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your room the photos a great goal how an international house the chief evergreen lowell hotel in. the russian president pledges drastic measures in a bid to create a better investment climate in the country. decentralizing power and stifling corruption goals boy spied me to a meditative here at the international economic forum in st petersburg joining me at least an hour for more details in just a moment. congressman say they'll cut funding for the libya campaign unless the president gets the constitutional go ahead for the wall and 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 stalled intervention.

internationalising 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 these in petersburg form of top business leaders he also warns that the government's large role in the economy along with corruption threaten development and must be tackled artes and he said now reports now from st petersburg. but there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president medvedev knows that became very clear and has for real with his whole term 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 let's take a listen to what he had to say about modernization of the whole process and it's

called. if the studios choice is not only a major green you'll have outdated elements in the economy but all public institutions used we need to hesitate to say sorry about many bad habits we can focus only on the step by step development machine that would be a mistake would be which we should focus on the following improvement of the investment climate in russia to create new jobs in the regions creation of police and other security forces improvement of the effectiveness of the jurisdiction system and finally the modernization of government employee lowden approaches and the centralizing power which 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 and the president clearly wants to fight it this is the warning he have for us in the fish that are. not a noose around the neck of those who practice corruption should be toilets and and

the whole of russia agrees with this without exception which could go to corruption is very difficult to do with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way young for that purpose we should enhance the way those suspected of corruption or small dismissed from public service he. joining me now here in same here is first to speak more about modernization and the challenges that process is facing especially in terms of the economy danielle trey's 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 monitors ation corruption decentralizing the government. what are the details problems if you could tell us briefly that are hampering this process that's why the touched on some very familiar themes that a lot of help from the upshot of the need for police reform if the judiciary and so on. if that's what climate that's part of the trouble but the problem really has

been implementation in many speeches and many programs so that they'll say it's less clear ground level that's really changed the way that's the toughest throughout the supply how do you think those side steps to begin to be taken where does it need to start at the lowest level it's the start of the whole of the civil tenuously so i think everybody is supposed to take a fighting corruption so everything the fact that the state that is to introduce a political competition although. at the same time it's increasing freedom. of course sometimes we exaggerate in the west that the restraints on the press march such outrageous but still. to have was a genuinely independent publication suttle the trials with help tremendously the question is whether it's egypt at this point it's fair to take more risks

introduced elements of political competition. media freedom of course that all adds to the push for modernization as well tenuous and thank you very much for being with us 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 that's of course for the nice to know if they're in business teams also keeping track of what's coming out of the international economic forum that transit is there to bring a small plane 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 of 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. 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 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 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 levy they call it kinetic military action but 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 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 uighurs 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 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 he'll bomb administration

seems to be using extensively most congressmen now criticize president obama for as they say ignoring congress but capitol hill observers say it's mostly political games that the lawmakers are playing to score points by snubbing. 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 we 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 suit 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. under the stars whether congress members really want the u.s. to put out of libya washington what chairman voice of russia radio host called the

russells. has told us that the hawks on capitol hill will only benefit if the military operation drags on it was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dentist to sit in the group of other congressmen and even at that time filed a 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 going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and so on congress is not going to. come and say 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 it would be but 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 we join a russian filmmaker during her eleven month research expedition in antarctica to hear why she's drawn to work in icy isolation that. story coming up first a fresh round of protests have 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 activists brian becker has told me earlier that the west is targeting the syrian regime to replace it with a proxy that will serve their interests. the if it adopts these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally ask relating the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we when 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 democracy movements you take. their condoning their crackdown on peaceful protesters i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by the united states and also in principally 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 an independent government in syria. a u.s. charges costing delta on charges against the alleged russian government a victim according the prosecutor's evidence against him phin 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 he's known as a loss to judge to dismiss the charges claiming they don't prove new the arms would be used against america and to boot was extradited to the u.s.

from tottenham last year where he was arrested in the merican sting operation in march two thousand and eight. let's bring you up to date on some of the other top stories this hour in our world update the alarms being salad by the i.m.f. that the world economy now faces increased risks it says debt ridden european countries and 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 say that even if the country only technically default its credit rating will suffer and that will reverberate worldwide. we will greece's 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 through different popular cuts which sparked violent street protests this week to secure billions of euros in a second. phase of the more germany 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 soul says it won't extradite the group which defected by boat last week saying they have asked to resettle in the south if every the north responded angrily when its neighbor refused to send back for fisherman who had asked for asylum. to charles the country's on its highest disaster alert level after days of heavy rains was more than half a million people to evacuate their homes in central and southern provinces official said one hundred people have been killed by the floods and sixty five are still missing the downpours are expected to continue into next week you've got army troops to be 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 supposed to be passed back to the

