a blog address posted online dmitry medvedev warns russia's political system show you signs of stand a nation and he calls for greater political competition ozzy's entirely another one has been watching his message. in his address russian president dmitry medvedev mainly spoke about the need to modernize russia's political system with the help of gradual but still reforms but also to make sure that a stable political system doesn't mean that it's the naysaying. zelig national political system or we simply want to make our political system more fan more flexible dynamic and more open to renewal and development it must enjoy the confidence of our lecturing it is no secret that for some time now signs of stagnation it began to appear in our political life because debility has threatened to turn into stagnation or. person president also spoke about the freedom of speech in the country they need to improve the quality of popular representation have stronger opposition forces and to simply have

a better political competition and more rights for political minorities. or if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight and it degrades and becomes marginal if the ruling party never loses a single election it is just coasting appley ultimately to degrade its just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of political competition with a russian president has also said that the ruling party in washington not simply as a supplement to the executive power list here a list of bills have been completed that made major amendments to the multi-party political system on a nation wide scale in the key points of those amendments or decreasing the human factor in those counting providing more rights to political minorities and minimizing risks of elections money relations politician this is still. my hope

that our political system has been improved quite significantly as a result of these adjustments i am absolutely sure that it has become more open and flexible because of the. ultimately it is also become more fair i mean more points i made. and democracy is imperfect absolutely. we are still at the beginning of the most important thing is that we are not standing still we are going for you know well of course this address comes at a very important sign for washers the electorate period is approaching parliamentary elections will take place in december two thousand and eleven and this is when all the amendments that have been introduced this year will be taken to the test. that will to watch president medvedev full video blog on russian democracy to head to. call ok europe's on higher tarif to belgium authorities arrested

a number of products all islam with twenty six people with seized on suspicion of plotting a christmas campaign of terror suspects all being linked to international terrorist organizations and chechen militants daniel bushell reports from brussels. police here in brussels say they busted an islamic terrorist cell tied to russia's republic of chechnya which is planning attacks throughout europe so it is swooped on fifteen people suspected recruiting jihad is to fight in iraq and afghanistan that comes just hours after all sorties launched pre-dawn raid on homes of another eleven suspects who were tied to a chechnya linked network the belgian prosecutor's office said quote there were an international terrorist group using a stream is an internet site and saw to plan an attack it comes as part of massive coordinated raids across europe in countries like the netherlands denmark and germany where thirty one year old russian man of chechen origin was arrested

suspected of training. to fight terrorist campaigns those arrested or belgian. and russian origin this is seen as among the first top level links that police have found between russia's chechen. rebel organizations and the worldwide al qaeda network and also to say those arrested are suspected of gathering recruit some money to finance a chechen terrorist organization called the caucasus emirate in effect to found a separate islamic state based on syria law in the cells of russia and it comes in the wake of horrific attacks in russia from those moscow metro bombings that we saw earlier this year two increasingly but bloody suicide blasts in russia's southern republic of dagestan and chechnya of the one of those attacks russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said that those chechen linked groups were based and was

standing very much in line with al qaida but after that the united states but chechen rebel leader dog or more are on the most wanted list of terrorists but it's really taken this set of events to show that russia's chechen terrorists networks are standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. british security analyst peter powers says the terrorist network has helped strengthen european cooperation he says this raid is not spore important people are giving it credit for let's not fool ourselves al qaida is somehow great regiments of uniformed soldiers marching over the horizon it is in fact much more of a franchise yes there's a strong power base in the foothills between afghanistan and pakistan and it's clearly. a strong cobol now operating in yemen but we're now seeing this creeping out under this broad term of al-qaeda but it doesn't necessarily mean it's got the

official stamp on it so what we've seen it's a tremendous increase in european cooperation and most crucially an increase in not just intelligence gathering but intelligence sharing. i've never quite seen it like this before but you know something really bizarre about this i went on to the b.b.c. website i found it impossible to find this story it's been overtaken by the events in north and south korea but also by the pope talking about condoms the royal wedding coming up in the u.k. strangely enough it's called off the front page a bit quickly in the u.k. you know many people see this is very significant. security analyst peter powell commenting there on the recent arrest of radical islamists you're well on its way here on the delusional idea. that. after decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world's largest landlocked fields and went away and talked with

