you can. see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was a total retreat. the country's bidding for the hosting rights of the world cup twenty one thousand and twenty twenty two are making a final push with russia as one of the favorites. but we should be doing is saying to our friends and we will help you come out of the euro and get back to having euro currency fresh protests sweep across europe against the needs of a failing economy with italy now among the next risk following the fates of greece and ireland. and president better calls on the leading players and european security to push aside the stereotypes of the past and work together for the sake of future stability.

good evening for me kevin i mean here in moscow tonight of the studios where the top story that is the fight for the right to host football's world cup centered its final stage with candidate countries making their last presentations russia's bid for the twenty eighteen told a man said to be one of the strongest but it faces stiff competition from western europe. as you'd expect covering events tesser a sinner is reporting now from outside the fifa media center in syria. now we saw a lot more of the big names coming into town i was just at the afifa headquarters convoys coming in the media waiting outside so there's a lot of excitement surrounding the event of course well we've heard that prime minister vladimir putin won't be coming because he doesn't want to put pressure on the fact well we'll talk more about that later on but first let's have a little bit of a background and a look at russia's bid. twenty eighteen we believe this banner at russia's latest international friendly described how france felt about russia getting the world cup

but does the country with a rich football tradition stand a chance of becoming hosts i the dutch coach of the national team certainly hopes so even though his home country is among the big. we need the world to. put the infrastructure. because the majority of the. many experts agree with that notion believing that russia lags behind its rivals in terms of food infrastructure but that is about to change according to those behind moscow's bid this is the denominator stadio moscow's oldest this is where history's greatest football goalkeeper russian spent his glittering career the game's legend did not live to see his home ground being transformed it is now under construction to become an ultra morden stadium.

all in all russia plans to build sixteen stadiums for the world cup games a graphic presentation shows clearly that all grounds will be high tech the head of russia's bidding committee says even if it loses the right to host the cup it has won in other ways to look at sochi and every promise that we have. to the city is being fulfilled right now as we speak we do have a lot of things to build but it's it's no secret and. we have already started that even regardless of the first choice. of sixteen stadiums will be built regardless of the outcome of the december second footballers playing both in russia and abroad are relishing the prospect of playing on world class pictures but they say russia needs the world cup to both revive its one strong football traditions and to open the country to the rest of the footballing world. will be playing at that cup

anyway but i think it will be the biggest victory for my country if it gets this world cup it's a game brings people together. it's a great tournament huge storm in europe even to the south africa was a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are actually broken. experts say thursday's voting in zurich will be completely unpredictable the british press however believes that russia's bid and the joint one of spain portugal are favored to win the russian delegation hopes it will be able to impress the fee for executive committee just as russia's olympic bid team didn't want tamala to win the winter games for sochi. russia. reporting from moscow. well there's been a lot of attention given to russia the russian bear especially from the british press now one of the main questions coming from them is whether prime minister vladimir putin is coming well now he said that he will be staying home and he's also made comments on the media allegations ruptured in

a fever and now joining us in the discussion is r.t. sports presenter andrew farmer now andrew what do you what impact do you think it will have on russia's bid well it sounds like bad news doesn't it that mr putin's decided to stay at home but actually could be a p.r. masterstroke because he's actually sounding very sympathetic towards fee for in the executive committee saying he's staying at home because he doesn't want to put pressure on them he's then come out to criticize the timing of the media campaign which is alleged corruption within feet for saying that this whole event which is here really to decide who will host the next two world cups has turned into something of a smear campaign so i think members of the fee for executive committee hearing these remarks this evening could actually be quite appreciative ok well he's not coming but russia does have reinforcements right. here along with chelsea owner roman abramovich they'll be pushing brushes case despite peter not being here it's worth mentioning that russia still leads this race in the minds of the bookmakers

they're the clear favorite still with england second they have their prime minister david cameron here along with prince william and david beckham pushing their case then it's spain and portugal back in five to one they were the joint leaders at one stage with russia i don't know what happened there and then we have belgium holland bringing up the rear about what more is going to be a big day the contenders for the twenty eight hundred world cup will be making their final presentation to russia is going to make their presentation last now that could be a good thing some say that that's actually an advantage for russia i think it could be because there will be that with the last message that the fever executive will hear before they make their vote another point worth making is that sepp blatter defeat the president has the casting vote on this occasion and what that means is a very strong. the voting on the winning bid will need a majority a majority of twelve votes now it could mean in the final round would be two teams left to choose between and they could both get eleven votes each now that happens at a casting vote will be left to mr blatter he has made very positive noises about russia's

bit over the last few weeks and who knows if it comes down between it comes down to two teams to choose between he could push it to russia but right well there you have it the races very very close and i've spoken with a lot of people basically the essence is nobody really knows who is going to weigh in. says. when something crazy. when you get to get down to. the special coverage. is almost gone before the final whistle looms on an international faceoff for the future of the. world cup. find out the whole thing the world's largest sports event live on the margin. question more on. back to the president coming up a little bit later in the program in this half hour of news a self christmas present for the f.b.i.

