little. league. or. little ego. tonight on r t the russian prime minister is grilled by other people in his annual public q. and a as he defends the right to protest legally and vows to work closely with the opposition in the future. prime minister putin says that he wants to see cameras installed in polling stations in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud join me in a few moments more on this the key points from plot to be a putin's board on our question and answer session. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors while foreign pressure on the country is drawing parallels with the libyan invasion.

moscow says only the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will help deal with the crisis as president would read of technocrats in brussels. stronger ties and ironing out differences when it comes to the energy sector between russia and the e.u. will join me for more details on that very shortly. capital outflow in russia which is ten billion dollars forcing the central bank to once again raise the forecast for the whole year find out why money is flying out of the country in twenty minutes time it happened. nine pm thursday night here in moscow you're watching r.t. with me kevin though in this welcome how top story then from the recent parliamentary election to russia's foreign policy vladimir putin has tackled

a whole range of questions from the public today including a number of tough topics to the prime minister's annual televised q. and a with the nation lasted a record four and a half hours peter all of this. prime minister vladimir putin addressed the protesters who were unhappy with what they claim was electoral fraud taking place during the parliamentary elections earlier this month now he said that they had the rights the constitutional right to protest that they must remain within the law now following those elections we saw videos posted online allegedly showing electoral fraud taking place now those videos went viral online were all over the internet speaking about the web as a medium he let any of you said that the internet due to its nature could not be limited and said that even if it could be it wasn't the role of government to do so but he did say that technology should become a biggest part of the electoral process saying that web cams should be placed in

polling booths to make sure that everybody can see exactly what happens there but it. is but i'm now asking the election commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and they're over ninety finals and over these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening at every station to rule out any allegations of fraud. well looking ahead to the presidential elections which mr putin will stand in next year he laid out his manifesto saying that he wanted to to modernize russia's economy and to grow and develop democracy in the country and he also had some words for one of his contenders in not in the presidential race mikhail prokhorov saying that he was a worthy and a strong contender but stopping short of saying that he would give us the profit of his support of course not a mere putin will be running against him going for that president george the job of

president in march of next year you know one final point on the elections he did say that if the love got to be a putin saw that the people were not on side with him in the next election that he would remove himself from office that he would step down voluntarily if it looked like the people weren't on the side of the world and forward a half hours when you're asking all the people in russia to put their questions to one of the men at the top as well you're going to get some great questions usually on earth some gems and say hold off hours this time the longest that the prime minister has spoken for an address these questions this time out it was no different what we what we heard was mr putin feeling a question about a ballot that had been spoiled during the parliamentary elections earlier this month and the ballot came from london and the whoever heard filled out ballots in or miss filled it in as it were had left a rather choice message for the pm on their ballot paper using some colorful language let's hear what he said. you didn't run in the parliamentary election your

name wasn't on the party list and yet everyone seems to hold you responsible for the results of might well that's normal you that would last magazine published a photo of a ballot that had an obscene message addressed to you on it i would not want to voice it right now but why not. why don't you the rest is on broadcast. would you think of decided to it. yes i've seen the message i found it very amusing and i was even pleased because there's nothing new in this attitude 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 now as far as i know the message on the ballot was written in london and we know very well why some russians live there and why they don't want to come back up there obscene message to me simply tells me how much they want to come back but they can't while i'm in front of you i'm not mad at them i'm actually grateful that they came and voted

just like i asked them to well the prime minister was taking questions on foreign policy regarding the united states. and said that russia wanted to improve their relationship with america and work together with the u.s. however it was the united states side which really didn't want to take their relationship any further that they don't want didn't want to deal with sovereign nations like russia that they had their own type of partner they wanted to work with were going to do you know they made up their mind on afghanistan but did they discuss the mission with their allies in advance i don't know they carried out their strike and only 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 a partnership sometimes i think america doesn't need allies it needs service in the west slowly well staying stateside prime minister putin also heard some comments for us senator john mccain john mccain had said this would go the same way as

colonel gadhafi you know this prompted a response from the prime minister saying that well perhaps john mccain it should spend too much time in the prisoner of war camp during the vietnam war and this had affected his mind elsewhere vladimir putin also spoke about mikhail khodorkovsky the jailed billionaire he's saying that he would consider a pardon for. two if he were to admit his guilt and it was of course if let me a putin became president in that election in march all of this coming in well a mommas session from the prime minister four and a half hours how long you spoke for beating his previous record by around five minutes. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of daraa meanwhile human rights watch has released a report naming dozens of syrian officials it claims are responsible for the

