image in the west was the decision to prepay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly. that creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really following you know you can you spell france. go ahead do you well one of the things that has been really focus a lot on this campaign after the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protesters resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and now weste

image in the west was the decision to pre-pay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly in that. creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really follow you can you spell france nicolas if i had to you were one of the things that has been really focused a lot on this campaign to the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protestors resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and now weste

oh and welcome to on the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle onward to the st petersburg international economic forum captains of industry and business politicians and academics with me to discuss the russian investment story and there's lots to discuss expensive oil intensified capital flight and europe's woes. to discuss the agenda at the st petersburg form in two thousand and twelve i'm joined by peter weston he is chief equity strategist at aton he is also editor of the new book in from the cold to the rise of russian capitalism and simon phantom fletcher he is a portfolio manager with renaissance asset managers we also have david stern he's president of kraft foods and russia and ben heiress he is editor in chief of business new europe before we start our discussion gentlemen let's have a look at a snapshot of the russian economy before the st petersburg confound. this point predictions that nothing would change with legendary reelections this spring of two thousand and twelve has turned out to be an extremely eventful period in both political and econo

image in the west was the decision to pre-pay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly in that. creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really following if you can you spell france nicolas if i had to you were one of the things that has been really focus a lot on this campaign after the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protesters resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and no

image in the west was the decision to prepay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly. that creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really following you know you can you spell france. do you well one of the things that has been really focus a lot on this campaign after the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protestors resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and now western media

image in the west was the decision to pre-pay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly and. that creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really follow you know you can you spell france nicolas if i had to you were one of the things that has been really focused a lot on this campaign to the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protesters resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and

to the one zero for russia but today actually. we really wanted to win this time but i think the. russian have more experience than os x. was over the run didn't manage to win the most important thing was very competing on the international stage once again and we're now free to play the sport can hopefully continue its rapid development in the country and worldwide richard wolffe we don't see moscow. finally neptune colognes me of one last month's a grand national indignant one of the most famous horse races in the world but this week a grand national with a difference was held at the annual moscow variety at kempton reus course forty six competitors representing professional and amateur sports clubs and or other organizations taking part in the one hundred meter dash with fences included it may look like just a bit of fun but one competitor was fun to be wearing spikes perhaps taking that just a little bit too seriously that is the winner there by a clear margin born of football clubs mr bumble he reiterated his dominance by ret

often accuse russia of a lack of democratic reforms do you think with. back in the kremlin as president that that rhetoric will increase. i think the rhetoric definitely will increase but for nato or washington the accused russia of a lack of democratic reforms is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black the kind of measures that have been passed recently by the u.s. congress and signed by president obama essentially tearing up the congressional the constitutional bill of rights is not exactly what i consider going in the direction of democracy in the united states so i think this is a red herring that's been used to try to. paint russia as a pariah but the context of it is that nato policy in washington policy from the pentagon and the white house over the last three administrations has been to encircle russia with nato member countries with ballistic missile i call it off and because it really isn't defensive it's often sort of these missile installations in poland in the czech republic in romania in turkey that is not at all aimed at iran that is d

there we know we're going to step into russia russia. to in many ways. than any other war and this is a very. i said to her our director of the russia and eurasia program by the german council on foreign relations thanks for coming on. this news just in here on russia as lawmakers have voted in favor of dmitri medvedev candidacy for prime minister we can show you live pictures from the state duma session it is now up to the new to form a cabinet that's expected to take place within a weird time again these are live pictures right here from the stage in central moscow of course right there at the newly inaugurated president vladimir putin you can follow all of it will have your own leisure our web site at odd see if they can get the menu. but right now france will be hoping for a positive future following the election of a new president but while francois hollande may have beaten his rival nicolas sarkozy in the recent run off a considerably tough task now awaits him many voters want to see a change in the country's foreign policy and they want the econom

