push coromandel you can. see don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. it's almost a full time for the bit is battling to host the world's biggest sporting event with russia hoping that before kick the world cup its way to twenty eighteen. prime minister putin holds the sound of benson democracy pronto america in a candid interview with veteran talk show host larry king. russian premier also took the u.s. to task over the latest wiki leaks way as american launches into damage limitation exposes the white house red faced.

yo with our table costing lives for the russian capital welcome to the program well later on thursday football's governing body will make all be the biggest decision in sports free for will select who gets to host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups which for the winners will spark a decade of multi-billion dollar investment in those countries well russia is among the favorites to stage the world's biggest sporting event in a year's time it faces stiff competition from england as well as joint base from spain and portugal on the jetty and some belgian premier confirmed he will be in switzerland for the final push to trial. saying he wants a fee for executives to choose without and work pressure on the outside committee and also condemned what he called unfair competition by other bidders as well as british media claims of corruption among the for officials. is in zurich for ati. today is of a. exciting day in the world of sports as it is the data fifty four will announce

who will win the hosting rights of the world cup twenty eight thousand and twenty twenty two now yesterday the a bit in countries for the twenty twenty two events have made their final presentations and today it's the turn of the bidding countries for the twenty eighth and the competition is really very close now although bookmakers have a given russia a slight favorite has made russia a slight favorite and a close second it's still all up in the air i've been speaking to different people and really the essence of this competition is no one really knows who is going to win the twenty. well russia will be the last country to make a final pitch a final presentation to feed coming last good work to russia's advantage as some people believe. such an event. gathered here to learn a few first decision which no doubt will be russia it's crucial for us. i can assure you there's not matter that the world cup championship. everyone from.

is excited. to be the host. of course all the countries are keeping their final presentations are going to be but we did manage to get a bit of information from the russian. side from presenting technical capabilities of the country talking up a few heart strings and presenting. and also bringing some emotion to their pitch. i believe that our people want to see the world cup championship in this country and they want to see the best players in the world. put in their native cities and i want kids and probably my son to come to the stadium and twenty eighteen and to see me. i think will still be playing then i think that a big advantage is that they will develop the infrastructure and after the world cup. so again the voting. will happen right after the last

presentation and so we can expect that in the afternoon as are a time. star of who runs the manchester united supporters club in moscow says russia has many attractions which would make it an excellent nation will offer the culture and it's going to be different from. all western europe will offer different food different people different attitude basically nice street because a lot of people say like or like to go to russia or keep on postponed here but now it's a world cup and the cultural thing altogether might be between worldly hockey for sickleave here but we're getting into it and a lot of people are coming to the ground to the domestic football and obviously the world cup the big event never been called in russia and i think it will be of great interest and the fans will be welcoming and really in 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 have to all now for this and this security security wise russia

is really trained to take to take really serious situations not even the probable 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 the impacts now we want the big football we went and we want to have it and we will definitely get it somehow. is it. going to be something really. where you want to get down to brass to. special coverage. look it's almost like pete rose finally sold out on an international faceoff for the future of the two thousand eighteen world cup. final to be hosting the world's largest sports event live on the larger. question more on the party. now the russian premier has outlined the stark choice ahead on european

defense either moscow becomes an equal partner or it will be forced to put more missiles on the borders but they were putin told america's primetime t.v. audience that shoring up weapons is not what the russian wants. karen has more of the interview with the veteran talk show host larry king. larry king started off with a question that is a big and make money not only in the west but also in russia will live with their run for office in two thousand and twelve but then basically said they'll figure something out with me they are not going to be sort of indicating that they are first of all foreigners with the current president and don't see each other as rivals they're actually larry king brought up the comical comparison with batman and robin that comparison better us that one might gave to a russian leadership to the lot russian leaders have been a classified cable be hosted by weekly experience what prime minister putin said so that the words good. you knew that mr medvedev and i were tackling the issue of future cooperation which is actually come on how we were going to build up our

