the wrong time in this state is grilled by the people in his public defender the right to protest legally in dallas to work from so good the opposition m.p. . along without charging court hearing human rights create soundly along as the u.s. is closed or rising indefinite detention for terror suspects. and also offers to help the euro zone out if its debt crisis but says only the new console. but limited me to talk technocrats in brussels it's.

a very warm welcome to you this is also a line from moscow but it's in the has a face down critics of russia's disputed parliamentary election but also hinted at reforms to make the voting process more transparent all commons came as he addressed the public in his annual televised q. and a with the nation with the prime minister not shying away from a series of tough questions as cross live now to make about who's in central moscow for us because it many people have questioned the fairness all beings in that chemise also what was putin's response to it and there were a lot of questions concerning the results of the december elections and the first question of the dinner which is started with was about more mass protests following the parliamentary vote protest the elections which were tarnished by door to a location. it is so that this is a result of my if this is

a result of my regime that young people with a strong appeal come into this i personally consider it a good sign there were violations during the election process he admitted that but said that they should be considered each separately by the court was put in also ruled out any limits or any censorship on the internet and so the first that stuck an equally impossible and secondly politically incorrect he also suggested how you could use to make that presidential vote the coming election for her and. a new commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are. these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening at every station and can rule out any allegations of fraud. speaking about his future rivals like him or putin described

a billionaire me hope brother of as a very confident man and a very strong rival however he has said he would like also running in the presidential race. and also said that he believes the december elections look like the real will help the people and if it hadn't been for this he wouldn't stay in his cabinet for one more day. and have to be. televised q. and a session with lawsuits for well over four hundred thousand is it was he would be there were a number of questions put to the pm very uncomfortable questions obviously for any person in power in particular there was a question about a controversial photograph published recently in russian magazine a photograph of the ballot with the some seen mass which are dressed to prime minister and put in so that he found it very amusing and here's what you said about why he was even teased when he was. well

you didn't run in the parliamentary election but your name wasn't on the party list and yet everyone seems to hold you responsible for the results well that's normal. the last magazine published a photo of a ballot that had an obscene message addressed to you want it i would not want to voice it right now but why not go ahead. why don't you the rest as a broadcast about would you think of this attitude. yes i've seen the message i found it very amusing and i was even pleased because there's nothing new in there certitude i saw plenty of dirt thrown my way when i was president but i did not doubt myself then nor do i doubt my actions as far as i know the message or not but it was written in london and we know very well why some russians live there and why they don't want to come back up with me but you know they're obscene message to me simply tells me how much they want to talk about fashion but they can't while i'm inside of it you know i'm not mad at them i'm

actually grateful that they came and voted yes just like i asked them to. and aside from the elections what all the main points while this may be third to sale is that i'd like to have previous q. and a sessions of a find one was full of shit canned very uncomfortable questions for the families such as the rush to get to electing not to pointing governors misreporting why do you have so many of them is what are the negative features of the apparel to put in i have plenty of animus and plenty of that features like any other person if there was a question about the us it would become real allies with the united states one day it is what many responded. you know they made up their mind on afghanistan but did they discuss the mission with their allies in advance hell no they carried out their strike and we then started pulling in other forces saying whoever is not with us is against us we'd like to be allies with the

united states but what i see now is not partnership sometimes i think america doesn't need allies it needs service in the west slowly but of course among others the question about it turned out that it is united russia success in the us for me to become the country's next prime minister was one of the questions yes it is one of the kremlin stop injecting the caucuses with such as in one separatists and terrorists stop there and do. there there were also a lot of questions concerning health care. children's rights in particular to give or not to give our abandoned children to foreign families in connection with the raising this was a question in connection with the raising number of deaths of russian kids away from russia in particular in the u.s. among other questions would you consider that of course is pardon the feel rich and yes if i become the president if i'm elected as the next president and if. that

means his guilt and actually deals with that part and that was a question about what considers. as the biggest the noose and he said look this was kind of repetition of what it was that it is but you know he was asked a similar question some time ago so what's he like and he said it was a really intense q. and a session which in has been his own record. was four hours thirty five thirty two minutes i'm sorry against last year's four hours and twenty six minutes and some eighty eight questions have been a number of records broken in the gradual by many facts about. now terror suspects in america could be held in prison indefinitely without charge or trial balance of the senate passes a controversial bill which is already been signed off by the white house and the house of representatives it could mean the military being able to take and the

terrorists the cost to the virtually without question critics say it would be a stunt violation of human rights the white house initially objected to build but they to change its mind john grazier from and he was called things have been astray sions indulging in speaking merits. these provisions mandating military custody amounted to a restriction of the president's authority but in truth it's reasonable to assume that if the. it was near political theater because senator carl levin 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 the 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 definitely without trial and that's what guantanamo bay is essentially the targeted assassination of. u.s. citizen and. 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 aeration of the fifth amendment 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. so now if you this our libya on the brink of a new civil war. those people are going to see or all complicit in the dark it's crimes for example i do too little to have the words good the justice minister just makes

