openings can offer quality technology and so for us once of interest are many not only well materials which remain essential including a nuclear sector in which we can cooperate more deeply. well it talk about. the good sides of the modern ization and present inventive has criticised the investment climate in russia do you see improvement well here with the poor guy called he obvious that he i see huge progress myself i've been working with russia for many years and i believe we are wrong when seeking to teach lessons to russia today russia is twenty and the progress to date has been huge and president medvedev invited me to putin have done huge work we see it the changes are profound to put it simply on our side we are not always very aware of that firstly you need to read russian which is not common and secondly you need to come more often to russia so we also need to open our minds there is still much to do however your leaders the president and your prime minister say it at the st petersburg forum the

roadmap was clarified that the investment climate is much better today look at the business flow between us the big french troops are present for example vinci who are doing the motorway link between moscow and st petersburg today we are developing cooperation on power generation on the sides of the st petersburg summit we signed with a.d.f. to equip and i would say to provide electricity to the city of tomsk we built parts for a.d.'s for airbus in the records going siberia so there are multiple areas of cooperation the cooperation between france and russia does work. but i still want to ask you if someone like you doesn't come to russia every fifteen days just the business community in general outside of russia do they still have the old stereotypes of russia because all his if you speak with the presidents of big french groups present in russia they are very happy to be here and they want to develop their business those who are not here yet often house of a priore. and we have i have to say that in western europe not only in france

a problem with our media who do not know russia well and russia should communicate more also there are old stereotypes of the progress achieved is not reflected in media. why why is media portrayed as very biased in the west russian media. i think their image of russia is based on the past from fifteen or twenty years ago they do not come to russia often and often doesn't russia communicate actually quite little to us on what internal changes are taking place we have to deal with outdated ideas and perceptions which are wrong and this i believe is an important subject this is a blocking point we often speak about big groups or think about the new or a small and medium sized companies in russia and in france many are already cooperate on what we could do much more in this area. how will the french business that you bring to russia help diversify the economy. today you are in the middle of a modernization drive in russia be it in transport water or electricity

distribution in aeronautics in health at the laboratories level in high tech and by the way you have school which is a big success many companies e.d.s. all stillman's wants an awful but also american german and many others are present so we can help our technology transfers in many areas but also on this visit you will be calling to north caucasus to actually evaluate its potential investment in north caucasus does the alpine tourism expertize figure in your approach we look what happened he yes and i believe that russia took a very good decision which is the want to try to stabilize and ensure better security in this area through economic development and both presidents president medvedev and president sarkozy in deauville on the sides of the g. eight leaders joint declaration on this yet with. russia chose parents as a main supplier not exclusive but main to try to establish ski resorts. develop the

area coastline this is a huge project led by mr billow president of north caucasus resorts we're taking a visit with me and i believe that the best onto his development will prove to have been the right to create jobs give people hope and as well you increase security which also comes through economic development we are going to take part in this event security is the first time you will because north caucasus we yes for me this will be my first time in the north caucuses and i am very excited to have the chance to discover it which is wonderful i've seen photos the french team accompanying me already knows that area is a wonderful place and i think you can develop a tourist up in the center of europe which will be very attractive to the whole world but how long do you think it actually could turn. because right now it's not the safest place to be or for tourism tourists to go. you know the french have experience we developed in croatia remember turkey at the

very beginning when we were developing tourism in turkey the area was not safe. and the conviction of your government on your president to say that we are going to develop this area to create jobs for the young of course to ensure security the government provides guarantees for up to seventy percent of investment but it's still taking a chance it's the right decision to develop this area so that is what needs to be done what i want to be are we talking about course the dog this is a huge project over many years more than fifteen billion dollars will be invested in french companies and others will have the opportunity to take part investors and of course the russian government invest a lot in infrastructure which our companies can complement with i'm thinking about paul mccarthy who build steel if other french companies will be present we're going to invest it but it will also be necessary to attract capital from all over the world this is a very big project when i talk a little bit about what are the concerns for the here in france because it's so

