democracy is still imperfect but it is improving in his latest video blog address posted online dmitri medvedev warns that russia's political system shows signs of stagnation and calls for greater political competition artie's no tell him of a cover has been watching his message. and his address question doesn't need to be defined 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 fat more flexible more dynamic and more open to renewal and development he must enjoy the confidence of our lecturing 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 where 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 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 too 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 act simply as a supplement to the executive power list here a list own bills have been completed that made major amendments to the multi-party political system on a nation wide scale and the key points of those amendments for decreasing the human factor in both counting providing more rights to political minorities and

minimizing the risks of elections money relations politicians 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 the. ultimately it is also become more fan and the more points i made. and democracy is imperfect and we are absolutely worth this but we still at the beginning of the route the most important thing is that we are not standing still we are going forward with will of course this address comes at a very important sign for washes the electoral 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 is to tell the novikov reporting than to watch the president but his full video blog on russian democracy had to watty dot com thoughts about it to me to pull

a con off from the central executive committee of the ruling united russia party says that russia president medvedev his message was also to encourage greater activity from the opposition and see what he had to say i think he was trying to say that actually the parties should develop with relates to united russia and the opposition parties in the united russia have already started a lot of innovations such as primaries such as the development of the inter-party discussions such as the dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. paul and says well and it 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 and both united russia and up of three parties should provide this kind of feedback in order for systems to be sustainable to me to public on are from

the central executive committee of the ruling united russia party commenting on the russian president's warning of political stagnation of the country and one quick reminder again tomorrow but his full speech available on our website dot com. thousands of students of flooded the streets of central london in another wave of protests against the government's plans to increase tuition fees and cut university budgets demonstrators attacked a police van which was marooned when the crowd descended on white all students all over the u.k. staging sit in protests at universities and attending marches school pupils of also joined in in some parts of the country play small they will be forced to make arrests if demonstrations turn violent then beach in some of those protests says sometimes aggressive measures do make a difference. do violence that is really cheap anything well i do not necessarily support them the art has been made with the poll tax riots which did achieve

a repeal or even the suffragette movement which is violence to win the vote for women now there is a distinct possibility if the wishes of the british people are ignored again then the process will erupt into violence well earlier i spoke to brian he's from the u.k. conservative think tank the bow group he told me he believes violent protests could never be justified in any way the demonstrations aren't going to change the government's decision i think that everyone has the right to protest and obviously there are some very strong views about the issues that the country has to deal with at the moment but the fact is that britain has been living beyond its means for a very very long time and some incredibly difficult decisions had to be to be made now i think it's absolutely central to the british way of life that people have the right to protest peacefully. when that's when those protests were over into violence and i think in the case of these process let's remember it's been a relatively small minority of people involved but i think there is overstepping

the mark of course that got the government is going to have to take on people's feelings and there are very strong feelings here but i think they're going to see through the task. europeans are also suffering from tough measures portugal's ground to a halt as work in stage a twenty four hour general strike over public sector pay cuts and tax rises it comes two days before parliament votes on a tough new budget meantime oland which has been severely hit by the debt crisis is unveiled a four year plan to say fifteen billion euros it involves the toughest austerity measures dublin's ever faced including spending in job cuts as well as tax rises the study plans a condition for him to receive. the i.m.f. but some experts say budget cuts are irrelevant until a new approach to the single currency is implemented this morning people forget that before this budget cuts we had other budget cuts in portugal we are going to the third round of budget cuts and ireland the while ago people were telling us

that they had already done the most that they were. short in budget cuts and still markets do not believe in peace so what happens is that you as this additional weakness is that our witnesses not only of the brief law economists each other very different from the other but difficulties weaknesses of the whole common currency so they should be addressed as a whole and not by pinpointing budget cuts in one on or the other economy if the interests keep raising well what happens is that budget cuts that we are doing today will be ineffective tomorrow and we've seen this movie already so i think that's. a whole new approach is needed. by the way tonight i mean out of a company who responds to a call of the wild find one of the hollywood style is called a real man broadness of the new products and. after

decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world's largest landlocked these went away and took a gigantic fishing industry but now coming back i'm lindy france he joined me in the air all sea in central asia. about those stories much more after this quick break. the official altie application your phone on pod touch from the.

