the people on vision of russia's prime minister defends the public's right to protest and pledges of video surveillance to ensure fast presidential policy. this is not to be approved ten law if you would a session join me in a few moments time to find out what's been on the agenda for the prime minister. prison in perpetuity america's on the verge of legalizing the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects without charge or trial. dealing with the dad there's a helping hand for the gear is a crisis during a top level talks between russia and the iraqi. capital is still flowing out of

those in the central bank so once again brace the phone calls the whole get all have more details for you in twenty minutes in the business but it's. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow now the annual televised hotline to russia's prime minister is under way in the calls a stocking up but team of putin taking in some very direct questions not least of all regarding the fairness of the parliamentary questions which sparks days of rallies will be to all of his listening in for us let's cross over to him live now in downtown scope peter that have been plenty of unhappy voices have been there since the recent parliamentary elections so what's a putin's response been to it all. well this life question and answer session has

come at a very interesting time coming as it does just after the parliamentary elections and the protests which followed it and heads of next year's presidential election which will see to me a putin run for president again now with regard to those elections that took place the beginning of the sembler and the allegations of electoral fraud that followed me a putin said that he'd be looking to use technology to its fullest extent in order to try and stamp out any kind of corruption when it came to vote rigging in the presidential election next year and should you be sure you would you've got tory. and he's breaking a very fine now asking the election internationally to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety thousand of these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what how many if every situation which was going to land any allegation which if we were going to get it that way yes. well addressing those allegations of electoral fraud from the

opposition prime minister putin said well that's the job of the opposition to complain and to ask questions of the governments now with regards to the protesters they said that the protests have every constitutional right to voice their grievances but that they must remain within the law that protests like what we saw on saturday one of the largest protests in recent memory that they were good for democracy but legal protest must be the way forward for them to voice their opinions now looking ahead to the presidential election he warned voters to not be influenced by powerful think is powerful. candidates going forward that the voters should be allowed to make up their own minds who they want to vote for for president. in a stronger not a priority this a q. and a piece of peace as press secretary told us that nato says we're prepared beforehand so have there been any petitioning difficult questions that have been put to the pm. well it's inevitable in a situation like this where you have

a country as large as russia of course the largest in the world everybody having a chance to be able to put their question to one of the country's leaders that we hear some well we unearth some real gems this time prime minister putin was asked a question about a vote that it's being spoiled a spoiled ballots from a lot from the problem entry elections at the beginning of the month now that policy come from london it had a well it's a rather colorful message to prime minister putin scroll down as he had this to say about us. his last magazine published a photo of a ballot he hadn't seen message addressed to us wanted to read this i would not want to voice it right now to muslims but why not go ahead and oughtn't paschal tootin why don't you come out with the rest of them broadcast. would you think i've decided to give you. yes i've seen that message and i found it very amusing and i was even pleased because there's nothing new and i started to work i saw plenty of

dirt thrown my way back when i was a president and i'm sure that i did not doubt myself then nor do i doubt my actions and far as i know your message on the ballot was a little in london but we know very well why so emotional need there and why they don't want to go back to their obscene message to me simply tells me how much they want to go back but they can't while i go into our direction that i'm not mad i'm actually grateful that they came and voted just like i. used to. now last year the phone in lasted for well over four hours didn't it we're now into over three hours this time around is there any difference in the trends of questions that people are asking about what's on their minds. yes the he's cute question and answer sessions do tend to go along time as i say a lot of people phoning in from all across russia to get their point put across to the prime minister what we've heard from him today is that he will look into the possibility of returning to having elected regional governors now it was of course

not to be a putin who changed the system to make sure that those governors were appointed by the kremlin now he defended that original decision to make them be appointed by the kremlin but said that that was for the russia all of the time now he said that russia was ready to try and have elected have a let's hold elections in the regions to elect these governors for that particular area he did say though that the president should read maintain retain his or her rights in order to fire those governors should they not be doing the job they were put forth put that to do now with regards to opposition who will be up against when it comes to the presidential election next year because it all had been spoken about as a a candidate to go up against mr putin now he said that was the prophet off was a worthy and strong competitor how every said he wouldn't go as far as to wish him

