less strong trade and investment relationships with europe because it's more of a global trading country and it depends on the principal commodities such as oriol which depend upon growth in emerging markets such as china and into europe overall so russia's fate is truly dark we've the growth of china india not at the moment looks robots and hasn't been affected by the downturn in developed markets and as compared to other. bric countries i think russia is of course with brazil as essentially a commodity exporter which is exposed to movements and commodity prices which are affected by global growth it's not like china and india which are large enough that they can determine their own fate to make their own economic weather to a great degree because it depends on commodity prices which depend upon global developments. from the markets not world prices are heading down pulling u.s. crude off six weeks highs investors concerns about the euro zone are taking

precedence over tightening supply flights we just trading below ninety eight eighty nine dollars a barrel while branches at one hundred and eleven dollars. and asian stock markets were shot down on wednesday shares of the financial sector were legion losses mount it is that the euro zone soaring prices will spill over to the region's banking sector the nikkei closed at a two and a half year high low hong kong's hang seng was last to negative at the close as developers retreated and after the chinese premier's signals china should not be expected to bail out the global economy. european stocks are rising and raising three recessions losses investors in the u.k. are waiting for today's employment data which will include the unemployment rate and jobless claims for all this and also in focus is a conference call between al gore merkel the closer posy and british prime minister there at h.b.r. most the time to discuss the continued greek crisis for clues on whether solution is on the horizon. in russia the markets are bouncing back from earlier losses

investors were waiting for the central bank's refinance rate decision which was left unchanged at eight point twenty five percent now they are eyeing a slew of the comic data from the u.s. and europe including u.s. inflation figures geologists sixteen thirteen time possible look at some of the individual said moves on the mice that some energy may just turn positive with the coil up point six percent drop that make up it's also up supported by stronger than expected results response hawk net profits rose twenty percent to twenty nine million dollars and telecom is still down the company has reached an agreement to join to develop its customer terminals with international chip maker intel looking forward to the sounds of risk in that much polite scene police although investors are generally still core says russia still so looking more and more attractive. certain that we will be to fall in europe who will say you know you are goes we see especially everybody striking european banks and all the things that are related to

the greek and other countries. the solution of the situation so we will definitely see all the suits we will definitely we see but russia still still. kind of we can call it so we would know we can call it so if someone was. stealing bush that was definitely will be prochoice some of the most resource of them are because smiles are little bit afraid of getting some new ideas but i mean some new ideas especially definitely not in liquid names everybody is looking at the weak restocks of what is looking at the right time to europe. but shift to some of the news russia is considering delaying the privatization of a ten percent stake in its second largest bank the t. beat the sale planned for next year depends on disposal of another asset seven point six percent of the country's top lenders the bank it was look at russia could revise its branches ation plans to to the latest in the stock markets. and one of

the world's biggest boss manufacturers brazil's marco polo plans to start production russia in partnership with cum us they'll invest up to thirty million dollars in a joint venture to produce around seventeen hundred vehicles a year we are having now the work of a very good company leader in the market for delivering boats with almost the knowledge on the power train in markopolos technology on that was what we have plans to be leaders in the whole segments but we are in three i would see more than thirty five percent to be leader in the market in three years time. ok that's all from now you are up to date for more analysis and stories you can log onto our website r.t. dot com slash business or you can just watch our next business bulletin announced time.

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europe. in a time of electronic gadgets and high tech innovations violating privacy and mining people's personal data is easier than ever next time grills the head of a worldwide investigative agency about the damage twenty four hour surveillance could do to society and its freedoms. party is sitting down with stephen brown bomb founder and c.e.o. of a worldwide investigative agency steve thank you very much for sitting down to speak with r.t. today my pleasure for more than a decade you've been warning the mass public or at least informing them that privacy is dead get over it and in that time people have consciously been putting more and more information about themselves online what do you think this has done to contribute to your message of privacy being well the truth is people care less

and less about privacy or at least they act as if they do the greatest amount of data that's being compiled each of us today and self contributed. your location your likes or dislikes your religion your sexual orientation. how you vote where you live who your friends are who your family is what music you listen to what books you read all sorts of things that frankly are are a window into your soul all of these things are so contributing i can go to your facebook page and obtain information equivalent to what people would pay a private investigator ten thousand dollars a few years ago to go out and gather you have consensual and put it up there for the whole world. and that includes of course the holy grail of investigation which