. entrapment is not illegal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they wouldn't normally do the arrest of an alleged terror suspect sparks criticism of an anti terror tactics and as agents themselves helped him plot the attack details of that one coming up also. missile defense for europe must be addressed and u.s. officials should watch what they say we reveal details of political putin's interview with american t.v. veteran barry came. another eurozone country another threat of a bailout italy is the third largest economy that uses the euro and now there are fears it may start plunging in the same direction as greece and ireland with the euro falling the amount of money it costs rome to lend to debt ridden countries is rising dramatically spain portugal and belgium role also at risk of being pulled into the crisis doubts about the future of the single currency and the e.u. itself have been intensified by fresh protests sweeping across europe with people

angry and facing savage cuts to pay for the european parliament member nigel farage protrudes he says the countries are trapped inside the euro zone and should get out save the economy. if spain went down remember that the debt they've got is about seven times the size of our them so we'd be talking there about three hundred fifty billion. euros and italy bigger still and so you get to a point where there is no more bailout money where the euro in its current form would cease to exist i don't know whether that will happen in the next few weeks but it remains a real possibility when arlen joined the euro there were people like me saying there was no benefit for the country as most of their overseas trade was denominated in sterling or dollars anyway and that to join the euro they would have to have artificially low interest rates and for the first seven or eight years of their membership of the euro irish rates were three to four percent lower than they would have been had the irish kept the point and what that meant was that the

property boom became the most massive speculative bubble and that's why the bust is as bad as it is and now adam finds herself in the euro where euro zone interest rates are going to head up over the next couple of years at the very moment that they're trapped inside a deflationary downward spiral what we're talking about is free trade is the ability of companies to buy and sell goods from our next door neighbor in countries look the swiss do that without being you members that always do that without being e.u. members so if what the united kingdom wants is free trade she can have that without being part of a club that makes three thousand new rules for us every year and cost us a membership fee of nearly fifty million pounds a day and the seven billion pounds that the british government has said it will guarantee for the irish frankly is money poured down the drain what we should be doing is saying to our friends in ireland we will help you come out of the euro and get back to having your own currency otherwise frankly we're wasting this money mr

gross so someone said i think two years ago he said that the european union was the first ever nonmilitary empire and what empires try to do is expand so they'll have it into the euro and they'll try and make join the european union next year of the year after they think that all the while they're expanding people will say well it must be going well. and it will take their attention away from what's going on with him sadly it's too late and all the opinion polls show that in germany in greece in britain and ireland and right across the european union increasingly the publics of europe are holding the political class that have done this to them in increasing contempt. to insert their mind to farage or any pay and you can watch that full interview on our web page r.t. dot com and it's also why you tube channel two. also bleak predictions for europe's economic well being and coming from michael ross he's a market analyst and author he says there's real trouble ahead if the euro was to collapse. the political will is there to keep the euro with all means and this is

what also is he being. president today announced that they will print money in order to make the euro survive the other question of course is if by printing money you can keep the euro but i mean we are here on a very political. issue that means if the euro really will go then europe also will drown europe needs to have one was and has to be one power and this power is only defined by a currency by a common currency if this currency this current currency is falling then europe lose its voting rights in the world and this is what the politicians are well aware of so they will do everything to keep the euro alive of course if the periphery falls german will be the lender and at the end of the day also germany will all fall finally if we have interest rates of four five six percent also germany is not

able to beare this and so we will have big problems there's no other way then germany has to pull out of the euro if this is a possible or practical way this is of course another question but i don't think the german politicians are going to pull out of the euro they will stay there until the end. over on our website tonight amongst all the gloom as europe's leading the financial pinch we have some good news but a practical move may be a god so saving money would buy some top tips for shopping. and six. but it all helps doesn't it you say the census bureau's look after yourself. and over ninety years for far you sure can spot the bolshevik revolution the legendary proof the aura is officially decommissioned that it's actually disbanded together but the interesting it's not putting more on it behind the scenes is what ought to be don't compound your comments so to have you'll say.

