today on r t dimitrov inventive says it's not the time to reveal his presidential plans for twenty twelve during a matter of the news conference he also fielding questions on working with from your posts in and ruled russia out of backing a u.n. resolution on syria because of the libya campaign. also this hour the end of egypt's dictatorship but the start of sectarian division christians and muslims blame post revolution leaders for failing to stand worry in rising religious violence as we report. and sweden's efforts to keep people's data

private takes a hammering as the e.u. comes down hard on it in the country to store personal online information. welcome you're watching r t it's just after six pm now here in moscow my name's kevin zero in on the top story today dimitri medvedev says he'll announce whether he's going to run again for president but not just yet it was one of his answers to hundreds of journalists at a mammoth media question and answer session that lasted over two hours he also discussed his working relations with prime minister putin and how russia was disappointed with nato as actions in libya and they said now it's been following the event for r.t. . especially went on for almost two and a half hours hundreds of journalists were there eight hundred in fact i three hundred of them international all packed into

a hole in that scope of adventure they knew was not chosen by mistake it's somewhat of a gem up for president medvedev part of his modernization plan and what it is the project to develop is the sort of text town very similar to that of silicon valley bringing together some of the greatest russian minds and one place to develop new technology and other sorts of developments about was chosen very especially for this session lots of different issues were covered of course the biggest anticipated question are i should say answer of the day was whether or not president medvedev would run for a second term in the trying to troll the election but he himself joked that he was surprised that it only came as the fourth question at least the first of several and he expects that to be the very first question that wasn't the case but it became very clear at the beginning of the session that today was not the right time or the right place as he started he said making that kind of announcement today would be playing somewhat of a political game however many questions were asked about the election about the

intrigue surrounding whether he would run whether prime minister vladimir putin would run and this is what he had to say about his relationship with the prime minister pointing out that they do think alike on many issues but they also have their differences. that should meshing is lame but my relationship with my colleague and political part of that image putin is no it's just something that people call a tandem actually we've been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well we think alike and all views on key issues in our country's development a very close but this doesn't mean we always think the same way we have different views on modernization and i think this process could be much fun stuff all eyes now internationally on of course what's happening in libya r t in fact asked whether. not that russia would be in favor of any kind of resolution to interfere in syria of course there were seeing an uprising and much of violence lately those

images they did mention that russia would be against any kind of intervention in syria because of what happened after the resolution on the b.s. because it is a question if you support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they would disregard it by the actions that some states took even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened afterwards demonstrated these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is a poor bill because it undermines the will thirty of the u.n. is another international issue that came out was a russian relationship with the red the west and with nato president medvedev said that he did believe the operation was going well but that they are still weary about miss out defense both the u.s. and nato and that in the future they would be looking for transparency that that was not the case russia would be ready to develop its missile systems some of the most straightforward questions came from opposition journalist this is what one blogger asked the president about the fate of jailed oil tycoon mikhail

khodorkovsky. a hunter course he is released who he did injure to society of course that was a short question and the owners who will be equally short and no absolutely not i know a lighter note many jokes were made out of light hearted questions were asked once again it was put on display how involved the president meant it is in technology how he keeps up with the social networks and with his blogs in fact at one time he told that his wife had read breaking news about how the speaker of the upper chamber of parliament ted binion wrote it goes out of his position and also he mentioned that it's through these social networks like twitter and his blog that he keeps in touch with what with what's really happening in the world and with the people that he's in fact the first russian president to do that and it's now reporting this tonight so dimitri pollack on our from the united russia. see he's deputy head of the central executive committee. very good afternoon. so no word from the president about whether he'll stand again what do you think his decision

will be though when he does decide to eventually. well i think that the president was quite politically correct in saying that. the country should wait until the political moment that i think the actually of the country will know all the truth. because catherine clearwell globally this some ways that kind of calm political season you know russia that's not the spirit of the views so besides much will depend on the results of the column and relations i think this is enough to do what it does say that right now and be a political force in russia focus only on mostly so we should be a little bit patient and wait for another couple of months before we can see how the definite decision or to participate or want to participate in the presidential race more than a sort of some of the other subjects i was ever

a lot of curiosity about. preventive saying today thinks it's normal that they disagree on so much as do you see their relationships develop in the past three years. well i think that. again the a pretty the press conference today indicates that the general that the down there was as a team that people who work there may have something to feel differences about for us is the base of much of this nation but says this to each equation which is the most important thing is the same and i think i need to do it several times to hear . him work in the same direction for the benefit of the country and they have this. similar strategic vision of the future no the headline maker today the issue of jail. was brought up a president of advocating

a softer touch compared to that of the prime minister putin who supplied khodorkovsky situation in any way do you think. well i think for that of course live with me imitative that there will be no danger because he is. least out of prison so he is not doesn't have the steam mature remark here or a kind of course of the very popular the wide world wide no the russian society of course the next there. is for for that of course he can be assigned to the investors because so many investors there were huge because. he has risen so if he is the range for the release stuff will be done he is. in the reserves so this will be here this will be a good sign for the for the business that we look at international affairs much but it had strong words about what's happening in libya currently russia led by un