closely tied to spain and italy they're actually sliding now into the bailout territory. i believe put ever they say today the euro is not threatened it is facing difficulties but as we speak here about cooperation about a future economic zone with free movement of people and capital between russia and western europe this will be a breathing space for the european union and for the euro an additional economic area and so a strengthening of the euro. here really i think here a russian economic zone could save the euro we look. yes i believe that today europe which is a political economic entity needs a much bigger economic space to be globally competitive think about the fact that the american continent is brought together at the nuff to a level that the asian countries are brought together at the a.c.m. level we do not have a big area on the european continent but however so many things link us in history in culture and today our economic complementarity is strong on one hand there are

all materials a huge area on the other hand a trade capacity and. vance's in some sectors but not all you have here high technologies demand for more money we have a common interest and common interest to be defended in the world and i believe that today this can only strengthen the eurozone notwithstanding the rise of china who for you is a great partner but also a great competitor concerning the mediterranean the instability is going to continue for some time the exception to democracy for these countries will be much longer than we want to admit and our partners across the atlantic are also competitors so the idea of expansion is both an opportunity and an obligation for russia and for western europe for our countries. talking about commonalities russia and france have always competed for defense and military contracts and now we're purchasing french helicopter carriers what do you think of it. this is a big first in st petersburg in the presence of president dative we signed for them . this is the first time france undertook such

a technology transfer and sold such important military equipment and in the same way by the way cooperation will be in two directions i saw you as prime minister vladimir putin came to paris we took delivery of test models of the better your two hundred the firefighting plane which is now under trial in the west of france and we're looking at buying more so our cooperation in sensitive areas the mistrial is an example shows that the political climate is healthy there are no more clouds today between france and russia and contacts between the two presidents are excellent also with the prime minister i believe that we have to seize the opportunity presented by this political climate because it is very good and this is an opportunity to consolidate the gains we have made so quickly because your see here someone who knows moscow very well because you come here very often we like to think that moscow is like the new york of eastern here you think moscow has never had a status of international financial center well just because of what you miss you i

am convinced of moscow. as financial health plans that we received midst of a little sheen who was responsible for the moscow financial helpline in paris he met french stock market regulatory authorities on the a.c.p. on regulating banks and insurance companies to follow the example of what is being done on those dollars so as to be in line with global norms and standards our idea is that moscow is located halfway between hong kong and york that's a central role to play when we have here a big country for all materials moscow could be the global financial hope for more material try tomorrow you are global leaders in oil and gas look at big groups like you sell what else nickel i mean you're a global leaders in the energy sector so law school has a role to play moreover for our financial hubs we can find synergies in the derivatives area in many things so we were convinced that the rouble will stay strong and moscow must become a major international financial hub and was you have a lot of things yet to do at the legal level legal security regulation which you

are doing it at the moment and the only thing to do is to help you not give you lessons about the need to do soul trump you have to let thank you very much for this interview. thank you. misha disciplinary. case. work. could the penitentiary system transform a criminal into a law abiding city. prison life behind bars on r t.

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top stories from us tonight here leaders are in brussels for a crunch summit ended hammering out measures to tackle the greek crisis but many say with the debt epidemic spreading and threatening bigger colonies like italy and spain it's the very future of the single currency at some stage. meanwhile the e.u. is troubled and deterring aspiring state from wanting to join as serbia prepares to extradite its war crimes fugitive to the hague arresting got them how they was the condition serbia is now fulfilled hoping to move closer to becoming a member of law. and investigations into the u.k. phone hacking scandal intensify with even more political figures coming under scrutiny and public betting on who the case might bring next experts say it threatens the careers of not only media executives including rupert murdoch himself

but also the political future prime minister david cameron. there on the sidelines as culture with kate now she's got the latest. hello welcome to the ny times sports roundup this thursday on our series on the top stories. it's exact copies steve williams says he's wasted two years after being sacked by former world number one tiger woods. while back home possible start to the famous golf signs a deal with former tied to the n.b.a. lockout is over. and the winning ways russia synchronized swimmers extend their tally to five goals one possible fire at the world championships in china. first football on the russian prime really this weekend after a month long summer break though one has been much took place this thursday evening