and the ucase, russia, bell russia, and maybe russia and some other countries. >> rose: russia has a dependence on natural resources, on oil and gas. how is it doing in trying to scheft away from that dependence at the core of its economic power and develop, for example, its own silicon value. that's the keys for the russian economy. when they ask about how russia is doing. russia is doing well because the oil prices are high. because other natural resources are high. but we still haven't reached a substantial progress... from commodity export -- >> rose: and why not? >> well, for a number of reasons. i think one we didn't create the proper environment for investments. we don't have enough investments in these areas. other thing for example russia couldn't join the w.t.o. for a long time. and thanks to the american administration, by the way, we managed to reach this agreement now which also brings us closer to international cooperation and pairing the way for more cooperation partly because russia still didn't succeed in certain reforms, the legal system. russia still has a very hig

russia some kind of guarantees that some of these. missile defense so they stop directed against russia and the best way to abuse is get to use is in buying russia into some kind of corporation not even signed at sears corp owns the call on the joint missile shield but i fear that if the republicans. in washington. sort of woman becomes president saying civil war it's because then i think there will be no guarantees given to russia and russia that will be treated in many ways like. an enemy of the cold war and this is very unfortunate and i said to her our director of the russia and eurasia program by the german council on foreign relations thanks for coming on our. this news just in here on russia's lawmakers have voted in favor of dmitri medvedev candidacy for prime minister we can show you live pictures from the state duma session it is now up to the new premier to form a cabinet that's expected to take place within a weird time again these are live pictures right here from the stage in central moscow of course right there at the n

russia would be so much brighter if you knew all about someone from fund.

companies bring to russia? if i look at when we acquired these two large plants, we have very strong safety culture. i mean, we recognized as one of the best safety cultures on this planet. so the culture in russia as we know has not been safety culture. if you look at today, today we have the safety numbers on samarra on the level of all of our plans. i tell you what, that was extremely hard job. it requires level of detail and education of training that was nightmarish and that's the change that we bring. that's the change. i tell you a person that changes the behavior and the work, i mean, number one, more respected to your point, right. number two, not giving that when they go into the private space. just last week we had our annual shareholder meeting and we have practice which we call month of service every october worldwide where we ask our employees to give back to the communities and when we started that in russia, everybody said what is that? we don't know what that is. we feel that we all should give

today signed into the bed of minister of russia. this is the first major event mr putin recited over since his return. then maybe in some ways quite fitting this is an event for all russians whatever your political persuasion wherever you are whatever your income your clients were everywhere this is one of them that already made enormous progress. if you find i have few words about those fearful significant sunny day on himself. into a crowd got a missile systems we call them bugs that this was. all sort of made that it is a safe one to break down. become by both fire power problem guns actual not use them. know next to these ones aren't. and so the four hundred twenty. known as the next one one road. user driven effect and their profit system so they can gauge targets and all kind of. it ranges up to four hundred kilometers would be a ballistic missiles from behind her sonic missions and. also being over effective against twenty countermeasures not in the numbers. i mean where x. is going to fix. things. welcome or something we're

russia was it could launch a preemptive strike against the nato led defense shield plan for europe if divisions between them over the project reach a critical point the country's military chiefs have been voicing their concerns that an international conference on missile defense here in moscow as a tease in this and now explains. well missile defense has been in a deadlock for some time now but certainly no secret between the u.s. russia and nato and once again russian officials today reiterated the sentiment that bad deadlock needs to end or else russia is going to take response of action we heard the phrase preemptive strike this is pretty harsh rhetoric we're hearing from russia they're very serious about their their concerns their national security concerns being taken into consideration by nato and the u.s. we also heard from officials that if some kind of compromise isn't made that they're warning of in fact another arms race so very strong words coming from russia what they're hoping to come out of this two day summit is first of all to prove that these so-called rogue states l

dear friends i love you c'mon russia. and with that there's no doubt that the sports will have a staunch following for decades to come. now to boxing and may nineteenth swell title rematch between light welterweight champion lamont peterson and i am a card is in doubt they say after the americans campaign should a statement confirming he failed a random drug test reports claim the unified junior welterweight champion tested positive for synthetic synthetic testosterone following a random test in march his camp say they will comply with the author of g.'s and submit medical findings in support of and i quote in the months of good faith intentions peterson unified the i.d.f. and w.p.a. titles with a controversial point win over car in his hometown of washington in december but this news puts may nineteenth rematch in jeopardy. over to the hardwood now where the san antonio spurs have made it into the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs after winning their best of seven series against the utah jazz. the sweet was completed o

