happy day our here in moscow here's our review of the week on our t.v. russian investigators identify the bomber who committed the deadly suicide attack on moscow's domodedovo airport which killed thirty five people they say he was from the north caucasus in the wake of the blast a new ad terror alert system is being considered. the key nuclear arms cuts deal between moscow and washington is to come into force within days after it was approved by the russian parliament this week the start treaty was ratified by the u.s. congress last month. and of the world is calling on egypt to put

a stop to violence as over one hundred people have been killed during the anti-government protests the country has shut its border with gaza and jammed a local transmission of the al jazeera news that work. well problems with security deep rooted corruption and a difficult investment climate president dmitri medvedev tackled all of these topics as he discussed his plans for modernizing russia in an interview with bloomberg television he also spoke about the fate of. and the twenty twelve presidential race well that interview is coming right up here on r.t. . thank you very much for joining us you want to turn russia into a modern country you've got mcdonald's you've got shopping malls you've got. what's missing. what's missing on things like infrastructure business

infrastructure and legislation to properly regulate business activities missing the official establishment leave the bureaucracy lack of proper legal consciousness and the world develops a system is missing and that once we have all that provided there is no corruption it would mean that russia is ready to steam ahead a long. track but we can make it as a for 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 and 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 american or british the question is whether there is an effective control over the way the relevant legal regulations are applied that

that's the business is always looking to avoid the toughest and. unfortunately as regards compliance with legislation you know country on 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 the legislation which is not underdeveloped in my opinion and trying to close deals 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 nancy monopoly agencies let us look at the way things stand in the united states noncompliance with anti trust legislation is often a violation much more serious than a minor criminal offense because the consequences of this would be disastrous for any businessman so we have a lot to deal with a lot to work on when. 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. if corruption is total as. you say it is in russia wide out go out person really seen your government officials. is this a cry i would like to say here that we do need to speak legal language someone knows or somebody is a. well we can think that way about any governor and not just in the russian federation. but if you don't but if you are going to let me just stop you there those are so you have said that corruption is nearly total it's not just singular cases many 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 for corruption has indeed penetrated all

branches of power and it has spread far and wide after the emergence of a market economy and we political system which is only natural just be honest there were no such corruption levels in the soviet union why 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 i ask you alone for several thousand high ranking state officials when you were prosecuted for corruption and bribery in two thousand of them that were sentenced. when mchale 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 and should. lock them away as regards payments of taxes not just by. businessmen in general yesterday i had a look at statistics last year alone in 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 no high up in the law and i had to look at certain cases and if a mission was provided to me by the prosecutor general's office some of the people under talking about the well known case. ten fifteen year sentences and back so i would say it's not exactly correct to talk about solicits even use of justice yeah . let me let me talk to you 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. not because anyone in that room liked me. 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've 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 sentences it has not entered into

legal force and fourthly believe that all talk about the shortcomings of our judicial system as well as any attempts to bring pressure including on me as a president destructive in this context because they make everyone else thinks that's of course the judicial or legal system in russia is so imperfect he simply tell the president or someone else in which a sentence will hold koskie and 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. how can investors be sure there won't be another hundred close i think the any investor be a russian born american investor should have by by laws otherwise he could get a term but i think the way it happened with khodorkovsky personal and as was the case with bernie madoff he got a longer sentence because 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 the opposition political opposition in russia isn't allowed to exist. but it's a right a political position in russia does exist and the question is how strongly to us 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 then they criticize the government clamor against it and so on and it just the way it happens in the rest of the world 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 sides to even. 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 that you know wanted russia or any

other party she gets a mandate to really want some for rules up all the cheap money. 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'm asking about why is it that an opposition leader going to russia. can be arrested at a peaceful demonstration. just because he's at the demonstration i know he was accused of provoking a policeman but a lot of people so that was. again i wouldn't want to interfere with the proceedings but if you mean the administrative rest of small opposition party's leaders then this issue should be addressed in a. new country in the world allows violation of its laws and meetings rallies and demonstrations to give us a police by committing acts one against those who maintain law and order. you're a very popular president the opposition is very small why create these situations

