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the splendid hotel in. tell me touch your room the photo of a good girl how would. she ever. corruption centralizing power president lays out a program over reform for russia. the us and leaders keynote speech columns at a major international economic forum here in st petersburg more in a moment from me and he said now a. wall hostility in the u.s. congress threatens to block washington's campaign. in full swing for nineteen days without lawmaker approval. and thousands of palestinians are left scraping by for a living as israel withholds money owed to the government of a fear that it could be used to fund terror attacks.

just after two pm here in moscow you with. shame a country for. corruption and a move towards a modernization and the world trade organization that's the future president dmitri but he had the outline for russia although during this at the same petersburg international economic for us he's innocent i have to tell us that. the modernization certainly was the main theme and in fact it ran for a very smoothly into all of the other problems that he touched upon so modernization is connected all of us property and challenges that it faces to modernize its economy as the president laid out in terms of modernization for these business executives and world leaders and moderate in their various this is what the russian president had to say about what he's sets think are vital for russia to

really move forward in its push to modernize the economy and we were better at the studios not knowing it but to launch a major we knew of just outdated elements from the economy but. we need systematic changes in these we should not hesitate to say sorry about many bad habits to it's become focused only on the stand much of it developed that would be a mistake there might be other stagnation behind the stability that's why we need to quickly change everything that stops breakthrough development of these beliefs is the faces of the strategy outlined in the past three years as russia's president was the strategy is a modernization program i'm sure this is the most up to date policy for russia we can significantly change the situation when it's four years that's why we should focus on the following was that improving the investment climate in russia with your sort of create new jobs in the regions of the creation of police and other security fields is that approval is the effectiveness of that huge diction system but finally the modernization of government you'll find the french is the

centralizing our president also mentioned that he believes that this push for modernization in russia has to begin and it is really taking steps at all levels that society really has to have to sire modernize their country and unite to do that and with that he believes. plus it can really become the biggest and most effective economy in the world anyone who's investor is here for sales that crosses a big problem and process something we hear from officials all the time job quite some harsh words from the president saying that he believes that corruption is literally choking profits account to me and that people and the thing here is that are doing this week themselves to be taken care of i'll let him answer word solve it out for a while he says. you know you sit around the neck of those who practice corruption should be talking to the whole of russia agrees with ace without any churches get the corruption is very difficult to do with the existing order of criminal

prosecutions very slow and very complicated should be maintained at least say that there are clear guarantees in place with it in case of unjustified accusations flew to the conclusion he does some time talking about it i wish the same time the government should be purged of corruption in a most decisive way and for that purpose we should enhance the way they suspected of corruption and dismissed from public servants and they were going to shit in terms of corruption of course the president also spoke about government reforms he talked about decentralizing power and of course that's something we hear from him very often in his term as president the fact that this system is suffering serious problems and that needs to be reformed as well all in the end to modernize russia. reporting from the international economic forum in st petersburg. well let's go to some other news now here in our city in the u.s. president is under fire from congress over the military campaign in libya which is continuing despite not having the approval of lawmakers barack obama has rejected

accusations that the law is being broken arguing that america is only playing a supporting role through nato which then makes it legal to use a gun each account has more in this. 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 authorization from congress and only say the obama administration will certainly find a way to get around the requirement by referring to his rights as commander in chief as well as certain legal speed you know to stay the administration has refused to say when it comes to their action in libya they call it kinetic military action as a result of that kinetic military action civilians are bombed every day

a group of international observers is now in tripoli including a former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney we spoke with her a few days ago she said they've heard and they 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 are caught up in that war in tripoli go unnoticed in the international community but here in the why is 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 cost that they pursuing leiby up but some analysts say the administration also seems to be. iow when it comes to the will of their own people regarding the issue as well as constitutional procedures legal experts say there is not much congressman can do to force the president to 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 but tattletale observers say it's mostly political games that the lawmakers are playing to score points by snubbing the president come the day to actually vote the majority of them will vote for more military spending as they always do but there is a small bipartisan group of congressmen ten people in it who went further than the verbal rebuke sent 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 u.s. supreme court has determined that members of congress do not have standing to file such suits and this is where it hits a dead end that it makes me wonder whether or not u.s. lawmakers actually have the capacity to effectively represent the people. who's going to reporting right well i washington's credibility the future of nato over the next campaign rather could be fatally damaged if congress forced barack obama

to abandon operations or david swanson says the problem is that there's political confusion over exactly what's happening in libya. white house doesn't make the arguments that many of its supporters make that the war powers act does not apply much less the constitution because this is neither a war nor hostilities this is something else this is a military operation that doesn't rise to the level of hostilities which absolutely absurd the war powers act was written in one thousand nine hundred seventy three very intentionally and clearly to encompass all military engagement superfluity imminent threats of us still of these obvious men dennis percentage was debating a 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 dropped the bombs would that be war would at the hostilities he could have gotten congress to authorize war in libya it would

have been quite easily done he could have 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 power to make wars on their own. time as possible on out here in moscow you went on see is a quick look at what's still ahead for you this hour and what attracts a young woman to try her luck in the male dominated environment of the world's coldest continent. a u.s. judge has called the case against alleged russian government a victim boot unconvincing and the prosecution's accusations as thin after consulting defense and prosecution lawyers the manhattan federal judge said she didn't see much evidence against vick deposed he is currently awaiting trial in a new york prison facing charges of smuggling arms to colombian rebels a concessions that he denies who was arrested in two thousand and eight during an american sting operation in thailand and later extradited to the u.s.

