here in moscow welcome to the program now russia is on the road to creating a democratic society with fair elections freedom of speech and political flexibility well addressing the nation in his latest video blog president dmitry medvedev said that while the system was not perfect the country's on the right path are things not all the novikov a has more on 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 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 debility has threatened to turn into stagnation or 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 in more rights for political minorities. if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal if the ruling party never loses a single election if it 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. question the president has to 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 to keep points of those amendments or decreasing the human factor in both counting providing more rights to political minorities and

minimizing the risks of elections money relations politicians. 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 aware of this but we are still at the beginning of the road the most important thing is that we are not standing still we are going forward well of course this address comes at a very important sign for washers the electro 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 was artie's natalia novack over there and to watch president various full video

blogger rushing democracy head to our team dot com meanwhile dimitry polly conover of the ruling united russia party thinks the message shows of there should be input from not only the ruling party but from the opposition as well. i think he was trying to say is that actually it should be with relates to united russian opposition parties in the united russia have already started a lot of innovations such as primaries. the development of the interparty a discussion of the dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. opponents 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 playground so they need to have very good feedback and both united russia and up of the participants should provide this kind of feedback

in order for system to be sustainable. thousands of students have flooded the streets of central london in a new wave of protests against government plans to increase tuition fees and cut university budgets demonstrators attacked the police back ritual as a band then when the crowd descended on white hot students are were they are staging sit in protests at universities and attending rallies with even school pupils taking part of fifteen of protesters have been a wrestler's so far but police are warning of a tougher approach if there's more violence john grant from the referendum cadbury's says ordinary people are suffering because of politicians mistakes he thinks britain should stop paying to support you again bureaucracy. here in new u.k. we get forty eight million pounds a day to brussels 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 of the bankers and the actually good lation of those banks by politicians of all

parties cross europe and across the western world where it's all merry people are paying for these whether it's students here in london who demonstration today whether it's train workers or whether it's people who work in the public sector the simple fact that the bankers and the politicians seem to go away scot free we're not into your ratio 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. other european countries are also suffering from tough austerity measures portugal ground to a halt in a twenty four hour general strike over government imposed pay cuts and tax rises and it comes two days before parliament votes on a tough new budget meanwhile our lead which has been severely hit by the debt crisis has unveiled

a four year plan to save fifteen billion euros involves the toughest measures has ever faced including spending and job cuts as well as tax rises the plan is a condition for our land to receive a bailout loan by the e.u. and i.m.f. which will however be even more debt for the country and that relatively high interest rates but some experts say budget costs are irrelevant until a new approach to single currency is implemented. people forget that before this budget cuts we had other budget cuts we are going to the. verge of cuts all of the while ago people were telling us that they had already done the most that they move through the budget cuts and markets leave the beast so what happens is that you as institutional weaknesses does our witnesses not only of the brief economies each other very different from the other boats difficulties weaknesses

common currency. the rest of the whole. by pinpointing budget cuts in all the economy if the interests keep raising well what happens is that budget cuts today will be ineffective to morrow and we've seen this movie already so i think it's. a whole new approach is needed. and all the way here on our to our special report from there all see the slow recovery from one of the worst ever man they call to disasters after decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world's largest landlocked these went away until i can take fishing industry but now coming back when the french join me in the air i'll see central asia. almost four thousand have taken part in a bad protest march demanding the president of bellary steps down.

candidates in next month's presidential election were among those taking part despite the bad current president alexander lukashenko has been in power for three terms spanning sixty years and the standing of once again he's been criticized for suppressing the opposition and the media protesters call for a fairer and more democratic election process with one presidential candidate urging more demonstrations on. 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 round so if he proclaims victory saying he's gained more than seventy percent of votes which he's already claiming now it means the election was rigged and we're going to have to defend our rights and. there's no other way to do that than to stage a protest. now a top european security watchdog. has written to the u.s.

