his cronies his friends yeah he. 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 away and not try to distance herself that she's away from her witchcraft past.

now some other international stories and starting in northern chile where the miners or did this finally shift supervisor was the last to be freed in the twenty four hour operation to bring the modest surplus they spent two months trapped underground i don't know for all things he truly mercifully growing only much better physically expected but they're still being given thirty checks in hospital which is now empty has been asked for has been winched out of the club the risk finally accomplished. iran's president is in lebanon touting his country's efforts to help rebuild the small coastal nation after his for the last two thousand and six war with israel but it's fair that mahmoud ahmadinejad's visit with inflaming very tense relations in the country between the u.s. backed into groups brain support has been the president plans to visit villages

near the country's border with israel seen as being productive. and greek riot police have used tear gas and pepper spray to change into populous protest is about one hundred demonstrators what the culture ministry were demanding unpaid wages and turned back is barricaded themselves in used to the tourists inside they've been waves of strikes and protests against the tough cutbacks and since injuring some of its deep financial crisis. stephanie with updates here on the business days. this is mara region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. is completed the id park will house r.

and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry data center furbished with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences. or region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. hello and welcome to the business but the to russia central bank says it will allow for volatile ruble after widening the trading bond against the us dollar and the

euro brought in the range by fifty kopeks direction gives the ruble more room to maneuver before the central bank intervenes the central bank steps he had said the trading was needed as there is no inflation targeting he said the move forward used the risk of speculative inflows of money. however analysts say the ruble is responding to trade flows and the central bank action could have a little impact in the face of these fundamentals. as the situation is all sustainable in the long run and despite any technical decisions despite the existence or elimination of the narrow wide chorus of brain central bank will have to react to fundamentals but not constitutional the market. the key a southern route for gas to europe took another step forward on wednesday gas from c.e.o. travel to remain near where he said a government level agreement could be signed next year already on both the south stream project serbia hungary greece slovenia croatia and austria i look similar

also announce that the two parties have agreed to proceed to the next stage of possible cooperation. we came to degree means that a group of experts who comes remain here and carry out preparatory work to understand whether we have mutual interests in this area after that the experts will make a report at a cooper level and if we can cooperate we'll discuss it management levels we see the potential for paper ation industry and we do have interest in. it was a visit to progress is also a veiled message to bulgaria which has been demanding stiff terms for allowing the pipeline to cross its territory touch on your public over reports from another south stream participant turkey on the latest twists and turns of pipeline politics . turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe but it's a busy bridge like position between asia and europe which makes it and iran

a former rival international interests. the main battle hands for the south are an energy corridor are to supply gas to europe bypassing the current transit country ukraine the main pipelines and they're running out of gas probably sounds chain project and not buka backed by the us and e.u. and there are other smaller projects turkey is energy minister says the country is ready to talk common it all of them. implementing one project doesn't mean that we cancel 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 and fifteen two 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 fast securing gas and customers analysts say weaning turkey is

agreement to lay the south stream through turkish waters came at a cost russia will have to invest after three billion dollars into some soon pipeline strategically important for turkey the question is what will be the price because now we see that first of all turkey wants russia to invest myatt of some songs we can project its first benefit and the first part of this payment the second. turkey wants to change the details of our guest contacts. turkey was talk of more cheap gas from russia in the byzantine world of pipeline politics russia will have to offer something in exchange for the support. off all the contras along the pipeline routes this week chief miller is visiting dramatic to discuss deliberate russian gas and the future of this pipeline project.

to stumble. and this time out of the equity markets world stocks have hit a two year high on thursday the m.s.c.i. world stock index has touch point eight percent its highest level since the twenty second of september two thousand and eight the day after the collapse of lehman brothers an emerging market stocks are so far leading the way the r.t.s. and i six the higher that's why rising commodity prices for gas from the us have to slipped into the red on the my so it's now the top blue chip gainer point nine percent higher at this hour. european stocks are also hard but coming back from the early gains on thursday and miners are rallying on the footsie on rising prices the gains have been offset by weakness in defensive stocks such as tobacco and pharmaceuticals. the operator of the second lien one project exile next to gaza has called on russia's government to double its spending on the fields to one hundred billion dollars but the company also wants to delay development to oil fields in

the second phase of production for the third if approved second one will become the most expensive oil project in the country's history. south korea's group will open a cinema chain in russia's far east it plans to open sixteen miles in three russian cities by two thousand and thirteen if the chain pretty successful lot it will consider expanding into moscow and st petersburg total investment could reach thirty million dollars. i'm not sold the business news for this hour but of course you can always find the stories if you look into a website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

i am nature and discover its museum go. to see the communicate with the wild and let them. test yourself and become free m m m. c nature can you come see. the close up team has been to the saucily in regions where the biggest russian salmon caviar processing factories located nouns are g. goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. for a new laser beam found to fight

a common term on. employment shows the first free elections retro. thousand years ago says welcome to the road region in russia close up. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us a year part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g.

you're watching our main stories we're covering the south. seeking to reinforce their cooperation as to chavez is that small scale of the first leg of a diplomatic toll. is one of russia's key. on his paid a visit. with the u.s. midterm elections just weeks away it's the women candidates will spice up the race contenders such as republican steve in the midst of playing on emotions instead of policies. and the u.s. is losing another key supporter. as. putting out my two thousand.

decision comes just days after four hundred soldiers were killed on the. next trip to the unspoiled. russia's pacific. bowling springs in hot water for. money holes and steaming pits. is a fountain and dead sulfurous lakes. an eternal confrontation of fire. and creating a unique combination. the vitality of this land lies in canyons and volcano crazes to securing the spawning season the rivers are filled with shoals of fish.