any treatment here that says it's not the time to reveal his presidential plans for two thousand and twelve he made this statement during a marathon news conference you also fielded questions on a working with and ruled russia out of backing a un resolution on syria because of the ongoing in libya campaign. also this hour the end of egypt's dictatorship put the start of sectarian division christians muslims blame the post revolutionary leaders for failing to stem the worrying rise in religious violence. than the sweden's efforts to keep people's data private takes a hammering as the e.u.

comes down hard ordering the country to store personal online information. worldwide news and live from the heart of moscow this is artsy. treatment of said he will announce whether he's going to run for president but not just yet it was one of his answers to hundreds of journalists at a mammoth media question and answer session the lasted well over two hours he also discussed his working relations with prime minister putin and how russia is because appointed with nato as actions in libya and he's in our history and following the event fartsy. the session 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 the scope of god that i knew 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 that a sort of texas town very similar to that of silicon valley bringing together some of the greatest russian minds in one place to develop new technology and other sorts of developments that 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 jay was whether or not president said it 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 expects that to be the very first question that wasn't the case 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 pledging or which

he 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. russia blushing is lame but my relationship with my colleague and political part of the me of 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 move my zation i think this process could be much faster all eyes now internationally on of course what's happening in libya r t in fact asked whether or . not 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 events lately president is a did mention that russia would be against any kind of intervention in syria

because of what happened after the resolution on the bia it is not as if a syrian support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they would 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 the cuervo because it undermines the authority of the un 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 cooperation 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 miss our systems some of the most straightforward questions came from opposition journalist this is what one blogger asked the president about the fate of jail coil type who mikhail khodorkovsky. he

could of course he is released who he did injury to society that was a short question and the own son will be equally short and no absolutely not and a lighter note many jokes were made a lot 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 a long time people that his mind had read breaking news of how this week or ten of the upper chamber of parliament had been goaded 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 he's in our reporting right that he caught up with president. there's a press secretary straight out of the conference she told us that the president's networking doesn't make her job any easier just the birds thought it often happens when i was someone from the press comes to the president to brief him on the latest news he knows this already from the internet anything is more expensive because

here the news from the president would not be very clear things in this job you have to make sure you knew all the news the president. and moscow bureau chief for britain's times a newspaper told us that when we had a reaction on nato's actions in libya show that the president was clearly annoyed his 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 unease 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 inventive that the security council wasn't the proper forum in which these things should be discussed. political analyst to be true about it she told r.t. that movie take on the hot water is

a lighter one but he won't 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 who put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for material to. keep although he has a possibility according to war but you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country including version so i think basically what we did if we wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court much he doesn't consider these personal danger. and if you miss the president's speech you can get it word for word on line he's had it with you on top. of the u.s. has imposed sanctions on syrian president bashar assad for human rights abuses all of this following the violent crackdowns on ansi government protesters and measures the first time president assad personally and restrict his access to property in

the u.s. and prohibit anyone on american territory from dealing with him sanctions also apply to six senior syrian officials. the editor of an online a current affairs website says the situation in syria is still hiding some prices and that situation could go either way 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. well when the people of egypt deposed their president it was to herald a new era of democracy instead there would have been 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 but it's worth

a national reports office. president mubarak is gone but there is little satisfaction indicate a free egypt. fear is louis fide on tahir square through a common enemy barracks resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. that's why we want justice we want equal rights because in institutions in businesses police and army and politics in the world 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 that the people have to sort through them and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation that. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed scores injured and several churches burned as

a muslim woman and her entire family had been welcome in liberation and to her twenty four year old son was killed in the street by bricks thrown during sectarian clashes in nevada a northern flashpoint as years of syrian religious tension boil over sorrow we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt not at least we've been able to sleep and our children are alive we never saw that before we could have been imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime and. others glorified it jean you're a revolution among them the muslim brotherhood then under mubarak today's the country's only well organized political group with a president they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in. central crime rate the revolution given them a long way to police the. radicals are triggering the tensions over the missile how the revolution united people and they want to ruin us that they don't want to see

egypt strongly dependent and i'm sure they will all disappear after the parliamentary election to september and in bad very scary rows poorest districts is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of dollars to take part in the real revolution it's immune system has been a weekend dramatically economies in critical condition on israel in the country when this happens the symptoms strike most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage might brad and what egypt can ever recover. resource not see cairo. international relations expert says that the revolution in egypt has resulted in a radicalism which may seize any new regime in that country or for all the reasons why it was unpopular not just his own personality or even his family the refugee can all the problems in egypt with a rapidly growing population lots of unemployment and a religious issue to take away with you go critical any of those problems of the

