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the russian president pledges drastic measures in a bid to create a better investment climate in the country. decentralizing power and stifling corruption goals for spites me to meet stage if you're at the international economic forum in st petersburg join me at least an hour for more details in just a moment. u.s. congressmen prepared to cut off funding for the libya campaign saying a bomber is acting illegally and not seeking full approval to extend american military involvement cost ninety days the white house however denies it needs permission from capitol hill. plus a new wave of protests in syria as the e.u. moves towards a third round of sanctions against the country critics fearing it's part of a build up for another libya style it's

a venture. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour russia must modernize its economy in the next few years regardless of who is in charge present if it has been outlining the country's direction at the petersburg forum 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 parties and he said no reports now from st petersburg. well 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 let's take

a listen to what he had to say about modernization of the whole process and it's a call. at the studios now my choice is not only a major green knew all of outdated elements in the economy but oprah blick institutionalised we need to hesitate to say sorry about many bad habits we can focus only on the step by step development 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 the improvement of the effectiveness of the jurisdiction system and finally the modernization of government applying modern approaches to 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 and the president clearly wants to fight it this is the morning he have for us and officials that are corrupt. the 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 deal with the government should be purged of corruption in a more decisive way for that purpose we should enhance the way those suspected of corruption are dismissed from public service. joining me now here in st petersburg to speak more about modernization and the challenges that process facing especially in terms of the economy is 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 for option decentralizing the government. what are the details problems if you could tell us briefly that are hampering this process that's why well he touched on some very familiar seats we've heard a lot about the corruption the need for police reform the need for the judiciary and so on to prove that it's just fine let it lie for that's part of the trial but

the problem really has been implementation in many speeches let in many programs that failed states it's less clear the ground level that this has really changed the way that you're that's because that's the such letter you think those hot steps to begin to be taken where does it need to start at the lowest level it's the start of all of the civil tenuously. i think everybody knows the most effective techniques fighting corruption to improving the effectiveness of the state and that is to introduce more political competition let all of that sit at the same time let increasing freedom sit for some time sweet situation in the west that the restraints on the present parts of the saturated but still let to have the oil genuinely independent supplications the television channels with help tremendously

the question is whether it's reach if this point is here let's take more risks introduced elements of political competition. media freedom of course that all adds to the push for modernization as well to annual trees 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 debate the challenges facing the modern world and of course the economy. and he's in our reporting there in st petersburg 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 in out ninety days before asking permission and that runs out this weekend but he's going to churn explains. u.s. lawmakers are saying that president obama has to either stop waging war in libya or

ask for congressional approval 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 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 a group of international observers is now in tripoli including a former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney we spoke with her a few days ago she said they've heard and they counted eighty nine blasts in just one day those are civilian neighborhoods eighty nine bombs dropped in just one day there is a lot of concern that the voices of those who are caught up in that war in tripoli go unnoticed in the international community but here in the u.s. 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 the obama administration seems to be using extensively most congressmen now criticize president obama for as they say ignoring congress but tappable 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 verbal review. 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 many wonder whether or not u.s. lawmakers actually have the capacity to effectively represent the people. there none of this tell whether congress members really want the u.s. to put out of libya washington what sure and voice of russia radio host carmen russell so the chance the totality of the hawks on capitol hill will only benefit if the military operation drags on the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's or for 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 for the district courts the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are are going to support the the actions in libya and

afghanistan and so on congress is not going to you know in mass 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 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. you with r t would come to you live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day still to come this is for you israel opens up another front against the palestinians this time it's financial tel aviv withhold millions in tax owed to the palestinian authorities leaving tens of thousands of workers without their paychecks we find out why. that's still to come but first a fresh round of protests a flare up in syria against president assad's regime with sixteen people reportedly killed in clashes on friday meanwhile the planning

