to the devastating quality of our religious statement after losing their husbands many women have been abandoned by their families and they do it to by society and seen as causing bad luck. the next hour to talk to russia's finance minister to hear about the modernization on the way as a country takes a step nearer to join the world trade organization. can obstacles are down russia could join the wall trade organization in a few months from now but there have been many forecasts like that in the past all wrong but russia's finance minister believes this one will come true but find out why i say anything which there have been so many predictions of the kind why do you believe this one will contra. was the real work began in two thousand at that time i was head of a governmental commission to deal with w t o a session but having graph was the main driver the key stage was in two thousand and four when we signed an agreement

with the e.u. it really seemed that when we had covered more than half the ground then in two thousand and six we signed an agreement with the us and it seemed to us that we had covered ninety percent of the way however every time something hindered entry in my view political reasons did last time it was georgia that dampened our relations with the us when we could not solve even a purely technical issue with the us now thanks to the agreement between obama. and their fixing the deadline we have achieved positive results in our bilateral relations it appears to me that should this political will remain everything is possible in fact we lacked it which was the main factor we lacked in the last period of the bush administration and now all the work has been transferred to geneva we are facing much fewer questions so i believe there's a political will and a desire by all and it's left up to our ministries employees to complete everything does this mean most opticals are left behind and countries like georgia won't be

a problem. with time is because of as you have said there are certain obstacles as yet which we are going to overcome gradually and when i was mentioning we would have to have about four months to finalize the document so i do not consider an obstacle as result from georgia nothing threatens but we have to coordinate all the provisions of the customs union with all previously reached. on the show with all the countries inside the customs union we have agreed on the principles that it as of today we are taking our agreements with our partners the working group on the deputy o. as a basis and the ascension will be based on to russia's terms so mainly technical questions remain so let's imagine russia joining the wall trade organization how is it going to change the russian economy. for the russian economy the level of tariff shelter will be determined with the help of import taxes from all over the world for example we produce similar products but we protect ourselves from the same products of other countries with twenty percent tariffs over

a transition period of between seven to ten years we should lower our average tears to seven percent that means that tariff protection will become slightly lower and this is what orient our business to become more effective there are three spheres that should be gradually liberalized the flow of capital which russia has done commodity flow under the and labor movement which allows a workforce to migrate to where the economy is on the rise russia should liberalize in these directions to be able to gather at the right time and place for all of these factors capital products facilities new technologies and workforce that produce i say i need to say the russian government announced that the shares of ten major stake companies will be put on sale well those shares me available to foreign investors. which has to hit but certainly the privatization regime is public national scale except certain strategic enterprises of this list contains mean the oil companies apart from a number of others for which special procedures required at this point i can't tell

you exactly what these are strictures will apply and for what companies as soon as a list of companies is published will specify them. used so if the sale happens how will a fact russia succession into the wall. strictly speaking. these privatization issues are not within the dead competence so this may not affect the session as a whole though when a positive reputation of russia is created as a country open for investment in increasing the private sector shares major companies interests in russia's growing group let's just move away from the wall trade organization on the international monetary fund meeting this year you received the award as the best finance minister of the here and everyone is saying that russia coped with the financial global financial crisis better than expected how attractive is washington terms of foreign investments at this moment. in the

finance who took to the heads of major financial organizations who i met with in the past three days are very keen on russia with interest rates very low in the west is possible that something only an emerging markets pressley where the ratio between profitability and reliability is optimal russia is showing exactly this thanks to the government's strict credit policy we have good four x. holdings which means we are not afraid of devaluation or defaults the country's budget balance is good so is the balance of payments in this respect we are very attractive. there are a lot of discussions here in the west about about the level of government interference in the russian economy and that sort of one of the concerns that the west has to what question economy what is being done to reduce that that involvement of the government in the economy. first of all the interference of the state in the economy is a fact and we must see where and how it takes place the first major tears state

involvement through stakes in major companies and corporations as privatization is under way selling major stakes will solve this issue which will soften fears second it's about state run regulating agencies including those that collect taxes issue licenses to check the quality of production and norms the quality of state regulation needs. to be improvements we missed this and all of us are working on that the new draft law on the police is meant to improve their work of concerning taxes we have created a new package of laws on the quality of tax administration the responsibility of tax inspector employees problem. earlier said that the tax burden on russian business will be increased in the near future but the pressure on russian business is already high why was this decision made. this decision is linked to the increase of pensions in our country for a very long time pensions were too low in late two thousand and nine an average pension was an equivalent of two hundred us dollars

