church tolstoy is probably the only person who enjoys and i'm questionable authority in the russian caucasus. thank you for joining our program we are very glad to have you here with us today but first of all what's taking place at yasnaya polyana this year this interior on a verse three of leo tolstoy is dead. no the main events are taking place in the village. a place where tolstoy died and i think that on this day. to be in a place where the great russian writer breeze. his last breath he was buried at just two days after he died so naturally we will spend the next two days i mean the twenty first on the twenty second of november a just. the large crowd is expected yes of all religious and philosophical conference is being held as part of the commemorations it will move from moscow to a stop over and from there to two and just and afterwards back to moscow again there's a long list of participants but most visitors are just ordinary people who come to pay tribute to leo tolstoy these days. members of the public attend commemorations you know stop of or yes. absolutely. are special invitat

we have a special report on north caucasus where russian reporters are fighting fears daily battles. -- fierce daily battles. hello to you. it is a sad turnabout for a country which was one of europe's fastest-growing economies, but after days of saying no, ireland looks about to say yes. the governor of the central bank said he expects the government to accept a very substantial loan worth tens of billions of dollars to support its banks. the>> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the are pressing dublin -- the eu an dimf are pressing arlen to accept help. >> demonstrators gathered outside the dublin department of finance as ireland's grip on its own financial affairs started to slip. before today, ireland had been saying it did not need emergency european aid, but this morning came the first sign that the irish government would accept help. >> it would be a large loan because the purpose of the amount to be advanced or to be made available to be borrowed is to show that ireland has sufficient firepower to deal with any concerns of the market. that is the purpose of

is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region in around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that this day serves two purposes this is certainly a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia. staying with the u.s. political scene president obama says he hopes the u.s. senate will approve the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia by year's end speaking at a cabinet meeting he said it would confirm the u.s. is serious about reducing nuclear arsenals this comes after russia's state duma foreign affairs committee recalled its decision to ratify the deal moscow says the senate made twenty six amendments to the original version signed in april by presidents made better than obama among them or cause a stipulating the treaty doesn't cover deployment of a u.s. missile defense system or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads but how about a gala from the russian federation council says the current reset between the two countries will not be

is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region and around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence the space serves two purposes this is certainly a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia finally the contract was granted despite the appeal of the current curious leadership to stop using contractors and resort to a russian curious joint supplier instead how do you think this might affect the new u.s. securities relations. well sort of mystifies me that that's another mystery as to why you no longer try to a cultivate the government has the government was deposed by this contract so why continue the sort of thing there must be something else going on here some people have speculated that it's a cia front company doing other things i don't know exactly what it is myself but it certainly seems that once the old regime is deposed i'm. giving this contract in these in this manner would not be in the u.s. interest anymore at least on the overt level but we

is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region in around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that this base serves two purposes this is certainly a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia. people across russia have been celebrating the day of national unity while the event has a strong historic origin it's the modern day significance of the holiday that triggers a nationwide reaction artie's peter all of our has been following the celebrations but they have national unity gives people from different political social groups and the ability to post rallies and demonstrations around russia full with their ideas in a public forum well he remarks go we've seen people from all different at least meet the organization raging from people wanting to throw tells the eating too far right national city nationalist groups posting rallies some fifty thousand people we're told have been out in the streets of moscow and what's been a poor ingrate state it's be

is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region in around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that this base serves two purposes this is certainly a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia. well the future. is in the hands of congress which itself is about to face change following the recent u.s. midterm elections and as our cross talk show suggests the results of left everyone on capitol hill and the last to know where to begin the full discussion is coming up later but here's a preview. so even tea party is going to have to compromise but they haven't got a clue about their positions because they will not be able to stop spending on social security and medicare those are desperately necessary to stop poverty in the state about defense but what about defense and i exactly right and they will not be able to and they refuse they refuse to say that the fence spending can be cut even though secretary gates says it can be so they have no clue as to

the toss called many this was the main message has to lead to solve the north caucasus gathered for a meeting with russian president dmitry medvedev the talks were devoted to security in this russia's most volatile region they were mostly held behind closed doors the president opened the session with very harsh criticism of the work of russia's security services there was indeed a twenty ton was a very top number of terrorist attacks a group four fold compound to sign on to the country's national counterterrorism committee some sixty terrorist attacks were prevented this year and over three hundred terrorists were disappointed by the russian president said today to the great people districts and russia are not something he would fully trust. statistics so often misleading there's no trust in them i want to once again draw the attention of nuri forces to this fact there is no trust in the statistics that often just a weekly meeting interior ministry with. police this in the works now to make it possible to make the statistics exact. but it's all according to the statistics which the president doesn't want

