asked the president to meet to madrid to prepares 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 presidencies dictatorship replaced with days based violence as muslims and christians lose the common enemy that united them. prices hit americans turned to booming to fans companies for work and one of the few industries still thriving thanks to the u.s. wars abroad.

which marty coming to life from moscow ten am here on marina josh welcome to the program the very heart of russia's i'm visions for high tech future was around eight hundred journalists today the president makes a movie that it has chosen is called word of asian hop as a venue for what is by far he's biggest q. and a session since taking office for years ago r.t. and he's now is following the final preparations according to the president's press secretary in recent months there's been such a third in reply i asked 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 but two thousand and eleven eleven of course and it's six months it's been a year packed with a developing of bands around the world japan put the issue of the future of nuclear

energy back on the table certain. 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 never left center stage this is an issue that has always been a major fred and a major priority says certainly we'll hear. that issue being touched upon and what's happening in the arab world this 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 have important voices on the world stage so a lot of issues internationally going to be touched upon and of course the most pressing russians mystic issues as well design you most certainly was not chosen by mistake just to tell you a little bit about the project is a plan to develop by text 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 it's somewhat of an international project really they're looking for global investors there are international investors we've seen very well known faces speak there before including arnold schwarzenegger and former secretary of state funded lisa rice so that is why this venue was chosen we're hearing that all eight hundred of the journalists are there so many of them there they will be able to all fit into that hall but they'll be several rooms were journalists can all watch what's happening in this press conference and hear what the president has to say right 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 need to do it will run for a second term in office it's something he's hinted has is possible really prime

minister putin has as well there's a bit of intrigue. rounding the whole process but let's not forget if there isn't a direct answer to that question which most certainly will come out that it's only in the united states that a year and a half before the actual vote at 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 and experts that we've been speaking to say that to meet with it would counter so many journalists to say nothing so some kind of big statement is expected we of course are not sure what it is to turn and we're going to be showing all the news conference live here in r.t. it begins at one pm moscow time. and he's now reporting there now still work on a program sending out to big brother. and injuring foundations some of the c.e.o.'s of the ocracy are a free society swigging 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 met to try and ease religious tangents that have split over into deadly violence they call on egyptians to unite clashes reportedly started because of an interface marriage considered for bitten by religious you are more than ten people have been killed on both sides in two christian churches burned down since the trouble started christians want more rights and say they are not being protected by the interim government put in place following the revolution that deposed president hosni mubarak parties more good for national courts and opposed to cater ship reality. president mubarak's gone but there is little satisfaction in dictate a free egypt. really is unified on the square through a common enemy barak's resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. you want equal rights. and institutions in business news release in oregon and poets. for centuries the

coptic please. minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. people have to sit freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation. tensions in the past month have met 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 breeks road your insectarium clashes in baghdad and northern flashpoint as years of simmering religious tension or love or sorrow welcome 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.

others glorify the january revolution in london the muslim brotherhood went on the mubarak today to 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 alone awaited voice that. radicals are triggering the transitions they saw the revolution united people and they want to ruin that don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary elections this time for us. in batteries cairo's poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of dollars a day probably in the pre-revolution egyptian use this thing has been a weekend dramatically economy is in critical condition the army is running the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the

question now is. how far the damage right and what egypt can ever recover. riginal should not see cairo. libyan state t.v. is reporting that you need a warship has been hit by khadafi forces close to the port of misrata however the alliance denies the claims and rebel forces say the former leading oil minister has defected and fled the country something not confirmed by the gadhafi regime if true it will be the second high ranking libyan officials to flee after foreign minister left for britain in march on tuesday envoys from tripoli visited moscow for talks to find a way to stop violence in the country they say they are ready to hold fighting only if the opposition downs arms and nato stops error rate pops from cannes university told r.t. the pressure from russia could be key to finding a diplomatic solution we haven't really seen enough evidence that the gadhafi regime is prepared today down its weapons and stop its own campaign 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 companies like russia on the gadhafi things will be able to move in that direction but i would have thought that the rebels will want to visit moscow in order to increase their international legitimacy of course we know 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 probably members like like russia and ultimately also china as i would have thought they have a strong interest in visiting moscow meeting with the russian foreign minister. live from moscow you're watching r.t. and check out our website. for more stories years what's there for you now. an

