to be discussed else there russo venezuelan bank that has been in talks since two thousand ninety first have been signed the bank has not been established yet but that is something to look forward to the bank 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 in israel that itself plenty of things to be discussed but that is going to come in the second on the second day of the day in israel and president's visit to moscow what he did today was he attended a conference indicated to two hundred years of independence of that the america and he read the lecture in their resume the president is known for being talkative but she did to joke about the fact that he is not going to do the same thing this time around if you will try to keep the speech short one. and some people think i'm unable to speak in public for less than five hours i'm going to prove them wrong yet them and of course that is 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 roussel of becoming a nuclear power but she said that the only nuclear energy they're interested in is interested in is nuclear energy that is going to be used in peaceful matters and of course it being the missile and president bush others to do talk about the united states as well and in no uncertain terms of all the others that are must look you must of heard a mexican leader say poor mexico so far from god and so close to the united states that all of us latin americans could say the exact same thing are poor america so far from god and so close to the downed empire the yankee empire that has hurt our confidence so badly but it still has been considered as sort of out of the socialist state with a 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 russians

all are starting to follow political establishment in the world and of course you have to remember this is a president all the country has made several very important social changes in the country allowing the people do in the less unfortunate areas to dissipate more actively in the political life of the country cut 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 chavez the idea that social reformers prioritize the country's majority poor activated participatory do. 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 love they give 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 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 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 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 john huff is our t. could office venezuela. still to come here on our team the tycoon trial a new spin in the case of former yugoslav wild giant boss mikhail khodorkovsky who is serving an eight year sentence. also the iranian president has had in the head while the u.s. and israel say the trips deliberately provocative we hear others say there is an even greater threat in the region. politics is still male dominated but it's the women making the headlines right now in the u.s. led by beating republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin under the tea party banner there the new breed of right wing politicians launching a fiery attacks on liberalism but critics say a pretty face had approval from the far right us media machine is all it takes to get to the top of this political tree or he's got

a cheeky on reports on one rising star who's been a raising eyebrows and the political temperature. 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 are the knows what pleases a man he can please him self and why am i in the picture she even preached obstinance the sad reality to tell going to slam going to stop until condi reno 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 blame sarah palin many say christine uses

the same tools as her fellow mama grizzly sarah pailin the most effective of which is stalking fierce. and it's very it's a senior and she 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 of 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 must 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 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 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 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 parma says 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. . prosecutors in the case of mike how to say they will not push for a maximum prison sentence former c.e.o. of the oil company yukos and his partner accused of stealing three hundred fifty million tonnes of oil this is the second set of charges against the jailed tycoon artie's catarina has been following the hearings. the prosecutor said that despite the fact that that bill ski did not flat out but made his bill 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 you because 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 files and that both steve and his colleagues 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 crimes 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 those found guilty of economic crimes should the maximum prison term for those economic crimes should be reduced from fifteen years to ten years so those amendments of course apply to because of that both he and his colleagues see what may be different we also know that one of

the men who is involved in the yukos case the so-called lucas case as it has become known in the press and worldwide. mr alex i knew on was a 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 prosecutors ruled that the man needs to be released and the bail that was previously. set for him for it in store but an amount 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 that maybe piles of that will of course be released but the prosecutors say that everything that has been concerning this case has been done by the book by the law and of course any further crimes that they do believe mr for that mr libby to be guilty off will be brought to court with evidence and if enough evidence is gathered as they have believed to be the

case with this current progress with this current development in the case of an alphabetical scheme. reporting for marty's catarina. will stay with us here on r.t. coming up soon. once upon a thought this was not just the hope of a powerful trading republic but possibly the birthplace of russia's democracy but russia close-up team takes you to one of the most ancient cities in russia believe it or. first though iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad has taken aim at his foes the u.s. and israel once more but this time he's moved rather closer to his about the enemy on a visit to lebanon just across the israeli border raising western fears of arms deals and closer collaboration between iran and the militant group hezbollah the president has been visiting villages along the israeli border in a move. which really border a move the u.s. and israel have called intentionally provocative they see it as emphasizing iran's

support for hezbollah against israel james denselow a writer on the middle east politics and security says that the u.s. criticism is to distract the world's attention away from the vast military commitment that america is still putting into iraq. there is a crescendo of violence in regards to the iranian u.s. relationship currently in the middle east and the u.s. has not fully exited iraq it still has some fifty thousand troops on the ground there if you include special forces and the largest embassy u.s. embassy in the world this is a presence that aims to have a strategic effect influencing which direction iraq goes and of course a reminder to the neighbors in iran that the u.s. has no exit to the region but remains on that instead the very exit strategy that the americans have pursued in iraq is rely on building an iraqi security force that large enough and competent enough to make sure the american presence is no longer needed the problem we have is that the competency of the iraqi military is in stark contrast to the incompetency of the iraqi political elite and government bear in

mind we have had no government in iraq for a record breaking time over seven months now and. all the iraqi politicians big and acts not like statesman the iraqi military is on the ground throughout the country delivering some form of service whether it's security or more and ultimately the real question is whether senior members of the iraqi military will decide that while the politicians did it's their chance to step in take control of the political process and run the country themselves the newly rebuilt u.s. sponsored iraqi army numbers some six hundred fifty thousand if you include the border guard in the police and americans are in a weapons spending spree at the moment in the middle east they're just finishing off a sixty billion dollars deal with the saudis and i've spent over sold over ten billion dollars worth of weapons to the iraqis since the war including high tech equipment such as f. sixteen zero and one tanks the dream of formula one coming to russia has become a reality for a motor racing fans with so cheetos the first ever grand prix race in the country