a third round of sanctions because of the government's crackdown on protesters and the war activists brian becker told me earlier in r.t. that he thinks 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 a lady in 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 bahrain they're they're they're condoning the 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. brought back a talking to a little earlier on r t a u.s. charge is casting doubt on charges against alleged russian gun run a victim calling 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 a new york jail his lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the charges claiming they don't prove the arms would be used against america it was extradited to the u.s. from thailand last year where he was arrested in an american sting operation in march two thousand and eight. well let's bring up to date on some of the other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day the alarm is being sort of body 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 their deficits making

it worse is america's internal wrangling over raising the national debt ceiling and analysts say that even if the country only technically de falls its credit rating will suffer another will reverberate worldwide. while 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 pull through deeply unpopular talks which sparked violent street protests this week greece needs to secure billions of euros in a second e.u. i.m.f. still germany and france are quick deal is vital to stop greece's debt problems spilling into other countries. north korea is accusing soul of forcing none 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 defected by boat last week saying they've asked to resettle in the self in february the north responded angrily when its neighbor refused to send back for fishermen who had asked for asylum. in china is on its

highest disaster alert level after days of heavy rains forced more than 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 and downpours are expected to continue into next week as troops have been 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 hamas and fatah reconciled the payments stopped policy has been meeting some of those who are suffering at the sharp end. other week guards 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 if 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 leave 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 destined for palestinians the arrangements in one thousand nine hundred three is part of the oslo accord giving television control of the international borders between israel and the palestinian territories with the money transferred each month to the palestinian ministry of finance which uses it to pay wages except now we're talking about seven hundred forty million dollars for this ministry headstand of the five hundred seventy pounds of. really one of them and then we'll tell you if they were free the situation could still. palestinians fear that 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 the salaries to

the hamas terrorist paid for the same bank account so i don't want to find these stories. 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 israel will be working even harder to thwart them should it feel its interests are threatened policy r.t. women are. israel's other big worry is one that concerns the rest of the world as well as we report on our website at www dot com the new head of al qaeda with

renewed threats for both israel and the united states a terrorism expert tells us online help the world still needs to stay on alert and . also the web site of the moment feeding the fishes in a totally new the way one of the scientists is bearing all the fish and beluga whales. that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with the some of our main news stories in about fourteen minutes from now in the meantime martin andrews runs rings around moscow he's exploring one of the capital's orbital roads here but one which is perhaps one of the prettiest you'll find that's next on arctic.

hello and welcome to the moscow outsell the program this week i'll be exploring the capitals gautam ring approximately sixteen kilometers in succumb friends it was a recently created in the early days of hundreds as a tree lined boulevard to replace the city's outer wall today it's undeniably the heart beats of the russian capital i'm a salsa here right next to the moscow river at the famous public outdoor space

goalkeeper hog. the golden ring consists of seventeen individually named streets and squares. it's not the same circular layout as the moscow metro a mistake many people commonly make the brown line actually overlaps it in several areas and features metro stations outside this facility also known as the cell to account so in russian no visit to the russian capital the famous and chaotic golden ring road by to a starting point a cool keep chalk down to amusement park was named after the writer maxine gorky. bluefins in one hundred twenty eight in covering an area of three hundred acres along the river the outer space is currently undergoing a major renovation it's the perfect place to relax in the city and the perfect place to start our tour. moving. around the ring. and had to.

drive around the ring it's a cultural mishmash of apartment blocks shops and. drive. including. just make sure to get on the right a mistake. exceptionally .

so. it's much cheaper. to expand. to fill in with many buildings with to create the. whole route completely rebuilt. fulfilled and today the width and buildings around the ring change constantly most notably you can see the. sky scrapers that were built between nine hundred forty seven and nine hundred fifty four. symbols. and still stand proud. there are many buildings around this location with pretty bridges and talk to a. place to. some

a sun. impressive looking building. a five star swiss hotel situated not far from the kremlin the. news of the city. moving on next week you'll see the house of music it has various stages concert halls and the largest in russia. taking. music in two thousand and two. x. men. and outstanding. performances of both russian and. theater and ballet companies to showcase stadium houses to greek. station is located one of the largest in the city center. open from ten in the