where tesco moscow extended their lead at the top of the lead to seven points after winning two million new boys volga wagner love scored in each half of the all remaining wraps up their eleventh victory of the campaign having lost just once in a sixteen league games draw it was a league worth tens defeats the volga to stay twelve points about the relegation zone. while staying with a woman english john chelsea have escaped a humiliating goalless draw against a malaysian left on their pre-season tour after a highly controversial late own goal site that blushes with just eleven minutes to go due to a draw but was awarded a from kick the ivory coast strike a hit the post but the ball bounced off the it and into the back of deputy goalkeeper paul musing who then snatched the ball to what he thought was safety replays later showed that the ball rebounded into the line but did not cross it but the linesman ruled otherwise to him in the regular bogus charges in a saving of one nil when. the wall earlier there was much more convincing

successful off the bench country hero wayne rooney and his mention a few teammates as they come over the seattle sounders seven zero on the north american tour it all started with a michael owen goal for the english champions yeah i mean and on the net. first off but after the restart high profile visitors age of goals the second half substitute reading netting three within twenty one minutes roughly and i tried one goal every seven minutes for medical stuff i make that i'm due for overturned and two sons of the other things in the school sheet. so it was well done for bringing the one man did even better as christiane i right now they netted his trouble within just nine minutes for all the goals male madrid's three male drubbing of mexicans like us but lara one of those three second half goals went flying in from the penalty spot but it didn't diminish with all those efforts which made the difference for the spanish giants stop their second win on the american tour after she was

a ringer spent humbled they'd be back in l.a. galaxy for one last week. golf now and steve williams says the last two years he spent alongside tiger woods have been a waste of time the world's most famous caddy was hitting back at the out of sorts former world number one after incentives his staunch sidekick what's going to thirteen out of his fourteen majors with williams carrying the bag for him much the troubled american gold star still announced the second on his website saying it was time for change despite the super successful partnership spanning twelve years williams assisted australian adam scott at the recent u.s. and british opens and wants to carry on doing not remembering woods evokes mixed feelings for the new zealand who love their working relationship while it lasted but regrets the way their parting. given the fact that the last eighteen months has been a particularly difficult time gave a target overseas we're going through a scare into a new coach a sweeping change in the last three months of being very difficult not stuck by him

through thick and thin been incredibly loyal and then. you know and then to have this happen i mean braise or you could say i wasted two years my wife. that's of askable has been a very welcome return for tim a famous goals as the huge russia center has come back to play for his former side here while waiting for the n.b.a. lockout to end in america let's go off has signed a deal with the club he left just last year to move to the north american league he was traded to the death of the nuggets after spending his maiden season with the new york knicks but with the fourth lockout and m.b.a. history threatening the next season his towering figure will be walking tall in the russian fashion basketball league most golf is two meters and sixteen centimeters high and coming back to the moscow reaching club could you find presently his twenty fifth birthday which in march last week. the first improvement here comes to me i'm happy to be back at him because it's here where i began it's my home or rather a home from home with my parents' place being the main one but i don't think my

experience from overseas will be much help because all the guys playing for the club i experience themselves so i don't think anyone will crave my advice since i myself still have a lot to learn so i'll just do everything i can on the court and that's the way i'm planning to share my knowledge should. tennis now russia's top man michel usually has advanced into his third quarter final of the season this time at the german championships in hamburg and number four seed was in devastating form against local wildcard duty and rice to seal to the six three six three victory neatly executed love. cracked marion church. while in cycling there was an instance of brotherly success at the tour de france as luxembourg siblings and the and frank schleck secured a one two for team let the track at the eighteenth stage in a gripping race the younger brother and they captured his first stage victory of the year two minutes and seven seconds ahead of frank australian get out evans was third fastest frenchman thomas burke the stretched himself to the maximum to coming

forth and keep the leaders yellow jersey from andy schleck i just fifteen seconds frank schleck is third overall and evidence board is just one minute and twelve seconds separating the top four with three stages to go. now defending champion sebastian vettel may be the runaway leader midway through the formula one season but all is not yet lost for the chasing pack including former world champion jenson button who has more than points to race for in the next two grand prix the englishman who claimed the overall title two years ago is lingering in fifth place ninety five points behind the high flying duffel but he did prove his mettle last month when the rain drenched canadian grown in style and the mclaren man will be hoping he has more reasons to celebrate the f one circus travels to the new opening this weekend and into budapest one week later. germany's. exciting i've always enjoyed the german girl very. little greece

