also russia's president pays a surprise visit to moscow train station discovering major security lapses following the visit he orders the country to the countries in the incessant agencies to focus their attention on the transport systems the presence to transport security and things possible troll of the last months terrorist attack at most close to my dad and i at forty which killed thirty six people. and german chancellor angela merkel raises questions of the military as a tribe which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan almost to give them up to a hundred soldiers two people were killed dozens of them civilians as a result of this trying to kill time because the hijacked by taliban men that. is the headlines up next i'll get talks with the finnish foreign minister about why he is sure russia and the you will scrub that these regime before twenty eighteen spotlight is up next here on alt. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview share party algorithm and today my guest on the show is alexander stille. there have been some good news coming in from st petersburg over the

russia's president pays a surprise visit to moscow train station discovering major security lapses following the visit he ordered the country's law enforcement agencies to probe is that it will transport systems the president to transport security under his control asa last month's terrorist at a time after the mandate of the airport which killed thirty six people. on german chancellor angela merkel faces questions over a military as tribe which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago after one hundred forty two people were killed dozens of them civilians as a result of this trying time because i tried to buy time to fund it. as the headlines up next i'll do know talks with the finnish foreign minister about why his shoulder on the wall squat their visa regime before twenty eighteen spoke is up next here. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview share car seat algorithm and today my guest on the show is alexander stille. there have been some good news coming in from st petersburg over the last couple of days they say visa free travel will be introduced betwee

it russia in italy and italy in russia and russia and slain in spain and russia was the reason to intensify the cultural ties to take you . there is no finance oriented plan behind this idea simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out that they're waiting for us and spain and italy for all the best ballets theatrical performances and dark exhibitions. and another reason we still have the money for its. money is coming to an end. funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. culture and intellect culture and education are the two things that form the nation's intellect. and the values of every person . culture is so important. to me information transport politics and medical care. all of them can stitch of this fear in which people live since childhood so every person has their intellects continually formed in his mind. believes. other people. run to the nearest and dearest such concepts as courage fairness on is to love to commitment to democracy and civil society all of them are f

it russia in italy and italy and russia and russia. and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you but. there is no finance oriented plan behind besides simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out there waiting for us in spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions. and another reason is that we still have the money for it. the money is coming to an end it was a. huge funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. do so by forming culture and intellect culture and education of the two things that form. the nation's intellect the intellect and the values of every person's. culture is so important. to me information transport politics and medical care all of them can stitch of this fear in which people live . every person has their intellect continually formed in his mind. beliefs and to treat other people. and to the nearest and dearest such concepts as courage fairn

the united states will ever allow russia to become part of the allies because i think if russia becomes part of the alliance well what's the point of having the alliance well it makes it really anti chinese what this is the only point of running it running your business in other nations and we're not and i mean we are anti terrorism reality you know different security challenge i'm not anti any country but well that's perhaps a slightly in my stance i remember one of the predecessor mr rasmussen robeson was once asked a question to speculate precisely maybe a similar question maybe some other and he said if i knew what would be happening in his five ten years i'll be playing in a stock exchange so of course but the truth i mean speaking really seriously is that you know it's a serious issue of any country to. as of the security orientation and therefore so it would be inappropriate to speculate but the most important thing is we have the makings we have the structure which is a really a joint baby it's it's our it's a common creation that we put together with russia and let's make the b

it russia in italy and italy and russia and russia. and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you but. there is no finance oriented plan behind this idea simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out there waiting for us in spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions. and another reason we still have the money for eight. years. of the money is coming to an end. is huge funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. should do so by forming culture and intellect culture and education and all the two things that form. the nation's intellect the intellect and the values of every person's. culture is so important. to me information transport politics and medical care all of them can stitch of this fear in which people live since childhood so every person has their intellects continually formed in his mind. beliefs and city to other people. and to the nearest and dearest

presidential candidate john mccain calling russia the soviet union at the security conference in munich and draws attention to the american politicians experts say it exposes a lack of expertise in global affairs and highlights an ignorance that american voters should not accept. and a fresh wave of anti-government rages sweeping across egypt as labor unions and state media joined the popular unrest the country's embattled regime responds with threats and an ultimatum warning to protesters of dark consequences well up next talks with the finnish foreign minister about why he's sure russia will scrap the visa regime before twenty eighteen spotlight is next year on r.t. . for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show party algernon and today my guest on the show is alexander stille. there have been some good news coming in from st petersburg over the last couple of days they say visa free travel will be introduced between russia and the e.u. before two thousand and eighte

