as. live from moscow this is our top stories tonight tare is return to turmoil cairo central square sees fierce clashes between police and protesters demanding the military hand over power to a civilian government over one hundred fifty people are reported to have been injured since the rally began after friday prayers. libyan authorities claim they've captured one of the gadhafi son saif al islam who was long considered his father's successor the libyan ministry of justice said he will be tried in the country and could face the death sentence despite the international criminal court

the man that has kind of. induced syria the deadline set by the arab league for the country's authorities to end the violence expires this saturday but clashes between government and opposition forces continue. and fresh outbursts of heavy handed u.s. policing against demonstrators his office is pepper spray students peacefully protesting against social inequality tradition a california university. that's the nazi meet the man who many russians consider to be the most unconventional politician as we count down to the senate parliamentary elections. hello again a welcome to spotlight built a new show on r t i know they're not there and they were talking about russian politics seven parties are campaigning for seats in the state duma the lower

chambre of the russian parliament for the first time ever the m.p.'s will be elected for five years ahead of fourth and this makes the campaign more intriguing their use of the general election will take place on december fourth and has become pain goes on we continue our pretty l.f. through interviews but like give you a unique opportunity to hear from the leaders of all the parties and today we have to live in your view not speak of the liberal democrat. reaching out to everyone in the crowd the first of a political party to really build a populist in paul soviet russia was the liberal democrat party is slogans have always been clear and simple like no taxes for small business well doubling salaries for teachers and the populace tactic has worked so far the party has always given they'd share of seats in the state duma. the first officially

sanctioned opposition party in the soviet union the liberal democratic party of russia was founded in one thousand nine hundred a year before the collapse of the us ceasar throughout the two decades of its existence that party has been centered around its highly charismatic leader bloody nerves you know ski. his first political breakthrough came in one nine hundred ninety one and he came in third at russia's first presidential election. he's eccentric behavior or temper and sharp tongue have made him one of the most conspicuous personalities on russia's political arena as well as a media darling of the nineteen ninety three do my election were the biggest success for the liberal democratic party which gives it twenty three percent of the vote more than any of its rivals although afterwards it could never come close to as good a result the party's populist rhetoric and it carries more of its leader have so

far guaranteed its seats in russia's state duma. hello mr sharon also think you for being with us to begin with guarding your campaign agenda are you happy with russia's current foreign policy do you still consider the united states to be russia's mean potential adversary of the older. foreign policies and foreign affairs in general are all parties strongest point i am writing a book right now titled the coming orient in the west where i lay out i'll take on all major foreign policy issues it's your personal strong point because of your background. oh yes my first degree was in international relations. in principle russia's present foreign policies are smarter than they were in soviet times and the president feels it but we still see some drawbacks i mean our stance

could be tougher. take north africa we should have blocked any u.n. security council resolution and prevented any air strikes against libya. the same thing our party demanded during nader's yugoslavia contain. russia must not allow any country in the world to be bombed no military intervention should be authorized except for somalia maybe the whole world is faced with somali piracy with ships being hijacked brazenly secondly it is unacceptable that russian citizens should be arrested and incarcerated anywhere outside russia such as the latest case in particular stan where an unfair verdict and an eight year prison sentence were handed down to people whose actions had nothing to do with border violation of smuggling finally russian women are sometimes deprived of their children not only in islamic countries but also in places like norway or france therefore we feel russia should be tougher more steadfast and assertive in its foreign policies as

well as more explicit in stephen its interests i'll bid for w two york session for one shouldn't be such a soap opera with deadlines constantly shifted and everything depending upon george's consent. it leaves a bad aftertaste you know. but still they have readily accepted economies like kurdistan to latvia they are a tours with russia despite its vast potential to the us soviet foreign policy was regarded as the number one enemy sundry olsson it was almost perceived is our number one friend is it friend or for for us today enemy number one in the us yes and a very dangerous one and that why the us aspires to global domination it has military economic and financial assets in place. and russia is the only nation still capable of challenging it even given all our recent departures from the great solid legacy. americans remain our adverse ari and they were day and night to undermine