secretary of state condemning the weekend detention of an orgy reporter and camera man in america the body is calling on hillary clinton to investigate if police in georgia overreach their powers in their attempt to maintain order the crew was arrested on camera while covering the peaceful demonstration outside a controversial academy which trains latin american military the school of assassins by critics in the state of georgia spent thirty two hours in jail before being released on bail but will face charges of disobey police and take part in the legal gathering. for some at last nato summit in lisbon there are better things to do than simply talk politics french president nicolas sarkozy found this out the hard way when he was kept awake by a rather noisy a raucous party at his hotel it turned out the delegation from georgia which is not a hater member forgotten invite suckle to be all my bash it was hosting the party

which allegedly was also attended by some our media and delegates came to one abrupt end after psycho's he and several other officials complained to hospital staff according to a portuguese newspaper there were no fewer than eighty prostitutes in attendance there were georgian president mikheil saakashvili was at the nato summit it's still unclear whether or not he made it to the party georgian lawmakers are now calling for an investigation. which is an absolutely. this is another proof of you think you. did you did the whole town it was all too looted by local police this is shameful behavior and it needs to be investigated. he will be punished because it has to do with the country's reputation. well let's have a look at what's online right now what are to dot com our record a number of american military that. and start taking their own lives out for

returning from iraq and afghanistan of find out why unemployment the lack of government support on. it and it back to the books. through some last minute let's find out what they're studying up on ahead of their trip into space all that and more online right now at our dot com. what was once the so what was once the world's fourth largest lake a central asia. more desert than water the soviet union's plan to grow cotton and the stuff saw it shrink to wait fraction of its size bringing hunger and deceased to a once prosperous region but did a major efforts to see the waters flow once more are bringing hope to thousands lancy france has the details. it starts with these men fish in one of the worst

manmade environmental disaster areas ever know. just wrote about in a true journal brought the seed back to us. when central asia became the center of the soviet union's plan for cotton cultivation it nearly drunk dry 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 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 they are 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 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 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 want to cart and bring in

a hike catfish. 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 lives in around the silent still stands the locals know waves no boats yet there's been one after i've served 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 it 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 a horrible to restore the entire erroll sea want to make it the way to used to be if it pleases the northern part remains of what will help so many problems in central asia but while the industrial might of the past can all be restored in full iraq will once again become an. 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 not been the france r.t. kazakstan. let's not have a look at some international news in. a second explosion. has ended the hope of finding. of any of the twenty nine workers trapped in an underground blast on friday police who broke the news to distraught relatives say no one could have survived what they called a horrific blast rescuers were prevented from entering the pit by dangerous gases while efforts to use robots also failed the tragedy is the country's worst mining accident in a century. the bodies of two civilians have been found in south korea following the shelling of an island by north korea. claims tuesday's attack on the disputed western maritime border was in response to seoul firing weapons during military

drills two south korean marines were also killed in the clash the international community has called for restraint from both sides. now in the wake of voter apathy america has taken on the persona of a violent bully the rest of the world to spices and that's the message cartoonist ted rall is taking across the u.s. to promote his new book parties in the sea of shore get us sat down with the outspoken war critic.

archie sitting down with award winning editorial columnist and cartoonist ted rall to 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 stuff. and here in the us 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 this 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 ninety percent is just paying off the interest on all. old wars that are over and we're not fighting any more 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 u.s. is on the 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 there there's not enough differentiation so big swathes 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 the change is 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 hell. for us and it's obviously terrible for the world but you also claim 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 not 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 and that religious force is is very nativist racist bigoted zina phobic and anti-feminist anti-gay it's a very it's very narrow minded all of these attributes not to mention the major attribute of being so militaristic is are elements that we saw in traditional fascism in germany and italy where there's civilian rule the military is to 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 his promise is 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 the 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.

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watch in our new time now for a recap of our top stories this hour president move yet it has admitted the country's democracy is still imperfect but there are signs of improvement in his latest online video blog addressing his call for more competitive as russia politics here the system so signs of subtext and. leadership didn't protest once again turn violent as thousands mobilize against university fear rises and education cuts intensifies and other european union countries over crippling a stair investors to save the euro. and our two look set attempts in central asia to regenerate what was once among the world's largest place that is now little more than a dried out the soviet union supplied to grow call.