and well come to the bars creature russia close up. a suspected suicide bomb attack targeting a police boss rips through a residential part of the syrian capital becomes amid a growing opposition calls to overthrow president my military me. shifting strategy barack obama announces an end to iraq style prime myra's in favor of a power set to asia the extra emphasis on air domination and unconventional warfare plots. do you begin to. draw your you you know we should leave the barriers to the war a decade on from its launch to the euro finds itself at the heart of the biggest financial crisis in powerful century.

a no go notion of russia rejects a new u.n. resolution on syria saying it's unacceptable and do nothing towards ending the bloodshed. thousands of angry protesters in warsaw cry out against an international online piracy act they make it targets the basic rights of internet users. plus the e.u. takes yet another pounding this time with credit rating fitch downgrading five more european nations even as its leaders to sooth concerns are well the moment for a new time boss. here with r t a very warm welcome to you today russia as opposed to a new arab european draft resolution on syria saying it can't be used as a basis for resolving the crisis become trees ambassador to the u.n. says moscow will carry on searching for ways to end violence there. has been following the latest meeting at the u.n. security council in new york there has been a lot of discussion taking place primarily because a european arab draft resolution was circulated to the u.n. security council members in which it calls for the syrian president bashar assad to

come to the bars creature russia blows up. the world to the. sun it's technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. the headlines now on our team with american troops now out of iraq concerns are mounting ever what's being left behind is proving a deadly for journalists who are being silenced and even tortured by police for speaking out against the government. the suicide blast targeting a police bus that killed twenty six people in syria's chemical has worsened tensions between your position in the government it is playing the attack on terrorists with protesters spawning it's increasingly. just peaceful demonstrators . and millions of orthodox christians around the globe are celebrating christmas presents.

great sense of this russia want to be treated in the early one nine hundred ninety s. both as a cove victor a victor against communism sort of self imposed to victory and therefore be treated as a partner and also to be given this kind of economic aid which would be expected of a defeated power it would be to be in a war so at that one of the same time they wanted to be treated as equal victors and also to be bailed out and helped to recover as defeated perl's and that was a very difficult pair of conceptions to get people's minds around in the west don when you think about that that's a very interesting thing here is i'm very interesting paradigm. off worst of all i should i should tell dimitri that i did not write those comments i was a member see at the time. i think i very much agree with what alex and frankly i know the person what the perception in russia is i was being treated like a defeated power certainly i think in policymaking circles in washington that was not the case even if it maybe appear about way to people in russia they basically thought that russia

sense of this russia wanted to be treated in the early one nine hundred ninety s. both as a cove victor a victory against communism sort of self imposed victory and therefore be treated as a partner and also to be given this kind of economic aid which would be expected of a defeated pearl it would be to be in a virtual war so at that one of the same time they wanted to be treated as equal victors and also to be bailed out and helped to recover as defeated powers and that was a very difficult pair of conceptions to get people's minds around in the west don what you think about that that's a very interesting thing here is i'm very interesting paradigm it off worst of all i should i should tell dimitri that i did not write those comments to me honestly at the time. i think i've very much agree with alex and frankly i know the person what the perception in russia is as being treated like a defeated power certainly i think in policymaking circles in washington that was not the case even if it maybe appear about way to people in russia they basically thought that russia

team we hear about mikhail prokhorov plans for russia that's next. mr prothero hello and thank you for the time always glad to oblige you that you really think you can be the next president and you're putting more money i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it or taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken on me and i'm ready for a fight game high and other things you definitely should aim high and politics what a hero people often ask you if you're a crime and project but i'd like to ask you about something else you're very much you're smart you have the reputation of a maverick and you have a strong team how did you end up in a situation where no one believes that you are not a common project and keep snowballing with the news came that he wins it was not registered as a candidate straight away people said it's because they want tucker up to get more votes in the palm of your truth i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labele

