prior to today has met with officials he was given granted a holiday to think about retirement will basically voluntary resignation and of course we know that he was not going to quit now according to russian law there are two ways that federal official of a region could lose his. dismissal or of course an order from the head of state and we know that in this incident in this case it is an order from russian president dmitri it's a very highly anticipated decision not just in political circles but muscovites as well but i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in your. and it is a legal reason for his dismissal i cannot work with officials i can't trust. it's obvious that professional relations between the president and the. with. the president. to. act to return the situation back to.

leave behind a very visible legacy with moscow with self has been credited for giving the city a facelift one of those. because of him was rebuilt and people are saying that this is one of the most beautiful. they give him credit for that on the other hand there's also right behind me you can see through the rain be a peter the great and muscovites think it's one of the marks here in the city now the contrast between the opinions of these two parties very much like the opinions he's getting from the public is a very polarized opinion now to just have a bit more background. the constant feature of the. he's a legendary cab has been the subject of amusement throughout his eighteen years in power selling his custom made silver cap it's an. option of kindly granted

a moscow nursery home the one million u.s. dollars each ways he's mayorship meanwhile needs more than just one cap to cover the bald spots of his career he started making his fortune on the economic crisis of the late ninety's rumors of money laundering have haunted many of his multi-million dollar construction projects across the capital. there's lots of problems in the city namely but there is no affordable housing for the most provides there is a problem of people cheated by the construction pyramids used to and others have to be dealt with before any question about future employment of the mill are to be discussed while the country was losing money during the recent economic downturn in two thousand and nine whose course income increases however the mayor claims it's not his money but he's wife's feeling about doing that is russia's only female billionaire she was a property development company and many claim its list of political clout that

lands her the deals both in russia and abroad is known freestone anti-gay stance never authorizing and even cracking down on gay pride parades now sure or flaws of our society with healthy morals to not accept they just don't accept they're going to go for their last summer may blame him for mishandling deceive you smoke situation in moscow the city short on toxic smoke for almost a month as wildfires rage while he was on vacation out of the city mill for micah's this battell of course every specialist should be responsible for what they are and just let you set up with him if for example the mayor of moscow becomes a bank for a days next day after the small regional has dissolved which was the case this time and i think it is unacceptable he should have been here half an hour after the small looks like has been concentrating a lot on his house rather than that of the city's residents and their peers but i don't drink and. maybe i'm missing out on something but for more than thirty years

i haven't had a drop of. the money that the russian government. to improve infrastructure rarely make it to the ramshackle roads of moscow he's also been criticised over the deconstruction of the city's historical and architectural heritage after his long grown footprint will see in the streets of the russian capital and then the art see . over is a national perspective. by jonathan sun does the former c.b.s. correspondent erin moscow and many have for joining us this evening with us on this now in your view dull the fucking over this lack of a trial small a wider political change in russia. oh sure we've got all kinds of assertions of power from different parts of the kremlin and mr medvedev is doing what he feels he has to do to prove that he's got a lot under his control but there's another lesson here of course which is eighteen

years in power is too much for any man eighteen years in office people get lazy fat corrupt get influenced by the creature comforts they're used to maybe we should learn from our colleagues in france where the president of france has a five year term and practices there are only two five year terms how much can any man endure and keep it splitting after ten years i think there's a lesson in this for a lot of politicians in america and in russia well mississauga's evented there are some of the criticisms that have dogged mr jury in his eighteen year reign. marron people across the political spectrum does seem to be or how people slug at dismissal what did you actually do to make everyone so angry. well across a thousand years. was a combination combination of four kinds of poor people he was really

a renaissance prince running a city state he was in american terms a combination of mayor daley and robert moses the great city builder who ruthlessly did things he was a little dictator he was a kind of robin hood he would put his finger on the pulse around the throat of the new landlords the people building buildings making money in moscow and forced them to do other things there was a time when your remark. was quite particular popular because he ripped off the rip off artists who are making money on the new book moscow and did things like build christ the savior cathedral or in the early ninety's when people didn't have enough money to bury their grandmothers because of the shock therapy which delivered a shock and not a lot of therapy and bodies were piling up in the moscow morgue somehow some way to squeeze money out of the rich to bury the poor he also tried to knock down some