. well america's top military commander says al qaeda is a new leader will be found and killed just like are some of bin laden the new top man. has been second in command since the terror group was founded in the late eighty's but terrorism expert phil reeves says that no matter who is in charge of al qaeda washington will still use the perceived terror threat as an excuse for military action a month where he was the main fear efficient osama bin laden thought in broad strokes it was a means of why are you involved in the nitty gritty and some people even said he was the brains behind the movement so in that sense they'll be a continuum i think the west was it 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 in certain areas and claim that's flying we're going for al qaeda so our influence there shouldn't be questioned so i think we should be slightly cynical about those claims and israel claims its fighting its own war on terror by refusing to hand over tax and custom fees collected on behalf of the palestinian autonomy it's in marked to pay wages but israel says it could be used to fund attacks and saudis paula reports with hamas now likely to enter a unity government alongside fatah palestinians are even less likely to see their money. i look we are gods 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 out of 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 the israeli government it comes in the form of customs and tax treaty said tel of a vis been collecting on goods arriving at israeli ports and destined for palestinians the arrangements in one thousand nine hundred three is part of the oslo accord giving television control of the international borders between israel and the palestinian territories with the money transferred each month to the palestinian ministry of finance which uses it to pay wages except now we're talking about seven hundred forty eight million dollars because mr davis can give you some hundred and fifty pounds and. ask everyone to remember if they were free the situation should still. palestinians fear their tel of of could again choose to withhold text money like you did last month is where it is argued every way to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons this salaries to the

hamas terrorist paid for same bank account so i don't want to find these terrorist. to kill me but palestinians insist the monies for ordinary workers it is. sore because it's a 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 play into the hands of the extremists the relationship between hamas and fattah is a turbulent one but both groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned declaration of statehood no doubt is what will be working in. when hard. should it feel its interests are threatened. you with r.t. live from moscow and if you've missed anything that we show for you well you can always find it online more news and video is always available there for you as well let's have a quick look right now. the war on copyright violators the computer giant works on

a breakthrough technology that will allow cinemas and concert halls to disable i phone cameras to prevent illegal filming. russian deep sea subs which explore the titanic record for the hollywood take the plunge into lake geneva to find out more about their mission at r.t. dot com. now let's get some other headlines from around the world this hour greece has a new finance minister following a cabinet reshuffle aimed at pushing through deeply unpopular economic reforms the current defense minister will take over the post prime minister george papandreou wants more austerity cuts to secure billions of euros in a second e.u. and i.m.f. . proposed reforms have led to violent protests in athens and beyond. syrian security forces have expanded their assault in the northwest of the country deploying tanks around several child it's forced more people to flee raising the

estimated number of refugees to almost nine thousand u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon as president assad to quote stop killing people and engage in dialogue activists say more than fourteen hundred have died since anti-government protests began in march. released in court papers show that dominique. told police that he had diplomatic immunity after he was detained at new york's j.f.k. airport the former head of the international monetary fund was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last month the french woman who denies the allegations has been released on bail he faces up to. twenty five years in prison if convicted. a huge blast rocked the israeli city of netanya in the early hours of friday killing four and injuring fifty police initially suspected a terror attack but the explosion is now thought to have been the result of a gas leak in a residential building rescue workers say it was

a miracle that anyone managed to get out of the rubble alive. well work on the frozen continent of antarctica has always been a male dominated environment which means when a woman arrives to ply her trade it still something of a novelty so i tracked down filmmaker to ask what drew her to the ends of the. as a filmmaker olga stefano the likes of the penguins and seals but for her and arctica is about something much greater still that. even though it seems like this is a naked land make it's down to cliffs nothing special sound like an a snow but what happens inside of you when you are here for the whole year and are removed from all other external factors is a very valuable experience up to staying through an antarctic winter is serious business and so every member of a winter team has a specific purpose and they rely on each other to make it through is one of only

a few women to have ever been allowed to be a part of this experience. olga ended up on the scene was a big bonus for us as the first storm such an intelligent young woman in such high professional objectives has been on the winter theme which is definitely made our existence. to us in difficulties and attractive girls with fifteen men. so it wasn't difficult but people had to manage them all this experience in wintering of building a house and gave her a true rare opportunity to experience and document life here in antarctica now she's working to expand on her project and find an audience for her work. that make up at the minute plan now i'm putting the finishing touches to the second part out filming the first one is already finished it's called weathering the wind or the second part probably because this series and it and it will feature of the antarctic summer as it brought that. country to debut her documentary olcott invited some special guests the same antarctic winter team who are the subject of

her film a fact that makes her slightly nervous you know she watches. i love and respect them they're close and dear to me and they have such huge battleground knowledge they know people in the film they know the winter season firsthand but they have been through this themselves. as for the thoughts of the. those who have seen the film. there may be. a unique look. most. unusual story.

