and out the global policy forum r.t. spoke with former indian president obama and asked about the challenges facing developing countries and the future of his own nation stay with us for that on our. the world policy forum. not only concerning on global security. and relations with foreign countries and many other aspects relevant to the international community to talk a little bit more about all of the issues brought up here in this russian city and also about specifically the relationship between russia and india the chance to talk to the former indian president. thank you so much for being here with us it's a great pleasure talking to you now looking at your country now what do you think our what do you think of the steps that taking right now how do you judge india's position in the international community. you know. it's. a very high. point. you can really. progress. in the. nation to the peace world peace. talk a little bit more about india twenty twenty you of course wrote a book saying india will become a very differen

r.t. . thoughts today from the founding director of the asia society in australia richard woolcott of spoke to us he says the european security initiative could be a step towards better security worldwide. and centrism good. introduced to. lead to believe in the security arrangements in new. lives land security detention germany the june two thousand and eight and again the first time in the squad. for prime minister kevin rudd he will say. launch the side do you need one asia pacific so you do security issues you share in june two thousand and eight so this is i think it's important to particularly both these concepts to move forward and then you can. bring the region and the global security that's a good thing because you'll first come close. well that does it for us today we hope to see you tomorrow for the second day of the global policy forum here in the beautiful city of your us level so they do our colleagues a very new more live coverage from the event so do if you can stay with us for that bye for now. please when the new season. when it's something really crucial when you want to

cough has ruled the city for eighteen years and set the panic conditions for construction business r.t. spoke to the head of penny lane real estate about the impact of his departure on moscow's real estate market we expect a very long period of time when everybody is frozen nobody is approving or giving any permits everybody is stuck waiting for new orders from the new czar they are all worried if they could do something wrong there will be worried orders to follow as they don't know really know who will be on top tomorrow before everybody is stuck with no job going on. i believe that this would be huge harm to the industry. but russia's top banks have reached twenty percent of their loan portfolio that's the highest level since the beginning of the crisis the international finance corporation part of the world bank says russia needs to develop a market for bad debts so banks can clear them from their balance sheets timothy crouse from the i.f.c. says the company proposes to jumpstart the system with a two hundred million dollar fund. i think that some of the banks here that are trying too ha

were hurt in that blast the eleven with the worst injuries are now being treated here in moscow r.t. spoke to a father of one who lost a child and is watching another clinging to life. we would the markets and ones into a short was my mother the wife and two sons. and then an explosion i rushed. around one of those to them. was one and a half years old my three year old son is known so that three doctors as. there were. still are fine he will be eleven injured were brought to the capital last night by emergencies ministry plane and other aircraft has arrived in vladikavkaz to take more people to moscow more than one hundred remain in hospitals in the north of safety and capital seven said to be in very serious condition. the notorious chechen militant wanted internationally for terrorism has pledged more attacks in russia doku umarov had posted a statement online after the bombing of lot of and so on and on the same day washington said militants operating in the north caucasus are linked to al qaeda and that's a change in the u.s. approach to the problem as artie's guy in a cheeky on repor

modernization with the ultimate aim of reducing russia's dependency on its natural resources where r.t. spoke to the president's press secretary natalya tzemach over to find out just i was all going. just as the problems that the president made to bed with gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently in it was not unflattering in the meaning of critical after previous period and previous achievements no on the contrary they were giving credit but it was stated that the model of development russia had chosen and pursued until now is no longer viable the president named a number of reasons that stand in the way of the country's development corruption was named as a major reason for delay in development it is true that now competition is possible until we have a well built up today judicial system until we combat corruption and have fair unbiased courts and an unbiased law enforcement personnel in without all this it will be hard for russia to secure a good place on the global scene in that way she missed the media. and just let you know if not quoted already we'

global stock markets took a breather on tuesday after a five day rally business r.t. spoke to several analysts about best forecasts for the russian markets for the rest of this year. well typically we have a very quiet summer in russia where volumes are very weak and that's definitely the case this year as we come out of the final quarter of the year volumes do tend to pick up trading activity picks up and generally historically the market tends to rally so most of the gains investors make tends to be towards the end of the year so yes we are starting to see that dynamic right now we're starting to see from flows coming back i'm a starting to see volumes pick up private investors in russia have started trading a lot more on their own account rather than using mutual funds or similar structures to invest in the market so the russian money is here it is very active in the russian market but the extra money that we want to hold to drive the markets higher will probably go forward and fortunately we don't see these liquidity globally could use very good unfortunate we don't see

