if. i'm. down to business is strong energy ties between russia and china are at the center of a major financial performance and petersburg on how to push the world economy forward . moscow and beijing two of the world's largest merging of chrono means come together and are expected to be the big players at this year's economic forum in st petersburg join me and you see now why for more in just a moment. wall hostility the u.s. congress threatens to block washington's campaign in libya it's not in full swing for ninety days we don't know make or approval. thousands of

palestinians are left scraping for a living as israel with holds money owed to the government over fears it could be used to fund terror attacks. are well news and much more twenty four hours a day you're watching the t.v. the supply of energy will remain that the very center of russian chinese relations was central to me to madrid after talks with china's hu jintao in moscow to leaders have now moved to st petersburg for the city's international forum. and he said no way is calling the three reasons brainstorming events and joins us now and the president did of his opening the forum in just a few minutes time now there are many issues to discuss well to be the priority.

of this of course is a venue that world leaders and business executives and n.g.o.s can get together and really discuss the issues i have to say just from what i've seen so far it's really done in a very informal manner so they really get to talk and it's very open and and transparent . really hundreds of people can watch these discussions openly this year it's expected that russia and china are going to be the big players like you said president medvedev expected very shortly to begin the opening speech and following him will be his chinese counterpart hu jintao we'll be bringing you that live of course here in archie are expected to hear some very common themes from both russia and china when it comes to president it's expected that we will hear more about of course his trademark modernization plan for russia and really for the world especially for emerging economies like china brazil south africa and india a lot of big c.e.o.'s here from silicon valley like eric schmidt from google and

they're getting together with russia skolkovo group which of course is the plan to build a silicon valley just outside moscow that's something that's very important to president madrid to and he feels like two parties like china and like i said the other bric countries can benefit from that so i think that's a theme that we're going to hear very much at least in the first day after this forum under. to speak to the guests agreement between the russian chinese the two most importantly does look to see who do you think. we've heard from gas from said that the deal of course like you said will not be signed at this forum but they're very confident that it will be signed by the end of the year if you mentioned this is of course a difficult contract it's going to bring vast amounts of gas to china whose needs are very are enormous the world's largest cities really for power as it rapidly develops and russia basically is the only country that can guarantee stability when it comes to that so the head of gazprom very confident that it will go through but mentioning that that very last step they don't so much work together over the years

to plan with the very last part of sealing the deal is always difficult both sides confident like i said that that will happen in terms of the economy really when you look at ross and china they're quite unprecedented in the sense that other countries in europe and the united states are struggling with cutbacks with budgets . to get their act together when it comes to the dollar and the euro and russia and china have already beaten their pre-crisis levels or rather broken their pre-crisis levels so all those countries are struggling they're watching russia and china develop strongly about of course brings the two countries very much close together with both sides say they consider each other very very important partners. in the book its national economic forum a thank you indeed for that from the of course we will have live pictures of the speech president and get it as soon as we get it out. of the u.s. the president is under thought from congress over the military campaign in libya

which is continuing despite not having the approval of lawmakers barack obama has rejected accusations that would always be. well given that americans are only playing a supporting role through nato which makes it legal to snatch a chemical. u.s. lawmakers are saying that president obama has to either stop waging war in libya or ask for congressional approval the lawmakers claim that the military action will violate the nine hundred seventy three war powers resolution if it does not and by friday and they mean this friday ninety days after the intervention began under the u.s. constitution to wage a long term war the president needs to get accusation from congress and really say the obama administration will certainly find a way to get around the requirement by referring to his right as commander in chief as well as certain legal speak you know up to this day the administration has refused to say war when it comes to their actions in leadership they call it