resolution and didn't veto it at the time but now it's angry to have been interpreted the same prism of but if you reconsider russia's partnership with the west in light of this now. i think that's the russian partnership with the with the west is again a kind of strategic thing yeah the russian foreign policy of course is aimed at strengthening this partnership of course there's a need for you it may have our own position on this so that the issue of this is requires that we go she should approach this with our partners and of course there i have to say about the kind of extended the british and by the of the u.n. security council resolution only how we are with doesn't mean that we should freeze over the nations it's a normal dialogue and i think this process will continue the process preppers monger. russia and the west but of course we're waiting for the us their. thoughts thoughts are as well thought the ball is. good as well on the western side and they

should start to play there they should start to. worry sports through the russian initiative good good you're in sort of a program to read free public on after the head of the central executive committee of the united russia party a very good day to you. and will love her more reaction to what the president said in the coming hours you can get it all word for word on line the full two hours seventeen minutes of it. now when the people of egypt opposed the president it was to herald a new era of democracy instead it suffered in a wave of religious violence which both muslim and christian leaders are pains to bring to an end before it gets out of control out is rare for national report. present. but there is little satisfaction in the key to free egypt. previously unified on tesla's square through a common enemy arabs resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each

other. better we want justice we want equal rights. in institutions in businesses police in oregon in politics. for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country germinated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. the people of this of freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed schools injured and several churches burned as muslim woman and her entire family had been welcome in liberation until her twenty four year old son was killed in the street i agree. thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad and northern flashpoint as years of syrian religious tension boil over sorrow work out well we

knew it was a dictator maybe he was corrupt police been able to sleep and the children were naive we never thought that before we couldn't even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime. but others glorified it jean you're a revolution in london the muslim brotherhood bent under mubarak today to the country's only well organized political group with the president gun they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice. or radicals are triggering the tensions a little at least or how the revolution united people and they want to ruin that they don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will all disappeared after the parliamentary election this september. in batteries poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of course a day following the fear revolution egypt's immune system has been

a weekend to mattick a weak economy is in critical condition the army is ruling the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage. and whether egypt can ever recover. refresh our cairo. it's fear of the libyan conflict may spill beyond its borders after gadhafi forces shelled an area to the border with childe near zero which is your government is now threatening diplomatic action if it continues but in other developments rebel forces say the former libyan oil minister has defected and fled the country something that's not been confirmed yet brotherhood there are few regime if true though he will be the second high ranking libyan officials are fleeing after a foreign minister left for britain in march one choose. voice from tripoli visited moscow for talks on a way to stop the violence in the country they say they're ready to end the fighting only if the opposition lays down arms and nato starts its raids we

supposed made in pubs from kent university in the u.k. told us that pressure from russia could be key to finding a diplomatic solution that we haven't really seen enough evidence that you could argue regime is prepared to lay down its weapons and start its own campaign and of course it's very difficult with claims and counterclaims but for the moment i think 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 north pressure from countries like russia on the gadhafi and perhaps things will be able to move in that direction but i would have thought that the rebels who 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 as i would have

thought there have a strong interest in visiting moscow meeting with the russian foreign minister. for some such stories now at r t v dot com. alleged cannibal was arrested in moscow police say they made a gruesome discovery that apartment where the suspect admitted he was eating his victim if you want to know more about that story it is online today at our table com also this is cheery don't make too many plans for the weekend these billboards at least the roof area across russia now said the end of the worlds on the way when three days' time fingers crossed it's not will tell you more but our teeth dot com . sweden has been trying hard to make sure that people's private online data stays just private but the has insisted it has to store users' confidential information

out is other bennett went to stockholm for us to find out why big brother isn't welcome there. every call. every email. even every text will be watched if the e.u. has its way it's forcing members to impose a law to store all telecom traffic data it will know where you are and who you are talking to sweden's refusing and is now being sued by the e.u. or the safe information probably will be in some case misused is in danger in their foundations and. what you see is the office here or a free society the law was meant to combat terrorism and 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 also in this case and 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 cordons 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 for the majority of the requests that are coming from law enforcement authorities actually cost cern communications which were made within the first

three months so it means that it is really this proportionate 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 a hundred percent guarantee that this information will lots leach into the hands which should not be even the european commission that meets changes are needed its report last month found the right to privacy was being threatened so there is room for improvement in the currently too attention directive these roche shortcomings are senses of considerable concern for citizens and. hopefully later this year will present amendments to this text is taken sweden four years just to get that far is a long way to go before david pietz goliath but he's certainly not giving up yet i ve been it r t stock. elsewhere around the world this violent protests are broken

