well brazil has elected its first female president dilma rousseff to succeed her tremendously popular mentor lula da silva a rousseff who has never before held elected office is expected to continue her predecessors left leaning policies well for more on this we're joined by paul knoff author and expert on south america thank you for joining us now brazil is a very young and budding democracy with political stability be only a recent phenomenon do you think rousseff can preserve the progressive atmosphere established by her predecessor. well i think that that depends on how you define progressive i think that she's going to continue to consolidate the economic achievements that she's going to consolidate the institutions of political institutions and you know that's all for the better. was able to. increase or to decrease poverty twenty million people left the ranks already under the administration so i think that the rousseff would probably continue along those lines and in that sense. it would be progressive however i think that and i think probably in the realm of foreign policy br

voted in brazil's first female president. and recapping the top stories and headlines of this past week. president medvedev becomes the first russian leader to visit one of the country's most far flung outposts the. remote far eastern archipelago lies thousands of kilometers from moscow but it's just a short hop from japan and for decades it has been a bone of contention between russia and japan. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore with their barrels pointed towards your pan the cornish island together with three other pacific islands was thinking over it by the soviet union sixty five years ago but the tussle to define its national identity still goes on. this cross appeared here a few years ago soon after the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of see katon to decades of thing its population the window on it is now in the midst of a baby it will. have the highest birth rates in the interests of holding region where a lot of young people votes of servicemen. the

in brazil there are those who live tucked away behind barbed wire walls. and those who live behind shanty cinderblock ones but in this developing nation and one of the fastest growing major economies in the world where they are pioneering deep water oil research and ethanol production for example signs of human development to marked by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office he woke up going to the people didn't recognise the poor today the rich are en route because the poor as poor as they were before people have the opportunity. he's increased the job market civil construction for me and for others he's giving jobs to people who didn't have it after lula's eight years in office is a brazil where jobs but really social policies are bringing inequality down were income from the poorest in the country has grown eight percent a year while the richest has grown only one and a half brazil is part of a trend in latin america of countries that are electing leftist governments that are essentially redistributing wealth to the poor i

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or in leicester r t so paulo brazil. now to some other world news this hour at least nineteen worshippers have been killed in a police operation to release hostages from a catholic church in baghdad militants took over the church after attacking the country's stock exchange where they killed two guards they were reportedly demanding al qaeda members held in iraq and egypt to be set free. an explosion he stumbles main square has left at least thirty two people injured police say a suicide bomber was targeting police officials the blast occurred near a place where riot police were present in case of protests after this blast more detonated explosives were found and diffuse. authorities in yemen have released a female student suspected of sending explosives to u.s. synagogues earlier qatar airways said one of the two parcels posted from yemen last week had been transported onto planes before being seized in dubai bombs were found on u.s. bound planes in the u.k. and to dubai u.s. officials are now going back to yemen to che

so paulo brazil. russia's former prime minister viktor chernomyrdin has died at the age of seventy two he was the head of the country's government from ninety ninety two to ninety ninety eight some of the most turbulent years for the country following the collapse of the soviet union of his work in the government he was appointed russia's ambassador to neighboring ukraine a year ago he became a presidential aide his family say he was suffering from a serious illness but gave no further details to me anyone who was born in the urals and made a career in the energy sector becoming the minister of the natural gas industry his wife died earlier this year he had two sons and four grandchildren. without a some world news in brief the south greaser suspended all mail deliveries abroad for forty eight hours after a series of cross with bombs were sent to foreign embassies america's three hundred s. to various chancellor merkel minister silvio berlusconi and french president nicolas sarkozy some parts of athen