kinetic military action as a result of that kinetic military actions of humans are bombed their very day a group of international observers is now in tripoli including the former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney we spoke with her a few days ago she said be heard and be counted eighty nine blasts in just one day those are civilian neighborhoods eighty nine bombs dropped in just one day there is a lot of concern that the voices of those who work out in that war in tripoli go unnoticed in the international community but here in the grass it seems the voices of the majority of americans those who oppose the u.s. military involvement in libya also go unnoticed by the white house the administration continues to stress the good caustically pursuing leave here but some analysts say the administration also seems to be in denial when it comes to the will of their own people regarding the issue as well as constitutional crissy gers legal experts say there is not much congressman can do to force the president

will comply at least with the u.s. constitution because there are ways to get around ways the obama administration seems to be using extensively most congressmen now criticize president obama for as they say ignoring congress the capitol hill observers say small speech and what it calls for lawmakers are playing the score points by snubbing. presidents come the day to actually be told what the majority of them will vote for more military spending as they always do but there is a small bipartisan group of congressmen from people in it who went further than. they sued president obama on the grounds that he's violating the constitution but everybody here knows that the lawsuit is certain to be dismissed on procedural grounds because the supreme court has determined that members of congress do not have standing to file such a suit and this is where it heads a dead end and it makes me wonder whether or not u.s. lawmakers actually have the capacity to effectively represent the people. in terms

of credibility in the future of the they two campaign could be fatally damaged if congress forced for a component to abandon operations for david swansong says the problem is that there's a political confusion over exactly what's happening in their white house doesn't make the arguments that many of its supporters make sure that the war powers act does not apply much less the constitution because this is neither a war nor are hostilities this is something else this is a military operation that doesn't rise to the level of hostilities which is absolutely absurd the war powers act was written in one nine hundred seventy three very intentionally and clearly to encompass all military engagements to clearly imminent threat so far still it is our mission in dennis to soonish was debating former lawyer from the reagan white house he was defending obama and he asked this guy twice never got an answer if there were two thousand missions over the united states by a foreign nation and many of them were dropping bombs would there be war with the

hostilities he could have gotten congress to authorize war in libya it would have been waiting easily done he could've done it in the sixty day gap after he started the war he chose not to presidents want and this president is no exception the cowardly war zone near zero. a u.s. judge called the case against alleged russian done i think to boot unconvincing prosecutions i can say shannon's been. consulting and some prosecution lawyers a manhattan federal judge said she didn't see much evidence against newt he's currently awaiting trial on your prison facing charges of smuggling arms to colombian rebels accusations he denies who was arrested in a two thousand and eight american sting operation in thailand and later extradited to the u.s. . america's top commander says uncle his new leader would be found in the killed just like osama bin laden the new top man iman i was and what i mean has

been the second in command since the terrible perspired in the eighty's but terrorism expert phil reese says that the writer who's in charge of artillery that washington will still use the proceeds of terror threat as an excuse for military action. where he was the main fear efficient osama bin laden fought in broad strokes it was a month of glory was involved in the nitty gritty and some people even said he was brains behind the movement so in that sense they'll be a continuum i think the west. was wrong footed by what was going on in the middle east and i think they're very keen to have a foothold there now certainly al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is one of the most active ideological groups there but the yemeni yemeni president ali abdullah saleh who was injured recently used al qaeda as an excuse to get funds from the united states and then he used those funds against another group in a local dispute and in the same way that i think that the united states can attack

drone attacks on certain areas and claim that's flying we're going to so our influence there shouldn't be questioned so i think we should be slightly cynical about those claims. israel claims it's fighting so there are fees and handover tax and customs things collected on behalf of the palestinian autonomy it's similar to pay wages israel says it could be used to fund the tax policy reports. enter a unity government alongside palestinians are even less likely to see their money. and other weak guards the palestinian ministry of finance his job is to check everything that comes into this building but he has no control over what goes out least of all his salary which is paid by the ministry and sometimes comes long overdue probably my salary comes later it's like my life starts i simply cannot do anything i have a wife and four children to feed and when i don't get paid on time it makes lots of problems for me and my family. i want to keep the ministry gets its money from

israeli government it comes in the form of customs and tax treaties or tell of if it's been collecting on goods arriving at israeli ports and distant palestinians the arrangements in one thousand nine hundred three is part of the oslo accord given television control of the international borders between israel and the palestinian territories where the money transferred each month to the palestinian ministry of finance which uses it to pay wages except now we're talking about three hundred five million dollars for this ministry gives can be five hundred fifty pounds and. ask anyone to remember they were freed the situation should still palestinians fear that tel of of could again choose to withhold tax money like it did last month israelis argue they have every right to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons the salaries of hamas terrorists paid from the same bank account so i don't want to find these terrorists the.

