since otoh my car broke so chill in the car i drove these other till the kind of emission marco results are till result of the sochi olympics. results michael beverly closer to home looking riviera hotel in the citrus hotel. the russian president pledges of drastic measures in a bid to create a better investment climate in the country. these centralizing power and stifling corruption goals voice might need to be made safe here at the international economic forum in st petersburg join me and he said now wait for more details in just a moment. no consent and no cash u.s. congressmen say they'll cut funding for the libya campaign unless the president gets the proper constitutional go ahead for the ongoing war obama's ninety days of action without sanction runs out this week. and palestinians are out of pocket

after israel holds back millions untouched dollars leaving tens of thousands of people without their wages. a very warm welcome here this is our live from moscow now russia must modernize its economy in the next few years regardless of who is in charge president medvedev sabine outlining the country's direction at the st petersburg former top business leaders and also a warning about the government's larger role in the economy along with corruption threatens development and must be tackled and he said now in our reports from before and some people spoke. but there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president medvedev knows that became very clear and as for real with his hometown as president that he thinks modernization is the way to go in the future with russia he clearly outlined all of the obstacles that the country

is facing first let's take a listen to what he had to say about modernization of the whole process and it's called. it pursue your choices not only a major green you will of out they to the elements in the economy but all public institutions just we need to hesitate to say sorry about many that how to escape we can focus only on the step by step development question that would be a mistake which we should focus on the following improvement of the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions the creation of police and other security forces improvement of the effectiveness of the jurisdiction system and finally the modernization of government employee approaches and the centralizing power. of course one of those bad habits so to say as the president phrased it that he was talking about was corruption it's no secret that corruption is widespread in russia of course in many other emerging economies it's widespread as well the president clearly wants to fight it this is the warning he have for

russian officials that are. in the noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be taught and and the whole of russia agrees with this without exception but corruption is very difficult to do with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way but young for that purpose we should enhance the way those suspected of corruption dismissed from public service. but joining me now here is a few years for to speak more about modernization and the challenges that russia is facing especially in terms of the economy this ten year old trees ranges from u.c.l.a. thanks for being with us i'd like to begin with the president's speech of course once again we heard the trend of modernization corruption decentralizing the government. what are the details problems if you could tell us briefly that are hampering this process and that's why police such on some very familiar see it a lot of health problems corruption the need for police reform the need for the

judiciary and so on but it's five o'clock it's part of the trial but the problem really has been implemented in many speeches and many programs that melds it's less clear ground level it's really changed the way that you're the chief business throughout the day so. how do you think those not steps to begin to be taken where does it need to start at the lowest level it's the story of all of the small tenuously. i think everybody knows the most effective techniques fighting corruption say proving the effectiveness of the state and that is to produce political competition although. at the same time it's increasing freedom of. course sometimes for exaggerating the west. the strains on the present parts of the saturated fat still to have was

a genuinely independent publication such television travels with help tremendously the question is whether the fish if this point is there to take the risks introduced elements of political competition. media freedom of course that all adds to the push for modernization assaults and you'll to say thank you very much for being with us live here at the economic forum we'll continue our coverage over the rest of today and tomorrow as the world's modern innovators top business executives and world leaders gather to face the challenges facing the modern world and of course the economy. are he's in he's an hour looking at that what business team is also keeping track of what's coming out of the international economic forum much as it is also. president medvedev announces that the government is planning to privatizing more bizarre sets and move toward a more open economy while more live from st petersburg having. you with artsy

now china may be the world's emerging powerhouse but its leader still sees the global recovery as slow and fragile more form is needed hu jintao has been speaking at the economic forum in st petersburg as we've been reporting this a day after failing to agree on a major energy deal with russia talked about g. is an expert in russia china relations he told us he's optimistic about the deal but will just take a bit more time. legalization will be tough there will be a lot of terms that need to be determined negotiated it takes time but i'm basically optimistic about earth finding and below ultimately because of the fundamental factors here this two economies are highly complimentary target so if was the eve of the u. it's fine it will be a win win situation russia need to be more diversified in terms of the market. i was to also lots of diversified supply of energy sources ways to use to depend

