a very warm welcome t. this is r.t. live from moscow with me alice have it wrong the president's admitted the country's democracy is still imperfect but it is improving in his latest video blog address posted online to meet the revered of warrants russia's political system shows signs of stagnation and he calls for great support school competition and having 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. political system or we simply want to make our political system more fan more flexible more dynamic and more open to renewal and development he must enjoy the confidence of our electorate

it is no secret that for some time now signs of stagnation have begun to appear in our political life has to pretty has threatened to turn into stagnation with. the national 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. if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal or if the ruling party never loses a single election it is just coasting ultimately it to degrades just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of political competition with a question president has also said that the ruling party in russia should not simply as a supplement to the executive power let's hear

a list of bills have been completed that made major amendments to the multi-party political system on a nationwide scale and the key points of those amendments were decreasing the human factor in both counting providing more rights to political minorities and minimizing the risks of elections money relations politician this is still more i 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 them. ultimately it is also become more fat and the more points i made. and democracy is imperfect and we are absolutely face but we're still at the beginning of the most important thing is that we are not standing still we are going forward you. will of course this address comes at a very important sign for russia is there let true 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 towards president medvedev is full video blog on the russian democracy to head. calm now i had to make it upon a comment from the central executive committee of the ruling united russia policy says the president that his message was also to encourage greater right to proceed from the opposition i think he was trying to say actually that should develop with relates to united russia and the opposition parties in the russia that have already started a lot of innovations such as primaries. the development of the intraparty discussions such as the dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. bonus as well and that will be very important

because as we all know the quality of decision is taken by the authorities depends on the quality of criticism they get so they need to have very good feedback. both united russia and up a tree project should provide this kind of feedback in order for system to be sustainable but one thing that a public comment from the central executive committee of the ruling united russia policy. now thousands of students have flooded the streets of central london in another wave of protest against the government's plans to increase tuition fees and can't university budgets demonstrators attacks police found which was marooned when the crowd descended on whitehall students all over the u.k.'s stagings the same process and universities and attending marches school pupils have also joined in some parts of the country where police are warned that they'll be forced to make arrests if demonstrations turn violent then beaches organizing some of the protest

says sometimes aggressive measures do make a difference. do violent methods really achieve anything well so do not necessarily support them the argument has been made with the poll tax riots which did achieve a repeal or even the suffragette movement which used violence to win the vote for women now there is a distinct possibility that if the wishes of the british people are ignored again then the protests will erupt into violence jewish and fees are being raised as much as nine thousand pounds a year this will settle students with debts of as much as forty thousand pounds before they graduate the main reason for this measure being introduced as a response to the banking bailout the need to reduce our deficit but what is being asked of the millions of students have not yet even finished school are going to be asked to pay for their education for a banking crisis they did nothing to create the anger and frustration of others is palpable. europeans are also suffering from tough austerity measures portugal has ground to hold as workers stage

a twenty four hour general strike over public sector pay cuts and tax rises well it comes to days before parliament votes on a new budget meanwhile island which has been severely hit by the debt crisis a four year plan to save fifteen billion euros it involves the toughest austerity measures dublin has ever faced including spending and carts as well as tax rises your therapy plans a condition of. ireland to receive its bailout from the e.u. and the i.m.f. but some experts say adopting the single currency was the country's mistake in the first place. 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 preparing our economies like greece like carland and indeed portugal as well i think spain will be the it will be the

straw that breaks the camel's back i mean it just isn't sustainable i don't show you can charge the economies of somewhere like greece with an economic powerhouse like germany for that's the fundamental problem for the euro you know here in new u.k. we get forty eight million pounds a day to brush out of church with the man and woman in the street. on its way here on all celia nodded account given a woman she didn't. find the holly was called a real man by prime minister david. the rise of journalist of just one backing from a major european security watchdog the o s c e sent a letter to the u.s. secretary of state condemning the recent detention of an all too news team with you're going to his agent is calling on hillary clinton for an independent

investigation into the case accusing american lease of going it's too far in their attempts to maintain order they also was arrested whilst covering a peaceful protest outside a military academy in the. dubbed the school office with him and spent around thirty two hours in jail before they were released on bail. europe is on higher terror. or to the rest of the number of radical islamists at least twenty six people were seized on suspicion of plotting a christmas campaign of terror suspects are being linked to international terrorist organizations and chechen militants bushell reports now 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 suspect of recruiting jihad is to fight in iraq and afghanistan it comes

