he is far from perfect in his latest video blog address posted online to me to revert it warms the country's political system shows signs of stagnation and he stressed the need for greater political competition is an italian overcover watch this 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 lecturing it is no secret that for some time now signs of stagnation have begun to appear in our political life because to pull a team 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 you slip. 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 kate is just coasting ultimately 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 russian president has also said that the ruling party in russia should not 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 nationwide scale and the key points of those amendments or decreasing the human factor in those counting oh providing more rights to political minorities and minimizing the risks of elections money relations politician this is still my 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 fat and the more points i made. and democracy is imperfect and we are absolutely worth this but we still at the beginning of the wrote the most important thing is that we are not standing still we are going forward. will of course this address comes at a very important sign for washes 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. parties are telling overcovered where to watch president but his full video blog on russian to mock receive had to walk home to me to public on a from the central executive committee of the ruling united russia party says president but his message was also to encourage greater activity from the

opposition i think he was trying to say that actually the parties should do well with relates to united russia and the opposition parties in the united russia that have already started a lot of innovations such as primaries such as the development of the interparty discussions as a dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. and says 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 and both united russia and up of three projects should provide this kind of feedback in order for system to be a sustainable thought so to me triple a can are from the central executive committee of the ruling united russia party commenting on the russian president's warning of political stagnation in the

country just quick reminder again to me to have his full speech is available online com. thousands of students have flooded the streets of central london another wave of protests against the government's plans to increase tuition fees and cut university budgets two policemen were injured in scuffles around whitehall protesters also started fires and smashed windows students all over the u.k. have been staging sit in protests at universities and attending marches school pupils of also joining been in some parts of the country in reports of fifteen protesters being arrested john daunt from the referendum campaign says ordinary people are suffering because of politicians mistakes things britain should stop paying for support you in iraq receive here in the u.k. we get forty eight million pounds a day to brussels they're out of church with the man and woman in the street and the problem is that each ordinary people are going to have to pay for the mistakes the bankers and the actually get lation of those banks part politicians of all

parties right across europe and across the western world they're all married people are paying for these whether it's students here in london good demonstration today whether it's showing workers or whether it's people who work in the public sector the simple facts are that the bankers and the politicians seem to go away scot free we're not in the euro zone of course we've never even had a referendum which is why we're part of the e.u. referendum campaign dot com we want a referendum on whether we stay in europe but at the moment the euro itself which of course we're not part of the single currency is crashing and burning. malin europe's also suffering from tough austerity measures portugal was brought to a halt in a twenty four hour general strike of a public sector pay cuts and tax rises it comes two days before parliament votes on a tough new budget meanwhile oland which has been severely hit by the debt crisis has unveiled a four year plan to save fifteen billion euro it involves the toughest will stare at the measures dublin's ever faced including spending and job cuts as well as tax

rises a plan b. plans a condition for islands to receive bailout loans from the e.u. and i.m.f. but which will plunge the country to move but some experts say budget cuts are irrelevant until a new approach to a single currency is implemented. 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 i will on the a while ago people were telling us that they had already done the most that they move. in budget cuts and still markets do not live in peace so what happens is that you as this additional weaknesses that are witnesses not only of the brief law economists each other very different from the others but difficulties weaknesses of the whole common currency. were dressed as a whole and marked by pin pointing to budget cuts in one on or the 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 as well as you got the situation. in the first in the windows of the you know what you calls call micro economy portable micro what do you want a very different from ours we don't have the same deficits with it's completely different i think that. problems that we've had for the last decades and that are actually aggravated instead of solved by the euro. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of the by the russian capital minsk demanding the president steps down. among those attending a rally is said to be leading candidates in next month's presidential election and examine has been in power for three terms and started once again protesters have also been calling for the election process to be more democratic vote counting to

be more open and transparent one of the present presidential candidates told r.t. direct action is the only way to defend the rights of. the presidential election on december the nineteenth we're planning a mass protest it's very likely that he'll do that because he doesn't have enough support to win in the first room so if he proclaims victory saying he's gained more than seventy percent of books which he's already claiming now it means the election was rigged and we're going to have to defend our rights and voters roots there's no other way to do that than to stage a protest. on the way tonight r.t. our special report from the hour all see in the slow recovering from one of the worst ever manmade ecological disaster. after decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world's largest landlocked these went away and a gigantic fishing industry but now coming that i don't think france and joined me in the air i'll see central asia. writes a journalist who just won backing from

