dmitri medvedev says it's not the time to reveal his presidential plans for two thousand and twelve during a marathon news conference he also feel that questions on and working with. and ruled russia out of backing a u.n. resolution on syria because of the ongoing libya campaign. the end of egypt's pick take a ship but the start of a sectarian division christians muslims blame opposed to a revolution of leaders for failing to stem the worrying rise in religious violence . and sweden's africa to keep people's private takes.

you comes down ordering the country to store personal information. just after eight pm here in moscow you would not see welcome to the program now to retrieve 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 number of media question and answer session the last at over two hours he also discussed his working relations with prime minister putin and how russia is disappointed with nato as actions in libya and he has been following the event. possession went on for almost two and a half hours hundreds of journalists were there eight hundred in fact three hundred of them international all packed into a halt in the scope of what that i mean you was not chosen by mistake it's somewhat

of a gem for president medvedev part of his modernisation plan and what it is the project to develop is the sort of tetched town very similar to that up 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 this 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 and 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 a white on many issues but they also have their differences. i should mushing is my name and my relationship with my colleague and political part of the timea putin is no it's just something that people call a time that actually we've been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well we think alike and the views on key issues in our country's development a very close to 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 we're seeing an uprising in much of my lands lately president is made of mention that russia would be against any kind of intervention in syria because of what happened after the resolution on the b.

of a set of super serious support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they were disregarded by the actions that some states took the nation even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened often was demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is the poor bill because it undermines the all 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 madrid have 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 about was not the case russia would be ready to develop its mis our systems some of the most straightforward questions came from opposition journalist this is what one blogger asked the president about the fate of jailed hoyle tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky.

eight hundred course he is released who he did injured to society that was a short question and the own son will be equally sure 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 president medvedev is in technology how he keeps up with his social networks and with his blogs in fact a long time it was that his wife patti read breaking news about how the speaker felt the operatives were a part of them it had been you know it is out of his position and also you 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. so in our reporting right the. president made us press secretary straight after the conference she told us that the president's networking doesn't make her job any easier just. enough and then i was someone from the press comes to the president to brief him on the latest news he knows it's already from the internet it needs is

more time to hear the news from the president not be very clear that in this job you have to make sure you knew all the news the president. the stuff the president answers instead we're from the christian science monitor good to see you so quite a lengthy session there about two hours and seventeen minutes long or so but a positive atmosphere was quite obvious throughout but with no mention from the president about any presidential ambition for next year what message do you think he was trying to sort of cross well you know i found myself wondering why he called a press conference a toile yes he's an engaging personality he displayed a certain command of detail. but as you say when he was asked the obvious question the one that is let's face it on everybody's minds he said. something to the effect of the press conference was not the place where notes that well to be fair he went on to say. that's a politician's prerogative but then why did he sort of picture of all this to come

in and listen to a discussion of how hard it is the parking structure in downtown moscow the problems of rangeela herders in the arctic or or how to get gas for your country you know that it is hard to understand because we've got a p.r. campaign trying to show that he's a jew ease listening to him and try to address the issues of public well if so why now he's been in office for three years this particular venue you know the press conference a marathon press conference is putin's forte and he does it frankly a lot better. medvedev was was nice and friendly and even when he was engaging he was friendly and even democratic you know with the choosing of questions and the joking with journalists but it is is much more magisterial now when it comes to this whole issue about a possible presidential bid next year when the announcement is finally made what

will it be will it be yes or no do you think. i don't know the thing that galls me a bit as a journalist is that this decision is being made under the carpet. and in unlike the united states where the pre-election campaign is already pretty much in full swing. here when they come to announce the candidate but they will also basically being i'm not saying who's going to be the next president and voting day will be a formality and therefore i find myself wishing. that the process would be a little more open you know and that's why i was frankly disappointed with this press conference let's approach on one of the subjects that was discussed and that over here jailed tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky the answer on him was quite a bit softer than what vladimir putin i said in the past how how do you read that. i don't know he said he didn't say anything radical because he wasn't asked do you

think or of course should go free he he was asked do you think it would be a threat to russia if he were allowed to go free and he answered no well that doesn't mean he's planning to pardon court across cure any of those things i don't think that people people in the liberal community should get their hopes up. right now with a lot of discontent at the moment with libya to meet you that was obviously quite annoyed when talking about the u.n. resolution that russia allowed to pass and now we see what's happening in libya do you think this could affect russia's relations with the west oh yeah. that was an interesting moment because he came close to admitting that russia made a mistake by not vetoing resolution one thousand seventy three. by all the traditions of russian foreign policy they should have done. so this is this is this is interesting. the thing that might prevent it becoming an issue between