and bill russia. in the framework of the united states so united state so that just the nature of the development of. now this position well. recently a conference on the future of the union state which made the union state russia bellows the conference was held in london not in moscow not in minsk why wasn't it held on the territory of the state but abroad as a matter of fact i wouldn't call it as a conference it suggested was kind of a background meeting which was held in russian embassy and voice arranged by the russian vessel. so. and. it was a number of. political just and maybe editors of some some newspapers and. it was just an invitation i couldn't resist this temptation and said nothing special so do you consider this this meeting in the russian embassy in london as sort of a presentation of the union state to to the west yes right you it was the first stand in this direction i think that it's. not right because you're. right about the russian or the union state which was created in the west

the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the year and even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting that even the leader of the biggest biker back in the moscow the night waltz was there and he's called the surgeon a very famous guy he was the only one not wearing a tie and suit like most of the guests he was wearing a black leather jacket like all bikers do so differently and mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the inauguration finished. the hall where we stood st george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this dinna cost about a million dollars it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dinner told me that there were black caviar on the menu fried scallops even. a cou

the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting that even the leader of the biggest biker back in the moscow the night waltz was there and he's called the surgeon a very famous guy and he was the only one not wearing a tie and suit like most of the guests he was wearing black leather jacket like all bikers do so differently in mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the finished . in the hall where we stood george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this is in a cost about a million dollars so it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dinner told me that there were black caviar on the menu fried scallops even. a couple chino made

big russia the fifth largest economy. in the six years i think it's possible and also to me question the world the country including the a normal democratic. right thank you so much this was going to first state duma deputy talking with us here in the kremlin said it would be trying to talk to more guests of the ceremony here and will be coming live as soon as we have more yes information for you absolutely. thanks ever so much this cross now to nissen our she's outside the kremlin taking all in the how as opposed to the next one a large majority to returning to power but it wasn't of course with the support of everyone was that. it was not all and in fact just on the eve of this inauguration we saw an enormous protest really in the center of moscow we also saw appropriate turn rallies but what turned ugly were the opposition rallies i'll give you a little more details about that in a second really though what it comes down to and i think a lot of analysts will agree here is that the main consensus is that either way if p

out of russia. socialist francois hollande has won the french presidential runoff making nicolas sarkozy the latest to you lead it to be swept aside by the crippling debt crisis the president elect has promised to fight against the german led to european austerity drive and has already spoken to chancellor angela merkel the first foreign leader will visit our sea level ports now from power. presell law and it is acceptance speech yesterday did talk a lot about unity which is which has been much of the theme of his entire campaign he said he's the one who's going to bring about solidarity and unity criticizing this divisive presidency but of course the unity he's talking about does hinge on his ability to bring about the promises that he had made particularly the practical promises of jobs and employment and this is a no easy feat given the the economic circumstances of france said again he is the first thing he wanted to do is to talk to german chancellor angela merkel to push for this growth orient

breaking news here at our team there have been too powerful explosions close in the capital of dagestan in russia's north caucuses at least a fifteen people are now four to have died with scores of others injured near the city of my house collapse more on this from a top ten. now told what details do you have about these attacks. dozens of casualties have been recorded after the twin suicide car bomb attacks in dagestan's capital markets collide in russia's north caucuses the first bomber detonated his explosives after being stopped at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city twenty minutes later a second bomber blew up his car in the middle of a traffic jam which had piled up next to the first explosion site twenty cars caught fire and metal projectiles packed around the explosives caused many injuries many police and firefighters who had arrived at the scene became casualties themselves. now it is of course a region of intense security risk isn't it. the region has seen frequent islam missed terror attacks and government anti terror operations for years now in some recent examples in mid februar

image in the west was the decision to pre-pay russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly in that. creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really following if you can you spell france nicolas if i go back to you well one of the things that has been really focused a lot on this campaign after the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protesters resorted to violence not the police but protesters did

the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like for me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting that even the leader of the biggest biker back in moscow the night waltz was there and he's called the surgeon a very famous guy and he was the only one not wearing a tie and suit like most of the guests he was wearing a black leather jacket like all bikers do so differently in mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the finished. hole where we stood george's hole was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate at this dinner cost about a million dollars it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dinner told me that there were black caviar on the menu fried scallops even. a couple chino made of cocoa mil

