with terror attacks happening almost daily well corruption and a poor quality of life are often blamed for causing violence and next hour to talk to the president's special envoy to the north caucasus about how the situation in the region is being improved. well christopher pyne thank you so much for being with us today thank you president i did have said that one of the key problems many countries including russia face today is interesting tension and criminality many russians associate the root of these problems with the kook face you were entrusted to think of by what can we do about it. so it works i strongly object to your putting it this way that the caucus is the epicenter of 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 but there's 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 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 a huge. problem today is 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. i have to interconnected questions for you the first one is the bad the outflow of the russian speaking population from the north caucuses in fact it's not only students that migrate to the big cities but also all types of common citizens you can't compare this process to that of siberia or the far east because unlike these regions the cuckoos it has to do with ethno cultural insulation 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 so 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 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 go. 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 tourist resorts disconnected from the rest of the region where misery and lawlessness still persist are you saying that there will be a zone where a lot. an order will be installed and chaos and misery everywhere outside that zone i'm asking you this in audio was 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 we get you first of all we must gather 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

and second from any residential areas located around those skiing posters 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 deeply poignant you said the piece through to many in business people and even state officials state terrorists to ensure that fe fifty and then that money later of used to finance terrorist attacks what can be done about dot com and even for david fisher than civilians have to pay terrorists. for the good supper first 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 isn't. 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 north quick this republics and their opinions differ some of them say negotiations with terrorists i'm necessary on a 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 in 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 or 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 caucuses republics the women we're aware of these gang leaders and we've been working thoroughly on their cases i will form and they funded from within the conscious by of the country. with 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 to among other things to finance radical religious literature and a number of branded leaders who exploit children for profit in the caucasus. 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 this ritual and to realize ation that the citizens of a secular state are 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 traveled 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 because they have no right to take any position in any state 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 caucasus federal university or another regional institution. macwrite for a lot has been now said about democracy and i bent of mind 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 sneak identity this is the most acute issue which subsequently brings up speculation about clans and corruption of executive power bodies should be stopped supporting to professional rather than ethnic principle this is part of the us 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 mr poignant thank you very much for this interview. it was created to serve public interest to inform and to entertain. these days there's nothing easier than opening a new media outlet but there is nothing harder than revoking its license in case of corruption. when just from. san antonio control. you can involved in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspapers radio stations. television stations the cable.

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the. top stories on our team these fire tear gas at demonstrators and as a nation is brought to a sad. state services paralyzed after thousands of civil servants walked off their jobs in protest. that. russia and china. against syria. moscow says the targeting of damascus is based on confrontation and not a push for peace. thousands across the u.s. voiced their anger at corporate money and its influence on the government at a time of soaring unemployment labor unions have joined the chorus of disapproval. with more news in about fifteen minutes but first this is sports news with unit.

good to have your company this is sports today i'm going to leave on these our headlines this hour. gearing up the russians football team for her for a massive week option wins against obamacare on the door it will guarantee them a place if you're twenty twelve. clear power a host of the n.b.a. with guns including kobe bryant peter police commissioner david stern to try and save the twenty eleven twelve she's. bridging through possible the soviet originating support of some ball which is i to you practitioners within a half gallon select demonstrating their skills in moscow. it's make or break time for russia's footballers this week with euro twenty twelve qualification wrapping up dick advocaat charges take on slovakia angeleno on friday before a home clash with dora on choose the thing automatic qualification will be made shirton by winning those two games monitor the celts seeing if the game is achieved

the players can quote drink as much as they want afterwards that statement coming in response to criticism from levelled out some of the players reportedly doing just before a world cup playoff in slovenia two years ago uppercut also saying he will quit his post should russia fail to make in next summer's poland and ukraine finals. a lot resting on those two games let's move to the ice on the kontinental hockey league were say ask a mosque or well and truly beginning to live up to their pre-season hype the second in the western conference following a three one home win over a mess the lyric novokuznetsk the victory because fourth in their past by games two must buy time to wait until the start of the second twenty minutes to seize the initiative. dimitry going to show sliding home here one nothing this is equalised ten miles south of the town for koosman finishing off beautiful pasta dimitry. but

that would only spur on c.s. . netting ripped right before the end of the period dimitri manya then putting the tie to bed five minutes after the break do you want. to. help with all those this believe the legal role with the. now the tennis one seeded russia. is through the quarterfinals of the china open world number three on the real with oh how can quite the same fortune her compatriots former world number one on the problem which has been looking good of late and she certainly didn't wait around in beijing at the bottom of your screen you can see the drop just three games on route to a straight sets win. over three matches wrapped off before the us on the chinese hard courts rumanian. less q soft shell meet chefs in the first second seed victoria azarenka to meet the quarter expense of.