the f one caravan will come to town just after the twenty fourteen winter olympics as part of a six year deal with racing taking place on a challenging circuit using a brand new infrastructure built for the winter games artie's dennis polaski has the details. 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 of the world's most popular racing competition can be held here many other locations including moscow and seeing petersburg did not pass the test so no it won't be just skis kates 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 ecclestone and welcomed the advent of formula one to russian soil the government will also provide support for the

project it will take two hundred million dollars to get the track up and running and the rides to hold the races will cost the city both fourteen million a year however there was a noise there say the profits will be much higher so she 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 and the low season during the all the months so now the contracts signed russian sports officials have a reason of their own for assembly and shower. russian prime minister's press secretary dmitri pascoe thinks the project will do good not just for associates but for the entire country. we do appreciate the interest of the relevant companies to sponsor the project we do appreciate the proactive. approach of. regional authorities of crust in the region. i have no doubt that the project will be not important only for for this region but for the whole country in terms of

image lots and lots of people will be coming here to such and they will be seeing how beautiful this city is they will be seeing how hospital people of sochi are. certain a would it will only bring benefits and not only in terms of image but people will be spending money here and. small and midsize business will be paying more taxes so it will bring economic life so i think it's really a very interesting and useful project. stay some time now to shore show you more of what the world's largest country has to offer in our russia close up series. today we take you to trip to valeting nova road which is about five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow founded nearly twelve hundred years ago as one of russia's oldest cities it was governed by parliamentary style body the vet check

a the first democratic system in russia r t zero god now takes a look at the city's roots. each year they gather in the small city of not garage to celebrate the past at a time when novgorod was the capital of a trading empire that spans from finland today edge of siberia for the from the start that the worst of the week you know god knows we are the army of the ruler of novgorod from the height of its prosperity so many people have forgotten but 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 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 with which the road offers a glimpse of what a different russia might have been like instead of thora tarion or simply they 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 number became the setting for 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 bang distaff 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 forbearing of it is laughable hans ski that is the biggest tragedy before world war two the soviet authorities melted down most of the enormous bells whose unique peel charm across the city from saints a fierce cathedral 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 glories. of the sea no girl. civil liberties in the kind of society that britain is becoming under are under scrutiny next speech to conservative member of the parliament of parliament dominic .

i'm talking to dominic robb who's a conservative m.p. who claims that successive new labor governments made what he calls an unprecedented just felt pretty dominant 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 see 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 though isn't it the government have to be seen to be protecting people

but at the same time protecting that individual liberties have they overstepped the mark well that's it i mean the last government was typical played a lot of politics in this. and they presented this is a sort of seesaw trade off and yet when you looked at the measures one by one they rated all freedom debate did very little for our security the proposal to extend attention that charge to ninety days was not justified on the evidence that we actually saw about police investigations id cards something that was said would help stop illegal immigration and terror and and terrorism as well it was very clear when 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 to come out 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 top what can be done now to reinstate see where 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 cut 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 that the state has with its citizens it sounds a lot like this government will be dedicated to undo ing 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 god in this country but i think it's also very relevant to what we've got today but the idea is to have less law so you're going to create a new law 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. terus i think we should have a much more abbas process prosecutorial strategy more use of plea bargaining 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 or seem like they would make it easier for terrorists and other criminals to be prosecuted your watch surely that's a good thing i think 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 feel the european investigation order would only exacerbate that risk because what it basically allows is for an investigation

authorities to demand not request demand british police forces to cash cash strapped at the moment going on those sorts of pressure with a tight budget situation is 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 that data with the bank records of d.n.a. whatever it may be just not there in countries like paul 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 when i think it's too late for a referendum on that i think at some point and of course once the dispute there's been 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 britain 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 reflects and i heard phil johnson from the other

end of the media spectrum from the daily telegraph say this we use that instinctively react against the states incursions into war for. tof respects and i think that we've got to do i think the single biggest challenge is to stop scrutinise takes the case but these new laws these new powers and one of the suggestions i had today was i need to have one queen's speech every five years in a parliamentary term that maybe you can get 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 of that i think the media are a much more acutely sense to now on both sides of the political spectrum with 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 and they may complain about it they may try to raise the profile of a justice but we've picked off one by one as individuals in different ways in

different parts of our life and and civil liberties always being inherently vulnerable to that kind of slowed abuse but we've got to do is recognise 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. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images that are seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all.

two thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team these are your headlines who go chavez once again puts the boot to america but offers russia for kernel friendship as the flamboyant latin american leader arrives in moscow with the first day of a state visit energy defense and financial affairs will be on the agenda when the venezuelan leader meets president medvedev and prime minister. female politicians have been hitting the headlines in the u.s. under the right wing tea party banner but critics say conservatism with a feminine face is getting plenty of press her questionable reasons.

not content with just staging the olympics so she signed a six year deal to hold formula one motor racing giving it the checkered flag in the race to host russia's first ever grand prix. well up next it may be hard to reach but the come shot cup in insulin rushes far east still attracts many visitors from across the globe stay with us for an exciting trip to a paradise for thrill seeking tourists and a sanctuary for wild animals it's coming your way next stay with us. springs in the ultimate little souls. and steaming pits. goings of fun tins and dead souls through some lakes. an eternal confrontation of science. and. a unique.