well earlier i caught up with lauren lyster from sao paulo to get more about the mood there in brazil you know these days it seems unusual to see candidates running on a continuation of the current government's policies that's exactly what we're seeing in brazil and popularity is in large part also thanks to lula da silva so i first asked lor how is it that this one man managed to unify the country so well. alona you talk to people and it has been a complete paradigm shift over the last eight years first i mean when you talk about domestically when you look a minute power i mean this is a man who grew up poor he grew up in the slums and he rose to become president in a country that had been a colony for hundreds of years and then was run by the elite the same politics about colonization so what he brought with number one a complete paradigm shift into a leader could be but in addition he totally changed the view of the poor and the role that the state should have in working with the poor he instituted social programs and made doing things for their lives a priority of his government w

house has seen a mass exodus of top administration employees so what's behind that move artie's lauren lyster reports and we come back and voters next week will decide if pot should be legal in california and now the chamber of commerce is awaiting into the battle of legalizing weed so i'm going to ask why a group that supports business creation job creation is coming out against a measure that stands to create jobs in the state. issues that. there is nothing for me to do the likes of never really. hungry for the truth and dancers is the world facing that. introduced the victims of all these before around. larry summers rahm emanuel david axelrod these are just a few of the people resigned from the obama administration recently when several key members are jumping ship americans can't help but wonder if there's just too many issues on the president's plate right now so is this a sign of the current administration is dealing with more than it can handle artie's lauren lyster takes a closer look at the white house exodus. ask anyone on the street if a bunch of heavy hitters that were say runnin

lauren lyster r t so paulo brazil and we'll of course report on the outcome for you now change a truck tonight we'll talk about the seventh piggy lympics next because they are underway in the russian capital although pigs of course might not be able to fly the certainly can prove they can run as you're about to see for this country is a trend long and hard to find and who is the night to still. couldn't resist and she's keeping track of the semifinals for. the seventh annual graces in monaco. or had the competition. that's because for the first time ever it's now. six countries each of. its competition is just not a one day event. all year eating healthy doing runs on their track from their perspective homeland and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them. to my finals on saturday and the final on sunday and i think the most points and that's. when the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry. so now you know stacey reporting for the paper lympics in moscow that . team set so to take a lot of sense is to give a real flavor of the russian capi

you can argue military experts are jumping overboard like rowland's from sinking political ship lauren lyster looks into why there are so many vacancies coming up at the white house. ask anyone on the street if a bunch of heavy hitters that were say running a company all started resigning and retiring one after another what would you think was going on i think companies underperforming i think probably that is going on there they're not happy with their boss or they're not happy with the working conditions now what if that place of employment was the white house and their boss who will renew old alliances the president of the united states that's a tough question whether people find it more complex or find themselves more politically correct. there's no ignoring that something's up when all the president's men or at least a lot of them start lining up for the door one by one. at this point before a critical midterm election this is highly unusual to have so many people leaving the white house i've been told what this is emblematic of is a white house in crisis and excuses of exhaustion or job

far she could take the nation and the look phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r t so paulo brazil turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe eighteen alleged militants have been killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes the raid comes during heightened tension between the countries after pakistani paramilitary troops were killed during a recent u.s. strike islam a body reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tankers bringing fuel for nato troops. twenty mexican tourists have been kidnapped by a gang in the resort town of acapulco police are now trying to trace the missing man after being alerted by a man who was traveling with them it's not known exactly why they were seized though acapulco we know is a key battleground for drug. and in the u.k. the ancient pagan tradition of druidry has been officially accepted as a religion the druid network well now we recognize alike. any other mainstream religion in the country and will

continues to fall as described as decoupling artie's lauren lyster reports. that mansell leaders are getting together from all over the world this week to figure out how to boost the global economy at the annual i.m.f. and world bank meetings but many are talking about a break up the world is from the united states as the consumer of last resort in the financial world that's not called divorce but decoupling and everyone from a flurry of wall street analysts to nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz are using the word now to describe this shift in power the baton is passed from countries like the united states on to countries like china brazil russia. india and beyond and you know growth in the global call be much more dependent upon those countries than on the developed economies it explains how while the u.s. economy continues to look more bleak with analysts such as goldman sachs forecasting fairly to very bad scenarios of meager one to two percent growth or an all out double dip recession i would almost consider a double double bass the so-called b

