just one hour remains before downstairs who will host the world cup in twenty eighteen. we're here in the city of god sign right to do all nonstop football matches being held in support of russia is. still a lot has to be done if russia wins the world cup. you know it will take a little on what is left to be done here in this country. in other news russia will never broken arms race unless it is pushed to reach streams prime minister putin sets the record straight on missile defense and his relationship with the president during an interview with veteran talk show host larry king. and washington lends itself in hot water after a new leak exposes it's true colors opinions of

a so-called grabs russia raise questions over u.s. public officials and their stereotypical views. it's five pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live thanks for being with us first stop voting on who will host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two football world cups is now underway in switzerland and we're just an hour under away from the final decision russia's bid is believed to be a hot ticket the winner would net one of the world's top sporting events and billions of dollars of investment well we can now andrew farmer reports from zurich . i think personally russia and england will be feeling quietly confident after their final presentations in front of the faith the executive committee the russians really tugging on the heartstrings of the committee members and they

started off with their schools ministers stressing the point at least in europe never mind russia has never hosted a world cup before we also heard from the deputy prime minister. who said that over the last hundred years russians have suffered greatly but there is now a new russia and if it was given the right to host the world cup it would trigger tens of billions of dollars of investment in the country we then heard from the double olympic pole vaulter champion lena ism biver she stressed that a world cup in russia would help the development women's football there and then there was the russian captain he told his life story he told how he started off as any. ended up playing for russia and hoped that a world cup in russia might inspire others to follow in his footsteps the one i wasn't the easiest get to manage when i was little my feel scorch sore something. something more than just a terrible. football made me. it took me.

forever to play. my coach believed in me but no one else did. and now the i ask you to believe them that's. and help shape the future afresh the process is relatively simple the winning bid for the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups will need an absolute majority of twelve there are twenty two members on the thief executive committee it could mean in a final round of eighty two teams are tied on eleven if that happens the fate of president sepp blatter will have the casting vote he has made positive noises about russia's bid over the last few weeks and if russia did get through to that final round who knows he might push it russia's way but after winning there winning votes have been decided it's not clear but we do believe that the bidding teams will not know who's won but they aren't sure when his name should be put into amber lights

at last or will then head down here to the media center i made the announcement in front of the world media and we think that what happened around about four o'clock . five now to elect to yourself and you go for in moscow and cazan till russian cities of course begging to host the twenty eight hundred world cup games to go or i understand because i'm a supporting the russian band with a pretty unusual sporting about tell us about it. absolutely well first of all there's still extreme amount of excitement here a watts of people are gathering here at the indoor football pitch almost in the very center of the capital. and as you said these guys have really thought of their own unique way of supporting russia's bid to host the two thousand hate football world cup the been holding a football game for two days straight this game which you can see behind you over there on the speech started at eight am on wednesday and has been going on all the

way throughout the day and throughout the night players have been switching but the score is in the ninety's and eighty's at the moment if they all really really excited about it it's supposed to end around a half an hour before the fight. decision will be announced and everybody is going to watch it on that big screen over there it's expected that scores of people perhaps several thousand people gathered here and more people are coming in as we've been spending spend your couple of hours over here i can tell you that your model people has increased. by two times already everybody is crossing their fingers but here the understanding is that this is not only about sports and scott zahn is actually it's already been mean to the sport capital of russia last year has a very successful football team who being which is currently competing in the european champions league but the guys here understand that russia gets a. huge push to other cities also being to host games for that

tournament and it would give a great push to develop and more tonight he said listen to this so it's not only because man which is supporting the russians but i think one lose the final decision you know millions of people are going to see. forty two minutes past certainly well let's go to the next thing here in moscow alexei russia if they are successful in their bed how much work needs to be done in preparing for such a massive event. well that is a lot of work despite that russia is seen as one of the favorites to get this world cup to be granted the right to host this cup in twenty eight c. still everyone understands many experts agree that russia series still lags behind its main rivals in terms of infrastructure and that should the country get this world cup in twenty eighteen it will have to dramatically improve the infrastructure in particular the transportation train system airplane system

between the cities which might host this world cup and. we understand from both the government and the bidding committee that this will indeed be done and billions of dollars of investment will be pumped into improving the infrastructure and of course we're talking about stadiums because many acknowledge including the national football team in russia. spoke to recently that many of the stadiums in the country are at least seventy eighty years old and that of course has to be improved we understand that sixteen stadiums will be built across the country for the world cup nine of them are already under construction and we understand that twelve venues will be finalised if russia wins the right to host this world cup but indeed everyone understands that this is not something you know something impossible this is a mission which can be accomplished and many really referred to the city of sochi as