luck in the elections of course he will be going up against blood amir purton now. he also had words for opposition parties here in russia that have taken money from abroad saying of them that they will like the monkeys in the jungle cartoon that so well quite strong words for those political parties taking money from abroad now he also went on to defend the united rush's legacy in power saying that on the united russia that inflation and being that unemployment has gone down and that wages had gone up he did also say though that they still work for united russia to do saying that he wanted to see democracy in the country. strengthened and look at what every russian should have faith in their government that they should the government duty was to win back the trust and that every russian should feel that they had their voice will be heard by their governments now of course united russia vladimir putin's party. took over half of the seats in the fall of entry elections in the

beginning of this month and got to be a putin themselves hotly tipped to be where we're all the presidential race which will take place in march of next year by kagan so many facts that are seize control over their life from central moscow for us. for the q. and a continues and you can of course follow it we're streaming it right now if you . dot com now moving on the struggle is far from a philip beers new government as we report later barely got down to their desk it already protesters want them to go we'll explain why. terror suspects an american could be held in prison indefinitely without charge or trial that the senate passes a controversial bill which is already been signed off by the white house and the house of representatives the military will be able to take custody of alleged terrorists virtually without question critics say it would be a stunt violation of human rights the white house initially objected to the bill

but they to change its mind dong laser from antiwar dot com things have been astray sions indulging in smoke and merits. one of the provisions primary authors revealed during senate debate that it was the obama administration itself who requested the inclusion of language mandating military detentions including u.s. citizens in that language so you could say that you ministration never really changed minds it was just sort of doing it for public consumption the bill merely codified into law this status quo i mean that is to say the government has already assumed that they have the power to detain u.s. citizens indefinitely without trial and that's what guantanamo bay is essentially the targeted assassination of. a u.s. citizen and we're are all lochley proves again that the government has already in every practical sense dismissed the due process rights for americans the senate

already passed a version of this bill and the vote was ninety three to seven so only seven senators ject to the literal if this aeration of the fifth amendment so yeah it's expected to pass the senate it's already passed the house and obama is expected to sign it before the end of the week. on line he took home we've taken the american media's t.-t. achievement company demonstrates playing up the protests and ruled while playing down and undermining just have it says it has all say on the website. where i wouldn't full of watches ill fated mav moon prize they call it stalking or pay it off to an unsuccessful invalid to fall back into january and after find out once in its path. dot com.

now the eurozone faces a bleak recession desponding tax system financial trouble from spreading offering a helping hand to the top level talks taking place right now which rules to easing these restrictions between the author liam brussels has more on what's on the table the european council president herman van rompuy and european commission a chief. who had met with president medvedev before the summit and they were talking about the role that russia could play in helping to resolve the eurozone crisis and one of the things on offer is possibly a contribution of about ten billion euros or dollars again amount still not clear to the international monetary fund that we have to remember that there is a european financial stability fund this is the one that was set up when the eurozone crisis started however russia prefers to contribute through the i.m.f.

and of course this will be very clearly looking for mutually beneficial agreements we know that moscow for example has been advocating for a long time now the reform of the i.m.f. to have more influence to our developing nations so this could be a win win situation depending on the agreement they come up with another big thing here is the accession of russia to the w t o very near future and. russia's biggest trading partner a foreign partner and also for more than forty percent of russia's reserves are are in euros so it's clear that russia has indicated that they would benefit from a stronger economy and also a w t o you expect more liberalization you expect more import tariffs to go down and that would definitely benefit russia and in terms of liberalization they will also touch upon energy talks so many things on the table here a lot of it to do with trade and business. now fresh clashes between tribal groups have erupted there the libyan capital the situation the country's been