deal might just not be enough to take a look at our teeth correspond to financial correspondent lauren lyster in the following story. the united states has waged well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle with the united states leading financial world war to obtain foreign resources. and essential aid to make other economies pay tribute to it in this war us dollars are the bullets and their cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping a lot of them into the economy the federal reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and that shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy is called quantitative easing it lowers interest rates and gives banks more cash to lent now it has exactly helped the average american but here's where it does matter if the united states sets interest rates very low and tries to open up large routes t

lauren lyster r.t. polo brazil. this is our to you live from moscow still to come this hour the legacy of k.g.b. training. remember that russian special forces solution involves gone bad for stuff like that but in this sport it's just hands and feet we explore why hand to hand fighting is not just fascinating for spectators but also great for self defense. now he may be considered europe's last dictator but his face something of a dictating to three of them is video of slam the belorussian president's recent anti russian rhetoric but said it was not a fact relations between the peoples of the two countries that's one of the messages in the russian president's video blog arching sour earth has more. that is a bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in better ways and saying that it's based almost entirely on anti russian slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership itself the person i'm afraid of

lauren lyster r t so paulo brazil. anti-government protest and france have continued to diminish over the weekend after president sarkozy's contentious pension reform was voted into law workers at all twelve of france's oil refineries broke a month long strike on friday damn most which drained at full pumps a horse stop he will imports were the culmination of months of protest against the government's play. and to raise their retirement age the french charity minister says service stations should be back to normal by the middle of next week and douglas weber a paris based professor of political science argues that the protesters directly suffer financially from their own actions. certainly the protests and strikes that . cause some economic damage to those probably quite hard work next exact figure on this but one ought to bear in mind i think that the people are actually striking they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike from the public sector apart from the fa

far she can take the nation and a little of phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. the pigs may not be able to fly but they sure can run at least that's what the organizers of moscow's international pig races think porkers from six countries have trained long and hard to find out who's the lightest on their trotters they see movement is keeping track of the semifinals for. the seventh annual graces in monaco but never before had the competition been so intense where they know they exist that's because for the first time ever it's now international with that's the big six countries including egypt and bello right and like i said the that is competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been travelling all year for this meeting held doing runs on their tracks in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat there helping them to combine with the my finals on saturday and the finals on sunday and i think the legs the most points and the. wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry

lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. butler has been whipping up some anti russian sentiment of late so president medvedev is now trying to clear the air using cyberspace in an online video my vet of says the better russian leaders using aggressive told towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign are the sort of first took a closer look. that is a bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in bellary and saying that it's based almost entirely on entourage and slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness to provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership so the person misstated his use his behavior in the past often to deal with the cold topics such as this and this time we've heard him using it as over stones to russian leadership like his ations and actions recently but his main point being that really rather than making an enemy of russia they'd be much better place to be focusing on their internal issues but if. president lukashen

lauren lyster r.t. paulo brazil. here with r.t.i. still to come the sound of legacy of k.g.b. training. method that russian special forces use involves gone bad for something like that but in this sport it's just hands and feet. to explore why hand to hand fighting is not just fascinating for spectators but also great for self defense. also find out what creative and venusian ideas have been submitted in the contest to find the mascot for the sochi two thousand and fourteen and then picks that in a few minutes here on r.t. . the better russian president's recent anti russian rhetoric was not affect relations between the peoples of the two countries that's one of the messages in the russian presence video. have also stressed that after almost twenty years of close partnership recent actions from minsk reveals ingratitude. i thought and i was extremely surprised to see the belorussian of orators have lately taken up and he russian rhetoric some election campaigns in belarus are essentially based on anti russian stories we see hysterical accusations aimed at russia of not support