relations when deciding on how to design the election campaign the presidential election in two thousand and eight we fully realize that many would try to sow to school with you know a common approach is building the state of russia and economic development it's because of cooperation is a significant factor in the country's internal political scene but frankly speaking we could not imagine that it was going to be done in such a bold pushy and impudent way such a claim is of course seem to be insulting us pride in provoking steps which would destroy the beneficial cooperation in managing the country i must say that we've got used to it already and i asked those who make such attempts to calm down. promise the ports and larry king certainly they have touched upon some major international headlines for example larry asked about prism innovative three since they plan that that if washington then and nato don't figure out a joint sort of even approach to the planned missile defense shield in europe it could trigger an arms race and puts and made it very clear that it is the last

thing russia would want russia's actions will only be in reaction he said and russia will never be the want to provoke an arms race take a listen. but if we receive very negative to all suggestions and. if there is an edition with threats in the form of a new missile the shield new. russia will have to maintain its security by taking. new missile strike systems against the new threats in your own borders and create new missiles because it's not a choice we do not want it and it's not a threat in any way we're just talking about what it waiting for a single case we can't reach an agreement on collaboration. i repeat we do not. know who is comparable to those who are talking about president obama he gave a positive assessment of his international effort to said he was thankful to obama for you know softening the negative rather a towards russia and in practice for for the fact that he scrapped bush national

missile defense planning europe something that irritated washoe a lot he was actually asked about what he thought of george w. bush and clinton said he liked bush as a person he liked his family but he said they differed on their ways of solving problems regarding what was leaked fire there was a glowing website prime minister putin said he doesn't see a catastrophe in what happened to sort of suggested u.s. diplomats be more cautious with their internal correspondence but he also said there was a number of facts parts of believe the hype around weekly leaks was created on purpose to be able to later or maybe use it as an instrumental reaching political goals nothing is known for shore of but what experts are looking into that as well premised important also was it was asked to comment on on another leaked cable was the u.s. secretary of defense saying democracy in russia has this appeared in the country's ruled by security services but they said robert gates is deeply misled here he said

russians will throw people they elect into office but he also had something to say about the democracy in the u.s. take a listen. but you know i would like to remind you that twice twice in u.s. history there were cases that presidential candidates who later won the election. we supported going to big number of electors who would choose and buy the least number of voters with the democracy there so when we say to our american colleagues that there are issues with that system that we here stay away from that some tradition and that's how it's going to be and we stay with me but i would like to advise our colleagues to stay away from going we live to. a little bit off the topic here but also regarding we hear leaks and you portion of classified cables was released also russia related the u.s. ambassador in russia is is writing about the former moscow mayor hugh laurie loesch coffee writes how corrupt he was and so on and so forth how he bribed the kremlin while bush got forced fired by the kremlin in september as we remember it because

the president didn't trust that many more it's kind of the point out to the point about how much of the stuff released by we conveys is actually news or or secrete many of those cables are speculating on on rumors sort of hearsay. he is going to check out in washington that well russia is not alone in dismissing the wiki leaks disclosures even though the latest wave paints a bleak picture of russian politics this time detailing how spanish and american officials claim organized crime runs at high levels in russia but it comes as the u.s. scrambles a diplomatic rescue mission often leaked cables reveal the less than flattering opinions of other countries you know a point in our experience. a global partner in peace or paranoid superpower hungry for secrets our diplomats are doing what diplomats do around the world every day which is build relationships negotiate advance our interests and work to find

common solutions to complex problems that's what they do but according to documents released by wiki leaks in two thousand and nine u.s. diplomats around the world were in fact directed to gather saif i take details including facial images fingerprints iris scans and even d.n.a. from u.n. officials among the targeted ambassadors from russia china france and britain even secretary-general ban ki moon many people didn't understand what that meant or that mean the diplomats do spying on the side of the order of operation allegedly came from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and as the u.s. assumes the presidency of the security council today that afternoon these revelations will probably be seen as an undesirable distraction but little more it seems only belgium openly criticized washington for mixing diplomatic work and outright espionage the united nations is not in a position to comment on the authenticity of the document purporting to request

information gathering activities official reaction from the u.n. itself only went as far as reminding member states that international treaties per hit spying at the u.n. their response has been so weak to being spied on by the u.s. in large part because the u.s. is just the human. of the un they pay a lot of the bills but they also have the ability to veto a second term for banking the us is the un's fattest financier said to contribute more than two and a half billion dollars in two thousand and eleven and this is not the first time the u.s. has been caught spying. back in two thousand and three in the lead up to the invasion of iraq the national security agency was reportedly conducting secret surveillance operation providing intelligence on the voting intentions of u.n. members this time around diplomats were asked to provide information on computer upgrade security measures passwords and personal encrypted and keys of their human colleagues the exhausting level of the details allegedly demanded about top u.s.

