that has been in talks since two thousand ninety percent have been signed the bank has not been established yet but that is something to the forward to the bank that the idea of the bank as a matter of fact was created as a way to fight the world's economic crisis and there of course there's also the issue of nuclear power as russia is going to build a nuclear power plant as well that so please have things to be discussed but that is going to come in the second on the second day of the day and as a president said visit to moscow what he did today was he attended a conference indicated to two hundred years of independence all but the america and he read a lecture there is a president is known for being talkative but he did to joke about the fact that he is not going to do the same thing this time around and he will try to keep the speech short one tall and some people think i'm unable to speak in public for less than five hours i'm going to prove them wrong here to them and of course the desire the president also talked more about cooperation between him and russia she did

mention the fact that the west seems to be very concerned with the result of becoming a nuclear power but she said that the only nuclear energy they're interested in interested in is nuclear energy that is going to be used in peaceful matters i see you also talked at length about the soviet union and the legacy that the soviet union left in the world she praised the country that no longer exists and she issued a number of regrets on the fact that it has fallen apart and of course of being at the missile and president bush others he did talk about the united states as well and in no uncertain terms of all the others you know must look you must of heard a mexican leader say poor mexico so far from god and so close to the united states all of us latin americans could say the exact same thing our poor america so far from god and so close to the damned empire the yankee empire that has hurt our continent so badly but it still has been considered a sort of love her so she. let's take the slant towards communism by

a lot of countries in the west of course one of the things that it is a president mentioned during his lecture today is that it's time to get away from the bipolar world or from the what single call the world and the fact that russian still all starting up to full of political establishment in the world and of course you have to remember this is a president of the country has made several very important social changes in the country allowing the people in the less unfortunate areas to participate more actively in the political life of the country called my colleague john hof is actually went as well and she has filed this report for us 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 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 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 school teachers 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 cattle. negative for cultural activities for

a sickness for whatever is needed far away from the businesses the malls in the fancy hotels in the inner city are the slums of caracas the concept here come from the bill a very in revolution it was introduced to them by president bush chavez the idea of participatory democracy happens here. ahead in the program a new twist to the ongoing court cases jailed yukos recalled caught a cold skew the report coming up this morning. also be reining in president seem to term at the top of the west find out why israel and the u.s. are concerned about that. it's difficult to make it to the top of u.s. politics especially if you're a woman and it seems some female politicians are making headlines not for their strong credentials but for their emotive fear campaigns critics say a pretty face and the republican party p.r. machine is all it takes to get noticed these days is going to change you can

reports no that's especially true of one rising star who's been 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 to my mind a picture she even preached the abstinence the sad reality to tell going to slam going to our little card every no my sex 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 him 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 new but i go into many say christine uses

the same tools as her fellow mama grizzly sarah pailin the most effective of which is stalking fierce eternity in and very busy in 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 but 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 we miss seem to be especially good at monitoring 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 u.n. phase out social security and shut down the tax service although few believe that

these candidates will gain actual political power but what is we're going to see a lot more anger and also less effectiveness in the congress said that is not able to do what he's got 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 promises women are generally good at expressing their disappointment they're even more successful when they do it in a nice wet 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. . prosecutors in the case of nicole say they will not push for a maximum prison sentence the former c.e.o. of the oil company you course and his partner are accused of stealing three hundred fifty million tonnes of oil this is the second set of charges against the jailed tycoon at his catarina zara has been following the hearings. the prosecutor said that despite the fact that that bill ski did not flat out but make his guilt i did say that the company that made the decision that concerned to specifically those amounts of oil those decisions were all overseen and the final go ahead on those decisions was made by ucas the main company and of course he as c.e.o. therefore according to the prosecutors bears full responsibility for any decisions made by yukos itself or its sister companies during this time so they believe that

they have all the evidence necessary to prove the guilt of the file so that both steve and his colleague look believe as if despite the fact that they have not yet received a flat out confession for the case as been gone in the going on for years we felt that he was arrested on charges of money laundering tax evasion and various frauds economic times and was found guilty and imprisoned serving an eight year prison term later in the his in his conviction in his jail time prosecutors filed new charges against the man and those hearings have also been continuing for a while but the russian president dmitry medvedev signed a new amendment to the existing criminal code saying that those found guilty of economic crimes should die in the maximum prison term for those economic crimes should be reduced from fifteen years to ten years so those amendments of course applied to because of that both he and his colleagues. may be different we also

know that one of the men who is involved in the yukos case the so-called ucas case as it has become known in the press and worldwide. mr alexander on was released from prison earlier this year due to his a complicated health conditions he's suffering from aids and his condition his health condition was rapidly deteriorating from prosecutors ruled that the man needs to be released and the bail that was previously. set for him fred instructed him out of money a very large amount of money that was also revoked and he was released many of course viewing this as a potential change in the current climate hoping maybe pay off the books to will of course be released but the prosecutors say that everything that has been concerning this case has been done by the board by the law and of course any further crimes they do believe mr that is still able to be guilty of will be brought to court if the evidence is enough evidence is gathered as they have believed to be the case