deteriorating since the toppling and killing of colonel gadhafi libya's new leaders the national transitional council struggling to keep peace well they're now under pressure from thousands of angry protesters and gul see where the revolution began demonstrations won't be empty seats resigned saying it's not doing enough to bring change physical janice stephens brown the country's on the brink of civil. now you're going to see. people are very dissatisfied the way things are going they fought hard especially been guarded 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 confidence in t.c. those people in to see or all complicit in the dark it's 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 we're going to be headed for example. who heads the n.t.s.c. was gadhafi justice minister that just makes

a joke of the whole council his response or for a lot of crimes and the gadhafi i don't blame these people but guys are having no trust me and to see it all. moscow's 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 a checkpoint on tuesday by controlled customs officers of the refusing escort through the territory local serbs that prevented eleven police cars from heading to a village in northern ca survey the area has been in dispute since july when cars face and its own customs officers to the checkpoint the minority serbs reacted by putting up barricades because of it was controlled by ethnic albanians who declared independence three years ago that is heading to more than one hundred thousand serbs. are still ahead for you this hour get closer to the caucuses we take you to russia this city and tell you how it stood the test of time.

for that day that was going to check on some other news from around the world this hour and former french president jacques chirac has been convicted of corruption a judge found a former lead again using public funds to pay phantom salaries for all the politicians whilst he was mayor of paris the seventy nine year old wasn't in court to hear the verdict because of ill health has been given a two year suspended sentence the judge will now decide if there should be a penalty is the first post-war french leader to be convicted. troops fired on the civilian car traveling through the village of hot tub which burst into flames killing all five people inside eight soldiers were then shot dead in retaliation the violence comes after the military entered the city of hama to end anti-government protests president assad is facing increasing international pressure to step down

a civilian death succeed five miles and since the conflict began. contaminated illegal care has killed one hundred and two people. in eastern india and left dozens more hospital the first victims felt elated on choose daily to drinking the alcohol but laced with get to know a toxic substance generally used as fuel police have arrested four people in connection with making and selling the mixture. egyptians are heading to the polls for the second phase of the country's lengthy elections islamize parties are expected to receive the biggest backing and become the largest blog voting violations being reported although the army is vowing to clamp down on abuses it's the country's first democratic ballot since president mubarak was ousted in february. ok time now to take a trip through thousands of years as we visit russia's oldest city.

i have been to people in the band for about five thousand years now since it was founded as a fortress by a persian king its position on mickey ancient trade route meant it was heavily for shape through the centuries and controlled by different empires down the ages today though the imposing edifice in russia is southern a city it will have visitors rather than invaders 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 the reason perhaps is that a band stood on the silk road enclosed by strong walls reaching to the sea and the watch towers. in the years gone by it was never this easy to get to the night in call a 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 average day a local historian meets dozens of tourists and tells this story of not in color some with. what you see from here is the old part of data bin we call it this is the oldest city in russia in the past caravans used to come to the gates of this fortress they paid a toad and only after that can they continue their journey to the north. this place guarded one of the strategic passes on the silk route and was used to 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 this is what's left of what was once one of the most a 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 in one part of their bent only to this seem the 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 this city but now that age old tradition is being challenged by a woman. put your religion was at the beginning no one understood me well my brothers were who was mine when i was a bit into following them because i'm

a woman who was it took me years to become what i am now after just a few hours indeed and he 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 old gates of the city the republic is also famed for its athlete counseling with diversity being home for more than thirty eight languages and to discuss this more i am now joined by the snow for dave hayden thank you very much for joining me today pleasure a so i've heard that you come a long way from the states to this region of pakistan so what prachi over here a jury really. you know as you mentioned august on is the most that ethnically one of the the most ethnically complicated regions in the entire world and it's actually for a long time been my passion my dream to come here to study. here and