a very important race for me because it's where i first was a girl very but it's also my two hundreds grow bravest this time you know greece so a very special race. yeah i like to have a good result. i mean will russia have extended their domination in the synchronized swimming at their quite a while championships in shanghai as they once again at class host china to win the freighting combination final these are the eight golden girls completing the team technical routine on cheese day and they've not emulated that success to add a fifth top gong to that perfect tally two more swimmers joins the team for the free routine including natalia has now become a fourteen time world champion two will goal to start for grabs in synchronized swimming events. and finally over to one of the my spectacular sports on the planet cliff diving in terms of the ongoing world series competition the sport is just eleven years old but russia already has a man in every sense at the summit two thousand and six while champion. and robert

vadra onion lead to meet in. the final this amazing spectacle is called cleve derby and there are only a few dozen people in this world of gov the skills to do it at a professional level in one of the chosen ones is russian i don't see who was just twenty two when he won the two thousand and six world championships says them is rested easy money the clay dubbing elite finishing overall third last year in the sport's most prestigious competition the red bull world series. the twenty seven year old entered this isn't as one of the favorites with the reigning champion gary hunt and the sport's most decorated affleck the presently injured are on the duke in his sights for the board or one like every true sportsman i always want to win although you should forget about that before the dive because your main goal is not to get injured but it's

a competition and i always try to give it my all. what clete divers do he simply amazing but they are just humans diving from a high ideal full width twenty seven meters. despite their outstanding ability and experience is always a life threatening situation and fear is certainly not an alien concept of them although the ways to fight it differ. with ten to fifteen minutes to go the dive is the only thing in my mind but when i'm standing there on the edge of the platform my head is empty i'm just out of this world no fear no thinking just me and the height like i believe my trainers are the best in the world tatiana and cannot be stirred due to their trained two time olympic diver champion dimitri said they taught me great technique helping me to try a number of new high dives in the sport and numb standup is one of the suits in this trademark it's one of the most breathtaking get difficult things to do in the

sport kill meeting with east regional invention it blind entry into the water with some clean diving events which by thousands of dangerous concentration and focus is a must before executing a high dive although sujan disclaims audience don't disturb it all from blood from the more spectators the better it gives me additional motivation and drive it's great when you can hear the crowd share you all with three stages left to bridge native he's currently feet in the overall standings the next step for all series twenty eleven he's mulches even in the twenty fourth of july last year the tail and sun so sutured the produced one of his best performances ever and claimed the stage when you would bet against him doing it again the brick virginia on the park scene . and stuff and that's all spot for this place and i think.

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tonight struggling to save the euro e.u. leaders in brussels trying to hammer out measures to tackle the greek crisis well many say with the debt epidemic spreading into the very future of the single currency that's at stake. meantime the eve trouble don't have terrorist sponsoring states from wanting to join the proposed. fugitive had aged in the hague and its latest attempt to become a member of a bloc. and investigations into the u.k. phone hacking scandal intensified but even more political figures coming under scrutiny and public betting on who the case might bring down next.

hello it's eleven pm here in moscow i'm kevin owen in for state your leaders have gathered in brussels for the emergency summit on how to come up with the promised cash for a second greek bailout but the epidemic is spreading with italy and spain now showing the first symptoms of serious debt a sense of impending doom fills the air results he's done a bushel reports. the single currency will be did within two years warn analysts within the european debt crisis there is a really very serious threat in. the euro might turn to centigrade politicians in richer states their voters refuse to foot the bill well i don't think i've ever met anybody in the united kingdom in london mark institutions who actually wants to contribute to the continued existence of the hero because i think it's a stupid idea to start with and it's just chucking money down the drain yet pulling

the plug on those states could trigger a chain reaction. greece believe investors could no longer to avoid quitting the euro. that in turn will spark the exit of oil and portugal even italy and spain. they say ireland the bottom. of the bag is going to stop there over the last couple of weeks we saw that also. spain over germany italy or germany started to go all europe's top banks hold billions of euro in greek and portuguese debt if those countries go bust they could lose that money. we might see scenarios like a bank roll that means that people will run to the bank in order to withdraw their deposits.