violent crackdown on protesters political analyst chris bambery told me that syria is now in danger of repeating the libyan scenario. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least in the syrian national council a body which has been in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the regime did not share our demands for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria now is that what as a popular revolution other forces are moving in to try and take that all for and use it for its own ends in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is both in the country and say the country is no seeing and if. it would sever ties with iraq severed ties to hamas and hezbollah it would treat russia as a special relationship i don't think that sounds very very good by the way and it would strengthen ties with qatar saudi arabia and other gulf states and with

america and france now it would seem to me an agenda to be joyous the years of people in paris. in washington and in soda and saudi arabia and i think there is a developing difference here between for the people who have been organizing the peaceful demonstrations the uprising if you like inside syria on the grow and in many of the forces there the people in the grown by and watch are opposing as i understand it foreign intervention people have been organizing the demonstrations have not come up with the demand for western intervention this is coming i think that extraneous to the movement and i think it's something which should be a pause and be those forces are opposing it and indeed they have said they are against the violent overthrow of the outside regime they want to see it toppled by peaceful means and i think has to be applauded in that situation they don't want syria to go down the road of civil war. this is r t coming up a spot of travel a journey in time in fact lasting between majestic mountains and serene sea we take you to a fifteen hundred year old fortress in russia's most ancient city. all

the day's news before that though in the eurozone still faces a bleak outlook with the prospect of a winter recession in spite of all the efforts of politicians to try to come up with solutions at a summit in brussels president medvedev has offered russia's help though along with closer energy ties saying moscow is hopeful of seeing the e.u. overcoming its troubles artie's test is across the latest. the euro zone problem has been on the top the agenda and russia russia's role possibly in trying to help the eurozone nations 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 e.s.m. but russia would prefer to contribute to the international monetary fund and again both sides reiterate the importance of this partnership russia in particular

because the e.u. comprises about more than half of the foreign trade between the two countries and its foreign reserves are also a euro so it does see its interest in trying to support the country in the countries in overcoming the crisis that are in right now both sides did admit to and reiterate the ties between the two countries saying praising the success particularly of the nordstrom project and they say baby could be will expect continued continuous 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 the 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 relation to create a business is of course the accession of russia to the w t o 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 rubberstamp be w t o accession and that russia has to ratify that agreement so a lot of business and trade talks happening here in brussels between the two sides . this was senior europe correspondent more news analysis on our web site r t v dot com online right now in fact as a rand becomes the target of a series of bombings and assassinations with the views of one expert who believes the so-called rogue state could just be the latest victim of the world's wheel axis of evil also moscow accuses the e.u. of overstepping its powers by blocking a russian humanitarian aid convoy taking food and supplies to kosovo serbs you've

got the latest on that story that's been moving one of the last couple of months now. reportedly considering imposing attacks on u.s. and nato supplies going to afghanistan fru its territory the route was shut down last month after across the border the nato air strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers the tax increase the huge cost of the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan as discussed this now that jason did you get it from the online campaigning web site antiwar dot com jason good evening thanks for being on the international well thanks to prime minister said to the country seeking new rules of engagement with washington is that what this reported tax plan is all about what else could we see them therefore. it could well be that this tax plan is part of it but i think the tax plan is something of a mistake because i really don't think it's going to have any impact in and of itself this talk of fifteen hundred dollars per container.

really isn't going to amount to more than twenty or thirty million dollars a year but just this week the united states withdrew seven hundred million dollars in aid from pakistan so it's certainly not going to be positive from a revenue standpoint and i think given the. billions upon billions of dollars that the u.s. is spending on this or. a few more million isn't going to matter to them one way or another is there a way to deliver goods to afghanistan from the north through russia and central asian countries are there is a route already standing would that be sufficient well it's a more expensive route because it's of course completely land based whereas the pakistan route is mostly by sea but the russian route isn't necessarily. safe either from. a political fall out because russian officials have suggested

that disputes over nato's missile defense shield in europe might lead to a closing of. of that route as well well i guess the flipside of that is you know if if america wanted that route and it was the only route that was available then america might be more willing to listen to what russia has got to say about the war and the know well absolutely and that's why i think this tax plan is a mistake by pakistan because it seems like both russia and pakistan have a vested interest in negotiating some sort of more permanent understanding with the united states here and if one or the other sort of buckles and gives in. opening that route just for thirty million dollars or whatever it's going to really weaken the bargaining positions of both of them the pakistani foreign minister as well that washington would be responsible quote if the war on terror was lost and

quote i was in response to america's plans to phrase that seven hundred million dollars in aid do you agree that washington's actions threaten the security of the region well it certainly threaten the security of this are very government and i think that's been a problem for quite some time in pakistan is that this government has sort of gained a reputation for being washington's top it and. for being willing to. point. one policy for. guaranteed money. this looks like just where it stands right now ok jason did so it's good to get your views on the program news editor from the online campaigning website antiwar dot com joining us from michigan tonight thank you thank you for having me. let me bring you up to date on more world news from around the world headlines making news this french courts found president jacques chirac guilty of diverting funds and abusing public

