the people and putin russia's prime minister will face questions from the public ten live televised q. and a. and there are plenty of questions to be on just a monster go until the crimea runs for the presidency join me in the church for more. prison in perpetuity america is on the verge of legalizing the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects without charge or trial. opening doors and dealing with debt top level talks between russia and the e.u. to finally relax travel visas while discussing the handling of the eurozone crisis

. is to get china and put their money in sub-saharan africa if they want to benefit in the emerging market germany in twenty minutes or more the thousand the business. from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. millions of russians are lucky to hit the phones later and there's one number there after prime minister vladimir putin will take calls no doubt some very direct questions this tense televised phone and let's get the details now from our. recent events i suppose partner suppresion is expecting some tough questions from the public what song russians minds. of

a dimmer putin is widely expected to break silence on the mass protests following the state duma elections elections which were tarnished by fraud allegations judging by the questions currently listed as nos stossel on the show's web site but these years program will focus on traditional social issues such as policy ponchos and health care but at least two visitors to the site also hooten for his opinion on the protests in particular voters want to know if the current legislation would be amended and punishment for a lot shows for old topham they also want to know they'll be a return to the against old option in the ballots home and other questions are will russia get back to electing not appointing governess probably people's lives change with russia entering the world trade organization how's it going with preparations for the twenty four thousand sochi olympics and the football world cup in trying to eighteen that's to name just a few it's going to be the town the anniversary q.

and a session for pollution he started these formats of communicating with people when he was the president and avaricious want to see a set down for these direct chat with his potential voters that whatever push him will be answering people's questions from a t.v. studio and live t.v. who cops up planned with a different regions will be also some prominent russian figures in the studio who will also of course take up the chance to grill the prime minister on some very delicate issues during the similar q. and a session last year he was responding people's questions for four hours and twenty six minutes the call in show today will be shown live by the main russian t.v. and radio stations and the center for recessing information started a ration on monday night and will be active until this live coverage is over. now putin is. running for the presidency again in march but his ratings have taken

a note recently when i was chances. of the show takes place at a time all sagging approval ratings were pushing forty one percent according to the most recent public opinion poll in late november however we have to understand that putin remains by far the most popular politician in this country and of course the most likely candidate for presidency in the election in march and he is that widely expected to win these presidential vote. with the way despite. a proper of out of his candidacy into the field of candidates. on the east are also a perennial losers get not gonna from the communist party three failed presidential debates let him or sure enough skin of the liberal democratic party who are filled to bits and just russia chief sergei mironov going to thousand or even urged his

voters to choose over him of course those willing to run for the congress has done the job still have time to prove what their candidacies but if the election took place today it will be vladimir putin who the winner. from austria thank you. of unease now fresh clashes between tribal groups have erupted now the libyan capital the situation in the country has been deteriorating since the toppling and killing of colonel gadhafi libya's new leaders the national transitional council are struggling to keep the peace now they're under fire from thousands of angry protesters and dicey before the revolution began demonstrators want the empty seat to resign saying it's not doing enough to bring change it's a quote journalist steven brown thinks the country's back on the brink of civil war . now you're going to see. people are very dissatisfied the way things are going

they fought hard especially in benghazi they don't think they're being properly rewarded and now you're going to see the country just fall apart into different areas of warlords just like in afghanistan i don't have any competency and t. see those people in t. c. or all complicit in the duffys crimes they're going to set things up so they're going to do very well again and they're probably going to try and emerge as a new rulers a new dictators of libya which is where it's going to be headed for example. who heads the m.t.c. was gadhafi justice minister that just makes a joke of the whole council his response of for a lot of crimes and gadhafi i don't blame these people been ghazi for having no trust me and to see it all. cosco is accusing the e.u. of overstepping its powers by hindering a russian humanitarian aid convoy carrying food and supplies to serbs in kosovo twenty five russian trucks were stopped at the checkpoint on tuesday by e.u. controlled customs offices author refusing an escort through the territory local serbs then prevented eleven new police cars from having to put it in more than cost

of the area has been in the speech since july because of a sense it's own customs officers to the checkpoint the minority serbs reacted by putting up barricades. controlled by ethnic albanians and despite declaring independence three years ago it still has to move than one hundred thousand serbs. now are still ahead this hour get closer to the caucuses take you to russia's oldest city now it stood the test of time. twenty years ago the largest country. disintegrated. what had been. each began

