this is obscene tonight the russian prime minister is grilled by the people public q. and a as he defends the right to protest and violence to work closely with the opposition and the future. prime minister says that he wants to see cameras installed in polling stations in an effort to stamp out electoral frauds join me in a few moments more on this plus all the key points from plot to be a prudent. question and answer session. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors while foreign pressure of the country is now drawing parallels with the libyan invasion. moscow

says only the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will try to help with the blocks that crisis is present very brief top technocrats in. 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 flow to russia reaches ten billion dollars forcing the central bank to once again raise the forecast for the whole year join me for that and other stories in our business bulletin and that's. ten pm thursday no idea of moscow you're watching with me kevin oh in a warm welcome if you just joined us all top story from the recent parliamentary election to russia's foreign policy vladimir putin's tackled a whole range of questions from the public including

a number of tough topics to the prime minister's annual televised q. and a with the nation last of the record four and a half hours earlier today 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 although those videos went viral online were all over the internet speaking about the web as a medium he let me and 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 he did say that technology should become a bigger 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

if. i'm now asking the election commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety finals and of 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 the profit of his support of course not to me 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 for the love not 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 well in 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 and usually on earth some gems are safe for half hours this time the longest that the prime minister has spoken for an address these questions this time out 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 filled out ballots in all mis 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 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. why not go ahead. why don't you the rest is on broadcast. what do you think of decided to it. yes i've seen a surge i found it very amusing and i was even pleased because there's nothing new in your 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 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 with their obscene message to me simply tells me how much they want to rush but they can't while i'm in front of you i'm not mad at them i'm actually grateful that we came and voted here just like i asked them to 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 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 you know they made up their mind on afghanistan but did they discuss the mission with their allies in advance well no 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 partnership sometimes i think america doesn't need allies it needs service in the west sell it well staying stateside prime minister putin also heard some comments for u.s. 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. the jailed billionaire he saying 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 moment's session from the prime minister four and a half hours how long you spoke for his previous record by around five minutes. correspondent peter all of a syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of there are 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 syria's 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 is based both in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the saudi regime do not share our demand 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 off or and use it for its own ends in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is both in the country and save the country is no seeing and if it would several 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 grown to many 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 a 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 indeed those forces are opposing it and indeed they have said they are against the violent overthrow of the asaad 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. complete change of scene just ahead of the program or off on our travels again on a journey in time we take you to fifteen year old fortress in russia's most sugar cities it's nestled between the majestic mountains of this and serene sea as we are

about to see in a few minutes but back to the news before that. beer is old still faces a bleak outlook with the prospect of a winter recession in spite of the efforts of politicians to come up with solutions at a summit in brussels president medvedev has all offered russia's help along with closer energy ties saying that moscow is hopeful of seeing the e.u. overcome its troubles artie's tests are a series across the latest. 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 that 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 of 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 of praising the success particularly of the north stream project 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 relation to creative 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 . well your correspondent tester of money is another system our website our teeth all caught on right now as a round becomes the target of a series of bombings and assassinations lately read the views of one expert who believes the so-called rogue state could just be the latest victim of the world in real axis of evil it's more about that so mind must. also moscow accuses the e.u. of overstepping its powers by blocking a brush of humanitarian aid convoy was taking food and supplies to kosovo.

terror suspects in america could be held in prison indefinitely without charge or trial that's if the senate passes a controversial bill that's already been signed off by the white house and the house of representatives it could mean the military being able to take a ledge to terrorists into custody virtually without question critics say would be a start violation of human rights the white house initially objected to the bill but then later changed its mind glazer from antiwar dot com thinks the administration is indulging in smoke and mirrors. these provisions mandating military custody amounted to a restriction of the president's authority but in truth it's reasonable to assume that a veto threat was near a 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 and that language so you could say that you ministration never really changed their 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. u.s. citizen and. proves again that the. government has already in every practical sense dismissed 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. but the stands reportedly

considering imposing a tax on the u.s. and nato supplies going to afghanistan through its territory shut down last month for a cross border nato air strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers the tax will increase the huge cost of course of the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan let's discuss is if occasion would join us with tarpley joining us on the line from washington d.c. webster good evening the pakistani foreign minister said the country will fight the war on terror on its own terms and conditions is that what this reported tax plan is all about then indeed we would like to see any more moves from the pakistani side. i would say this idea of attacks is a cheap trick to provide political cover for pakistani politicians who want to cave in and appease the united states one more time the original idea was since the united states killed twenty five pakistani soldiers i think deliberately that was basically the end of it no more transit rights across pakistan now the idea of

attacks may sound like something radical but it's really not radical it's a way to get this flow of military supplies going i would suggest we ought to go back to how did this start this about ten years ago there was an ultimatum delivered in the wake of nine eleven by colin powell and richard armitage to the pakistani government at that time. and they said if you don't give us transit rights across pakistan we will bomb you back into the stone age so this is not an alliance this is not friendship this is the united states having gone in there and the goal of the u.s. presence had very little to do with terrorism or these fantastic stories that the u.s. government tells but rather had to do with promoting the breakup of pakistan if you just look at the map pakistan is wedged in there between iran on the one side india and china in some ways it's the hub of the world it's called pipeline

