try eland this hotel time ambassador type the hotel food for inspire shuras and i would princess to the school in the hotel in touch with her tell me touch your group the future a good girl would international flood to change every green for chill in talk of. the russian president pledges drastic measures in a bid to create a better investment climate in the country. decentralizing power and stifling corruption both voice bites me to may day to fear at the international economic forum in st petersburg joining me at least for now a few more details in just a moment. no consensus no care she was congressman say they'll cut funding for the libya campaign unless the president gets the proper constitutional go ahead for the ongoing war dollars ninety days of action without sanction runs out this weekend.

plus the e.u. moves towards new sanctions against syria and of course that's fit to be a build up for libya style intervention. internationally is a comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. russia must modernize its economy in the next few years regardless of who's in charge present if it has been outlining the country's direction at the same petersburg form the top business leaders he also warns that the government's a large role in the economy along with corruption threaten development and must be tackled and he said now he reports now from some people. i thought there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president medvedev knows that became very clear and has for real with his hometown as president that he thinks modernization is the way to go into the future with russia he clearly outlined all of the obstacles that the

country is facing first must take a listen i had to say about modernization as a process and it's called. it a serious choice is not only a major green you'll have outdated elements in the economy but all public institutions east we need to hesitate to say story about many bad habits we can focus only on the step by step development question that would be a mistake with 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 these improvement of the effectiveness of the jurisdiction system and finally the modernization of government going modern approaches into 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 unless of course in many other emerging economies it's widespread as well the president clearly wants to fight it this is the warning he kept us in

officials that are. in a noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be coincident and the whole of russia agrees with this without exception which corruption is very difficult to do with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way by young for that purpose we should enhance the way those suspected of corruption was not dismissed from public service she's. joining me now here is a few years for to speak more about modernization and the challenges that process is facing especially in terms of the economy as they all trace friends 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 to decentralize in the government. one of the detail problems if you could tell us briefly that are hampering this process why will he be dispatched on some very familiar sleep there's a lot of health problems with the police reform if you're sure you and so on.

that's fine but that's part of the trouble but the problem really is if some of the many speeches and many programs that mailed so it's less clear ground level that's really changed the way that you're that's because. the. people you think those hot steps to begin to be taken where does it need to start at the lowest level that sort of whole of the supply chain you sleep so i think everybody is supposed to keep fighting corruption so it's proving the effects of the state that just if you're small political competition although it's at the same time as increasing freedom. for some time sweet saturation west. the strains on the press markets of saturated fat still. have the oil genuinely

independent publications television trials which help tremendously the question is whether the feature of this point is there let's take more risks introduced elements of political competition. media freedom of course that all adds to the push for monetization as well as annual season thank you very much for being with us here at the economic forum will 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 if. it's a correspondent and he said no is that business teams also keeping track of what's coming out of the international economic forum that transit is there to bring a small just a few minutes. president medvedev announces that the government is planning to privatized more of its assets and move toward a more open economy more live from st petersburg coming up. u.s. congress members are threatening to cut funding for america's military campaign in

libya which is racking up a bill of 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 days before asking permission and that runs out this week and. expects. 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 work 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 analysts say the obama administration will certainly find a way to get around the requirements by referring to his right as commander in chief as well as certain legal speed you know up to this day the administration has refused to say war when it comes to their actions in levy or they call it kinetic

military action but as a result of that kinetic military actions of unions are bombed every day a group of international observers is now in tripoli including a former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney was out with her a few days ago she said be 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 who are in tripoli go unnoticed in the international community but hearing the you right 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 leave here but some analysts say the administration also seems to be in denial when it comes to good 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 that capitol hill 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 what rebukes and 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 suit 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. of the

start where the congress members really want the u.s. to put out of libya washington what's your invoice of russia a radio host called the russells he has told us that the hawks on capitol hill will only benefit if the military operation drug czar than it was a prior lawsuit during clinton's or for into the former yugoslavia dentist who sit in the group of other congressmen even at the time of the very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court but the district courts the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are still are you know going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and so on 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 of funds discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective would be it works. 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. still to come this hour here in r.t. a woman's world at the bottom of the earth will join a russian filmmaker and her eleven month research expedition in antarctica to hear why she's drawn to work in icy isolation. still to come but first a fresh round of protests and flared up in syria against president assad's regime with sixteen people reportedly killed in clashes on friday meanwhile the e.u. is planning a third round of sanctions because of the government's crackdown on those protesters and he will act as brian becker has told me earlier that the west is targeting the syrian regime replace it with a proxy that will serve their interests. the these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally ask a lady in the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we went in libya where one step leads to another step there climbing the

