yes america is the movement of an end to corporate protesters grows by the thousands activist one big business stop influencing the government and be called to account for the economic troubles in the u.s. . and coming up next hour to sophie shevardnadze meets president medvedev special envoy to the north caucasus federal district alexander who bought and gives us his outlook on what's often thought to be the country's most unstable region. this disappointing thank you so much for being with us today thank you whatever president medvedev said that one of the key problems many countries including russia face today if any difference nick tension and criminality many russians associate the root of these problems with the kook face you were entrusted to seek

advice what can we do about. the governor's said words i strongly object to your putting it this way that the caucus is the epicenter of the ethnic crime unfortunately and it has repeatedly been stressed crime has no national identity i would support those of the opinion that the criminal group in question is of no particular ethnic origin and another important issue we have to tackle today is migration migration on fortunately or perhaps on the contrary locally is an economic process strictly speaking modern russia has two major centers today moscow and st petersburg perhaps another two or three cities and liberations that abandon competitive business opportunities jobs and everything related to this these centers attract people from the republics of the north caucasus siberia and the far east stimulating migration towards big cities this is the first issue and i repeat it is of purely economic nature but the same can also be said of education today the most popular and prestigious higher educational institutions are the

universities of moscow and st petersburg therefore it is only natural that young people are eager to enter these universities above all others we should focus on the issue and take all the necessary steps a government level to provide for similar competitive educational facilities in the north caucasus and many other russian cities of so if we want to develop our vast country another really great problem is the unrestrained inflow of cheap labor from the former soviet union this is you. problem today we are getting a cheap and uncontrolled workforce that is not always civilized and cultured and cannot always adopt a living in the capital and other big cities we should concentrate on this problem what it would have to interconnected questions for you the first one is about the outflow of the russian speaking population from the north caucuses in fact it's not only students that migrate to the big city but also all types of common citizens who can't compare this process to that of siberia or the far east because unlike these regions the kook that has to deal with every cultural installation as

a result of internal russian migration that could eventually split the country what can be done to reintegrate this population back into the north caucuses. let's look at this problem from another angle who benefits from the migration of the russian speaking population if you think the republic of dagestan where the chechen republic or any other constituent entity benefits from it you are fundamentally wrong they need a russian speaking population like bread or air because the russian language is the link between various nationalities co-existing in the north caucasus there is another thing here you know the notion of population mobility and the russian speaking population is far more mobile than the caucasians who are more devoted to their homes and roots their land and traditions the state should deal with this by creating new competitive jobs or we believe that the state development program for the north caucasus should focus on creating conditions that would facilitate an inflow of russian speakers into the region it's in our immediate interest to work

on this and what is particularly encouraging the republics are interested in creating such conditions to. in august a high ranking french delegation visited the north caucuses and announce their decision to invest considerable funds in developing two reasons that could this result in building a cluster of two or three disconnected from the rest of the region where misery and lawlessness still persist are you saying that there will be a zone where no. an order will be installed and chaos and misery everywhere outside that zone i'm asking you this in audio with possible. of course not it i want you to understand that we are not reinventing the wheel here we are not inventing constructions that have never been heard though it is perfectly obvious that unless the local population is integrated into the tourism cluster development process all our attempts to build ski lives and five star hotels will inevitably fall flat if we disenfranchise the indigenous population the local population must be involved in all of these developments for us how do we do that against you first of all we

must get out of what i call the starship troopers well that's up to ten thousand young people who will be employed in the tourism and service sector these people must be local and live in the areas where these mountain skiing clusters will be developed a second from any residential areas located around those skiing coasters we are going to select young people teach them and do our best to help them set up small and medium businesses sometimes with the help of the state they may open small hotels for tourists we want people to be able to make money if people feel involved and integrated in this process i see no problems at all austria had the same experience a while back austria's vice chancellor said at a conference that there were also explosions in austria while infrastructure was being built the local population he said was also terribly obsessive until authorities managed to involve locals in what was going on before the project had incurred great difficulty i can go through this to flip on and you said the piece through to many and business people and even state officials paid terrorists to