from russia twentyfold t.v. channel. don't forget to use to make. beats google's. see it's an innovative chance. if you can write it as a good reader and i might over a series twenty four to the event in the notes of african media least it would be mostly islamic politics come into power. how would you assess the changes and what impact would they have for the region and the world. will you call attentions of many leading states has now focused on the region. i believe that actions changes in the region are far from being over where we early stage of the transformation of the it's a huge one neat to understand that. if we believe that people should have the right to define their own future but that's not just from out site most. votes in the ground except choices made by people stop the so that country should not interfere in the dialogue of the elections process with sings along election campaign in egypt which lost to diffuse months and has resulted in school leading which is in. about two years muslim brotherhood set up one of them. which is a voice and some for

to tackle the issue of migration and multiculturalism in russia. the u.s. often calls for democratic change in the middle east but remains reluctant to recognize the right of. the terminations president of the palestinian national authority mahmoud abbas who's been on a visit to the russian capital talked to r.t. about the latest. statehood our exclusive interview is up next. visit is the final stop on your european tour. still waiting for a resolution to the statehood issue what do you expect from russia's leadership at this stage when the issue of palestinians legal rights is being decided according to international law. the russian federation as well as the soviet union before it has been regarded as one of the key and principal hopes for the palestinian people since the nine hundred seventy s. when the late palestinian president yasser arafat visited moscow our nations have enjoyed good relations it's not only the result of the role that russia plays in the region but also due to the fact that russia was a great power a member of the united nations secu

while russia is is a specific place will is good about russia is for macroeconomic policy but russia has a balanced diet hardly any public day and it has a floating exchange rate non-secure do not get into a devaluation crisis again and right now inflation is down to five percent these are the positive a point the dangers are but russia is heavily dependent on the oil price and if there is a serious european crisis is severely prize winning or likelihood for and vetted structural heart also be other weakness is subject to capital flows last year i said a capital outflow capital flight of eighty four billion dollars so these are the two weaknesses we all prize and capital flows but also in the while you were advising president yeltsin and and you got a guy there who run the economy in this country this is uganda was their opponent the communist leader of russia he is still the main. in opposition leader today and just yesterday he said on national television one of these pre-election debates that the all prices are giving down and the russian economy will collapse pretty soon if he do

developments around russia we've got the future covered. a suspected suicide bomb attack targeting a police bus rips through a residential part of the syrian capital comes amid growing opposition calls for the overthrow of president by military means. shifting strategy barack obama announces an end to rock star occupations to focus on increasing u.s. influence in asia an extra emphasis on domination and unconventional warfare. plus . the beginning of a wrong. we share the balance of the war a decade on from its launch the euro finds itself at the heart of the biggest financial crisis in half a century with the single currency threatening to bring down the very union that created it. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour a deadly explosion targeting police has rocked a residential neighborhood in damascus killing up to twenty five people it's believed to be a suicide bombing with most of the casualties civilians syrian t.v. says the blast happened near a primary school it comes as the

i basically ended up moving to russia all by accident in one thousand and ninety eight i was asked by a russian friend in los angeles if i could bring a hollywood studio to moscow because mayor luzhkov was interested in building multiplex cinemas and wanted a hollywood studio partner i had friends that were running warner brothers they sent head of international theatres with me gosh my my first trip was very impressionable i couldn't understand how so many young people i was meeting were making tens of millions of dollars a year and some of them millionaires before they were thirty and these were some of the things that made me realize there's a lot of opportunity here there's not a lot of people who are doing hollywood business there hasn't been a lot of contact and interaction with celebrities i love a challenge what could be more challenging than moving to russia and trying to develop and create a business here for us with them how real i didn't know any actors but i started meeting them just to bring them to russia or can that project the russian comedy that's going to shoot in a

or russia it's italy. it's a similar on a players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. when almost famous of the building i mean we have a very long history about hockey and in milan or in milan or at the very very long because we started in the nineteen twenty three the first being there was built in milan zero zero zero zero and when we were one of the the first. year of the hockey fans here in milan love the game so are excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons saw there some kind of research for new motions and i believe i saw case this effort for that nevertheless i still keep still some distance from topping phil both in terms of popularity here a sentiment echoed by a person from the homeland of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's play would love but it because it's it's still very under preceded you don't get the same emotion you know and so you can be mad for a minute but it pass