it's been hailed as a coup for u.s. national security the capture of a terror suspect accused of plotting to set off a bomb at an annual christmas tree lighting ceremony but as are these unnecessary choking reports next many believe it's a case of entrapment the agents having groomed the nineteen year old somali american for the crime. this winter season the f.b.i. celebrates the reason the arrest of a potential terrorist but a little something is wrong with this picture over the eighteen months they cultivated him the alleged plot or as a teenager the bomb he planted a fake and the f.b.i. allegedly manipulated him into committing a crime entrapment is not illegal entrapment is getting someone to do something

that they would normally do the guy named mohammed had his e-mails tracked by authorities while they waited for the right time to get him to act against u.s. national security or the f.b.i. as dave said with him every step of the way because he started to say he was fifteen years old for years x. amount of money and efforts from the f.b.i. later the sting mission comes to a close the nineteen year old is accused of plotting to blow up a christmas tree in portland oregon the language used against him in f.b.i. records is all too familiar to the sensitive american and even though the device was. fake here spreads like bacteria the threat was very very real. media images were quick to portray what could have and would have happened had the bomb been real. becoming yet again not a watchdog but an echoing voice of authorities along as terrorism stuff i think is

kind of embarrassing for most of the media the way the f.b.i. has official word on whatever is just taken as the truth but the obvious truth to some is what's not addressed at all when it comes to national security and terrorism it just sort of stops all conversation it's chilling conversation you immediately assume i want to be protected the f.b.i. will protect me and and therefore whatever it says is true when often it isn't the case dubbed the christmas tree plot or is far from the first to bring to light the practice of entrapment in the u.s. convincing pursuing an. tricking the eventually accused has become systematic according to some and they can come after you and they can manufacture crimes against you and they can make up a whole case and put you through the whole thing and eventually if they can persuade a jury that this manufactured case is valid you can go to jail for a very long time and with the case being built against muhammad not just by officials but by the media to what would have been

a catastrophic event at its christmas tree lighting the destiny of the u.s. citizen turned water with a little help from the f.b.i. seems clear to the problem is that you know in court cases people juries believe the f.b.i. they are the f.b.i. they have been you know we've been indoctrinated to believe that the f.b.i. can do no wrong of course there are many many cases where the f.b.i. has done a lot of wrong the rule of law enforcement is to catch the bad guys so that the good guys we'll see for a good one criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the idea of national security becomes just is made up as a means of reaching. this issue get out. of new stories to bring up today with pakistani officials who dismissed claims that the country's nuclear arsenal could fall into the wrong hands those fears came from recent revelations by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks giving details of more than two hundred thousand private u.s. diplomatic cables many analysts politicians say the leaks offered little that

wasn't already known though the founder of the web site julian assange is currently wanted by interpol for questioning after the alleged sex offense which he denies and says is part of a smear campaign. europe's big freeze is set to continue its heavy snowfall covers much of the continent in poland the cold front has claimed the lives of eight homeless people as the temperatures drop minus twenty is also huge disruption to travel with the cancellation of hundreds of flights and stranded passengers a final turn of the other side of the coin though you see the pictures the minute greece is experiencing record heat for the. the time of the year would go with unseasonably high temperatures a result the weather people are telling us are african the sand being blown in nice if it happens to get. moscow wants to become an equal partner in new plans for european missile defense otherwise it would force russia to increase its nuclear arsenal to defend its borders and that's according to premier vladimir putin who's

been discussing the country's security policy in an interview with american t.v. host larry king when asked about the latest wave of wiki leaks putin said it was quote no catastrophe unquote because it was such a poorly kept secret however he did lashed out at the assessment of his relations with president medvedev saying the comparison to batman and robin was arrogant and unethical put his interviewers with him several hours now in the us and he's likely to be the last statesman ever to appear on larry king live before the veteran t.v. star retires. the organization for security and cooperation in europe is losing its influence and needs to be modernized they are the words of russia's president dmitry medvedev who has been visiting the capital of as it hosts the first summit of the fifty six member group in a decade russia also wants to reboot relations with a group which suffered after the country withdrew from the european conventional arms treaty three years ago that came after the us announced its missile defense plans in europe also at the summit president medvedev has once again pushed his