ensure their faith and then that money later of used to finance terrorist attacks what can be done about that when even state official or than civilians have to pay terrorists. over greater proportion of all i would say it has to do with a certain lack of trust the business people have in the ability of federal authorities to protect them from criminal extortion networks recently active in the caucasus this situation however is. changing now we're working actively to explain to people that aiding and abetting terrorism is a crime just as destructive as terrorism itself and that any money given to terrorists can be seen as a crime equal to carrying out a terrorist attack today we have many cases of local citizens and business people cooperating with law enforcement the results are improving gradually but again this is a long process but i've talked to several leaders of move quick this republic and that opinions differ some of them say negotiations with terrorists i'm necessary on this

thing that there is no talking to terrorists you think authorities must negotiate with terrorists. i believe there's nothing to negotiate with terrorists but we should talk and negotiate with parents of those children who have left for the woods and haven't committed any crimes yet if there's a chance to bring them back from the woods with the help of our religious leaders or their parents and families elders councils and any other social institutions we should be doing our utmost to take it serious we should encourage those who look for to us and inform on these people those who are willing to lay down their arms and start living a peaceful life we should consolidate our efforts because once they take a gun and commit a crime there's nothing to talk to them about. how many terrorists operate throughout the north caucasus today. we like giving numbers but it's actually very difficult to make a difference between bandits and terrorists the overall number that i usually give to media agencies for both small groups of five to six members and large groups of twenty to thirty four is up to one thousand people in all the north caucasus

republics the women we're aware of these gang leaders and we've been working federally on their cases. and they funded from within the concho by all the country . was a. recent analysis shows the abroad domestic funding ratio is about ten to ninety the latter being russia they don't need to support of international organizations and other worldwide terror networks such as al-qaeda the money they extort from business representatives. inform them that this actually means that it's not so much terrorism as banditry at the same time i want to stress again that there is indeed a funding inflow from western foundations charities and human rights organizations these funds are used among other things to finance radical religious literature and a number of branded leaders who exploit children for profit in the caucasus what. mystically point in many north caucuses residents go to muslim countries such as pakistan and saudi arabia to study by the time they return home what is this subtle

line for them between their spiritual freedom and a realisation that they're citizens of a secular state with that. at the greatest. unfortunately this line becomes blurred we are indeed facing this problem until recently we were unaware of the number of young people who travelled for religious education in saudi arabia pakistan egypt and a number of other countries having lived and studied for five years in a country like saudi arabia which is an absolutely non-secular state a person returns to our country to secular authority institutions and laws and feels lost amid these realities these people require a special approach and out of protection program in essence various countries have different ways of working on this matter for instance turkey and particularly azerbaijan have practically made a decision on providing active adaptive work for these people until these people are really fully adapted to secular laws and to particular rules and principles of behavior until they are prepared to follow these laws they have no right to take

any position in any state or unit simple or regional structure nor to do business they have to go through a certain out of taishan system first unfortunately there is no legislative base for this it's a very complicated process it requires a lot of patience and tedious work on the part of families for example on relationships with parents we need to keep track of children who travel abroad to study as we can prohibit them from receiving religious education at the same time we should certainly develop our religious institutes to train experts of examine studies in the north caucuses i believe a key aspect will be to establish a secular islamic institute through the north caucuses federal university or another regional institution. macwrite for a lot has been now said about democracy and it a band of men to not country and most people believe that sooner or later we'll reach the western style democracy in the cookies but centuries that have been in the fusion which have very difficult to be rooted out these institutions that tend

to lean comprehensive put the best in mentality that is the tape fifty m. islamic jimmy a particular new. does this kind of a society really need a western style democracy. i don't know what a western style democracy is the west itself has various kinds of democracy in the political interpretation of democracy everyone wants to impose their vision of democracy on other countries i'm totally against it i believe russia has its own form of democratic development for our republics i wouldn't dramatize the situation regarding the peculiarities of the north caucasus but there is perhaps one significant difficulty which we should gradually give up if this is a certain activism which over the past twenty years was reimpose in the caucasus for some reason i'm talking about the fact that executive power structures of our regions are being established according to as nick identity this is the most acute issue which subsequently brings up speculation about clans and corruption of

executive power bodies should be stopped or supporting to professional rather than ethnic principles as for ethnic features traditions culture and religion are these aspects should be manifest in the parliaments or people should generate laws with and reflect the diversity that exists in the republic and in the caucuses generally mystical upon him thank you very much for this interview. we hear it because our. god. milind belongs to our. will if they are still going to be thinking. gold chosen people will not believe that god is real estate agents they look at the standards just for you guys and