. >> a senior russian official has sent terrorists are trying to tear the whole of the north caucasus away from russia. chechnya has become the epicenter of the violence. our moscow correspondent has this report from pakistan. >> it is the new front line on a rush of's war on terror. security forces are battling islamic militants. fighting could erupt at any moment. the troops call these special operations. the insurgents hit back with suicide bomb attacks and targeted killings. >> the aim of the extremists is to tear the caucuses away from russia. many of them have been to training camps. they have links to al qaeda. they want to turn the whole region into an islamic state, but they will defeat them. >> russia feels most at risk in the mountains. villages are viewed as a hotbed of islamic fundamentalism. it was a rebel from this village who is thought to have organized the suicide attacks on the metro. people here say they are being persecuted. his son was killed by security forces. he claims his son was tortured to death. >> what the authorities want us to do is turn our backs on fu

problem is that not russia but russian peacekeepers were attacked by the german by the georgian troops which resulted to what we have today as the reality in southern caucasus ok now never. not to connected with the ex to ex addiction of it to boot to united states send a your colleagues in the lower chamber of parliament in the state duma they called to the tightening to to to to see said very mean the relations with thailand to be to be tougher on thailand as a retaliation to their extradition of boo to the united states do you support this idea by the way it's a it's a popular liberal democratic fraction came out with that idea well you know. needless to say that these people are neither liberals not democrats of them or radicals and this is one of their radical approaches which i'm not surprised to hear i don't think that we have to cut our ties with thailand it's an important country in asia it's an important member of apec and i should remind you that president will be at it has recently visited apec summit in york a ham in japan and we have close ties with thailand now what's happened with this gentleman with mr bush i think should be. you know can a

time on this channel spotlight and the team talk to the man the russians appointed to try and bring prosperity to the troubled north caucasus. wealthy british style.

nois is when the rush was still happening, the russians and the chechens in chechnya and the caucasus were having tremendous struggles, so why are white americans called the chechens? [laughter] well, i did find the answer. the answer to me to germany, took me to germany in the whichk 18th-century.e and now the idea of race was invented in the 18th century.enn it doesn't go back to antiquity. there were not white people in g antiquity but since so many people thought that, i thought should address it. so my book actually starts with the greeks and romans, and their commentary on people who becamee europeans.urop and with the greeks and romans discovered is people who lived m in various ways with the greeks they talked about what we call t culture, and for the romans who were in various ways because the romans were in the surrealists b rod were very interested in who was a good fighter and could help and who had to be vanquished. had t i followed this german idea intn the united states of a french intellectual, and thomas carlyle, who was a british intellec intellectual, and rauf emmer

who forced them into marriage now face jail in russian republic of chechnya it's been seen as a tradition among some muslim communities of the north caucasus but religious leaders and officials say it's deeply wrong and must be stopped or control over reports from a practice that's tearing families apart it is a moment of families torn apart. and which here remains a ritual rather than an outrage the man simply chooses the woman he wants and forcibly takes her but the kidnapping of one young girl called a man went terribly wrong magazine puzzler i knew she went shocking good gag. loans we had it good outside and saw her being kidnapped yes she was shouting we saw. the kidnapper and his accomplice grabbed a man jumped into a car and sped away but a short way down the road they crashed into a big truck. stolen a young girl. when they were driving here they crashed in the old. school first it was an awful tragedy the car was just a piece of metal you couldn't tell what car it was. some say kidnapping brights runs and occasional blood religious leaders in chechnya strongly disapprove and no laws have been brought in to corrupt the practice bec

moroccan and russian passports but it's international but it's very focused on belgium with possible links to the northern caucasus especially chechnya all right so say not al qaeda. i don't think so it seems to be a very european group but of course they are part of this global jihad of which al-qaeda is the main i can. hope possible is it that these people will be convicted if they are arrested before they stays out of the attacks are going to be i mean how difficult is it to prove their intentions at this as far as we know early stage . well i think the police were investigating this group for a longer time so probably probably to search as leads to maybe the illegal possession of arms or documents that prove that they were preparing an attack or financing terrorism or recruiting people and all these things are illegal but no less it will be difficult to prove because you have to arrest them of course before something happens but russia is accused you of what it sees as terrorists in the past now we've seen the arrests of these terrorist suspects it's russia will be feeling vindicated tonight if you on that wel

channels for study too as one of the russian spies who didn't get away in fact the film was just part of what seemed to be a spy novel unraveling in a small caucasus country over the past week thirst the news of the arrests that came suddenly and not from the authorities but through western news source then a week of silence after which the georgian interior ministry made the announcement with much pomp and circumstance aspiring for years a work by the georgian counter-intelligence service i'm all invited into russia's chief intelligence directorate so what is this latest spy scandal all about a political farce a desperate plea for attention or simply much ado about nothing moscow says it's a combination of all three and many say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted almost immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine mania fueled by only russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating similar scandals more than once cynically hoping to political dissidents inside the country and abroad some analysts believe the whole affair was an attempt to put pressure on georgia's opposition. th

territory of the russian federation it's a territory that belongs to you and me if there are any problems and they should be solved. and let's return to where we started it's true that the caucasus is a region we used to go to for you to. get acquainted with this marvelous culture present terms on can direct who went as far as to call chechnya in switzerland recently. at the same time it's curious that when a project tough creating a north caucasus tourist region was presented at the st petersburg economic forum. was not mentioned there. well. well you see the idea was well the idea was that. we would develop the existing skiing resorts which. were built in the region and bring them to international standards. there are full key projects in the north caucasus. among them he is in the. in. i guess done by the. oh no don't but he is in the area. man is in the set. so that's about the full major projects this does not mean though if that's any project to develop scheme proposed for the chechen republic will not be completed the state is ready to invest into their infrastructure and grant tax breaks to the regions where these projects are going to be developed it means as soon as a