and hit in russia the r.t.s. and the my six ended the session in the red on monday despite high oil energy stocks one of the main drags on the day. the euro which was already under pressure by events in the eurozone continued falling this week and lists fear this will fall the tendency and john wells of data is from worm of acid management says analysts stick to emerging markets christmas so which show stable growth at the moment but unlike the euro we don't like the dollar either we don't like g seven slow growth rate currencies safehaven currencies like swiss franc or pound sterling we are actually very active in ethics grocery trades and we like as you'd expect you know high growth commodity centric inflationary emerging market currencies like korean one ruble seeing dollar type. dollar etc etc. and that wraps up the business bulletin for now but you can get more store small website r.t. dot com slash because that's. the. line in motion would be so much brighter if you knew about songs from funniest impression

i think the infrastructure has to be drastically improved here improved here in russia before russia can lay claim to more than just a regional financial center you know julie you know you're an economist i mean it from a macro scale what do you think the major barrier is because we've heard we heard even back in two thousand and eight the president didn't want to make is one of his priorities now we had to go to the financial crisis which is done reasonably well but if they really learned anything from the financial crisis are we just right in the same place we were back in two thousand and eight. i would fully agree that infrastructure is their main problem their main obstacle but at the same time i would also highlight importance of western climate in my view. a lot of made by the rational mind to improve. sentiment about foreign and westerners and to boost importance of foreign investment in jail how. is not that simple and a lot of logistical problems for foreign investors. at the same time. are russia has a reputation that it is not fully in the western friendly country in jail

russia. find themselves in the global south of this or it is possible to go back to where i'm likely to get a result in two three years. the main east where the. mother said he said let me show and where they. are likely to continue all these efforts will improve this it and into the youth. law it is important not only of from the core and of your financial see after it is a more global problem for us ok that daniel if i can go to you i mean we hear a lot of what the russian government wants to do we hear the ministry of finance and other institutions and in other banks what they want to do but what are your investors saying they want to see happen in russia before they me move more money in there into this country because we all know there's a certain amount of dollars out there and then go to a certain number of places which can be the attraction to come to russia as opposed to another market. well i think it's the opportunity investors will come to wherever they can buy stocks where they c

>>> russia does not negotiation. russia president dmitry medvedev said at the meeting of the country's security council on friday that he's ready to discuss all outstanding issues with japan. >> translator: we will continue discussing a possible peace treaty. and all other issues with japan. the discussions will raise relations to a new level. >> russia is likely to seek greater economic cooperation with japan. it may propose joint economic projects for the islands or joint development of all natural gas fields in sibera. russia encouraged foreign investment in the islands in february aiming to increase investment with countries including south korea and china. russia hopes to strengthen its claim to the region by attracting investment from abroad. the government of japan does not accept. >> so would you say that maehara has a big challenge on his hands? >> yeah, maehara has been the first japanese foreign minister to visit russia since katsuya okada in december 2009. maehara has a strong desire to move forward on th

up next al gore nov talks with the finnish foreign minister about why he's sore russia and the e.u. will scrap the visa regime before twenty eight spotlight is next here on our city. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show car seat algorithm and today my guest on the show is alexander stille. there have been some good news coming in from st petersburg over the last couple of days they say visa free travel will be introduced between russia and the e.u. before two thousand and eighteen and that means there will be no problem for the european football fans to come to the world cup that russia will be ousted our source in the russian northern capital is reliable the foreign minister of finland who is on a visit what makes the minister so optimistic and is this the only good news let's ask alexander stille. numbers one brushes news devoted counters over the question of ending the visa regime between moscow and europe besides helsinki is pursuing constructive policy of dialogue with moscow over the arctic finland says it wants to build a partnership with russia similar to