us. yes about china take the case of vic to boot why did the us nature they know perfectly well he didn't do any criminal shipments but their point was to bully us sure they can arrest the guy and put him in jail it was the same story with the irish ain't no apology for some alleged intentions a similar scenario was recently employed into chicken stem prompted by the americans georgia catch arresting us and eventually assaulted us do you think sex really would have ever dared that on his own no way it was all directed from washington the baltic states any dirty tricks against russia or orchestrated by the us and have been ever since may nine hundred forty five. and supporting certain of europe or america in terms of p. really pretty american reasoning is it more rewarding for russia to be america's friend or opponent well even americans would come to grips with the reality the best option for both our nations would be just right by less for strategic of

course and to hell with the rest of the world including china of the year to the muslim world and all us allies and all of russia's foremost so-called friends it should be just moscow and washington the two of us in charge of all affairs our two presidents should meet once a year in a neutral location let's say in vienna by a single hotel and go through all the issues then agree on things that's it everything else would follow suit and it would be much cheaper and there probably wouldn't be a global economic crisis but the american still seem to think they can manage it all without us they can see europe is grumley because you will lose the election so france will get a new president the us has been unable to sway these lemming world whereas they would have managed it with russia's support china is also growing concern for them therefore the time will come when they will pursue about little accord with us because nature will eventually collapse and so will the e.u.'s the euro zone. your

party and yourself have a reputation as ultranationalists at least that's high. picture you would you agree with that or how else would you describe your attitude. we have never considered ourselves an ultra nationalist party or nationalists resort to force. the issue point blank one ethnic group is better than the rest. they preach racial prejudice we do none of that but we realize that the russian people are in a difficult situation at the moment to certain circumstances. for it is to blame for that the communist party of the fourth against. in that sense they should agree with us all we want is to stop discrimination against the russians the russian people form the core of the nation. in that sense there is nothing at all to write about all right dia's were in favor of territorial rather than ethnic

divisions the wage is practiced in the u.s. u.k. india and the rest of the world there's nothing about us slogans or russians that should be surprising to them or raise questions. about it. of the ethnic division is practiced in the u.k. he would have known arlen in scotland populated by slightly different ethnic groups your slogan liberal democrats for the russians in the u.k. would then become liberal democrats wouldn't even wish for the british what for the english only and that would be perceived as ultra nationalist could you please explain your slogan to us the english run the world today or the anglo-saxon still be more precise you mean to see the british or the endless saxons the british and the americans there is a distinction between the bush and the british i agree i mean the adult saxons not the scottish or the irish the ethnic group that created the british empire growth because today we can say that it's a body is in the us and its head is in london. then the saxon

civilization let's call it this way controls the majority of the western world. it controls nato the euro and etc. but the more we have the russian world which we control i am referring to the slavic world christians and catholic poland. they have their own backyard we have ours. so when you see that liberal democrats are for the russians do you mean ethnic russians or the russian nation just like we said earlier the english or the british do we mean the russian civilization. we do not think blood parentage birthplace religion or even language should be the criteria of whether or not a person is russian what we say should be down to your own self identification like i. do you identify yourself as russian just be russian

no need to cry it out loud. if you don't want to be russian if you say you are a jew a church and a tautology. you're welcome to consider yourself whatever you want we will not force it on people but when you go into issues special papers or set up camps or try them down or return the nationality entry to passports or make them feel a force you know if their gentrify themselves as russian they're russian as simple as that we are not one finland or poland or a part of japan but russians are a divided people there are plenty of them in ukraine and belarus and northern catholics dollars there are a lot of russians in canada they are distant russians then numerous and if they want to better relationships with russia we would be happy to see them back home welcome if any russians are watching right now let me tell s. . stop fooling around and come back to russia from canada us britain france germany and all the countries of the world that will be ten million reach educated cultured

people coming back to russia they do hear the call their mother went they must heed the calling of their ancestors who lived in russia i know why i told them to return back to russia but if they don't want to fine is their private business everything should be voluntary and the decision should come straight from heart without any pressure no one will be forced to declare his nationality it should be a russian civilization a russian world it could be even simply them that could be a union of those who speak the russian language those who want to communicate in russian need to help each other. says let him there is enough he had of the liberal democrats spotlight will be. shortly after the great south stay with us. twenty years ago in the largest country. to serve to.

teach many to teach began a journey. where did it take. rank and clean those. squandered money. abandoning. what is now. more than sixty square kilometers of the one move on the list nation and those who are still supervising new lives and finding are just there it's getting bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. yes you know i don't know what's going on here. on screen on our cheek.

