the dog was pushed coromandel you can. see don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was such a treat. it's almost time for the critters battling to host the world's biggest sporting event in russia. the world cup it's way twenty eight. prime minister putin talks of missile defense and democracy to primetime america in a candid interview with veteran talk show host larry king. russian premier also to the u.s. to tasco the latest wiki leaks way as america launches into damage limitation made after exposure legal wants house red faced.

that are you watching our table straight to our top story now in five hours time football's governing body will make augie the biggest decision in sports will choose the hosts for the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups which for the winners will spark a decade of multi-billion dollar investment russia is among the favorites to stage the world's knowledge of sporting event in eight years time well course awful coverage of decision day continues this hour we're told me to test are similar in switzerland which is where the final lobbying is taking place and lower emmett's in england which is one of russia's main competitors well to you first test the last presentations are in full swing as we speak i imagine that most fair is getting pretty tense there. that's right carrie well it's freezing here is what the intense competition is certainly warming things up this morning we've already heard from belgium and holland a joint bid it was followed by spain and portugal and as we speak english is making their final presentation for the fee for us excited of board now the decision will

be made this afternoon russia will preside last in front of front of the executive board after which they have the they will take a break and they will start the voting process the highly anticipated voting process now back at the media center everyone seems to be enjoying the presentations looking at the various offerings of the different countries now one of every was of pulling out the big guns bringing in the big names and one of the main questions that the russian capital been asked in the lead up to this day is whether part of a survivor putin is going to be or will that has been answered he said he won't be here because he doesn't want to put pressure on fifa and he also said a condemned the media allegations of corruption in fifa calling it a smear campaign well it's been interpreted in different ways but nevertheless russia still remains one of the favorites in the hosting rights for the world cup twenty eighteen let's cross over to the door and it now laura the british media put the boot into a fee for with corruption claims this week is there a sense that it might have been a bit of

a red coat really for the english bid. it certainly has been an extraordinary bid to carry and this is this is obviously the end process of it as england present. but it's really coming slightly from behind because as you say the british the english media has made a little bit of a meal out of this really there have been two separate allegations of corruption in the media aimed by the b.b.c. and other publications are just one you through them briefly the sunday times ran a story recently which resulted eventually in the suspension of two members of the executive committee they were a french vice president and also a nigerian member of feed for they were victims of a sting operation in which they told journalists who were posing as lobbyist that they would sell their votes for eight hundred thousand dollars actively involved in a corruption scandal effectively that was more recently as recently as this week a b.b.c.

documentary ran on television which alleged that three other members of the first had taken bribes during the eighty's and ninety's certainly could undermine england's bids to hold this world cup fever members of certainly less likely to vote for a country whose media thinks they're corrupt and whose media has has launched this this kind of this corruption campaign against them and in fact a member of things in space committee accused the b.b.c. in recent days of being unpatriotic because of that there have been efforts to make up for that though there was another person who was involved it will accuse of being involved in corruption jack warner he's a member of the trinidadian government and also a member of. he was alleged by the b.b.c. that he had taken part in ticket fraud at the last world cup prime minister david cameron has met with him in the last couple of days in order to try to make up for that presumably want to pay him out of that meeting frank has a positive impression of england's bit of england in general and david the next in

the. and also made a statement just yesterday he said that he felt all members of the could be trusted because they were people so there has been a lot of allegations old scandal inside football's governing body made by the british media and that certainly has could have a negative impact on how he feels about england that is a whole lot of a behind the scenes stuff going on the actually got live pictures here of president sepp blatter who is giving a speech at the moment but you tess let's just ask it's less than an hour now until the russian delegation make their final push what's the mood among them right now. all right now they are putting the final touches to a presentation there's still a lot of confidence in the russian capital getting support from a lot of people here speculating on who is going to win basically no one really knows who is going to win the russian cab they've expressed their confidence they are looking forward to present making that presentation they said that they won't

just present the technical side of what russia has to watch for should it win the world cup twenty eight hosting rights but also because for all side development impact should it be held in russia now there had been big names coming from russia and let's hear from one of the former coaches of the national team but larry. russia has longstanding traditions secondly russia has never hosted a world cup before also a fever always supports the development of professional football by staging such major tournaments as the world cup host country is able to build stadiums and football infrastructure in order to develop world class. i think this is the most important thing on the beat is have already hosted world cups and you move the months so i think russia has a major chance both the financial and political situation in the country stable economy is growing and there is a huge desire to host the company that's what should help us to grow with. so i