companies started to do business in russia invest in russia and that's opposed to what about corruption putin has called corruption the main play of the russian economy meter maid of has talked about this for years businesses. and certainly people we've been talking to experts are looking forward to some kind of fight against this corruption but there's been a lot of statements about it when do you think businesses and people can believe that these statements will become practical results not just statements corruption is clearly a systemic current problem in the russian and first time in the russian history. one thousand year history of. the fight corruption was created now first time and again you have to just ration to fight corruption interested using this legislation more and more people are punished. is corruption. and once more people are put in prison because of the corruption they're guilty and they're punished and more and more. being done to or. create. genuine negative. one tolerance. to corruption. and this important to condition to fight corruption accorded their courts th

how did china do it and and why is russia couldn't do it why do russia's not done so to speak but we just brought up an interesting point asked for the bric countries killed it. keep up with china's growth can that be a problem for poor countries that china is developing so rapidly let's put this in context china has gone from a hundred forty seventh in the world to number two in the economy the role in the last thirty three years but u.s. economy is still four times bigger u.s. economy is way up here and there clustered together are china germany and japan way down here and in. only one fourth or one third the size of the u.s. so the u.s. only has to get a couple of percentage points or three percentage for that in china you can still call it eight or nine which are probably won't but for for for for it to be a long time arithmetic way you can figure it out before china catches up if it ever does you know regardless all the credit with china does face some major problems like gender inequality income inequality corruption and by mental issues could that undermine the growth well you

and bill russia. in the framework of the united states so united state so that just mitchell the development of. now this position well. recently a conference on the future of the union state which made the union state russia bellows the conference was held in london not in moscow not in minsk why wasn't it held on the territory of the state brought as a matter of fact i wouldn't call it as a conference it suggested was kind of a background meeting which was held in russian embassy and was arranged by the russian messenger. so. and. it was a number of. political just and maybe editors some some newspapers and. it was just an invitation i couldn't resist this temptation and said nothing special so do you consider this this meeting in the russian embassy in london as sort of a presentation of the union state to to the west yes right here it was the first. in this direction i think that it's. not right because you're. right about the russian or the union state which was created in the west so i'd like to

with me kevin now in this hour and first for him a putin's returning to russia's top job a little later on the smalling he'll be officially back at the helm then later this monday after he's sworn into office for a third it follows his four year stint as prime minister but despite a majority of votes in the march election there's been some difference of opinion on putin's reelection that's talked about is in this and now a good morning it's fair to say is that it is not exactly been smooth sailing for the lead up to putin's return to power far from it indeed. it is any usually not always but it tends to be pretty black and white you either are for or against putin and that was very evident on the streets of moscow on sunday where we saw a pro an anti protest others anti protests got pretty ugly i'll give you some more detail on those in just a minute but let's take a look at how really opinions the one thing people can agree on pretty much is that if putin wants to have a successful third term back in the kremlin he's going to have to make some changes . he's back for an unprecedented t

the london games will be connected with the next host in nations like russia lives in brazil and like south korea and we alert the selected several sit this most of them just a big city like like you couldn't walk in wanting to have the life feed from the london for the local community to be able to avoid share what's going on in london and to share to share the moments of glory hopefully will follow athletes and also to be. involved in the sea must feel the london games and of course the biggest live side will be both in moscow and in sochi and the sochi in the central square in front of the harbor and see poor will be big screen and barely program with different activities and we also even dream to create by literal signals all the citizens of social world be able to communicate communicate with long guest visitors so it's a great initiative to get all in big cities and countries how are you going to do that during the sochi olympics for people but given that i don't believe this great nation is a successful we will be again i say the same for really and then i will use it for the n

the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the year and even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting that even the leader of the biggest biker back in the most called the night waltz was there he scored the surgeon a very famous guy and he was the only one not wearing a tie and suit like most of the guests he was wearing black leather jacket like all bikers do so differently in mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the inauguration finished. the hall where we stood george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this dinner cost about a million dollars so it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dinner told me that there were black caviar on the menu fried scallops even. a co