a gargantuan fishing industry but now coming back the friends joined me in the air old seat and central asia. all the rights of journalist have just won backing from a made to european security watchdog the zero s c e sent a letter to the u.s. secretary of state condemning the recent detention of an used team the organization is calling on hillary clinton for an independent investigation into the council using american police. to fall in their attempt. to create those arrested while covering a peaceful protest while i was trying to treat count me in the state of georgia i'm one of the some. crew members spend around thirty two hours in jail before they were released on bail. south korea says it has discovered the bodies of two civilians who have said so how been killed as the result of the shelling by north

korea will pyongyang claims tuesday's attack of the disputed or western maritime border was in response to seoul find weapons that during military drills to south korean marines were also killed in the shelling so hit back with the refiner of its details about the council on the northern side have not been revealed while the international community is demanding all two countries maintain their cool to prevent a new wall from breaking out all the peninsula but pyongyang warns it will strike again if the sound violates the order by so much. despite all this. south korean. president is using again then phil he's going to school gangs. we've got the korean peninsula those two countries north and south are still in a state of war out there was only an armistice signed until russia and china king talked to the north to get them to back down but we also have to have the united states put pressure on president lee myung bok of south korea because he's been

very warlike unlike his predecessors who were trying to open up to the north and the policy of the sunshine diplomacy cross border visits special economic zones this particular president south korea is very aggressive very right wing and very unpopular at home and the only thing he has going for him is to boost his image by getting into a military showdown with the north. process against austerity measures have flared up once again in cities across europe portugal has ground to a whole state a twenty four hour general strike over public sector pay cuts and tax rises it comes to days before parliament votes on this of the any budget meanwhile students all over the u.k. author ageing occupations and marches that universities over the government's plans to increasingly diverse wishing things well people are marching in central london

and these are live pictures that we're at still seeing at the moment all the london town police say that they're warning bell ad being forced to make arrests of demonstrations turn violent when i say people around here at all paying for the politicians but it's. the problem is that it's ordinary people who are going to have to pay for the mistakes of the bankers and the actually galatians of those banks by politicians of all parties right across europe and across the western world but the bottom line is the euro was a mistake in the beginning thank goodness we never joined the single currency it is going to crash and burn i think the euro as a currency whether the you can survive is another issue that is the major pressure the moment the german people as well sort of for bailing out a column is like greece like ireland and indeed now portugal is well i think spain

will be the will be the straw that breaks the camel's back i mean it just isn't sustainable i don't show you can chart the economies of somewhere like greece with an economic powerhouse like germany for that's the fundamental problem the euro krauts of you know here in new the u.k. we get forty eight million pounds a day to brussels out of church with the man and woman in the street. more stories on analysis on the web site of course. he is just as ace what else is online the minute. number of us better and take their own line is going to they'd return from the front lines in iraq and afghanistan unemployment leg from the authorities on names as being among the reasons for the sword. going back to their books as a. measure of fish and find out what best bald heads. heads

to the stars all that. the recent nato summit in this been was not just about talking politics seems. the missing french president nicolas sarkozy was kept awake by an excessively noisy policy at his hotel with its handle of the delegation from georgia which isn't even a nato member threw a sizzling is social reportedly with no less than eighty. at least that's what a portuguese newspaper is claiming the policy reportedly came to an abrupt halt. and several other officials complained to hotel stalls it's not clear whether the georgian president himself was there but he was present at the summit. and his aides get to comment on the alleged. a summit in russia which aims to save the world's a tiger population is heading into its final day and one of hollywood's top cow

demonstrated his dedication to protecting the animals from extinction and establish the porter of the tiger's plight leonardo dicaprio endured a raft journey to st petersburg which saw his plane catch fire and another voice went out of fuel what is a first flight to russia has turned back to when the engine shut down in. the start and switched to a small private jet but strong winds a. plane used up too much fuel and was forced to land in finland one refusing to stop later. venturing made it to save. his titanic efforts to join the sun that won him praise from russian prime minister that he would protect. mr di caprio not just came to us. through the front line excuse me if i may but in our country people usually that's what we call a real. and i think people with such character would be responsible for defending