alleged cannibalism arrested in moscow police say they entered his apartment to find a man making a spoon out of his drinking bottle. and china joins the space race with some far reaching plans to put its own station in orbit by twenty twenty and santa man to mars that are more. despised to draining wars and a financial crisis is boom time for us to finance companies the industry is eager to paint itself as a last manufacturing powerhouse and creator of millions of jobs but as our teams came forward records many unemployed americans had little choice but to labor in an industry that exists to fuel itself. it's career day and for one industry business

is booming business is being very small business a hundred percent per revenue increase since two thousand and four we're now going into this year with a significant revenue increase defense contracting. missile defense maker northrop grumman to chemical and biological weapons producer patel three weapons builder pragmatics two were 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 anything the department of we do as well to support them so we've been fortunate over the last several years to experience a considerable amount of. growth in iraq and. afghanistan and the u.s. has more than one thousand military bases worldwide we're located ever sees in iraq afghanistan germany south korea and so we have

a lot of opportunities in the united states as well as ever see and with the pentagon budget of 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 i was more and more people here in charlottesville so they don't mind taking a piece of a defense contracting pot i'm a pacifist but i'm a realist to me sometimes war is necessary just because we want to be peaceful doesn't mean people meet us others don't see us presence in iraq and afghanistan as negative at all with their to help you know what a lot of them they don't they don't know to just look at a murder like a. charge but we're not 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 there 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

russian and mismanagement and they were taking land from iraqis. without securing title and when i brought this to their attention i said what would you build a house in the united states not a piece of land that you didn't know the guy can't we have 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 raking and the dough and you know when dwight eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex in one nine hundred sixty one we're there now analysts say that without the defense industry and miracles nine percent unemployment rate would soar to eleven point five percent and facing those odds for many in charlottesville military contracting is the best defense here in fort r.t.d. charlottesville virginia. author david swanson doesn't buy that

a fan's industries argument that it is creating jobs he says and spend on weapons could be used to a far greater benefit elsewhere economists tend to agree that you put the same dollars into nonmilitary factory to infrastructure green energy education and we produce more jobs and better trained jobs rather 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 conflicts there will be more jobs but in those same dollars in just about anywhere else and in fact it's gone right tax cuts for working people will produce more jobs and it's actually worse than nothing. the u.s. middle class once a symbol of prosperity and capitalism has been hit by the financial crash as much as anyone cross-talk hospital bill and his guests today discuss why recovery starting so long and whether the government is helping at all i t's cross are coming your way in an hour's time. and we 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 our cars in terms of overall state of health in terms of mortality rates morbidity rates 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. care. if you look at. sweden stand as one of the last bastions 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 internet traffic

reports from start big brother isn't welcome. if you. even read text will be watched if the e.u. has its way its full sea members to impose a law to store all telecom traffic data it will know where you are and you are talking to sweden's refusing and is now being sued by the e.u. all of the information probably will be in some case misuse isn't entering their foundation so. what you see its democracy or a free society the law was meant to combat terrorism and so. sweden should have been tracking calls since two thousand and seven but parliament just postponed it the yet another year one of just five members standing up to big brother the has been wrong in many cases before and they are also in this case there of course we're through the chase criminals and combat terrorism but we should not wind 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 portions and well guarded previously 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 disproportionate 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 see information will not lead into the hands what it were for not even the european commission admits changes are needed its report last month found the right to privacy was being threatened so there is room for improvement in the current rate of attention directive these rush shortcomings are sources of considerable concern for citizens and for industry hopefully later this year will present amendments to this effect it has taken sweden for you. just to get. there's a long way to go before would be. giving up on you but it's stuck. now seek look at some other stories from around the world and united states and european union are planning new sanctions against the syrian leadership the

additional pressure is aimed at putting an end to a violent crackdown against anti-government protests that you 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 bashar asad started in mid march. the i lab director general dominic straus caught arrested and jailed on attempted rape charges has been put under suicide watch according to reports strauss kahn is being held in rikers island new york prison known for its gang violence and you'll stay there until at least friday when he's down in court again on charges of sexually assaulting a maid in a new york hotel. mexican police have found five hundred and thirteen migrants hiding inside two drugs bound for the u.s. the discovery was made by x. ray equipment at a checkpoint in southern mexico it's the largest group found in years and included people from nine countries mostly from central america police also arrested four

people accused of people smuggling. well there are signs that two more reactors it appears crippled fukushima nuclear power plant 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 of says the signs of a meltdown were there long before the word minute. a melt means that the fuel inside the reactor has got so hot but it's melted and there's a sort of raging 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 so you may recall i was right from the beginning there were lots of indications that this was the case actually that although

they've admitted this now 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 bad radioactive particles are not appearing in the united states and certainly is a lot of radioactivity appearing as far as this is very serious not my feeling is that seppo never really miscalculated anything it was just trying to cover everything up from the very beginning and the problem is that enough people are out there measuring things so they're no longer to be able to sustain the idea that there's nothing happening which they 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. here in our latest on the world of business with katrina.

