anti wall street protests some officers seen resorting to punching and pepper spray peaceful. next year putin is given his first major interview since confirming he's running for president again he outlined to russian t.v. networks why he wants to return to the kremlin and his vision of the country's course if he gets the top job. good afternoon again good afternoon i am open to your questions mr putin the latest convention of the united russia party made the political situation in this country much clearer recently with why are you returning to the kremlin it is clear yet what as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president buddies yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact that initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation would once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results but there

are people who criticize me and dmitri may give they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only to presented but also to prove in cracked is that they can do this job better we can also refer to the experience of other countries franklin roosevelt stood at the helm throughout the ordeals of economic depression and world war two and was elected four times because his policies were effective helmut kohl spent sixteen years in power in west germany he wasn't president but his post was actually the most important executive job in the country and this ng goes for one of the former canadian prime ministers look at post-war france where a president could have been elected for seven years without a limit on the number of terms it was just recently that france introduced amendments into its constitution and cut it down to no more than two five year terms very similar to what we have in russia what does that mean when

a country is facing difficult and hard times when it's recovering from a crisis and getting back on its feet it's these pillars of stability including in politics that play a vital role as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted it is one thing when i hear some people say that they would like to see that happen or when people in certain regions. suggest something but it is a different thing when the whole country goes to the polls and we need our people to come and express their attitude to what we have been doing there is another important aspect here the most active part of the political spectrum people who talk about democratic institutions in russia they are concerned the democratic process is maybe ruled back this is definitely not going to happen because i can't imagine russia developing without democratic institutions this is exactly what i intend to work oh i will strengthen our country's political system and its foundations i will work to develop democratic institutions and a market economy with an emphasis on social needs. which he recently visited china

and as many notice it was your first visit broad since you announced he was going to run in the election does that mean china is becoming russia's priority international partner but because by doing it is a coincidence if you look at the government schedule it is not a classified document you will see that russian chinese intergovernmental meetings were conducted on a regular basis we have all reasons to consider china a strategic partner of russia and not only because we share the world's longest border our trade is growing at a great rate china is developing very rapidly turning into a valued partner a great market for russian manufactured goods and a source of investments into our economy. a partner mr putin not a threat. i have said this on more than one occasion to those who tried to scare me with the chinese threat in most cases it was our partners from the west however lucrative the natural resources of eastern siberia and russia's far east might look we all know they are not the prize in today's biggest global struggle that struggle

is for world leadership and we're not going to get in china's way there china has other competition there let them figure it out for russia china is first and foremost a reliable partner we can tell the chinese authorities and the people of china are willing to build up good neighborly relations with us to look for middle ground solutions to issues that seem extremely complicated as we can to. well they are ready to do it we take measures to indicate we are ready and as a result we find points of contact i'm sure it will continue to happen in the future or within the british as for global leadership you recently wrote an article for the it's based your daily where you suggest creating a eurasian economic area that would be a bridge between europe and the booming economies of the asia pacific region at the same time everyone remembers you calling the downfall of the soviet union the last century's biggest geopolitical tragedy in this respect what would you say to those who see in your words some sort of an imperial condition that is owed to recreate

a new empire imperiously later well you don't need to be an expert to realize that if we combine our countries potentials in technology infrastructure transport energy sector mineral resources workforce territorial and language opportunities which are no less important for developing a common economic space if we combine all these potentials our competitiveness will search it will grow dramatically we are using the potential we have inherited from the older generation and we can transfer it to a new modern basis today and if we are committed to introducing the principles of the world trade organization into an operating procedures this will make us more transparent to our external partners as for the foreign critics who say that russia has imperial ambitions so what can i say we see what is going on in europe for example integration has reached a level even the soviet union could never dream of i think you know and if you don't i will tell you that the european parliament passes more decisions binding on the member states than the supreme soviet of the soviet union ever passed for the

soviet republics and look at america north america is engulfed in intense integration processes that involve the united states canada and mexico are the same is true for latin america and africa but it is ok over there and nobody has any objections but when it comes to russia here we are imperial ambitions i can tell these critics who by the way. they don't seem to be very conscientious or scrupulous you know what mind your own business go combat the climbing inflation and the growing national debt and even obesity do something useful. mr putin western countries did not react strongly to your decision to run for president at the upcoming elections they said it was russia's internal affair and as angela merkel put it they were ready to work with any legitimately elected president you must understand however that politically western states consider you a hawk how do you feel about that and what is going to happen to the reset of russia if u.s. relations which exists as an idea but there's not many signs that it's working.

