people in the west had hoped for maybe maybe too much will because they prefer the softer touch of mr medvedev over mr putin but there is an obvious indication that the country has to continue modernizing it cannot continue with the same kind of political system and economic approach that it has had for the last decade. modernizing what have been modernizing the political system there is going to be a version of the with the party to governors the raising of the threshold where they're not going to say it says it's not it's not what you meant it was governor is saying that's a that's a mistake that actually they are confirmed through local committees in each region but i allot of people would say that that was necessary to keep the country together that's part kartik part of the process of keeping the state sovereign what do you think about that adrian i mean there where is the next step here i mean or these are just treading water because well mr medvedev was talking about liberalizing the the political system or having more representative having parties more representative by lowing the elec

in fact that one can say that in general the main policy is followed by mr medvedev us president it would have been approve. his prime minister you know mr putin so if there is a continuation of the policies initiated by president and continued by president so i don't think there is going to be a major i mean i don't think that here in washington there is such a much price regarding the decision taken to the united russia large course we saw the reset of relations at the start and the start treaty all this progress in russia u.s. relations with made out of my advantage presidency he thinks is going to continue after next spring with a new man at the helm. well i think so indeed i believe that russia will also see interested in following the process the arms control process in trying to leave us historically were pons the same way that united states interested in doing so for russia's strategic or weapons arsenal. in that sense i don't think there is going to be a major change however there is the issue of missile defense and the policy or missile defense russia's opposition to it is somet

he leaves there mr medvedev whole modernisation program will probably continue only as prime minister so some of the objectives that we saw that mr meant but it did a lot of people in the west had hoped for maybe maybe too much or because they prefer the softer touch of mr made better over mr putin but there is an obvious indication that the country has to continue modernizing it cannot continue with the same kind of political system and economic approach that it has had for the last decade. modernizing what happened in modernizing the political system no it's going to be a version of the with the pointed governors the raising of the threshold where they're not in the process says it's not it's not appointment it was there is a center that's a that's a myth that actually they are confirmed through local committees in each region but i a lot of people would say that that was necessary to keep the country together that's part kartik part of the process of keeping the states sovereign what do you think about that adrian i mean there where is the next step here i mean or that is are just

mean if there where is the next step here i mean or that is are just treading water because well mr medvedev was talking about liberalizing the the political system or having more representative having parties more representative by blowing the election threshold you think that's going to continue . well i think we have to wait and see brian rather skeptical the trouble is that putin's policies for ten years or so have been entirely statist he doesn't trust independent businesses and he doesn't trust civil society i think presently it was trying to strengthen private business the rule of law and civil society but of course he had not enough room of maneuver he didn't have enough power to implement this and so i think we have him back to state says i'm a troublous state capitalism doesn't work much better than free market capitalism well free market capitalism isn't doing very well in the west either late and i suppose it's going to continue debate on how much role the state does play in here and there are good there is there is there needs to be more competition here in this one of the reaso

economic modernization and innovation innovations these are things which are normally associated with mr medvedev isn't it so if he becomes a reformist prime minister on this super popular president putin that brings ours so in you political realities surprisingly it brings us to a reality where mr putin who is normally associated with sort of strong here on the sort of thing politics could in fact and indeed inevitably carry out quite a liberal economic agenda i've been saying that the problem with the allies russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin which he's now going to change of generations of course this is not the sort of radical change which people might have expected the united russia he's now becoming something similar to what the little democrats in japan are into what the p.r.i. party in mexico used to be that is to say it's the ruling party which is capable of producing a new generation of leaders and this is really something new for russian politics. for putin becoming president again may not be a bad option for the west as th

of it's for russia's next presidential term and it was an informal backing informal backing of mr medvedev has a future president and because obese massive support which will set his popularity significantly from event one the presidential election in two thousand and eight ever since his. has been a wife modernization program also he introduced some major changes to russia's constitution such as enlarging the presidential term from four to six years so if putin wins in the presidential vote on march twentieth he will serve in office for six years in a row. these are going to overwrite that now if you missed anything on there you can always get the full picture on our website r c dot com but also i was there for get you to me follow us on facebook or you can join the discussion on all of our main stories. on all the major news on our twitter feed as well that's artsy underscore and to watch the best videos on our you tube channel. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. day. it is good to have you with us here on our breaking news all day h

we have constant dialogue between with with mr medvedev mr putin. lives. but when it comes to going above and beyond the bilateral relations. yes you will grow as we do have certain differences. in syria and go for to the situation in libya. but right now we are absolutely agreed that it is very important to participate in the construction of a democratic libya and a reconstruction of the company. so exchanging opinions sir could lead to solutions home. i don't want to talk about syria here but when it comes to iran we have a totally common approach. so yes russia is still a very important and long term partner. and we are not going i'm not going to talk about syria right now we're going to talking about this at the security council. who else. is second question goes to the russian news agency in august you know or will know the state who said your cell phone of my question is for the teen defense ministers mr steady golf and mr long good of you talked about cooperation between our two countries on the strolls well could you please clarify when are you goi