heavily on the middle east so we all know the reason disturbance there so so tiny is hunger for a new energy source and suddenly if this is the way the rich and china can buy a large. amount of gas russia they have to again to stable and long term reliable and the resources. u.s. congress members are threatening to cut funding for america's military campaign in libya which is racking up a bill of at least ten million dollars a day but the white house is refusing to ask for congressional approval of military action which is required by law the president is allowed ninety to ninety days rather before asking permission and that runs out this weekend he's got a to check out explains. 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 for wage a long term war the president needs to get authorization from congress analysts 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 in order to this day the administration has refused to say war when it comes to their actions in leadership they call it kinetic military action but it was as a result of that kinetic military action civilians are bombed every day is a group of international observers is now in tripoli including a former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney we spoke with her of days ago she said they've heard in the counted eighty nine blasts in just one day those are civilian neighborhoods eighty nine bombs drop in just one day there is a lot of concern that the voices of those who are cropping that you're in turkey go unnoticed in the national 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 cause that they pursuing leiby of what 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 a presidential comply at least with the u.s. constitution because there are ways to get around ways he obama administration seems to be using extensively most congressmen now criticize president obama for as they say ignoring congress' attempts at all of the observers say it's mostly political games that the lawmakers are playing the score points by snubbing. the presidential candidate who actually told 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.

they sued president obama on the grounds that he's violating the constitution but everybody here knows that a 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 happened capacity to effectively represent the people how to use an advantage to kind reporting right there we can now of course live to the u.s. capitol and get more from the voice of russia radio host comment russell excuse so it's just a just a few hours now before friday's white house briefing and meantime obama is getting sued by congress members for what they call illegal military action in libya is this all possibly just bluster because america has been gunning for you think it i think for decades. is it all bluster do you mean the lawsuits or the actual need to actions now that the lawsuit and self no i mean not at all i mean you've

got a you've got this congressman dennis crusader i mean this is a guy who's you know in his presidential run you know proposed creating a department of peace as opposed to a department of defense defense zone and then you also have rumpole who's actively always just been actively opposed to military intervention by the united states and others and basically in other people's affairs is the way he would put it no i don't think this is this is a group of congressmen who really believe that the u.s. should not be involved in this and they are suing i mean this is a legitimate lawsuit where they're suing to you know to get us out of it you have to know if any laws are going to have any effect i mean surely you know the white house can just pass it to the side. it probably was in this is unfortunate because the issue of the the you know the war powers resolution is not actually come out of the war powers resolution was obviously put in place in one thousand nine hundred three after vietnam after these long extended forays into vietnam in north korea

now. it's never actually been ruled whether or not this is constitutional whether or not congress has the power to do this and this is one of the reasons why presidents just completely defy it you know left and right clinton the bush now obama is as well the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dennis kucinich and a group of other congressmen even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court for the district court said in the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standby ok so this is our last you know didn't really come to affect forgive me for interrupting but let's just talk about some of the angst on capitol hill about about the money that's being spent i mean there's a threat that they want to cut the budget for libya it's only ten million dollars a day or so that's what they say is congress really likely to cut the relatively small funding for libya when it's allowing billions in iraq and afghanistan. well i

mean you know the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and so on you know they're there's not a lot of peace talks if we you know shall we say in congress i mean minus these few congressmen who are doing this i mean when boehner gets up and says that you know this is an issue i mean the reality is there's been or is somebody who supported prior prior interventions and prior actions military actions so no i mean congress is not going to. come and say that we shouldn't be doing this and try to defund it and besides obama is currently using discretionary department defense discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective it would be and let's talk about the military hardware that's being used in libya a lot of american made missiles and bombs and of course fighter jets as well i mean how much is the american military law involved do you think it perpetuates the war spending merry go round on capitol hill do you think as much as they ever are i

mean that's the whole reason they give a lot of money to you know these congressmen who and i mean you can you can see this actually just writing the metro here in washington d.c. there's constantly constantly advertisements for military apparatus planes tanks whatever have you. on the metro system you know these advertising i think it really demonstrates how much money and how much push that they really do you know i mean of course it works in the you know to their benefit we do live in a military industrial complex type of world where they have they have the purse strings they have the power now if i can very briefly i'm running low on time here but according to the u.s. media president obama like to use the time is it a kinetic kinetic military intervention in libya saying that america is not at war in which problems in england against against gadhafi loyalists how is the american media showing americans the intervention in libya.