such here in two thousand and eight but last year saw a considerable thaw in the relations between russia and the allies. are we back on track here's the director of the nato information office in moscow robert child. russian leaders joined them to drug operation in afghanistan last year was a milestone marking a new stage of relations and trust however the parties haven't yet found common ground concerning the anti missile shield in europe their line sees it as two independent systems sharing intelligence to moscow champions the idea of six areas in europe each of them responsible for threats coming from certain directions. homeless of self thank you very much for being with us on the show thank you for inviting well first of all you repeated many times speech speaking with newsmen for one that russia and nato don't consider each other enemies these are your words that you there that you like to repeat however nato the global ambitions i mean i mean the expansions to these the anti-missile plans in europe officially are officially cited in the russian military dot train as threats to our

and russia nato relations obviously also russia u.k. relations if they get around to that and the situation in the middle east and afghanistan iran's nuclear program these last two will be high points because that has all those have always been areas in which russia and the u.k. and the u.s. have cooperated very well russia allows allied forces to use its transport routes in afghanistan for transporting troops and other things and russia has also led negotiations in the past on iran's nuclear ambitions which which the u.k. has always been very grateful for as they say focusing on the positives definitely but this visit is unlikely to be a particularly easy one for a lot for all the. russia has good or indeed for william hague russia has good relations with all the european countries and of course we've seen that much vaunted reset button being pressed between russia and the u.s. but we have say fall fails to push the reset button on russia u.k. relations and that's going to be something that will happen during this visit whenever you ta

is the year of russia in italy and russia last year it was the year of france why does russia think it to be a big important. i have to say it seems to me that broad they don't pay so much attention to these things i mean do you feel like that. the french were delighted by what we brought to france this year of russia in france and france and russia we showed french yeltsin culture in all their glory across russia. or your across the whole country. the russians and the french were delighted. i don't know who logged more but i think it was beneficial for all of us only. last year it was around the year of russia and france and the euro france and russia this year you doubled it russia in italy and italy and russia and russians again and spain and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you but. there is no finance oriented plan behind this idea simply to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out there waiting for us in spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions. and another r

i would underpin any joint russia u.s. nato miss out shield in europe but creating this is no easy task some republican senators in the us have proposed the pentagon deploy an anti-missile radar in georgia russia's neighbor moscow is opposed to such facilities close to its borders saying they threaten the country's security some experts doubt long term american military presence in georgia is possible but many agree and new u.s. base in central asia will most likely appear before too long. and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us and says it's a privilege having you as well first of all let's start let's start with the news from washington where four republican senators are calling on the administration to place a part of the missile defense radar in georgia rather than putting it in turkey well is this proposal acceptable because georgia is not a nato country well for the moment we're not close within nato to deciding where we're going to put radars we're at the very very beginning of the pr

russia u.k. relations if they get round to that and the situation in the middle east and afghanistan iran's nuclear program these last two will be high points because that has always have always been areas in which russia and the u.k. and the u.s. have cooperated very well russia allows allied forces to use its transport routes in afghanistan for transporting troops and other things and russia has also led negotiations in the past on iran's nuclear ambitions which which the u.k. has always been very grateful for as they say focusing on the positives definitely but this visit is unlikely to be a particularly easy one. although russia has good or indeed for william hague russia has good relations with all the european countries and of course we've seen that much vaunted reset button being pressed between russia and the u.s. but we have so far failed to push the reset button on russia u.k. relations and that's going to be something that will happen during this visit over a number of years the relati

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely copulative approach in a year of the a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but can there be this kind of. genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i mean which are not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be too independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i think envision a situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory maybe the tw

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely copulative approach in a year of the a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but how can there be this kind of. genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i mean which are not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be two independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i thought envision a situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory maybe

and of the topics now it's not just information on russia that the u.s. is off to its reportedly carrying out its own investigation into wiki leaks founder julian assange the still says all this information to see if it can bring espionage charges if it can and applies to sweden first extradition all this close cooperation that we've seen may mean his feet won't touch the ground your and it's r.t. . and next hour in a special report revealed the true story behind the hunt for the most wanted man in the world colombian drug lord public well here's a preview. the longest big game hunting history. she was trying to stall and dated. but sprung the traps they laid for him. on the radio we have the the surge blogs around the area. always from the always missing. one shot trying to take. out the global drug industry's godfather became the most want to trophy of the world's bounty hunters. how the escobar the great hunt an artist. now life in georgia can be tough especially after the country severed all relations with moscow its largest trading partner and benefa