officials has not only left the u.s. red faced but it's also caused some to question whether washington was ultimately laying the groundwork for surveillance or how king operations here at the world body had quarters for governments that are constantly talking about demographers see transparent see in poor noonan blah blah blah in the world and say that they're invading all sorts of countries in order to promote there's a new democratic spirit and then they behave this way i'm sorry but i think it's time for some outrage while washington repeatedly claims to be rebuilding and repairing relations around the world the image of the u.s. as big brother watching at the u.n. may be irrepairable what is the u.s. policy is this u.s. policy going forward and you know it was in the past will it be going forward and if so you know people better hold on to their wallets around here while the u.s. appears to be left holding the smoking gun. r.t.

new york. coming up shortly the middle east and musicians with a message for the world. of growing number of arab youngsters are turning to music to get the opinions. the world needs a new integrated security space from the pacific to the atlantic that's the message from the organization for security and cooperation in europe that's holding its first summit in over a decade security and the war in afghanistan are on the table for the fifty six member states attending events in kazakhstan. was once again pushed his initiative to create a pen european security treaty he also said the overseeing is losing its influence and needs to be modernized head of the organization described to get its words as a wake up call. those. proposals by present medvedev had one great merit because they were sort of. a

fresh look fresh approach had to be given to the shoes this clearly energized the discussions and you will see as you know there was a process. i think this laid the groundwork to have this summit which we're having now and which anyway part of this dialogue to renovate to give a new foundation to european security. well full interview with the head of the scene he's on there enough fifteen minutes time here not. now a quick update on some other world headlines for you. but emotional service has been held in new zealand for the twenty nine miners lost over a series of underground explosions at a coal mine more than ten thousand mourners including the country's prime minister

attended the memorial planner. and rescue teams have still been unable to recover the miners bodies as conditions are still hazardous disasters the country's worst mining accident in over a century. fifteen people have died in europe as a result of a cold snap that's causing havoc across the country a fourth day of heavy snowfall also forced major airports to close and many train services to a standstill britain has so far been one of the worst affected shivering through its coldest start to assemble on record insurance companies in the u.k. estimate the big freeze is costing a little make up to one point nine billion dollars a day the shops restaurants and bars this. volcano in ecuador has spewed molten rock and us for the second time in recent weeks ok to last month sending a seven kilometer high cost of gas into the atmosphere authorities say the latest

ash cloud has entered the flight path but no travel plans reflected kaner is the name translates as throat of fiat and is located on hundred thirty five kilometers from the capital quito. where you can head to r.t. dot com for around the clock updates and analysis of the world's big stories as a taste of what's online few right now a wing and a prayer for moon by slum residents they want a compensation from officials trying to evict them it's an airport can expand also . the f.b.i. is hunting a young russian spammer who is thought to be behind the good of the world junk e-mail network is apparently the biggest pumping out billions of messages a day the details are. now when you think of the middle east issues such as conflicts around the oil spring to mind where now

a growing number of young arab musicians are trying to present an alternative picture of their that party's policies there as well. very young very vibrant and they taking the world by storm. we wanted to do alternative rock but in arabic. there's a new arab league of rap stars i would musicians making waves on the hip hop scene they share the same beat and can mobilize millions of foot soldiers young fans around the world to follow the music and their message. with peace because we experienced three wars in our lifetime and that experience really bad this is really missed something called peace. you have no choice and if we do politicians well to take

a note from the lyrics these are natural politicians whose musical bodies the sport of diplomacy. culture shock was the first ever all palestinian rock band it's a far cry from the traditional palestinian music and he took pictures they live in english. on so many levels it was this insane bound that came to shock the palestinian culture which is why we're a culture shock here. their songs resonate touching on real issues faced by real people the occupation of course. the kids the kids working on calendar for example on the checkpoint we have a song about that maybe somebody would hear that and do something about those kids it seems like a rag heads impact he's a war really good bad for your dad's freewill to discover you about no one is