nature or a tiger in this particular case or were destined for success but it would the world bank is a major player in the drive to say the time days president robert zoellick spoke exclusively to r.t. out the forum. the nature of the bank is it's a network player and this allows us to bring different parties together for tigers which are a wonderful species in and of themselves but also known as an umbrella species so if you protect the tigers you're protecting a lot of other prey animals and part of the biodiversity since we launched this in two thousand and eight we've worked with the tiger range countries themselves try to learn their lessons in terms of preserving the habitat dealing with some of the enforcement issues and what i think is distinctive about this process is that each of them have come up with tiger recovery plans you know where the past couple days they've been blended into a global tiger recovery plan which will then need the support of the bank and the

global environmental fund and different donors to try to finance it. ok let's get a check on some other news making headlines around the world this hour and a second explosion in new zealand call my has ended hope of finding any of the twenty nine missing because unlike police thing no one could have survived what was described as a horrific blast rescue attempt but how to put it in the lead up to the explosion due to a buildup of methane and carbon monoxide gases the tragedy is the country's worst mining accident in this century. afghanistan's electoral commission house released the majority of results from the country's elections three of the country's four provinces and so far. and only danzy province remains it comes almost two months after the polls closed in the vote clouded by accusations of ballots stung thing and voter intimidation afghan officials announced wednesday decision was get

to be released on the final province despite a substantial investigation. investigators in cambodia have blamed a swaying suspension bridge for triggering a stampede that killed hundreds the crowd gathered in celebration of the finally thing of the country's annual festival a government ministry reported the death toll could be as high as four hundred and fifty six where most of the victims crossed while the suffocated has been declared a national day of. the un's predicted hundreds of thousands will likely be affected by the cholera epidemic in haiti the outbreak has killed move and fourteen hundred people the disease is spreading much faster than originally thought and it's feared it may even end in neighboring dominican republic what haiti's still expected to hold national elections this sunday despite the turmoil. now what was once the world's fourth largest lake central.

asia's is now more deserts the more the soviet union's plan to grow caught in the steps or shrink to a fraction of its size bringing hunger and then to once prosperous region but today major efforts to see the water so once more is bringing hope to thousands and. it starts with. these men fish in one of the worst manmade environmental disaster areas ever know. this just dried out and then the truth turns to see back to us. when central asia became the center of the soviet union's plan for cotton cultivation it nearly drunk dried the rivers feeding the erroll see what covered sixty eight thousand square kilometers in one nine hundred sixty around the size of southern california shriveled to a tenth of its size by the mid one nine hundred ninety s. nearly disappearing by the year two thousand here where the greater and lesser seas

split there's just enough left for modern technology to make a stab and regenerating it in two thousand and five the cocoa around dam was constructed to trap what little water still flows into the lesser sea from the searing river loch safely inside the water is growing to witness the results you must drive hours over rough seas and. then there it is right the fishing villages might be ghost towns now but groups of men in numbers of about twenty to thirty camped out at the newly rehabilitated beaches and catch these about one hundred kilo's a day until they've earned enough money to survive and they go back home. they live in dugout hats even in the coldest of winter but this new career means food on the table for young omar he was born long after commercial fishing had ceased. i've

been fishing for two years my grandfather was a fisherman but he died right now we all work for a month straight living at the shore then have a week off that's when i go home to our ask we don't get a salary we had piece work payment twenty species of fish now wriggle out of the water and into the hands of the grandfathers of this industry still around to pull out the nets want to get a card bring him for a hike cap fish he'll wouldn't want fisherman or returning to their home or a foreigner overseas providing us with work and profit again they even say it will come back to our lives in around the silent still stands the locals know waves no boats yet there's been one after a serve my term in the army when i came back and the water was no longer here that was nine hundred seventy three zero people said that it wasn't the first time they will see had gone they see the sea will be back and maybe we will live to see the good times and life will be even better we do hope. the water has twenty