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely coppered of approach in a year or a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but can there be this kind of of a genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i. we should not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be an independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i thought envision the situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory maybe the two systems could c

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely copulative approach in a year of the a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but how can this be this kind of of a genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i mean which are not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be too independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i thought envision a situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory may

these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to four so when they are brought to us the grossest has already been for and not always we can pull them out of this stuff situation according to n.g.o.s there are anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand teenagers in the country and many blame the fact that it's far too easy for a teenager to buy alcohol legal drinking age in russia is eighteen years old so how easy is it for a teenager to get his or her hands on. some hard liquor we're going to follow a couple of enthusiasm a russian youth organization into that liquor store right across the street which is one of the largest supermarkets selling hard alcohol to find out whether or not they will be successful in getting their hands on a couple of bottles of whiskey we've been in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go here the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely coppered of approach in a year of the a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but can there be this kind of of a genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i mean which are not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be too independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i thought in vision a situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory mayb

nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely coppered of approach in a year of the a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but can there be this kind of of a genuine car peroration between two systems which are absolutely independent of each other i mean which are not interacting but there's a difference between independent and interacting they will be too independent systems that's quite clear but they will also interact according to our vision of this we have to first make them interoperable second connect the third cooperate and to put it very simply i think envision a situation in which a missile was coming towards europe which might fly through russian space towards a strike in nato territory maybe t

this video for southern russia. and now let's have a brief look at some other major headlines from around the world the arabian government has all the pressure on the country's opposition just days before a proposed egypt and tunisia pro-democracy rally security forces are said to have placed a prominent anti-government clerk under house arrest and detained several other activists authorities are also reported to have blocked access to a number of reformist websites well earlier eight chief prosecutor had dismissed calls for a rally as a ploy to undermine the regime. tensions between pro-government and opposition lawmakers came to a head in venezuela as a parliament brawl erupted on national television the scuffle took place after an opposition lawmaker call for president hugo chavez's supporters quote to be silenced by partisan politics politics in the country's parliament had been growing increasingly hostile over the last few weeks well venezuelans are deeply divided over the leftist president's social policies.

police force is a man called under the look of war who's now a duma deputy in russia and russia's constitution prevents his extradition so all the repeated extradition requests have been made they haven't been granted and you mentioned to the guardian correspondent luke harding who was refused entry to russia recently russia says that he was trying to travel on an invalid viz that the he says that it was in connection with his work with the wiki leaks cables that said some compromising things about russia there are always these these little things that looks like this relationship is going to get better and then something else happens we've also got forty people. even here in the u.k. who are wanted by russian crime in force and they are they are men and women in russia essentially the most notable of them bodies that is old ski and chechen akhmed zakayev. again their extradition has been requested by russia and britain has refused but i think what's happening more and more now and possibly what will happen also during david cameron's coming visit to russia is that the diplomats and the politi

mentality and from russia's documents well first of all i repeat those words but they don't i don't claim copyright because there's a word used by the sacred general and frankly by all the leaders of the nato russian council lisbon and indeed that's that's written but it's also meant in a full sense not only we don't consider each other as enemies but a we striving towards strategic partnership and secondly with frankly don't really consider ourselves a problem because we do have joint problems which we need to tackle as far as the military doctrine that you mentioned well it was published it was agreed before the lisbon summit so we certainly hope that my. and none of the nato policies and certainly not later such is considered a threat because because we're not we're not afraid to russia and we we sure that that is exactly as we should see each other ok in january russia's chief of general staff for the first time he took part in a joint session of the ratio russian a took council one of the any breakthrough decisions taken at that meeting while he was the first session this year

president of russia and the prime. mr britain that was in canada and in seoul we expect the visit of mr rove this will be next week which is very important in the event mr hague was. in brush or you know the negotiations were very productive and we expect the visit of mr cameron this year i mean the embassy we're studying preparing this visit so the. texture of the political contacts a very important but i would like to see what is even more important that you know of course the. as you said the. the connections between the people and the russian culture is the probably this is the test for that and we know that a lot of events going on in london a lot of people are coming russians feel comfortable in london we have thousands of them who doing business who just simply leave here and what is very important that the economic relations are going very well and the recent deal between the b.p. and the rusty after was just one of the examples but if you look at the in a broader sense what's going on the to the business this