confidence the charges date back to his term as mayor of paris he was convicted of pay ghost salaries to former party members for municipal jobs that didn't exist she wasn't in court to hear the verdict because of his poor health condition and he's been given a two year suspended sentence. the american flag has been lowered in baghdad in a ceremony 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 that ceremony american claims to have left behind a stable country but many worry the military pullout will provoke even more terrorist attacks over ten thousand iraqis have been killed since the american led invasion nine years ago. and you call it a bootleg alcohols killed over one hundred people in the state of west bengal all in india many low income workers fairly long tuesday after drinking the liquor which was laced with methanol a chemical commonly used in antifreeze with hundreds more in hospital many fear the

death toll will rise seven people have been arrested in connection with the manufacture and distribution of the liquor. paste no time to take a trip thousands of years back in time as we visit russia's oldest city. just to get our bearings let's focus in on the map and see exactly where we're headed now people have had their bent for more than five thousand years a fortress with a tempestuous history and the battles have been won and lost control of this prize because of its strategic position on an ng should trade route today though the only armies advancing on the imposing edifice of russia's southernmost city of friendly tourists rather than those hostile invaders of years gone by to many centuries the city developed between two natural walls and 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 column fortress then armies would do battle storming the walls to get inside it has become a second home for believes he is the key keeper of one of the most beautiful cannes castles in the region going to the north of 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 delta bint 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 as a large portion of the fortress was destroyed in nine hundred twenty s. during the russian civil war 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 downs on the whole life speak in the city and overlooks the caspian sea too long walls and enclosed all part of dead bent and lead to this see 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 the city but now that age old tradition is being challenged by a woman. when it's your religion was at the beginning no one understood me all my brothers were who was mine but i was a bit into following them because i'm a woman it took me years to become what i am now after just a few hours in deadband 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 but the republic is also famed for its athlete and linguistic diversity being home for more than thirty languages and to discuss this more i am now joined by a snow before 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 the dog to 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 . you think it's safe enough to stay here. yeah i do think it's safe enough to be or 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 when you're you live in dogs on long enough we'll you know see things here about things but you know you have to take a couple look at it from a comprehensive perspective. 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 here 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 and august on but to me that's worth it there are some dangers but it's a good place the people are incredible. you are thank you very makes now was said dave hate me and the snow here in the streets. 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 and we do have more from the guys tomorrow back to the present though on our t.v. tonight in just a few minutes we tell the story of two top scientists who paid their careers for revealing the truth about the dangers of genetically modified food really interesting program coming up in a couple of minutes for you if we've caught up on the business right now with kareen. hello and welcome to a business that here in our capital is still flying out of russia reach ten billion dollars in november forcing the central bank to once again raise the forecast for the whole year to an estimated eighty five billion dollars that's more than doubled last year's total. capital says cash down to a lack of structural improvement. the fundamental reason for a sustained difficult is that roughly equal to the russians are going to be killed by just much money that the. exchange rate with the flexible chain freed from the

capital flight is it has become important for later. going to going to the development and the basically a bubble for developing bought another means that there are other options to invest also the russian should better than. them because mobile so no longer the right sort of this means the structure of the russian economy because of the labor market there's because i wasn't going to play with asians or he's not able to you just look up the well it's good to see generate all this crypto through saving expenses well. let's have a look at the markets now or the slightly higher after the last fixing but the recent trend of the following has trouble european economies see no sign of relief from central bank quite sweet is trading at ninety four dollars a barrel brant is a one hundred five dollars per barrel because over to the u.s. where markets are high and mid day trading pushed by strong earnings from fed ex and a sharp drop in claims for unemployment benefits the number of people applying for

unemployment dropped last week to three hundred sixty six thousand the lowest since may two thousand and eight. percent or so although the index lost three hundred sixty points over the past three days european stocks traded in the black on thursday finishing just under a percent higher stocks rose as a solid. com nervousness over the debt crisis also encouraging day to reduce cheaters about a global recession here in russia markets close in the black come about those gains in europe after the day's choppy trading. in the eyes extended over one and a half percent higher let's have a look at some of the index movers on the my sex energy stocks lived to the indices on high oil prices has reversed from early losses and almost one percent in the black gas giant gazprom finished with three and a half percent higher on banking stocks were also on the rise. almost two percent.

after roughly a year of trading on hong kong stock exchange shares in the russian. have fallen to all time low close to four point eighty nine hong kong dollars. the company has been hit by a. pastor up getting a one billion dollar loan from russia. the money will go to fertilize the maker of . a key business for the country the government has put up fifty percent of the oil that's fine we all know that. that's all for me but remember you can always find stories if you log on to the website r t dot com.

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