palestinians insist the money's for ordinary workers it is edged sword because on one. punishment but on the other hand it's a punishment it's a collective punishment that would mainly weaken the moderate elements within the palestinian society and played to the hands of the extremists the relationship between hamas and fattah is a turbulent one for both groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned liberation of statehood no doubt israel will be working even harder to thwart him should feel its interests are threatened policy r.t. women are. well for more stories on life in the protestant on talk radio you can go to altie don't call me where we have more nice is always available for you online because a critical care right now of what's involved hates a cuban born cia agent links to multiple only he's trying to cheat the u.s. city of miami from other things country and serve sentences for unproved crimes.

and flash mobs become a way for better russians to voice their discontent with government policy that face repression is for peaceful actions and for the more it. and some other stories now from around the world this hour syrian security forces have expanded their assault to the northwest of the country deploying tanks around several towns and forced people to flee raising the estimated number of refugees to almost nine thousand u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has urged president assad to stop killing people and engage in dialogue on service say fourteen hundred died since protests began in march. and greek prime minister is preparing to name a new government to push through austerity measures are crucial because if you.

look what's new to secure these appear a circle on a plane well. that's what one person. released a court papers show that dominique strauss kahn told police he had diplomatic community optimistic take that also j.f.k. airport the former head of the international monetary fund was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last night pressuring devices geishas has been released on bail faces up to twenty three years in prison if convicted. huge gloucester dropped from israeli city of meantime merry merry hours on friday evening for people who think police and italy suspected a terror attack but explosion is now thought the result of a gas leak the residential building rescue workers say was very cool that anyone managed to get out of it rather than life. now work on

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start with one of the most important russian economic events of the year the st petersburg international economic forum. well i believe that we are actually going direct live to the floor right now to. to hear from the old. the englishman did your. name is the chairman of the people's republic of china hu jintao the esteemed guests ladies and gentlemen i am very happy to welcome you at the economic forum in st petersburg russia it is a great privilege today the more true of all four on is emerging leaders with the

news year last year we discussed lessons learned from the crisis today as members of the global elite discuss new opportunities for growth and we see that leaders of this new growth are emerging economies according to the i.m.f. . the pace of growth of emerging countries are going to be two point five times higher than the pace of growth in developed countries for years to come ten years ago the share of emerging market amounted to about twenty percent of the global g.d.p. think well in five years we expect that this share will exceed forty percent the world is confronted with the following question what kind of growth. in the changing world will be played by additional growth centers such as developed economies today we see that the mood amongst investors and political leaders is

changing for the better together with economic indicators however the crisis of two years back is still high on the agenda. for governments and businessmen this is not by chance. because in spite of the growth of global economy and investment we remember that the last crisis. well they exist in live from russia's economic form and sent and that was speaking from russia's economic development minister and we will take you back live to see it is where i began when president medvedev takes to the stage. the city of st petersburg has always been called russia's window to europe but with the economic forum underway it's become a window to the whole world. all eyes are on russia's cooperation with china now its largest trading partner the two sides are discussing a landmark gas deal that will enable russia to deliver almost seventy billion cubic meters of gas to beijing within thirty years the price now is still