china and russia. we can be sure that they can do anything as far as french people are concerned they don't care about foreign policy they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic fart in their own backyard first and foremost yes or sylvia r.t. brussels. and still have for this hour here on our team facts or fiction part he speaks with the author of an article which accuses the u.s. and south korea of deep level surveillance and north korea even parachuting in spies to report back on on the ground military facilities. and president putin makes his first trip abroad since his recent inauguration having four bellers after ditching the g eight summit earlier this month. voters in ireland head to the polls today in a referendum to decide whether or not to approve the european union's fiscal treaty driven by germany controversially plans strict central control of the national budgets of member states who have signed up but opponents as a permanent a stereo charter with mattie angry

most of the west i believe other countries were russia was on it two years ago in the u.n. security council we think have enough leverage all of us together to convene the rain's going to be heavier and higher price with every month that passes if you don't stop this. attempt to get nuclear but none of the rounds critics including as well have given hard facts that prove that iran's intention is to build a nuclear weapon or that it iran is in a way near building a nuclear weapon so why is this so much fear and concern first of all that iran wants to have a nuclear weapons we have no doubt i think that the international atomic energy agency in vienna published a report last november think the head a weapons group the describe the weapons to approach worked why do you take it seriously they really do ship. i mean they openly again and again israel should not exist. it should be removed as a cancer tumor in the middle east but you did admit that ahmed initially had it not saying that iran would wipe israel off the map. will approve israel the concert or is the metaphor but not

now russia's biggest basketball star could be making a move back to the n.b.a. to join up with the league's only russian i know according to the country sports media andre kirilenko has a verbal agreement with mikhail prokhorov as brooklyn nets this car must go forward he is currently preparing for the euro league final for has a long standing relationship with the net and is said to be signing on with a relocated club at the end of the european season if we need to sign a three year deal to olenka return to the army man as a free agent during the n.b.a. lockout deciding to play out the season in russia it's quite lucrative offers from the u.s. to baseball and things are looking up for los angeles dodgers fans after a new consortium including local basketball legend magic johnson officially took control of the team the move and era after bankruptcy last june and johnson has big plans and what we want to do is bring their pride back to this city this organization we want to win. on the field we want to have the best fan experience they've ever had. we want to mak

/russia trade relations. to make a long story short, as we all know, in the fall of last year, russia was formally invited to join the wto. the negotiations were concluded after many, many hours in which russia, the united states, our european allies all identified the benefits to the world economy, not just to our own economy, not just to russia's economy, but to the world economy of having russia as a member of the wto. this to me is the achievement i'm the most proud of playing a small part in because the dividends from that will continue to pay out for years and even decades to come. as sergei said and i couldn't agree with him more, the foundation for a sustainable productive relationship between the united states and russia is a strong economic relationship. when i was coming up through the state department, arms control was the center of gravity and sergei and i both labored in the trenches on arms control negotiations for many years and as he said it's still extremely important but now a strong commer

most of the west i believe other countries will russia was on it two years ago in the un security council we i think have enough leverage all of us together to condition the rain's going to be heavier and higher price with every month that passes if we don't stop this. attempt to get nuclear but none of the rands critics including as well have given hard facts that prove that iran's intention is to build a nuclear weapon or that it iran is in a way near building a nuclear weapon so why is this so much fear and concern first of all that iran wants to have nuclear weapons we have no doubt i think that the international atomic energy agency in vienna published a report last november saying the head a weapons group described the weapons group outworked why do you take it seriously they really did ship. him in a thirty openly again and again is version not exist. it should be removed as a cancer tumor in the middle east but you did admit that ahmed and it added not saying that iran would wipe israel off the map. will approve israel the concert or is that the different metaphor but not a differ

next catches up with the president of the sochi olympics organizing committee to find out how ready russia is for the games that's in our interview show spotlight that's next. hello again and welcome to spotlight the intent on art i'll be known and today my guest is dimitri chatham the showing. two years before the winter olympics in sochi about seventy percent of the big venues and infrastructure are already built and the ski slopes are already open for both tourists and pros officials promise saatchi will be ready long before the deadline but skeptics point out some serious problems so what's the latest from the coolest city on the cubs who will learn from beneath the chair of the president of the tsotsi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee. from three d. graphics to reality that coke asian slopes near sochi are evolving into sporting venues some of them unique like this one a modern eighteen hundred metre bobsled a track the longest and then us to the world it's been designed for three zero am because my speed on ice disappoints the bobsled and skeleton on the tracks got sixte

