around the world this is r.t. here in moscow russia and germany should dramatically increase their economic cooperation that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists at a business form in berlin. of his following the discussions. but you know pushing me to. a speech at the forum focusing on the cooperation between russia and the european union calling for more cooperation and more ties in fact he said that if russia and the european union want to stay competitive in the world in the international economy of an it is vital for both to work together he also called european partners not to hamper cooperation between european companies and russian companies once again he talked about creating a free economic zone a free trade zone between russia and the european union from long. and hold

the international community to specifically business elites here in germany and the european union to put their efforts together in order to sort of the remaining problems many of which are still quite visible here in europe and in russia as well let's listen to what was going to put in had to say you know it was a good shot it took the year a slightly fluctuating but as a whole it's a good stable world currency that should take its rightful position is the world reserve currency i think that over the last ten years there's been one wrong aspect that we should actually eliminate is the excessive little ism of the dole is the sole world reserve currency and with us this is certainly something that the russian prime minister was also asked a question whether or not he was going to run for president during the next presidential poll in russia while budget which is said that both you and the president of russia dmitry medvedev are used to these questions and. both of them answer these questions in the same way that the time comes they're going to study

the situation together and determine what's better for the country at the time off the upcoming fall and of course he says their decision will be based on what's best for the russian nation while colonel. the skies over the european economy in general are continuing to dark and there are serious problems in greece portugal ireland we're getting reports that spain and belgium may be next and in this scenario in this context germany is actually currently a great example of how to overcome financial difficulties it's showing some really impressive economic growth just previously of the german government announced that you know we're all unemployed people in the country has reduced from five to three million people they are actually saying that this number dropped altogether in the near future and that this is already the situation in some parts of the country

this is a huge war taking place since some of the most influential and successful companies are taking part their leaders are taking part. he going to spin off there and that i mean putin also managed to lighten the mood of the forum with his usual biting sense of humor the prime minister hinted that germany needs russia's energy resources. miska chases. a certain german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. but i don't understand what you're going to use to he say you don't develop your nuclear power what are you going to use i would i i was you have to get inside syria to go. thank you and marcus kubba who's a professor of political economy in berlin says more and more taxpayers in europe's biggest countries are now turning against plans. the german taxpayer is no longer

willing to lease is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece. example of very bad governance and we are no longer willing is in either to bail out ireland to fuel an ailing banking sector i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in a under the menace of the president of the european central bank this is so large that everybody wants to be protected and the more it's raining cats and dogs the more they want to be protected and the portuguese. prime minister and the finance minister pushed island to put themselves under the umbrella to be under the umbrella themselves as quickly as possible this is an inflation of claims to be bailout which will ruin the eurozone sooner or later and the german taxpayer who has a word to say in all that is no longer willing to do saying something like that after

months hurtling around the world in orbit a russian cosmonaut and two nasa astronauts have their feet firmly back on the ground after returning from the international space station and although the landing in kazakhstan was dubbed ideal the crew had to bite their lips before their trip to terra firma auntie's a town in africa has more now from star city the heart of russia's space program. russian veteran cosmonaut through the years in has now safely returned to the government center for training his colleagues from nasa shannon walker and douglas wheelock to move back to the united states all three members of the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for rehabilitation flights back to earth from the international space took about three hours t.m.a. nineteen spacecraft landed safely the mission is now complete and the crew feels good and is satisfied with the way it went landing and. i congratulate everyone who

contributed to the success of this project for their huge achievement has all together spent a year in space and his colleagues from nasa sean walker and douglas willer have spent about six months there each in their mission included a number of space walks and scientific experiments and they've in fact brought a container a refrigerator with the result of one hundred twenty scientific experiments they conducted during their mission including by technical physics and chemical chemistry tests for this particular team there must have been him and elements of extra stress before their departure because they witnessed their predecessors failing to undock from the international space station due to a technical difficulty with an automatic lock that connects the international space station and to say you spacecraft that delayed their return back to earth by twenty four hours nonetheless the previous team also won that safely but this team seemed to be rather optimistic about their return they even had a special thanksgiving dinner before they started getting ready to fly back to