light on the go. video on demand. of mine. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. on the dot com. there i said journalists are 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 attention of an r t news team the organization is calling on hillary clinton for an independent investigation into the case accusing american police and going too far in their attempts to maintain order the r.t. crew was arrested while covering a peaceful protest outside a military academy in the state of georgia dubbed the school of assassins the two crew members spread around thirty two hours in jail before they were released on bail. interesting stories most next from recent nato summit in lisbon is not just

about talking politics it seems after a long day's work at the meeting french president nicolas sarkozy was kept awake by an excessively noisy party of his hotel where is this going you ask well turned out that the delegation from georgia which isn't even a nato member threw a sizzling social reportedly with no less than eighty prostitutes there at least that's what a portuguese newspaper is claiming the party which is. also thought to involve some armenian delegates reportedly came to an abrupt halt after sarkozy and several others officials complained to hotel staff it is not clear whether the georgian president mikheil saakashvili himself was there he was present at the summit georgian lawmakers and calling for an investigation. into the torture these papers reported an absolutely outrageous front this is another proof of post sylvia think you are delegates have prostitutes in the hotel it was also noted by local police this is shameful behavior and it needs to be investigated but look the guilty will be punished because it has to do with the country's reputation. mistake about it

now to check out was it r t dot com tonight was doing that then in fact stories getting a lot of hits tonight one that we brought you yesterday and if you didn't have it would be interesting to see this now i'm sure a record number of young us veterans taking their own lives after the return from the front lines in iraq and afghanistan and all the danger there seems unemployment in the blood from the forty's and named among the reasons for all three soaring prices they're also going back to the book is nothing to do it doing some last minute revision parent leave find out what they're swotting up on ahead of their next trip to the stars all that more are to go on. a summit in russia which aims to save the world's tiger populations heading into a final day and one hollywood's top cat demonstrated his dedication to protecting the animals from extinction and establish supporter of the tigers plight leonardo dicaprio enjoyed a really rough journey to some petersburg which i'll tell you about now it's always

playing catch fire and then another one almost out of fuel the first flight to russia turned back to new york when an energy shut down in flames then the star switched to a small private jet but strong winds over the atlantic meant the airplane used up too much fuel so it was forced to land in finland anyway one refueling stop later the hollywood hero did eventually make it to st petersburg his titanic effort to join the summit one prays to. from the russian prime minister vladimir putin. why didn't you come up with mr to copy all not just came to us but simply burst through the front line excuse me if i may but in our country people usually say that's what we call a real man. and i think that of people with such character would be responsible for defending nature in order to tiger in this particular case were destined for success but you know in the world bank's a major player in the drive to save the tiger its president robert zoellick spoke exclusively to us at the forum. a century ago you would have had about one hundred

thousand tigers 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 gone 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 the finance ministry so we try to connect the dots on what's an issue that has to be multi-disciplinary. some top will do stories in brief now tonight first of all a second explosion in that new zealand coal mine is ended hope of finding any of the twenty nine missing workers alive police say no one could have survived what

was described as an horrific blast rescue attempts have been hampered in the lead up to the explosion because of a buildup of methane carbon monoxide gases the tragedy is the country's worst mining accident in a century. south korea saying tonight it's discovered the bodies of two civilians who were said to have been killed as the results of the shelling by north korea. claims choose this 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 seoul hit back with artillery fire of its own details about the north haven't been revealed international community has called for a straight from both sides. investigators in cambodia have blamed this suspension bridge for swaying for triggering a stampede that killed hundreds a crowd gathered in celebration of the final evening of the country's annual water festival a government ministry reported the death toll could be as high as four hundred and fifty six people most of the victims were crushed of the suffocated thursday has

been declared a national day of mourning. afghanistan's electoral commission has released the majority of results from the country's parliamentary elections all but one of the country's thirty four provinces have so far been certified and only the eastern gulf new province remains it comes almost two months after the polls closed in a vote clouded by accusations of ballot stuffing and voter intimidation afghan officials announced wednesday at decision was yet to be reached on the final province despite a substantial investigation into four. next what was once the world's fourth largest lake central asia are all sea is now a little more than a desert the soviet union planned to grow cotton in the steps saw it sink to a fraction of its size bringing hunger and disease to a once prosperous region but today major efforts to see the waters flow once more bringing hope to thousands this is the last of lindsey france's special reports this week. it starts with sun up these men fish in one of the worst manmade

environmental disaster areas ever know. the city just dried out 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 brown 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 ghost towns now but groups of men in numbers of about twenty to thirty camped out at the newly rehabilitated beaches and catch the day's about one hundred kilo's a day until they've earned enough money to survive and they go back home. they live in dugout hearts even in the coldest of winter but this new career means food on the table for young now mark 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 didn't have a week off that's when i go home to our ask we don't get a salary we get 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 car that will bring him

