dmitri medvedev says it's not time to reveal his presidential plans for two thousand and twelve during a marathon news conference he also feel that questions on working with. russia out of backing a u.n. resolution on syria because of the libya campaign. also this hour the end of egypt's dictatorship at the start of sectarian division christians and muslims blame post revolution leaders for failing to stem the rising religious violence. and sweden's efforts to keep people's. takes as the e.u.

comes down hard ordering the country to personal online information. and business our state one will see it may be seeking compensation for its failed share deal. the people have won that. a very warm welcome to you this is all it see live from moscow. dimitri medvedev says he will announce whether he's going to run again for president but not just yet it was one of his answers to hundreds of journalists and a mammoth media question and answer session the last at well over two hours he also discussed working working relations with prime minister putin and how russia has disappointed with nato sanctions on going in libya and he has been following the fox. 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 hole in that skolkovo but that menu was not chosen by mistake it's somewhat of a gem up for president medvedev part of his modernization plan and what it is is a project to develop the sort of tech 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 specially 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 twenty twelve election he himself joked that he was surprised that it only came as the fourth question at least the first of several and he expected 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 but many issues but they also have their differences. i should mushing is lame but my relationship with my colleague and political part of the to me that putin is north is just something that people call a tandem and actually we've been working together for over twenty years and we knew each other while we think alike and views on key issues in our country's development 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 a 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 but russia would be against any kind of intervention in syria because of what happened after the resolution on the bia he said as if a syrian support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they were disregarded 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 that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is deplorable because it undermines the all thirty of the u.n. is another international issue that came up was a russian relationship with the red the west and with nato president medvedev said that he did believe cooperation is 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 miss our systems one of the most

straightforward questions came from opposition journalist this is what one blogger asked the president about the fate of jail coil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky. he is released who he did injure to society that was a short question and the own son will be equally sure no absolutely not and 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 it is in technology how he keeps up with his social networks and with his blogs in fact the one time people that is i pad is read breaking news of how the speaker of the opportunity or a part of the men's had been you know is going out of his position and also he makes in that it's through the 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 an i reporter right that. president appeared as press secretary straight after the

conference she told us that the president's networking doesn't make her job any easier. just a little it often happens in iowa someone from the press comes to the president to brief him on the latest news you know this already from the internet it makes us more expensive here the news from the president would not be very pleasant in this job you have to make sure you knew all the news the president the. bureau chief of britain's times newspaper told us the. reaction on nato's actions in libya show the president was clearly annoyed this commitment have appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions are probably going beyond what he thought he was voting for. so i think internationally people take note of that because it will signify russia's increasing these i think about what's going on in libya and more broadly in the middle east but i didn't detect a sense from mr medvedev the security council wasn't the proper forum in which

these things should be discussed and political analyst dimitri bobbish told r.t. that if you were to take on how costly is a lighter one if you want to oppose the decision of the court i don't think it means he's going to be released and after all it's not the president. put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for me really to top are all there of course kate although he has such a possibility according to war but you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country in korean version so i think basically a word mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court but he doesn't consider this person a danger. well if you missed the president's speech and get it word for word on line you said i want to talk. i want the people of egypt opposed to their

president it was to herald a new era of democracy instead it ushered in a wave of religious violence which both muslim and christian leaders are at pains to bring to an end before it got out of control that is worth an awful reports. president mubarak is gone but there is little satisfaction indicator for egypt was previously unified on the sleeve square through a common enemy the arabs resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. we want justice we want equal rights. in institutions in businesses police and army and politics and 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. the people of this of freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens

killed scores injured and several churches burned as muslim woman and her entire family have been welcome in liberation until her twenty four year old son was killed in the street by bricks thrown during sectarian clashes in that a northern flashpoint as the years of syrian religious tension boil over sorrow we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we've been able to sleep and know children are alive we never saw that before we could have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime. others glorified it jean you're a revolution in london the news in brotherhood bend under 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

a long awaited voice. or radicals are triggering the tensions they saw 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 cairo's poorest districts is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of dollars a day following the fear of revolution egypt's immune system has been a weekend dramatically economies in critical condition younis running the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage place rather and whether egypt can ever recover. rich notion of. cairo. i don't know to discuss this further whether the revolution is a brought freedom or for the struggle for the egyptian people as a journalist after returns he has been covering the arab middle east of elements

for years with a return to the in egypt the mubarak regime was toppled for the sake of democracy other people really getting what they were calling for. well rory it certainly is a worrying development especially for coptic christians in egypt i think most people seem optimistic relatively optimistic about the september elections but one mustn't forget that there is a fair degree of jockeying for power not least from foreigners and we'll have to wait and see what the united states wants to wants to do after all the u.s. is also a big ally it's a little puppet dictator in cairo and it'll be interesting to see how islamist elements that have formed with certain types of backing from washington to help things develop no. you know the barack a for decades was on the payroll of a washington d.c. now turning our attention from egypt to syria but there are reports the u.s. is going to impose sanctions on bashar assad which first time he's actually been personally targeted what's the what's the scenario what's the future if you see