an example where the construction for the olympic games in twenty four is being at full pace and this is setting a good example for the potential. of russia to host the world cup in twenty eighteen all right well just under an hour now until bad big announcement from now live. here in moscow thank you. well even if russia loses the chance to host the championships the contract will be vying to take home the winners' cup us and football manager and former world class footballer. the tame headed by home grown manager is at are more likely to succeed . i've always advocated one principle that the national team of any country and especially russia should be headed by a homegrown specialist they come be two opinions on that well today's football executives make different decisions but if we take a look at history the teams that won european and world cup so you're mostly coached by home specialists with you in particular if we take the highest

achievements of soviet football they were also made under soviet coaching there is why i think foreign coaches and not. a fashion trends that will fade suit. but you can watch that full interview here on our team in over an hour's time and of course stay with us for the big announcement and russ as bad to host the world cup in twenty eight. years old and. when something really. what you want to get down to brass tacks. special coverage battle is almost won features finally sold looms on an international faceoff for the future of the two thousand and eighteen world cup. find out it will be hosting the world's largest sporting event live on a. question on the.

to other news this thursday in an interview on u.s. prime time t.v. vladimir putin outlined the stark choice ahead on european defense either moscow becomes an equal partner or it will be forced to put more missiles on its borders and can reports the russian prime minister also told larry king there will be no rivalry between him and to meet in the upcoming presidential race. larry king started off with a question that is a big make money not only in the west but also in russia will run for office in two thousand and twelve with him basically said they'll figure something out with president medvedev sort of indicating that they are first of all foreigners with the current president and don't see each other as rivals took their eye actually larry king brought up the comical comparison with batman and robin that comparison that a us the queen like gave to a russian leadership to the russian leadership in a classified cable hosted by weekly experience what

a prime minister what is that the words good. you know 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 sue to school 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 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 says they plan that that if washington then and nato don't figure out

a joint sort of even approach to the planned missile the best building in europe it could trigger an arms race and quickly 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 addition with threats in the form of a new missile shield new. russia will have to maintain its security by taking certain issues 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 us in the case we can't reach an agreement on collaboration and that's it i repeat we do not want this little course of no talking about president obama have a positive assessment of is there a national effort to say he was thankful. for you know softening kind of the

negative rather a cold wash and in practice for for the fact that he scrapped bush national missile defense planning in europe something that irritated washoe a lot. russian officials are brushing aside allegations released by whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the revealed secret u.s. diplomatic cables claimed the country is riddled with corruption and crime the documents are the latest in a growing list of leaks coming from american officials as archives marina portnoy reports the beans have spilled all over washington. a global partner in peace or paranoid super power 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 words 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 you know it's the humor of the u.n. they pay a lot of the bills but they also have the ability to veto 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 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 hocking operations here at the world body had quarters for governments that are constantly talking about democracy 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 the 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. well john laughlin director of the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says the latest wiki leak demonstrates that u.s.

foreign policy is based on an unhealthy approach. there is an incredibly immature and frankly dangerous attitude on the part of american diplomats to categorize the world only in terms of where the people are friendly towards america and where the people where the countries want to be like america this shoes i think the the real intellectual floor at the heart of american foreign policy because it shows that america at least the state department to any great is the victim of a sort of political autism in other words a political in the billeted to deal with the other to deal with other people with all the difficulty and differences that that implies let's take a look now at some international news in brief three roadside bombs have exploded in the iraqi capital baghdad officials say security forces and government employees were targeted several people including five policemen were injured in the attacks which took place across the city during morning rush hour it comes amid an

increased wave of violence in the country following the u.s. combat troop withdrawal. and ivory coast opposition leader's office has been attacked as the deadline passed to release the results of sunday's presidential elections several people were reported killed as violence broke out despite a nighttime curfew in the city of abidjan the opposition party accuses the cart the current president gbagbo of trying to steal the ballot elections the first in the country for a decade. at least fifteen people have died in europe from a cold snap that sent the continent into a deep freeze transport has been affected across several countries with many major airports suffering severe delays the conditions are the worst the u.k. has experienced for seventeen years experts predict heavy snow falls and plummeting temperatures in europe will continue for several days. well we have lots more

for you of course on our website that's our two dot com here's a taste of what's going on for right now for you and it is interesting tom wolfe earned world renowned artist brings his work to russia we explore his image of and find out what makes so later special. and with temperatures in the negative double digits we explore how to stay warm and enjoy the russian capital as it chilled out if not easy so head over to our tuna dot com. the business news is coming up here in r t after a short break. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