because they're just bad press for the investment climate outside of russia where these opposition leaders are getting arrested work administrations whether they were officially sanctioned or not are dispersed why not just let them demonstrate they do that so you the time that you're going to have dozens even hundreds of demonstrations and rallies only one place there was just one problem with holding a demonstration on a specific day in a specific place. squares that's what moments the city administration in. these demonstrations was sanctioned they gather there but it's impossible to file it doesn't application to the same location that it wasn't sure the way opposition leaders got the sanction is. the problem is that they can't work with each other somebody said will be someone else added that we won't be there but we'll take you to another location when you look why don't we need to observe the law. or you can run for president two thousand and twelve. yeah see how things will go. if

you do run would prime minister putin continue to be your prime minister at the boys as he starts elevator 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 if 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 citizens for me to participate in elections i don't do that i think the other way i'll state my position openly appreciate that 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 which is obvious but it's there but wishing it to me i mean east in my final question. obviously the terrorist act in moscow was

a tragedy. that aside. 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 as. well i would like to start with something else bissett you ation definitely concerns first and foremost russian citizens and me as a president and this is the most important thing because only by consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil consider 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. if you're. a veteran thank you thank you very much as we appreciate you find later osip. the strangest attempt of a. president trying to overthrow a foreign country but his strategic.

defeat. to cope with. the cuban missile crisis gave real. to. all of you the week here on our russian investigators identify the bomber who committed the deadly suicide attack. which killed thirty five people they say he was from the north caucuses in the wake of the blast a new ad to terror alert system is being considered a. nuclear arms cuts deal between moscow and washington is to come into force within days after it was approved by the russian parliament this week the start treaty was ratified by the u.s. congress last march. to the world is calling on egypt to put

a stop to violence as over one hundred people have been killed during the government protests. its border with gaza and the local transmission of the. sports highlights with natasha. a lot of these polls there's an odd feeling to the headlines. japan claim a record full facial cup title with a heart full weight of australia becoming the most successful team in the tennis history. full well number one tiger woods purses plaster result in years and they promise i'm sure as a torrey pines while the world's second best phil mickelson lays it on the man along with bill haas. and also all fours tears of joy i can fly says

while still stranded for the first time in what could be the final season. let's kick off with with. narrow window of australia on saturday to claim the fourth asian cup trophy making them the most decorated team in the tournaments history the socceroos graded a series of openings in the past half but they are to be japanese goalkeeper aged seven schumacher managed to keep the ball out normal time couldn't separate the signs as it's their main goal to ninety minutes sell the final went into extra session well with eleven minutes to done yet finally the deadlock. on the way they think history may write the fourth asian cup title the twenty five year old striker hallman made his international debut japan's opening group fixture against jordan weeks ago came off the bench in the ninety nine and the findings in that time in the slater in spectacular fashion the man of the match however sad it was a team effort. in this tournament i was in

a little mood as it only was sent to the field as a substitute in one game in the group stage. is very unified and we really attach great importance on team construction my team mates have been encouraging me and helped me maintain a good spirit today's game showed that substitute players can also make great contributions. for the team and can also play a key role in the win and really happy but i want to say that this girl doesn't just belong to me it's the result of the hell japanese team we had our opportunities and what is always encouraging in the way we play and we create opportunities however then it's crucial to convert them and later on in the game it it backfired and that's a problem we have to do. we have to be more clinical you know finish and. basically it's not enough to win

a game if you don't score. well football now as there's been plenty of action in england two in the fourth round of the f.a. cup including chelsea is harmful to draw with everton the top seeds to believe that we saw the force sell. aston villa beating blackburn three one balls and against wigan finished goalless while the other top flight team to get came from behind together three two victory over a common trait as some all fixtures premier league leaders manchester united came from a girl down to get southampton the saints who play in england's league want to be a first lady through richard chapter loeb on second hope builds from michael owen and javier hernandez to united through to the next stage elsewhere victories for burnley sheffield wednesday reading brighton and crawley. and golf phil mickelson is on his way to his fast i love the era of the farmers insurance open the former world number one and three time when a shooting in your mouth of a cost sixty eight to build levelled with bill hawes it's been exactly ten years