a joke of the whole currents of. anger is boiling point in the country of thousands of them on the national transitional council his resignation. nestling between rejecting mountains to really see we take you to a fifteen hundred year old food crisis in russia's most ancient city. the eurozone still faces a bleak outlook with the prospects of a winter recession in spite of the efforts of politicians to come up with solutions while at the summit in brussels president medvedev has all through russia's help along with close energy ties saying moscow is very interested in seeing the e.u. overcome its troubles wells's tense else it is in brussels for them has the natives has the so how could russia help the deadly. pull indeed the problem has been on the top of the agenda and russia russia's role possibly in

trying to help the eurozone nations that one of the ideas put forth is russia contributing a certain amount to the international monetary fund now the amount has not been specified by a president medvedev although there have been talk that it's in the vicinity of around ten billion dollars and you know there is the option also the contributing to the f.s.f. or what russia would prefer to contribute to the international monetary fund and again they're both sides reiterate the importance of this partnership russia in particular because of the e.u. comprises about more than half of foreign trade between the two countries and it's a foreign reserves are also in the euro so it does see its interest in trying to support the country in countries in overcoming the crisis that are in right now. and to save energy time between russia and the e.u. all where do you strong so how much more can we expect in the near future. that's right both sides did admit to and reiterate the ties between the two countries saying praising the successor to be

a nordstrom project that's just quite recent and they say baby could be will expect continued continued exchanges especially in the energy sector although they did mention that there are difficulties as well particularly in relation to the third energy package which is a legislation of the e.u. that requires the separation of the transportation delivery and sale of gas which does become a point of contention because one of russia's russia's biggest company gazprom is in charge of all those all those processes and it would it would definitely impact the way they operate in terms of gas a live reason the e.u. although the e.u. said well they're willing to talk about and continue negotiations on how to add more flexibility so that they would take into consideration of russia's interests now another thing in relation to trade and business is of course the accession of russia to the w.t. oh no this will provide more liberalization definitely lower import tariffs for russia certainly the e.u. will play a very big role considering that seventy point five percent of investment in russia is coming from the e.u.

so to morrow the they will rubber stamping w t o accession and then russia has to ratify that agreement so a lot of business and trade talks happening here in brussels between the two sides ok test how many thanks for that correspond to s.l.c. their life brussels. access to two major parts of its financial assets which were frozen by international banks during the last months or we could. the u.n. sanctions committee is due to take the decision will the move will help ease some of the problems the country's faced since the civil war ended but the situation in libya has been deteriorating talk to me and telling you that daffy clashes between tribes. groups erupting near the capital libya's new leaders are also under pressure from thousands of angry protesters in benghazi where the revolt began demonstrators a hold the transitional leadership to resign saying it's not doing enough to bring change political journalist even brown because the country is on the brink of civil

but. now you're going to see. people are very dissatisfied the way it seems are going they fought hard especially been guarded it don't seem to be 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 are all complicit in the dark 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 the new rulers and new dictators of libya which is worse going to be had it for example. who has the n t c was gadhafi justice minister that just made a joke of the whole council his response or for a lot of crimes or not gadhafi i don't blame these people been guys are having no trust me and to see it all. the more opinions on the developments in libya paid website dot com we're also keeping an eye on the potential. in round becomes a target of a series of bombings and assassinations three degrees of one experts who believe

the so-called rogue state could just be the latest victim of the world's real. class the latest addition to china's military might is its legs it is acknowledged courage basine says will be used for training of research on trial. moscow accuses the e.u. overstepping its powers by holding back a russian humanitarian aid convoy taking food and supplies to serbs in kosovo twenty five russian trucks will stop by e.u. controlled customs offices as a checkpoint on tuesday al dura fusing to be a company through the area both russia and serbia rejected the idea fearing that pristina may use the export of the pretext of pushing into their territory tensions have been on the rise in the region since july when calls for forty's trying to take control of crossing points to impose a trade on serving goods and i know reacted by putting up barriers to block the

disputed border plates. i was going to check some other world news in brief this hour syrian activists say twenty seven security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of the ra meanwhile human rights watch has jordi its reporting dozens of syrian officials that planes are responsible for the violent crackdown on protesters the reports based on just over sixty testimonies of people who've defected from the regime the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died since the nine month long rest began damascus blames armed gangs for the violence. a french court has found ex-president guilty of diverting funds of abusing public confidence the charges date back to his term as mayor of paris he was convicted of a painting go salaries to former party members from the ball drops that didn't exist or wasn't in court to hear the verdict because of his poor health he's been