a simple life worth fighting for more and mr r t so paulo brazil. shot his head with a business update now and the global markets are trading in the one thing that can tell us more about that that's right investors are avoiding making any big moves they anxiously await the monetary policy announcements by the u.s. federal reserve expected later today now for the details later in the program but first this hour russia's services are growing at the fastest pace since june that's off the hate way of course the sector to contract that you're out cold up to forty percent of cops in some areas pushed up prices are lower than business activity index but last month the index rose from fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the service sector this data is in line with the recent reports which claimed rising incomes would soon raise a short term increase in poverty levels. we expect a four point two growth rate this year and a slight improvement for next year around four point five that's the best part of recovers. so a second

so paulo brazil. again we got much more on our website that's hard to talk with years ago and former president what's on the line right now a woman's take on the life in the military what specialist in the u.s. army talks about sexual harassment domination. struggle points it's. a plus microsoft promise is millions of dollars to boost production silicon valley and help startups where the investment. of time website party dot com. russia former prime minister the enemy again has died at the age of seventy two he was the head of the country's government from ninety ninety two to ninety ninety eight some of the most turbulent years for the country following the collapse of the soviet union after his work in the government he was appointed russia's ambassador to neighboring ukraine and here again he became a presidential aide his family say he was suffering from a serious illness but gave no further details here that he was born in your rules and made a career in the energy sector becoming the soviet mini

and china we have the bric countries brazil russia india and china which are more in more increasingly more important inside the g twenty called peer to the european union which as anybody who's been to brussels they cannot even agree on to the core of a napkin in brussels going to measuring a common economic and foreign policy so and that we have the our our i would hate to dismiss it because of being to all of these countries and i love them but let's say a second tier countries inside the g. twenty we're talking about argentina about mexico turkey and indonesia and they're not exactly second tier because some of them like indonesia and turkey so maybe they're going to be part of the brics so we're going to have brig i think to ice indonesia and the indonesia and bricked with turkey as part of it as well so yes do it these are the new players the upcoming players and the players that matter in the developing world the perils of the new architecture as harry said i agree with most of what he said by the way we're not going to see that because. this is the stark fact to the american po

brazil has a left government. you can sort of say peru has a left government. >> uruguay. >> but these are countries that are actually prospering to a great degree. what's the difference? >> the governments that respect the rule of law grow. governments that want plural democratic institutions grow. those that don't, fail. >> let me go to an issue that we kind of touched on very briefly, and that is oil. roger, you are concerned that venezuela is a major supplier of oil to the united states and we should be worried about what? >> actually, i'm not concerned. i think that we should be mindful of the fact that chavez has every intention of ending venezuelan dependence on the u.s. market for oil. he is looking for alternative markets. he has every right to do that. the chinese are perfectly willing to do that. they're putting more money in. they agreed to pay $20 billion to venezuela. they're building the refineries and the tankers that will take that venezuelan product. we as americans need to be prepared to take up

so paulo brazil. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the government in greece has suspended international mail delivery for forty eight hours after a series of letter bombs were found in athens some were sent to foreign embassies while three were posted to germany's chancellor the italian prime minister and the french president police have already charged two men in and out of searching for five others suspected of being involved and extremely left wing group is thought to be behind the attempted attacks. iran denies reports that an execution is eminent for a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery earlier this year the mother of two sentence was suspended after the case international outcry but authorities said she could still be hanged for murder the iranian foreign minister has reportedly told his french counterpart that no decision has yet been made in the case. a volcano in indonesia that first erupted last week has unleashed its biggest blast yet sending

misty struggles so brazil can do radical agrarian reform so that we can settle bill land and get rid of property pushing to get all poor brazilians like the forty families living here back to the earth after they were pushed off by the world. when the green revolution led by powerful foundations and governments like the us turned farming in the developing world into an expensive and high tech agricultural industry with this revolution huge businesses occupy the land and this has been happening since the one nine hundred fifty s. and they've been kicking small farmers off the land the kick them off and they send them to the city saying that the cities need workers but the cities didn't need all those workers so while the land became a means to produce and export food for the world to consume benefiting the few people who controlled it. the large landowners the bank owners and the multinational corporations small land workers like these lost their jobs to technology or lost their land going into debt. trying to compete and were left to starve or today it is very much an oppressor capit