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a draft resolution on syria the u.n. security council saying the text doesn't rule out foreign military intervention they can damn the draft as biased and unhelpful to the crisis in syria moscow and beijing want a different resolution that will push opposing sides of the conflict towards dialogue. flights are canceled in and out of the country transport is disrupted and schools are closed as a twenty four hour a nationwide strike gets underway greens in response to the government's latest hysteria measures as euro zone chiefs pushed back the next round of bailout payments. and collective anger sweeps coast to coast across america as the movement of anti-corporate protesters grows by thousands of activists one big business to stop influencing the government and be called to account for the economic troubles in the us. doesn't have eyes here in our t.v.

and meters here with a laser sports news. hello there welcome to the sports update or not it's very good for the company again in this building. time of matches managed to decode the card is happy european qualifiers is in russia's own hands as group elite is prepared to go just of arka on friday. back home and base star andrei kirilenko signs a contract and returns to moscow's side says car. and russian charge may help use the n verify or march on both sides of the draw at the china outcome. but will start with football and russia's coach to take of a cart isn't a call for more as the group b. ladies prepare for their two remaining euro twenty twelve qualifiers away to rival slovakia on friday and then home to rock bottom and dora just four days later of

a cot has a few issues with his squad as midfielder your cough missed the latest training session due to bruising had picked up in on g.'s one zero defeat at home to the committee on sunday while two new faces have arrived in the squad robin strike of the team are doing his mating call up to replace injured zenit star alexandre while to nominate fill the alex understand metaphor could also make his appearance after admitting it a brain scan was ruled out despite those key changes at the top satisfy still hasn't confirmed his start to eleven but he's brimming with confidence. still friday still if you can happen now you're something you markings but in training whatever you can have you still feel fright decision which day over to my mind and to morrow is going to change to is you who are still if you can happen away games we did not lose a game so that must give also a lot of confidence to the players believe that we can do it. over to our circle

now where indicate chilled says come more school went second in the western conference as they claimed three one home victory against metal nets the spectators had to wait until the start of the second twenty minutes one opened with a quick counterattack. giving the health one a late finishing a beautiful combination of his as needed ten minutes to equalize and draco's men receive the pinpoint pass from the from behind the net and fired yet in the period the muscovites took the lead again through the rule of who took the keeper back with his powerful wrist shot from the blueline and to mourn it demonstrated some impressive dribbling skills five minutes into the third period to get the goal of the night stealing the result for three one. now it's a basketball and after a decade of playing for the year to just in the n.b.a. rushing forward andrei kirilenko has returned to moscow to continue his career after signing a three year contract with a scar the thirty year old player whose nickname is a k forty seven became

a free agent at the end of last season and he's gone back to the club he played for as a teenager then he can return to america if the pay dispute is resolved the army men have won the russian league for the last nine years and kirilenko has promised to give all the money in russia to his children's charity foundation while other stars have signed temporary contracts in europe such as dallas mavericks forward. at all madrid while the girls all brothers will practice with barcelona kirilenko was happy to have held his first training session with. the n.b.a. lockout has given me a unique chance to play in russia again for my friends relatives and friends and i can do it while i'm still a peak of my form and not in the twilight of my career and i'm really happy about that. now tennis where world number three there is not over has been leading a russian charge at the china open last weeks talking. finalist is about to play an

evanovich in the third round as we speak meanwhile three matches have already been played earlier today in beijing romanian morning less who made in these a win over china trippers in straight sets so i can see victories are going to progress to the quarterfinals she defeated colona of the venus seven six six three while. also through to the last eight after overcoming in two sets. currently fighting for a place in the quarterfinals against police are not locusts of spain the russian lost open on a tie break but took the second in a confident style in the decider at the latest score there is three want in favor of the russian player eleven out of the dust cook book took place in the last eight five beating you tell them to pull in three sets they spin it came from behind set down to claim it to a six six one six two victory. and joe wolf who is the top