escalation ladder they have a very sort of selective concern for the lives of protesters and democracy movements or movements that call themselves are not receive. their condoning the crackdown on peaceful protesters but i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by the united states and also in principle lead by. france and the u.k. for regime change and i think they see this growing protest movement and the possible slippage of the country in the direction of civil war as an opportunity to overthrow what has been considered to be independent government in syria. a u.s. charges costing dealt on charges against the alleged russian government a victim calling the prosecutor's evidence against him thin boots accused of smuggling arms to colombian rebels seen by the u.s. as terrorists and is currently awaiting trial in the new york jail his lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the charges claiming they don't prove new the arms would

be used against america it was actually started to the u.s. from thailand last year where he was arrested in an american sting operation in march two thousand and eight. oh well let's bring you up to date on some of the other top stories this hour in the world are they being set on the body but the world economy now faces increased risks it says european countries of the u.s. are playing with fire unless they make immediate moves to cut the deficit making it worse is america's internal wrangling over raising the national debt ceiling and then to say that even if the country only technically difference its credit rating will suffer and that will reverberate. meanwhile greece has appointed a new finance minister in a major government reshuffle to try and stave off a catastrophic collapse of its financial system leaders are trying to force the free and popular cuts which sparked violent street protests this week to secure

billions of euros in a second and a german in france a quick deal is vital to stop greece's debt problems spilling into other countries . north korea is accusing seoul of forcing one of its citizens to stay in the self warning that it could worsen relations between the two countries but seoul says it won't extradite the group which affected by boat last week they have asked to resettle in the self if every the north responded angrily when its neighbor refused to send back the fisherman because for son. charles the country's on its highest disaster alert level of the days of heavy rains was more than half a million people to evacuate their homes in central and southern provinces officials say one hundred people have been killed by the floods and sixty five are still missing examples are expected to continue into next week army troops are being mobilized for the relief effort. 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 and the us and fatah reconciled payments stopped because there has been meeting some of those who are suffering at the sharp end. i look we are gods 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 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 cleave the ministry gets its money from the israeli government it comes in the form of customs and tax treaty said telaprevir has been collecting on good surviving it is ready ports and destined for palestinians the arrangements in one thousand nine hundred three as part of the oslo accord giving tell of its 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 from britain for an. exam if even. one of the military they were freed the situation could still. palestinians fear their tell of of could again choose to withhold sex money like it did last month israelis argue that every right to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons the salaries of hamas carries paid for the same bank account sold idled world to finance these terrorists. could palestinians insist the money's for ordinary workers it is. sore because of one it's a punishment but on the other. 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 turbulent one proposed groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned creation of statehood no doubt is wrong will be working even harder to thwart him should it feel its interests are threatened policy r t. israel's other big worries one that concerns the rest of the world as well as we reported the dot com website the new head of al qaeda with renewed threats for both israel and the united states a terrorism expert tells us online how the world still leaves the state. or sort. calling feeding the fishes in a totally new way why this scientist is baring all for the luger whales.

for. him. to work in some of the world's harshest conditions you need to man up a market and or in the case of one and tell it worker it's bringing an essential woman's touch to the tough life or to sean thomas has been to meet her. as a filmmaker olga stuff and over the likes of the penguins and seals but for her and article is about something much greater that. even though it seems like this is a naked land naked stones mtuc with nothing special snow like anna 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. seeing 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 old is one of

only a few women to have ever been allowed to be a part of this experience. olga ended up on our team was a big bonus for us it's the first time such an intelligent young woman with such high professional objectives has been on the winter team and stephanie made her existence heck last year of course there were some difficulties and attractive girls with fifteen men for eleven months so there was some difficulty but people that manage them all has experience in wintering of going house and gave her a true rare opportunity to experience and document the life here in antarctica now she's working to expand on her project and find an audience for her work. right now and putting the finishing touches to the second part of the 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 of the antarctic summer want. to debut her documentary old invited some special guests the same antarctic winter team who are

