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greeting a corruption decentralizing power president medvedev lays out a program of reform for russia. the russian leaders keynote speech comes at a major international economic forum here in st petersburg more in a moment from me and he said now a. war hostility the u.s. congress threatens to block washington's campaign in libya that's now been in full swing for ninety days and without her approval. and thousands of palestinians are left scraping by for a living as israel withholds money owed to the government over fears it could be used to fund terror attacks.

here with live from moscow on research saying welcome to the program now a country free of corruption and a move towards a modernization at all levels that's the future the president dmitri medvedev outlined for russia he did so at the simply his book international economic forum and he said now is there with details. the modernization certainly was the main theme and in fact it ran through very smoothly into all of the other problems that he touched upon so modernization is connecting all of us. and challenge that faces to modernize its economy as the press. laid out in terms of modernization for these business executives and world leaders and modern interpreters this is what the boss and president had to say about what he's saps think are vital for russia to really move forward in its push to modernize the economy and we were better at the studios

to launch a major we knew just outdated element from the economy stupid oh public institutions we need a systematic changes in these men we should not hesitate to say sorry about many bad habits to it's become focused only on the state of us fit development that would be a mistake there might be other stagnation behind the stability that's why we need to quickly change everything stops breakthrough development. is the basis of the strategy and outlined in the past three years as russia's president with the strategy is a modernization programs to ensure this is the most up to date policy for russia we can significantly change the situation when it's four years at a bulls that's why we should focus on the following was that improving the investment climate in washington with your sort of create new jobs in the regions that it uses the creation of police and other security fields is that them briefly is the effectiveness of that huge diction system but finally the modernization of government you'll find french is the centralizing power the 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 desired modernize their country right to do that and with that he believes russia can really become the biggest and most effective economy in the world anyone who is investor is here for sales that crosses a big problem in process so that we hear from officials all the time quite some harsh words from the president saying that he believes that corruption is literally helping profits economy and that people and the think here is that are doing this would themselves to be taken care of i'll let him answer the words of it out for a while he said. you know you see around the necks of those who practice corruption should be trying to the whole of russia agrees with this without any churches the corruption is very difficult to do with the existing order of criminal prosecutions very slow and very complicated should be maintained at least seriously wrong clear

guarantees in free speech in case of unjustified accusations. does sometimes happen with the worst of the same time the government should be purged of corruption which in most decisive way and for that purpose we should enhance the way they suspected of corruption and dismissed from public service. now i 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 this 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. and he said i right there i want our reporting of course on a president who had their skin address i think some petersburg economic forum or on the international financial gathering and our special business bulletin live from russia's northern capital that's coming your way in about fifteen minutes time. let's get to some other news now here on r.t. and 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 he's got an extra cat has details on the story. 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 speak you know up to this day the administration has refused to say war when it comes to their actions in libya they call it kinetic

military action as a result of that kinetic military action civilians are bombed every day as 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 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 national community but here in the glass 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 it 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 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 top of the hill observers say it's mostly political games that the lawmakers are playing to score points by snubbing. presidents 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 verbal rebuke send 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 and it makes me wonder whether or not u.s. lawmakers actually have the capacity to effectively represent the people he's gone

. now and nato warplanes have targeted the libyan capital in more daytime raids but the very credibility of the campaign could be fatally damaged if congress forces barack obama to abandon operations well so david swanson says the problem is that the 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 are recent dentist percentage was debating a former lawyer from the reagan white house who 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 with at the hostilities he could have gotten congress to authorized 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 without a lot from moscow and here's a quick look at what is still ahead for you in the program i want to try to save young woman to try her luck in the male dominated environment of the world's coldest continent. a us judge has called the case against alleged russian government a victim boot as unconvincing and the prosecution's accusations thin after consulting defense and prosecution lawyers the manhattan federal judge said she didn't see much evidence against her to prove he is currently awaiting trial in a new york prison facing charges of smuggling arms to colombian rebels i can say

sions he denies who was arrested in a two thousand and eight american sting operation in thailand and later extradited to the us. well america's top military commander says that al qaeda is new leader will be found and killed just like osama bin laden the new top man i am and he has been second in command since the terror group was found in the late eighty's but terrorism expert philip reese 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. was the main fear a titian osama bin laden fought in broad strokes it was a means of quarry was 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. 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 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 far and we're going to so our influence there shouldn't be questioned so i think we should be slightly cynical about those claims and israel claims it's fighting its own war on terror by refusing to hand over tanks and custom figures collected on behalf of the palestinian autonomy in marked to pay wages but israel says it could be used to fund attacks and as artie's reports with hamas now likely to enter a unity government alongside fatah palestinians are even a less likely to see them 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 get its money from the israeli government it comes in the form of customs and tax treaty said television 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 four eight million dollars because mr davis can be five hundred seventy pounds and. ask anyone of him and then if they were free the situation itself palestinians fear that tel of of could again choose to withhold text 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 this salaries to the hamas terrorists paid for the same bank account so i don't want to find these terrorist only in order to kill me but palestinians insist the monies for ordinary work as 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 to the hand 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. even harder. should it feel its interests are threatened r t. you with r.t. live from moscow and if you missed something you can always find it online and on t.v. dot com more news and video is always available for you that's

a quick look right now and see what you can find a full declares war on copyright violators other computer giant works and a breakthrough technology that will allow cinemas concert halls disable i phone cameras to prevent illegal filming. and to question deep sea subs which explore the titanic for the hollywood epic take the plunge into lake geneva and out more about their mission of art so you don't come. right out and give us some other stories 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 bailout the leaders of germany and france have expressed support for the greek government actions. china has raised its disaster alert to the highest level

after days of downpours and severe flooding over half a million people in the central and southern part of the country were forced from their homes say the disaster is in several areas is the worst of almost sixty years with flood waters cutting off roads ruining crops and destroying villages extreme weather has left almost two hundred people dead or missing since the beginning of june in china. syrian security forces have expanded their assault in the northwest of the country deploying tanks around several towns it's forced more people to flee raising the estimated number of refugees to almost nine thousand u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon is urged president assad to quote stop killing people and gaging dialogue activists say more than fourteen hundred have died since anti-government. protests began in march. released court papers show that. told police he had diplomatic immunity after he was detained at new york's j.f.k.