given a two year suspended sentence. a new kind of alcohol's has killed a hundred people in the state of west india many low income workers furloughed tuesday after drinking liquor which was laced with methanol a chemical commonly used in antifreeze with hundreds more in a hospital many fear the death toll rises seven people have been arrested in connection with the manufacture and distribution of the neck air. the american flags been lowered in baghdad in the so many marking the war's end in iraq and the withdrawal of u.s. troops a small contingent of u.s. soldiers remains in baghdad but will leave soon after the siren many american claims to have left behind a stable country but many worry the minute you pull out even more terrorist attacks over ten thousand iraqis have been killed since the american led invasion nine

years ago. well time now to try a ten take a trip rob a thousands of years back in time as we visit russia's oldest city. people have lived in their beds for more than five thousand years a fortress with a time tested its history many battles ago one on loss for control of the prize city because of its strategic position and they should trade route today they dearly armies advance only imposing edifice of russia's southernmost city a friendly tourist rather than hostile invade the 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 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 college 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 cons 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 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 been 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 toll and only after that could they continue their journey to the north. 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 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 downs on the whole i speak in the city and overlooks the caspian sea too long walls enclosed one part of their bent to this team 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 estate but now that age old tradition is being challenged. but a woman. who wanted to know that she 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 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 old gates of the city but the republic is also famed for its athletic and linguistic diversity being home for more than thirty languages and to discuss this more i am now joined by a snow referred dave payton 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 dream really. you know as you mentioned august on is the most 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 it is really a goal of mine is to introduce a dog just on thank you sunny so considered to be one of the most dangerous places in russia maybe and what do you think about it. 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 law school. yes it is dangerous at times a fact right here bill responding right right here there was a special operation a couple years ago were when i was sitting inside this cafe signed or stand the dangers i mean i know where you live and dogs on long enough will you know see

things here about things but you know you have to take a look at it from a comprehensive perspective. no there's dangerous places all over the world. 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 your darkest on but to me it's worth it there are some dangers but it's a good place the people are incredible. you are thank you very much now was dave hate me and it's no good for that boy 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 mean the republic of dagestan. that's where the new things now have going to going to be for.

hello and welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me all prices have fallen sharply in the last twenty four hours down around five percent a drop came after opec decided to increase its production seeding for the first time in three years and traders are also worried about future demand as europe's crisis remains unresolved and is showing signs of slowing down now to discuss the issue on joined by jeff king oil futures editor at commodities information provide it plots thank you sir for for your time so why are we seeing such a sharp drop in crude prices these days. well i think the key thing here is the the eurozone and the the impact it's having on the euro currency yesterday we saw the euro drop below a dollar thirty for the first time since january. that's putting real pressure on on the oil prices but why do you think that opec has not taken more concerted

action to support these low prices. well i think because has stated that it's comfortable with the current process levels i mean we were at the bottom of a range that we've been we've been trading in over the last couple of months and that ranges for brant around one hundred five two hundred fifteen dollars per barrel and for nomics crude around ninety five two hundred five dollars per barrel so we're still within that range by pakistan they're comfortable with prices of these levels. so that it wasn't unexpected. the decision that i came up with yesterday where saying that there might be additional sanctions against iran the second largest producer no they got to saudi arabia as we know and that has lift at the market and we know that saudi we would not to give it support even if sanctions are imposed so how likely is a scenario do you think. how likely it is that the europe

the european union has stated that they considering sanctions on the iranian and importing oil from iran that's obviously put a bit of. a floor on prices as well and i mean that's that's giving support to the prices the market is nervous about exactly what europe would take and if they will go ahead with these sanctions. but do you think even as i said that oppose do you think that that would lift a russian crude prices just you or your personal view. well i think if the iranian oil. is impacted then i think that would lift all whole process in general very good so it's going to create the demand ok for a supply that's going ok jeff king all futures that have commodities of plats thanks very much for joining the program thank you for one of the let's have a look at the markets now so first oil that's likely high after the last fixing but

the recent trend as we've been reporting is down light sweet is currently trading at over ninety five dollars per barrel while brant is over one hundred five and a half dollars. here's europe where stocks are trading high after rebounding from a two a slow that's after a couple of the purchasing managers' surveys were viewed positively the footsie is now up one point seven percent while the dax is gaining just under two percent. and the russian markets bounced back from early losses the r.t.s. is getting one percent meeting trading while the my six is up one and a half percent let's have a look at some index moves on them isaac's energy majors. in evening session will snap has reversed from earlier losses and is slightly gaining the solid gas giant gazprom is up over three and a half percent banking stocks are also on the rise with spare bank over one and a half percent. that's all we have time for i'll be back with more in fifteen

minutes so hope you join. the close of team has been on the black sea coast for future developments depends

on the good way. the arctic goes area first place too many find champions and the most ambitious. has ruined the lives of many innocent families across the region. where the oldest city in russia is found clocking in more than five thousand years. to dagestan russia close up on r.g.p. . mission free accreditation free in-store charge is free.