just hours after all storage is launched pre-dawn raid on homes of another eleven suspects who were tied to a cicily are linked in its work the building prosecutor's office said quote they were an international terrorist group using a stream internet site and saw al mujahedeen 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 of chechen origin was arrested suspected of training jihadists to fight in terrorist campaigns those arrested or belgian dutch 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 also to say those arrested are suspected of gathering recruits and money to finance a chechen terrorist organization called the caucasus emirate in effect to found

a separate islamic state based on a surreal law in the south 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 sergei 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. we do check out more stories on analysis on our website. just a taste of what's online few out the minutes i reckon the number of young uns

veterans that take their own long after they return from the front lines in iraq and afghanistan unemployment and the glad you're fourteen is it named as being among the reasons for the saw. and going back to their books as astronauts just last minute revision find out what's best on the head of their trip to the stars all that and much more at. the recent nato summit in lisbon that wasn't just about talking politics after a long day's work at the meeting french president nicolas sarkozy was kept awake by an excessively noisy party at his hotel it turned out the delegation from georgia which isn't even a naysayer through a sizzling social reportedly with no less than a c. process chines at least that's what a portuguese newspaper is claiming the policy reportedly came to an abrupt halt after several other officials complained to tell stahl it's not clear whether the

georgian president mikheil saakashvili himself was there although he was present at the summit with georgia lawmakers are now calling for an investigation. papers reported an absolutely outrageous front this is another proof of you think you are going to tell prostitutes in the hotel it was also noted by local police this is shameful behavior and it needs to be investigated who will be punished because it has to do with the country's reputation. a summit in russia which aims to save the world like a population is heading into its final day and one hollywood talk had demonstrated his dedication to protecting the animals from extinction and established supporter of the tigers plight leonardo dicaprio endured a rough journey to st petersburg which saw his plane catch fire and another almost

run out of fuel when his first flight siracusa had to turn back to new york with an engine shut down in flames the star then switched to a small private jet was strong winds over the atlantic airplane used up too much fuel was forced to land in finland one refueling stop later on the hollywood hero eventually made it. his titanic efforts to join the summit one praise for russian prime minister that he would present. mr dicaprio not just came to us but simply burst 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 that of people with such character would be responsible for defending nature or a tiger in this particular case were destined for success in the world is a major player in the drive to save the tiger its president robert zoellick spoke exclusively to r.t.

out of forum. century ago you would have had about one hundred thousand tigers and now you're down to maybe thirty to thirty four hundred and when you think of those numbers you really realize and this is one of the things that certainly energized me is that within our lifetime this species that most of us grew up thinking was you know part of our ecosystem could be caught could be extinct many people are unaware that the wildlife trade is the third largest illegal trade after arms and drugs so we this will only work if you get support of the law enforcement customs communities the bank has experience in dealing with countries on the ground but also in the very nature of economics transporter issues and one of the nice things is in addition to dealing with the environment ministries we have a long history of dealing with the budget and finance ministry so we try to connect the dots on what's an issue that has to be multi-disciplinary. ok that's going to check now as well the headlines from around the world this hour and a second. coal mine has ended hope of finding any of the twenty nine missing

workers and why police say no one could have survived what was described as a rift last rescue attempts at the company to reach up to the explosion teams who build up of. carbon monoxide gases the tragedy is the country's worst mining accident in a century. south korea says it's discovered the bodies of two civilians which is said to have been killed as a result of the shelling by north korea claims its use days attack on the disputed western maritime border was in response to seoul firing weapons during military drills to the south korean marines were also killed in the shelling of hit back with artillery fire of its own details about casualties on the northern side have not been revealed the international community's call for restraint on both sides. investigators in cambodia have blamed a swaying suspension bridge for triggering

a stampede that killed hundreds the crowd gathered in celebrations the final evening of the country's national government ministry reported the death toll could be as high as four hundred fifty six most of the victims were crushed while others suffer cases the day has been declared a national day of mourning. now what was once the world's fourth largest lake central ages are all see is now more desert than water the soviet union's plan to grow cotton in the steps or shrink to a fraction of its size bringing hunger and disease to once prosperous region but today major efforts to see the waters slow once more is bringing hope to thousands then see france how how thirty's. it starts with sun up these men fish in one of the worst manmade environmental disaster areas ever know. the city that you just

wrote and then a trip turned brought 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 at regenerating it in two thousand and five the cocoa round dam was constructed to trap what little water still flows into the lesser sea from the searing river locked safely inside the water is growing to witness the results you must drive hours over rough sea that then there it is bright blue the fishing villages might be a ghost towns now but groups of men and numbers of about twenty to thirty camped

out at the newly rehabilitated beaches and catch days 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 ahmad 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 and 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 once again carp bring him a pike catfish. fisherman are returning to their home and finally this is providing us with work and profit again they even say it will come back to our desk in around

the silence still stuns the locals no waves no boats yet there's been one after our serve my term in the army 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 say 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. it's impossible to restore the entire erroll seat or to make it the way to used to be if it pleases the northern part remains it will help solve many problems in central asia but while the industrial might of the past can all be restored and food. will once again become a port. 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 lindsey france