current provisional government with generals and pointed missiles. really possess a strategic regional for where they want to go and so we're seeing the radical groups of the just local disorder taking over if you could have elections in september but the largest first organized group might say we don't accept the results we think where the real majority and they will actually have the people who will come out on the streets the muslim brotherhood maybe of move towards enough people to take it doesn't really look. well you with us here live from moscow and are online this evening at r.t. dot com are some of the stories are getting a lot of attention for example an alleged cannibal is arrested right here in moscow the police say to me though gruesome discovery at his apartment where the suspect admitted that he was beating his victim and. another may go too many plans for the weekend these are billboards appearing across russia say the end of the world is on its way in just three days time i'll tell you there are two talk of.

sweden has been trying hard to make sure that people's private online data stays just that but the e.u.'s insisting it has to store users' confidential information but as i try to stockholm to find out why big brother isn't welcome that. 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. for the safe information probably will be in some cases misused is in danger their

foundations some of them if what you see is a democracy or a free society the law was meant to combat terrorism and sweden should have been tracking calls since two thousand and seven that parliament just postponed it for yet another year one of just five members ending up to big brother the new has been bringing in many cases before and they are also in this case of course which are the chase criminals and combat terrorism but we should not smoke. not that 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 portent and well guarded previous thing is here. at the moment sweden is free from the watchful

gaze but it's not about cameras that they to trap it 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 concerned communications which were made within the first three months so it means that it is really disproportionate the extra storage will cost operates as an estimated twenty million euros in total i would say that it is a problem it is a big burden for all of her readers they cannot give me a hundred percent guarantee that this information will not leech into the hands what it referred lucky 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 data retention directive these fresh shortcomings

are senses of considerable concern for citizens and for industry hopefully later this year will present amendments to this text is taken sweden four years just to get that far there is a long way to go before david beats goliath but he's certainly not giving up yet either been it r.t. stock or. some other stories making world headlines this hour al-qaeda has reported chosen a temporary leader to replace osama bin laden. adel is a former egyptian special forces colonel who is believed to mastermind of al qaeda attacks on u.s. embassies in africa in one scene of course bin laden was killed in a u.s. special operations pakistan earlier this month. head of the international monetary fund has been put on suicide watch while being held of sexual assault charges. is in a new york prison and will appear in court on friday it's a real life of bail he was detained at j.f.k.

airport on sunday accused of attacking a hotel maid it's something that he continues to do not. about a protest so broken up in northern afghanistan over a nato raid in which four people were killed during the demonstration left at least eleven people dead and dozens wounded it was confirmed his forces killed two men two women during a house raid but pointed out that they were all i was trying to fire at the troops there is widespread anger in afghanistan over heavy handed. civilian casualties as a result of the nato operations. now america may be being dragged down by record debt and unemployment filtering throughout your economy but there is one industry that's bucking the trend it's a boom time for arms manufacturers right now and they're branding themselves as saviors of the job market. came in for a report on how americans are little choice but to go gunning for work. it's career

day and for one industry business is booming business is being very small business . revenue increases two thousand for. two this year with the significant revenue increase defense contracting. for missile defense maker northrop grumman to chemical and biological weapons producer battell. weapons builder pragmatics to work fighter supporter be a all of the big names are here charlie spill community job fair business is very good for be a systems currently we're the second largest expense contractor in the world. we have anything with a partner we do as well to support them so we've been fortunate over the last several years to experience a considerable amount of real. growth in iraq and. afghanistan and that the u.s. has more than one thousand military bases worldwide we are located ever sees in iraq afghanistan germany 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 alone i would more and more people here in charlottesville so they don't mind taking a piece of that defense contracting pod i'm a pacifist but i am a realist to me sometimes war is necessary just because we want to be peaceful doesn't you know people need peace others don't see us presence in iraq and afghanistan as negative at all with there to help you know a lot of them they don't they don't know to just look at murtha like hey you know we are tired but we're not there it's a 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 trees for my company o'brien became disillusioned with the

