thing to say that russians tell in culture and we're telling language. i'm part from the big stream of tourists currently going both ways i'd like the year of the culture and language of italy and in russia and vice versa. i'd like this year to see. not only our citizens crossing borders and visiting exhibitions but he and other cultural events. are not only media coverage of said events although it is important. for our media to pay attention to this privilege when i think it's. very important to attract public attention to the learning of languages both italian and russian. because it is something we value. we. focus on less we have our universities have departments that teach

italians. italian and russian but in order to provide for more extensive contacts to understand each other's cultures better. and each other's everyday lives it's very important for the young to learn languages. and with all respect we have for the english language i don't think we should restrict ourselves to that we all try to learn english. but it would be good if we try learning other european languages. and russian as well but so if this year sees a rise in interest towards the languages that would be great i'd like that to have a good evening. for president medvedev. previously you said it was a telling companies to participate in a little. by the russian economy partnership which i like to ask.

about a partner is not already working on the russian market like russian knowledge is for irish lot of the laws. and other companies. i mean ties which already exist think they can be as deep and fathering and a question or two mr berlusconi talking about the internalization. of tally and progress companies rattling russian. president off yard said that they would like to move their operation to. what's rypien about that but. thank you for the question. as i said here we have. good relations with several major italian companies and

we would like these relations still available to be dispersed over fresh projects we'd like them to grow to accelerate and the projects you've mentioned the. sawyers and finnick anika those projects will cope with but in russian. partners they are just one of the several major examples if we talk about the automotive industry for example we were trying to revive our own car manufacturing manufacturing industry at the same time we have a special relationship with italian car manufacturers and i just told mr berlusconi about it only one year as i was driving from the airport. i got a message from russia statistical services saying that the. demand for cars in

russia has been restored to pre-crisis level of the might be list is a very good sign. since it was the number. of cars bought and mortgages bards. there are very significant those consumer figures are very significant for an economy. in which the project that we started this year is very large scale. and i hope it's the might be. like i hope it grows. as far as for a car class is concerned we're going to be working with different car classes s.u.v.s and regular cars so one of the ways to develop that would be to expand or to my journey the investment into. automotive projects this isn't the most relevant thing right now perhaps since

there are other spheres we can cooperate and with them we're working on the high technology business but i think when we were trying to create a russian medium range plane. several italian companies have signed contracts to buy this airplane in the future this is a good project i hope it succeeds commercially. as for the question interestingly boarding. if we can all in a free state or a little interestingly enough really to make a choice. and to run get us into the production whenever they want they must be able to sing is that they should not damage italy or italian industry bread michigan v i don't care i guess your king in italy. so thank you very much.

i think you very watching for at this press conference now let's go a little to you for a walk around the only way away ago literally the latest sites i'd like to sanction all the gas from russia ground zero to say welcome majority of those who lost a player truly in or out for a long term relational so all of it will come to visit me to italy for a short time or a longer time. thank you very much. thank you very much for all the best howard and there you have it with the russian president dmitri medvedev the meeting with italian prime minister silvio berlusconi in the city of milan and they covered a wide range of subjects there with them highlighting this year as the year of italian language and culture in russia and the year over russian language and culture in italy that will start with silvio berlusconi here who spent some time

highlighting that the historic sites across italy and insisting that the russian president must live up to his promise of visiting some of these sites are also inviting dedicated to his private personal villa but on the issue of international topics discussed they said that there has been increased bilateral trade between italy and russia over the past two years they also discussed the issue of the middle east peace process also that of iran that iran must return to the nuclear negotiating table and afghanistan or those countries involved in afghanistan must a real commitment to global security there now the russian president medvedev he said he's been visiting italy for twenty years but this is his first time in milan on economic topics he said the g eight and g twenty summits the key players in those summits are those responsible for reworking the global economic spinal structure also they covered conflicts situations that of terrorism and that states that fail to comply to their international obligations must be held to account well