welcome back to the spotlight i know we're not in just a reminder that my guest in the studio is. head of the liberal democrats. who is it what mr zhirinovsky another campaign slogan of your party says holos liberal democrats for the poor but i think the last time it was the party headed by vladimir lenin that used the slogan in one nine hundred seventeen don't you fear it could play against you. we are not afraid of any historical comparisons our party out holds the freedom of discussion i reject any left wing political ideology because we believe these are defeatist use that have no future when we say that we stand for the poor we don't mean that we are against the rich rather our aim is to help them get rich we don't seek to sprawl pre-death is from someone and give them

to the needy we want to remove any hurdles that prevent the majority of the poor from getting wealthy that's the message of our slogan there can be no historical comparisons no similar examples no connections to the policies of the bolsheviks we absolutely reject anything of the sort of. you're an old timer in the russian parliament and during all these years you have the decisions of the ruling party however recently you have stepped up your criticism and we've seen the mounting confrontation with the party in power what is angered you so much what if you become disappointed with the united russia party prime minister putin and president and then in. the initial stage ten or eleven years ago there was a striking contrast with the yeltsin era the last decade was marked by tougher policies fight against crime and attempt to pacify the caucasus or bring justice to

those who are massed their fortunes unfairly alike could scan others consolidation of territories appointment of governors these were the measures we were quite satisfied with but in recent years these processes were put on hold in particular consolidation of territories. regions were removed from the map we believe that half of the regions should go russia should only have forty regions forty provinces each with a populations of three to four million people smaller regions should be incorporated into their bigger neighbors but that's not happening. had a cost he's the only one in jail while many more need to be punished it shouldn't be necessarily prison sentences but they should return the money to economy that we're talking of hundreds of billions of years dollars why were the budget funds about thirty percent channeled abroad between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten. why is there so little support to agriculture why is the quality of our roads so why was not called dismissed just

a year ago that means there have been a lot of mistakes they've made big promises but we don't have the roads the housing program was not completed the healthcare program was not completed either the same with trade and the pharmaceuticals market the drug problem is still there and basically there's not a single major issue that has been tackled with positive results that's the reason why we have been against it and will continue to be extremely critical so there was a time when you got the power it was when he had the majority in the parliament to deliver on your promises then i don't think so we didn't have the technical majority party just came first in the election but al faction listed only sixty four deputies whereas you would generally need two hundred twenty six voices to pass any decisions it was the stadium or with a shorter than usual mandate we served just two years then we would be happy to exercise our power but we didn't have the conditions we spoke out against several

candidates for the position of a prime minister in a secret ballot we voted against kerry and called churn in the region and in an open ballot we voted against primakov we voted against the budget drafts since two thousand and nine two thousand and eleven and i guess the recovery program worked out by the government we would have done the. differently we have plenty of money we must introduce a state monopoly on alcohol tobacco and sugar russia should not export its natural resources gas oil coal but instead process it domestically we should consume everything here and stop helping anyone else russia does have the conditions for us to slogans to why we must cancel all taxes for our region of the far east and switch on to a tax free colony there it would spur economic growth but what has the united russia party done and those who are in power before it they introduced especially konami exult in the market down region did it work you know they cut ticket prices for pensioners and students did it work know all those steps did not work in

contrast our plan would be to introduce a tax free economy to the whole russia's far east we seek to get rid of the standardized state exam and step up the fight against corruption and against terrorists our platform provides for more effective ads we've changes we need more homes for our citizens so let's start building more houses don't just criticize the united russia party when pushing left the office of president he said there was only one thing he wasn't able to tackle corruption but corruption is the key problem ls we overcome corruption we will not manage to solve any issue for years have passed but they haven't sold any issues prison preventive said this is a dead end but liberal democrats give you a fourth option the soviet policy failed yeltsin's balls have failed it would have been put in suppose a slowdown to hold so we offer a fourth option that would give us of the opportunity to move ahead. you always do so many promises you don't agree that your party of nationalists what would you agree that you're a party of ultra populist no definitely no i want to clear it out you were the