corruption and mismanagement and they were taking land from iraqis. without securing title and i brought this to their attention i said we're going to build a house in the united states not a piece of land that you 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 and the military depends on hundred thousand contractors to support its two wars abroad and the defense contractors are raking in. and you know when dwight eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex and nine hundred sixty one were there now analysts say that without the defense industry america's nine percent unemployment rate would soar to eleven point five percent and facing those odds for many in charlottesville military contracting is the best defense kill in florida are thieves charlottesville virginia. and see what

davis wants and doesn't buy the defense industries argument that it's creating jobs he says the money being spent on arms manufacturers could be better used elsewhere economists tend to agree that you quote the same dollars into nonmilitary been in your factory into infrastructure green energy education and you produce more jobs and there are three jobs that are in effect on the economy so while it's true that there are people getting charts making weapons and working for the military and before conflicts there will be more jobs putting those same dollars into just about anywhere else i mean in fact you don't write tax cuts for working people would produce more jobs and it's actually worse than nothing. started r.t. live from moscow it's now or twenty one minutes past the hour bear in mind any of the stories you missed so you can always catch on our website that's artsy caracol time now for business with coverage.

business parts of the south russia state may be seeking compensation for the failed sas what deal with b.p. deputy prime minister it is six and one of the main architects of the d.l. says the company's lawyers are studying the viability of a claim system does not specify whether it's creepy or its russian partners a car that might be the target of cross nafta a i had previously threatened to seek compensation from b.p. however consenting scene of the police was never find fault with and. i have. no real world with a quote. of the five humans will show that the position of. it was not in the game only because. of the politically motivated behavior of the main aim was to destroy the view that is why i have put this. i will be the conversation but. really the reason also destroy the real sound small computer station will not be a problem for it will be another argument for my idea that the main motivation the

was not recording it was politics. of a deal between ross nafta and b.p. does not appear to be completely dead rostam says it could resume talks on cooperation with the british or major company claims it has received a new offer from b.p. which goes beyond the original agreement during his conference with the news media skolkovo president they have hinted that the government still saw b.p. as a strong potential partner. now moist. simply think those who could clear the deal should have paid more attention to the details of the shareholder agreement the government should have done diligence for more carefully. cause difficulties among the shareholders and these troubles could have been avoided if the parties had come to an agreement. but if the deal does get through i will be told to and this would also be great for russia you. editions. of the kolkata high tech hub has

been a favorite project called the date if so far little in the way the concern of construction has taken place however it's now possible to see what the future city might look like a presentation of the design concept of the week are in a course where reports. congress hola business center and to 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 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 foreign investors stoeckel provides tax customs 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 then we have boeing which is establishing a design sensor so employed three hundred i.t. specialist to support commercial aircraft construction then we have private equity firm signaller go up and that is investment c hundred fifty million for digital infrastructure and i see services the other big names include stocks are in sell and microsoft dell stoeckel is expected to be completed by twenty fifteen and the payback period is expected to start in five to seven years during a call survey of business artsy. now is take a look at the markets oil climbs almost four percent stuff that the government supplies reports of on gas prices are still topping place wheat is trading at over one hundred dollars the power of brant crude is one hundred twelve dollars an hour now let's cross over to wall street where energy material companies are pushing the markets higher dell is lifting the nasdaq index held strong earnings results but

stable funds nineteen percent off of the office supply company reported sales that we could then invest as expectations chevron and exxon mobil among the top three blue chip and balances escudo futures top one hundred dollars. and european equity markets finished higher as well. that puts another tax closed in the black in london land securities group plus the top where all the folks are getting up to six percent germany georgia telecom was the top gainer. over one of the sites here in russia probiotic yes and the my six closed in the black rebounding from a five month starts of boosted by a series of strong earnings reports and higher on the metal price it's now looking at some index movies on the rise it still has to like us or start as high after it reported as five hundred thirty one million dollars profit for the first quarter about analyst forecast natural gas producer novacek added two point nine percent after almost doubled here on your net profits in the first quarter to around

million dollars and only metal gained almost six percent supported by stronger precious metals plus. representatives of the world's biggest investment funds have met with prime minister putin to discuss russia's new was direct investment fund ten billion dollars startup will be presented at the economic forum in st petersburg. meanwhile three of the newly appointed head of the funds management company revealed. enough. to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of congressmen from the leading funds in next five years i think that it's really important to get a good rate of return in russia where they will keep investing and to do the confidence that was given to. me as a catalyst to from hope to significantly increase investments into the russian economy but. that's the latest business for now we'll have more you in about forty five minutes from now. the business.

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