out in northern afghanistan for. four people were killed clashes during a demonstration left at least eleven dead and dozens wounded late has confirmed that its forces killed two men and two women during a house raid but pointed out that they were all armed and tried to fire a troops because widespread anger in afghanistan over heavy handed house raids and civilian casualties of nato operations. the head of the international monetary fund who put on suicide watch now while being held at a sexual assault charges come extras cans in a new world prison and the appear in court on friday to reapply for bail he was detained at j.f.k. airport on sunday accused of attacking a hotel maid something which means ninety. four workers have gone inside reactor number two of japan's crippled fukushima plant to check the radiation levels of the building better equipped with intense protective gear and are the first to enter since the earthquake disaster in march it is needed to work out how best to call the reactors efforts using unmanned probes fail when steam blocked its viewfinder

making it impossible to navigate. america may be being dragged down by rep. yes and unemployment so friends with the economy these days but as one of the street is bucking the trend it is a boom time for all manufacturers right now and they're running themselves a savings of the job market colin ford reports next on how americans have little choice but to go gunning for. it's career day and for one industry business is booming business is being great as a small business. revenue increases three thousand four we're now going into this year with a significant revenue increase defense contractor. for a missile defense maker northrop grumman to chemical and biological weapons producer patel three weapons builder pragmatics two we're fighters supporter b. eight all of the big names are here charlottesville community job fair business is

very good for be a systems currently we're the second largest defense 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. afghanistan and that the u.s. has more than one thousand military bases worldwide we are 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 sees 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 alone i want more and more people here in charlottesville so they don't mind taking a piece of that defense contracting pie i'm a pessimist but i am a realist to mean sometimes war is necessary just because we want to be peaceful

doesn't you know people want to use others don't see us presence in iraq and afghanistan as negative at all with their to help you know there are a lot of them they. you don't know what it is look at a merkel like hey you know we're tired 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 the affair i'd been near 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 with the corruption and mismanagement and they were taking land for 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 land 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 and hundred thousand contractors to support its two wars abroad and the defense contractors are wreaking.

and you know when to eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex in one nine hundred sixty one we're there now analysts say that without the defense industry america's nine percent unemployment rate would soar to eleven point five percent in piecing those odds for many in charlottesville military contracting is the best defense given for it our t.v. charlottesville virginia. by the way the saving of one of britain's best love scientists tells us of our see why we need to keep our cool over climate change that's ahead the business there. hello welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining russia state run rosneft could resume talks on cooperation with the british of nature of b.p. the announcement comes just one day after the share swap and arctic exploration deal fell apart that was due to objections from our which is b.p.'s ruslan part and

take a deep and overall stand says as well it could resume talks on cooperation with the british oil major the company claims it has now received a new offer from b.p. which goes beyond the election agreement however no details have been revealed for its part. also said its willing to reopen discussion during his conference with the news media and school covered president medvedev hinted that the government still saw b.p. as a strong potential partner. in the moist spirit so to keep him completing those you could have a deal should have paid more attention to the details of the shareholder agreement the government should have done diligence for more carefully this was not only cause difficulties among the shareholders and these troubles could mean avoided if the parties had come to an agreement in advance but if the deal goes through i will be this would also be good for russia to the sions it's called the high tech cub has been a favorite project so far little in the way of construction has taken place however

it's now possible to see what the future city might look like after presentation of the design concept of the week right of course reports. congress hola business center and a 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 not half of the funds 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 skolkovo 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 transform skolkovo into russia's first smart connected city it would have boeing which is establishing

a design center so employed three hundred i.t. specialist to support commercial aircraft construction then we have private equity firm sigil or god and that is investment see a hundred and fifty million for digital infrastructure and i.t. services the other big names including talks are in cell and microsoft also google is expected to be completed bites one to fifteen and the pe that period is expected to start in five to seven years during the call serve a business artsy. to collect the markets or process continue to rise as the week a u.s. currency is encouraging investors to buy in dollar price commodities also investors are waiting to get in convention report in the u.s. which is expected to show into klein or stockpiles stuck to the u.s. open make stuff for three straight days of losses technology stocks are off on strong earnings reports by dell traders remain concerned of the u.s. economic recovery slowing target corporation reported earnings that beat

expectations but it stocks have flocked. similar story in europe where the folks in the dax continue to trade in the block this hour in london world that shell is up almost two percent. and in germany georgia telecom is going to hold one of the hottest. here in russia both beyond tests of them isaacson trading in the black listed by a series of strong corporate earnings reports looking at some index movers on them isaacs to make a severance is high after a reported it reported a five hundred thirty one million dollars profit for the first quarter above analysts full cost less for gas producer noble tech is up to almost doubled year on year net profits in the first quarter to round up billion dollars polymath who is also up almost three percent supported by stronger precious metals prices. russia's biggest airport don't know i did it i have and also it will be holding an initial public offering in london to my dead reportedly plans to raise up to one million dollars it generated revenue one point six billion in two thousand and ten compared

to about eight hundred thirteen million dollars a year before a recent spate of russian companies in town so plans to list in london due to lack of investment. and that's all i have for you this hour but you can always find most stories just don't tell website launched.

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