well you know again the i think a lot of them see this as a you know as a kind of a political thing in terms of the divide between the republicans or democrats as far as our actual intervention in libya i think they're mostly a kind of you know the field rest assured. like you said france and britain and other countries are more involved that it's not really a unilateral action by the u.s. but i mean certainly we are very much in there in our you know our we have a large you know we have a large military presence there to begin with in terms of bombing you know these installations and so on you know i mean right i don't think that the that the u.s. media tends to kind of see it that way that the reality of the situation as president obama continues to downplay america's involvement in libya live from the u.s. capitol that's all we have time for voice of russia radio host comment so chance can thank you. now coming up here on r.t. it's a woman's a world of the bottom of the earth this one a russian filmmaker during her eleven month research expedition in antarctica to

hear why she was drawn to work in icy isolation. and u.s. judges casting doubt on the charges against her alleged russian gun runner because boot calling the prosecutor's evidence against him thin boots accused of smuggling arms to colombian rebels labeled by the u.s. as terrorists and is currently awaiting trial in new york jail his lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the charges claiming they don't prove who knew the arms would be used against america to prove it was extradited to the u.s. from thailand last year when he was arrested in an american sting operation in march of two thousand and eight. but let's bring you up to date on some other top stories from around the world at this hour demonstrators have taken to the streets in towns and cities across syria and at fresh round of protests against president bashar al assad's regime there are reports of police opening fire and a number of deaths and injuries meanwhile the european union is set to adopt a third round of sanctions on syria over the government's a violent crackdown on

protesters during sanctions against syria have been imposed by the e.u. and the u s. greece has appointed a new finance minister in a major government reshuffle to try and stave off a catastrophic collapse of the economy leaders are trying to force through its deeply unpopular cuts which sparked violent street protests this week greece needs to secure billions of euros in a second even you and i left they are out meanwhile germany and france say a quick deal is vital to stop greece's debt problems pulling in other countries. north korea is accusing seoul of forcing all nine of its citizens to stay in the south warning that it could worsen relations between the two countries but seoul says it won't extradite the group which defected by boat last week saying they have asked to resettle in the south in february the north responded angrily when its neighbor refused to send back for fisherman who had asked for asylum. china is on

its highest disaster alert level after days of heavy rains forced more than a half a million people to evacuate their homes in central and southern provinces officials say over one hundred people have been killed by the floods and sixty five are still missing downpours are expected to continue into next week army troops have been mobilized for the relief effort really. well israel has been holding back millions of dollars of palestinians money leaving thousands of people without any wages it's tax revenue that's supposed to be passed back to the palestinian people but since the political groups hamas and fatah reconciled the payments stop parties policy has been meeting some of those who are suffering at the sharp end. i look we are the weak guards of 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 pardon my salary comes late 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 collecting on goods arriving at israeli ports and distant palestinians the arrangements in one thousand nine hundred three is part of the oslo accord giving tel of its control of the international borders between israel and the palestinian territories but 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 four million dollars at this ministry examine five hundred fifty pounds. ask anyone of remember if they were freed the situation could still. palestinians fear their tel of of could again choose to withhold taxes many like it did last month israelis argue that if we wanted to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons the salaries to the hamas terrorist paid for the same bank account so

i build world to find these curious the. palestinians insist the monies for ordinary workers it is. sore because of one 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 fatah is a terrible and one for both groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned take a ration of statehood no doubt is what will be working. and harder to walk him should it feel its interests are threatened policy r t women are. israel's other big worries one the concerns of the rest of the world as well as we reported at r.t. dot com and you head of al qaeda with renewed threats from both israel and the united states of the terrorism expert tells us online how the world still needs to

stay on and i. also at r.t. dot com are feeding the pictures in a totally new way why this site is right here is burying all four illegal way that's. right twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow so working at some of the world's harshest conditions you need to man up and muck in or in the case of one antarctic worker it's bringing an essential woman's touch to the tough life thomas has been to meet her. as a filmmaker olga stefano the likes of the penguins and seals but for her and article is about something much greater that helps. even though it seems like this is a naked land make it still is empty it's nothing special sound like and it's no more