no surprise the second point i would make is that russia itself. was ambivalent about the soviet past about its own past and that made it much more difficult to craft a policy. in one way or the other political or economic to move russia and the way we try we want it to go and the fact that because the russians themselves were uncertain about which way they want to go dimitri i mean in and we look at it in retrospect now. after his presidency was that a missed opportunity i mean was really wanting to be. a partner of the west and that we just wasn't simply in braced i think he wanted to be able the west and i think it's very unfortunate what happened there was a lot of misstep but you need this you know moment and sort of move in in russia. and america and the europeans just didn't trigger ignite that moment and some are more me they didn't believe it and when they finally believe that russia started to set in the you know the moment and still when you know but i don't know me seriously i mean i mean we look at the one thousand nine hundred six pre

or russia it's italy. it's a similar in a players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. when almost famous as a building i mean we have a very long history about hockey and in milan or in milan or at the very very long because we started in the nineteen twenty three the first being there was built in milan zero zero zero zero and when we were one of the first you know i'm right here on the hockey fans here in milan love the game so are excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons there are some kind of research for new motions and i believe i saw case it's perfect for that nevertheless i still keep still some distance from topping phil both in terms of popularity here a sentiment echoed by a person from the homeland of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's play would love but because it's it's still very under appreciated you don't get the same emotion you know and so you can be mad for a minut

end there in business in russia today. used to be a restaurateur. until the signing one day behind hollywood's. schools of actors and bands to the country. uhl bitter taste. i basically ended up moving to russia all by accident in one thousand and ninety eight i was asked by a russian friend in los angeles if i could bring a hollywood studio to moscow because mayor luzhkov was interested in building multiplex cinemas and wanted a hollywood studio partner i had friends that were running warner brothers they sent head of international theatres with me gosh my my first trip was very impressionable i couldn't understand how so many young people i was meeting were making tens of millions of dollars a year and some of them millionaires before they were thirty and these were some of the things that made me realize there's a lot of opportunity here there's not a lot of people who are doing hollywood business there hasn't been a lot of contact and interaction with celebrities i love a challenge what could be more challenging than moving to russia and trying

nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy to get russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing i would be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy and i think europeans need gas or gas has many uses here with the political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of them you know better than anyone else for instance that written recently switched from export to engel europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources that it's climatic conditions require it needs norway's gasoline but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to russian companies would be a wise move of. the name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does yet as is ford's or just most man i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it of it's understandable is the european union needs russia geopolitically but t

has the bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably that with the memory of the the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict that it started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i'm i guess i'm a guy it's a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the e.u.'s taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're w

and has the bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict that it started in south of seti in august two thousand and eight and and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i guess i'm a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the e.u. as taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to basically hav

with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict that it started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i guess i'm a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the us taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to basically have a

from the current president to someone who wants to be the next one of russia's richest men mccullough procket off has become the fifth registered candidate in the upcoming presidential election it's the first time he's run and he's considered a dark horse in the race for the kremlin and he did explain to us here at our team why he decided to fight for the top job. i make decisions quickly and i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time your butt and then when conditions are right i get a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics back in april when i just joined the right cause i knew there would be a really sun block this square in southern iraq which that's why i went into politics what do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me is no see i foresaw the rises and i sold my acids in advance youth and this time it was the same thing is it. i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of knowledge experience being your weary of the current situation in the cou

the mysterious sons of russia. are teaching. here at r t live from moscow our top weekly stories the league's beleaguered mission arab nations hold their observer work in syria reports of an upsurge in violence the massacres says that could make things worse. talks between iran and u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension iran is considering stopping fuel supply in the e.u. within days of the response to sanctions. also u.s. anti corporate protests feel the full force of the law in oakland again with officers resorting tear gas and on screen aides dispersed demonstrators and arrests hundred. and multinational proposals to stop web piracy sparked mass protest in poland say their government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection. coming up next our two caught up with the head of russia's high tech state corporation bruce non-o. at the economic forum in davos to discuss the country's business and political future. what's one action should russia's new government take to stop business leaders ste