some petersburg elegies available in hotels a story of a little ambassador renascence boutique hotel triplets hotel the tryst good hotel gold new gold and never tell center elvis you will take stuff dostoevsky. and see if this column if you visit. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news the world's major soft string producer pepsico is buying control of russia's juice and dairy giant wimbledon foods the price three point eight billion dollars for six to six percent represents a premium of about

a threat to the company's recent share price that course it's just to jump shop new on moscow changes the deal three months off the no no france sold us eight to the cent stake and them both down but to the russian company that sicko will take control in a staggered deal for us by six to six percent and the rest on terms mandated by russian will still needs approval from mounting a monopoly regulators wimble down controls are wrong to set up russia's drinks and dairy market and has set a production funds across the c.i.s. let's hear them both down increased its who has that profit by wrong fifteen percent to over one hundred ten million dollars. ok for more analysis i'm joined on the phone by passive had a very quick is for you to be capital alec thank you very much for joining us so did the price premium thirty percent first and average surprise the markets here it's pretty market because it shows some sixty percent so obviously this

information was not known to market the way the move would have not been significant. only three months in sternal sold a stake valuable down at about two and a half billion dollars now it's valued at twice that. what can i say that he is apparently being for control of the company and obviously don't own was interested in love or did you get that which is you know milk and they just wanted to focus on that for every deal there's a price and i think the. main sure holders leave the deal as opposed to an old lady make good money and congratulations to them and they will those to increase the appetite of investors for other stocks in the consumer goods sector. come again. will this increase the appetite of investors for other stocks in the consumer goods sector well or certainly we're seeing a pickup in prices in the whole consumer and retail segment in russian stocks today

so most of the stocks are up on the news obviously there are occasions and maybe other western should you just might be interested in russia i mean you're going to consumers doug certainly we've got a big up in demand on the back to do and i got to cause a head of equities for you to the capital thank you very much for your analysis. ok time to have a quick look at the markets russian stocks have quietly retreated farm early morning but they are still up for a third day as high oil prices and speculation europe's debt crisis will be contained boost confidence in the global recovery and when the sorry stopped will acquire a controlling stake in their russian dairy company promise adding about two and a half percent and prospectors being true point three percent on high oil prices. european markets are high and they have extended the window on the which it will lend to european banks until april that soon the euro drops turning to stocks

meeting gains on the footsie with three percent. energy ministers of the gas exporting countries have backed russia's push for more discussion before the e.u. approves its third energy charter that men would ban energy producers from distribution they also agree that the first summit of exporting countries will take place in doha next year speaking to me tear up the formal exporting countries russia's energy business is sort of. the regional market is crucially important for the industry. but with the rest of the while we talk about stagnation in gas demand in europe asia pacific region is growing fast straightly is also a growing competitor to qatar and algerian gas we are broadening our presence there first of all our l. and g. production we plan to build such a plant. and i discussing the construction of the third stage of sahal in order but

we also want to keep our position as a pipe gas supply in the region for example today we are discussing possible supplies to korea and china. russia second largest lender be higher than expected that profit in the first quarter after a loss a year before it reached four hundred thirty five million dollars driven by low demand and economic growth. russia's harvest fell by a third this year because of the summer drought part experts say weather was only partly to blame out that their farming industry is an urgent need of improvement charlotte mahmassani has the details you reap what you sow but not in russia this year the country lost around forty million tonnes of grain the government wants to cover any shortage by this thing next summer plantings by a quarter overshoes farmers have their doubts one people weren't poignant the banks cannot give loans to farmers whose debts are already restructured if the situation

remains as it is no plantings may not increase would actually fall because farmers face the toughest financial situation in many. grain crops declined by a third of the worst drought in one hundred thirty years who have a nature can't carry all the brain analysts say sixty percent of losses be due to old technology and practice that. russia's wheat crop yield is a third of that of europe to improve we need access to modern sea 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 also lack modern farming vehicles it's hard to improve technology quickly and apart from what to do and how to reap another problem is transporting the harvest but i'm adorable the situation we see ports is improving as there 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 one thousand kilometers by lorry than by train it's nonsense. the vagaries of nature gave russia a record harvest in two thousand and eight and a drought this year the country will have to get to grips with technology and infrastructure it has to become once again the bread basket of europe charlotte was falling business r.t. . that's all from the business team this hour but you can get most or a small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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