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is leave. leave. terrorist suspects in america could be held in prison indefinitely without charge or trial that's if the senate passes a controversial bill which has already been signed off by the white house and the house of representatives the military will be able to take custody over the edge terrorists virtually without question critics say it would be a stark violation of human rights but it's get more on this from prison campaign

radio host ralph schoenman i thank you for joining us here on the top. today that this bill has been approved by the means and is likely to be pos by the senate why is this getting such uneasy right well both political parties have long been united in serving the interests of the corporate and financial capitalist ruling class in the united states to put it bluntly they finance post winnable parties and the system is addicted to permanent war and has been for a long time and both parties are facilitators of this the republican lindsey graham regime of the most vociferous backer of the legislation spelled out its significance he said if you're an american citizen and you betray your country you're going to be held in military custody and you're going to be questioned about what you know and you're not going to be given to a lawyer if our national security interests dictate to you not be given a lawyer will validate wording has been expanded to include those who are either

associated wiggle or facilitate what is designated arbitrarily by the military as something that threatens the national security this is the democratic senator carl levin the democratic sponsor of the legislation made very clear in the way that obama and his administration had intervened to demand it language in the original version that excluded u.s. citizens and residents from being indefinitely detained by the military would be changed to include their their their vulnerability to this sort of the military are entitled to disappear american citizens for offenses that are never even made public not only that but if you look carefully at this legislation if you have a family or friend who publicizes what that you disappeared they too can be detained if anybody helps you with a taxi ride orde attempts to give you systems to your family into circumstances of

your disappearance they too can be detained this is the architect. sure the fascist state now president obama has repeatedly promised to a bloodless one tunnel obey why hasn't that happened yet in your opinion well those promises were made during an election campaign and were always hedged in the reality is that not merely has obama refused to abolish it but he has insisted it be expanded and part of the military appropriations act makes it imperative that the military not allocate any funds for the closing of guantanamo quite the contrary these detention centers where people are disappeared have expanded all over the world the most recent exposed being that in rumania but they are ubiquitous and the obama administration and its attorney general eric holder have been in the forefront of expanding the patriot act intensifying these arbitrary martial law provisions it's reflective of the fact that eric holder the attorney

general of the united states and close to obama was the representative she key to formally united fruit and dial dole pineapple there were financing to death squads in colombia targeting trade unionists and peasants and people who are opposed to the dictatorship in cocoa in any fashion and not merely that but when the penalties were being considered for the funding of death squads eric holder the attorney general invented the lie that they were merely financing the death squads to protect their own employees does what it does get back to america half a minute the world's biggest defense budget has been possible whopping six hundred sixty billion dollars how will that go down with the average american. well bear in mind that the new york times recently published

a new lead editorial called the poor and the near poor which acknowledged that people at the poverty level in the. knighted states represent one out of three americans poverty is defined as twenty four thousand four hundred dollars a year for a family of four with predicates the notion that of that one person can live on five thousand dollars a year in the united states which is of course an absurdity is anyone understands consequently the point being that the number of those who are at the poverty level far exceed one hundred million this is a system in terminal d. k. addicted to permanent war the question you asked about six hundred sixty billion dollars pales before the twenty three point seven trillion dollars that were handed over to the bank stewards as we call them by obama with republicans cooperation now this is the number twenty three point seven trillion dollars we cleared by neil barofsky the special inspector general of congress who had to report on the bailout

as it was called no on countability for this twenty three point seven trillion dollars which is double the gross domestic product of the united states to put this in some sort of perspective the trillion dollars is a thousand dollars a minute since the birth of jesus this tiny financial oligarchy does capitalist ruling classes cannibalizing the infrastructure of the united states it's a system in crisis and the mass of the population of the united states working people people who are dependent for their income on unemployment for their retirement on social security all this is being notified and the military budget is being expanded that tells you that we're dealing with a system that cannot respond to the elementary needs of people and the response of the public is as you see in the occupy movement the mass strikes and the growing resistance to both political parties which are considered to be the one big

property party with two names that's why this track only in law. just for asian preparations for martial law and the architecture of the crash in state being rapidly assembled and put in place in the united states ok we have to leave it there out of time and that was a radio host around talking to us from california thank you and. online that r t dot com will take on the american media's to take treatment of public demonstrations playing out the protests abroad while playing down in undermining disturbances at home. also on the web sites. where will it fall russia's ill fated mars moon probe that became stuck in orbit after an unsuccessful launch fall back to earth. like that what's in its path party dot com.