earth right now three more cosmonauts remain at the international space station and they're welcome there were waiting to welcome three more in the middle of december . joseph stalin was responsible for the mass killing of polish prisoners in western russia in one nine hundred forty russia's parliament has accepted the soviet leader ordered the catton massacre that's relations between moscow and warsaw for years artie's katrina's arbor has the details. for decades the soviet union denied any responsibility in this atrocious crime for fifty to rehears the soviet union attempted to blame nazi forces for the killing of polish officers in the so-called cutting massacre that was in the 1940's when nearly twenty thousand polish officers were detained and executed all over the soviet union it became known as the cutting massacre because he was one of the burial grounds where nearly four thousand officers were executed shot in the back of the head and buried in mass graves and for decades the world we're going to break into that report because we're going to

return to our top story of the visit. to germany to berlin what he promised was addressing journalists with german chancellor life here. today in the first part of our discussions we will talk about things more as dinner but we talked about economics and my other economic topic. was the engagement of germany is that germany business in russia is quite big despite the crisis that we were going across here that it hits and has left some to consequences and the german economy is a very important partner for russia in a support american. will uphold the banks the corporation it with russia and today we signed to a joint documents to prove this corporation and we have

a very intensive corporation we work together very closely and the. and and we have discussed is what we discussed we could work and we will do that as a more. we talked about the infrastructure. development develop hospitals develop roads. precision in health knowledge. corporation in transit every day. we'll there is very important for us and we also are convinced. that we tell you where it is in russia is that the modernization of russia is a very very important one russia is of course very important. very important for materials for instance in gas. of course russia must start first a five is economy. strong and that germany is a good partner and

a very important partner in that for me i am very happy that discussions with the w.c. . and russia are very are going very well and that russia is a very important partner and a very important new member in that organization and prime minister putin suggested yesterday to have a free zone. for in the future to have free zones between europe and russia and i i agree with that and i think russia and europe are strategic partners that of course have to broaden its potential and they must develop that. and there are of course problems that we have to overcome and problems that we have to solve and first of all it's the question to the question of russia becoming a member of the w and there of course other very many other things that we need

to talk about we need of course to also talk about the e.u. russia partnership a treaty all and it's going very well should we have talked about individual steps and we have talked about building up the north stream if you and i were talking a lot about it and i am. from and i can information. about it. on the right as human. throughout the evening we will talk about other economic topics was about specific specific things but the actual the essence of the message is that economic ties between tremendous germany of course the european union as well and russia they have a lot of potential still that we have to develop and i'm very happy with that of a russia is developing its science modernization and technology. developing and that it's about things cocoa and i'm very happy about it.

it was and i don't mean just for all chancellor ladies and gentlemen. well everything on officially scheduled on the floor in my visit to berlin is repartee tie it includes the state exposure level of events like my own meeting with the madam of chancellor and also important meetings with the german businessmen i think they were very productive you know and very substantial and it was a very helpful dialogue with the immediate secretive sold for the from the go to germany's leading a company yes we discussed our common fledging objection to this in the post-crisis world completely but you talk about the synergy of our attention and any further economic development and of course we discussed specific projects would that benefit both already kind of trace of benefits going and you know russia and

germany have decided to intensify their cooperation and the two billion strategic partnership and this approach is you. concrete results in the forest in the three have turned over a year which is about eighteen billion euros both ways. but if that is even though it's not just imagine that would it would maybe we'll have twenty billion euros by the end of the year debts which is but he would go out of how much menasha goods the german it economy produces and sells in our market is it law you look at the thing you mean of course this creates job and reduces wealth for a lot of people in germany is this a lot are not i just asked our economics minister to give me something curious in an x. that the share of russia in german x. or its is a two point five percent to manipulate you all the all german exports idea with japan the figure is just one point three percent of them which of the i think the