far she could take the nation and the lula phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. north korean leader kim jong il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the first step towards home to empower the appointment was made just hours before a key convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades at the start meeting kim john il awarded his son kim jong un and other family members top post the former leader of the european parliament delegation to north korea glim forte says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy it looks you know if you're a generational change and not merely the if you're the signaling of who eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan within within the former ruling party the neo cons there and people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient that it needs to be deployed after michelle defense in japan which obviously deters the no

the poverty line have benefited from the current president giving them better lives as artie's a lauren lyster reports from sao paulo the gap between rich and poor seems to be narrowing. in brazil there are those who live tucked away behind barbed wire walls. and those who live behind shanty cinderblock ones brazil is a rich country but the majority is poor guarded gates paved the road to that majority separating rich from poor and cementing the vast divide of inequality that in many ways is the story of latin america but in this developing nation and one of the fastest growing major economies in the world where they are pioneering deep water oil research and ethanol production for example signs of human development two are marked by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office they walked up the walk the people didn't recognise the poor today the richer and because the poor on as poor as they were before people had opportunity think he's increased the job market civil construction for me and for others he's giving jobs to people who didn't have it after he was eight

his favorite successor who's poised to become the nation's first ever female president artie's lauren lyster reports. welcome to brazil south to the south. it's the largest city in a young democracy gearing up to elect a new president this sunday but it's so much more than that. the current president is known simply as a little later most brazilians he's their guy already born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy or he was one of the poor louise ignacio alleges silva is the one who changed everything and is seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters at a rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff. well no not for her track record in public service but for being new is choice to understand why that matters so much in this country you have to travel outside the city center to the slums where the poor the working class that. this is where i came to live with my dad for many years has lived here her whole life but it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice tha

not stopping him lining up a successor who could become the contraries first female president lauren lyster is in sao paolo for us. but it is a really big day as you mentioned that later lou legit silva has enjoyed eighty percent approval ratings in this country over the last two terms it's because he is credited by his supporters with creating pretty much a silent revolution where the poor have had a voice and hope for the first time through a number of social programs while at the same time lula catapulted brazil much further ahead in international diplomacy and trade brokering relations with latin american countries also with russia india china and the bric nations of course so today really determines which direction the country is going to continue to head lula has anointed a successor dilma rousseff who is not very well known to the brazilian people for her track record she's lula's chief of staff and she's running on the fact that she's lula's choice and that really matters in this country because though they don't know anything about her all of the supporters of low lula who you spea

according to the latest exit polls this latin american giant could see its first female leader artie's lauren lyster reports from sao paulo. the largest thing that people know about this candidate dilma rousseff is that she is the candidate of the current president lula da silva who is one of the best presidents people say brazil has ever had and has had eighty percent support of the people during his two terms in office which are coming to an end she has been leading the polls in large part because she is a choice really little is known about her by the brazilian people she is his chief of staff she just. she did fight against a dictatorship years and years ago in her youth but since then has really been in the public eye so she is running on track record and when you talk to people both on the streets that are lula supporters and the. candidacy in her campaign they believe wholeheartedly that she will continue the program little has started primarily narrowing the gap in this country between the rich and poor which is incredibly vast and they say no other government has really taken charge and doi

far she could take the nation and the lula phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. next pigs may not be able to fly but the show can run at least that's what the organizers of moscow's international pig races think because from six countries of train long and hard to find out who's the lightest on my trotters the stakes improve it's keeping track of the semifinals for us. that mean annual good races in monaco never before had the competition. for the biggest prize that's because for the first time ever it's now international with the big. trees. and bellowing. competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been. eating healthy doing runs on their track in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them to combine my final time and the finals on sunday and i think the legs the most points and yet wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry just. drove. through them so well later from the team set to tickle our senses and give us all a real flavor the russian capital