syria well i think i mean bono is the question we all have to ask syria a stalwart ally of the palestinian cause and of course russia has a base in live tartarus in syria and if you just look at syria's allies of the chavez of venezuela. the has been a movement in lebanon we know the united states wants to destabilize syria just as the european union does but the idea that the arab spring if that's what it turns out to be was a spring against those who were against us had you will it is absurd the arab spring if it is one is against us back pocket think pages and you all can say the brush or else is a us puppet dictator and when you say when you talk about the u.s. wanting to destabilize the region there and they say by syria the u.s. is also assad's regime to be declared declared illegitimate what does that have to do with washington what gives d.c. the right to make such a declaration. it's interesting i mean i've been in syria quite

a lot over the last couple of years or so washington certainly must have looked at the shootings by israeli soldiers on the golan heights with element of glee one person who knows that there are problems in syria we mustn't say that their own tyranny a lot of them caused by the international monetary fund i'm sure don't need straws come on those quite a bit on rikers island about the deregulation the privatization the wage freezes that have caused a great deal of distrust of the syrian government by the syrian people but we know what the united states really you want you know it from wiki leaks because they fund stations like brother t.v. and i have to say monitoring the international media at the moment the unsubstantiated video reporting and so on is is might be seen as quite suspicious for whatever. is actually happening on the ground i'm hearing things that are very different about instability and i think in your earlier report about mr medvedev

there is no way more school or trying or beijing would to countenance. bombing syria and sanctions really haven't hit the country the way washington or new powers work and so the sanctions are being fairly ineffective as you're saying here but the u.s. now let's take a step back and get a broader picture the u.s. backed the uprisings in egypt and syria intervened in libya and still in iraq and afghanistan. military bases all over the region what about in terms motivations are . i think of an alien from outer space came down they would say why is washington yet again allying itself with islamist groups like it did with al qaeda the noble perpetrators of nine eleven the libya bombardment seems to have created. more al-qaeda worries the tunisian government reporting and some of their troops killed by al qaeda troops the u.s. and u.s. policies in the region it's no wonder conspiracy theorists think that some grand

plan but while still of course the united states is interested in oil and energy resources and protecting its greatest ally israel the way they go about it is frankly bizarre i feel if you want to influence the region i don't know take take a look at the way cuba are influenced venezuela there is no way feel castro sent troops against carlos andrus perez to create hugo chavez that you get what you want by leading by example and the way the united states is foreign policy has been exposed by weekly leaks and as we've seen it time and time again it's it's not what people want on the arab street let alone in syria and egypt really the people of egypt rose against us not a dictator journalist author afshin rattansi wife and mother thank you. about online at this evening darcy dot com these stories i will show you right now are getting a lot of interest actually and one of them is an alleged chemical being arrested in

moscow police say they made a gruesome discovery in his apartment where the suspect admitted that he was eating his victim. i don't make too many plans for the weekend these are billboards appearing across russia so the end of the world is on its way in just three days time we tell you more at r.t. dot com. this is on the line from moscow now in the wake of that he was recently agreed to a pile of cash to rescue portugal doubts over the efficiency of such a great outgrows allowed inside the market germany's chancellor has strong words for greece and spain and portugal for asking for money while doing little to solve the problem of themselves it's like if you start raising retirement ages and reducing vacation days talk about the implications of such harsh criticism from the

biggest bank roll off the bailouts is economic analyst and author michael moore he's waiting for us and so it must be must be hard for the german suit to have to pay out for the sake of euro unity to countries that are keeping their own houses in order and not be tempted to say enough is enough do you think. i tell you what i travel a lot and discussing this so-called financial crisis all over the world with experts and what. they are telling me or asking me behind closed doors of course they ask me how long are you germans going to pay for the rest of it how silly must do be to pay so much money to the poor of periphery and i tell them yes we are silly we are obliged to do it and of course criticism is raising here in germany under michael has only said what many people here in germany you think and of course but of course it was the political very very incorrect and already the debate is triggered

here in germany whether she could have started or not of course i think political. is also under pressure because we have to pay so much money for the sauce and for the periphery so she attempts to rescue her serve a little bit in order to. let a little world all of us all said because as michael said quote we can't have a common currency where some get lots of vacation time and others get very little that won't work in the long run if the struggling countries don't work hard how likely is it that the euro or even the new for that matter will survive. i think. they are working on it and. you're all survived at least at the short term but on the other hand this debatable is escalated in the future in my opinion the discussions are raising here on the streets of berlin keep in mind in greece for