than what happens inside of you when you are here for the whole here and there are moved from all other external factors is a very valuable experience up to seeing through an antarctic winter is serious business and so every member of the 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. and the team was a big bonus for us as the first storm such an intelligent young woman in such high professional objectives has been on the win for team selection stephanie made her existence heck last year. there were some difficulties and attractive girls with fifteen men for eleven months so it wasn't difficulty but people to manage them bogus 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 as. my

good friend now i am putting the finishing touches to the second part of a film the first one is already finished it's called weathering the winter the second part will probably be called this season and it will feature a van tactic summer. to debut her documentary open 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 you louis i love and respect them they're close and dear to me and they have such huge battleground knowledge they know people in the field they know their winter season firsthand they have been through this themselves my good will of course and you cannot please get as for the thoughts of the. those who have seen the film. this film makes a big impression there may be some. professionals actions by a couple of members of our team to show that the way it was showed the way she saw . bacula. a unique look into

a world that is inaccessible to most in antarctica sean thomas. and in just a moment here business bulletin wraps up the highlights of my day two at the top like all four in some cases. i matras on behalf of the r t business team wrapping up day two at the st petersburg international economic forum at a land where the sun this week is not going to be setting but we'll be back tomorrow with plenty more highlights of today indisputably president medvedev

keynote address to the assembly here talking about modernisation and innovation as the main the main focuses of the event and the main focus for the russian economy in the years to come he pointed out yonder x. and mailed out rule as a shining examples of home grown businesses that have done well on the foreign market examples that others can follow also talked about the ten billion dollars state backed private equity fund something that he believes will bring more innovation and spur growth here in russia also expanding the thirty billion dollar asset sales program of state assets into private hands something that he thinks is also going to be a good deal for the russian economy. bashir government doesn't need such a lonesome ounce of frequency it has only days to skate you fool privatization of major companies mentation of these plans is necessary because they're very modest

the government has lead to the first of this kind of trying to transition in order to resolve this i'm sure we'll be able to get through with it in a movie transparent way in order to attract if it saved his and generate sufficient funds for the russian budget. but you and speaking of transparency openness that and. are two things that he says will be government priorities when it comes to dealing with the economy because he believes those are the things that are going to help spur business and innovation to head to head and head with that russia's accession to the world trade organization some things he says is going to definitely help the economy of russia. who is this minute. business men how to say good markets are just like parachutes leoni works when they're open and the case with russia is that we will foolhardy economy is not open but you know that's why we'll know a barry is with foreign investment and looking forward to foreign loans in our membership of the c.e.o. and you know you see it as the leader with you with dork. president of the medvedev

also said that state capitalism is not something that's going to work for russia but that the role of the government should instead be doing what it can to help foster innovation and foster foreign investment in the country and come up with a good atmosphere a good environment for businesses to thrive in russia that's what he said is going to move the economy forward along those lines he believes that the country needs less regulation less red tape to get business is often off the ground in russia and also he believes there needs to be more efficient development in the country now along those lines we have had lots of business ago i did hear at the economic forum besides just the keynote speeches from president medvedev and chinese leaders. there are also been some updates on the russia's energy deals with foreign companies gazprom nafta and american shell have agreed to jointly develop new oil resources and some of the hard to get areas of russia and even russia oedipal all

of this is a deal that could help gazprom and increase its presence in europe countries also planning to jointly develop in the arctic but the deal check that there's been a bunch of news about a major deal that could become the agreement of the decade the failed arctic tie up between the ross nafta and b.p. the other countries were planning to jointly develop the arctic but the deal collapsed is b.p. and other in this rather russian partner they are opposed to the agreement despite this b.p. says that it is often mistake about prospects. we were not successful in reaching a set of commercial conditions that were acceptable to all of the companies and i think the concept of a strategic partnership like this was good for russia good for. the energy markets. good for all of the companies that. are awesome that says it is still looking for

a partner. to help develop the arctic and as soon as this is as soon as this year possibly and i energy and minister sergei shrug matco highlights the type of nonetheless a triggered investor investor interest in the russian shelf and b.p.'s chief is also positive about this so in all a lot of important economic news going on here in russia and being highlighted at the day two of the st petersburg international economic forum back tomorrow with more stay with us throughout our city.