says so a lot of confidence coming from the russian capital makers are still putting out russia as one of their favorites and of course the russian cab is keeping their fingers crossed that they would get the clear majority voting process that will happen later this afternoon which we will be bringing to you live yes fingers crossed. thank you both very much. well it. has been gauging what russians themselves think of possibly hosting the world cup he says there was a wealth of support even if it's too cold to show it yet in public. it is minus twenty degrees centigrade now in the russian capital and you probably won't see many people in the streets with flags and banners supporting russia's bid to host the twenty eighteen world cup but that does not mean that this support is weak in this country in indeed during the latest during the recent international friendly of the russian football team against belgium we saw

a huge banner being put on the on the tree on the stadium supporting the twenty eighteen bid and indeed this this indeed symbolizes how strong the support is indeed the voting in zurich today is something the whole country is talking about right now we are seeing commercials on television supporting this bid and i would describe the atmosphere now in the country as a silent discreet anticipation and still many people are confident that russia will emerge as the winners in this in this battle against a very strong contender such as england spain and portugal and will have the right to host the twenty two games basically this is something the whole country is hoping for. says will change. when something really controls what you want to get down to brass tacks. special coverage battle is almost won tito's final whistle looms on an international

faceoff and the future of the two thousand and eighteen world cup. final will be hosting the world's largest sports event live on to. question more on the. on the news now the russian that 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 russia's borders but they were putin told america's prime time t.v. audience that shoring up weapons is not what russia wants. you can has more on the interview with veteran talk show host larry king. larry king started off with a question that is a big make money not only in the west but also in russia will lives in europe with their run for office in two thousand and twelve with him basically if they all figure something out with president medvedev sort of indicating that they are first of all partners with the current president and don't see each other as rivals to

their absolute larry king brought up the comical comparison with batman and robin that comparison that a u.s. diplomat gave to a russian leadership of the russian leadership in a classified cable hosted by week he makes here's what prime minister what is that so that. you know that mr medvedev and i would 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 suit discord within our 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 aimed at insulting us sitting upright 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 can certainly be a touch upon some major international headlines for example larry asked about prism innovative three since they claim 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 what's 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. but if we receive very negative to our suggestions and moreover if there's an additional threat in the form of a new missile shield new year. russia will have to maintain its security by taking certain measures launch new missile strike systems against the new threats in your own borders and create new missiles 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 us in case we

can't reach an agreement on collaboration that's it i repeat we do not want this at all. regarding what was leaked fire there was a blowing website we promise to put has 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 personal believe the hype around week in leagues was created on purpose to be able to later or maybe use it as an instrument for reaching political goals nothing is known for shore of but experts are looking into that as well primus supporting also was it was asked to comment on on an other leaked cable with with the us are two of the fans saying them ocracy in russia has this appeared in the countries ruled by security services what they said robert gates is deeply misled here he said russia's role for people they elect into office but he also had something to say about the democracy in the u.s. take a listen yes 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 were supported by a big number of electors who were chosen by the least number of voters with the democracy there so when we say to our american colleagues that there are issues with that system we hear stay away from that so tradition and that's how it's going to be and we stay away but i would like to advise our colleagues to stay away from the way we live to a little bit off the topic here but also regarding wiki leaks and you portion of classified cables was released also russia related the us ambassador in russia is as writing about a former moscow mayor here a low score if you're right how corrupt he was and so on and so forth. the gulf was fired by the kremlin in september as we remember it because the president didn't trust him anymore it's the kind of the point of route to the point about how much of the stuff released by week of these is actually new store or secret many of

those cables are speculating on on rumors sort of hearsay. well meanwhile russia has dismissed fresh wiki leaks disclosures that paints a bleak picture of the country's political system the contents and detail how spanish and american officials claim organized crime runs at high levels in russia comes as the u.s. scrambles of diplomatic rescue mission often leaked cables reveal less than flattering opinions of other countries report not 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 un itself only went as far as reminding member states that international treaties per hit spying at the un their response has been so weak to being spied on by the u.s. in large part because the us is just the human of the un they pay

a lot of the bills but they also have the ability to view. a second term for ban ki moon the u.s. 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 piece of their human colleagues the exhausting level of 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 hocking operations here at the world body

had quarters for governments that are constantly talking about democracy the 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 repairable 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. but you had to r.t. dot com for around the clock updates and analysis of the world's stories here's a taste of what's on the line few right now but we and the press on them by slum

residents they want compensation from officials who are trying to evict them to expand the airport plus. the f.b.i. is hunting a young russian spammer who's thought to be behind a third of the world's junk e-mails his network is apparently the biggest pumping out billions of messages a day that details of ulti dot com. a quick update now of some other world headlines an emotional service has been held in new zealand for the twenty nine miners lost following a series of underground explosions at the coal mine more than ten thousand mourners including the country's prime minister attended the open in a moral and grey mouth and rescue teams have been unable to recover the victims' bodies as conditions are still deemed to be to justice disaster is the country's worst mining accident in a century. fifteen people have died in europe as a result of a cold snap that's causing havoc across the continent