s foreign secretary said disagreements between russia and the u.k. should not stop them from working together. has more. we have seen a series of meetings today which have really focused on the positive points in what has become a rocky relationship between russia and the u.k. and because of that a lot of what was talked about were economic ties and trade ties of course trade between russia and the u.k. amounts to around seventeen billion dollars and russia is one of the u.k.'s most important trading partners foreign minister lavrov outlined six priorities for improving the trade relationship he talked about finance he talked about working together in the nanotech sector energy efficiency of course one of the big projects coming up for us here is the lympics so cooperating on olympic infrastructure strengthening the small and medium business sector in russia and also improving the business environment in general they also talked a bit about modernizing communication links between london and moscow this is obviously a lover off first visit to london i

the laws here in russia and the police say russia as well as being put on a high alert and told based on t. terror operations are now the main altar of the day that their main goal is to try and make sure that no further terror attacks can take place here in russia and in nearby stuff recall five militants have been killed in a gun battle with security service says one policeman was also reportedly killed and at least three others injured in the clash on the border between the stuff of paul region and the. republic a special operation to flush out militants is ongoing it's the latest in a series of violent incidents in the volatile caucasus region. now remember there is much more in that and other stories at r.t. dot com there's plenty for you to explore including in the news coverage and analysis and blogs and here's some of what's online right now early release valve accused of training the two thousand and five london bombers walks free from a u.s. prison but find out why he's out after less than five years. and a virtual reality for the first time astronaut sets foot on the surfac

russia's finance minister yesterday was saying that in order for russia to maintain a sustainable rate of growth for more than even four percent a year and russian research at seven to ten percent investment. per year while we have the figures that the privatization program plays a large part in this and the finance minister said yesterday for example the. second largest banks not ten percent will be privatized but twenty percent and today we've heard a categorical ridge the president's economic advisor actually backed this initiative to have privatization going at a faster larger scale. was to surplus and. i completely agree we have to be more aggressive in tribal ties in states companies i also. with the idea that should be fully almost fully try the chinese if it plans to buy other banks in addition i believe that the states shane spare bank should also be reduced to under fifty percent and not just fifty percent plus one share. in the gift cards talk more about what to expect from the state's privatization program we're joined by boris jordan from renascence insurance the president

can harm russia's political interests. the law has been slammed by some as the most far reaching eavesdropping plan in europe and prompted widespread protests ahead of its implementation cables also suggest the swedish government was colluding with the u.s. to avoid involving the public at all costs. the agreement may have to be presented to parliament and a vague constitutional requirement for matters of great importance to it so the process will take considerably longer and be subject to public scrutiny something the government of sweden will want to avoid as the ministry of justice continues to analyze the proposed text it is also considering how to craft in a range meant that will avoid the need for parliament view there is no parliamentary control over what they have for us. and of course the general public in sweden has even less control and much of the pressure coming from the united states and from the copyright industries it's being in the swedish government is more than happy to. well to to do whatever the americ

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according to the those wrong expectations russia. and the civilized nations just just it's just the even few years and as you know russia was a media who. during that time but at the same time it turned out to that at one point we come to liberate that approach. senior brother and junior brother which was you know by the west and that's why at an extent we had. all of given with the west north not just the draken you see on the relationship with major industrialized nations but just trying to find our place. not just as a junior partner but as a country which is fulfilling and i thank you very much for your insight sergey stroke and political analyst from russia's commerce newspaper. now our london is expelling a russian diplomat after accusing the country of stealing the identities of irish citizens for use in spy operations while dublin says police discovered russian agents counterfeited six irish passports rich reducing the u.s. last summer washington it detained ten people on suspicion of acting as deep cover members of the russi

it russia in italy and italy and russia and russia. and russia what was the reason to intensify the cultural ties thank you what. there is no finance oriented plan behind the site simply get to get acquainted with the spanish and italian cultures that we love and value. it turned out that they're waiting for us and spain and italy for all the best ballets trickle performances and dark exhibitions that it should and another reason that we still have the money for its . money is coming to an end. funding investments in culture are not the same as in business they do not give direct returns. should do so by forming culture and intellect culture and education and all the two things that form. the nation's intellect the intellect and the values of every person. culture is so important. to me information transport politics and medical care all of them can stitch of this fear in which people live since childhood so every person has their intellects continually formed in his mind. beliefs and city to other people. and to the nearest and deares