is location and photos you are constantly reporting your location you're constantly posting photos how do you manage your own social network profiles do you have any i do and i post just often enough to let people know that i'm alive. possibly once a month. and i'm very careful that i keep location aware programs turned off so it doesn't report right physically i'm at that moment and i don't reports what i'm doing or or who i'm with or things like that in an interview with our t.v. julian sonce stated that us based social networks provide information to the secret service if they request it could be true it's more than true and it's not just it's not a social networking sites first of all they don't need to provide anything it's

right there the secret service certainly which specializes in computer crime computer activities and certainly smart enough to have one of their tech services people go online and look it up on your facebook page or your twitter feed or your you tube feed or whatever. i don't think that the secret service needs the permission of these sites but in fact all of these sites do cooperate with law enforcement and i think they should and it's not just social networking sites google is is. intimately enmeshed with the u.s. government and i'm not just talking about. i hate to use this word i was going to say the nine parts of the u.s. code and that sort of implies that there are a lot of them and that's not what i need to say but google in fact does have a relationship with the cia google has a very close relationship with the n.s.a. google has a back door that they make available to the secret service and so the f.b.i.

are not saying this is a bad thing but it is something that people should be aware of and why is it thank you lauren fix it up people to know about us that their privacy is going away why you telling another. well i know it's kind of counterintuitive you think that as a private investigator as the owner of an investigative agency i'd be delighted by this and i am and i am i take great advantage of this and all the people who post their photos and their whereabouts and their families and their friends you know thank you very much and i appreciate it me talking about it is not going to stop these people who are going to motor ahead and continue doing it i just think it's it's in certain respects on america for companies like google and facebook to be aggregating all of this data on each of us

without people really being aware of the ramifications you know it's not that you have a facebook page it's that yesterday you posted what books you like to read a week before that you posted that you were a democrat a week before that you posted your religion a week before that you posted that you were coming out of the closet a week before that you posted your parents' names it's not one thing by itself it's that facebook google my space the cell phone companies especially they gather this bit by bit by bit by bit and before you know it they've got your entire life on disc you know it's the it's the constant edition of everything and. there's some some real sneaky stuff going on out there you know there's a reason why face work is is so valuable you are defined by who your friends are

that's what facebook is all of the people friending or. most of your friends are going to be people like you they're going to be people who speak the same language read the same books have the same politics follow the same religion or follow no religion at all and if i see who your friends are i know who you are and i can sell you things i can say well she's friends with fifteen people who buy donald was like books i need to sell her donald was like well i'll tell you the biggest the biggest privacy invader of all cell phone this has changed everything if you think about the cell phone you'll understand that this is the greatest invasion of privacy of first of all it tells me where you are at every minute of

the day and tells me who your friends are it tells me who's important feel it tells me where you work tells me where you live and it tells me where you eat it tells me everything that i need to know about you imagine that i am no market often and i want to know who's been participating in the most recent demonstration against. all i have to do is check and see who so phones were in the square where the demonstration was it's really that simple i can tell you that right now today. us law enforcement here is making charts of mafia families without doing any surveillance they know that this guy and this guy and this guy spent two hours together in this bar then this guy one here and reported to this guy this guy went here and did something else by following cellphones by following e-mail by

following all the communications on a smart phone your entire life is open interesting that you bring out more market. would you be able to pin down where they're going to offer us i don't know what information is available but i find it very very hard to believe he's not already pretty much located so you think he is looking at it based on everything you're saying how easy it is look as khadafi is a nut but he's a very clever nut and he's a nut that's managed to survive for forty five years and i'm sure he took note of how osama bin laden was captured and i'm sure he took note of how saddam hussein was captured. and i'm sure he's avoiding those mistakes but he will make a new mistake you know that the beauty of being someone who hunts for people is you can make all the mistakes you want you can miss the guy here you can get

a false lead there but if the guy you're chasing makes one mistake and over and who pays so the u.s. government and the grisha say yes and maybe the french and whoever else has people peeking around in libya right now or probably algeria. you know they're they're missing in here missing them they're dry hole here dry hole there within thirty days someone told me the consequence of this all around our use of something i know everyone has this this orwellian image of what's going on with the internet that they it's always they they never say who they is but they are gathering information on us and the average person assumes that it's the government in fact it's not it's in spite of it industry that's gathering information on you and they're doing it for one simple reason not because they want to invade your privacy or it's some