very well the hawk is a good bird but you are certainly no dove i am a man and i do not like cliches our foreign policy in the past and today was thought out and aimed at creating a favorable environment for russia's development this means we want to have friendly relations with all of our partners naturally we have and always will defend our national interests but we have always been regard full of others when we did it and we plan to maintain that in the future in case of a disagreement or a conflict we will always look for a compromise that would be acceptable both to our partners and our country we are not interested in confrontation on the contrary we are interested in cooperation in europe is not a geographical concept first and foremost it is a cultural concept we share the same values with europe of course those are mostly christian values but it goes beyond that even those who consider themselves

atheists were raised on christian values but russia is a multi-faith country and what we have many muslims in russia as well we have judaism we have buddhism our fourth traditional religion our history our culture and traditions make it easy for us to develop harmonious relations with any country of the world and this is exactly what we are going to do. you mean like on the beach mr putin it looks like there is another storm brewing stock markets are tumbling and people say the reason we so much the traders themselves can do about it in markets a losing capital the same is true about trust but i recently read an article that said the government needed a new program to counter the next crisis a program that would be like a good scout and a girl short and offering an attractive perspective supposedly that would help win back businesses trust and stop the crisis where does your government have such a program and while we're at it since

a budget is calculated presuming the price of oil would be at least a hundred dollars per barrel i don't prices are falling you going to revise the budget. you know if we keep talking about the full of the stock market indexes they might never recover russia will grow by four percent this year which is satisfactory china will grow by nine percent which is a good result we have to push for a six to seven percent economic growth figure we managed to deliver that in the pre-crisis years and we will try to do it again as i've said before we will of course try to make our economy more open there are fears however especially in the light of russia's w t o a session that opening it too much might harm it but returning to your metaphor a short skirt looks good on some women while others are better off wearing something else a longest skirt with yes other clothes russia turned out to be well equipped for the two thousand and eight two thousand and nine financial crisis what are we

dealing with now that we're carefully following developments in the global economy and are the world's largest markets. clearly our economy is not sufficiently diversified at the moment we say that openly to feel more confident the problem is when western countries markets shrink we sell fewer goods and the prices of our goods fall that is taking into account that only four to seven russian industries are represented well in those markets therefore we are dealt a heavy blow if we had fifty to one hundred industries represented the situation would be more balanced and we would be able to switch to a floating currency race until that happens our national bank will be forced to somewhat regulate rates generally speaking we will only be able to say we are ready for any changes in internal trends after our economy is diversified. which mr putin gasper on has been facing certain problems in western europe the german offices of gaspar have been searched what is your take on

a situation like this around one of and major companies. but i'm going to it's quite simple i have repeatedly said in public that the sellers always are. trying to sell the commodity at a higher price in the buyers always want to get it cheaper or even free which is better still we're not thinking as we say that you won't get anything for free naturally good at a smaller price yes and that is what they are after and as a result unilateral decisions are taken at the third energy package for example which was adopted retrospectively this is only president this should be considered unacceptable in the modern world but it is done despite all considerations we think ultimate goal behind this course of action is to bring down the cost of the product and to disrupt the market pricing mechanism which is closely connected with the price for crude in russia. it is we who set the price in a centralized manner we depend on crude the crude goes up and the natural gas price goes up but the crude drops so does the gas price i don't think this is