with this current progress with this current development in the case of retail that . correspondent catherine porting from moscow this is out. once upon a time this was not just the powerful trading republic but possibly the birthplace of russia's democracy russia takes you to one of the most ancient cities in the country. very shortly tonight. more news before that the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad's taking aim at his foes the u.s. and israel once more but this time it's not just a caustic speech she's on his first ever visit to lebanon raising western fears of arms deals and political club aeration between iran and the militant group hezbollah the president's preventative villages along the israeli border a move u.s. and israel called intentionally provocative they see it is emphasizing around support for hezbollah and its conflict with israel james then slows

a writer on mideast politics and security a spokeswoman he said the visit is mostly aimed at highlighting his country's efforts to help rebuild lebanon after the two thousand and six war. as well as weapons are a bit of a strategic surprise and we saw that in two thousand and six where they launched anti ship missiles and had a certain degree of technological advantage when it came to anti-tank weapons as well but in addition to the thirty thousand the same missiles that hezbollah has basically we arm. self-willed since the two thousand and six conflict i think the iranian deals are far more interesting in terms of the welfare aspects they spent over a billion dollars we construct in large parts of southern beirut yesterday there was a energy deal signed between the iranian foreign minister and the lebanese energy minister that could provide much needed gas and oil supply to a electrical infrastructure here in lebanon that is on its legs really and i think that is much more interesting in terms of iran's use of soft power to improve its relations with lebanon rather than simply weapons alone russia's clinched the deal

to host the legendary formula one grand prix for the first time the motor racing event will take place in saw cheap the city hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics the f one drivers will compete on a challenging circuit to news the brand new infrastructure built for the games polaski reports. this is the movement that russian formula one fans have been waiting for it took more than three decades to find a suitable venue and to convince the formula one manager is that the world's most popular racing competition can be held here many other locations including moscow and st petersburg did not pass the test so no it won't be just skis skates and sled just that will get sochi into the headlines in two thousand and fourteen in addition the city will be hosting the russian grand prix the contract was signed by the formula one owner bernard ecclestone and trust the governor alexandre several russian companies including bus they'll look oil and megaphone are among the sponsors prime minister vladimir putin met with bernhard ecclestone and welcomed

the advent of formula one to russian soil the government will also provide support for the project i don't think two hundred million dollars to get the track up and running and the rights to hold the races will cost the city of all fourteen million a year however the organizers say the profits will be much higher sochi won't be just a ski resort in winter and the black sea beach resort in summer but also a popular destination for f one fans in the low season during the all the months so now the contracts signed russian sports officials have a reason of their own for ascent being shower. he said it's below ski reporting from sochi so it's two from eddie irvine former f one driver he told me that formula one and russia need each other. well to be honest russia is it's been trying for a long time to have a formula one race and it's well over g. you know russia is a great country a great economy and one formula one really needs to needs to be in russia as much as russia needs a formal race why it's happened so she i really don't know that so obviously it's

money normally is is the key factor in why things happen and why they don't come so i'm sure it's it is in this case whenever i go to races there either in monaco and played together daphne is a lot of russian from there so there is maybe a little bit on the ground in russia at the minute because there is a race but you've got a driver there now and petra he's done a good job intermittently if he can raise his game a little bit more and become a permanent fixture from a woman you've got a driver there you're going to have a race there and there's a reason why from one company huge in russia the stakes tom and i will show you more for the world's largest countries going to offer as we look at russia close. and their destination is believe him or not go there it is on the map it's about five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow founded over a thousand years ago it's one of the country's oldest cities it's also the cradle

of russian democracy where it's first parliamentary style body the very chair. the city troops. the city of love good 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 the city authorities are trying to capitalize on its history right now they've got to tell us 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 for it people might want to come to know god here's an overview of its history feature here they gather in the small city of not garage to celebrate the past time when novgorod was the capital of a trading empire that spans from finland today edge of siberia mr of logic you know we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity you know

many people have forgotten what 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 not grab 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 and. new ruler was elected after an old one died each part of a city how did stone solve government military commanders were invited from neighboring states that the. offers a glimpse of what a different russia might have been like instead of tearing

a sim they could have been freedom and democracy but it was not to be moscow printers keen to get their hands on its riches subjugated the city and even carter the way the assembly bell in fifteen seventy number became the setting for one of the bloodiest chapters in russia's history we were going as they were going here 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 around 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 political power st petersburg its economic significance and later the soviets desecrated its religious symbols for bearing of it as the full 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 so here's and so here's bells ringing out over the city again. like the whole city has to be happy with what he's got and live with hopes of a rebirth of past glories. here or out there see no girl. no tonight. civil liberties and what kind of society britain is becoming are under scrutiny as artie's laurent speaks to conservative member of parliament.