also medvedev said the u.n. needs to update its foundation and prerogatives in order to modernize itself with the rest of the world and finally met where they've said that the russian economy is growing but not at an ideal rate and that the russian economy needs to be modernized to maximize growth and that european countries in particular italy could be very instrumental in helping for russian economic growth and finally here many are there said that he was looking forward to a nice culturally rich walk around the city of milan all right well there's more details on that on our website at r.t. . dot com to some other stories now russia's president and heat wave rages on with friday seeing another record breaking temperatures here in moscow the hot weather has caused the worst drought in years and hundreds of people have drowned in lakes and ponds as they desperately try to cool off now with no immediate end in sight to the high in mercury readings artie's tom barton explains the impact of the heat

wave and how people are coping with russia's tropical weather. corkey park here in the center of moscow people are enjoying the heat but that is an exception across the country in the suburbs of moscow today people can smell and see smoke from raging forest fires very close to moscow itself twenty thousand fires have been recorded this season across russia and they have burned four hundred thousand hectares supposed to be one hundred seventy fires still burning right now with new ones starting all the time and emergency services are struggling to try and bring those under control on four separate days this month the temperature has been the highest it's ever been on that day here in recorded history this winter the past winter was very very cold and it's proving russia's continental climate we are seeing just how powerful our climate can be so far three hundred reports just this week. drowned trying to cool off that's one of the effects of some of the other

effects twenty three russian regions have actually declared a state of emergency as the drought is so bad they have the promise of literally watching their crops die in the fields and drop all their grain on the floor because they just don't have enough water to ripen the great doctors give us some general advice to people don't go out between midday and four pm that's when the sun is hottest by the arm out here in the midday sun as it were dogs and englishmen but if you don't have to go out stop to say don't stay in and try and find a cool place drink plenty of water again you know it's easy to forget but you can dehydrate very fast in the heat especially when you're doing exercise people going out playing football matches is not such a good idea at the moment say doctors you can dehydrate very fast and you should try and drink two liters of water a day to try and keep you hydrated my colleague peter all of a prepared a report on what some other people around russia are doing to try and escape the

heat. when temperatures soar everyone has to find their own way to. in the sweltering city summer two brothers in moscow have come up with a plan to beat the heat as well as make a bit of cash on the site and the tali and boris rent out their apartment in the summer months and set up camp on a small island in the state one kilometer outside of the city center i camped here in one nine hundred sixty when i was in my second year at school we came here in a car and we saw the place was vacant we bought a boat right away and brought it here to paradise there's good fishing under you it might seem like a strange choice but it's all perfectly legal anyone can pitch their tent and start their own camp as long as they are based certain rules. our chief concern is to avoid harming nature these people are clean and tidy and don't harm nature but if other people can pitch a tent and start throwing rubbish around they'll have to face punishment. as far as ways to beat the heat goes on a tele and boris have certainly adopted

a fairly novel approach but the spike robinson crusoe esque existence they still can't live without some of the creature comforts they go hand in hand with city living the good use of what we have to t.v. sets two radios and a notebook but no internet at my house in moscow a six minute ride from here the retired pair have just about all they could need on a thirty meter wide island getaway and if there's anything they want it's only a short trip to the new shop wants to take in the boat right to the shore of course heading for some alfresco sleep isn't a new thing for muscovites in the past before the invention of air conditioning many people would sleep in the courtyards of apartment buildings to try and get some respite from the times oppressive heat not many will be willing to go to the same length as boston on the tolly but with temperatures still around the thirty's more people will be looking for ways to stay cool this summer peter all of the party. but the ruling by the international court of justice the cause of a unilateral declaration of independence from serbia was

a legal spark international controversy however the court did not rule on the legality of course of session but u.s. and many european countries have praised the ruling but moscow says the decision sets a dangerous precedent and still wants dialogue between serbia and cause of art to resolve their differences and the un's highest court in the hague said on thursday the declaration of sovereignty had not violated any international law but belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of cause of our as an independent state so your claims that cause of a session in february two thousand and eight violated its territorial integrity and journalist and historian of knowledge has listed a number of reasons why because of our cannot be called an independent state. it's pretty much a death sentence for international law this is a. textbook case of. a clear violation of both the un resolution twelve forty four

and all the accepted norms of international law. on asli was expecting a more nuanced decision along the lines of it was illegal but it doesn't matter i quite honestly didn't expect the world court to take such a directly pro-american position to be perfectly honest kosovo is a much independent does manchukuo vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state it suffers from and democrat abuses of power is its government structure can be best described as a organized crime it is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is a doesn't mean it is a case of course it was a just a naked land grab and if it's allowed to stand in serbia itself may actually soon fall apart and disappear. as a country cannot afford to simply let this slide for the past twenty years there have been wars and conflicts in the balkans stemming from the collapse of yugoslavia and each time there was any sort of dispute the serbs turned out to be