now since the lefty's maiden trip torrey pines public course he grew up playing in san diego however he also was a player from drop out of the ball pope classic just a week ago still says joint top off to some exciting shots including this birdie at the fifteenth the toughest war horse elsewhere bubble watson produce the shot of the day with his tee shot at the third watson birdied that haul and is now tied with home to main road behind the leaders tiger woods meanwhile struggled throughout the day finishing a child's background and history goal twenty one rounds at. the south course at the g. to worry about. trying to figure out there once even when i go back to what over at the turn. five i just post on there and i'm right there a ball game. and i could get you know on the bad mile but that was a goal by gun just to make it. over of the european tour paul casey the highest

ranked player in the field in bahrain told us a little bit of going into the final round of the vault champions the englishman just missed out on a ryder cup place last season but has started this one meaning business casey hitting a third round of sixty six to take a share of the lead with peter hanson from sweden and those two though only have a one shot crash and it will be others in the northern islands darren clarke seen here with a birdie at the eighteenth and also south african james on the most consistent player out there at the moment guarding his third consecutive round of sixty seven but only three shots separate the top eight and the that lottie's miguel humanise who kept his pottery and want piece on saturday after it literally fell apart the day before. the days before the final day. now a newly crowned australian open champion killing. coming from a said made of victory even sweeter the belgian be china's lean up to claim the

trophy for the first time what could be her last season. legal had written classes just a couple of weeks before the sydney international ablow traded to cause another upset in melbourne and even though she suffered a break early in the final she kept her cool and a spectacular cross called forehand allowing the chinese to clinch the first said by six games to three there the two exchanged breaks twice early in the second down the hall theirself in frogs three two but it was all quiet as off about the belgian alesha barrett broad strokes to keep her opponents running all over the court third seed lost as real golf seven straight games to take the second set six three four grabbing to decide to add the championship by the same school and so plenty of reasons for quizes to celebrate the comeback winning their second straight grass function match and will displace russia's battles we had over as world number two in monday's w t rankings. 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 those loans finished in and it's just like a big new leaf and. yeah and you know the does believe me a little bit too doesn't so and i was able to turn it around i think is what kind of just makes it all so so special i think ten instance you could tell me so i was a national bank a logger allegedly made with joe the pens should only play one so. i mean i'll still have to help you with those youth even the. soul of holes from yourself . formula one now why this for small stoked about team ferarri were the first on vale their new car for the upcoming season the telling teams to stop drivers do the honors at their headquarters in maranello last year as runner up for not all loans

oh and i'm also point all of the problems because colby won how to then fifty to mark the anniversary obviously as unification and it features a new movable red wing and the kinetic energy recovery system the latter was banned last abbott makes its roots in twenty eleven thirty bosses hope the improvements will help alonso point is that after one time i almost sank his first and of course so do the drivers. the water has been done in this car months of water and now finally we see that. with us an eleven season with a lot of challenges for us challenging year we grew so good in. some new leaf occasions so you know will be interesting to watch and threw it on the world. now in hockey a veteran built time to dominate hotshot has marked his forty sixth birthday with the us now the shutout for spartak moscow is threshing more seven zero on the road

in one of saturday's highlights bob barr on stefan goodrich guy inflicting most of the damage in this lopsided go past the do not sing a brace of peace else wes concentrate is good last minute a little slow because nets for juan and superstar also netted four goals all of them in the final period to be. moving to the slopes west. the second world cup victory in a row the latest coming in france who share he to his full midway through the season following victory and went in last week with another one here in chamonix the swiss was the only one on saturday to complete the cool sunanda and minutes and fifty nine seconds it's in is dominic paris and klaus troll from austria came second down third back to this when putting top of the world cup downhill standings up to six races bob the thirty seven year old is still some way off the pace overall lying over four hundred points behind the man even so the style of bridge.

and the latest on the experienced by the way baumgartner became a broken collarbone when the man snowboarder final denying the ball and the six gold at the band kind of does the song to the top one of those in the snowboard street the twenty three year old living up to his billing as one of the best technical rail riders in the world singing all the louis philippe are deemed the final and also all it should be a wannabe gary band while kelly clark dominated the girls' superfly. and that's it for the moment coming up after this is the why the stay with us. well for. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. this is not

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