so paulo brazil. and remember our website is also keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day here are some of what you'll find online right now at r.t. dot com. hopes are running low for women in afghanistan a shocking number of fall victim to domestic abuse and violence with the suicide rate on the rise despite international efforts. and the moscow landmark metro unveils a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a new c.e.o. more click on over to r.t. dot com. the u.s. federal reserve is set to reveal its plans to pump five hundred billion freshly printed dollars into the economy the move as it is designed to revive the weekend u.s. financial reform and reduce unemployment but economists warn that the strategy may result in the drop of the dollar and the rise of consumer prices for more about the risks we turn to economic researcher william engdahl he's also the author of the book gods of money wall street and the death of the american century thanks for joining us so do you think the

a simple life worth fighting for lauren mr r t so paulo brazil. and if he gets we have a much more few on our website. three videos blogs forums and much more stuff to tell what might catch your eye right now on a woman take on the life in the military former intelligence specialist in the us army talks about sexual harassment. being an inside look at the struggle for female fighters. overseas millions of dollars to russia silicon valley help startups write that's what good although it's a more web site that's. former prime minister. has died at the age of seventy two he was the head of the country's government from ninety ninety two to ninety ninety eight some of the most turbulent years for the country following the collapse of the soviet union well after his work in the government he was appointed to russia's ambassador to neighboring ukraine a year ago he became a presidential aide his family said he was suffering from a serious illness but gave no further details yet and was born in the north korea in the energy sector becoming the soviet min

brazil. new presidents do has promised to follow the path of popular predecessor by making the fight against poverty her number one priority despite the huge strides made in recent times many remain trapped by their circumstances people struggling to find work in cities and coming up with their own ways to survive and feed their families in this to reports just a simple life tending your own garden. growing your own food it's a simple life worth fighting for even if you've built it illegally six times they've tried to kick us off and together with the church and with some politicians we've been able to appeal standing your ground because another life one you've worked to escape is always in sight not far from where you toil these are the favelas they are the slums in brazil it's the way the majority of the poor live in this country and where here are just a stone's throw away on a settlement this is where a group of people now live off the land in a commune as an answer to the poverty and job

so paulo brazil. and other news iraq has been rocked in the wake of its bloody as weak for months at least seventy six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad shia neighborhoods in several blast came just days after al qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage resulting firefight there fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year despite escalating violence in iraq you say they feel abandoned and it's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help in providing security is now falling back into the hands of local warlords and hopelessly reports. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaida one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch their. we did a great service t

brought brazil to be a major player on the world stage so nobody expected that and. again i do think that going forward the economic policies are going to be key brazil has enormous potential that it hasn't lived up to you know it's often put into the bric nations of the acronym brazil russia india china but brazil has not had anywhere near the growth in the last decade that russia india or china had and so they have a long way to go still and they're getting they're getting there. and the question is going for are they going to achieve some of the potential that they have. all right thank you very much for your comments that was mark was brought from the center for economic policy research. and now to some other international news at this hour the led lighting parcel bombs on cargo planes came from a repentant al qaeda member u.k. officials have said now x. going to bottom obey detainees fyfe e handed himself in to saudi authorities two weeks ago the parcels were placed with cargo with one of parcels seized in dubai and the older intercepted in britain u.s. official

with dollars they don't care what's going to happen to currencies in the developing world like the brazil are bought and american corporations for them is going to be much easier to invest all over the world they're a weak dollar a judge in journaling about you in washington i mean these are the real issues here because as the united states and it's i want to stay with the g. twenty as the united states tries to. eat. economy it's good to basically hurt other conny economies in the world we know that the former or the still sitting president of brazil he's going to seoul and he said we're going to battle it out here i mean why should after all the hard work the brazilians have gone through and other developing countries have to bail out the united states again ok i mean can the g. twenty handle this i mean because i'm very dismissive of these organizations because i look at them as talk shops but we're at a at a critical vortex right now in the world economy can that g twenty come through can it can it can it show its worth. the g. twenty was acted with a fair amount of unity back and the

