eight thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team as we bring you the latest headlines and a week in review of monday's suicide blast of moscow's domodedovo airport was aimed at foreigners and carried out by a man from the north caucasus the attack killed thirty five people and injured more than one hundred. egypt descends into chaos as protesters lash out against the government for the sixth day in a row more than one hundred have been killed thousands injured in the uprising leading to the dissolution of the cabinet. after months of negotiations washington and moscow got a fresh start as they ratified or bureau arms reduction treaty leaders signed the

agreement last april but got a lot of opposition of us republicans in the senate. up next president medvedev spoke exclusively to bloomberg on the sidelines of the world economic forum in davos his interview coming your way next here on our team. president good of thank you very much for joining us you want to churn russia into a modern country you've got mcdonald's you've got shopping malls you've got sushi what's missing and what the. what's missing more common things like infrastructure business infrastructure and legislation to properly regulate business activities missing the official establishment of the bureaucracy lack of proper legal consciousness in a world develops the judicial system is missing and once we have all that provided there is no corruption it would mean that russia is ready to steam ahead along in

its modernization track but we can with nearly all of the companies that are traded in russia are either controlled by the state or controlled by billionaires or also known as all other minority investors foreign investors often find that in these circumstances they are not treated fairly all investors talk about it and yet the regulator does nothing. do you think the regulator should do more about. the commodities you can get around any law including corporate law american or british the question is whether there is an effective control over the way the relevant legal regulations are applied that business is always looking to avoid the toughest and. unfortunately as regards compliance with legislation in our country the situation here is as follows now businessmen often try to strike a bargain with public officials civil servants and among themselves in order to get around our legislation which is not underdeveloped in my opinion in trying to close

deals or contrary to law. but that is not only a question of the legislation itself it's a question of legal coach or a question of effective compliance control and the question of effective work by anti monopoly agencies let us look at the way things stand in the united states where noncompliance with anti trust legislation is often a violation much more serious than a minor criminal offense because the consequences could be disastrous for any businessman so we have a lot to deal with here a lot to work on with. we talk a lot about corruption and the need to clean up corruption you've taken some steps but you yourself admit really you haven't accomplished a lot why. go after if corruption is total as. you say it is you know russia wide out go out or some really seen your government officials. this is

a crime i would like to say here that we do need to speak legal language someone knows or somebody is a bribe taker well we can think that way about any governor and not just in the russian federation. but you don't but if you let me just stop you there those are so you have said that corruption is nearly total it's not just singular cases where the people are corrupt so theoretically it shouldn't be very difficult to find people that you were where the evidence is there so why not do that. but i believe we should act as follows corruption has indeed penetrated all branches of power and it has bred far and wide after the emergence of a market economy and the political system which is only natural let's be honest there were no such corruption levels in the soviet union why are we going to because there was no freedom and no market economy unfortunately our state officials are now businessmen were not ready to communicate in

a civilized way from the start and corruption grew let me tell you the situation is difficult but not hopeless when the last year alone several thousand high ranking state officials continue were prosecuted for corruption and bribery in two thousand of them that were sentenced. when we have of course he was arrested the first time . it said this signal to all of the oligarchs that the state was in control and one thing that happened was everybody started paying taxes. so wouldn't it wouldn't you have the same effect if you went after one of your own wouldn't that send the same signal to everyone else that this is no longer tolerated. as regards payments of taxes not just by who to call ski but businessmen in general yesterday i had a look at statistics last year alone one thousand private entrepreneurs and some three thousand employees of major companies were prosecuted the tax this is

a big number i didn't expect it to be now. and i had to look at certain cases and if a mission was provided to me by the prosecutor general's office some of those people under talking about the well known case got eight to ten fifteen year sentences so i would say it's not exactly correct to talk about solicits even use of justice yeah. let me let me talk here about a bit of cooking a little bit more depth. every december russia's biggest investment bankers brokers get together for an informal chat this year at that chat one of the investment bankers raised his glass to me other quotes not because anyone in that room liked me because i was told but because they all believe that what happened to him the second conviction is devastating for russia's investment climate don't you want the

story of mikhail khodorkovsky to just go away don't you want to stop it. let me expand on this for it is indeed of certain interest to everyone first of all let me say once again that last year alone several thousand private entrepreneurs and employees of major business entities were sent to prison for tax crimes secondly i have always believed that the president of any country including russia should not talk about individual cases just because that would be an interference with the judiciary system thirdly as regards mr khodorkovsky and some of his colleagues prosecuted by law and the respective sentence it has not entered into legal force and fourthly i believe that all talk about the shortcomings of our judicial system as well as any attempts to bring pressure including or me as a president totally are destructive in this context because they make everyone else thinks that the judicial or legal system in russia is so imperfect you simply tell