seed there was made to work hard in his opener see defeater group image of bulgaria the twenty year old of plenty of resistance but some got prevailed to seal a seven six seven five victory the frenchman needs the points to boost his beat for a place at the turf in london next month. also in the running for that season ending eight main event is thomas the czech supporting his beat with a picture of. a break in each of the two sets getting the job done for the number three seed seven five seven five the final score there but it has reached the quarter finals at thirteen tournaments this season but need small good results to qualify for london. meanwhile russia's rugby team backed for more wales playing kingsley jones to become the new head coach the team arrived back in moscow on monta after failing to reach the knockout stages of the world cup in new zealand jones is currently the team's assist. coach and stick to

a plate nicholai naresh at the helm who stepped down following the last ball game against australia now says his departure was planned before the tournament but he and the players believe it would be a good replacement. of this group because i made the decision to quit the team before the tournament so it's not connected with our results at the world cup i've been spearheading the team for three years now in the side needs new inspiration and new challengers probably pointing in experience for a new will be the right choice hopefully you could see john stays i think you can say head coach position even if he's offered and i think you can you can steal a share and give a lot to this team i think he's a. top class professional. i'm sure he can do a really good job as well you can talk to him you know what nicklaus started. and now to formula one where sebastian fertile is getting ready to claim his second drivers' title in

a row to achieve that the chairman needs just one point in the five remaining races jenson button who currently sits second in the standings admits that his chances of finishing overall first are purely theoretical. that is going to win the charity whatever happens you know he's going to do is get one more point but it's i take great pride in knowing that i'm the person to stop him from celebrating this weekend. so yeah you know i've really enjoyed the last few races feel that i've worked very well with the engineers and finding a balance for the car. yeah you know i've had some good finishes and finally sport has once again proved one way of the united nations russia wrestlers greeted their opposite numbers from afghanistan in a move a mutual goodwill here in the russian capital and how duchess has this report. this magnificent seven have traveled all the way from kabul to moscow all to hell in

their sambo skills in the land where these martial arts was created a friendly tournament the pinnacle of their stay the fighting to compete was crafted to the soviet union as a mixture of the world's toughest styles around eighty countries across the globe practiced the sport now including afghanistan but there is still no better place than russia to learn and you trick or to. somebody is the same back in afghanistan as a tear in russian but unfortunately we don't have such good conditions at home if we had similar equipment we would produce a result which had just as good as is often the case with meetings like these competition was not the only goal well a bit of attention doesn't do any sport any harm but with all the cups and medals handed out bridging the cultural gap was the rather important message as the organizers revealed but i looked at it this was not only about sport but also about cultural exchange already going to guests not only wrestled but also visited the

kremlin in central moscow so we hope they will have happy memories of this trip for the rest of their lives. the small tournament dubbed together we're stronger has been deemed as a local success and hopes are high it could become the first event of many which will strengthen at least the sporting ties between russia and afghanistan and even other countries hilgert shelf. ok at today no more sports news in tell us time here not a now whether say so. even

the rocks of this ancient land the sacred. baji is the essence of life. whether it is a buddhist prayer. or a shamanistic ritual. on the crossroads of two religions. faith is strong and spirit is hard. the closer team has been to the spitzbergen archipelago. for the world's northernmost dutch you have lennon presides over a ghost. town artie goes to pens a group of village volunteers rebuild the palace from ruins. where technological breakthroughs save lives. and where people are forced to stay fit. in the region russia close up on the party.

russia and china have blocked a resolution on syria the un security council saying the text doesn't rule out foreign military intervention. in greece a twenty four hour a nationwide strike is underway in response to the government's latest round of a spirity measures. flights being canceled in and out of the country public child schools at a standstill and schools of plates as we head out on to the streets of athens to say that discontent up there in the bronx of the eurozone debt crisis will bring you all the latest just. ahead in business russian markets are struggling hard helped by stronger crude prices and gains on wall street we'll bring you the latest figures and a business bulletin tom.