first politician in russia who gain support through populist with the help of your personal popularity by populism you mean by protection of the rights of ordinary people then my reply would be positive were other promising to protect the ordinary people but if by populism you mean promises that can be kept then i would say no all. promises can't even you can overcome corruption certainly really absolutely so puts and doesn't want to tackle corruption you fail to admit it if they don't want to they failed. why don't you tackle it yes we can use modern commutes point to me why you came to. a need to dismiss half of the country's governors replace the cabinet renewed opponents get rid of its upper chamber count the expenses the number of deputies and hold elections less often and so today the territories give people the opportunity to build homes for themselves with power gas huge and water supply facilities provided for free by the state what about traffic jams in moscow is not a real problem the reason is that the roads have been turned into parking lots we

should ban all these parking lots no car shall park on the road that's the case in europe would you call it populism oh my proposals have become reality in europe or are being implemented i don't promise the onset of communism it will never happen i propose a forty percent limit on column entry seats for all parties on the two let's go back to corruption infects all of your proposals were put in just twenty years ago when he also replaced gorbachev you launched in military shuffle here a new department and the staff of all the state agencies but there resulted in the nearly five fold aim crease in the number of officials with the level of corruption being that of the soviet times after they did what you propose no it didn't work no you forgot why they replaced everyone you forgot the main thing. that says liberal democrats for the russians. i will pin my holds on the russian people i will tell them russians this is your home country it's time to wake up and stand to stop

fearing and giving in putting up with humiliation take the power in your hands here it is i'm giving it to you the party has won and since you voted for us let us take the necessary steps let us grow down on corrupt officials let us use video surveillance let us cut on red tape. let us introduce house arrest and electronic ankle bracelets all decisions will be taken swiftly i don't have friends among governess i will fire seventy percent of them the same with city mayors they must be appointed without approval of local parliaments getting rid of red tape taken all decisions quickly we will declare an amnesty and hundreds of thousands of prisoners will be free but will not support repressions we want to free as many people from jails as possible everyone needs to have a job we will starve the use of migrant labor and there won't be a single migrant in the country what will happen they will go back home to the chicken stand who will do all the construction work russians yes russians but they don't do that they will but they don't want to they don't they do you know they

don't want to you can publish an advert saying you need to cleaners in one of moscow's districts for a salary of a thousand u.s. dollars you will see russians coming to work in two hours we will release the least with the full wages that the migrants are supposed to get officially and the russians will replace them in no time to do that no one has tried to solve a problem that way i promise you we will tackle the issue so far no one's done that but we surely will also i suggest conducting an experiment let's suspend the train service between the tadg and capital and moscow and you will see that everything will work as usual the one thing we won't have is the huge number of illegal migrants as a result crimes and diseases will be on the decline and the locals will have the workplaces they need. you refer to developed economies around the world. the american and european ones but both in the us and europe there are a lot of qualified and low paying jobs that are done by migrants both legal and

illegal explain it to you that's the case in the netherlands and in the us. their local communities don't want to do that they want to be architects engineers and managers people are willing to do that they're asking for a simple job they want to sow and reap bread to dig ditches they are eager to work there are five million unemployed and another five million underemployed i've seen these people is half an hour they're ready to get down to any world that today's and it over to migrants we will show it when we introduce a ban on migrants we won't have a single jobless person in this country. election is a political process do you think there's anything that should be changed in russia's political system absolutely i told you that the best form of democracy is a palm and republic that's our goal for the future the pollen consisting of just one chamber and numbering two hundred deputies will then alack a president for

a five year term so we will appoint a government that will be accountable to the palm and and will fire ministers once we see that they are not be forming enough then people will feel the difference will set a threshold for the number of members that apology needs to get a registered one hundred thousand supporters if you have a hundred thousand supporters your party will be registered you know the party is that it there will be just three parties left united russia of the communists and the liberal democrats the remaining three parties shall be out and into the dustbin of history where they will not be part of the political system and you longer everything will be in compliance with law and order no violence no depressions and then the russians will see that this is a country for them. it will be followed by an explosion of thought. of emotions and economic boom people will cheer up again today russians are oppressed downtrodden

the humiliated and abused there's no place for them in the constitution television radio and the press are full of through supposedly propaganda we will change that immediately spice it was thank you very much for being with us today in just two why didn't my guest was glad he met julian epstein leader of the liberal democratic party and that's it stood out from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight or have someone in mind you think i since we may start to drop a lot of stuff like we'll be back with your first comments on what's going on outside russia and so when a party can take. president cut off the.