celebrating christmas day here in russia. in with a traditional service here. at the christ the savior in the center of the russian capital that service presided over by the patriarch of moscow. the heads of the russian orthodox church attended by the great and the good the dignitaries old russian society president to me to get it in there as well as senior think is attending this church service around five thousand people in total crammed into the christ the savior could see more of them in fact actually taking places around the outskirts of the cathedral to just try and get a view of the church something what was going on inside it of course to hear the bells that had been a ringing out to celebrate the birth of jesus christ now. question it always comes up is why is christmas being celebrated in january now this is due to the fact that the russian orthodox church as well as some other branches all the docs christianity. as opposed to the calendar used by western christianity which means that in russia as well as other countries christmas falls on the seventh

also ahead for you this hour delving deeper into russia's industrial heartland. artie's close up crew takes a look at the amazing that fusion of ancient traditions and a thriving business that's setting the region on the path to success. we don't just keep printing money and that we don't keep inflating government so that's why most of the european countries are having trouble it's because the government is sixty percent larger than it should be so why why do you and i think it is and government leaders can't because we don't get paid by the people that are behind the scenes. what is wrong with the global economy and how would you fix it the resident asks that question on the streets of new york. and up next we continue our pathfinder series bringing you the stories of foreigners who are successfully pioneering business here in russia it's time we meet the man who brings scores of world renowned actors and music groups to the country bob van ronk will used to be a restaurant tour in los angeles until deciding one day to try his luck in russia something he has nev

russia and the u.s. have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention the south the facts how would you build a relationship with america the purest form of the world the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we'll learn to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the u.s. are a different matter russia and america have many things in common the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have the best territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in u.s. trade is less than that of thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances is not en

says this means there's a major concern over russia's economic safety. there's budget should be formulated in a way that. insulates be called i mean from fluctuations you know privacy laws are in the books are basically good but they are not being implemented until it was fresher through the budget their policy is to be more prudent to reduce the deficit measured in terms of more noise deficit maybe taking out revenues from oil and natural gas and the current budget plants are not prudent because they keep not all of that which is very much a levels which would be sustainable for russia in the medium term. in russia the central bank is trying to make it easier for foreign banks operating in the country to open new branches so it's part of an effort to set up equal conditions for domestic foreign lenders and russia prepares to join the world trade organization banks from broad will no longer have to make special requests to the central bank simplifying the registration process. let's look at the markets now or there's a raising money again that is now tra

russia's g.d.p. which is largely linked to that i think there's general confidence in the in the price in the oil price. ok so i mean i think i think it's interesting because i get going back to what ben said i mean he's kind of even it out when we look at the risk around the world but while prices but because of growing demand it's good him it balances out more or less right now i see it they think the oil issue should be really kind of lowered is a level issue of importance when we look at russian equities for this year well i mean obviously we have. russian government trying to diversify away from oil and gas i think when the rest of the world looks at russia they automatically lead to the oil price and it's that perception of russia being our oil and gas cut country that now if only for oil prices declining then there's a there's a lack of confidence in investing into into russia which need them we need to move away from that obviously you know we've seen the rise of the russian consumer and the

russia is is a specific place. is good about russia is for macroeconomic policy. has a balance that it hardly any public debt and it has a floating exchange rate non-secure do not get into a devaluation crisis again and right now inflation is down to five percent and these are the positive a point the dangers are but russia is heavily dependent on the oil price and if there is a serious european crisis is severely prions will in all likelihood fall and vetted structural heart also. weakness is subject to capital flows last year our capital outflow capital flight of eighty four billion dollars so these are the two weaknesses we all prize and capital flows but also in the while you were advising president yeltsin and you got a guide there you go there run the economy in this country this is uganda was there a pound the communist leader of russia he is still the the main opposition leader today and just yesterday he said on national television. in one of these pre-election debates that the all prices are going down an

exxon has a bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict they did started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i guess i'm going it's a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the e.u.'s taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to basi

both by russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas prom and europe is key to any. new regulator a position is not the issue but the e.u. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy to get russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing i would be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy and i think europeans need gas or gas has many uses here with the political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of the you know better than anyone else for a space that written recently switched fr

the cooler peninsular in russia's north home to the q.b. massive mountain range this is the cold and windy. pass the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep.