a major european security watch dog the o.e.c.d. 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 of going too far in their attempts to maintain order the 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 spend around thirty two hours in jail before they were released on bail. the recent nato summit in lisbon was not to. 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 at his hotel it 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 at least that's what a portuguese newspaper is claiming the party which is also thought to involve some amenia delegates reportedly came to an abrupt halt after sarkozy and several other

officials complained to hotel staff it's not clear whether the georgian president mikheil saakashvili himself was there although he was present at the summit georgian lawmakers are now calling for an investigation. after the torch of newspapers reported an absolutely outrageous front this is another proof of post soviet think you are delegates had prostitutes in the hotel it was also noted by local police this is shameful behavior and it needs to be investigated i hope the guilty will be punished because it has to do with the country's reputation that is . the second minute check out what set r.t. dot com tonight some stories going to hits tonight that moment brought you yesterday if you haven't called it already record number of young u.s. spectrum taking the lives of the return from the front lines in iraq and afghanistan unemployment in the glen from the authorities named for the reasons for the alarming increase. going back to their books as arsenals to some last minute revision find out what they're swotting up on ahead of

a trip to the stars more dark to dog. fish fish. fish. what was once the world's fourth largest leg central asia is our all seeing is no more desert the mortar the soviet union's plan to grow cotton in the steps toward soaring 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 many fronts reports it starts with sun up these men fish in one of the worst manmade environmental disaster areas ever know but all the same just wrote and then a trip turned brought the seat 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 coca around 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 seas and. 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 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 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 then 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 once again carter bring him hike cap fish kill one more fisherman or returning to their home or foreigner overseas providing us with work and profit again they even say it will come back to our disc in our round the silence still stuns the locals no waves no boats yet this morning after a 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. was that i did it's a bit more civil to restore the entire aerial see also make it the way it used to be if it pleases the northern part remains it will help solve many problems in central asia but while the industrial michael the past can all be restored and food arrives it will once again become a built home it may never be what it once was but the air all seen now boasts to thousands of men who now fish for their living for them that's enough when de france r.t. has expanded. and over some other news making headlines around the world a second explosion of the new zealand coal mines ended hope of finding any missing

is alive they say no one could have survived what was described as no griffin blast rescue attempts have been hampered 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 a century. south korea says it's discovered the bodies of two civilians who are said to have been killed as a result of the shelling by north korea claims chooses attack on the disputed western maritime border was in response to seoul firing weapons during military drills to south korean marines were also killed in the shelling soledad back with artillery fire of its own details about the north cultural things haven't been revealed the international community has called for restraint from both sides. it is in cambodia swaying suspension bridge 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 fifty six most of the victims were crushed one of the suffocated thursday has been declared a national day of mourning. but. in the wake of voter apathy america's taken on the

persona of a violent bully the rest of the world despises that's the message cartoonist ted rowlands taking across the u.s. to promote his new book parties and has to sit down with the outspoken critic. you lose a little. i . archie sitting down with award

winning editorial columnist and cartoonist ted rall ted thank you so much for meeting up with us today thanks for having me let's get right into it right now you're on a tour for your new book which is called the anti-american manifesto clearly that name is bound to tick off some of the political establishment here in the u.s. for our viewers give them a little bit of a sneak peek into the main message of what it's all about it's a call to arms it is addressing the fact that neither the democrats nor the republicans are able or willing to address the biggest problems facing the united states today which are the economy the environment health care and the wars and now you have to ask yourself as an american do you want to tolerate the system do you want to tolerate a system that is unresponsive and not going to go anywhere or do you want to change it the anti-american manifesto is not anti-american it's anti the american government or more specifically american government we can do better and that's what we want to that's what i want to do now you're

a big critic of america's wars and occupations both in iraq and afghanistan a call to arms really seems like you know an aggressive way to respond to the aggression that the u.s. government is involved in the reason i oppose this particular regime is because it is so in aggressively violent. as the rest of the world knows. the united states is always involved in some kind of war of aggression it rarely goes spends an entire year without invading some for some foreign country and that's only part of the story i mean there's the overall economic system that the united states provoked presides over that is incredibly violent and unjust so i'm talking about taking on this monolith this violent horrible disgusting system that is is brutal and is willing to do anything you're going up against them you can't fight these guys with one arm tied behind your back you're probably going to lose anyway but you you have to you have to be serious would you say that u.s.