morning until night if you think. street brand shops a supermarket a multiplex cinema restaurants and cafes all under one roof. being given a city floor. as is suitable for the disabled and people. it's time for some entertainment and for a ninety minute destruction head to the cinema. is housed in a. building but a trip. to . the film festival programs. from all over the world a book and gift shop also runs inside the building that you can find newspapers and

books a russian and international cinema. a favorite place of intellectuals and students the cinemas name comes in the face of the still used the original thirty five millimeter film at this dusty project a room here i'm sure looks like it did decades ago please some new technology and sound equipment added it off as a first class experience. in a set amount let's move on to around the garden bring a superstar metronet prospect nearer we are just about at the top of the range here we meet a beautiful church with a screen on. one of the oldest and most scots is history dates back to sixteen thirty two in the end of the seventeenth century the church was especially guarded by piece of the great he donated a large sum of money tourists it's a beautiful landmark which i have seen many times sitting in traffic nearby and said ok to one of moscow's main hospitals the special scientific research institute of medicine the history of this complex of grumblings dates back two hundred one

can show a message from an old russian noble family the hospital on the spot in the memory of his beloved wife in one thousand twenty three discus a ski institute has found it instead of the hospital and now fifty thousand patients a year were treated in the hospitals fully equipped emergency surgeries and intensive care rooms. say one of the largest such believes that you should see in europe. than eight hundred thousand operations a year including transference of solid liver kidneys pancreas and nowadays even logs of. moving around to the west of the city now and there are several large hotels in the golden ring such as the peking that you can see here. built in the style and this is in style in one nine hundred fifty six celebrating friendly really. between the u.s. song and china the building of the hotel itself is a state historical and actually monuments located near american skier metro just up

the central to postcard street it's walking distance from moscow's main mox opposite the hotel next to the most obvious if it's true hidden away so it's surrounded by statues and fountains it's a peach rest area to relax and it's also where we are meeting this week. me so it's your first year here in the russian capital yes as a chef and yesterday. i got the job back in london when i was working there and so i know you will and i am what you think of arson capital how do you think it would look before you came here i had mixed reports. coming next and. thinking it might be graham and i like it is pretty divests in my mind so it's the cops and the restaurants cafe coach just explained it and i just i'm really enjoying being here actually. really is for the ip center or the heart beats of the

capital yeah yeah i mean if you're going to have around the center you very much and on that one problem with the golden ring is. begin with the traffic it's horrendous the traffic a pretty bad i mean if i go on the school run in the morning which is a little bit outside it takes me an air of a day twice a day so that you can be sitting in traffic for hours not something about the golden ring culturally to say many museums around moscow and galleries and. friends ballet and. beautiful old mansions from dating back and a girl. is beautiful i want to say that those of a pop star surrounds me so hidden away like this little ok which is where i only got ring and it's a lovely little him. i'll sit by the fountain of blacks and get the anyway i'm saying that about sums up whether it's cool just a mindset mixed because i said by the schools. i've got that it was obvious to me

thank you enjoy the garden bring in especially well thank you very much i'm loving it thanks. to gold ring is the appeal to me to black south to buy from sadie's waits in the traffic along side so be a trolley buses a new trend of european bakeries open next the typical old fashioned russian productive jungle stools a taste of mutton time will start and the final location at the intersection of you are back on the golden ring also sums up capitalist russia the luxury center of the plaza owned by the south korean retailer of his a five star hotel the common store and several expensive restaurants. on heading up the popular clean about elites high rise hangout the office some of the best feast in the capital home for the rich and fabulous it's about sky high prices kids to. those who think they're going to bring office just to traffic in britain concrete jungle a mistaken there are numerous going to speak for the start mentions quinn's cathedrals

and many secret hideaway is around sixteen kilometers to conference to dig deeper the most to hold some amazing secrets. from the. city as it was called in the seventeenth century the golden ring has come a long way and looking down on it as the cool satan veins of the capital i just wonder what it will look like in situations to come. while the view of god. is just a brilliant book closely that's the time we have in this week's program i'll see you get the same time next week and tell them for me the rest the same the title. by.