asked the president to meet to madrid to repairs to face hundreds of journalists in his biggest news conference ever since taking office three years ago. revolution and religion the downfall of egypt's presidency is a take it or should replace will fade based violence as muslims and christians lose a common enemy that united. us the fans could drag first prospering in words and accusations of corruption saying they are the only means to survive the financial crisis. and in business the sound following the collapse of the arctic exploration deal rosneft is

a look out for new partner join me for the full story in about twenty minutes time . nine am in the russian capital you're watching our team with mary and josh welcome to the program out a very heart of rushes and visions for high tap future will host around eight hundred journalists today president dmitry medvedev has chosen this call the innovation hub as the venue for what is by far his biggest q. and a session since taking office three years ago argues and he says now is following the final preparations. according to the president's press secretary in recent months there's been such a third day in request for one on one interviews with the president that they decided to gather as many journalists as possible at the stroke of a venue and a lot some two and a half to three hours of the president's time that's not something you see very often to answer as many questions as possible but also in terms of the timing let's

not forget that two thousand and eleven eleven of course in its six months has been a year tax which i developed think of dance around the world japan put the issue of the future of nuclear energy back on the table certainly we'll hear some statements and questions on that the death of osama bin ladin put terrorism back in the international spotlight although of course russia had never left center stage this is an issue that has always been a major fred and a major priority certainly we'll hear that that issue being touched upon and what's happening in the arab world the spring uprising what's happening in libya on the international stage there's a lot of criticism and not much consensus especially from those countries that aren't taking part in the operation but very much out in full voice is on the world stage so a lot of issues internationally going to be touched upon and of course the most pressing russian to mystic issues as well so it could just tell you a little bit about the project is a plan to develop i tapped

a town very similar to that of silicon valley right here in russia bringing the best minds the greatest minds of the country together it's somewhat of a gem of dmitri medvedev and it's all part of one of the main priorities of his presidency which is his plan to push forward modernization in the country so it's no mistake that this was chosen at somewhat of an international projects really they're looking up for global investors there are international investors we've seen very well known faces speak there before including arnold sports nager and former secretary of state under lisa rice so that is why this venue was chosen we're hearing that all eight ha. rid of the journalists there are so many of them there they will be able to all fit into that hall but they'll be several rooms where journalists can all watch what's happening in this press conference and hear what the president has to say now speaking of modernization and the president's main priorities in his three years in office of course one of those eight hundred journalists is bound to ask the question of whether to meet your major it will run

for a second term in office it's something he's hinted as is possible really prime minister putin has as well there's a bit of intrigue surrounding the whole process but let's not forget if there isn't a direct answer to that question which most certainly will come up that it's only in the united states that a year and a half before the actual vote the campaign begins in most countries including russia of course it only begins just a couple of months before the vote at the same time the analysts next words that we've been speaking to say that meeting with it wouldn't gather so many journalists to say nothing so some kind of big statement is expected we of course are not sure what it is security and we're going to be showing a full news conference live here in r.t. it begins at one pm moscow time. and he's in our reporting there well still to come in the program here in our team standing up to big brother. is in danger in their foundations of. what the c.e.o.'s of democracy or a free society sweden faces legal action for refusing to give up the right of its

citizens to speak to each other without being spied on. in cairo muslim and christian leaders have matzoh trying to use a religious tensions that have split over into deadly violence they called on egyptian student clashes reportedly started because of an interface marriage considered forbidding by religious purists and more than ten people have been killed on both sides and two christian churches burned down since the trouble started christians want more rights and say they're not being protected by the interim government but put in place following the revolution that the pope. president hosni mubarak i just worry is that our reports are both leaders of reality. president mubarak is gone but there is little satisfaction in to take a free egypt. seriously unified on their sleeves square through a common enemy barak's resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each

other. that he wants justice he wants equal rights. and institutions and businesses believes in oregon and politics. for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. people have to set freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation. but it's opened a pandora's box tensions in the past month have left dozens killed scores injured and several churches burned his muslim woman and her entire family had been welcome in liberation until her twenty four year old son was killed in the street by a greek throw during sectarian clashes in baghdad and northern flashpoint as years of simmering religious tension boil over. how we know mubarak was

a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we have been able to sleep and our children were alive we never saw the before we couldn't have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i mean the old regime i mean the others glorified it jane you're a revolution among them the muslim brotherhood then down to mubarak today it's the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice. recalls are triggering the terms. of the revolution united people and they want to ruin that i don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure there was a ship here after the parliamentary election because congress didn't want me in batteries chiros poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just

