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am in moscow i'm good to be with you here on r t our top story the battle for the right to host football's world cup has entered its final stage with candidate countries making their last presentations russia's bid for the twenty eight hundred term it is said to be one of the strongest but it faces stiff competition from western europe artie's team is covering the events with our tests are cilia reporting from the outside the fifa media center in zurich. now we saw a lot more of the big names coming into town i was just at the 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 describe how fans felt about russia getting the world cup

but does the country with a rich football tradition stand a chance of becoming the hosts. the dutch coach of the national team certainly hope 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 stadium 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.

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. every promise that we have. to the sea is being fulfilled right now as we speak. we do have a lot of things to build but it's no secret and. we have already started that even . 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 pitches 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 form in europe even in south africa was a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people. 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 bid especially from the british press 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 of corruption in

a fee fight now joining us in the discussion is r.t. sports presenter andrew farmer no address what what impact do you think it will have on russia's bid well it sounds like bad news doesn't it that mr putin has decided to stay 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 see things 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 russia's case despite pleas of not being here is worth mentioning that russia still leaves 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 of the joint leaders at one stage with russia i don't know what happened there and then we have belgium and holland bringing up the rear but what's 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 the last message that the fever executive will hear before they make their vote another point with making is that sepp blatter defeat the president has the casting vote on this occasion and what that means is a very strong. of voting on the winning bid will need a majority of the majority and twelve votes now it could mean in the final round will be two teams left to cheat between and they could both get eleven very speech now if that happens but a casting vote will be left to mr black that he has made very positive noises about rush's bait over the last few weeks and you know he becomes down between it comes

down to two teams to choose between he could shoot well right well there you have it the race is very very close and i've spoken with a lot of people basically the essence is nobody really knows who is going to win. for a fan's perspective we spoke with my pal star of the leader of a big football supporters club here in moscow he says russia has a lot of attractions as a host nation. will for the culture and it's going to be different from. western europe. different food different people different attitude basically nice street because a lot of people say like or like to go to russia people forced from you but now it's a world cup and a cultural thing altogether in my view the world we hockey for sickleave year but we're getting to it and a lot of people are coming to the ground to the domestic football and obviously the world cup the big un never been hold in russia and i think it will be of great

interest and the fans will be welcoming and really the eighty it's time the football hooligans policy or whatever but after this policy might change their might say oh we're back off we are too old now for this and this security security wise russia is really trained to take to take really serious situations not even the full football hooligan violence now we're saying that yes we want it and we're not going to turn we wanted to lympics we wanted to lympics and now we've got lympics now we want the big football we went and we want to have it and we will definitely get it somehow but you see the benefit will be every time you lose you will have to come back and see what where your mistakes where did we go wrong where you exactly we go wrong then you improve it and prove it you've done it and there not be so you go because inspection done it in moscow they check they ask questions the questions will be answered maybe such effects of you maybe not but we will know why perspective of michael star of the leader of a supporters' club here in moscow. when

something. when you want to get down to. special coverage. will be hosting the world's. another eurozone country another threat of an imminent bail out italy is the third largest economy that use the euro and now there is fears that it may start plunging in the same direction as ireland and greece with the euro falling the amount of money it cost rome to lend to debt ridden countries is rising dramatically spain portugal and belgium are also at risk of being hauled into the crisis doubts about the future of the single currency ending with self have been intensified by fresh

protests sweeping across europe with people angry at face and savage cuts to pay for it all european parliament member says that countries are trapped inside the euro zone and should get out to save their economy. if spain went down remember that the debt they've got is about seven times the size of the and so we'd be talking there about three hundred fifty billion euros and it's really big a still and so you get to a point where there is no more buyout money whether you're i would it's kind of full would cease to exist i don't know whether that will happen in the next few weeks but it remains a real possibility when i joined the euro if 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 to join the euro they would have to have also officially 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 potent i 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 odd and finds a. way eurozone 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 all neighboring countries look the swiss do that without being you members little we do that without being e.u. members so if what the united. that once 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 out of the seven billion pounds that the british government has said it will guarantee for the irish frankly is money hold 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

said i think two years ago he said the european union was the first ever nonmilitary empire and what i'm trying to do is expand so that have it into the euro they'll try and make join the european union next year or the year after they think that all the while they're expanding people will say well it must be going well 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 in the right across the european union increasingly the publics of europe are holding the political class that have done this to them in increasing contempt. those from nigel farage over in european parliament member you can catch the full interview with him at r.t. dot com or any time on our you tube channel. in a meeting with former secretary of state colin powell president obama has once again urged for the senate to ratify a nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia in the absence of start without