lauren lyster r t so paulo brazil. complete change of pace now because the seven piggle in pigs are under way here in the russian capital and although they might not be able to fly they certainly prove they can run as you're about to see from six countries are trained long and hard to find out who's on like system attractors. keeping track of the semifinals for instance. the seventh annual graces in moscow never before had the competition been so intense. that's because for the first time ever it's now international the contest is being six countries egypt and. its competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been. here for this meeting held doing runs on their track in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them to combine the semifinals on that eight and the finals on sunday and i think the most points and yet wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry serve. so now you know steaks been supportive of a pickle in pigs in moscow tha

lauren lyster r.t. paulo brazil. dr case coning who is an expert on brazil and your trek university says if domer software is the election she's likely to continue will his legacy. i think missions will shift for the most likely to win the second round two will by and large continue to move. and if international economic circumstances remain favorable for brazil issue will most likely. continue brazil the powerful for economic expansion and increasing political significance unchanged in principle you have to remind of course a very active internationally and also very able to engineer a good relationship cross the globe had the reputation of his likely successor mr to say if he's maybe less of a. of a capable of being maintaining it personal relations but in terms of policy objectives and approaches and shared interests i think brazil and russia and also brazil and china have will very likely deep in their economic and diplomatic relations over the next four to eight years there's no doubt about it questions that pol

lauren lyster r.t. paulo brazil lose it for. you know where they are still to come this hour choosing the face of the country. creative but also crazy on. it's been submitted to a contest to find the mascot for the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics all that in a few minutes. now should britain continue its relations with the e.u. what are people's freedom of threat in the u.k. these are the tough questions being raised at the freedom today conference on the sidelines of the conservative party convention parties lore and it has more from being. birmingham place host to the conservative party conference this week their first since forming a coalition government in may top of the agenda will be budget cuts and how they're going to explain them to a population already plagued by unemployment and struggling public services fringe meetings abound and where at the freedom zone an event which focuses on fighting the erosion of civil liberties and freedom of expression in the u.k. one of those threats to liberty is what's perceive

far she can take the nation and a little of phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster. brazil will be briefed this morning eighteen alleged militants being killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes the raid comes during a heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitary troops were killed during a recent strike is all about reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for nato troops. twenty two mexican tourists have been kidnapped at gunpoint by a gang in the resort town of acapulco police are now trying to trace the missing man after being alerted by a man who was travelling with him it's not known exactly why they were seized although it was known as a key battleground for drug gangs. cities across france have seen hundreds of thousands of workers take part of their mothers against an increase in the retirement age and cuts in spending the unions hope to encourage millions to join the first weekend protests aft

far she could take the nation and the look phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster. brazil. north korean leader kim jong il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the first step towards handing power a point was made just hours before the convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades that the historic meeting came jiang in the wanted his son kim jong un but other family members posts the former leader of the european parliament that occasion to north korea when ford says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy. it looks like this is a if you are a generational change or not merely be if you are signaling of eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan within within the former ruling party the neo cons there are people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient. to be a ploy theater missile defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans with the same time

g twenty finance ministers pledge not to devaluate their currencies to avoid trade wars but as lauren lyster reports many believe the u.s. isn't ready to give up using the greenback as a war machine. the united states has waged well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle united states including financial world war two strain foreign reserves. especially to make other economies a tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us ours. are the bullets and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy federal reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and have shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy called quantitative easing is supposed to stimulate the economy lowering interest rates and enabling banks to lend more but it hasn't exactly

how far she can take the nation and the lula phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. sao paulo brazil. the complete change of time out of the seventh piggy lympics is what we're going to talk about because that underway in the russian capital although they might not be able to fly they certainly can prove they can run these poor kids from six countries it seems a train long and hard to find out who's the lightest on their trucks who's good resisted states bivins is keeping track of the semifinals for. the seventh annual good races in moscow never before had the competition. for the biggest prize that's because for the first time ever it's now. being six countries each of. its competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been. here for the eating healthy doing runs on their track in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them. to my final on saturday and the finals on sunday and i think the most points and that's. when the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry. this is true because