eyesores in the city the receipt hotel but he also knocked down wants of historic buildings and of course why can't a dictator he had his personal favorites so we had mr sera tele the sculptor put up ugly things all over the city of peter the great statue which is really columbus in drag and considering he didn't like gay people having peter the great dressed up really as columbus is something of a scandal and something that maybe in honor of his dismissal that stature should be dismissed tomorrow. doesn't deter may not a talking point to this day as you say it's been a to mulch us eighteen years but the age of the new school of the prince is equal to i mean moscow is now a vet so how do you think he'll be remembered what his legacy. i think his legacy will be that he's a bulldozer bulldozers get things done but they sometimes are rude and crude if you

were to go back and look in the middle of the nine hundred ninety s. i think a lot of muscovites would say we'll take luzhkov with all his rough edges because he got a lot done because he did have a populist edge unfortunately alice i think many times people are influenced by their spouses. first wife was a darling sweet wonderful woman and when she died after suffering from cancer he was desolate his second wife elaine in the alive now but today is something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption business and some of that sloshed over in a man who stayed in his job just to. yuri luzhkov will have a mixed legacy but his legacy is evident on the new face of the new moscow and i wonder how he would react to that being likened to

a bull days ok jonathan sound is a former c.b.s. mosque a corresponding many thanks feel for. my. a boat carrying a jewish activists attempting to reach but they did gulzar house been forced to deliver to the port asked dogs in israel by israeli warships a mon those on board is a holocaust survivor and that israeli man who lost his daughter and a palestinian suicide bombing a spokesman for the group that all denies the journey says many jews don't support the israeli government's behavior towards palestinians. we've had a better world order than international waters crew and happened to take you out we hope they will be released. immediately. treatment and. we believe the blockade illegal.

and we wanted in any event to make a. public statement. that the the collective punishment of the people of god and the child of the blockade of gaza and to come to a new dog in the group with the weapon. of desperation but many do that the israeli government or the public theater documentation are not being conducted. or in our name and are not in our interest and we do not believe there are in the interest of the bakery and zero development. when almost four months ago nine prairie palestinian activists died in an israeli rain on another raid to tell the best from talking a un report described the force of disproportionate from brutal this time a london based group of justice palestinians organized affiliates i already found the norm governmental organization meetings dot org says the government should show

the same courage of the people taking part in the face had this. hard to know what to expect especially after what happened months ago with the marmora but it is true though that this is a jewish chin this is a jewish ship and this is a jewish ship and made every effort to to reach gaza the real story is in the message of solidarity sent by jews on this ship with their muslim brothers in gaza we all know what's happened to bring us to this point and the israelis and the palestinians disagree what we need real right now is real leadership and between you if the leaders of the palestinians and of these really so much show the same courage of the people on this boat and others around the world i think we have a chance to break the impasse. now from a strictly controlled communist ideology to an era of innovation and a new generation of open minded people that's how russia's president has described

china after he visited the world's biggest technology fair in shanghai expo twenty ten. friends and future innovations what better place to come together than the shanghai expo where russia and china are the stars of tomorrow. the main message of russia's exposition in chang. china decades to come the president did open russia day and met with steve think pain that we could share to friends in power and the man seen as time goes most possible future leader of the ground for what could be a partnership that shifts and shocks global power. is the most likely future leader of china it's likely they discussed with medvedev concrete plans for the future but all of it probably talks about mutual approaches to russia trade relations and global issues. that is about most of the day together and took a good look of what china and russia have to offer. russia's brazilian is

a favorite this time around with its top talking energy companies putting on their best show. here at this next move we're demonstrating the latest results and science in high tech and showcasing cooperation with our chinese calling. what it's all part of a bigger picture of russia's push for rapid modernization at. this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies in institutes and of its own development is certainly the choice of countries who are following this path and will do everything for our economy to modernize. and must understand china is a great way to start made in china had a significantly different connotation just some few years back that's right take a closer look at the backs of your i pads and i pods they were most likely assembled here russia china is the friend with whom to solidify