a couple of dollars a day probably in the pre-revolution egypt's immune system has been weakened dramatically economies in critical condition on his route in the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage might spread and whether egypt can ever recover. rich notion. cairo. libyan state t.v. is reporting that neda worship has been hit by gadhafi forces close to the port of misrata however the alliance denies the claims and rebel forces say the former leader or oil minister has defected and fled the country something not confirmed by the gadhafi regime is true it will be the second high ranking libyan official to free up for foreign minister it was left for britain in march on tuesday and was from tripoli visit of moscow for talks to find a way to stop violence in the country we save you are ready to hold fighting only if the opposition downs arms and nato stops air raids from camp university told

r.t. the pressure from russia would be key to finding a diplomatic solution. we haven't really seen enough evidence that the gadhafi regime is prepared to lay down its weapons and stop its own comparing and of course it's very difficult with claims and counterclaims but for the moment i think the gadhafi regime lacks any credibility no one in the regime. at the moment i think can be trusted and in that sense it's very hard to see how this can come about with more pressure from countries like russia one because after you have things will be able to move in our direction but i would have thought that the rebels will want to visit moscow in order to increase their own international legitimacy of course we know that the rebels have been seeking diplomatic recognition from around the world but just getting recognition from from the west from countries like france and others won't be enough they know they need the support of the security council permanent members like like russia and ultimately also china so do thought they

have a strong interest in visiting moscow meeting with the russian foreign minister. well live from moscow with our team check out our web page for more stories here's what's there for you now and let's have all those arrested in moscow police say he entered his apartment to find a man making a studio out of his drinking party. and china joins a space race with some far reaching plans to put its own station in orbit by twenty twenty and send a man to mars that are more. despite two grainy wars and a financial crisis it's boom time for us to finance companies the industry is eager to paint itself as the last manufacturing powerhouse and creator of millions of jobs. reports many unemployed americans have little choice but to labor in an

industry that exists to fuel itself. its career day and for one industry business is booming business has been great as a small business owner with hundred percent pro revenue increases three thousand four we're now going into this year with a significant revenue increase defense contracting. for missile defense maker northrop grumman to chemical and biological weapons producer patel three weapons builder pragmatics to war fighter supporter b. eight all of the big names are here at charlottesville community job fair business is very good for be a systems currently we're the second largest offense contractor in the world. we have an anything the department of does we do as well to support them so we've been fortunate over the last several years thirty minutes a considerable amount of. growth in iraq and. afghanistan and that the u.s. has more than one thousand military bases worldwide we are located ever sees in

iraq afghanistan germany. and so we have a lot of opportunities in the united states as well as ever cities and with the pentagon budget over six hundred eighty five billion dollars in two thousand and eleven there are plenty of defense dollars to go around northrop grumman is the second largest defense contractor in the united states with nine point nine billion dollars in contracts in two thousand and nine alone i want more and more people here in charlottesville so big don't mind taking a piece about defense contracting pot i'm a pacifist but i'm a realist too sometimes war is necessary just because we want to be peaceful doesn't you know people meet us others don't see us presence in iraq and afghanistan as negative at all with their to help you know that a lot of them don't they don't know to just look at a murder like a you know we're tired but we're not we're there to help real estate advisor michael o'brien went to iraq as a defense contractor to do just that help but i realized before i'd been in the or

you know nearly a year i was there fourteen months i was just a warm body to collect fees for my company o'brien became disillusioned because action and mismanagement and they were taking land from iraqis without securing. and when i brought this to their attention i said what would you build a house in the united states not a piece of william that you didn't know the guy kicked me out of his office still o'brien says americans won't see the end of defense contractors anytime soon without a draft the military depends on hundred thousand contractors to support its two wars abroad and the defense contractors are working and the. and you know when white eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex in one nine hundred sixty one were there now analysts say that without the defense industry america's nine percent unemployment rate would soar to eleven point five percent in pacing those odds for many in charlottesville military contracting is