welcome down to business news for this hour russian oil major rosneft is looking for a new partner to explore the arctic after a deal with b.p. fell apart energy minister outlines what it's looking for. we are interested in a partner if we find one which will be able to bring to the deal what b.p. has been bringing it's crucial for us to get access to state of the art technology for working on offshore oil shells but the most important thing is that rosneft can proceed in working in the direction the deal had covered. with the failure of the deal between b.p. and rosneft came after b.p.'s current partner in russia they are reportedly rejected a thirty two billion dollar offer to buy its stake in t.n.

k p it's also suggested they are is still prepared to negotiate if certain conditions are met but analysts believe they are his confused negotiations to a point where continuing offers little prospect of success for its part rosneft are saying little about potential partners yulia not novacek over and you're also said the arctic resources are attractive and there's no shortage of candidates. last i have to is now will continue negotiations or start negotiations with other strategic partner between january and march for us and it has already received the proposals and expression of interest from shell exxon and chevron and also from cheney is an indian company has so i believe their trust and have to turn to those companies and first of all to exxon shell chevron to continue negotiations and to push the project forward. the other groups may ask for

a loan from the international monetary fund in order to bring financial problems the country's prime minister also says russia has agreed to help us with more than six billion dollars of loans half of that will be provided as a payment for the future sales of belarusian goods to russia the country is struggling to cope with the worst crisis in a decade it has lost a quarter of its reserves this year trying to support the weakening local currency the decline of the elevation ruble has resulted in a significant decrease of the citizens by income had a shortage of foreign goods. let's take a look at the markets now we will prices are on the rise as the weaker us currency is encouraging investors to buy in dollar priced commodities also investors are waiting on a key inventory report from the us which is expected to show a supply in an oil stock prices in the light sweet is trading at around ninety eight dollars a barrel was right around one hundred ten this hour. and it's time to look at how

the stock market's performing now asian stocks are trading in the black this hour the hang seng is helped by bargain buying in energy and property stocks after the market declined for most of the previous fourteen sessions aluminum corp of china is adding more than two hundred percent on stronger commodities energy stocks are also on the rise in japan index corp up nearly three percent in the tech sector. rainy season electronics is up more than four percent i made reports about its plans to restore chip making passably after it recovers from the earthquake and here in russia the r.t.s. has opened strongly in the black tracking of the games in asia the mind six is just about to start trading its little round one percent on thursday on tuesday on the back of worldwide market trends. russia's high tech hog hub in skolkovo will play host later on wednesday to dmitri medvedev for the first extended press conference of his presidency skolkovo has been

a favorite project of made better so far little in the way of construction is taking place however it's now possible to see what the future city might look like after a presentation of the design concept earlier in the week. congress hola business center and the technology park now these are just some of the features that skolkovo will boast according to the designers but that comes with a hefty price tag and that is one hundred and twenty billion rubles which is about four point three billion dollars a half of the funds will come from the states 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 these 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 transform skolkovo into russia's first smart connected city then we have boeing

which is a stop loss in the design center so point three hundred i.t. specialist to support commercial aircraft construction then we have private equity firms sigil or gaap and that is investing two hundred fifty million for digital infrastructure and i.t. services the other big names include stocks are in cell and microsoft else notable is expected to be completed by rights once in fifteen and the payback period is expected to start in five to seven years during a culture of our business artsy. and staying with innovations of russian high tech corp russ nano is creating a joint venture with french startup crocus technology that will produce a new generation of memory chips here in russia the parties will invest three hundred million dollars in the project with ross nano providing nearly half of that some say over the chips are expected to reach two hundred fifty million dollars by two thousand and fifteen with president relying mostly on foreign consumers the

chips can be used in microprocessors and smart cards. well let's call the business for this hour have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us now. the book. the book. the. hunger for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get

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