a partnership bringing them into the future and past reporting from shanghai and these are now way. well when that career leader kim jong il promoted his youngest son kim jong un to the rank of general and was seen as the first step of a power transition it came before the country's ruling workers' party gathered for its biggest convention in decades no official announcements were made and the issue of succession has been shrouded in mystery bosses ozzy's company that is out of a report from the practice isn't done public in north korea. in the twenty first century everything is global and all kinds of information is available online but there remains a spot of mystery in the world wide web and not is north korea not many are pretty trade secrets locked around my colleague alex you know chefs he was one of you to visit the place and hopefully will share his impressions a alex so tell me you were in a gang what's it like what's your biggest impression be honest with you when i was

going there i felt a little nervous having read all the stories about north korea in the west media that it's a scary place it's always a different sort of scary things when i arrived there i thought it was nothing like that but the one thing we should rescue the most of the first days in the first hours being i saw a building on the other side of the world from my hotel it had no curtains on windows and i asked one of them on our systems why is it like that he said well if you have curtains in north korea it means you have something to hide so i got the impression that this society is open to its own government whilst its government is closed to the rest of the world it is the societies close to the world as well world attention is turned on north korea for the first workers party meeting in thirty years there are rumors of a man change but that according to those in the know is premature him should little style and of course enjoying it all became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy and ideas and not as some distort the

foundations or as a person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il's successor. north korea's nuclear ambitions troubled the west and the secretive states tightlipped policies and everything has been successfully used as a tool by countries such as the united states. the united states in particular need a bad guy in the region to justify their military presence in the southern part of the korean peninsula and japan and for deploying their missile defense systems there which they've done somewhat more actively than in europe. to north korea the soviet union was the very opposite of a threat especially in the korean war of the early one nine hundred fifty s. the u.s.s.r. came to see as many socialist states in largest possible was happy to a communist regime against u.n. troops. but the veterans of those battles only recently got the chance to talk about their memories for them it was yet another war that didn't exist. i was

there for a year and a half and when we. talk about it we couldn't even hint those that died were buried and the notes to their families would read killed in the course of duty where. it was not open for discussion it was hard for what it was. so nice out of seventy eight during cities were destroyed almost completely and yet everywhere i went i saw people trying to rebuild homes roads everything we'd see women on the road carrying their kids and they belong to a new town and would give them lifts we weren't. but we did. when the eastern european communist bloc fell apart its influx into the north korean economy plummeted despite the fact a close relationship is maintained by moscow and pyongyang the veil of secrecy is not helping to boost economic development north korea remains one of only five

communist states in the world and by far the most mysterious country on the map. gas minister of r.t. moscow. of a former leader of a european parliament delegation to north korea glyn ford says the country is just getting a new day a whole new era for its foreign policy. this party conference is going to see some i suspect unprecedented strangers in terms of generational changes in the in the leadership of the korean workers party we've already seen that some people like you . both who've been negotiating with the americans i've had recent promotions within the supreme people's assembly and within the ministries so it looks like it looks like this is a if you're a generational change and not merely the if you're signaling of who eventually will succeed kim jong il so what do you make of that america simply needs a sort of bag guy in the region to justify its military presence in the southern

part of the korean peninsula and japan and and to justify the point missile defense systems that there are certainly people in japan within the 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 deploy the after missile defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans but at the same time puts pressure on the chinese to move more money into their military and of course the analysis of the chinese as being exactly one of the reasons for the fall of the soviet union was the fact that the economy was forced to live a life spent too much on the military sector a normal nuff on improving civilian standards of living. now with the north korean leader expected to name his successor any time now almost see an expert on. kim jong il.