a month that's too low and it does not correspond to wages the average salary being about seven hundred u.s. dollars so for several years we prepared an increase in pensions however it so happened that when we were increasing them the crisis occurred and revenues got smaller after weighing all the pros and cons the government decided to continue with the pensions hike they will mean increases of forty to forty five percent sorry on the first of january company payments will increase from twenty six to thirty four percent of the salary pool this will be sensitive for all companies producing the main problem of the russian economy today in your opinion. its about the weakness of market and state power institutions and the quality of administering of state functions in other words excessive interference from the state and insufficiently clear regulation within the tories administrative barriers lower competition the economy it's going to fishel helps win a competition this is the main obstacle for further development because the

knackery connery and the state finances are good. business now i know that finance later on this international monetary fund meeting we're discussing the so-called battles of currency say that you know we know that the us and. they complain about china and some other. deliberately on the ballot there crises to aid their exporters and this may lead to trade wars i've heard that how serious is that and where is russia standing on that matter. where they were and. currently there's no battle of currencies it's very likely that it's more of an expectation that one day currencies will become a more serious tool in competition at the moment the best examples are the u.s. and china the situation there is unique but i don't think we can say that such a war is taking place in other parts of the world on the other hand you might say that some of the dispersion of distortions are forming in currencies for example

some moves of the american side i mean influence currencies most likely there are fears that someday such a war will become more serious but i can say that the possibilities to play around with currencies are very insignificant or short term although china is the exception country that goes beyond any rules or it's conducting an aggressive policy due to strong government control its economy and foreign policies or market economies don't have such opportunities for stronger ministers of course. which you and i should i say to any of it also on this year's i.m.f. meeting we know that the united states have the loudest voice within the organization we also know that emerging markets would have would like to have a bigger say on the i.m.f. board any success on that. historically the bretton woods institutions that is the i.m.f. and the world bank have obviously been under the influence of the usa and the e.u.

and still are as the new growing markets are in fact a locomotive for the economic growth and of much money the rule is in significant decision making on the world market during a crisis it is crucial to have all the decisions well balance which means representation should be proportionate today it is not proportionate so there are fears that the decisions to be adopted will be based on a fair and from. fortunate representation not in the interest of the whole of the world economy so the question of changing the quarters is right although it would be so undesirable to lose one's vote and influence when it comes to deciding we have not yet found a final solution and when after concertgoers. nature and discover its museum.

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unit is up next and it seems the greats of kenya and ethiopia running i've got to make some room at the top indeed we'll put it like this kerry there are five big races in the calendar russian. two of them she's doing yet very very well more on the rest of the sport coming up. very welcome to sports today here on twenty four hour our t.v. i mean you know these headlines meeting the boss the new jersey nets touchdown in moscow to open eastern europe the first n.b.a. store and also to say hello to them on three signing their checks russian billionaire for hard to. make her a double. successfully defend her chicago marathon title knocking a full five minutes off her two thousand and nine mark in the process.

the great leveller there's no no one beaten squads remaining in the n.f.l. after comes as don to indianapolis in week five. let's get going with basketball where the new jersey nets squad finally met up with their new owner the n.b.a. side jetting in for a flying visit to the russian capital for some face time with mikhail prokhorov to officially open moscow's first n.b.a. found store constantine to top off was there for us. the new jersey nets arrived in russia for a flying visit just hours after beating philadelphia back home across the atlantic the nets her own one day piece stop in moscow then route to china where they will take on the houston rockets in the russian capital the players too poor in a ceremony to open the first n.b.a. shop in the eastern europe it's incredible and i'll just go on the rocks here are red square for didn't see. the circle going to get somewhere probable.

cause to soar hope we can. see all of that stuff not so often here. just like this they have not had much time to rest the team also holding an open training session and the youth clinic they're still trying to forget a disaster season last year sitting in new record losing streak of eighteen straight defeats at the start however the main event of their visit to moscow came when they had their first meeting with a new owner mikhail prokhorov the russian billionaire bought a majority share in may the towering tycoon has been impassioned best bolt there since school with such an avid and reach fan putting his pocket where his passion is the team is hoping in a sense is just around the corner and we're really excited to have had on just a little and we can help us win it's a huge challenge you know and our bit nervous and not a lot of very anxious to help with this for help i. thought to be russia's second

richest man broker has become the first only from outside north america in n.b.a. history and he hopes the club he has bought will become a world famous brand with global reach and appeal i think it's a really unique because i'm the foreigner. and between it's my competitor one. would predict a lot of for sales in different countries. this will support a. new global front of the new people. however the financial giant says he's also got one eye very much on domestic basketball stating he wants to bring an be standards to home ground in russia and increase the sport's popularity among younger sisters. i hope it will be a very good start for development. because we need good coaching or new good medicine when you. do marketing and we need some