well ahead of november's nato summit in lisbon r.t. spoke to the former secretary general of the alliance george robertson he says the security challenges and risks the world faces today are different from the past. too much of a tie at the present moment ticket are worth find to three and we have people in the way. russia have a tag russia wants to rule the world what catherine the great you know i can only secure my thirty years by expanding catherine it is being quoted today more scientists. and you can watch our full interview with former nato head george robertson in about an hour's time right here on r.t. well in india thousands of farmers say they're willing to fight to the death to stop the government building a motorway through their land while some fear losing their livelihood others argue the real consequence will be a full blown food crisis charan singh reports. indian farmers took to the capital recently in protest against a government takeover of their land to build a new two billion dollar highway this followed the deaths of t

yaroslavl all featuring prominently at the event where dimitri medvedev plans to modernize russia r.t. spoke to the president's press secretary natalya to make over to see how the progress is going. a year ago president reagan published his vision for the future of russia to fill us in on what progress has been made i know we're joined by his press secretary not that it's a makeover that i do thank you very much for joining me. but. in his article go russia published last year the president named corruption as one of the biggest problems slowing down the country's development according to some figures it's volume which is around half of the u.v. g.d.p. what's changed since then. and did a year ago in his article go russia president medvedev gave a detailed and unflattering account of the situation russia is currently in it was not unflattering in the meaning of critical author previous period and previous achievements no on the contrary they were giving credit but it was stated that the model of development russia had chosen and pursued until now is no longer viable the president named a num

the twenty first century from afghanistan and missile defense to improving relations with russia r.t. spoke to former nato boss george robertson about how he sees the future it's coming your way next here are five. thank you very much for joining us now i'll begin with a general question on wars recently we've been witnessing a lot of guerrilla warfare style where we have poorly trained and you have. armed militants causing a lot of problems that is nato ready to respond to such threats and in what way all of us have to adapt to the changing nature of conflict you know one of two of the berlin wall came down and the cold war was over the number of conflicts in the world when he pursued.

the twenty first century for afghanistan and missile defense to improving relations with russia r.t. spoke to former nato boss george robertson about how he sees the future is coming your way in a moment. thank you very much for joining us. with. recently we've been witnessing a lot of guerrilla warfare you have poorly trained and you have. a lot of problems. ready to respond to such threats what way all of us have to doubt. to the changing nature of conflict you know after the berlin wall came down and the cold war was over the number of conflicts in the world went down by percent heathy percent so we live in a much better world today but the nature of conflict has changed there are fewer casualties is that at the same time it's more difficult to deal with you know we didn't have suicide. the cold war we have that now so it's clear to thank you for it so our armed forces have got to be modernized they need to be more flexible they need to be more maneuverable they need to go a long distances here they have to be highly skilled and they have to use the most technologically advanced equipme

city for eighteen years and with it he's set the planning conditions for construction business r.t. spoke to the head of penny lane real estate about the impact of his departure almost real estate market. we expect very long period of. everybody nobody's approving giving any permits everybody is stuck waiting for new orders from the new czar they are all worried if they could do something wrong they're wall worried who orders to follow is the do no really know who will be tomorrow before everybody is stuck with going on. believe this would be huge harm to the industry. let's take a look at the equity markets stateside stocks falling in the early trade despite positive data showing us home prices rose in july and ahead of a new. consumer confidence concerns over iras that are keeping investors cautious of. european shares are also firmly in the red weak banks and energy stocks are dragging on the footsie but some good economic data has lent a little support. group is still among the worst performers on the footsie reported a sharp drop in pretax profits. and here in moscow both markets are

global security is going to be one of the major topics during the forum at of the event r.t. spoke with economic historian robert skidelsky he says the e.u. should consider russia's proposal for a new european security treaty. russia should become a much more effective part of the european security system and not be outside because the european actually european military is very very weak the key to military power in europe the french and the british the rest have to do anything really but this small and there's no unity. sort of no agreement to create something larger and russia has a has it has has good military forces and they're becoming increasingly modernize and specialized to the kind of work. that military forces have to do today which isn't a huge rule but to the top of the counterinsurgency operations peacekeeping operations and so on so russia could be a great asset for european security system and president medvedev has suggested a new security concept that would include russia and we should we should take him up on that and really see we'll walk we can do with it becau

global stock markets took a breather on tuesday after a five day rally business r.t. spoke to several analysts about their forecasts for the russian markets for the rest of this year well typically we have a very quiet summer in russia where volumes are very weak and that's definitely the case this year as we come out of the final quarter of the year volumes do tend to pick up trading activity picks up and generally historically the market tends to rally so most of the gains that investors make tends to be towards the end of the year so yes we are starting to see the.