kilometers to go until it's back. to restore the entire erroll sea want to make it the way to used to be. part remains of what will help solve many problems in central asia but while the industrial might of the past can all be restored in iraq will once again become a political it may never be what it once was but the arrow scene now boasts two thousand men who now fish for their living for them that's enough when the france r.t. kazakstan. and i went in is going to hold x.'s business news for us offer a short break so don't go away. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

welcome to a business program i'm sure on a quiana we can go straight to our top story germany's stake in russia's gas giant gazprom commerce on a daily reports the put out the potential buyer is v e b bank. currently owns three point five percent of gas prom was the largest utilities in the selling off assets in order to compensate for falling earnings earlier the company's chief said the stake in gasp. with the company aiming to expand in china and brazil. finance minister alexei could rule says he even a supervisory board hasn't discussed the deal yet. and staying with gas moscow and

beijing are likely to agree on the price of russian gas supplies to china before the middle of next year the news came after russia and chinese prime ministers held talks on tuesday in st petersburg where energy relations top the agenda medina reports. the latest round of energy dialogue between russia and china hasn't broad what many analysts were anticipating a pricing policy both sides find suitable on tuesday prime minister putin sound that hugo she ations between gazprom and china national betrayal and company i'm going according to plans. as you would to my energy between our countries developing quite successfully we have finished construction of the pipelines that are you know that scene starting from the first of january two thousand and eleven with supplies of russian oil will arrive in china the negotiations between b.c. are going on successfully we're also thinking to develop nuclear energy corp but

the main focus is to future gas trade gazprom and c m.p.c. signed a framework agreement last year for shipment of natural gas to china the deal could see seventy billion cubic meters of russian natural gas sun to china annually this size have been disclosed the price of which they want to sell and buy their differ by one hundred dollars for one thousand cubic meters of counts both parties things that they can tackle the pricing to speech by the middle of next yeah meanwhile a distant transportation system is needed to successfully sent russian gas to china one future route could be the old tipline klein construction is supposed to start in twenty eleven it will start from russia's western siberia and x. breed gas to northwestern china next summer. supply demand picture in europe will be more visible we'll have a lot more time to organize from we'll have

a lot more time to converse reality of the new market rules there's going to be even more link between prices and gas prices in the european markets and i think churn use him will get stronger this on some gas from wants to dance trust that china is to focus of that speech or growth and it seems the asian pacific region is where. ration will grow between other global oil and gas players why didn't bush look business. and the russian government made a controlling stake in most of the big companies currently planned for privatization at the moment the state is planning to retain fifty percent plus one share in the ten large companies from the list but if the market situation is favorable they may decide to do something holding a twenty five plus one share when taking just blocking a stake although even that is not enough for the head of russian m.d.m. bank. company is it to live market companies which is

akin to. a company competitive environment where the big decision is this company fully because in this case if you say until this company. the. state is the shareholder. it's going to. go for fair competition is it going to be a very complete issue is the. issues. and let's have a look at the markets in europe stocks are higher following heavy losses in the previous two sessions the footsie is trading over half a percent higher and the dax is up over one percent among shares on the move u.k. food service company that's up four and a half percent after lifting its dividend payout by a third. dropped around. six percent after the irish government will take a majority stake in the lender. and russia's markets have reversed from earlier

losses and are trading in the black this hour although trading in the black on the r.t.s. with no else no call the biggest gainer up one point four percent bucking the trend rise hydro has gained the same result on the my sex. and balance pretax profits at large and medium russian companies grew by more than fifty percent during the first nine months of the year that's according to a report by the states and to state services wholesale retail and real estate companies show the strongest performance. and that's all we have for you this hour you can always find more stories on our web site that's our new dot com slash business stay with us.

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president medvedev as the miss of the country and democracy is still in effect but they're all signs of improvement in his latest online video blog address he's calling for more competitiveness politics is this instant signs of stagnation. a terror threat hangs over the christmas holidays in europe belgium arrest of twenty six and radical islamists the suspects all being linked to international terrorist organizations and chechen millicent's. students all over the u.k. are taking to the strings to process they've the government's plans to increase university tuition fees police have warned that they'll be false to make arrests if demonstrations.