overall volume of german sales in the russia you think it is comparable to that of leading economies in the euro zone this means a lot. and because we're also successful of developing our into creative cooperation in industry infrastructure and high tech and with a go at it if we have agreed with madam chancellor to provide political and organizational support to various businesses the initiatives that we are looking we are trying to move on from merely trade cooperation to food loan your mouth to your industrial technological cooperation to create turn to be interesting here ski areas use three of them when we have a high level working group politically working in this area and we have issued a joint declaration on our and your attention it would be to us we paid special

attention to developing small and medium sized business during our short meeting you're probably in with the c.v. of madam chancellor if you outlined some problems that small and medium sized businesses face in russia and i agree with her we still have a lot to do in the syria assured enough of that if you are but also because we discussed the areas of science in research cooperation and including through the research science and education in two thousand and eleven in the bed in federal chancellor pays a lot of attention to these areas but we know her as the primary education or the profession and we have our projects in hamburg and in other research centers in germany and russia is represented there at a pretty serious level and we will continue this work in the future i'd like to mention one more thing that we look at our meeting with the german businessmen we

raise the show fees of free travel again and the difficulties that they get at the border for melty is created for the business contacts of russia's approach to the. problem is well known we think that to be serous should be asked simple as possible and we have repeated lee stated that we are ready for it visa free travel you must of course you know we can only proceed in this direction based on the principle of equality and restore california germany was the first country that we signed our agreement with it to simplify one of these a regime and that was followed by our agreements with other e.u. countries and with the european union as a whole we also touched the subject in the news which and when you go and i think willing to talk about this what if there were more about. recognizing diplomas. each other's diplomas this is important for the job market we also discussed energy

issues naturally. and you've seen here and there with you when you go you know we discussed the problem it was human brought up by them the third in or two in the past year we still have a lot of questions on this issue and it's not clear at this point how all these decisions will be implemented a commitment we saw in that but i would like to use the well known rule don't throw in the question if something. is not broken don't fix it but think of it but on the whole by you be meeting this time was quite productive in all of so frank i would like to thank madam chancellor for this kind of atmosphere thank you very much.

omar says newspaper my question is first of all to. chance for them do you still think that the establishment of the customs union between russia kazakhstan and belarus sees an obstacle to creating a free trade area between russia and the e.u. thank you. yesterday i pointed out that russia has developed a lot in discussions to become a member of the w. of. belarus and comes down are not quite as far if there is a customs union with russia means that all countries all countries must be members of the w g a we talked about it today and prime minister. explained to me

that because of this customs union kazakhstan and belarus ruth are making very fast progress towards towards becoming. member just like russia did and that's why. it would become a free zone for belarus and kazakhstan as well possibly but today we cannot say that. today we're only talking about the future or the possible future but which i support you basically we are neighbors after all and like in other areas as well we will will develop that and will be partners step by step and we have and today. only details. details and paperwork that we have to overcome that has to do with the w.t. here because i like to add a few words. for you and actually i told madam chancellor to do. so.

it's discuss them we're setting up we have actually already set out the customs union with bill or east in kazakhstan and now we are talking about creating a common economic space but i would like to repeat what i said during part of our meeting with the german businessmen but i will look at them with the rules by which we establish these common economic space one on one in the form. are practical you know way different from the rules that are used in the w t o. and this applies both to markets access to syria says the movement of goods labor for its capital everything so in this sense. our european partners including our german. will find it much more convenient to work in the area because all rules are. understandable to them yeah.

make things more difficult in fact this will simplify. our operation make it more convenient actually we did this. for our european partners and we will complete it soon so this will only benefit our couple mission with europe. today also mentioned second point in the import on the customs. of questioning we cannot have the freight and i design and also one country for instance if you take russia as often of our industry russia will say we want to build up our own industry and that's of course very important to build up an economic power and in this case it could be that you know freakonomics on it's not just that it makes it about what they can i mean about easier not to do but here of course russia is also

using the customs. to develop this house and to to put pressure on itself so as you see it's a project for the future and of course we must not lose the future for that i agree with. i have never spoken about the customs import customs so well usually i don't like them very much. because think of what else i'm from reuters. would often visit a vision and was voiced goods about russia as coming closer. do you agree that russia is a valuable. idols and can you also say prime minister whether. whether you would like to join europe. i did read i did read about that russia would adopt the euro but i don't think russia at the moment