palestinian people but since the political groups amassed and fatah reconciled the payment stopped policy has been meeting some of those who are suffering at the sharp end. we are we 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 my salary comes later it's like my life stops 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 leave the ministry gets 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 million dollars if mr davis can be five hundred fifty pounds. ask anyone if. they were afraid the situation could still. palestinians fear their tel of of could again choose to withhold tax money like it did last month israelis argue they have every right to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons. to the hamas terrorist paid for the same bank account sold idled world to find these terrorist. 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 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 israel will be working even harder to. should it feel its interests are threatened policy our t. women are. israel's all the big worries one that concerns the rest of the world as well as we reported forty dot com website a new head of al qaeda with renewed threats for both business and the united states a terrorism expert tells us online how the world and still needs to stay on alert. also not common feeding the fishes in a totally nude way why this scientist is baring all four blue whales. fish. to work in some of the world's

harshest conditions you need to man up and muck in or in the case of one and tart it worker it's bringing an essential woman's touch to the tough life or to short 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 than i had. even though it seems like this is a naked land naked stones to cliffs nothing special snow like ana's 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. 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 old is one of only a few women to have ever been allowed to be a part of this experience. with 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 stephanie made our 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 we've learned to manage them all this experience in wintering a building housing gave her a true rare opportunity to experience and document the life here in antarctica now she is 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 pirates will probably be called this season and it will feature of the antarctic summer want that. to debut her documentary olga 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 you watch it but 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 you will think you put off least as for the thoughts of those. who have seen the film. this film makes a big impression there may be some shows that expose unprofessional actions by a couple of members of our team but to show that the way it was showed it the way she saw it was spectacular. but a unique look into a world that is inaccessible to most in antarctica thomas r.t. . and you can follow more discoveries in the world's coldest continent with these videos blog. dot com. more than a month. in 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. so

special and attractive from the wildlife. and. expedition to the bottom of the earth. well it brings up that for the moment kareena has the business next with it's from the 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 is an approaching illiterate. leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former believe 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 or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in 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 our bases a fog of the noises our northeastern doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for older people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. 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 pickles you get everything you need.

how are welcome to business here t. our top story today russia's most important financial event of the year the st petersburg international economic forum. this area of st petersburg has always been called russia's window to europe but with the economic forum in full swing has become the window to the whole world artie's met trends or wraps up the second day at the farm. highlight of today indisputably president medvedev keynote address to the assembly here talking about modernization and innovation as the main the main focuses of the event to end the main focus for the russian economy in the years to come he pointed out he on decks and mailed out a rule as a shining examples of home grown business is that i've done well on the foreign market 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 for 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. since the loans amounts or you could see it if . you fool privatization of major companies is that the implementation of these plans is necessary look at the very modest to the first of. the times they should in order to his old lease i'm sure will be able to go through with it in a movie transparent way to attract. the best is sufficient for the russian budget 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 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 going to move the economy forward along those lines he believes that the country needs less regulation less red tape to get business is off it off the ground. russia but 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 at the sides just the keynote speeches from president medvedev and chinese leaders. there are also there are some. updates on our issues energy deals with foreign companies gazprom nafta and american shell have agreed to jointly develop new poil resources and some of the hard to get areas of russia and even russia at a broad this is a deal that could help. police its presence in europe countries also planning to jointly develop in the arctic the deal. 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 ross nafta and b.p. other countries were planning to jointly develop the arctic but the deal collapsed as b.p. and other in his rather the russian partner they are opposed to the agreement despite this b.p. says that these often mistake about prospects we were not successful in reaching a set of commercial conditions there were acceptable to all of the companies involved i think the concept of a strategic partnership. is good for russia good for. the energy markets. good for all of the companies involved. it says it is still looking for a partner to help develop the arctic and as soon as this is as soon as here possibly and energy should minister sergei smoggiest radko highlights the nonetheless it triggered investor investor interest in the russian shelf and the peace chief is also positive about this so it all a lot of important economic news going on here in russia and being highlighted at

day two of the st petersburg international economic forum. russian markets closed lower on friday sinking the most in two weeks as oil topped and they have four month low yes and a down point seven percent in the my six that is one and a quarter of a is that in the red now let's have a look at some individual moves on them isaacs oil companies were among the main loses on the include prices with technique and down more than four percent. hasn't asked of us again open. three and a half percent supported by news the company may start assembling green cards for the new russian startup. and will start a call rocketed twenty five percent after the company's shares were included on the r.t.s. indexes based table. and that's all the business use we have for you but don't forget you can always find most always just log on to our website that's all t dot com slash business thanks to watch.

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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 i'm quoting up on all the pretty. early early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the movement empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand us troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have foreign bases in 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 our bases of. the noise is our noise who doesn't bother us at all because they're all basically.