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i'm mad treasure with our team business team that live in russia's northern capital at the st petersburg international economic forum good to have you with us the highlight of the day so far russian president dmitry medvedev keynote speech to the forum in it he laid out his vision for the new russian economy highlighting innovation and technology order to bolster and boost the russian economy to examples that are a shining beacon of yond x. and mailed out who their i.p.o. is doing very successfully and something that they hope will be a model for future business in russia they also talk he also talked about a ten billion dollars state backed private equity fund something that will help bolster and foster innovation in business in russia and he also discussed the expansion of a thirty billion dollar at state or

a thirty billion dollars asset sale program here's what the president had to say. government doesn't need such loans amounts of truth it has only did get you full credit for tons ation of money to companies the implementation of these plans is necessary with a very modest the government has until the first of the scale of trying to time as they should in order to resolve this i'm sure we'll be able to go through with it in a movie transparent way to attract fictive from the events does generate sufficient funds for the russian budget. financial transparency and economic openness is something he also said is key to the russian economy going ahead and ahead with a. he also said it is russia's a session to the world trade organization. business none of these people go into business men have a say so just like parachutes allouni would when they're really been on the case to russia is that we will fool. me is not tell you when but you know that's why i will

load barry is with foreign investment and looking foolish to fund the membership list on the. cd but it's the plea deal. now something he said to russia doesn't need is state capitalism but rather about the state should be something to boost and something that should help bolster business and the economic climate in russia had in hand with that he said russia needs less regulation what it comes to founding and doing business he said the state needs to do more to battle corruption and that there should be more efficient development here in russia now to join me and talk more about all of this john for c.e.o. of the international paper very good to have you with us here on our side business an hour earlier today you met with the president at a closed door forum tell us more about that and the impressions that you come away with well i think he emphasized what he said in his speech he's committed to the new russia understands that russia has to change. policy part of the the global

world and you know i think russia is moving in the right direction you know we've been in russia now for ten years and we see a lot of change but there's still a lot of work to do how would you rate russia's investment climate and what do you think it could be done to improve it. it's still difficult there's a growing market here you know international paper and in our joint venture with l m we're in the business of adding value to russia's resources and supplying products here in russia and also export of them to china so i think the investment climate is getting better but there's still a lot of work to do now in terms of that more work that needs to be done are the anti-corruption efforts and things along those lines what do you think can be done in order to battle not only. the real effect of that but also the perception of that insofar as it keeps it may be a barrier to doing business here well i think the best way to demonstrate that russia is different is by you know through success and through you know business is actually. succeeding in russia and you know we're right the middle of

a billion dollar investment program in our own joint venture and i'd say you're managing it it's tough but i think the president is committed the russian president is committed to an economic environment that attracts foreign direct investment and dealing with corruption is one of the issues that is a barrier to tell us a little more about your expansion strategy in russia well we formed a joint venture fifty fifty joint venture with the group four years ago and weak at that time we committed to the russian government and actually to the to the president that we would invest a billion dollars over a couple of years to modernize expand the facilities and part of the group are right midlife expansion now and it's the biggest expansion the forest products industry in thirty years and russia is a session to the w t o how do you think that all of the effect business i think generally it's a good thing you know russia is the only member of the g eight the g twenty that's

not in the deputy you know it's the largest economy in the world is not part of the b.t.o. and. taking down trade barriers and putting russia on equal footing as it should be with the other countries in the world that are part of w t o this could be a positive thing for russia and for all the other countries that are part of the economic this global economic world now as the c.e.o. of international paper how specifically is business in russia do you think the country is well positioned to for the relative strengths and weaknesses of the country order to move forward with your particular industry you know russia like a lot of developing economies it's got a lot of infrastructure investment they need to make in order to support a growing economy and more investment so. first there's there's infrastructure less regulation you are still got a lot of regulations that slow down the productivity of capital and things take longer. those two specific things infrastructure and regulation.

the two important things for us to do this for foreign direct investment it already has been pretty well i mean we we ship in one of our businesses one hundred percent of all you make is sold here in russia so in we're in the paper business so that's a good barometer of economic activity and the other business for it is a big export to china and obviously that's going farewells in particular to the paper industry though i mean along with the infrastructure the resources is there what you need here in order to make the product well they certainly have russia's blessed with natural resources the third of the world software farces here in russia and you know we manage that very responsibly that you know the trees are growing fast and are being harvested and are being replanted so rough this guy you know what you need to make paper packaging it's got you know fiber. and energy hydropower so rest has got the resources that we need to be to be an export of the rest of the world of a pulp and paper products and what's the takeaway so far before. well every year the form gets bigger i think you know this year i just got here this morning so i

haven't seen in or out a lot of it but well attended you know that's for sure and the same pinprick a number one has become a global event it's an important one for the people doing business in russia and for people doing business all around the world for i thank you very much for a gigantic project c.e.o. of international paper that's it for me now for the business report stay with us here on r.t. . hungry

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