growth so that would growth make it safe in russia however i think oil prices. we should be well supported in saudi arabia has just said that one hundred dollars a barrel is there talk produce that is the russian government's forecast oil prices in twenty twelve so i think that opec take action just for the oil for us if it's so that some comfort for the short course for. ok well i can't let you go without talking about the eurozone not all in the piece and so all this world bank report what's your outlook for that region well it's actually it's very close to our own view stanley that the first sentence of the world bank report says the world is in a dangerous place. and all the language in the report is about what they are so it risks the risks their european policymakers fail to come up with a convincing solution to the european debt problems and we have some deepening of the crisis that trickle down to a layman event and extended period of. negative growth similar to what we saw in two thousand so mr treadwell report is. there there's a big risk. there is a c

close friends well that's because i found what's considered to be a shot in russia a shot of vodka but at the down involved though this is just a typical russian with a few of these and you'll be taken off for a few days or so yeah i think hey max i learned how to say happy new year in russian here it goes from good the best friend faster. growing bilingual and well yes max this is our eastern european special here we're going to start with the headline here on russia russia economic growth bodes well for putin election this is from forbes and they're reporting on the new statistics which say that g.d.p. is that nearly five percent year over year ending september the key indicator they say to watch going forward will be corporate investment the latest figure of seven point seven percent year over year shows companies have started investing again after investments collapsed in late two thousand and ten and support for the consumer sector max comes from rising wages apparently there somewhere in the world that wages are actually rising wages have improved and unemployment has dropped to

i basically ended up moving to russia all by accident in one thousand nine hundred eight i was asked by a russian friend in los angeles if i could bring a hollywood studio to moscow because mayor luzhkov was interested in building multiplex cinemas and wanted a hollywood studio partner i had friends that were running warner brothers they sent head of international theatres with me gosh my my first trip was very impressionable i couldn't understand how so many young people i was meeting were making tens of millions of dollars a year and some of them millionaires before they were thirty and these were some of the things that made me realize there's a lot of opportunity here there's not a lot of people who are doing hollywood business there hasn't been a lot of contact and interaction with celebrities i love a challenge what could be more challenging than moving to russia and trying to develop and create a business here ross for them how real i didn't know any actors but i started meeting them just to bring them to russia or working on that project the russian comedy that's going to sho

and china is certainly don't want to spill into every one but russia is the big one between russia and america they have ninety seven percent of the world's nuclear arsenal and sophisticated delivery systems stand in many ways russia is their number one target for that reason sooner or later that clashes comey this new law comes as the u.s. looks forward to the upcoming presidential elections in twenty twelve barack obama is running for a second term but who he will be running against is not yet known now our correspondent marina porter tells us if there is anyone he should be worried about . for the past three years us president barack obama has faced an increasing amount of disappointment among his volunteers former volunteers former voters and when he came into office those that supported him and helped him break records when it came to campaign contributions that he received were did see obama come into office under the umbrella of the promise of change and then followed up and extended what many perceive to be bush era policies such as doubling down on the patriot act and extendin

russia and china over libya last year and it would be a mistake with russia if the russians think that they are isolated they're not they have world opinion it's just the west will shout the loudest it's france it's americans israel it's the. arab states were backed by the west this is not the world this is not international community this phrase international community should rule the whole world so should russia veto abstain in this resolution i think russia. for its own resolution which calls for syrian solution to this problem and the problem is the solution here is negotiation isn't it when us has an opposition being apparently being encouraged by western countries not to engage in negotiations you're never going to get that are you that is the big problem when. irresponsible the west could have been saying to the opposition look go and meet with the government the government as i said opinion polls demonstrations show the government still has the majority support probably in syria so therefore to say that oh well s. i've got news it is absolutely undemocratic it should be a dialo

on has the bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict they did started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i guess i'm going it's a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the e.u. as taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to bas

a surprise the second point i would make is that russia itself. was ambivalent about the soviet past about its own past and that made it much more difficult to craft a policy. in one way or the other political or economic to move russia and the way we tried we wanted it to go and the fact that because the russians themselves were uncertain about which way they want to go dimitri i mean in and we look at it in retrospect now. after his presidency was it a missed opportunity i mean was really wanting to be. a partner of the west and that we just wasn't simply in braced i think he wanted to be able the west and i think it's very unfortunate what happened there was a lot of misstep but you need this you know moment and sort of moving in russia. and america and the europeans just didn't trigger ignite that moment and some were more me they didn't believe it and when they finally believe that the russians started to set in the you know the moment and still when you know but don't let me say one thing i mean i mean we look at the one thousand nine hundre