a sticking point but drop coverage still leaves a deal could soon be struck this week. because some problems in the face will solve the last couple of weeks. so we'll see today whether the thought is a for sufficient degree without the leaders of this bilateral. and so patients so i guess the issue was mentioned called let's let's call that because oversold. russia's major financial corp sistema is set for energetic expansion the company is planning to spend five billion dollars to buy businesses ranging from agriculture to chemicals the c.e.o. of system and a couch family outlines the cornerstones of this strategy the expression strategy is very simply have to return the cost of that which if you use the force whatever to which ne profits into something so that's the primary current we're expecting and we have to do whatever it takes in terms of for investing in projects and davis

to get existing assets to deliver this kind of return to our two key markets our russia is a primary market we're ninety percent of our investment is concentrated in the city which is so because what the market has to do those are the markets that we're going to be looking forward to i suppose expand on the existing businesses that we operated and also new projects. alcoa the top aluminum producer sees a big future for the metal with an average growth rate of six point five percent annually becoming wants russia to take a big part in that development and the vice president says they're trying to make that happen. we have strong business and russia been here since two thousand and five to seven hundred fifty million dollars in the market you see we see growth in this market so we're we're going to we're going to focus on russia and what we're trying to do in russia is increase productivity which is make sure that you know

both our plants reach a level of productivity that is this isn't what we were seeing a root you know growing when the man growing we look at a market like china. fifteen percent in two thousand and eleven seen emerging like russia we see the man growing probably eleven or twelve percent this year so it's double digit growth believe me there's a lot of substitution going on copper wire you change into going and there's a lot of lightweight vehicles trucks and cars where you have to meet new emission gas standards and so a lot of people are shifting to a woman and. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing oil prices are continuing to drop this again after the major losses of two days ago the uncertainty on the commodities market is a reflection of the investors' fears the greece's debt troubles are far from over. asian markets have closed in the red friday with energy companies also hit by we

get crude oil prices japan's index corp is down two point nine percent and banks are also among the main losers in hong kong the agricultural bank of china down one it's one point seven percent rather. back to our top story now two of the world's emerging economic giants russia and china are the main players at the international economic forum taking place right now in some petersburg we can take you there live right now to listen to a keynote speech from the president made here that if good afternoon dear friends diligent. i would also want to greet you at the same piece of work economic forest service little go. particular words or gratitude i would like to address it to my colleagues the leaders of the countries who came to this beautiful city see we're here today. based on some understand the reasons i'm going to be primarily to talk about russia about the changes which russia was able to attain them. in the kind of economy. yep in which our.

i see this country and several years in what is necessary to do. i am going to talk about illusion for the development of a country which so yes and he will come true or thanks to the common efforts undertaken by the whole of the russian society and what. kinds of projects can come true or simply if they are not required by the society it is right and project must begin parliament to hear we're spending for who will come into which end this country within the next few years which i am accountable for that personally as that is going to become great and my called acts together we are implementing a program of modernization is the wish i shall start from and was already has been done during the system so the new russian state as well as during the recent period

but the. new russia sort of rights is trying to keep going to grocery. after the collapse of the soviet union and its centrally planned economy this country has undertaken an enormous call us in its development share of private sector during those days was close to zero right now it amounts to more than sixty percent of the personal chemical knew the government did and i should remind the figures sure in those periods exceeded the annual budget. and right now it went down almost to ten percent of the g.d.p. keep it and that's a hyperinflation which then. was taking on enormous proportions that change it's often promote really. real consumption by the russians. during its likely short historical period when russia instituted reforms that very few can compare in terms of the scale from the governor crisis we

came to. market pricing mechanism from strict control of a currency market to one of the most liberal models of its regulation in the world from. a closed country to foreign capital to three hundred billion you can believe it foreign investment. just we were creating our tax system from scratch and i shall remind us that in russia right now that is not a cause and individual income taxes are first of incentivizing long term investment starting from the ca we freed from taxation and the against the state issues one can hear a lot of things that is always pleasant to one about things that have been done but the most important thing is that consistently and in this is stemming way as i could afford we're moving on east where the problems and obstacles in our way we have.