the new start treaty being ratified by the senate we do not have a verification mechanism. to ensure that we know what the russians are doing. and they don't know what we're doing and when you have on certain. areas nuclear weapons that's a much more dangerous weapon russia has cooperated with us on critical issues to our national security like iran sanctions and the relationships and trust that are built from the nuestro treaty spill over into a whole host of other national security issues that are of vital importance to americans. many republicans i've tried to stall the ratification process since the daya signing of the deal by the russian and american presidents in april a heavy weight of u.s. politics colin powell supports obama's initiative and stressed the need to verify russian nuclear activities something that would be impossible if the agreement fails powell said that all concerns had been addressed by the executive and there

was no need to hold up the ratification process. it's been a hailed as a coup for u.s. national security the capture of a terror suspect accused of plotting to set off a bomb at a christmas tree lighting ceremony but as art he's honest reports some critics believe it's a case of entrapment with agents having groom the nineteen year old somali born 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 have 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 how does 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 as if 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. 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 barn 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. is 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. and 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 fish bowls but by the media to what would have had a catastrophic event at its christmas tree lighting the destiny of the us 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've 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 feel. good when criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the ideal national security becomes just is made up. this issue could. moscow wants to become an equal partner in new plans for european missile defense otherwise it could force russia to increase its nuclear arsenal to defend its borders that according to law to me are putin who has been discussing the country's security policy in an interview with us t.v. host larry king when asked about the latest wave of wiki leaks putin said it was no catastrophe because it was such a poorly kept secret however he lashed out at the assessment of his relations with president medvedev saying the comparison to batman and robin was arrogant and

unethical putin's interview airs within several hours in the us and he's likely to be the final statesman to appear on larry king live before the veteran t.v. star retires. meanwhile russian president dmitry medvedev has been attending a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe it's the first time the fifty six member group has gotten together in a decade russia wants to read. relations with the group but says it must modernize ties suffered after moscow suspended its participation in a key european convention on this treaty three years ago after the us announced its missile defense plan for europe also at the summit president medvedev once again pushed his initiative to create a pan-european security treaty but. the new treaty we have proposed would be aimed at guaranteeing common security for europe i think everyone who supports it is being discussed for two and a half years maybe the stereotypes of the post is still strong and this initiative is ahead of its time but its turn will inevitably come. and as

a major summit is in full swing we get the view from inside coming out next as we hear from the organization secretary general it's coming your way stay with us.

mr bush of us thank you very much for talking to us during this summit to what extent is organization for security and cooperation in europe is interested in proposed by president. 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 that 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 needs the groundwork for the efforts of the cause of german ship of sea where see this year and the strong push by the coveted ship to have this summit which we are having now and which in a way. to renovate and to give

a new foundation to european security the mere fact that the fifty six on meeting here means said they care about having a better atmosphere. no each other the better climate and that they care about giving a new thrust a new impulse a fresh admission to this organization you will see where they are together on equal footing where they are as equal members of the same family not as members or this or that group where it is a russian major corporation leave organization for security and cooperation in europe as a military organization i see there are different different tracks to which a community security and greater europe can be built it will be a noisy 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 there was also

a successful meeting of contributors to myself. gives a good back to the work we are having here in a standoff and they continue with contacts between the european union inertia federation the continued contacts individual states have among themselves various combinations all these create a 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 the mistrust and the current difficulties belonging they always say mission in the caucuses was rejected out to georgia south and south a set here what lessons have been there and some that it is not only the received mission of the caucasus which had or didn't have an impact on the conflict as you know there were much broader cases there with he did its duty as the early warning

to it did its duty in terms of trying to address a crisis when it happened and may i remind you that we had no less than twenty military monitors which were present between september two sides of the. july of two thousand and nine and which was the first ones to try and help stabilize the situation so the lesson however for everybody that you cannot escape difficult issues that you have to address and relentless like that you have to take every opportunity to create conditions for exchange for political dialogue 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 station and sell so see show there is no question that the visit difficult issue but it is also an issue where there is some very hard work doing including going on including here in 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 n.y. is always c. 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 central asian members of the principal states of the 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 worst how can russian forces help to prevent drug trafficking some

afghanistan considering that russia has repeatedly said that its forces will not be sent to afghanistan but we are 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 start so what is important is to have very good coordination very good coordination between international organizations where sendai corporation with c.s.t. or with c.i.s. but also with the you went 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 for security and cooperation in europe doesn't stalls conflicts but rather three system . is as good as its participating states we cannot have

a magic wand and because we have those with good principles work out instant solutions there is some merit in freezing conflicts a frozen conflict is better than an active conflict and. keeping political process of 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 big working strenuously in order to avoid renewed conflict but also progressively to build the principles of what may be the peace arrangement this is happening here also in a stand that may be a high level meeting with the context of say in this group and there hopefully will be this is a senseless job because it's a very demanding one for those who practice it better those timidly the years

spent create a foundation for the future and hopefully for a political solution to the conflicts thank you very much for your time sir thank you. good samaritan. excellent professional. medics traveling and possessing an extra ordinary car. the doctor who helped many people in his country. the political criminal responsible for thousands of deaths. was it an attempt to repent. or just escape a fair trial. the other life. on our team.

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