the president or someone else change the sentence the whole of course someone else and then will believe that your legal system is not that hopeless that it is kind of working but that would be unacceptable. investors be sure there won't be another other cause i think the any investor be a russian or an american investor should have died by laws otherwise he could get a term but the way happened with khodorkovsky and as was the case with bernie madoff he got a longer sentence of which you talk about the need for more political competition to modernize the russian economy. how can you fight corruption in the government if there is no real opposition to the opposition political opposition in russia isn't allowed to exist. by the national right to political opposition in russia does exist the question is how strong it is

but there are four political parties represented in the russian parliament which sometimes really do when the government has been formed by the leading political force for the middle and they criticize the government clamor against it and so on and just the way it happens in the rest of the world but another thing is that we currently have just one powerful political force which controls the situation in the parliament and i mean there are negative side but it's obvious that there are positive signs too late in the ninety's president boris yeltsin could not adopt any law because the communists or other parties were blocking we have been able to adopt normal legislation but that doesn't mean the united russia or any other party she gets a mandate to rule once and for all. for that's exactly what i'm asking about i'm more interested in the opposition leaders that are outside of the parliament that's what that's what i'll ask you about why is it that an opposition leader in russia. can be arrested at a peaceful demonstration. just because he said at this demonstration no he was

accused of provoking a policeman but a lot of people so that was. it again i wouldn't want to interfere with the proceedings but if you mean the administrative arrest of small opposition party's leaders then this issue should be addressed in a lawful manner no country in the world allows violation of its laws on meetings rallies and demonstrations acting against the police by committing acts against those who maintain law and order. your very popular president the opposition is very small why create these situations because there are just bad press for the investment climate outside of russia where these opposition leaders are getting arrested were demonstrations whether they were officially sanctioned or not are dispersed why not just let them demonstrate they do that all the time you're going to have dozens even hundreds of demonstrations and rallies only one violates the law there was just one problem with holding a demonstration on a specific day in

a specific place. square that's what no one says city administration in. these demonstrations was sanctioned they gather there but it's impossible to file a dozen applications for the same location a little bit shy the way opposition leaders got the sanction as far as i know the problem is that they can't work with each other that somebody said we'll be there someone else added that we won't be there but we'll take you to another location we can look why don't we need to observe the law but it's on its own or you can run for president two thousand and twelve. yeah see how things will go as what's up with you if you do run with prime minister putin continue to be your prime minister . but it will depend on a whole number of things and circumstances as regards me i won't speak about mr putin right now ok he's another person my friend my colleague so i won't speak on his behalf that's for me i will certainly make my own decision and i'll do that

this year but i mean a decision what to do next if i think it will be right for the country but for our political system and first and foremost when people are citizens for me to participate in elections i don't do that i think the other way i will state my position openly and i will say that this is for the good of our society and our state but if i decide to participate then i will of course make a subsequent decision regarding prime minister this is obvious but has there been wishing me i mean used in my final question obviously the terrorist act in moscow was a tragedy. that assad. do investors need to worry about the security situation in russia you've got. the olympics coming up you've got the world cup coming up is russia's security situation something that needs to worry investors. well i would like to start with something else this issue ation

definitely concerns first and foremost russian citizens and me as the president and this is the most important thing because only by consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil that we have no right to get hysterical about terrorism and spread out with this will make terrorism stronger look at the way americans came together after the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be at the helm he's got to be tough but it's got to be the same for our country the only way we can defeat terrorism as regards fears and concerns for our investors and all those who want to come to russia rest assured that we will ensure a high level of security we will ensure the proper level of security for the winter olympics and the world football cup and all other sporting events this will be a task for the whole of society and for law enforcement agencies and special services of course and we will do that as effectively as possible to delimit.

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sun. screen stocks on t.v. dot com. latest headlines and we can review here on our t.v. monday suicide blast at moscow's domodedovo airport was aimed at foreigners and carried out by a man from the north caucuses the attack killed thirty five people and injured more than one hundred best to get or say they will not reveal the name of the culprit until they track down and arrest his accomplices in. egypt descends into chaos as protesters lash out against the government for the sixth day in a row more than one hundred have been killed thousands injured in the uprising leading to the dissolution of the cabinet world leaders have heard the president were praying for violence and giving to people's demands for reform. after months of negotiations washington and moscow got a fresh start as they ratify the new nuclear arms reduction treaty the leaders

signed agreement last april but got opposition from us republicans in the senate the treaty will reduce the number of strategic arms on both sides by more than a third. farmer joins us with all the latest from the world of sports stay with us as we wrap up the week's news here on our. hello there you're watching the sport and these are the headlines. tears of joy kleis has been destroyed you know for the first time in what could be her final season. childhood friends marion djokovic predicted try tunick tussle in their final on sunday. break ups man united have to come from a goal down to beat league one side to southampton. the first newly crowned australian open champion kim clijsters says coming from

a set down made her victory even sweeter the belgian be china's lean are two sets to one to claim the trophy for the first time and what could be her last season lina had beaten classes just two weeks before the sydney international look ready to cause another upset in melbourne even though she suffered an early break of serve she kept her cool and a spectacular cross court forehand clinched the first set six three of the two exchanged breaks twice in the second and lee now pulled herself in front three two but it was all clijsters after that the belgian unleashing a barrage of ground strokes to keep her opponent running all over the court third seed prices reeled off seven straight games to take the second set six three before taking the decider by the same scoreline plenty of reasons the prize to celebrate the comeback mom winning her second straight grand slam and will display to builders of all nearly over as world number two on monday. they're all emotional.