a stand for the pakistan energy corridor and the goal of the u.s. has always been to take a civil war in afghanistan export it into pakistan break it up according to the lines of sindh put in job. and all the rest shattered pakistan they've even tried now in the last couple of weeks to do it on sunni shiite base of setting up setting up car bombs and things like this i would say the hand behind all this remains that of general petraeus who now operates out of sensually the white house the principals committee. hillary donilon holder. i think as the guy who's making the military policy while obama is largely a ceremonial figure concerned with his own reelection ok that's the grand plan as you see it but taking this proposed tax on face value if it is imposed what sort of a blow would it be to america i think it would be trivial it would be forty or

fifty million dollars a year and this this doesn't mean anything right they can just they can print that or or or borrow it but the big question is what where where is all this going the pakistanis are becoming more militant which is perfectly understandable right we have a we have a manic here in washington i guess you can call it a psychosis of destabilization it's like the the year of the dupes may be ending and they've got to export destabilisation to as many countries as they have as they can interesting is that the pakistanis say that they have a surface to air missile system along the border with afghanistan so that if the u.s. tries to come over with helicopters and essentially take possession of the pakistani nuclear deterrent the pakistanis now say that they would be able to fight back against that so this is i think an exercise in the insanity that's going on here in

in washington as the united states could compete for economic development but they've essentially taken themselves out of that game and the only thing left is disruption more comments from the pakistani side. he said of the country wouldn't tolerate any more attacks like that nato one that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers show evidence hearing what he's saying but how can one to have a guarantee that would be the case that there won't be any further attacks. well there they can't because the again the whole logic of the nato and u.s. presence is to bust up pakistan and the reason that these attacks are staged is that when they are staged they tend to discredit to humiliate to mortify the pakistani government to make them look feckless in consequential foreign stooges and all the rest so this is part of a destabilization strategy the one thing that they fear here in washington are there are some nasserist colonels some middle level officers in the pakistani

military who are sick of all this and who might want to assert pakistani nationalism against all of this foreign interference i think that's the thing the state department feels fear is most very good to have your analysis on the author and journalist webster tarpley in washington d.c. thank you. thank you. for a complete change of pace now as promised in the program time to take a trip thousands of years back in time as we visit russia's oldest city. look at the map this is exactly where we're traveling less home in people who lived in their bed for more than five thousand years a fortress with a tempestuous history many battles of been won and lost for control of this prize because of its strategic position on an ancient trade route today the course the only armies advancing on the imposing edifice of russia's southern most city

friendly to rest while the hostile invaders of years gone by. in years gone by it was never this easy to get to the net in call a fortress then armies would do battle storming the walls to get inside it has become a second home full credit crunch of believe he's the key keeper of one of the most beautiful columns castles in the region going to the north and it will almost forty years of my life i spent here all members of my family works here and this is a tradition for us 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 taz the story of modern cholera some of the. 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 tow and only after that could they continue their journey to the north. this please guard is one of the strategic passes on the silk road and was used well into the nineteenth century however a large portion of the fortress was destroyed in 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 love 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 highest peak in the city and overlooks the caspian sea too long walls enclosed all part of their bent only to this sheet buildings that lie between those two story the walls

a reminder of the all party. or is symbol this is the jewel mosque one of the most ancient in the world many believe 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 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 d'agostini 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 at the beginning no one understood me all my brothers were horsemen but i was forbidden to follow them because i am a woman it took me years to become what i am now all my life is dedicated to raising who think slowly but people are getting used to that. 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 courses on treating the old king of the suits. thank you look which you are close up in the republic of dagestan and have more from the team tomorrow say with the sporting twenty minutes tonight with news of how one russian clubs fairing in europe but us catch up on the business after this very quick break.

and i welcome to business here and thanks for joining me capital is still flying out of russia flow reach ten billion dollars in the van but 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 double last year's total i would say my say that we hit the capital says cash like is down to lack of structural improvements. the fundamental reason for a sustained difficult for free is that roughly equal to the russian people to begin

by just all is much when you're the victim and that you never saw a soul fixed exchange rate with a flexible exchange rate from the capital flight is it has become an important for the leader whole for going to going to the development of basically a recluse bubble from the road being bought another means that there are options to invest also the brush from which a bit of the openness to listen to fresh from. them because bubble so no longer a very good option right so is this means the structure of the russian economy because of 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 he's continued to generate all this crypto through saving expenses well. that's a look at the markets now european stocks traded in the black on thursday finishing just under a percent higher stocks rose as a solid spanish debt option com nervousness so the debt crisis also encouraging day to be jews jitters of the recession and russian equity markets close in the block on the back of those gains in europe after

a choppy trading yes and isaacs and it over want to have percent higher let's have a look at some individual channels on the markets energy stocks boosted the indices on the high oil price and it almost one percent on the black gas giant gazprom finished over three and a half percent higher banking stocks were also on the rise with spare bank pushing almost two percent as well. after a roughly year trading on the hong kong stock exchange shares of the russian. have fallen to all time low thanks close at four point nine hong kong dollars half the initial list price the company has been hit by falling prices. catch drop below us is getting a one billion dollar loan from russia and its partners the money will go to fertilizer make. a key business for the country the government has put up fifty percent of the oil refinery. force. deal. japanese carmakers subaru is considering setting up an assembly plant. the part

goes through thirty thousand cars a year will roll out the production line the final decision depends on import tariffs for spare parts. to go shooting this but the russian government. well. you can always find more stories in our website dot com.