really a goal of mine is to introduce dr ston to thank you sunny so considered to be one of the most dangerous places in russia maybe and what do you think about it so you think it's safe enough to stay here. yeah i do think it's safe enough to be your fact i'm here with my wife and my three little children my my oldest daughter and my and my oldest son they they both go to a local school. yes it is dangerous at times in fact right here bill responding right right here there was a special operation a couple years ago were when i was sitting inside the staff age so i understand the dangers i mean i know when you're in you live in dogs on long enough we'll you know see things here about things but you know you have to take up look at it from a comprehensive perspective and know there's dangerous places all over the world and really when you when you look closer. at the situation here the dynamics you find that things like petty thievery things like violent crimes and armed robbery

and rape these things are very rare very rare you know versus a place like moscow and you know the chance to raise my kids with such probably strong family values as i get to do here doggystyle but to me of course there are some dangers but it's a good place the people are incredible where you are thank you very much now was dave's hate and that's no good for the boys here in this region of dagestan and meanwhile our team continues to bring you the latest picture of life down here in russia's north caucasus and the republic of dagestan. came in a bit later we live with a scandal behind the financial news headlines in the kaiser a poll before and it's going to leave the russian rockets with casey. hello thank you alice welcome to the program here and i'll say capital is still flying out of russia i'll fly reach ten billion dollars in november forcing the

central bank to once again raise the full cost of the whole year to an estimated eighty five billion dollars as well and double last year's title i like c c f l m i c b capsules says cash five is down to a lack of structural employees mints. the fundamental reason for sustained. is that russia because of the russian economy can digest all this much money that they can and in that sense all fixed exchange rate with a flexible exchange rate the capital flight has become an important for the leader or for going to going to the development and basically. bubble from developing but another means that there are a. lot of russian which are better than offers to the side of russia. because bubble some no longer a very good option right so it means that structurally russia could have because of labor market there's because i wasn't clever additions or he's not able to you just look up the well it's good to see generate all this capital through saving expense

for. some analysts are saying investors should forget china and put them money in sub-saharan africa if they wish to benefit from the growth in emerging markets a delegation of russian officials an entrepreneur as is heading to ethiopia well that discuss how to make that business ties even stronger wearing a close every thanks celeste was making africa more peeling than ever before. most people associate africa with an abundance of natural and like a cultural resources like oil gold diamonds minerals cocoa and coffee but investors can 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 continent there's a gas problem and algeria roussel in nigeria and guinea and all and go up all of them have spent billions of dollars there are others include metal group you have ross and oil giant look at oil as well as a number of banks but africa has ten percent of the world's all 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 made investors take africa seriously for more than just a 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 the side of the reward outweighs the risk of not being part of the next success story. i can see what's going on in the markets today that crude is high and that's. despite news that the oil cartel is raising his output ceiling and it looks like creep prices have dropped off speculation that europe's was in debt crisis could cut demand for commodities and over europe stocks are trading high off to rebounding from a two week low i mean speculation that this shifts in equities is not commensurate with the outlook for corporate earnings so fuzzy is now off call for up to seven percent on the dax is gaining over one percent this hour and here in russia the

russian markets they opens up. in the red out today opens up that's the second day in a row of the mice it was guiding slightly earlier but it's just dropped back into the red by over a quarter percent of the artist is still overhaul five percent in the red so that growth this hour let's have a look at some index nudism eyesight's energy majors are heading lower growth next is dropping almost one percent banking so it's also feeling the pressure is off a percent in the red and up talking this trend is across hard drive is adding almost three percent this hour. russia is hoping the e.u. will give it concessions on the hotly disputed third energy package through the twenty eight bilateral summit which started on wednesday the new rules prohibit a gas supplier from also owning the means of transit distribution got to. north capsule believes the sovereign debt crisis is weakening europe's negotiating

position. brush a face in the current situation by its face value and obviously totally to realize this advantages and the possibility it should be a little bit more aggressive right now the other part of the story is europe in the severe recession it has very deep debt problems therefore europe can reach a point or normally go she should and that would be a very unfortunate situation for the russian delegation because russia wants to touch nerves of europe but it doesn't want to cause they're nervous breakdown therefore politics diplomacy everything must be small. and politically correct. and that's it for me today but they will be. going on head.