programs that have covered more than five million people five million people have been given jobs mr medvedev also said that we will build on this success. and like to say that we have not been able to restore the pre-crisis is employing mint levels we have done more with it today our employment levels but our unemployment levels are lower than before the crisis. and real incomes of citizens due to the increase of pensions in salaries were growing there was a modest growth of cause but on average there was growth in the elderly the fact found it hard to do in a crisis but we do not stop our plans to increase their pensions despite all the difficulties we've been able to do on what we promised we create the pensions by forty five percent and this year we continued slowly but you increase we didn't stop these forty five percent there will be an almost twenty percent growth this year we've supported. russian plants and. factories and the key industries are growing really quickly the russian agriculture withstood the blow not only. by the crisis but also by the draft. and the stein. these ninetee

mr. medvedev has every reason to be satisfied or even proud of his term and presidency and i don't see anytorical precedent when a president like this, with a very good record, considering, would all of a sudden say, no, i'm not running for the second term, when it's available for you. >> so, with less-than-six months ago before the presidential election, russians still don't know which of the country's two big fish will angle for the presidency? will it be putin or medvedev. but unlike fishing, which is a relaxing pastime, this political waiting game is making a lot of people here very nervous. in the corridors of power, officials are uncertain who to side with and many investors are holding on to their money until there's clarity. but is the question of who is going to run a red herring? kremlin critics say it masks the truth that russians have no genuine political choice. >> let's look at reality. they follow the same pattern of power. they have the same agenda, and medvedev being putin's assistant, one of the gang, for 20 years. of course he became a kind of putin clone. ♪ gone fishing

leave do you think that britain and russia can have normal relations if it's not sorted out and mr medvedev would you like britain to stop talking about case and do you think that they're coming or relations of britain does not. the point i'd make about this is that as i said there are still issues between the two governments it's not so much a question is whether we go on talking about them the question is there are legal issues and in britain we have a legal system that is independent of the government and those legal avenues have to be pursued in the proper way and government should should help with that and shouldn't stand in the way of that but as we've discussed this morning while these difficulties disagreements between us remain we're not changing our views on those issues that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue stronger business relations stronger commercial relations we shouldn't work together on issues like stability and peace in the middle east we should work together to try and work out the very best that the world can do the g twenty in cannes it's absolutely vital for russia vi

currently that made the announcement while speaking at the ruling united russia party convention mr medvedev has also agreed to have the party in parliamentary elections and leave the government as prime minister should it when he's on the scene our was at the bank likely to have the shape of russia's politics for years to come. the wait is over. i believe the right for the convention. in the presidential election. this implores means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty what in your pension has. the issue in your skull of my i'm going to see something else as it's been a split within our tandem i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you. if you are. going about it and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with me to. tell. you. what i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to thoroughly modernize our society. but ta

dmitry medvedev made the announcement while speaking at the ruling united russia party convention mr medvedev has also agreed to head the party in parliamentary elections and leave the government as prime minister should it when all she is nice in our was at the event likely to have forced the shape of russia's politics for years to come the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of lodging near putin in the presidential election. yes thank you. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin has. issue in your scuffle of my i'm going to say something else despite rumors that there's been a split within our tandem i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you. but your but i could see the numbers and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with dmitri medvedev at the h

about what the russian people think and he's not going to compromise their national interest so mr medvedev can have i'm sorry mr obama will have tea with him in the grose garden it doesn't make any surmise there are many many russians that say that our position has always been a very proud leader very very proud of his country and the people there but he doesn't speak to western standards or he speaks very much like russians who he's very much connected with him he's a bit gross people like that you know people call it a. personality cult will they actually russians want to know that there's someone in charge this is what's very important is we know the strong leader the thing is it's a political culture issue about how people deal with the world you see it in the workplace and russia all the way up to the kremlin ok it's just not there it's part of the culture people trust him look because he's only gone upward under his rule either as prime minister as president and it will be very much welcome back in the presidency now this is what it is saying i mean we still need institution developm