a farsighted approach to pricing because today the price for crude may be fairly high and tomorrow it may plummet and gazprom will suffer losses and the buyers on the contrary benefits i don't think this is justifiable guess besides the natural gas market is very specific because it largely depends on a concrete supplier it is a mistake to introduce a third party in the process or as our partner suggested or a third buyer and a third seller this is to say the russian gas that has reached the border with western europe should be first sold to a third party or a legal entity that will further sell it to the consumers do you know what this is an area can lead to someone will simply be given an opportunity to pocket additional margin and i'm good at the price will not necessarily go down such that what would be a good percentage for united version these elections are trying to get a political forecast out of being. i'm not asking for any numbers i just ask you

what results you would be satisfied with their in their united russia has to remain the leading political party in the country and the parliament that would be a good result for us thank you very much for this too mr putin says. i believe we'll finish with that today thank you. wealthy british sign a sign it's time to. market . find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

israeli soldier gilad shalit has been freed after five years in captivity held by hamas this in exchange for a thousand palestinian prisoners there are celebrations all was. near where the first prisoners are leaving israeli jails these are live video here of the exchange located. serbs in northern coastal given an extra day to remove their roadblocks at a border post of okaloosa last month the locals say they won't give the officers. new york police under investigation over claims of excessive force and wall street protests. resorting to punching and pepper spray a peaceful rally. for coverage of these top stories and plenty more in a quarter hour but first sports news will stay with us.

hello there welcome to this cold weather the pressure is mounting on some of europe's poor taste coming up right then i've seen three hit to scale moscow i miss several key places a pretty good feeling to scrap the whole crunch champions league match while manchester city and man united to get their european campaign back on track feel sluggish. and a debate over the safety of indy car racing in hundreds of high self attacking drive that damn well. but first the having to pay to discuss i take on turkish side trapped in spore and the champions late tonight the muscovites have yet to winning green bay and have huge injury problems after a long domestic season while their opponents are perched at the top of the table however the army members say they still have the place to get

a vital brain point system costs wrath reports. says come moscow are one of the favorites to win the russian premier league but their achievements this year have come at a price injuries have plagued the club from the beginning of the season with captain and iconic goalkeeper of the national team i can fav the latest player to join the sick list also sidelined our japanese meat field a case of the honda defenders their advice to give not to shake of carroll now bumpkin and forward sick olisa due to the team's domestic success most of the players became leaders in their respective national teams that fact alone has certainly added to says cost poor record in recent games including the latest disappointing domestic to all draw at home to take them out of what we've been playing with that depleted squad for quite some time already plus most of our men were instrumental for their countries in recent international matches is obviously built up by now the moment relaxation costs us dearly but if but i know it will.

right conclusions from what happened and these things won't happen again i mean it wasn't the best of stores for cisco moscow in the group stages of the u.a.e. a champions league but the muscovites displayed true strength of character coming back from two goals against little to salvage a draw and cisco almost managed to repeat that feat in the next match against its wednesday ten champions in terror but a late goal by morris arata left the army men in last place in group b. tribes and spore on the other hand find themselves at the top of the group after defeating in italy while french outfit little have drawn both of their games in stand in third place so the top two qualification spots are still up for grabs. drugs and spore will be aiming for nothing less than a victory in moscow in order to increase their group b. league and following in historic one nil away when it entered milan anything seems possible for this turkish side the club is doing pretty well in their domestic league as well in second place after six matches because i'm sick of the head of

this tournament very few people had any doubt that we would be in last place but as you can see things are going well we remain optimistic and are looking forward to a positive result both in moscow under home but we understand that serious car has put a lot of hope into the next two games against us says current shrub's on spore will play each other again in group b. next match which will take place on the second of the vendor integrity and the sides upcoming tie on choose they should determine both teams aspirations for this european campaign. artsy moscow. meanwhile english premier league leaders manchester city also face selection problems up front they hastily reale pay the mancunian side of taking just one point from two games so far manager of a man cheney's limited intends a striking options mario balotelli is suspended and big summer signing say he is struggling with a growing injury city behind great leaders by munich and napoli and can't afford to drop points against a reality side to face. would be out of because they're playful to go very well but