russia and the west really is that there's an awful lot of confusion and disaffection in the west over this intervention it's not a popular thing anywhere for the christian science monitor thank you. all right well if you let the presidents think you can get it word for word on why let's head over to dark. when the people of egypt that oppose the deposed president rather want to her although a new era of democracy instead it's ushered in a wave of religious violence which both muslim and christian leaders are at pains to bring to an end before it gets out of control what is more a financial reports. president mubarak's gone but the risley from satisfaction indicate a free egypt was seriously unified on the sleeve square three common enemy barracks resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. that we

want justice we want equal rights. and institutions in businesses police and army and politics and what for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought the desire for change. the people have to sit freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed scores injured and several churches burned this 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 brick thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad and northern flashpoint as the years of syrian religious tension boil over plus how come we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we've been able to sleep and our children are alive we know saw that before we could have even imagine something

like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime. others glorify the genie revolution in london the muslim brotherhood then times and degrades the country's only well organized political group with a president a 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 or they saw how the revolution united people and they want to ruin that they don't want to see egypt strongly dependent but i'm sure they will all disappear after the parliamentary election this september. in batteries cairo's poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of doors a day full of in the clear revolution egypt's immune system has been a weekend jen massacree 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 might spread and whether egypt can ever recover. from original shot see cairo. international relations expert mark almond says that the revolution in egypt has resulted in a radicalism which may seize any new regime in the country for the reasons why o'barr it was unpopular not trust his own personality or even his family through huge economic problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and the religious issue trickle we would you don't return to any of those problems of the original government the generals and their appointed resources really because there's a congressional approval where they want to go so we're seeing the radical groups of the just local the thought of taking over if you have elections in september but the largest best organized group might say we don't accept the results we think we're the real majority and they will actually have the people who will come out on

the streets the muslim brotherhood maybe of mobilizing of people to take it doesn't really look. that it's fair that the libyan. the conflict may spill beyond its borders after gadhafi forces shelled an area on the border with tunisia continues your government is now threatening diplomatic action if it continues in other developments rebel forces say that the former libyan oil minister has defected and fled the country something not yet confirmed by the gadhafi regime if true he will be the second look at high ranking libyan officials of fleet after the foreign minister koussa left for britain in march for more of the latest events in libya i'm joined by a baker the editor of the online current affairs website who what why dot com mr baker we've seen none could actually related targets being hit such as the north korean embassy where civilians died and since it's protecting civilians how. just how far do you think nato is prepared to go in this. well that's an interesting question because originally of course we were told that the purpose of the nato

mission was to protect civilians but because of the nature of the uprising itself it was inherently military to begin with and of course we had these very interesting remarks late last week from the head of the british armed forces in which he's been much more candid i think then any of the other people the coalition and he virtually explicitly said that his goal was to take out kadafi now that was not what the u.n. was approving and so we've seen this kind of constant mission creep and impossible set of circumstances and of course two thousand five hundred of bombing runs the attempts to as as the head of the british armed forces said to destroy much of the infrastructure so of course you're going to see tremendous civilian casualties are going to see a tremendous amount of property damage and of course we know who's going to end up paying for that in the long run it's going to be the taxpayers of the countries

that were behind the mission u.n. resolution one nine seven three humanitarian mission and no fly zone i mean as you were saying been a couple bob and in libya has borne little fruit now months into the conflict and we heard president obama saying days ago that this is an open ended mission here what do you think can possibly break this stalemate that was seen. well you know the problem that we even have to break the stalemate is that none of these countries have been candid with their own citizens as to what is going on here i don't think you can break this stalemate i mean they've they've they've put it to a situation where there are really no alternatives at this point except to remove gadhafi with all of the damage that that entails because of course every time they they do anything they force him to retaliate further against the other side which of course results in more civilian deaths which justifies then more allied military

action i mean i think the key issue here is to focus on what's going on the entire thing is about oil we all know that and of course none of these countries can talk about it every country has a stake in this thing the u.s. britain would be france italy and of course the italians and i think russia to some extent having different interests as far as khadafi goes so none of these countries are able to speak candidly about the stakes involved ok so you're saying that it's a real lack of truth when it comes to the true meaning behind the ongoing intervention in libya that you're saying it's about oil but let's bring about the scope and talk about the region moving our attention to syria but we hear that both the u.n. the u.s. looking to impose new sanctions on damascus does this have a worrying similarities do you think in the buildup to intervention in libya. well certainly it has similarities it also has some similarities to egypt and that situation could go either way if if a and inherently authentic

domestic dissent is able to perpetuate itself and to grow as it did at least to some extent in egypt i think it is possible that the regime in syria is going to have to just pack up and go but this is very very tricky the key thing would be not to get involved militarily as they have the in libya ross baker the editor who what why dot com thank you. this evening at r.t. to call these stories are getting a lot of interest right now an alleged couple is arrested in moscow police say they made a gruesome discovery at his apartment where the suspect admitted he was eating his victim. and i don't make too many plans for the weekend these billboards appearing across russia say the end of the world is on its way in just three days time will tell you more than once he thought.