a fourth day of heavy snow fall also forced major airports to close and brought many train services to a standstill britain said probably one of the worst affected shivering through its colder start december on record insurance companies in the u.k. estimate the big freeze is costing the local economy up to one point nine billion dollars a day shops restaurants and was hit hardest. several people have been injured after three separate from blasts hit the iraqi capital during morning rush hour explosions were caused by roadside devices appear to target police patrols five policemen and several civilians are thought to be among the injured and to balance comes as a reminder of going on rest in iraq as u.s. troops continue their withdrawal from the. and more than two hundred firefighters are battling bushfires in western australia with what a bomb in the forties of blaming arson the outbreak of blazes south of perth some

three hundred fifty hectares of burnt out program counts to homes affecting transport links frames had been contained but let up again when there was a change in wind conditions. if you missed time marty reveals the life led by former bosnian serb the event correct that during his years on the run first charlotte's head of the business these intimate. this is more a region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. park can tell ya he has completed the id parker has r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center furbished with cutting edge servers and communication equipment

will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences this is more regional government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. and i welcome to this program here with me. russia's harvest this year because of the summit drought but experts say weather was only partly to blame that the farming industry is an urgent need of improvement it evolved the details. he

reports his sound but not involved for this year the country lost on food million tons of grain the government wants to cover any shortage by boosting next summer's planting spike but russia's comus have their doubts one pupil who wasn't born yet the banks cannot give loans to farmers whose debts are already restructured if the situation remains as it is now plantings may not increase but actually because farmers face the toughest financial situation in many. grain crops declined by a third. after the war struck one hundred thirty years with a nature can't carry all the blame analysts say sixty percent of losses were due to all technology and practices. russia's wheat crop yield is a third of that of europe to improve we need access to see our seed industry has been lost and foreigners won't sell their technology to us because they're afraid they won't be paid royalties for the use of the technology we use a lot modern farming vehicles it's hard to improve technology quickly and apart

from what to sow and how to reap another problem is transporting the harvest but i mean the situation we see ports is improving as it has been investment the main problem is railways the lack of wagons it's cheaper to transport grain from the center to the south of russia more than a thousand kilometers by lorry than by train it's nonsense. the caprices of nature gave russia a record harvest in two thousand and eight and a drought this year but the country will have to get to grips with technology and infrastructure if it is to become once again the bread basket of europe your new book of business. time see how the markets are performing and here in russia the indices are climbing up more than one percent for the main players are higher gas probably respect the leading gains both earning more than two point five percent on the os yes. european markets are higher speculation continues we're peers and

japan may take steps to halt the sovereign debt turmoil plaguing the region but it means assaulting the mining stocks and leading games in the foot single route into up two point nine percent never in asia stocks are higher helped by improving u.s. economic data and these ng worries about european debt. on the rise in hong kong on higher commodity prices come way because of also had the pedal on both indices pushed by strong vehicle sales in north america dishonest four percent higher and honda is adding around three percent. russia will add the australian dollar to its international reserves the head of the country's central bank says this may happen within six months u.s. dollars in euro constitute more than forty percent of russia's reserves along with british pounds and japanese yen central bank has already invested in a small amount of canadian dollars the reserves consist of foreign currency gold and other assets. the german energy company eon is selling its remaining three

point five percent stake in gas prom for more than three billion euro russia's the be bankrupt by two point seven percent the rest has already been sold in the market despite this breakdown in relation to heal says it will continue investing in russian energy and gas sector. today with gas from the russian gas giant and ukraine's energy company enough to gas have agreed to create two joint ventures in ukraine the first will extract gas from coal beds the second will develop black sea offshore deposits the parties didn't provide any further details. pharmaceuticals is a relatively small russian pharmaceutical company which is just raised almost eighteen million dollars in an i.p.o. in an exclusive interview with our t.v. company's chairman dmitri game came talks about that and its plans to expand board . considering the united states europe and israel. we are looking for

a small growing generating company as we judge as in calls from those who call one faction. in fact hopefully next week we will in norm's the cauldron for the deal since will be. in the picture and company young rolling with huge potential which is located in the european union. two weeks ago form since that started trading on the my sex on wednesday it appeared on russia's r.t.s. stock market why both i think the main idea decided this was too low for influence to trade him to enlist before most of the shadows was known that. this type of change where foreign funds are present how attractive is foreign since the foreigners it's attractive it's thank you first of all there are. one of the markets. pharmaceuticals that is growing. and you know that.

according to the. prognosis in the next three to four years the but also the overall for most of the market world what was the market will be driving most of by emerging markets is russia brazil china india so that's a shift you shouldn't the second tier goods from us into this is a quite unique company so it's a combine both. of the question the region could be in this ongoing for most of the market. to give a nice on the pipeline which of course with a knife and with a good upside for them with. that sure update for this hour be curious by most stories on our website.

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