you know i think what overwhelms me is that it's so intense off until you know that last shot and then all suns finished and it's just like a big relief and. he. does believe me he would too doesn't so over and i was able to turn around the thinking. just makes it all so so special i think had great tennis shoes created. so as a national bank no longer imagine it made the job the chances she would only play once. i mean i'll still have you were there if you think. hard for myself meanwhile on sunday andy murray will have the chance to win his maiden grand slam title as he takes on novak djokovic the two plays a good friends off the court having played on the junior circuit together since the early teens however it will be no love lost across the net djokovic has the advantage of an extra twenty four hours rest after playing some of the best tennis

of his career to beat roger federer in straight sets the world number three also has fond memories of the rod laver arena as he won his only grand slam title here three years ago murray got to the final after beating david in four sets of the scotsman coming from a set down to beat the spaniard move through to his grand slam final murray may take heart in the fact that he could beat you each of their last three meetings. there were big moments for me you know and some a couple times a massive suit is filed when i won my first masters series. and since it was you know a big win for me so. a lot to me at the time i don't know if they'll have a bearing during the match on sunday. a lot to me and. you know experts of. expecting him just because he's lost the last couple times to. me i'm going to have to grow but we have more or less similar games you know we put some variety in our

games depending on who we play but we are games are based on a baseline and we can mix it we can play spain defensive offensive and. quite solid serves so it's going to be. interesting to see who's going was going to dominate from the baseline but you know i expect long rallies i think you know patience in and really using the opportunities when they have been given to you know in the certain. could be a crack and an ice hockey veteran goaltender dominic nashik is marked his forty sixth birthday with yet another chef happier spot acas the muscovites flashed all of seven nail on the right in the k h l even but i don't care who inflicting most of the damage in this last friday goldfish the team not showing up bryson elsewhere scar class metalocalypse there's net all one service start also netted four goals or of them in the final period something simply a forty eight has been

a hectic week to make a shelf and i would let's look at the highlights from the last segment that.

now on the slopes swiss skidded a couche has got the second world cup victory in a row the latest coming in france it is midway through the season at the moment in khushi it form forming victory last week with another one here in chamonix the only man to complete the course in under a minute and fifty nine seconds this leaves dominic paris and roll from austria came second third this victory putting coach on top of the world cup downhill standings after six races but the thirty seven year old is still some way off the pace in the overall standings he's over four hundred points behind leader of egypt cross that each. in football japan have beaten australia one nil to claim the asian cup for a fourth time making them the most successful team in the tournament's history the socceroos were the top team and don't have the guilty of wasting too many chances

at the khalifa international stadium going as after ninety minutes the game went to extra time where substitute. lead got the winner with eleven minutes left. in plenty of action to an england where it's been the fourth round of the f.a. cup and chelsea just scraped a one one draw with everton to stay in the competition the toffees taking the lead luisa hobbs will salomon kalou got the equaliser aston villa beat blackburn their three one vulcan against we could finish goalless while the other premier league team there birmingham came from behind to get a three two win over coventry elsewhere premier league leaders manchester united came from a goal down to beat southampton the saints who play in england's league one to the first half of the from richard chappell over at second half goals for michael owen and have your hand is put united in the ground elsewhere wins for paul burnley sheffield wednesday reading brighton and crawley. now paul casey is the highest ranked play in the field in bahrain and tops the leaderboard going into the final

round of the volvo golf champions tournament just missed out on a ryder cup place last season but has started this one meaning business he hit the ground six. sixth share of the lead with peter hanson from sweden very interesting though i only have one short question over two others northern ireland's darren clarke seen here with a birdie. and james kinston from south africa this is him and he's one of the most consistent plays out there at the moment cutting his third consecutive sixty seven but only three shots separate the top eight plays and in that lot is meagre angle him in as he kept his putter in one pace on saturday after it literally fell apart the day before his team off the path. finally formula one and the sport's most storied team ferrari of the first to unveil their new car for the upcoming season the italian team's two star drivers to be honest their headquarters is headquarters in marin l.a. last year's runner up for nando alonzo three but massa pulling off the covers of

the cars called the f one fifty to mark the anniversary of its knees unification and it features a new movable rear wing and the kinetic energy recovery system the latter was banned last year but makes its return in twenty eleven ferrari boss is hoping the improvements will help alonzo clinches third f one title or massa his first and of course so do the drive. has been done in this car a lot of months of water and now finally we see the car physically. with us and eleven season with a lot of challenges for us challenge a new year with new group. and some new. you know will be interesting to watch through going to world that brings us to the end of the sport the weather is coming up next.

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