first win in five years danielle messi breaks argentina's losing streak against brazil in doha. and london calling it fresh from winning the world championships russia's women's volleyball team targets the limpid goals in twenty as well. let's start with football words you can because russia losses form a side as belgium one two zero in an international friendly in vote on issues and richard portly has all the details. russia's friendly with belgium was a historic moment for iran is located five hundred kilometers south of moscow it's the first time this city of just under a million inhabitants has ever hosted a full international match the reason veronese hosting this game is all part of russia's plan to host the two thousand and eighteen world cup with the national team playing matches around the country interests running as mine has been co-author with all tickets having sold out weeks ago while there is a hotel room preparing for a lot of money and playing with matchmaker in some way to easing the pain of a wrong is as if russia wins the right to host the two thousand and ei

the real power in brazil we take a look at how the country's new leader will drive its future. moscow does not feel that nato treats it as an enemy russia's foreign minister has said during talks with his german counterpart now the ministers streamlined their positions ahead of the russian nato council in lisbon later this month and they also discussed this autumn of plans you got to do you know has been following the talks . the central topic of the talks between the two ministers was global security and russia now is pushing for a new joint european security architecture and defense better defense as a part of it to be better protected against common global threats of course russia is keeping a close eye on the u.s. plans and nato plans about deploying elements of missile defense system on the european continent officially in september this year nato invited russia to participate in this missile defense system today sergei lavrov said certain work is being done with its nato partners in particular they're preparing joint assessment of threats and challenges of the twenty firs

in rio in brazil which is very important for. a few individual presentations a few individual contacts and that's what we were up to preparing. a good sound final presentation and that's it and to the committee members they give you an inclination of hi they may not necessarily know but what we see is. that they are genuinely interested in. those who come here are sometimes very positively surprised. at the progress and the achievements that russia has made over the recent years and you think that's a real plus for you will be do you think this will catch the error of the executive committee because this is something perhaps unusual compared to the other european dates for sure all the visitors will see a lot of russia is a lot of different parts of russia and we have really. various a whole variety of regions i mean we have the western culture of kaliningrad the beauty of st petersburg could be muslim touch. and we have the southern flavor of sochi. i mean these are all various russia's that people will experience these are regi

but only to the south getting full pepe escobar a brazil based correspondent for asia times says the any way to resolve the conflict between korea has is to proceed with the tools. you can accuse the north korean regime of anything but they are rational actors they are not crazy they're not foolish they have a kind of bunker mentality when they feel they're under siege state can react sometimes some predictable ways but usually very aggressively like if you corner a cat's even the cat will go at you even if europe huge lion so the only possible solution which the north koreans themselves are always saying look we need to sit down and talk and the chinese they don't want to rock the boat they don't want to unified korea they want to start to scold the will of north korea as a kind of i would say a surrogate. back to read but more or less their alley you know very very sensitive border don't want always unified korea with american bases in the what is today north korea which is very chinese the chinese way of dealing with it are saying so we always go back to the same point. in. this n

brazil has elected its first female president dilma rousseff to succeed her tremendously popular mentor lula da silva rousseff who was never before held elected office is expected to continue her predecessors a left leaning policies however author and expert on south america nicholas calls off says brazil needs to find its place in the modern world she is going to continue to consolidate the economic achievements that she's going to consolidate the institutions of political institutions and you know that's all for the better. was able to. be increased or or to decrease poverty twenty million people left the ranks already under the administration so i think that dilma rousseff would probably continue along those lines and in that sense. it would be progressive unfortunately there are limits to what we'll do and i think that ultimately brazil is a pragmatic country doesn't really want to rock the boat too much just wants to preserve and consolidate the economic stability of recent years there raises the question ultimately of what does brazil stand for in the twenty first century. and out