on the losing end and the principles that the so-called international community adopted along the way varied according to the needs of the moment there's no principle here really that can consistently apply over the past twenty years except the serbs always lose and that's clearly not a principle you can build a policy on. well the hague ruling on cause of reaction from two other states seeking recognition abkhazia and south ossetia saying their move the move rather confirms their right to independence they hope the decision will push other countries to follow the example of russia and a number of other states which recognize them after the georgian war of two thousand and eight. years of foreign minister. says these republics have more of a right to independence. but that is very precision confirms a people's right to determine their own identity at the same time giving their arguments more weight on the other hand it's all politicized and we can be sure

that if we went to the hague we would get a similar ruling we probably wouldn't in spite of the fact that we have more historical legal and moral grounds to demand independence than kosovo double standards do exist it's not a secret to anyone in any case people who object to our independence will now find it difficult to openly claim that we don't have the right to determine our own standing. but with a tourist season at its height many beachgoers flocked to the black sea coast for some summer fun but alongside the sheiko tells and restaurants one ukrainian resort has a marquee side odessa has become a thriving hub for the sex slave industry as a strategic port its location makes it a hotspot for human trafficking to and from the region as artie's alexy reports. it is fun in the sun in the cranium port city offer desa hundreds of thousands come here during the hike to receive. but for this woman from central africa it became

a living nightmare with her identity concealed she told us how she was turned into a sex life. i met a man who told me he'd marry me and take care of me he brought me here then he locked me in a hotel room some men came every day and raped me sometimes there were three of them one later the man said he'd sell me to turkey but i managed to find help. she managed to escape from the man who had been slaves her now she lives in the under protection program but many young girls here are not as lucky or every day ships bring thousands of tourists in and out of her death but for many of this harbor becomes a point of no return as many sex slaves are being shipped from here to other countries. turkey italy united arab emirates these are some of the most popular destinations for the sex slave trade and it does so with its strategic port serves

as the market place police talk of fifty cases solved over the last two years but in reality the number of victims from all across the c.i.s. which are being brought here could be a thousand times higher and fighting organized sex trade gangs is very difficult because it's thought some are highly connected with the authorities or forensics trade workers use local men to find girls from deprived regions who are struggling to make a living so they're easy prey but if these men offer them a new life they promise them jobs abroad in hotels and restaurants but eventually they end up as sex slaves and are stripped of their passports but. this organization called faith hope love helps sex trade victims to rehabilitate from their terrifying past in five years they have offered assistance to more than a thousand women it's typically had it is impossible to keep track of how many sex slaves are out there as most of them are simply afraid to call for help both social

workers and authorities admit in the last several years the sex trade has slightly diminished but they say while ukraine's economy is intact is the sex industry will remain as one of the most burning problems for this resort city regardless of the season. see reporting from address ukraine. people in india is hard to reach areas struggle to get proper medical care but the country's government and international aid organizations have come up with a water based solution counselling has joined in this health mission. to water world this is the. originating in a bit it enters india and flows on into bangladesh it's the peak of the rainy season and here in the state of assam in northeast india health care arrives by boat for those living in remote villages it can take three or four days to reach some of the islands. many villages we can go on when the rainy season it's more

difficult to get to them during the dry season we have to try to seven kilometers this could take two hours we can't carry all our medical equipment such a long distance one hundred thousand people live in the district of nobody but there is only one functioning medical center no wonder then that the arrival of the book clinic is a big event here the entire village turns out to meet the stuff. sixteen year old is pregnant and feels this free check up is a far better option than travelling to the nearest town the book clinic is run by an ngo the center for northeast studies and is funded by the indian government and unicef its main focus is the immunization of children while locals were initially hesitant to get their babies vaccinated mothers now actively supported but there are limits to what doctors can do dr hark examines has been complaining of