military presence across the world is basically the number one priority of american foreign policy well it's certainly the number one. priority of us federal spending fifty four percent of u.s. federal tax dollars go into the military nineteen percent is just paying off the interest on old wars that are over and we're not fighting anymore so what the united states is all about is about invading other countries and in and exerting foreign military power whether it's through military bases of which that nobody even knows how many there are if you call the pentagon they can't tell you if it's seven hundred eight hundred nine hundred or a thousand bases they don't know how much or how many people they have under arms somewhere between two and three point five million directly or indirectly using foreign using mercenaries i mean it's a crazy monolithic roman style empire and nobody talks about it including anywhere in the world or here it's not allowed you say in your book that the story of the

united states is drawing to a clause close and you call the us is army empire and especially in the light of the recent elections when we see republicans again enjoying their power it really feels like a circle of republican democrats republicans democrats where will that change come from that you talk about well it's certainly not going to come within the existing system. what we're seeing now that you just referred to this flip flopping the two parties are so close together on the overall ideological framework from left to right that they're there's not enough differentiation so big swaths of the population are not don't feel represented at all which is why our voter turnout is among the lowest in the industrialized world in the changes not going to come from the d.'s and the r.'s the democrats and the republicans and the fact that people are constantly just voting against the party in power is a symptom of that people are frustrated the message they're sending is not right now we support the republicans nor was it in two thousand and eight we support the

democrats the message is we hate them both so we're voting no the story of the united states government as the twentieth century invading bullying imperialistic economic and political empire that is coming to a close it is unhealthy for us and it's obviously terrible for the world but you also claimed that it's very likely that the united states could become a fascist state and this is clearly a statement that is bound to get many people outraged what do you see these traits well i don't think that we're going to see you know brown shirts and nazis stepping in the streets but we have elements of proto fascism in american culture today whether you look at the vague nature of the politics of the tea party where you know vagueness political vagueness and a lack of ideological specificity is a trait of extreme right wing politics the cultural back basis of so many americans

particularly in the middle of the country and in the south is centered around extreme forms of right wing christian fundamentalism in it that religious force is is very nativist racist bigoted zina phobic and. minister anti-gay it's a very it's very narrow minded all of these attributes not to mention the the major attribute of being so militaristic is are elements that we saw in traditional fascism in germany and italy where there are civilian rule that military is is not worshiped you know we don't have all this rhetoric about the heroes have fallen another fallen hero this is not to say that we should disrespect the military but americans have especially since nine eleven have come to fetish eyes the military now i want to ask you one of the latest articles of yours is called obama was bad

from the start. realistically which of his promises has he kept in the in these last two years has he kept well that's well that's to be a short short answer well he did promise to escalate the war against afghanistan and he has he did try for health care sort of but health care reform turned out to be really creating a system of teevan worse than what we have now he hasn't kept many promises i mean he promised he would close guantanamo that he would end torture that he would end extraordinary renditions that he would ramp down and pull out of iraq all he did was rename the troops who were in iraq from combat troops to something else assistance force as he is he's a very cynical guy i want to ask you about following up on afghanistan do you think it could become the graveyard of the u.s. is an empire like many people are predicting since there's not really an end in sight we know the pentagon has come up with twenty fourteen as the timeline but not

a deadline what does that mean decades more i thought two thousand and eleven was supposed to be the deadline and now it's two thousand and fourteen and who knows how long this goes on i mean there are so many threats to america's continued status in the world that it's hard to know exactly what will bring it to an end all we know is that it's unsustainable you know it's kind of the united states is kind of like a wild man who uses drugs and drinks and commits crimes and beats people up and everyone hates him all you know is he's going to come to a bad end you really can't be sure how but something bad is going to happen ted rall thank you very much for your tennis thank you i. wish it was that so much for you to be sitting on. mark let's play the blame game

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present the country's democracy. but there are signs of improvement in his latest online video blog address he's called for more competitiveness in russian politics as a system shows signs of stagnation. world's largest lakes but is now. under the once prosperous region. and students all over the u.k. taking to the streets. and protest over crippling stereotypes. next is the hope for peace in the middle east. to bait the subject of the latest edition of the show just moments.