a hip hop artist with a bush father iraqi mother and strong views believe this one line between human beings it's a line between those that believe in the equality of all and those who believe in the supermachine of some homemade form committing suicide. no you would terrified and his message is political i think music can reach people that don't really have the patience or the necessary context. to sit down and watch a political program. and it's the same reason these four iraqis got together back in one thousand nine hundred ninety it was a time when no one in baghdad would have thought of forming a rock band but they've been climbing the charts ever since. the arab world are not used to listen to their guitars with that tone and that aggressivity. so it was you know it was like something that we really wanted to do for a long time to do you know the style that we do in english work with arabic lyrics

the reach of this arab league is potentially greater than the formal one that sits in cairo and its impact just as important it's just a report done by arabs. but it's not the arabs that need to hear what these are is to say it's the world that needs to use remote control drones killing off human lives with homemade points here r.t. i would say by. now then fixing global defense is what we focus on in ten minutes as the head of the world's largest regional security organization gives us his insight next there was the basis of the shots. and i welcome to the business program herron r.t. with. investors have taken a less favorable view towards russia in comparison to other bric countries but emerging markets should still see higher growth and then more developed libels

global economist at h.s.b.c. bank explains why. the growth for russia is a little bit soft. for some of the other emerging market countries this was relating to supply side emanating from the drought and also there were because of the inflationary pressures you would have. going forward so there were these two factors that did come to play also you have to remember that russia. growth. there was expectations that global growth is going to be sluggish and so oil prices in particular will remain subdued. these two factors have hurt russian growth expectations but that should change going forward a lot of money around the system right now there is a lot of liquidity and that liquidity is looking for you and it is really available in emerging markets not just the yield but also the story in emerging markets is a lot more attractive in developed markets we are expecting growth of the six over

the next two markets whereas in developed markets is a lot snow around two percent or thereabouts so overall the picture. for emerging markets and that story should sustain over the coming. russia were the australian dollar to its international reserves they had the country's central bank says this may happen within six months us dollars a new row constitute more than forty percent of russia's reserves along with british pounds and japanese yen the central bank has already invested in a small amount of canadian dollars reserves consist of foreign currency gold and other assets. time or see how the markets will formally agent stocks are trading in the black this hour helped by improving u.s. economic data and easing worries about european debt physical stocks are on the rise in hong kong hard prices car makers have also hit the pedal on both indices pushed by strong vehicle sales in north america and sands four percent higher than

honda is adding around three percent. here in russia the y. stocks the artist finished wednesday's session most of the main players behind it with gazprom leading the gains its shares stalled four point seven percent this comes after the german energy company on soda stayed in the russian gas giant. more in that news now the german energy company all is selling its three point five percent stake in gas for more than three billion euros russia is the bank with five two point seven percent the rest has already been sold in the market and says it will continue investing in russia's energy and gas sector. with gas problem early russian gas giant and ukraine's energy company naftogaz have agreed to create two joint ventures in ukraine the first will extract gas from coal beds the second to develop black sea offshore deposits parties didn't provide any further details.

fountains of is a relatively small russian pharmaceutical company which is just raised almost eighteen million dollars deny p.o. in an exclusive interview with r.c. the company's chairman dmitri again kid talks about that and his plans to expand port. considering united states europe and israel. we are looking for a small girl wing generating company as we judge as in calls for those who call on the factual. effect hopefully next week will in norm's the cause and whether he will do since will be. in the picture and company. young. with huge potential which is located in the european union. two weeks ago farm since this started trading in the my six it appeared in russia's r.t.s. stock market why both i think the main idea to say this was too old for influence

to trade him to him was to form us into share of the moment. this type of change where foreign funds operate them how attractive is. the foreigners just attractive it's thank you first of all there are. one of the markets. from us to tickle so it is growing. to know that. according to the. prognosis in the next three to four euros but also the overall for most of the market world wide open market will be driving mostly by emerging markets russia brazil china india so that's a show you shouldn't the second tier goods from i think this is a quite unique company so it's to combine both. the cash generating business and growing from us with a good market. to give with and eyes on the pipeline which will force.

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