and we look at how russia helps feed asia's hungry economies by heading to one of the country's polished export gateways. casting around the world and around the clock this is r.t. since the last american troops left iraq the country is learning to manage its own affairs but the consequences are proving fatal for some a decade of conflict was meant to herald a move to democracy but journalists say intimidation and brutality against them is rife and sebastian maya discovered. this spring iraqis inspired by neighboring arab countries began protesting against the government in a square in baghdad one which shares its name with the better known counterpart in cairo. but iraqi journalists trying to cover these protests all but silenced by the government security forces in today's iraqi journalists who speak out are routinely imprisoned beaten or just simply killed it seems to be a high level of intolerance or dissent or for public criticism of either government policies or particular leaders use it felt to me a freelance journalist showed r.t. some shocking youtube footage from the protests t

which will start in ten days i guess of place russia today t.v. channel good afternoon sergei vexations. of late. we have seen the tension around iran there is an opinion that recent events in libya which has been devote evolving in syria are also part of a bigger plan the ultimate goal leaves of which being to destabilize iran what should do. so to say to cope with this mighty pressure from outside or the ultimate purpose. basically it would be not to put an end to the nuclear program of iran but rather to topple the ruling regime in this country and well you know. this quite a serious matter is specially bearing in mind you've posed it in the context of a broader regional perspective of development and i'll bar at us on several occasions we had a chance to talk about the fact that we are concerned. so to say. with the fact that beyond these problems of which countries we should lose this side of the general situation happening in this very important geopolitical area and. both in the syrian situation and in iraq where this situation has a great

well going into the fray science technology innovation all those developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. area. if you can. still. follow in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me helped out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history of played out differently. can. start. to cross talk the events of august one thousand nine hundred one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and indeed we know the god we go to nikolai petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the failed coup of one thousand nine hundred one. on august nineteen

here in russia of the markets are next the r.t.s. is at an almost one percent smaller than my stocks as dropping almost point supersized this hour let's take a look at the top movers on the my sites brussels the largest oil company rosner has recovered from earlier losses and it's now adding point super science burbank on the other hand has narrow the earlier advance and it's now topping point at three percent and the like there has just completed its acquisition of the troika dialog investment bank and mobile operator enthusiast as lads get a lesson from athens as investor should look at russia as a gas giant gazprom as well as not owns and banking shares pop culture upside. gasper for the first time in a long time is probably a name that i will probably. look at the other thing if you do believe in. a short term rally because we have to remember that things can turn around very quickly but in that turnaround if we look back at previous sort of rallies that we've heard every single time metals and banks have done extremely well and

russia. turning up the tension in france calls for tough new sanctions against iran targeting the country's financial and energy sectors it's accusing top round of developing nuclear weapons even as around says it's ready to talk with the west about its atomic program. israel and the palestinians had back to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago but both sides have played down expectations of a breakthrough ahead of the meeting. and the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin being to reform the armed forces the military industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and become brittle to with corruption. prompts tuesday afternoon here in the russian capital time now for a sport with you and it's all going according to plan for the favorites at the deckard rally so far. the guys who know how the wind they have taken control in argentina. in just a second. this is sports today plenty head over the next t

russia says that one sided resolutions on foreign intervention will not solve syria foreign minister sergei lavrov once all sides in the conflict to engage in talks with no preconditions his message comes on the back of the arab league's call for president assad to step down. we fully support the immediate halting of violence in the country no matter where it comes from that's by the way is the position also put forward by the arab league we're also calling for the peaceful regulation of syria's political situation we believe that also it's involved in the conflict should support similar measures and we're also against any military interference from outside we believe that earth is balanced and just as opposed to the method of except by its true solutions which can do only one side eat provoking the other to build up to a confrontation. while in syria itself security forces are trying to storm parts of the city of hama i reports say the troops are trying to reclaim the areas controlled by the opposition after observer mediated talks to persuade the militants to lay down the arms fail

