talk about the possibility of this very thing happening prior to today. officials he was given a holiday to think about 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 officials could be. seeking dismissal or of course in order for. this incident in this case it is an order from russian president dmitri it's a very highly dissipated decision not just in political circles but. i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in. and it is a legal reason for his dismissal i cannot work of officials i can't trust. me it's obvious that professional relations between the president. with.

the president. to. act to return the situation. very visible legacy. credited for giving. one of those of christ the savior cathedral. 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 if you could see through the rain be a peter the great. think it's one of. the city contrasts between. these two marches very much opinion from the public is a very polarized opinion. the constant feature of the most his legendary cap has been the subject of amusement through. he's eighteen years in power selling his custom made silver capped it's an

option of kindly granted a moscow nursery home the one million u.s. dollars it lays his mayorship meanwhile needs more than just one cat to cover the bald spots of his career he started making distinction 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 these two and others have to be dealt with before any question about future employment of them is to be discussed while the country was losing money during the recent economic downturn in two thousand and nine income increased 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 washington abroad is known freestone anti-gay stands never authorizing and even cracking down on gay pride parades now sure or parts of our society with healthy morals do not accept my most 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 on toxic smoke for almost a month as wildfires rage while he was on vacation out of the city little formica this its all of course every specialist should be responsible for what they are entrusted with he said up with him if for example the mayor of mosul comes back for a number of days by the next day after the smaller. which is the place this time and i think it is unacceptable to you he should have been here often hour after the small looks like has been concentrating a lot on his house rather than that of this city's residence then appears i don't

drink maybe i'm missing out on something but for more than thirty years i haven't had a drawl. the money that the russian government. infrastructure really make it to the ramshackle ruins of moscow he's also been criticized over the deconstruction of the city's historical in architectural heritage after he's long gone cost footprint will stay on the streets of the russian capital and then the artsy. and while most of the lights away all that may have form a c.b.s. correspondent jonathan sound is the scribe the ousted chief of buildings. across eighteen years but highlights 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 or on the road there was a new landlord to the people building buildings making money in moscow and force them to do other things there was a time when your remote. village was quite particular popular because he ripped off the rip off artists who are making money on the new bush while moscow and did things like build christ the savior cathedral i think his legacy will be that he is 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 one nine hundred ninety s. i think a lot of muscovites would say we'll take luzhkov off with all his rough edges because he got a lot done because he did have a populist edge unfortunately i think many times people are influenced by their spouses. you know but hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption

business and some of that sloshed over and i mean 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 there's lots more coming your way later in the program including a peek behind the curtain. rehabilitative jong il from place. to general and a possible step toward the transfer of power we talked to experts about what this could mean for relations with the rest. of carrying a jewish activists attempting to reach book aided garza has been forced to divert to the port of ashdod in israel by israeli warships among those on board is a holocaust survivor and an israeli man who lost his daughter at

a palestinian suicide bombing a spokesman for the group that all going on the journey says many jews don't support the israeli government's behavior towards palestinians. we've had the better world order we understand international waters but the crew and happened in the boat. don't we hope they will be. released. immediately. treatment in the area or we believe the blockade is illegal and illegitimate and we want any of them to make a. public statement amar will hope that the collective punishment of the people of god and good political trial that the blockade of gaza and the company would argue the group with the weapon. a declaration on behalf of many to the israeli government for the public through the documentation are not being conducted with.

or in our name and are not in our interest and we do not believe there are in the interest of the very good it's very good government. four months ago nine party palestinian activists died in an israeli raid on another way to tell the ones from turkey a un report described before was disproportionate brutal this time a london based g.'s up to justice the palestinians organized the voyage i already found out the no like governmental organization me peace talk or walk says governments should show the same with courage the people taking to hamas and the fratellis. it's 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 this is a jewish ship and this is a jewish ship made every effort to to reach 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 the israelis can 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 north korean leader kim jong il is 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 policy gathered for its biggest convention in decades no official announcements were made in the if you think session has been shrouded in mystery passes he's got that in as our reports that practice is all uncommon in north korea. in the twenty first century everything is global and all kinds of information is available online but there are