thank you so much for joining us. north korea remains one of the few mysteries today everything is known information about everything can be found easily but north korea maintains that shroud of secrecy while. it happened so that for centuries korea was detached from the rest of the outside world this

has to do with the fact that back in the middle ages that frequently suffered from invasions by the mumble isn't japanese feel free this convince the ruling class that the country would live better if it reduced its contacts with the surrounding countries to a minimum but today in the twenty first century while the economic ties back on the world do you think that this policy of isolation will help north korea progress economically yeah there has been that much talk in the west about north korea opening up with them on its integration into the world community not up with you with whoever real policy that's very often at all sorts of statements some sort of best theory or broke out in the media recently around the fact of the swedish department store down seven jeans manufactured in north korea if the west is really interested in north korea developing some industries or to enter foreign markets and just having people interested in contacts with the outside world or working with what's trapped with the selling of a box or a genius pulls to the western wall of safety and wellbeing it will be absolutely

and significant in terms of economic competition the same apply it to the joint north and south korean industrial complex in case song or free trade agreement was signed between the u.s. and south korea several years ago which has not yet been ratified but there are a few some of us to include spoon was in forks and other consumer goods manufactured our area into the agreement was one of the stumbling blocks the u.s. did not agree for a few million dollars to enter the market and yet it's hard to imagine how this could threaten the u.s. on one of the economies. so in your opinion it's beneficial in some ways for certain countries like the united states for example to have korea isolated. so there's a little there but it was unfortunately we have to draw this conclusion we cannot explain everything entirely by north korea. of course much depends on the past and the tradition on the fear of opening up the war because that may lead to him

desirable political consequences on the other hand they say north korea needs to become a civilized country and to be integrated into the world community of their never too keen really to do things to let it happen what's more the west and the united states in particular need a bad guy in that region to justify their military presence in the southern part of the korean peninsula and to perm and deploying their missile defense systems there that's something that's been done there are somewhat more actively done in europe indeed until now the u.s. and allied military presence in the region was justified by the soviet threat but it's been twenty years now since the soviet union however the u.s. is not going to give up their military alliance as established during the cold war now it's very convenient to have a bad guy and pyongyang that can be used as a scapegoat for everything let's try and. economical and political more towards the personal you've spent so much time in north korea i believe you've

even met kim jong il personally what kind of a man is he would have to say that kim jong il appears is an energetic and informed person who knows what he does and knows what to strive for i think that the stereotypes appearing regularly in western and frankly also in russian people are caissons about some unpredictable politician and regime are absolutely ungrounded because an irrational and unpredictable politician would hardly be able to hold power in his hands for the past two decades when many revolutions broke out in many countries actually disappeared money expected the north korean regime to fall however for a number of reasons including purely pragmatic and realistic policy and the ability to outplay the enemy even some small thing as the north korean regime managed to survive if. you mention that the north korean leader knows what he wants for his country and from his country he's calling a party meeting that hasn't been held in thirty years and many in the west

specifically are very excited trying to guess why exactly or what he's trying to tell the world by doing that what do you think that the purpose of the conference and the workers party meeting is. if we talk about detail the only thing known to be on the agenda of the forthcoming conference are the elections for the governing bodies of the ruling party and it really makes sense for it's been forty four years since the previous conference and thirty years since the previous party congress money leaders who used to be members of the governing politburo and secretary are to have died the central committee must by now have less than half the men from the original list so it appears to be high time for elections the second thing on the agenda which is perhaps the key thing is about the success. sir to the incumbent leader it's no secret that there have been many reports about his week of health

now if kim jong il decides to follow in his father's footsteps and name his son as his successor there's very little known about the man what what do we know who is he what does he what does he have what his brain to north korea kim jong il became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy and ideas not of some of the stronger of the foundations of the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il successor if it should be one of the sons for example i should not make any predictions as to which of them it could be as much talking with the third song and anyway this would be a young person who hasn't learned much authority in the party or the country and who is not very widely known and i don't think that kim jong il is going to quit entirely now he will continue ruling the country as long as his health from the circumstances allow that's why the decisions to be made by the conference will in

their essence be shaping the environment under circles going into the new successor some advisors who will guide them through the challenging situation north korea is in these days. well the british study done. on the front. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with a much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into the report.

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