r.t. . spoke to norwegian reporter style and he told us that people there are asking how a psychotic patient could have got into their country so easily in the first place . that's a very good question everybody here asks the same thing of course a lot a lot of illegal immigrants come to norway every single day it's not that hard to get into norway is such a high profile person the videos of him are on you tube and internet in the pictures of him and he's a high profile person he likes the attention just like now of course when he stood up and made the nazi salute to all the journalists that was there and he wanted the court to be open and he argued for that the court proceedings should remain open so obviously he does get a lot of attention from the public i think most people the general public. would like him to be sent back to run through as possible and there is of course a fear that the right extremist environment in norway will grow up again we have had some very very bad incidents in the pa

rule the city for eighteen years of his he said the planning conditions for construction business r.t. spoke to the head of penny lane real estate agency about the impact of his departure on moscow's market we expect a very long period of time when everybody is frozen nobody is approving giving any permits everybody is stuck waiting for new orders from the new. they all are worried if they could do something wrong they will worried because all of those to follow as they do not really know who will be on top tomorrow before he then says everybody is stuck with no job going on. i believe that this would be a huge come to the industry. foreign banks in russia are going on a recruitment drive because of a record rise in ruble bond sales while the sale of foreign currency bonds by russian borrowers to stop twenty seven percent since two thousand and eight ensures a rubles has jumped thirty six percent to a record seventeen billion dollars confidence in local debt has been lifted by the recovery in the oil price and small currency fluctuations for the first time in two years companies such as tort

r.t. also spoke to dr phil hankel one of the currency experts who father lawsuit of the german constitutional court against the greek bailout he says it breaks the basis of the monetary union. the whole idea. is illegal because. the treaty for the european community beda of is completely forbidden of a very simple reason a country which can count with to be bailed out really not for all financial monetary disappear so all no doubt is a precondition for a stable for your. having now says freedom we have to feel so you'll never be in future a stable currency because of the deficit greek there's only one case next cases are portugal spain ireland maybe italy and france so all was the real feel now is going in europe is your. become a very very weak. currency. very severe the full interview with dr phil henkel you can it's on air throughout the day sunday tomorrow here on r.t. . iran will challenge the demands of the u.n. security council for as long as possible despite realizing the need to restart talks over its nuclear program that is the view of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who spo

r.t. moscow i spoke to the keeper of seller coffees an arctic expert who just returned indeed from the planet's northernmost region he says precautions must be taken to protect its unique wildlife but the situation is that we can just see the changes in the arctic and you weakens a few of the scheme as a save the changes in the climate changes which are impacting wildlife particular most vulnerable spaces like color you know if we're careful and if we're milledge show it david is properly it's ok by the political will of course when we work in our field would take precautions but that's a political decision to make this a rule that nothing is done vertically that could really damage the arctic environment too much damage has already been done by previous exploration of the arctic and we already destroyed a lot of it we didn't a lot and then we have to invest huge money just to clean that. the president of iceland dollar for regular told r.t. that russia had made a positive step to launch a negotiation by planting a flag on the arctic sea bed in two thousand and seven. i had been trying for ten

that moves deputy director general spoke exclusively to r.t. the such investment.we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know going public this is just one of the potential stupid just for you know for capitalization the power is you know the companies from where you live music there's a means to you bill to them or you know no more ready to become our target is that all of our company is being developed to the standard that we're able to list and you time want you know when the market so we think it's that i mean so that it's so there so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency you know the internal keep you know capacity and push it to be its own show for still so that if you decide to go public you can do it and you times gold to be in the markets you know if markets open up and become positive we can be very quick. and that brings us to the markets here's asia where shares are mostly higher following mixed results on wall street japan's nikkei is up one point two percent this hour stocks move higher

the group's deputy director general spoke exclusively to r.t. at the such invest and foremost. we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know or going public this is just one of these potential sort of the just for you know old old capitalization the power is so specific you know the companies will lower your logistics resembles to you bill to them or you know no more ready to move to become our target is that all of our company is being developed to the standard that we're able to lease them in your time want you know when the market say we'll build we think it's that i thought i mean so that it's so there so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency you know the internal. you know capacity of them to fit the bill use its own show force to so that if we decide to go public we can beat anybody goldman's in the markets you know if markets open up and become positive and we can be really good. and that brings us to the markets here's where shares are mostly higher follow following mixed results on wall street trends nick