initiative to create a pan-european security treaty. that the new treaty we have proposed would be aimed at guaranteeing common security for europe i think everyone who supports it is it's been discussed for two and a half years maybe the stereotypes of the past are still strong and this initiative is ahead of its time but it turned will inevitably come. and as a major summit in full swing we get the view from the inside next as we hear from the organization secretary general that's coming up in just a second or two. mr

bush of us thank you very much for talking to us during the always see summits in to what extent is organization for security and cooperation in europe is interested in proposed by president and european security treaty whether proposals by present medvedev had one great merit because they were sort of a wake up call that not. everybody was happy with in the family of greater europe with the current arrangements regarding security a fresh look if fresh approach had to be given to those issues this clearly energized the discussions and there was a year as you know there was a so-called call for process and i think this laid the groundwork for

the efforts of the cars a german ship of sea where see this year and the strong push by the covered seven ship to have this summit which we're having now and which anyway. to renovate and to give a new foundation to european security the mere fact that the fifty six are meeting here means that they care about having a better atmosphere about each other the better climate and that they care about giving it new thrust a new impulse refresh a bishop to this organisation you will see where they are together on equal footing where they are as equal members of the same family not members of this or that group where it is a russian nature corporation leave organization for security and cooperation in europe as a military organization i see there are different different tracks through which

a community security and greater europe can be built it will be you know we see certainly but it. will be also in different organisations the fact that lisbon was a good meeting that there was a successful nato russia council meeting that there was also a successful meeting of contributors to what i suffered. gives a good back to the work we are having here and i stand and they continue with contacts between the european union the russian federation the continued contacts individual states have among themselves various combinations all these created network of good will and they would network of mutually supporting exchanges it is out of network because this continuous process of consultation incorporation that we are going to overcome current mistrust and current difficulties belonging they always say mission in the caucasus was rejects augusta georgia south and south

of here what lessons have been there and some that it is not only the receive mission of the caucasus which had or didn't have an impact on the conflict as you know there were much broader cases there we see did its duty as the early warning to it did its duty in terms of for trying to address the crisis when it happened and may i remind you that we had no less than twenty military monitors which were present between september two thousand and eight and july two thousand and nine and which was the first ones to try and help stabilize the situation so the lessons are there however for everybody that you cannot escape difficult issues that you have to address and relentlessly that you have to take every opportunity to create conditions for exchange for political dialogue so this is what is happening regularly in geneva this is what is happening in the contact so-called i p r at

meetings between the different parties where they will see is also involved regarding the station and cells of seashell there is no quick. it is a difficult issue but it is also an issue where there is some very hard work doing including going on including here in the past and most of the world's heroin is consumed on our seed territory two point five million russians are addicted to drugs that come from afghanistan and increasing quantities in why is always seem powerless to stop the drug flow considering that the political will is there. well following the mandate we received from our ministers in two thousand and seven in madrid we have been working very seriously alongside with inflation members of the principal states and deal with the to strengthen the borders between afghanistan and the central asian states by intensive training of central asian

border police the customs office drugs police along with. afghanistan and the problems generated by drug trafficking are at the heart of the concerns of the us how can washington forces help to prevent drug trafficking from afghanistan considering that russia has repeatedly said that its forces will not be sent to afghanistan but we're also working side by side with c.s.t. oh which also has a committee is there and with russian forces which are presently in the. so what is important is to have very good coordination very good coordination between international organizations where shanghai corporation with c.s.d. or with c.i.s. but also with the un with the you with the council of europe when it is involved in order to all work in the same direction and to have a very positive synergy to make progress how can you respond to the claim that

there are going to zation for security and cooperation in europe doesn't stalls conflicts but rather three. always see it is as good as it's participating states we cannot have a magic wand and because we have souls who are good principles work out instant solutions there is some merit in freezing conflicts a frozen conflict is better than an active conflict and just keeping political process off parting parties discussing with each other take the example of the men's group and it says three co-chairs they have a very hard job and there was a b.b. working strenuously in order to avoid renewed conflict but also progressively to build new principles of what may be the peace arrangement this is happening here also in a stand up that may be

a high level meeting in the context of say men's group and there hopefully will be this is a centrist job because it's a very demanding one for those who practice it. to make me the years spent create a foundation for the future and hopefully for a political solution to the conflict thank you very much. thank you. eat things.

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