terms of rehabbing image but you know we'll just have to wait and see indeed thank you very much erin tilton there from the business for us thank you kenya is the world's largest exporter of black tea but prices have dropped dramatically this year some kenyan tea farmers and processors are now emphasizing quality over quantity in order to stave off international competitors. in kenya tea farming is serious business from the central mountainous regions to the rift valley t. is green gold the cash crop has long been kenya's major foreign exchange earner he also supports many small farmers millions of people earning a living with tea here like joseph he's been a tea farmer for more than 30 years. the farming pays but you have to take good care of your plantations every year i harvest between 17 to 20000 kilograms but every year is different. in recent years my rate has done well but $2900.00 could be a lean year kenyan tea farmers look set to see a big dip in their earnings more than 20 percent according to current indications. that's down to several different factors demand is weaker in the ma

let's bring in correspondent erin tilton in moscow and one of the results that we have in so far well so far it seems that in many of the regions outside of moscow that you know i don't see united russia was able to claim the polling for themselves but here in moscow it seems like 20 of the possible $45.00 seats in the city's city duma have actually gone to opposition aligned candidates now it's a big win for many of the opposition parties and one that wasn't initially expected going into yesterday's poll. but it looks like the opposition is the big winner in the selections of can you tell us what exactly happened here. well i mean basically there's a couple of different factors coming together i mean the 1st one is as we heard in the report there are many opposition aligned candidates weren't even allowed to put their names on the ballots and that resulted in weeks of very strong anti-government protests now it seems like the opposition has been able to capitalize on that and galvanize support within their base which is part of the reason that we saw such a a large result for them ye