between russian biller russia on. domestic policy east years on how to develop political systems are rather intensive and russia has several times expressed its disapproval of certain developments in bill or russia and they do not see any or signs for. for changing this attitude towards bill or russia we disagree on certain things but we can see their each other as closest partners and they believe that this is the. only decision which could have been taken by by mr putin to be his first official visit to belorussia not to the united states of america or elsewhere you mentioned the discontent moscow's discontent with some moves by mr shanker but this they do came . often during mr medvedev presidency during the last four years but many people say that as it became obvious that putin will become russia's next president the relations with belarus started to improve is this true. no no i don't believe that you know people hold astroid to to find certain differences crucial differences between mr millet and mr putin betwe

in which nato would be helping russia protect its territory just as much as russia would be helping nato i think all that leads to the kind of confidence that. both necessary and sufficient to move forward well from what we're told they say european missile defense system is really directed against the iranian threat and it will be fully operational in two thousand and eighteen there are numerous ways right now to contain iran u.s. is building bases around it israel has kept abilities international sanctions are in place it really doesn't look like in the nearest future for another five six years iran will be representing a real threat to nato so why so what is the purpose of this whole european anti-missile system if iran is contained well there's a. i think a legitimate debate that we could have maybe if we had more time about can iran a regime that has a radical ideology that has pledged to wipe country not far from its borders off the map whether it could really be contained but yes the threat today is not as bad as we think it will be five ten years ago or ten ten years from now so

delegation again played down talks of a possible threat to russia now do you understand. after russia's actions here. would be interest to do so it would be very. chatty streak. but words do not match actions according to moscow with washington unwilling to rubber stamp those promises in a legal document until it does russia defense ministry says it will continue to grow military potential on its borders ready to act against america's a.m.d. ambitions even brienne tivoli secured them just a breeze you wish you could taking into account the destabilizing nature of the missile defense system and in particular creating an illusion of an on punishable strike the decision about a preemptive use of force will be made in a period of heightened tension the deployment of new offensive on is in the southern and north western russia including its kind of missiles in the callinan grab region provides for the destruction of the european missile defense infrastructure. the border this scenario is clearly seen as a last resort however moscow is standing strong in its position sending th

people in the syrian town of houla with damascus and the rebels blaming each other for the atrocity russia has vowed to block any moves for intervention at the u.n. and washington says the security council can be bypassed. as the latest. well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria last week those those comments were also echoed by america's european allies and as a result there is now a nother push within the security council for international sanctions against against syria now the united nations is conducting their own investigation to find out who exactly is responsible for the killings of one hundred eight people in syria last week but the u.s. and its allies has come to its own conclusion now. that if the six point peace plan put together by kofi annan which calls for a cease fire in syria that plan breaks down and if sanctions are not supported within the security council then the international community and council members

russia. russia america relations have always been sensitive three years ago presidents obama and medvedev ended nearly a decade of standoff declaring a reset of relations it has served well but power has changed in russia and the first step of the new president vladimir putin was a refusal to attend the g eight meeting in america he said he was too busy forming a new cabinet in the us a power shift is possible to the presidential election is due in november and if barack obama fails to return to office the republicans seem likely to resort to colder a tory towards russia among the issues moscow and washington are already. stark on the missile shield in eastern europe alleged human rights abuses in russia and problems in the middle east. political welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well let's start with putin's foreign policy will he started his presidency by sending his prime minister to sit in in can david prime minister in russia isn't engaged in foreign policy usuall

facing russia's legal system stay with us. glenn. hello again a welcome to spotlight. on. today my. russia city of st petersburg has recently become the place for a legal profession to gather and share. the second and national legal farm took place there attracting specialists from over fifty countries probably because in the modern world different legal and judicial systems just can help with copyright and conflicts so what's being done. today. thank you for pouring out. justice to. the main ideal the st petersburg legal forum is to provide a dialogue platform for lawyers politicians and economists it was founded by the russian justice ministry and for now is the only event of its kind in scale this year over two thousand people from fifty one countries came to the forum thirteen delegations were headed by top officials including the u.s. attorney general eric holder and the british justice secretary. thank you for being with us and welcome to welcome to the show well. this is a forum that you attended the st petersburg inter