the best defense here in fort r.t.d. charlottesville virginia. azar david swanson doesn't buy the defense industry's argument that it is creating jobs he says the money being spent on weapons could be used to a far greater benefit elsewhere they promised since you agree that you put the same dollars into nonmilitary factory it infrastructure green energy education and you produced more jobs and better paying jobs than a broader impact on the economy so while it's true that there are people getting jobs making weapons and working for the military and the whole conflict there would be more jobs put in those same dollars into just about anywhere else and in fact it gone right tax cuts for working people would produce more jobs and it's actually worse than nothing. the u.s. middle class once a symbol of risperidone and capitalism has been hit by the financial crash as much as anyone crosstalk host peter lavelle and his guests today discuss why recovery is

taking so long and whether the government is helping at all are these crossed are coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. . we have a look at the numbers and the numbers tell the story the united states spends far more on health care than other developed countries and it's far worse in outcomes in terms of overall state of health in terms of mortality rates morbidity rate we're not getting the job done and health care is radically different among different social groups so we have a broken health care system that's extremely expensive it's like a shiny cadillac that doesn't go anywhere in terms of the numbers when what we really need is a good sit there and they can get people back to health. and. if you look.

else we can stand as one of the last bastion of privacy in the e.u. was a little personal invasion by the state which is why it's putting out such a fight against demands that stores and monitors all telecom and internet traffic are things i'm about of reports from where a big brother. even text will be watched if the e.u. and its weight in school see members to impose a law to still aid telecom traffic tickets and it'll move where you want and who you are talking to sweden's refusing and is now being sued by the e.u. all of these are information probably will be in some case misuse isn't injuring their foundations some of what they see as democracy or a free society. meant to combat terrorism and sweden should have been tracking calls since two thousand and seven but parliament just postponed it for yet another

year one of just five members ending up to big brother the has been wrong in many cases before and also in this case there of course were through the chase criminals and combat terrorism but we should not build up a big brother society going under the radar could land sweden a fine of up to sixty eight million euros a small price to pay for a country that doesn't like being watched it's not something you notice at first glance but c.c.t.v. doesn't actually exist in sweden the only security cameras on the street are cashpoints but there aren't any public places like this one that sound port and well guarded for seeing is here. at the moment sweden is free from the watchful gaze but it's not about cameras the data traffic can be stored for up to two years it's already kit for three months by operators for billing reasons they say that's enough. the majority of the requests that are coming from law enforcement

authorities actually concern communications which were made within the first three months so it means that it is really this proportionate the extra storage will cost operators an estimated twenty million euros in total i would say that it is a problem it is a big burden for all operators they cannot give me one hundred percent guarantee that they seen from asia where lots leach into the hands where they were for not even the european commission it meets changes are needed its report last month found the right to privacy was being threatened so there is room for improvement in the current data retention directive these roches shortcomings are sources of considerable concern for citizens and for industry hopefully later this year will present and stew this affect it. he's taken sweden for years just to get that there's a long way to go before would be. giving up on you but it still

could. let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world the united states and european union are planning new sanctions against the syrian leadership the additional pressure is aimed at putting in a chance to have violent crackdown against and they brought in protests the e.u. has already imposed an arms embargo travel ban and frozen assets in europe more than seven hundred people are thought to have been killed since demonstrations against president bush travelocity started in mid march. by a man director general dominic strauss kahn arrested and jailed or attempted rape charges has been put under suicide watch according to reports strauss kahn is being held in the rikers islands in the tory as new york prison known for its gang violence will stay there until at least friday when his team is in court again on charges of sexually assaulting a maid and a new york hotel. mexican police have found five hundred thirteen migrants hiding

inside two trucks bound for the u.s. discovery was made by x. ray equipment at a checkpoint in southern mexico it's the largest crowd in years and included people from nine countries mostly from central america but he's also arrested four people with the use of people smuggling. but there are signs that two more reactors adjective crippled fukushima nuclear power plants may have gone into meltdown similar problems were earlier confirmed at number one reactor the company in charge of the facilities facing accusations of failing to properly cool them after they were damaged by an earthquake and tsunami evacuation area around the side has been widened in recent days radiation risk expert professor christopher busby says the signs of a meltdown were there long before the word middle. emote means fuel and so the reaction has got so far. radioactive inferno taking place inside the reactor we believe actually probably outside the reactor now because the reactor pressure vessel is certainly breached and in fact