would to russia to help this endangered species. the controversial debate over multiculturalism in europe has now taken a new twist as more migrants free their troubled countries in search of stability and security europe is giving them the cold shoulder more than five thousand arrived in italy in this past week and its interior minister claims they could jeopardize the institutional and social structures of the country in the past four months the leaders of western europe three largest democracies germany britain france which declared multiculturalism a failure the model free speech activists in austria who criticize it has gone on trial for speaking out against religious groups the charges of inciting hatred and violence were dropped she was found guilty of denigrating religious symbols of all fiza preaching the case and claim she should not be prosecuted for expressing her views. of a looks at why some are free to speak out while others. like a european citizen peacefully debating islam with a muslim is nothing unusual in a march

and russia are very good lots of precedents work in russia russian culture it's whitely celebrates attacks that are diplomatic and political level that not say it why do you think that well i think it's the task you know for the diplomats and for the political leaders you know to get the of course. to do their best to have good to political relations and as far as the russian britain liberation who i would like to say that the last year was very fruitful from that point of view there were two meetings of the. video of the president of russia and the prime . mr britain that was in canada and in seoul we expect the visit of mr rove this will be next week which is very important in the event mr hague was. in brush or you know the negotiations were very productive and we expect the visit of mr cameron this year i mean the embassy we're studying preparing this visit so the the texture of the political contacts a very important but i would like to say what is even more important that you know of course the. as you said the. the connections between the people and the russian culture is the probab

as russia has russia offered offered back some of the islands to japan there are fifty six of them i know some of them are very small just rocks in the sea but has russia offered some of them back ration signed by soviet union and japan in fifty six by then president of. was about to share islands actually and japan at that time initially agreed but then this is agreed they had them on the mother of all and since there are no new proposals beyond the idea to economically use it jointly but japan is focused on political issues and if you go to look young our editor in chief of russia global affairs magazine thank you. it's never been easier for teenagers in russia buy booze without being asked for id it's fueling underage alcoholism with no stringent punishments many store owners tone a blind eye. to minors. i went in with hidden cameras to uncover the scale of the problem. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak . the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to form so when the

and of the topics now it's not just information on russia that the u.s. is off to its reportedly carrying out its own investigation into wiki leaks founder julian assange still says all this information to see if it can bring espionage charges if it can and applies to sweden first extradition all this close cooperation that we've seen may mean his feet won't touch the ground you know and it's r.t. . well the assault case leaves many guessing about his fate you can also have your say about what you think awaits the renowned whistleblower in our online poll where here are the results of the voting so far as you can see from the chart half of you say that a song can escape imprisonment if he gets political refuge in russia which was no extradition agreements more than a quarter believe that due process will see found not guilty twenty percent say assad will do his time in any case and only three percent think you should collaborate with the u.s. shut down to have his criminal case closed or you can influence the voting at any time or just by logging onto our

is pushing russia to review history. again comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you that the was a was a son from sisco agreement or flying to fifty who gave up all the claims for cory lidle and and in addition to that as you knew united states were our family in the second world war so no it was an attempt to reconsider there was also the second world war on the part of our area because they gently pushing us. more and more americans are bearing the brunt of the. session but major banks profits are still on the rise one of these driving companies is j.p. morgan which cashes in on food stamps used by those struggling to survive on a daily basis in a port and i have found out how the rich benefit the back of the poor. americans are generally known for their healthy appetite some eat what they crave while others like gabrielle jemma can't use the food stamps here for me to express of only eat what is affordable is there a way to give me two dollars worth. of these you have to go look for the sixty one ye

the competition in the russia is intensifying. and to be really successful in the retail banking the rush or any kind of bank for a local bank has to have a good scale has to have a presence and if i'm not mistaken barker was scaled back maybe half a year ago and it's a retail business outside of moscow. agreed to by n.y.c. is your next four million and a half billion dollars the long awaited deal will create the world's largest equities and derivatives markets force will control sixty percent of the new corporation. move to the markets now in u.s. markets of open lower retail sales in january early point three percent of what analysts had expected this is during worries about the pace of recovery of the world's largest economy the result of gloom was limited gains on the european markets the footsie was slightly down however banking stocks were strong with barclays in the lead up to four point two percent at the close as earnings reports beat expectations and there was a change of direction and russia's markets in the seeds were

outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take it.