i'm talking to dominic robb he's a conservative m.p. who claims that successive new labor governments made what he calls an unprecedented just salt of british liberty dominic rob thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you've written a book called assault on liberty what do you mean by that well i think if you look at the individual measures we've seen whether there are proposals to extend pre-charge detention control orders identity cards some very intrusive surveillance powers used not just for serious stuff like counterterrorism so that most people

would understand but things like surveillance of bins following children home from schools to. check their catchment area things like that i think we've seen a whole so shift in the relationship between the state and citizen and that's what we need to change it is a bit of a dichotomy there isn't it the government have to be seen to be protecting people but at the same time protecting their individual liberties have they overstepped the mark well that's it i mean the last government it was typical played a lot of politics of this and they presented this is a sort of seesaw trade off and yet when you looked at the measures one by one they wrote it off freedom debate did very little for our security the proposal to extend attention that charge to ninety days was not justified on the evidence. we actually saw about police investigations i.d. cards something that was said would help stop illegal immigration and terror and and terrorism as well it was very clear we looked at both the the very vulnerable design of the cards but also the way the system would work in practice allowing foreign nationals to come in for three months before they need a car well that's no use to stopping terrorism so the real danger is that we've

given up a lot of our freedom and it hasn't made us any safer to what can be done now to reinstate see what you're seeing a range of things to go home with his counterterrorism review which is great we've seen the new coalition government scrap id cards i spoke out very very much in favor of that there's a whole freedom bill that we're going to be debating shortly a great opportunity to repeal some of the draconian legislation and some of the unnecessary legislative graffiti that we've seen littering parliament over the last thirteen years we've had three thousand new criminal offenses hit the statute books but it hasn't come up violent crime police record violent crime has gone up that's just i think a few of the example of the kind of things and the way we can change the conversation the state has with citizens it sounds a lot like this government will be dedicated to undoing a lot of what the last government did without actually having any kind of original ideas that say well i'm not sure that's true i think protecting british liberty is a fantastic tradition of you've got in this country i think it was

a very relevant to what we got today but the idea is to have less law so you're going to create a new law or you're going to try and get rid of some of the old stuff but i do think it's important that we actually take stop presenting this thing as a debate between having on the one hand security and liberty on the other hand one of the things i'm going to be talking about in the next month is the importance of strengthening the justice system not just so that we've got the safeguards that protect the citizen but the so we can use it to take the game to the terrorists i think we should have a much more abbas prosecutorial strategy where you simply dog lift the ban on the use of intercept evidence so there's also new ideas and i hope some of them will get some favorable reception from the home office in the government as a whole. things like the european investigation order seem like they would make it easier for terrorists and other criminals to be prosecuted your watch surely that's a good thing one thing be great if it was limited to counterterrorism that would be perfect great but it isn't and we've seen the european arrest warrant we has gone up from twenty four requests coming to britain in one year to over

a thousand and i'm afraid there's a lot of british citizens who are either innocent or against whom the charges are very shaky being swept up in this and i fear the european investigation order would only exacerbate that risk because what it basically allows is for an investigation authorities to demand not requests demand british police forces of cash cash strapped at the moment going on the all sorts of pressure with a tight budget to situation it's going to demand that they prioritize every one of the requests they get i think that's bad news for the enforcement but i also think it's bad news for the british citizen because the protections around the data with which bank records of d.n.a. whether whatever it may be just not there in countries like ball gary will remain what do you support a referendum in britain at this stage as to whether we should carry on being a member of the european union well i think it's too late for a referendum although i think at some point and of course once that is lisbon treaty entered into force the whole issue of the referendum became legally moot

politically it's still a very hope what do you think the biggest threats to civil liberties in person today is i'm not sure there's a single biggest threat but for me henry porter journalist put it quite well he said we seem to be lost on liberty reflex and i heard phil johnson from the other end of the media spectrum from the daily telegraph so this we used to instinctively react against the state's incursions into our freedom to offer free space and i think that we've got to do i think the single biggest challenge is to stop scrutinise text the case for these new laws these new powers and one of the suggestions i had today was only to have one queen speed. every five years in a parliamentary term that maybe you can get it too far but i certainly would like to see a sort of chilling effect on the legislative hyperactivity we saw in the last government do you think that's the fault of an apathetic population that isn't really taking any notice of a slow but steady erosion of liberty i think is

a little bit about the media much more acutely sensitive to it now on both sides of the political spectrum and it's the guardian of the daily mail the very conscious of this issue now but of course it affects one person at one point in time they may complain about it they may try to raise the profile of the injustice but we picked off one by one as individuals in different ways in different parts of our life and and civil liberties are always being inherently vulnerable to that kind of slowed abuse but we've got to do is recognize it as a much bigger issue and protect that tradition of liberty we have in our country otherwise our children are going to find themselves growing up in a in a very different kind of society with a very different kind of culture. thank you very much thank you.

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