you may recall i was right from the beginning some indications that this was the case actually although they would not know the real situation is in fact far worse because there have been nuclear explosions we now know so we do know that it's very very radioactive particles are not appearing in the united states and certainly is a lot of radioactivity appearing as far so it's a very serious matter my feeling is that never really miscalculated anything it was just trying to cover everything not from the very beginning and the problem is that enough people are measuring things for them no longer to be able to sustain the idea that there's nothing happening there. which they presented from the beginning and i think yes of course it's time for the japanese government to take control but having said that it's very hard to know how you could take control of the situation the situation is essentially out of control. for example here in r.t.l. the latest business with katrina coming up in just a few moments. i

don't welcome to our business policy and for this our russian oil major rosneft is looking for a new partner to explore the arctic after a deal would be pay fell apart energy minister. outlines just what they looking for . we are interested in a partner if we find one which will be able to bring to the do look b.p. has been bringing is crucial for us to get access to state of the art technology working on offshore oil shells but the most important thing is that russian have can proceed in working in the direction the deal had covered. the failure of the

deal between b.p. and rosneft came after b.p.'s current partner in russia they are reportedly rejected as thirty two billion dollars offered to violence stake in seeing k b p sources suggest any are it still prepared to negotiate if certain conditions are met that christine discourage her from standard and poor's thinks they are has confused negotiations to a point where continuing offers little prospect of success there were too many issues at stake and i'm glad that i actually collapsed because it showed the having financial maturity and he's not going to be carried away just to get the deal there were too many that war is still uncertain and they're. not willing to give in to so i don't think that even though it started as a collapse of the deal i don't think it's the end of the deal i think it's the end of the deal under their conditions that's how we've existed but going forward i think they can continue to negotiate that is assuming that it is really interested

in negotiating because it doesn't look like it from the outside. for its part rosneft is saying little about potential partners uli another chunk of a from you're also says the arctic resources are attractive and there's no shortage of candidates. prosecutors now will continue negotiations or start negotiations with other strategic partner between january and march first and has already received proposals and expression of interest from shell exxon and chevron and also from cheney as an indian company is that so i believe they're close enough to turn to those companies first of all to exxon shell chevron to continue negotiations and to push the project forward. bella ruse may ask for a loan from the international monetary fund in order to so with mounting financial problems they can freeze prime minister also says russia has agreed to help

bellerose with more than six billion dollars of loans half of that will be provided as a payment for the future sales of belorussian goods to russia the country is struggling to cope with the worst crisis in a decade it's not a quarter of its reserves this year trying to support weakening local currency the decline of the belarusian ruble has resulted in a significant decrease of the citizens by buying power and a shortage of foreign goods. let's take a look at the markets all prices are up slightly from tuesday those concerns continue over the uncertainty of the future of greece's economy flights which is trading at around ninety seven dollars a barrel of oil brant is around one hundred ten dollars a barrel let's have a look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are trading in the black on wednesday i am saying is helped by bargain buying energy and copy stocks that's after the market declines of the most of the previous fourteen sessions elenium corp of china is having around one percent on stronger commodities energy stocks

are also on the rise in japan with index corp up nearly three percent in the tech sector in a season we have a product that is out more than four percent amid reports about its plans to restore chip making capacity. after it recovers from the earthquake. here in russia both e.l.t.'s and in my state both in the red on the back of worldwide market trends in my sex lives point nine percent recovering slightly from the earlier losses to one point two percent. russia is high tech hub and spoke of i will play host slightly wrong but later on wednesday completely medvedev for the first extended press conference of his presidency skolkovo has been a favorite project of medvedev so far and little in the way of construction has taken place however it's now possible to see what the future city might look like following the presentation of the design concept earlier this week. congress whole

of business center and it's acknowledging part though these are just some of the features that skolkovo will boast according to the designers but that comes with a hefty price side and that is one hundred and twenty billion rubles which is about four point three billion dollars about half of the bonds will come from the state and the other half from private investors the government has already agreed to subsidize the purchase of construction materials as well as the equipment and in order to attract foreign investors stoeckel provides tax costumes and visa incentives companies from all around the world have already signed up to take part in this project and some of them include cisco which has allocated one billion dollars over the next decade to try storm skolkovo into russia's first smart connected city then we have boeing which is establishing a design center so important three hundred i.t. specialist to support commercial aircraft construction then we have private equity firm sigil or god and that is invest into hundred fifty million for digital

infrastructure and i.t. services the other big names include ta-ta insult and microsoft dell skolkovo is expected to be completed bites once in fifteen and the payback period is expected to start in five to seven years during the call serve a business artsy. that's about his business for now but you can always keep up to date online ati dot com forward slash business well have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us now.

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