to russia to help this endangered species. this is all to you live here in the russian capital with headlines in just a few moments from now a few minutes and that'll be all for the business news with dimitri that's coming up after a short break stay with us life here in moscow. hello and welcome to business with me israel today moscow's chances of becoming a global financial center could be hampered if the tea bag choir's bank of moscow without a tender that's according to presidential you got a coach now v.t. bank wants to buy out one hundred percent of one of russia's top five bags in the first half of this year the bank of moscow's biggest shareholder moscow city government estimates the bank to be worth around six billion dollars and decided to sell its stake in the bank in late twenty ten after the previous mayor of moscow lost his position some minority shareholders say the bank should be worth up to nine and a half billion dollars. british banking giant barclays is planning to sell its russian retail daughter by the en

amounts to around seventeen billion dollars and russia is one of the u.k.'s most important trading partners foreign minister lavrov outlined six priorities for improving the trade relationship he talked about finance he talked about working together in the nanotech sector energy efficiency of course one of the big projects coming up for us here is the lympics corporation on olympic infrastructure strengthening the small and medium business sector in russia and also improving the business environment in general they also talked a bit about modernizing communication links between london and moscow this is obviously a lover off first visit to london in this particular official capacity let's hear what he said about those communication ties that they're looking to improve the. visit to london on the invitation of the u.k. government symbolises and you can see of the relations based on partnership interest economic cooperation between our countries is on the rise the strategic b.p. rosneft is among the latter examples we happy to look at the agreement on establis

european union is the biggest market and investor in russia eighty percent of direct investment in russia comes from you opinion companies russian energy ski to keep. europe going. our industries our households are very much linked to russia and. we believe that it is in our interest to work together formalize vision and to increase deported it is for citizens boasting of russia and european union today we have discussed how we can further boost these strong common interests and how we can resolve a number of outstanding issues. we welcome the substantial progress made on the publishing formalisation our work plan for the partnership is now under implementation and giving results a successful modernization strategy to which the russian government has committed itself must address the economy pick knology and the rule of law and involved in society at large the commission will spare no effort to make the partnership a success. we also. we also discussed our partnership organization. in terms of the rule of law and human rights in a very detailed and constructive meeting together with prime

because some of the other news here in russia possible merger of russia's heavy truck producers with its rival mask is one step closer this is prime minister. echoed russia's desire to consolidate the two companies now this potential merger would seek. to create a new company. and shareholders will get a stake in the company. retail diesel prices in russia by two point four percent over the past week aviation fuel is also declining this comes after russian prime minister criticized. justifiably high prices. that's it for me join my colleague eight twenty moscow time in the morning bill is next with headlines don't go away. our coffee shop are going to come back. we'll sell lots of. wrong faith will wear uniforms that little damage is in the black and them know that but very little damning the white. and they are the key to our problems are all right. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. download the official placation. pod touch from the camps to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine b

names of russia's. for example these played here is in memory of all the key to recover the first european have a to set foot on southern no esca the one is part of food recall you have center in moscow the lead on down is what the famous russian traveller will say about places like those who the south pole and mt everest his circumnavigated the globe several times and we're still going to caution in this scene who will win both the spirit of adventure is something he must have inherited from january she was a version explorers. in eighty three this vessel two questions on their first ever circumnavigation of earth the expedition was headed by avon crews inch their who later became one of the founders of the russian geographical society which in the shaded systematic exploration of the remote parts of the country among the most famous members were nikolai mickleham a quiet who lived through one time among native tribes of southeast asia and australia studying and describing their way of life when the co

people meanwhile a video of russia's most wanted terrorist. threatening an attack on the capital has emerged next to him is someone who appears to be the man blamed for blowing himself up at the airport. well that special report is coming your way on the mass slaughter ordered by generals in the vietnam war it looks the reasons and hidden motives behind nearly five million deaths. how many people died in the vietnam war we knew no more of the americans with some precision it is just over fifty eight thousand each with his or her name engraved on the vietnam memorial in washington d.c. but how many of you to me not to mention laotians or cambodians died.