mr. medvedev took over. >>> the chief executive of ubs, one of europe's largest bank stepped down in thee of the alleged rogue trader. he came on to right the bank after a near collapse in 2008. his regular significant nation follows last month's arrest of a trader in london accused of making billions of dollars in unauthorized trades. >>> an american student convicted in italy will have to wait more than a week to learn her fate. prosecutors sentence that had knox be sentenced to life in prison. her attorney said that a new dna evidence would prove her innocence. >>> a plea for help with the situation growing dire in drought-stricken africa. how much money the world bank says is needed for the relief efforts. >>> and if at first you don't succeed, the amazing feat a 61- year-old woman is attempting to accomplish years after she first failed. >>> a plea for humanitarian assistance tonight for the 13 million people in need in the horn of africa where a devastating drought has brought phamin. the world bank announced it's looking to send $2 billion of aid to that regeian. the need is great

use the state more as a tool to start molding the economy and to some degree society and you have mr medvedev that would be a little bit on it in a different direction seeing the state kind of diminish you know what we could have a new president prime minister right now if he becomes president the privatization process that was announced earlier fifty five percent of the economy is in the states and that's going to be cut and that will be under quote unquote a statist president ok so what it is it's more of a continuum it's about over time putin believes that the economy should be out of the hands of the state but it has to be done the right way again i mentioned the one nine hundred ninety s. but the crown jewels of this economy were sold off to criminals to all of iraq's ok they don't want to have that again they want to sell it off to international investors they want to know how they want to good price because to do it right this time ok so when i when we mention statism it is about over time what kind of role the state should play within society and the economy and it will even diminish

modernization and innovation and innovation as these are things which are normally associated with mr medvedev name so if he becomes a reformist prime minister on this super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly and brings us to reality where mr putin who. is normally associated with a sort of strong hand the sort of thing politics could in fact and indeed inevitably carry out the liberal economic agenda which will be carried out by labor it was going to. actually quite an interesting thing here. which i think i can see that ever more interesting given the circumstances now i've been always saying including on my on my on my program as you can see i'm actually in my television studio i've been saying that the problem with the lies russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin's example the change of generations of course this is not the sort of radical change which people might have expected of united russia he's now becoming something similar to what the little democrats in japan are into what the p

mr. medvedev took over. >>> the chief executive of ubs, one of europe's largest bank stepped down in the wake of the alleged rogue trader. he came on to right the bank after a near collapse in 2008. his regular significant nation follows last month's arrest of a trader in london accused of making billions of dollars in unauthorized trades. >>> an american student convicted in italy will have to wait more than a week to learn her fate. prosecutors sentence that had knox be sentenced to life in prison. her attorney said that a new dna evidence would prove her innocence. >>> a plea for help with the situation growing dire in drought-stricken africa. how much money the world bank says is needed for the relief efforts. >>> and if at first you ( grunting ) [ agent ] so your policy looks good, is there anything else? why did you buy my husband a falcon? thanks for the falcon. i didn't buy anyone a falcon. sure, you did. you saved us a lot of money on auto insurance. i used that money to buy a falcon. ergo, you bought me a falcon. i should've got a falcon. most people who switch to state farm sa

mr. medvedev, will be the official partner of the united states' president. that is important because in part the reset was successful because the name of the russian president was not putin. putin is now back. some people have to rethink what that means and how to address putin now in his capacity as not only the informal butal the formal leader of the russian federation. >> warner: angela stent, pick up on that in terms of how much business really was done between the u.s. and russia in the medvedev time? i mentioned a couple of things. and would putin continue to go down that path or do you think there may be a difference? >> well, i think we and the russians have common interests. we've managed to work on these since president obama and president medvedev were in office. you mentioned those. we have a new arms control agreement, cooperation on iran and the most important thing for the u.s. now is the cooperation on afghanistan. the more problematic pakistan becomes-- and of course you've reported very interestingly from there-- the more of russia is impor

on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of yaroslavl president medvedev said mr sound about to read syria for the situation is far from said let's stick. with. the resolutions we will prove to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things are just black and white and the and the government which as in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of them are to put it straight extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves only if they don't boil down to. one sided condemnation of the government and present we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiation table start talks and stop the bloodshed. in libya the head of the country's interim government has arrived in the capital tripoli for the first time since the fall to rebel forces most of leave is now controlled by the national transitional co

mr. putin's disposition toward the united states, then? >> well, i think we have to assume that over the last several years, when president obama has done the reset with president medvedev so i think we can assume that there'll be a degree of continuity. he is, i think, skeptical. he wants to be shown that the americans are truly ready to work with russia, but i don't think we can assume that the more positive policies that have emerged over the last three or four years were anything but done with his blessing. >> the russian people themselves have rather warm memories, fond memories of putin, who ruled, of course, from 2000 until 2008. how do you think people in russia are reacting to this news that, indeed, he is going to come back next year and fight this election? >> well, he still has a very high rating and is popular in russia and haze support, but i think it's also true that there is a growing disaffection with government in general in russia and there are some of the same issues i think we have in this country of people seeing government not managing to meet their needs, troubles with the economy. yes, certainly mr. putin got them through and improved the econom