example you work until fifty five or fifty eight in germany there had been a new laws the retirement age to be raised to sixty seven and just now just today the five wise men the five economic wise men here in germany germans have to work until sixty nine and i mean sixty nine is something that is question will go on here in germany and i mean many quit is the criticism about the euro was raised already at the beginning of the euro it's not new with this problem if you have one single currency you have to have a single fiscal unity and you have to have a single economic background this is what we don't have to work under difficult snarl on the problems now is of course very very difficult of course we are not obliged to talk to anybody else from the stars and say you have to work until sixty nine or sixty five if you have to have so and so many of you cation do this is of

course a very very difficult thing here and not only here and europe will increase the problems in future even more as you said as you say you know an increase in the problems for the future of the eurozone but also in the euro will survive but you address the issue the necessary need for first school unity but can you explain and explain this to the bailouts all these billions of euros where is the money going is it going straight to the banks because perhaps if it went to the people who would then pay off their mortgages and their car loans and credit cards it would come back around to the financial institutions where are all the billions going. first of all these billions are going directly to the government in order to support their duty as they have to pay for example for their pensions and for their workers and for their social welfare and then of course all sort of the banks are profiting from it for it we are living in a so-called capitalism now this is ridiculous because the competition isn't doesn't

work anymore everything and everyone every country is being bailed or we have something like a bank socialism because they're told us tell us i don't do it there's no other choice if we let greece or portugal bankrupt and in a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure then the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany and not on in germany especially also in france the banks are full of it and some people are you say that maybe the politicians have been elect mailed by the financial community in order to give the money of the taxpayer to make the banks survive. economic analyst and author life thank you. now you may be trying to avoid getting its fingers burned in its bankrupt countries but is determined to poke around in sweden's and privacy laws brussels is unhappy that sweden that's confidential online data stay as just that private and insists

it must hold of the people's internet information out it's either bennett now reports from stock. e-mail. 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. all the safety information probably will be in some case misused is in danger their foundations of. what they see as the markets here are a free society the laws 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 standing up to big brother the has been wrong in many cases before and they are also in this case and there of course were

through the case 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 portions and well guarded previously is here. at the moment so use 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 kept 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 concerned communications which were made within the first three novels 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 guaranteed that they seen from a show with lots leaked into their hands with it which would not be even the european commission admits changes are needed each report last month found the right to privacy was being threatened so there is room for improvement in the current data retention directive these roche shortcomings are senses of considerable concern for citizens and for industry hopefully later this year 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 goliath but he's certainly not giving up yet i ve been it r t stock. and it was for a moment let me update you on some news we're getting developments now regarding

syria which we were discussing it a bit earlier or the white house has confirmed it is imposing sanctions on president bashar assad for human rights abuses probably in a violent crackdowns of anti-government protests in syria it's the first time he has been personally it's objected to restrictions and measures are also targeting six senior syrian officials and i was just a few minutes away from hearing how the man who was the father of a soviet hydrogen bomb became one of the communist regimes most outspoken critics but first this hour as i thought was the stories we're covering a bottle. russia's

state run grossness may be seeking compensation for the failed chance for a deal with b.p. to pretty prime minister and one of the main architects of the deal says the company's lawyers are studying the viability of a claim does not specify whether its b.p. or its russian partners are a target. i had previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. however consenting seaman often leaves i felt. sure there was no real go to court and there are a lot of arguments showed the position of. it was not in the come on admit it was the politically mature way to behave the main aim was to destroy the people because we're absolutely sure that. the computers but. really the reason was to destroy israel some small computer. program for what it would be an. argument for my idea that the main motivation was not the calling it was politics.

between the b.p. does not appear to be completely dead says it could resume talks on cooperation with a potential major the company claims it has received a new offer from b.p. which goes beyond the original agreement during his conference with the news media president medvedev hinted the government still sold b.p. as a strong potential partner. no moyse. i think those who prepared the deal should have paid more attention to the details of the shareholder agreement the government should have done due diligence for me carefully this was not cause difficulties among the shareholders and these troubles could have been avoided if the parties had come to an agreement. but if the deal goes good through i will be this would be good for russia. and let's cross over to wall street where energy and materials companies are pushing the markets higher still strong earnings helped push the technology focus nasdaq composite index up over. over half

a percent but mixed earnings reports from retailers are temp gains staples plunged nineteen percent of the office supply company reported sales that were weak that investors expectations european equity markets finished the footsie and the dikes closed in the black in london world out shell gained almost two percent in germany going to telecom was up over one percent here in russia both the artist in my eyes it's closed in the black as well would bounding from the five months low stocks were boosted by a series of strong earnings reports looking at some index moves on the why is it still make a set of stars it was high after it reported a five hundred thirty one million dollars profit for the first quarter about the catalyst for cost natural gas producer no attack was also up after the almost doubled year on year net profits in the first quarter to around half a billion dollars arms polymath finished six percent supported by stronger precious metals. that's the latest we have for you but we'll have more in less than stay

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