salacious interest or you know they want to spy on you on behalf of someone it's because your eyeballs are worth money they want to find out as much as they can about you so they can sell you stuff this is pure naked capitalism in fact a lot on the issue of fighting terrorism on cannot or information technologies and social networks turn into instruments and that's why you know this is one of the few good arguments for the invasion of privacy that's going on is the is the tradeoff between privacy and safety and unfortunately there is a trade off if you're going to find out who the bad guys are you have to gather information on everybody you have to be able to say this one's ok this one's ok this one we need to look at a little more the fact of the matter is that if there had been database analysis and proper use of databases nine eleven would have never happened. two of the

hijackers were known to the cia they were on a cia watch list every single one of the other seventeen hijackers was linked in some way to those two known hijackers five of them shared an address three of them shared a frequent flyer number two or three of them shared a telephone number some of them use the same credit card and there's no question that that first of all had the cia and the f.b.i. been talking to each other and had proper use of databases been made all of these people would have been scooped up no question about it or get out there and they're right there steve thank you very much for your time thank you. back in topic one thousand miles from the north pole. kim is

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hello welcome to day to march and for a strong let's have a look at the headlines champion's league action resume is synonymous with last season's arms of manchester united training ahead of that clash against. the wall holders. but now with the long. showcases use open trophy following and rafael nadal in the man's final the plumbing itself the entire state building to celebrate. an analogy additional girl's goal or selection was a clue that all the goals scored during the latest week count in the russian premier league. and at some of the champions league was. a disappointing loss and that opened it up oil in cyprus but it isn't i'm going down to want a surprise for him to open in the sixteenth. on the things in need so you want to

leave there about it was. the secret scoring twice within just two minutes to grab the victory in the other group games based ukrainian side shocked everybody else to buy the same school line and. elsewhere chelsea got off their winning start at home to live accused with the other group teams playing at goal and the jewel. in the long long things to an eighty eight minutes equaliser there all say defeated by a single goal both group age fixtures and the champions league new problems big go to play at sundown buffeted by the settle for a one all result while reigning champions barcelona failed to be on the lawn of the camp know is that vanished at one and two in the east. most christians and a couple company would come from a lot of things and not. true things in the beginning when it was always things that need to just three inches in the hands of time and the clinton should sound.

pluton i think we play very well even though mr few small things like scoring the third girl so we can be more relaxed but. we're able to play there and when these teams play so defensively things always get more difficult. and as usual champions league football continues on wednesday with russia's second team in action says the moscow hoping to do better than zenaida's they take on frenchmen only in the pick up tonight's action meanwhile most united travel to face spend figure having won six out of seven previous meetings against the portuguese alistair's beaten finalists in great form domestically so far united claiming four wins in as many matches and they have scored eighteen goals already united also possess an impressive champions league record having reached the final three times in the past four years iran manager sir alex ferguson is aiming to continue. so the trolls who . were common cause a lot of time. trouble. consistency.

there was. a group. of those who progress. and of course. want to continue. and the rest of wednesday's face is there on your screen as well united's cross-town rivals manchester city also start their european season tonight against now probably in group a way of feeling ariel host of why munich in the other game insists girls group be intimate long face jobs on sports bars the ones you boys all tell girl like to enjoy and united in c. while in group d. out so early on and real madrid open a way that is not as accurate. meanwhile the rugby world cup will resume journey on wednesday with three clashes some more rushing the media forty nine swell in the first i'll swear canada clinched the second winning course c.v.t.

song again a close fourth battle twenty five twenty two finals for the canadiens underdogs scoring three tries in the last twelve minutes to hand down their second straight defeat and in the late fixture scored lumley's georgette as we speak russia's open and their first ever world cup match is on thursday against the usa. and let's move to new york now where this year's tennis and pro could be seen laws in so women have not used the novel jacket showing off his latest state building a day after winning the u.s. open world number one in great spirits after grabbing twelve titles in twenty eleven alone including three grand slam victories of the last one coming at flushing meadows where you'd be draw for an adult in the final job of age with an impressive round this season having comparatively laws just wants to roger ferber actual longer also has the fairy tale season he is in and can serve explain his recent success came with improved motivation it was a learning process from the last couple of years of playing and. competing with

the best tennis players and played many matches against rough and roger in most of these matches always losing you know especially in the major events where i could not find my best game in every time i went to december finals or foils a just. final step. i was feeling to perform. but that has changed and i think over the years you just get the experience you know you know how to use on the court and the different i believe in my game much more than before and another champion on american soil. meanwhile has returned to the place where he clinched his soul major a year ago. p.j. championship winner taking to the greens at whistling straits climber taking part in the patient tournaments against the three amateur players who were chosen from over five thousand applicants an emotional day for the former.