make just lot of mystery in the world wide web and not just north korea not many are pretty trade secrets like ross 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 western media that it's scary place it's all to 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 of the first hours being gone you know i saw a building on the other side of the world from my hotel that had no curtains on the windows and also one of the on our systems why is it like you 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 means 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 imminent change but that according to those in the know is premature you should lose that. kim jong il became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy ideas and not as some distort of the foundations or as 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 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 our 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 in the home and when we came back we talk about it even hint. those that died were buried and the notes to their families would read killed in the course of duty where when how their was not open for discussion it was hard but it was top of their of course seventy seven out of seventy eight green 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 their belongings to a new town and would give them lifts we weren't allowed to but we did. when the

eastern european communist bloc fell apart its influx into the north korean economy planted despite the fact a close relationship is maintained by moscow n.p.r. 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 units are r.t. moscow. the former leader of the european parliament delegation to north korea glyn ford says the country's not just getting a new day could mark 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 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 the signaling of the who eventually will succeed kim jong il so what do you make of the view that america simply needs a sort of bad 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 germany within the former ruling party the neo cons there and people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient that it's the next to deploy their missile defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans with 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 lie spent too much on the military sector and not enough on improving civilian

standards of living. from a strictly controlled communist ideology to an era of innovation and in the generation of minded people that's how russia's president has described china he visited the world's biggest technology fag's 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 shanghai. a friendly relationship with china for decades to come president medvedev opened russia day and met with steve think the deputy chair of the friends in power and the man seen as china's most possible future leader laying the ground for what could be a partnership that shifts and shocks global power. is the most likely future leader of china it's unlikely they discussed with medvedev

concrete plans for the future but all of it certainly talks about mutual approach to russia china relations and global issues. it has spent most of the day together and took a good look of what china and russia have to offer. five million is a favorite this time around with its top talking energy companies putting on their best show. here at this expose we're demonstrating the latest results and science in high tech and showcasing cooperation with our chinese. but it's all part of a bigger picture of russia's push for rapid modernization when you go to this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economy is an institute its individual development is certainly the choice of countries who are following this path and will do everything for our economy to modernize and adepts to modern life . 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 an i pod 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 he said no way are today. making headlines around the world and at least. to a mudslide in the north west of columbia the group was boarding a bus when the landslide skated down a mountain on the road to rescue efforts has been suspended because of dangerous conditions. i pulled. heavy rains in recent weeks of course columbia have triggered this is claimed at least seventy four. tower has been evacuated of the second anonymous telephone threats in two weeks. cleared

a fortnight ago in what turned out to be a hoax for all this has been since recent terror threats from the north. among day saying. station was evacuated after another bomb scare. taking to the streets of book arrest of the latest mass protest a few. cuts many of the demonstrators are public sector workers who've seen their salaries up to twenty five percent they're demanding the reversal of wage cuts raising the minimum wage and the cancellation of. the interior minister has resigned over the the opposition to the prime minister. with the north korean leader expected to name his successor any time now to an expert on the region and who met kim jong il. just a moment. there's

evan 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. you were 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 it frequently suffered from

invasions by the mongers and 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 when the economic ties back in 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 some of its integration into the world community goes up with you with whoever a real policy it's very often at all it's a statement it's some sort of vast area broke out in the media recently around the fact of the swedish department store began selling jeans manufactured in north korea if the west is really interested in north korea developing some industries tried to enter for an octopus and thus having people interested in contacts with the outside world working with what's trapped with the cell in the battery of genes pools to the western world safety and well being it would be absolutely an 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 it would be a mess in the south korea several years ago which has not yet been ratified but the refusal of the us to include spoon was made for some other consumer goods manufactured our area into the agreement was one of the stumbling blocks the us did not agree for a few million dollars to many of the markets and yet it's hard to imagine how this could threaten the u.s. and 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 really a break with the unfortunately we have to draw this conclusion we cannot explain everything entirely by north korea. of course much depends on the past in the tradition of the fear of opening up the war because that may lead to him dishonorable political consequences on the other hand and they say north korea

needs to become a civilized country and to integrate it into the world community above there never too keen really to do thing was to let it happen it'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 going on there are somewhat more actively done in europe where 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 when i 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 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 form. however for a number of reasons including purely pragmatic and realistic policy and the ability to play the enemy even some small thing for the north korean regime much 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 have to have died at the central committee must by now have less than half the men from the original list so it's always appears to be high time for elections the certain thing on the agenda which is perhaps the key thing is about the success. so 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 what have what he bring 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 some of the stronger of the foundation and where the person to lead the country's policy into a sharp turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il it's obsessor 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 someone up on the way this would be a young person who hasn't turned in which authority in the party or the country and it was 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 is long since you know from the circumstances. 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operation. the for.

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