the travel between russia and the e.u. countries could soon get a bit easier the strict visa regime may soon relax for people in russia's kaliningrad territory in the baltics and then possibly extend it further it's one of the summit discussions in brussels along with europe's debt and moscow joining the world trade organization that sees it as their. russian and e.u. officials are meeting here in brussels for a summit and at the top of that agenda it's expected the visa free regime will be talked about they're expected to continue that dialogue on easing restrictions for travel between russia. was expected a document will be signed outlining the basic conditions and possibly at the end of the year there may be a final resolution on the topic another issue one of the third energy package this

is the legislation that aims to liberalize the energy sector in the european union wants essentially the unbundling of services such as transport and delivery essentially separating the owner from the operator maybe of a pipeline and this becomes a point of contention because a russian gas giant gazprom right now is the charge of production transport delivery essentially all the activities involving gas and liberties so they may discuss ways to make the market more liberalized at the same time be flexible enough to accommodate russian interests of course of light of trade and business they will be talking about the accession of russia to the world trade organization or the w t o and in light of the eurozone crisis they may look at ways that russia can play a role in helping out euro zone nations through the i.m.f. potentially rather than being european financial stability fund or. for policy chief catherine ashton had said that she won't come as president the decision to open an inquiry into claims of fraud and vote rigging at the recent elections so

it's expected that she will break this up and. boy. also said he would also like to talk about issues of human rights and democracy with their russian counterparts but also is expected that they will talk about topics of baby may not see eye to eye on such as the approach that they will take to resolve the syria crisis so certainly a very jam packed agenda for the russian summit. well there are some more world news for you now this hour there's been a new string of violent attacks in syria troops got on a civilian car traveling through the village of qatar which burst into flames killing all by people inside eight soldiers were then shot dead in retaliation the violence comes after the military entered the city of hama and antigovernment protests which had killed five thousand people since march present in syria creasing international pressure to stand down civilian deaths meant. president

obama has marked the end of the iraq war and u.s. to soldiers returning from the conflict this week she promised to have also was withdrawn by the end of the year although five thousand troops are still present in the country since the war began nine years ago one hundred thousand iraqi civilians were killed. egyptians are heading to the polls for the second phase of the country's lengthy elections is the most parties are expected to see the biggest backing him become the largest bloc voting violations are being recruited by the army's trying to clamp down on pieces of the country's first democratic ballot since president barack was asked in february. now time to take a trip through thousands of years as we visit russia's oldest city.

yesterday bent was originally established by a persian king as a fortress guarding passage between the caucasus mountains in the caspian sea it was destined to become a key point on the ancient silk route the battle trading connecting europe asia and east africa the city is now one of southern russia's most popular tourist destinations. we continue our acceleration of the republic and this time with visit a unique you story area of the city of dead and or ask the locals call it the gates of the caucasus dead and claims to be the oldest city in russia clocking in and more than five thousand years for many centuries the city developed between two natural walls the mountains and the sea on a strip of land just three kilometers long over the years different nations gave the city different names but all were connected to the word gate the reason perhaps is that debian stood on the silk road enclosed by strong walls reaching to the sea

and the watchtower's the beauty of this area has always attracted visitors from across the country but soon there will be an added incentive to come here this point of dagestan was picked to host one of the five major tourist complexes to be built across the v. area of north caucasus but that's what the future and for now local second time to with their past managing to preserve large portions of the area and today they've opened some of the same trees old thick roots of this fortress to us. in the years gone by it was never this easy to get to the net in column fortress then armies would do battle storming the walls to get inside it has become a second home. he's the key keeper of one of the most beautiful columns castles in the region very near the north and it will almost forty years of my life i spent here all members of my family works here this is