pasta with the. title charge meanwhile has moved up a gear in the men's side of things the russian booking his poor final birth of the expense of spain's feliciano lopez earlier fernando verdasco did keep the spanish flag flying beating it. up the event was made to work hard in his opener else he defeated grigor dimitrov area that twenty year old suffering plenty of resistance but tsonga prevailed to see that seven six seven five the frenchman needs the points to boost his bid for a place at the tour finals in london next month. to. the running for that season ending eight mom event is thomas burdick the czech supporting his quest for victory over australia you're going melzer break each of the two sets on

a day getting the job done for the thirty seven five seven five the final score thirty six to put a final stage at least in their thinking for them and thus far this season. the national basketball association labor dispute between owners and players shows no signs of resolving anytime soon the league counseling the rest of their pre-season games with the proposed november start a series start boston celtics star paul pierce attending these negotiations he was joined by m r e stoudamire and a host of other stars derek fisher one of the more vocal players' representatives but reporters were all awaiting the arrival of his high profile lakers teammate colby bryant though rumored to be working extensively to sign in italy with. no common ground between those big names on the owners there was yet. today world be you know announcing the. cancellation of the rest of the exhibition season by monday we will have no choice but to chance of the first two weeks of the season.

that's where we are. gauged in more. you know intense discussions today to see if we get close you know were the remains to be a. very large gap between. you know the n.b.a. and b.p. a. today was not today. on the baseball diamond new york delivered when it mattered most in the m.l. b. american league division series against the tigers the yankees handing out a ten one shellacking to detroit on the road forcing the best of five series back to the big apple for the decider yankees pitcher a.j. burnett says watching his teammate kurdish drum machine saved the day after john kelly had a line drive in the first inning. time to step up to the plate in the fifth in the thirty year old would deliver an r.b.i. double making the score three one with the choice between the right to moralize kelly the feistiness visitors they continued to point on the tigers making an eight

and warm in me. on those runners taking the opportunity to move the score into double digits with an r.b.i. single ten one yankees the final score the two sides head to new york on thursday for that crucial series decider. texas rangers will be watching that game closely to see who their next opponents will be first though they have popped open the champagne after closing out their own series against the tampa bay rays texas where shocked nine nothing in the opener before bunting back to win the next three edging the final game four three the rangers taking a second straight american league title. diamondbacks they produced a great last gasp effort at home to stay alive against the brewers and the national league divisional series phoenix pride and joy dominate one pick three game three which holds straight losses by three or more runs full goldsmiths night but real or

not the rocker of a drum slam in the fifth which made the score seven on the field so i'm going to single in the first inning or is it will still enjoy the comfort of their homecoming game for us they look to tie the series a two piece later on but. to form a one we go where with sebastian vettel all but securing this season's form. in the money sits second in the standings has gotten teed his long term future with current team mcclaren thirty one year old jenson button who won the formula one cronan zero nine committing his driving future by signing a team called year contract to drivers current contract was set to expire the season button currently battling against insurmountable odds essentially for this year's draw on the britain would have to win all five remaining races with red bull's vettel not scoring a single point so it's really all but twenty twelve and beyond for the summer said . huge day of cycling at the so-called by

capital of the world the tour of beijing getting it soon or girls start with tony martin the fosters to lop the city's a lot more bird's nest olympic stadium the opener perfectly suited for twenty seven world time trial champion martin the twenty six year old showing the same form that earned him the world title in the discipline in copenhagen that fortnight by david miller's run seventeen seconds that won the day the british veteran settling for the middle round on the podium german martens thirty minutes thirty three seconds to tell. alex was third martin thus becoming the first ever stage win over u.c.i. world tour event in asia it will be. finally sport has once again proved the way if united nations russia is somebody reading their opposite numbers from afghanistan no less and a move all mutual goodwill here in the russian capital because filed this report.

this magnificent seven have traveled all the way from kabul to moscow all to hell in december 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 practice the sport now including afghanistan but there is still no better place than russia to learn and you treat or to. somebody is the same back in afghanistan as it's here in russia 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 to cultural gap was the rather important message as the

organizers revealed. this was not only about sport but also about cultural exchange already going guests not only wrestled but also visited the kremlin and 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 show of. tough guys all right and there that is all the sport for now i'll see you soon here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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top stories on our team the greek police to steer gas to clear and to stir the protesters as a country is paralyzed by nationwide strike against a new budget cuts and higher taxes the same tensions boiling a very hair on the streets about then as the riot police and angry protesters clash we'll bring you all the latest information in just a female in. russia and china vetoed a u.n. resolution against syria saying the european backed document could lead to a more serious conflict instead of stopping by. the wall street rallies across the u.s. are reinforced by unions joining the clamor over the corporate greed demonstrators say has led to the collapse of the economy. u.s. markets are up europe is gaining more oil is bouncing back but russia still manages to continue its losing streak for about some twenty minutes from the business world .