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t.v. dot com. hello welcome to business news i'm sure on a qian and straight to our top story germany's eon may sell its stake in russia's gas giant gazprom homicide daily reports the potential buyer is v e v bank. currently owns a three point five percent of gas palm was the largest utility is selling off assets in order to compensate for falling earnings earlier the company's chief said the stay in gas problem was lost for t.j. but the company aiming to expand in china and brazil finance minister alexia who says t.v. supervisory board hasn't discussed the deal yet. as 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 russian and chinese prime ministers held talks on tuesday in st petersburg while energy relations top the agenda medina

culture reports. the latest round of anarchy dialogue between russia and china hasn't brought what many analysts were anticipating a pricing policy both sides find suitable on tuesday prime minister putin said that negotiations between gazprom and china national betrayal and company are going according to plans. worth the energy between our countries developing quite successfully we have finished construction of the pipelines covered 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 known successfully we are also thinking to develop nuclear energy corp but the main focus is future gas trade gasp roman sand prissie signed a framework agreement last year for shipment of natural gas to china the deal could see seven two billion cubic meters of russian natural gas sun to china annually

this size have been disclosed the price at which they want to sell and buy but their differ by one hundred dollars for one thousand cubic meters of gas both parties think that they can tackle the pricing dispute by the middle of next year meanwhile a distant transportation system is needed to succeed. that's really 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 the supply demand picture in europe will be a lot more visible we'll have a lot more time to forecast from will have a lot more time to converse reality of the new market rules there's going to be even more dick copland with three or prices of gas prices in the european markets and i think chinese have will get stronger from this on some gas from once again

stress that china as the focus of its future growth and it seems the asian pacific region is where a future and cooperation will grow between other global oil and gas players might you know which not business. the russian government may sell 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 it may decide to reduce its holding in many of them to twenty five plus one share retaining just a blocking stake although even that is not enough for the head of russian m.d.m. bank. you've got to put it is it to live markets go with you which is. completely completely different what are the business sees this company flu because in this case if you should see this company we will manage the. state is the

shareholder to show for you just go with it if you didn't go for fear of completion is it going to be very complete you should know is the. issue. now let's take a look at the markets russia's markets have reversed from earlier losses and are trading in the black as we approach the end of trade on wednesday all the blue chips are trading in the black on the r.t.s. with normal cynical of the biggest gainer up more than two point five percent hydro has gained more than two percent on the my sex. and u.s. stock futures climb after reports show unemployment fell to the lowest in two years while consumer spending rose boosting optimism in the economic recovery the dow is up by almost a percent and the nasdaq more than one and a quarter percent. and in europe stocks are higher following heavy losses in the previous two sessions the footsie is trading just over one percent higher on the dax is up over one and a half percent and among shares on the move u.k.

food service company compass group that's up five percent after lifting its dividend payout by a third bank of ireland dropped around six percent after a report the irish government will take in majority stake in the lender. 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 stick service wholesale retail and real estate companies showed the strongest performance. and russia's my sex exchange will launch trading of the chinese yuan against the ruble next week the head of the exchange believes interest in the market will be fairly limited to start with i think it's very important that we stop it but i don't think it's going to be overwhelming and good compared to other current. markets would have like a real dog for example but i think it's a good it's a good thing for the trade between two countries same for those people who do

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in moscow welcome but amid the mists of the country's democracy it's too late. but they're all signs of improvement and his latest online video blog address is painful as if this in russian politics system is showing signs of stagnation. and terror threats prangs they were the christmas holidays in europe as belgium arrests twenty six radical islamic states the suspects being linked to international terrorist organizations and chechen minister it's. students all over the u.k. it's taking to the streets protest over the government's plans to increase you know best what you wish in fees and cut budgets across the channel is a crying out against crippling austerity measure it's. now in the wake of various apathy america has taken on but the so you know.