a hike catfish he'll want to be one fisherman are returning to their home or far and away the sea is providing us with work and profit again they even say it will come back to artists in around the silent still stuns 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. it's impossible to restore the entire erroll sea want to make it the way to used to be if it pleases the northern part remains of it will help solve many problems in central asia but while the industrial might of the past can all be restored in full iraq will once again become until. 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. in just ten minutes from now we hear why both democrats and republicans are failing to tackle america's biggest problems talk of business before that sharon is here after a quick break. the international association of russian language and literature teachers will hold the world festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian song as well. because the participants of the world festival of russian language and when an exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more

information visit the festival website. welcome to the business news i'm sure on a way to go straight to our top story eight billion dollars of new deals were dought at the fifth russia china economic forum held in moscow on wednesday up just thirteen contracts were signed in different areas of the economy medina cochon of all reports on the deepening trade ties between the two nations. banking timber mining and television these are just some industries where the chinese and russian business have got to get out this year and most of them are agreements between russia's me dolly investors shipping are an order to china worth three hundred

twenty million dollars then yes she can on bank and chinese state development bank attracting investment into building would precessing plants and many other this as part of the developing trade between the two nations russia's my six exchange will launch trading in the chinese us against the ruble next week i think it's very important that we stop it but i don't think it's going to be overwhelming and get compared to how the current. markets work out like a little for example but i think it's a good it's a good thing for the trade route into the conference and for those people who do transactions with china and being here on the government here once chinese firms to participate in the upcoming privatized program which will involve the russian state selling up stakes and hundreds of firms the private sector is also candy aware of the importance of china both a somali kids and as

a manufacturing base by jim keel of vice president of the industrial equipment division at the corn uka says the main challenge for many russian companies as the vast territory and a bewildering choice of potential politeness you know with by the way it's very difficult to find a good company that is suitable to work with however i can say that chinese changing rapidly the quality of their output is increasing now we're seeing better managed companies with high tech skills emerge technologies that were not present in the country before were trade volume between the two countries is expected to return to pre-crisis levels by the end of the year russia is dead this is lying it's a. toys and its presence and the asian pacific region the main focus is choice and the scale of this forum shows how much russia's hopes for future prosperity in trade laws with the east might in the question

a lot say moscow. and 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 on the list but finance minister cluetrain says if the market situation is favorable the government may decide to reduce its holding to twenty five percent plus one share this would leave just a blocking stake although the head of russian m.d.m. bank things even that is not enough. if companies use it for live market companies which is. completely completely different water that the business is this company fully because in this case if you stay until this company will be much higher than the state is a shareholder to the circle it is this company that's needed but the one before fair competition is a country where you can produce is a. heel. or since. and germany's eon may sell its

stake in russia's gas giant gazprom comments on daily reports the potential buyer is v e b bank on currently owns three point five percent of gas prom world's largest utility is selling off assets in order to compensate for falling earnings earlier the company's chief said the stake in gas problems non-strategic with the company in need to expand in china and brazil finance minister says supervisory board hasn't discussed the deal yet. and let's take a look at the markets russia's markets reversed from earlier losses and close in the block at the end of the trade on wednesday most of the blue chips were up on the r.t.s. with normal cynical the biggest gainer up more than two point six percent hydro and spare bank both close with over two point nine percent on the my sex. and wall street has been given a lift after reports show unemployment fell to the lowest in two years while consumer spending rose boosting optimism in the economic recovery the dow jones is

up by just one and a quarter percent and the nasdaq is currently just under two percent. in europe stocks closed higher following heavy losses in the previous sessions both the dax gained over one percent by the end of the trading day among shares on the move with the u.k. food service company compass group that was up seven point three percent after lifting its dividend payout by a third bank of ireland dropped around six percent after reports the irish government will take a majority stake in the lender. and balance the tax 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 to stick service wholesale retail and real estate companies showed the strongest performance. that's all we have for you for the sour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.

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this is r t from moscow i'm kevin now in our top story tonight president of the country democracy is still imperfect but there are signs of improvement in his latest video blog address his call for more competitive russian politics is showing signs of stagnation. all over the u.k. are taking to the streets to protest the government's plans to increase university tuition fees and cut budgets across the channel workers of crying out against crippling austerity measures. among the world's largest legs it is now a little more. prosperous reach. twenty two thirty one in the wake of voter.