you would see life from moscow now sweden has been trying hard to make sure that people's private online data stays just that the e.u. is insisting it has to store uses confidential information about it went to stockholm 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 its 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 isn't injuring their

foundations and. what you see is the one receive 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 postpone it for 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 which 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 cortin's and well guarded for this thing is here. at the moment sweden's 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 kicked 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 concerned communications which were made within the first three months so it means that it is really this report that the extra storage will cost operators an estimated twenty million euros a. 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 this information will lots leach into the hands what it will not be even the european commission that meets changes are needed last month found the right to privacy was being threatened so there is room for improvement in the currently to return sion directive these roches shortcomings are some some considerable concern for citizens and for industry hopefully later this year we will present amendments

to this effect it has taken sweden four years just to get that far there's a long way to go before david beats goalline but he's certainly not giving up yet i believe it r.t. stock. times and headlines around the world. for. over an hour over a nato raid in which four people were killed during the demonstration left at least eleven people dozens of those who has been for the schools as world. health right but what about where they were all and tried to fire a. life where i can start over having handed house raids and civilian casualties i was also from local officials. the head of the international monetary fund has been put on suicide watch while being held over sexual assault charges commonly mistrust it's a new york prison will appear in court on friday to apply

a bail that was detained at j.f.k. airport on sunday accused of attacking a hotel maid something that he denies. and for workers have gone inside a number of japan's crippled fukushima plant to check the radiation levels in the building they are equipped with intense protective gear and are the first to enter since the earthquake disaster in march but they needed to work out how best to cool the reactors but it's using an unmanned probe it failed when it's being blocked it's a new fiber making it impossible to navigate. you know after right here on our tree next to the business with carrie. her welcome to our business bulletin thanks for joining russia state run may be seeking compensation for the failed chess not deal with the pain deputy prime minister eager section one of the main architects of the deal says the company's

lawyers are studying the viability of a clane station does not specify whether it's b.p. or its russian partners are the target. previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. however a consumption soon enough believes ross they have to find fault with a are. absolutely sure we will go to work what. a lot of arguments show that the position of. it was not an economic behavior it was the politically motivated behavior of the main aim was to destroy the view that is were absolutely sure of the. decision but. really the reason was to destroy israel some small computer. program for it would be another argument for my idea that the main motivation was not required and it was politics . of a deal between roast beef and b.p. does not appear to be completely ted it could resume talks on cooperation with the

provincial nature the company claims it has received a new offer from b.p. which goes beyond the original agreement kerry has reached his conference with the news media and school cover president medvedev hinted that the government still saw b.p. as a strong partner. no moisture yet so to keep him well i think those who prepared the deal should have paid more attention to the details of the shareholder agreement the government should have done to diligence more carefully this was not done caused difficulties among the shareholders and these troubles could have been avoided if the parties had come to an agreement in advance but if the deal does go through i will be glad that this would also be good for russia relations skulk of a high tech hub has been a favorite project of the death so far little of in the way of construction has taken place however it's now possible to see what the future city might look like after a presentation of the design concept early in the week i mean it calls for approx.

congress hola business center and its acknowledge apart 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 about 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 born 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 is allocated one billion dollars over the next decade to transform skolkovo into russia's first smart connected city then we 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 signaller goff and that is investment see a hundred fifty million for digital infrastructure and i.t. services the other big names include stocks are intel and microsoft dell skolkovo is expected to be completed by twenty fifteen and the payback period is expected to start in five to seven years during the call serve up business artsy. as they can look at the markets or the scorning two percent off the industry survey showed unexpected drop in gasoline supplies also the weak of u.s. currencies encouraging investors to buy and dollar price come out of these investors also waiting for the government to release its weekly inventory report telescopes over to wall street where energy and material companies are pushing the markets higher and makes earnings reports from retailers tempering gains good packard leads decliners and its shares off one half percent a day after a reported week in sales per second quarter earnings. is a similar story in europe where the foot in the dax finished it. the buy in london

world outsell was up almost two percent and in germany georgia telecom is gaining of one percent. give or russia both the odd says otherwise it's closed in the black rebounding from a five month low stocks were boosted by a series of strong earnings reports looking at something vix movers on the why is x. still may occur sever stock is up to a point to five hundred thirty one million dollars profit for the first quarter above analyst paul cost natural gas producing motorcycles are up for almost doubled year on year net profits in the first quarter to around half a billion dollars and finally polling rexall i was also up almost six percent supported by stronger precious metals prospects. and that's the latest we have for you here on business i'll be back with in about forty minutes from.

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