the subject of her film the fact that makes her slightly nervous you know he watches i love and respect them they're close and dear to me and they have such huge background knowledge they know people in the film they know the winter season firsthand they have been through this themselves. that you cannot please you as for the thoughts of those. who have seen the film but. they're still makes a big impression on you there may be some shows that expose unprofessional actions by a couple of members of our team which showed that the way it was just showed it the way she saw it and it was spectacular. but you need to look into a world that is inaccessible to most in antarctica sean thomas archie. and you can for more sean's discoveries in the world's call this continent with these videos and log at ati dot com on. within a month. being one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica

and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica. runs an. expedition to the bottom of the earth. on the principle that for the moment kareena has the business next week it's from the st petersburg economic forum that's after a short break stay with us live here in moscow. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow as i'm probing of the pretty. early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former empire that the united states is

trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases american we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross our bases of iraq are the noises our north doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like the camps are here for the speed of a day since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know things get everything you needed.

how are welcome citizens here on our t.v. our top stories today russia's most important financial advance of the year the thinking is that international economic forum. in. the city of st petersburg has always been called russia's window to europe but the economic forum in seoul swing has become the window to the whole world is not as a wraps up the second day. highlight of today in this beautifully president made that is keynote address to the assembly here talking about modernisation it is asian 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 beyond x.m.l. the rule as a shining examples of home grown business is that of the well before and are good

examples that others can follow also talked about the ten billion dollars state fact private equity fund something that he believes will bring more innovation and spur growth here in russia also expanding the thirty billion dollar assets sale program of state assets into private hands something that he thinks is also going to be a good deal for the russian economy just. so she loans amounts or you could see this but it has only through skate you fool privatization of major companies is that the station of these things is necessary look at the very modest come to the first of all the switching of cisco transitory zation inuits who is old this i'm sure will be able to go through with it in a movie transparent way to attract. the best is and generate sufficient funds for the russian budget but you medvedev also said that state capitalism is not something that's going to work for russia but after all the government should

instead be doing what it can to help foster innovation and foster for 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 a way 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. 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 no i think here at the economic forum the size just the keynote speeches from president medvedev and chinese leaders. there are also some. now russia's energy deals with foreign companies gas problem after an american shell have agreed to join develop new coil resources and some of the hardest hit areas of russia and even russia and applaud this a deal that could help. lease its presence in europe countries also fighting jointly developing the arctic but the deal check out there's been

a bunch of news of a major deal that didn't come the agreement of a 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 as b.p. and other in his rather russian partner they all opposed the agreement despite this b.p. says that it is often a mistake about prospects we were not successful in reaching. a set of commercial conditions there were acceptable to all of the companies and to see if the concept of a strategic partnership to use was good for russia good for. the energy markets. good for all of the companies and. it says it is still looking for a partner to help develop the arctic and assume is this as soon as this year possibly and energy issues and minister sergei shrugged his track of highlights the nonetheless a triggered investor investor interest in the russian shelf chief is also positive

about this so it all lot of important economic news going on here in russia and being highlighted at day two of the state petersburg international economic forum. russian markets closed low on friday sinking the most in sea week as oil stocks and they have four month low you have to guess and the down point seven percent in the eyes explain is one and a quarter of this is that in the red now let's have a look at some individuals have moved on to my xix oil companies were among the main loses on the include prices with tech they're down more than four percent we watch as an after the asking of a. a half percent supported by news the company may start assembling green cars for the new russian startup be that ross got a call rocketed twenty five percent after the company's shares were included on the r.t.s. index has placed a call. and that's all the business is we have for you but don't forget you can always find no stories just log on to our website that's all

t dot com slash business thanks for watching. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mentoring ization is a lot of people at various bureaus in crisis will be

a witness and years. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching of all the pretty. early early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the new empire that the united states is trying to do it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't how far bases on america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in frost al bases are five

of the noise is wrong nor is it doesn't bother us at all. because there are all bases but for all the people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the into world war two these spaces have been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions and the other thing else is to get everything you needed.