. actually set on becoming a member of the euro zone but of course the economic. they cannot make was the economic position and the currencies are intertwined so as much as much so we need to talk about it as much as possible and take concrete steps but of course i also believe that russia. how it's used to free for free. after the economic crisis and of course that what is the aim for the future. i'm saying is that money. the money policies and economic development are parallel ways and this concerns also discussion that we had with president medvedev and lispenard about. we are. we finally how it departed from this image as

a cold war we now think we now. believe that russia is. is our neighbor and our partner and of course in a global world we need to look at who has common interests and how can we don't care how can we work together and on every level we are working with russia together. with us for the currency union what we all realize that a currency you know he's always had to really to go on is together depends on the level of economic development this is obvious and i fully agree with what madam chancellor said is that if you have to me true or not you're still get to this point but only for the future because i don't true out this kind of cooperation between our two countries but this is the first thing i'd like to see now what would you do about our initiatives to give us more to join w two thousand and eleven because i think this is possible and we would like this to happen on the

whole package to yes those basically we have agreed all matters by now. we also will see. you know at the g. twenty. we want to close the doha round. and we would like that for russia to be a w. to remember when that happens. those are tussling with. mr luzhin video dimension of the a third energy package that has greater seniority size the lot of them how do you think this problem can be sold it is at the end but don't you think this can go through the north stream and self-esteem who is pushing at least projects and also i'd like to ask madam chancellor what was just what she thinks about it as a document considering the bad news that both russian and german companies are softening from the standard introduce live by the swag and my second question has

to do with the integration you discussed the visa on the russian side it's obvious that as we're reading these germany ready for visa free travel and what practical steps is germany going to take. when you my. we realize. that. our european partners are in brussels in this case to deem monopole ice the market and on the whole. this is good but we have to keep in mind. because in that you can say to them over them the energy business plan is radically different from the transport business. we see. that this solution they offer that's already in the can and let that be. in the video and it can damage can be but is dangerous for vertical energy companies primarily the companies of russia

and germany and yet they are concerned about it and i share their concerns that's the first thing i'd like to say now second do you think and object to this day nobody explained to us how is what in the work of newly. adopted regulations and rules will be organized and nobody told us about this way for example nordstrom you have gas going to deprive what will happen to it next how it will go through the pipes that. you know i'm sure we would have our german partners built this is all property but so we're not allowed to transport gas to consumers through that those who will transported anywhere the who'll get gas in that pipeline them if it comes from siberia well you drill a hole in the pipe and then without any size video gas offshore we have to be realistic we have to look at the real situation so we really expect that our

european partners including up partners in brussels will understand this we will show understanding and it will find a way out in which you can always find a way if there is goodwill and i think we can see goodwill with many of our european partners primarily german partners. when it comes to this topic in the european union in the european commission there is a very strong tendency to say that wherever there. were ever there is. only something to transfer whatever transport of gas or electricity or booked the products. and the actual whole transport of the product long way from then on that but you have to separate the property you have to separate the product from the way point charmin has never been a friend of this philosophy and we have always talked about possibilities to.

also in the electricity in that we have solutions that are shiftless it's when we should transport that there is a book that there is no division about i you know that there are possibilities of divide the transport and the products but there is all there are also must be ways to combine in terms of property and the sort of third energy package we need to implement together with russia. it will only be relevant twenty thirteen and there must be practical ways to actually make it work and we have maximal maximum flexibility for them. most especially and we will talk to russia about just mark and when it comes to gas the whole the four how their argument is there are not that many. can.