the former head of the international monetary fund was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last month the french man who denies the allegations has been released on bail he faces up to twenty five years in prison if convicted. well i 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's still something of a novelty so thomas tracked down an intrepid film director 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 i have. 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 of 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 all the 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 it's the first time such an intelligent young woman in such high professional objectives has been on the winter team which is definitely the existence. of the us some difficulties and attractive girls with fifteen men. so it was some difficulties but people had to manage them all has 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 but she just kept at the minute ran now i am putting the finishing touches to the second part of that film the first one is already finished it's cold weather in the winter the second part will probably be called the season ended and it will feature all

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 bad ground knowledge they know people in the field they know the winter season firsthand they have been through this themselves. as for the thoughts of the. those who have seen the film. makes a big impression on me there may be some. professionals actions by a couple of members of. the show that the way it was showed it the way she saw. a unique look into a world that is inaccessible to most. thomas. in the world so i called it a continent i discovered many unusual stories and with some spectacular followers

blog. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet. and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization. so special and attractive for many the wildlife. and. expedition to the bottom of the earth. are just a few minutes here and we explore whether. the house of cards. comes to you live from the international economic forum in some pages but that's coming away after a short. hi

i'm mad très a live in st petersburg at the st petersburg international economic forum where the word of the day was modernisation the keynote address of today russian president dmitri medvedev addressing the more than one thousand people attending the conference here talking about primarily the need to modernize and innovate in russia's economy now among the things that he was highlighting the more successful i.p.o.'s yond x. and mailed out ru using this is them as examples of how the russian technology sector can be made better along with this he said there was a ten billion dollars state backed private equity fund that's being established in

order to help spur development in russia and he's also the expansion of a thirty eight billion dollar asset self program something that he said it should also help the economic climate. but should government doesn't need such loans amounts of troops would see it has only to fool privatization of major companies the implementation of these plans is necessary with a very modest government has until the first of the scale of trying to time as they should in order to his old lease i'm sure we'll be able to go through with it in a movie transparent way to attract if it does generate sufficient funds for the russian budget. another point he made was that it is important not to have state capitalism in russia but rather the state should foster an atmosphere and environment that spurs on business development brings business interests to

russia and helps helps spur innovation here in russia he said privatization is very important to foster in russia and he said that that is also something that . going to be forwarded by rushes a session to the world trade organization. businessmen the people go to businessmen have a saying that markets are just not parachute so the only work when they're open and the case with russia is that we will fool home to. me is not open but you that's why we'll know barry is with foreign investment and looking fool to foreign loans. and. there are several things that russia's president also said a way to help the economic climate in russia he said there needs to be less regulation in russia he says there needs to be a stepped up continuation of the anti-corruption campaign going on in the country he says there needs to be more efficient development in russia something that he

said is sure to help the economic climate in the country that's all for now here in st petersburg will be back with more throughout the day here on our team. and thanks to match we will be bringing you more from the economic forum as soon as we can systemin our russia's major financial corporation is set for energetic expansion the company is planning to spend some rather five billion dollars to buy businesses ranging from agriculture to chemicals the c.e.o. of the seven mikhail shumlin outlines the cornerstones of the strategy. i would special strategy very simply have to return the cost of equities the cost of everything which in our case is about fifteen percent so that's the kind of returns

we're expecting and we we have to do whatever it takes in terms of for investing in projects and davis to the existing assets to deliver this kind of return to our two key markets our russia is a primary market for ninety percent of our best is concentrated and also india which is so because what you want to do those are the markets that we're going to be looking out for two hours or both 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 the company wants russia to take a big part in that development and the vice president says they're trying to make that happen. we have a strong business in russia has been here since two thousand and five best of seven hundred fifty million dollars in the market you see now we see growth in this market so we're we're going to we're going to know focus on marcia and what we're trying to do in russia now is increase productivity and just make sure that you

know both our plants reach a level of productivity that is consistent with believe me we're seeing a looming you know growing movement of the man growing we look at a market like china. demand growing fifteen percent in two thousand and eleven seeing a market like russia you see the movement growing probably eleven or twelve percent this year so it's double digit growth for movement there's a lot of substitution going on copper wire you change into aluminum there's a lot of lightweight the new vehicles trucks and cars where you have to meet new emission gas standards and so a lot of people are shifting to aluminum. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing oil prices have continued to fall after the engine losses of two days ago the uncertainty of modesty's market is a reflection of investors fears that greece's debt troubles are far from over. their parents stopped coming back from their early losses though the markets are unstable still due to the fears that the debt crisis in greece could spread across

the eurozone and continue to rattle investor confidence the dax has climbed to more than half a percent in the blackness album from the foot to its to falter. and the russian markets continue to trade in the red this hour with the r.t.s. half a percent down and then my six almost one percent in the red investors wary of the damaging effects of greece's escalating economic crisis. well that's all the business for this hour but we'll be back with more from st petersburg in just under an hour's time stay with us for headlines with rory next.

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