spoke to business r.t. about its proposal to jumpstart the system with a two hundred million dollar fund. i think that some of the banks here that are trying too hard to collect their loans are not paying attention to their core business and their market share will shrink and they'll be left holding paper that's not worth anything i think the thing is to create a market so you have a market you need buyers and you need sellers so we have plenty of buyers here capitols not the question i see provides financing we also try to match the buyers and the sellers right now we don't have enough sellers there are not enough banks that want to sell their corporate loans so there's loans to small businesses retail loans credit card loans things like this but they won't sell corporate loans yet there's too big of a gap between the price banks think that they should get thirty forty cents on the dollar but buyers that are coming into the market are not willing to pay that yet there is no track record yet we need a prece

the current step is he director general spoke exclusively to r.t. . we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know or going public this is just one of the potential sort of the just for you know for capitalization of our guesses is that you know the companies from our energy sectors to develop more you know more ready to become our target is that all of our companies are being developed to the standard that we're able to list and you time one you know one the market sayville but with think it's that i said that it's so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency and you know the internal keep you know capacity to push its ability its own self or still so that if you decide to go public you can do it in your time all depends on the markets you know if markets open up and become positively fifteen be very quick. and another republican former yugoslavia has agreed to join the sol street project prime minister of the republic of srpska minora daughter was in moscow on wednesday to sign a cooperatio

step into at a general spoke exclusively to r.t. other such investment. we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know or going public this is just one of these potential sort of the just for you know old old capitalization the power is so specific to leave companies follow your lead music resembles to you bill to them more real more ready to move to become our target is that all of our company is part of being developed to the standard that we're able to spend your time we want you know when the monkey say we'll believe we think it's that i thought i mean so that it's so there so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency of you know the internal keep you know capacity to you implicitly believe it's own so forced to so that if you decide to go public you can leave and you punch goldman's in the markets you know if markets open up and become positive and we can be very quick. and let's look at how the markets open up we'll look at asia first here shares are mostly higher powered by mixed results o

that well sector is well represented at the sort investment forum they had overall smith spoke exclusively to r.t. . leadership we've reached a consensus with their main creditors spearing going cold they downsize their new interest from twelve percent to eight and i expect there not tobe or will start working with the new rates that will free up a lot of money up to two hundred million dollars this money will be used to fill license agreements still development capital investments and buying new assets that will help the country to improve its output and to stabilize its financial condition. that's take a look at the russian markets the r.t.s. and the mice it's been mixed at the close they are to us was trading market late in the plaque in my six minutes down point nine percent chance of what is good what down two percent of russia's biggest producer of released its profits of one hundred five million dollars that's down more than thirty percent from the same time last year. it was a quite a week for the markets but they still managed to trade slightly higher i see metropole senior analyst gave

will sector is well represented at this sort of investment form the head of a will smith spoke exclusively to r.t. . there should be we've reached a consensus with our main creditors speer bank and they downsize their new interest from twelve percent to eight and they expect their not tobar will start working with the new rates that will free up a lot of money up to two hundred million dollars this money will be used to fill license agreements still development capital investments and buying new assets that will help the company to improve its output and to stabilize its financial condition. let's have a look at the markets in russia the r.t.s. and the my suits were mixed at the close the r.t.s. was trading marginally in the black and white six finished down point nine percent shares of porter's goldthwaite dollar one of two percent russia's biggest producer released its first stop that from one hundred five million dollars to international financial reporting standards that's down more than thirty percent from the same period of last year upsetting investors. and it was a quite a week for the ma

the oral sector is well represented at this fortune fest and for the head of all snap spoke exclusively to r.t. . we've reached a consensus with their main creditors spearing can go in code they've downsized their annual interest from twelve percent to eight and i expect they're not tobar will start working with the new rates that will free up a lot of money up to two hundred million dollars this money will be used to fill license agreements still development capital investments and buying new assets that will help the company to improve its output and to stabilize its financial condition. for business people save russia is a great place to invest but are they putting their money where their mouth and our correspondent nicholas poll asked businessmen why investment volumes don't always keep up with expectations. talking some of the delegates here you get the impression that russia is one of the golden children of the world economy along with its bric cohorts brazil if you're in china speaking with the presidents of such heavyweights as john deere and boeing they see tremendous growth potential