a pain in his abdomen to diagnose the cause dr heart needs an x. ray but for that to load in will have to go to the city but. the doc says it all have to show this to the medical center in. how do i do that the poor man and i can't afford the money it costs to go there i'm looking a bit believe we can deliver babies and do blood tests but we don't have an x.-ray machine for that the patient has to go to the medical center in the city if there's an emergency we have a stern bible that we can use to transport the patients. getting access to health care is never easy and more so during the monsoon when the river brahmaputra covers much of the land by delivering health care to the doorstep of villagers the book printing could well mean the difference between life and death got and seeing our d. on the river but. all right the business news is next with daniel stay with us. on

the business president medvedev appears to have revised russia's economic growth forecast for this year at a news conference with italian prime minister silvio berlusconi in the last hour the president suggested that g.d.p. would rise by nearly five percent in twenty ten last month the government was still predicting a growth rate of four percent. government this year the russian economy will grow by almost five percent which seems to be very good after the crisis however it is still not the growth we need to model in less than three hours' time europe's banks will learn if they passed or failed the stress tests ninety one will be told if they're strong enough to withstand another economic downturn but there's concern that regulators have not set the bar high enough to test weak banks to turn a polock over reports. if too many banks passed the test it means the test failed that's the widespread suspicion about their settlement of europe's biggest lenders

the banks have been asked to estimate how much additional capital they would need under two scenarios namely if the economic situation were to deteriorate for two years and is in there with an additional sovereign shark but analysts question just how realistic the task can be it's very difficult to say partly because we don't know what the so-called adverse scenario is that will be considered just yet we know that there will be considering a mild recession as a worst case scenario which which incidentally which i don't think is the worst case scenario. but we don't know how and how greater probability they're going to assign to the risk with sovereign default. so what they do on that front would determine the results too long we did result will be released late friday after the european bourses closed for the weekend which is meant to avoid a panic on already nervous markets but some analysts believe the caution is

excessive there's been a number of officials coming out over recent days suggesting that. the banks and respective countries seem to be good shape in that they're going to pass these stress tests there's been a couple of banks saying that they could possibly fail but perhaps the market already had a good feeling for this. those type of failure candidates i think really perhaps is going to line up to be somewhat of a nonevent expectations are the major banks will pass and the biggest problems will be found in the smallest place which in many cases are not listed and once it's revealed which banks are in need of more capital it's still not clear what happens next that's civil conscious have been found that might be able to be drawn upon. business our team. for a quick look at the stock markets now european shares are mixed in the choppy trading session on friday gains in miners are being counted by weakness in

financial ahead of those stress test results that the chart is one of the top loses two percent now on the footsie good news for the british economy which grew one point one percent in the second quarter that's the fastest pace in four years. and the roster is a big day for miners and the world's nickel is off almost two and a half percent the government may take a stake which is up one and a quarter percent of the quarter to profit jobs two hundred twenty percent so you're wrong here petra pavlov's is looking at announcing an initial public offering on its final business. microsoft has posted record revenue of sixteen billion dollars for the second quarter that's a twenty two percent jump year one year and three hundred million dollars more than apple posted just a few days ago microsoft credited continued success of operating system windows seven as well as the recent launch of office twenty ten however the russian government chose free rival lloyd as its main operating system this week. there are

further signs russia's beleaguered car industry has turned the corner g.m. after plans to hire three hundred new employees at the plant by september at the height of the economic crisis the joint venture laid off four hundred employees the companies that are introducing a second production shift thanks to a rebound in demand state programs including cash for clunkers have helped to stabilize the plant. the world's top aluminum producer roussel has restarted operations and its aluminum plant in jamaica the facility was put on hold in two thousand and nine due to the economic crisis and fooling demand the plant is reopening six months earlier than expected in a further sign of recovery in the global metals market resells revenue rose by about thirty percent in the first quarter to reach more than two point three billion dollars. and food prices in russia will be controlled by the government as the drugs create scriptural to just across the country the head of top retailer x

five welcomed the move warning some business businessman will try speculative price rises first deputy prime minister viktor zubkov says he set up a commission to stop that. sure. there are no reasons for food prices to skyrocket right now we have created a subgroup with the tosk of monitoring prices on a daily basis and to check who behaves in what way on the market and whether there is a need to raise prices. your stock futures are trading higher ahead of wall street opening in a few minutes time join us next hour for the details. wealthy

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