china and russia. we can be sure that they can do anything as far as french people are concerned they don't care about foreign policy they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic far in their own backyard first and foremost yes or sylvia r.t. brussels. so i have very this hour here on r t a fact or fiction r.t. speaks the author of an article which accuses the u.s. and south korea of deep level surveillance and north korea even parachuting and spies to report battle on underground military facilities. voters in ireland head to the polls today in a referendum to decide whether or not to approve the european union's fiscal treaty driven by germany it kind of urgently plan straight to sandra e.u. control of the national budgets of member states who have signed up but opponents see it as a permanent a staring charter was many angry about surrendering power and sovereignty to brussels or smith has more. it's hope since choice island has two options is it goes out to vote on a fisca

and dear friends i love you c'mon russia. and with that there's no doubt that the sports will have a staunch following for decades to come. now to boxing in the world title rematch between light welterweight champion lamont peterson and is in doubt this after the americans camp issued a statement confirming he's failed a random drug test reports claim the twenty eight year old tested positive for synthetic testosterone following a random test in march his camp say they will comply with the off season submit medical findings in support of and i quote good faith to detect. and unify the i.d.f. and w.p.a. titles with a controversial points win over carn in his hometown of washington in december but this news puts may nineteenth vegas rematch in jeopardy. meanwhile the heavyweight showdown between british david haye and derek she is or is going ahead the pair will meet in london on july the fourteenth despite neither having a british license fees or is was revoked after his brawl with a post fight press conference earlier this ye

between russia and bill are russia on. domestic policy issues on how to develop political systems are rather intensive and russia has several times expressed its disapproval of certain developments in below russia and i do not see any signs for. for changing this attitude towards bill or russia we disagree on certain things but we can see there are each other as closest partners and they believe that this is the. only decision which could have been taken by by mr putin to be his first official visit to belorussia not to the united states of america or elsewhere you mentioned the discontent moscow's discontent with some moves by mr shanker but this they do came. often during mr medvedev presidency during the last four years but many people say that as it became obvious that putin will become russia's next president the relations with belarus started to improve is this true. no no i don't believe that you know people hold astroid two to find a certain difference is crucial differences between mr mir different mr putin betwee

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russia would be soo much brighter if you knew about it soon from funds to freshen some. meals for instance on t.v. don't come. the top stories twin terror attacks killed at least eleven in russia's north caucuses and what police say bears the hallmarks of al qaida suicide bombing. the pentagon draws up plans for a crush to run forces in just three weeks. three days before dmitri medvedev leaves russia's top post reassess his presidential legacy and look at what's ahead when he becomes prime minister. and japan prepares to flick the off switch on its final atomic reactor in fukushima disaster to the country to the brink devastation. hello welcome this is r.t. it's five pm here in moscow.

but also economy i didn't last for years as companies started to do business in russia invest in russia. but supposed what about corruption putin has called corruption the main plague of the russian economy . has talked about this for years businesses. and certainly people we've been talking to experts are looking forward to some kind of fight against this corruption but there's been a lot of statements about it when do you think businesses and people can believe that these statements will become practical results not just statements corruption is clearly a systemic current problem in the russian and first time of the russian history of one thousand iraqis today. just to fight corruption was created now first time and again because we just do fight corruption interested using this legislation more and more people are punished. is corruption. and more and more people put in prison because of the corruption they're guilty. they're punished and more and more. being done to. create. genuine negative. one tolerance. to corruption. and the very important because decent to fight corruption acc

image in the west was the decision to prepare a russia's external debt and as a result russia has one of the strongest balance sheets in the world today. you know a country that had more than one hundred percent of g.d.p. in terms of its debt is now less than ten percent of g.d.p. on top of that i would say russia is a creditor nation exactly. and that creditor nation because on top of the. you know the prepayment that was made russia also accumulated significant reserves fiscal reserves and the oil funds now they amount to nearly one hundred fifty billion dollars and this is one of those examples of a country that is guided by rules whereas some of the countries in the west while declaring those fiscal rules were actually not really following you know you can you spell france. go ahead do you well one of the things that has been really focus a lot on this campaign after the inauguration was the protest movement here in moscow and in the western media gave an enormous amount of coverage and i witnessed myself how protesters resorted to violence not the police but protesters did and no