for us it is really important that is not the food. or not where is your point that we will win this game and that in that if we win this game may be after dinner there is food that comes from. munich but after that we can if we can we know so the group responsible we have a chance at the. well munched united are also looking to kick start their champions league campaign may have just two points from two games and face remaining. in bucharest united. behind. him back to back matches are reds boss alex ferguson believes that could also help his side. i. would wait one team to win the board games. but. i think the important thing is for us to try to win it way solves all the

problems. elsewhere it is real madrid have a hundred percent record and are preparing to host french side leon you could go top themselves with a victory keeping top spot isn't worrying coach joe is a marine. it's not easy to every game in the champions league so it will be no great drama if we don't get a result on maximum points which makes us the best team in the group but first of all we have to qualify and only have to think about the group let's turn to tennis russia's biggest kremlin cup is underway here in moscow with. the chevron are causing the first upset in the women's draw the twenty five year old muscovite knocked out of time in seven c. the birth has been changed and next up for the sheer. finale for trevor to beat another russian you. tell you start there and he also made an early exit at the hands of

a stony skate connect the it is one of the over is the top seeded player in moscow and says that the match is after receiving a bite of the second round this is her chance for a second title of the season and the world number five is still happy with her for going into the tournament. reached two grand slam finals last year this year it was a very consistent year for me in. that i lost in the grand slams. you know really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches throughout the whole season i did the first. deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think i'm pretty satisfied about it. switch to the n.f.l. where monday night's games two of the new york jets end their three game losing streak they enjoyed a twenty four six victory over miami heat and i lost all five of their opening games pressure was on jets coach rex ryan to end his team slide while the dolphins

were desperate to taste victory for the first time this season and even though the business is enjoyed an early with a field goal that soon went horribly wrong moves through here intercepted by darrell revis who runs a hundred yards for a touchdown to make it seven three for the dolphins now at the gap with another field goal but at the end of the hof the jets were fourteen six in front after mark sanchez opted to dive into the end zone for a five yard touchdown on the quarterback then sealed it for the jets when he found santonio holmes and he swerved his way up the field for another touchdown in a twenty four six victory for the jets. now willis in five games for the second time in five years and the pressure minds on their coach tony sparano. now after the death of indy car driver dan wheldon questions are being asked about the suitability of racing tracks for the sport tributes to still being paid to the thirty three year old from england who died after a fifteen car pileup at the las vegas motor speedway on sunday it was the first

indy race there since the track had been reconfigured in two thousand and six it added progressive banking to increase side by side racing but some drivers now believe over tracks are just too dangerous for indy cars. i know how dangerous those cars are and yes it was proved to you know the danger of those vehicles on opals and i think it really boils down to the fact that it's why you know i guess if you really look at the big picture in why we run research plates and so the car stay on the ground and then mount the type of race car if it's off the ground you cannot control it you know now it's in those cars are going so fast the engineer board frequently on ovals i would run a models and there's just no need. those cars are fantastic the street circuits road courses. the ovals at those speeds you know you can't control the vehicle when it's off the ground and there's very little zone around the driver and then obviously it's an open cockpit and then you add open wheels i mean you're just

creating situations to get the car off the ground at a high rate of speed and you can't control the car when it's off the ground. and steph was in the first fatality in five days in the first of the last vegas track and its forty year history prompting is saying this to defend the safety record we have engineers in in all forms of racing that look at these things so the university of nebraska people who are the experts in. in crashes have been here all many occasions and have looked at our facility in the sanctioning bodies who have competed here be at nascar in the core have all looked at it and they've been very satisfied with the with the. with the construction of the fencing and the safer barriers and we're very proud of our track record in that regard and that brings us to the end of the sport for the moment got the weather coming up next.

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really soldier to watch out we freed after five years being held captive by hamas in exchange for a thousand palestinian prisoners but other captured israeli soldiers families ask why israel doing nothing to bring them home. new york police investigated over claims of excessive force during the antiwar street protests this footage seemingly shows resorting to punches and a person peaceful rallies lots of. speeches as regards my return nothing is decided until the people have voted ordinary citizen always has a choice to make leaving the last word with the people that are here putin says it's premature to assume he'll win the presidential race in his first interview since confirming he'll stand against the russians tough job.