people really fresh only a few space youngsters will enjoy this time. in france here in russia we'll hope that the billionaire is new club slogan blueprint for greatness will not only ring true for the new jersey nets but for boskone moon russia's well intentioned but. now leadership book of a has once again proved herself queen of the illinois roads the russian winning the chicago marathon for the second straight time hotter than comfortable day for the field at one of the five world martha majors temperatures didn't seem to affect though they're thirty two year old pacing yourself early on falling off a minute behind leader a steady pace of ethiopia at one stage but the russian had plenty in reserve adventure storming to victory by over three minutes. following her win in london april takes the overall title and with it half

a million dollars the event also marked a special double with last year's winner in the men's event kenyon summit one zero retaining his pride and us well. martin kaymer season just keeps getting better on the greens the german becoming the first european tour golfer to win three straight events following victory at the dunhill links championship was a big day for his ryder cup team at leeds westwood the englishman was seeking to be named. world number one snorer would come aboard if he finished at least second out saddam dru's but tiger woods ranking is safe for the time being at least after a niggling ankle injury meant thirty seven year old westwood could only manage eleventh place the davis belonged to this man came or his back nine putting a wonder in itself on the scottish course pulling both on and off the green at the end of it all his seventeen under par total was three strokes too good for danny willett victory previously at the p.g.a.

championship dutch open adding up to a memorable hot trick for the twenty five. to the circuit where jorge lorenzo has clinched their twenty ten moto g.p. title three races early the spaniard finishing third in supplying enough for him to wrap up his inaugural crime it was defending champion volunteer want to see though do not stop his first win since the opening day of the year though having missed a large part of the season with a leg injury rawson was out of the title equation some time back leaving dani pedrosa us lorenza only serious rival but when he went on with a broken collarbone at last week's japanese prime previous path was clear for spello fellow spaniard lorenzo to reach the victory something he would do with a top ten finish a situation which is never really in doubt so moto g.p. title number one for relieved jorge lorenzo. when the stars live in i thought. we we're going to finish the race and get the moon

how right you can get in with your world so who is my happiest day in my life and we have to because. there are no more unbeaten teams this year in the n.f.l. kansas city they live a squad to taste defeat against indianapolis the chiefs holding two time running m.v.p. peyton manning without a touchdown but an unlikely hero save the day for the colts events of course he has more. the chiefs have been the n.f.l. surprise package so far this year the up and coming squad grabbing three straight wins after having only four victories all of last year and they look to seize the momentum right from the off but a lack of exec you should ruin the surprise onside kick the chiefs defense playing better than expected against last year's super bowl runners up joseph addai unable to get the needed yards on fourth down with time running out in the opening half

the colts getting just a pair of field goals out of their drives for a six to three halftime lead more goals from manning in the second half safety john mcgraw in the right spot at the right time to come up with the interception indianapolis forced to rely on veteran kicker advantage cherry for their points the fourth time super bowl champion giving the colts a twelve nine lead late in the fourth with another in the war course addai hurty on the sidelines his backup my card came in for the winning touchdown run nineteenth and nine the final score so no more unbeaten teams in the n.f.l. just five weeks into the regular season the cowboys were unable to live up to the hype once again with the visiting tennessee titans prevailing in their clash miles austin has emerged as a force last year and the twenty six year old shoulder tightens what he can do in the third to help tie the game at seventeen chris johnson putting tennessee back up

twenty seven twenty with the short yardage touchdown the n.f.l.'s fastest man rushing for one hundred thirty one yards and two scores a few things go right for dallas who gave up three turnovers and six sacks while committing twelfth penalties this does down past from tony romo to jason witten soured by a flag for excessive celebrations afterwards that call meant the cowboys set the kickoff from further. back allow we return now to mark mariano and to set up johnson for an easy score thirty four twenty seven how it ended with this year's super bowl set for the cowboys stadium the prospects of the home team play needed are looking more and more grim. vonzell gorski archie. the n.f.l. season definitely hotting up brazil have further strengthened their grasp on the world volleyball the only team to win a global championship since the turn of the millennium following up their two

thousand and two and two thousand and six victories with a demolition job over cuba on sunday a case of old guard versus pretenders to the throne in rome but the fosli experienced some boys weren't about to let their dominance slide with a travel at stake brazil taking the first and second set with some ease cubit the youngest squad in the tournament by some distance unable to find any real rhythm throughout. the reigning champions took full advantage securing the twenty ten world championships with a twenty five twenty two twenty five fourteen twenty five twenty two scoreline brazil though up there with the pretty telling teens of the ninety's who also won three in a row. that is all your sport for now the world weather summing up in just a tick season. question was that so much as i was about the feeling goes i think if i can just

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