has the bilateral back with russia but there are very few c.i.s. instruments because this is was done intentionally to be very decentralized because of the memory of the soviet union and presumably the memory of the russian empire itself so it's really what you put into it is what you get out of it for example georgia left of its own on its own because of the conflict that it started in south of thirty in august two thousand and eight and and it went on its own way isolated in the neighborhood because it doesn't have the same kind of agreements that it would used to have through the c.i.s. so i'm i guess i'm a long way of me saying there are actually some benefits to it it just depends how much you want to put into it. very true but if the instruments that have now been put in place to create a single economic space are to thrive then they do eventually have to work on the type of arrangements which the us taken forty years or more to work on namely to have some sort of weighted voting which i think by the way they're working on and to basically ha

from the european department says this means that as a major concern over russia's economic safety. the budget should be formulated in a way that. insulates would be caught i mean from fluctuations you know pricey laws that are in the books are basically good but they are not being implemented until it was freshly dual in budget their policy is to be more prudent to reduce the deficit measured in terms of more an oil deficit maybe taking out revenues from oil and natural gas and the current budget or plants i'm not going to because they keep not all deficit very much levels which would be sustainable for russia in the medium term. that's all that for now in iraq with what fifteen minutes time. you're. this is a lot. nolen sitting on the edge of present. the. mixing reality and nothingness. but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural will reach you. shame you know siberia. is easy. to. get off sometimes you see a story and it seems so. think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you k

itself it's a threat not only for iran but for the region at large and russia if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country and this threat will most probably become a serious problem for russia itself it's a fact that both iran and russia the main drug trafficking route where at the beginning of it because the drugs first penetrate our country and then follow to turkey and then to europe and on the other hand russia is also on the route that it's northern and because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and then go to europe we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue and given we as humans are convinced we have to go on with this ruthless battle so as to save our people and despite the fact that the world community does not lend us necessary assistance in this cause we're alone to bear most financial costs and human losses in order to continue the struggle shut down the borders and blockade the territory inside the country in order to

well come to the from mars creature russia blows up on archy. here with a recap of our top stories now. oil prices jumped again as the e.u. says it will decide whether to ban radiant crude imports by the end of the month concern is also mounting of accounting measures might need to show the west's suffering economies. syria uses the u.s. of interfering in the arab league observers mission that designed to end violence in the country something washington said to moscow says not counting on of the arab peace plan and that it's.

while russia is is a specific place will is good about russia is the macro economic policy. has a balanced budget hardly any public debt and it has a floating exchange rate non-secure do not get into a devaluation crisis again and right now inflation is down to five percent and these are the positive a point the dangers are but russia is heavily dependent on the oil price and if there is a serious european crisis is severely price will in all likelihood fall and that it's russia hard also be other weakness is some deck to big capital flows last year on capital outflow capital flight of eighty four billion dollars so these are the two weaknesses we all prize and capital flows but also in the while you were advising president yeltsin and there and then you got a guy there who group run the economy in this country this is uganda was their opponent the communist leader of russia he is still the the man. in opposition leader today and just yesterday he said on national television one of these pre-election debates that the all prices are going down and the russian economy will col

and russia saw new. car sales jumped fifty percent in two thousand and eleven as the market enjoyed a post-crisis rally consultancy firm ernst and young says the sales we still are sixty five billion dollars with prices going faster than the country's inflation however analysts say that the era of intensive growth is over the programs of state support have come to an end this year they would expect no more than thirteen percent growth and mark. well that's all for now other back with more threats. when i'm comfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is moore's enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalis

but it's better to stick well that's because i found what's considered to be a shot in russia a shot of vodka but at the cannon ball though this is just a typical russian vodka but a few of these and you'll be taken off a few days or so yeah i think hey max i learned how to say happy new year in russian here it goes i'm good i'm the best friend tester. that's really going bilingual well yes max this is our eastern european special here we're going to start with the headline here on russia russia economic growth bodes well for putin the election this is from forbes and they're reporting on the new statistics which say that g.d.p. is that nearly five percent year over year ending september the key indicator they say to watch going forward will be corporate investment the latest figure of seven point seven percent year over year shows companies have started investing again after investments collapsed in late two thousand and ten and support for the consumer sector max comes from rising wages apparently there somewhere in the world that wages are actually rising wages have improved and u