a tradition for this is everything here is special for me i want to save every piece of it for the future. and the younger generation of dagestani man is following in his footsteps averaged a local historian meets dozens of tourists and tells the story of modern cholera some of the. what you see from here is the old part of data bin we call it my god this is the oldest city in russia in the past caravans used to come to the gates of this fortress they paid a toll and only after that cut they continued that journey to. this place guarded one of the strategic passes on the silk route and was used well into the nineteenth century however a large portion of the fortress was destroyed in the nine hundred twenty s. during the russian civil war most of what remains date back to the seventeenth century this is what's left of what was once one of the most violent punishments in the caucasus the criminals were thrown into this post and the ground and left to

die there from hunger new criminals were thrown their own a regular basis but none of the bodies were after remove not even cost guns on the highway speak in the city and overlooks the caspian sea too many rules enclosed that one part of deadband and to the sea buildings the delay between those two story the walls every morning are of the price of for instance this is the jewel mosque one of the most ancient in the world many believe. is that it was through here that the muslim religion spread into russia the walls of the small scuffs through same trees of history and during the soviet union or even used as a prison locals are not only trying to preserve buildings but also their traditions for centuries dagestani man were known for their horsemanship they raised horses and sold them to the caravans coming to the city dagestani horses were well known

in the north caucasus for their strength and stamina but now that age old tradition is being challenged by a woman who wanted too much or at the beginning no one understood me all my brothers were who was mine what i was a bit into following them because i'm a woman it took me years to become what i am now or manof is dedicated to raising who think it's lovely but people are getting used to that. after just a few hours indebted and you can feel the history coursing through the veins of the narrow streets and if you concentrate hard enough you can almost hear the clatter of horses answering the gates of the city. thank you the question why are you close up in the republic of dagestan fascinating stuff when i had a few minutes time the head of the world trade organization talks to r.t. but what's in store now that russia is a member first the business news ok to. follow

a warm welcome to the business program some analysts say investors should forget china and pop their money in sub-saharan africa if they wish to benefit from the growth in emerging markets a delegation of russian officials and japanise is heading to utopia well that discuss how to make their business ties even stronger marina closer reva takes a look at what's making africa more paling than ever before. most people associate africa with an abundance of natural and that were cultural resources like oil gold diamonds minerals cocoa and coffee but investors can't help but overlook a long history of currency fluctuations poorly developed markets and political risk so when analysts say the west has peaked in terms of economic growth and the best emerging markets are in africa it leaves some scratching their head the african landscape itself on the political and economic front has been changing significantly the political environment is becoming far more stable fewer conflicts

in terms of the macroeconomic story in africa far better economic management all of that which is contributing to making that as a more interesting investment destination at the moment some of russia's the biggest business heavyweights are active in the continents there's a gas problem in algeria roussel in nigeria and guinea and in go up all of them have spent billions of dollars there are others include metal group you have ross and oil giant look well as well as a number of banks but while africa has ten percent of the world's oil reserves forty percent of gold and around eighty to ninety percent of crum and platon the metal groups there's a lot left untapped the emergence of an african middle class getting wealthier and spending more money has it investors take africa seriously for more than just resource extraction but international monetary fund estimates that sub-saharan

africa's economy will expand by five point five percent this year and five point nine percent in two thousand and twelve experts warn investors may be missing a giant business opportunity if they fail to pay attention to africa and it's a mistake russia is keen to avoid having decided the reward outweighs the risk of not being part of the next success story. and more another story of us is the largest independent company new call. it's betting on africa the firm aims to invest up to nine hundred million dollars into the continent seeking to compensate for declining domestic production experts say african fields could add around ten percent to do calls current. some look at the markets crude is edging higher despite news all cartel that is raising its output c.-leg tell us what current prices have also shrugged all speculation that europe was in debt prices could come up demand for commodities asian markets declined on thursday with manufacturers on

commodity leg farms week ahead of the closely watched chinese manufacturing days of hurley's late in the day the falls in asia followed a straight session of losses for the us as fears about europe's debt crisis persisted it is up over europe's exposed exporters and i'm losing ground with live things down to a whole percent of the spirit holdings down two and a quarter of sands is just one hour ahead of the i do ballet here in moscow the russian market and is wednesday's trading session on a negative note the all ts lost one point three percent in the mindset post nearly whole focus in the red. as all the business days from now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes for another update if i can now.