in their core and bolivia and venezuela in argentina if brazil had gone to the right that would have really changed the equation in the hemisphere. mark wise broad co-director of the center for economic and policy research for us and now to some other international news in brief according to the day officials the tip off that led to finding parcel bombs on cargo planes came from a repentant al qaeda member x. one ton i'm obeyed detainee five feet handed himself into saudi authorities two weeks ago the parcels were placed with cargo with one parcels used in dubai and the other intercepted in britain u.s. officials have named a saudi bomb maker as the key suspect in the attempt to send the explosives from yemen to the u.s. . tropical storm tomas is heading towards haiti threatening over a million people still living in refugee camps following january's devastating earthquake earlier five people were killed when tomas swept through the ribbon with one hundred fifty kilometer per hour winds forecasters say the storm that's been downgraded from a hurricane is set to gain strength and hit

last year russia had an eight percent economic contraction brazil was i think about even so the zero growth. china and india are very strong there are eight nine percent of every growth in iraq it does have an economy that's more concentrated first diversified outside the oil and gas sector the. companies are not really competitive in a global basis. and there's a need for a lot of investment interests just reform from an administrative perspective but also investment in the basic structure of the country and. maybe that's the biggest challenge today really the the recession exposed some of that weak so in a recessionary environment where there's economic contraction some of the poor performing companies can't perform anymore so there's massive restructuring of the corporate sector is still continuing and getting out of the policy and in administrative environment right to promote corporate restructuring business restructuring for more competitive. companies that is a lot of work so that's that maybe the biggest challenge for russia basically it's a combination of such as that can hu

predecessors left leaning policies however author and expert on south america nicholas kozlov says brazil needs to find its place in the modern world. she's going to continue to consolidate the economic achievements that she's going to consolidate the institutions of political institutions and you know that's all for the better. was able to. increase or to decrease poverty twenty million people left the ranks. of the administration so i think that the rousseff would probably continue along those lines and in that sense. it would be progressive unfortunately there are limits to what rousseff will do and i think that ultimately brazil is a pragmatic country doesn't really want to rock the boat too much just wants to preserve and consolidate the economic stability of recent years but it raises the question also mentally of what does brazil stand for in the twenty first century. and now on to some other international news in. the office that led to excuse me according to u.k. officials the tip off that lead to finding parcel bombs on cargo planes came from a repentant al qaeda member. detaine

the first female president of brazil has promised to fight for gender equality. she dedicated her election victory on sunday to the women of brazil and said she wanted the parents to be able to say, "yes, a woman can." we have this report from sao paulo. >> they have their first woman president. the workers' party candidate gained 56% of the vote, well ahead of a competitor, in sunday's runoff election. three years ago, no one could have even imagine to this, not even if she herself. born in 1947, she is the daughter of a wealthy immigrant and a brazilian teacher. she was a school girl when brazil fell under dictatorship in 1964 and later became part of a group resisting the deep tender ship -- resisting the dictatorship, for which she was arrested and tortured. a career civil servant, she became energy minister when lula da silva came to power. they brought down a key government figures, and he made her his chief of staff. march 2010, she launched her campaign for the presidency as the worker party's candidate. with the blessing of him and they're waiting approv

for this movement they are standing alone young brazil what a shocker they really because brazil's the i.m.f. quite a number of years ago now to go stuff it they don't want to be debt slaves to the i.m.f. so now they're running the show well here's a quote from brazil's finance minister guido mon take it well everybody wants the us economy to recover it does no good at all to just throw dollars from a helicopter nobody wants the u.s. dollar economy to recover because all they do is use their money to invade countries and commit genocide an ecological a cause with manmade global warming that's right and who is the man making the global warming you know the states have the finances the dollars the rest the world owes us what do you want the dollar well the other thing that you know americans themselves are patting themselves on the back thinking oh we voted in the fiscal conservatives who are going to save the dollar and save america restore prosperity they voted in those republican could probably just say well this takes me to this next video which is ron paul did libertarians when so h