both putin and medvedev and later medvedev press secretary mr peskov after the congress was.closed for today said that there will be a reshuffle of the government the government we need a major reshuffle said so do you think that this is the next into. we will be following in russia what's going to happen to the government two of the ministers who will keep their seats well i would say that mean dataquest shown yourself to be less conservative in terms of person now than the volume of putin. has basically stayed with the same ministers during all he is to new as the prime minister and you know most of his term he also had to to he changed to the prime minister several times but he didn't change the meanest this is a surprise that stayed the same they're all just met so some small changes so in general . midriff is seen as a sort of a personnel reform and. it's just sometimes easier for him to fight people than for mr putin but i would also like to see you know there is a very contradictory. objectives that they're the tandem faces because i agree with igor on the one hand rus

he's running for president in two thousand and twelve and hopes current president dmitry medvedev will become like mr krueger in reacted to the news by saying he would not serve in a new government headed by the better but many veteran said anyone who questions as policies should resign from all of the possible successors occurring in our business it's coming your way in a few minutes. former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko were turning to court tuesday after a two week break in the hearings she's accused of abuse of power during gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine claims she denies the commission goes been on trial since q and was arrested in august on charges of contempt of court her arrest sparked massive protests in ukraine's capital kiev police with commission echo supporters who set up camp outside the court where the hearings were taking place take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's new leaders have approved measures to abolish the country's state security prosecution and courts in the hope of getting rid of remnants of the old regim

given both putin and medvedev and later methods first secretary mr peskov after that the congress was closed but they said that there will be a reshuffle of the government that the government we need a major reshuffle said so do you think that this is the next intrigue that we will be following in russia what's going to happen to the government two of the ministers will will keep their seats well i would say that my data has shown himself to be less conservative in comes off person now than what in a reporting i was a reporter has basically stayed with the same ministers during all he has been us the prime minister and most of his term he also had to. change the prime minister several times but he didn't change to me just simply the surprise to stay the same or or just let so some small changes so in general with very few cns a sort of a personnel reform. it's just sometimes easier for him to fly people down for mr portman but i would also like to see you know there is a very contradictory. objective there tandem faces because i agree with igor on the one hand russia is very suspiciou

to resign although this would be an option don't come free of this deal with mr a very harsh words there from president medvedev as he could tell it on the spot there isn't this all the position now is that what this means that you are a possibility no one can really say oh we're going to see some reaction force on the markets from those that were saying that we can see is that politics are stacked or it might just be that they were very the reaction has been very mixed here in russia and our process the flow out of course social media was a surprise candidate if you look at twitter and positive comments are both positive and negative. if we just go stateside it's not very unexpected western media really party and therefore this isn't about russia and its democracy i just want to take you through one of the tweets that was written by u.s. senator john mccain known for his anti trust rhetoric and antique rootin in specific rhetoric saying surprise surprise shocking news that it is running for president again in the back here in a moscow the presidential aide to meditative are ready to prove it she writes but not

juggle both putin and medvedev and later method of press secretary mr prescott after the congress was. closed but they said that there will be a reshuffle of the government the government really needs a major reshuffle said so do you think that this. the next intrigue we will be following in russia what's going to happen to the governments of the ministers who will keep their seats well i would say that media pressure on yourself to be less conservative in terms of personnel avoiding reporting. has basically stayed with the same ministers during all of us can you as the prime minister and you know most of his term he also had to. be changed to the prime minister several times but he didn't change the minister in the surprise of the stay the same or all just met so some small changes so in general midriff is seen as a sort of a personnel reformer. it's just sometimes easier for him to fight people than for mr putin but i would also like to see you know there is a very contradictory. objectives that they are going pound and faces because i agree with igor one of our hand russian public

think will happen if president medvedev and prime minister putin do so each jobs so fall mr harper that you believe the are shuffled tandem will be a success because it enjoys a wide popular support you say twenty eight percent thing the swamp would anger voters and strengthen the opposition and the remaining quarter feel the change will have little or no effect at all so won't our website r.t. the home for telus for choosing. a moment in history this week at the united nations as president mahmoud abbas delivered the palestinian bid for statehood receiving a standing ovation addressing the general assembly thousands of cheering people gathered in ramallah to give him a hero's welcome home returned from new york addressing the rally he compared his campaign to the arab spring saying that an independent palestinian state is inevitable his speech to the u.n. general assembly on friday was greeted with jubilance it seems across the palestinian territories but on the border with israel instead of joy there was violence as he has the story. and historic movement after decades of struggle ten