break out apparently peaceful rallies. next live near putin gave in his first major interview since confirming he's running for president again he outlined to russian t.v. networks why he wants our return to the kremlin and his vision of the country's course if he again 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 with this clear yeah but 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 that would want to 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 maybe 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 present it also to prove uncracked is that they can do this job better but 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 at this same 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 tournaments it was just recently that france introduced an amendment 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 lay 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 the. what happens when people in certain regions suggest something that 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 b.c. this is exactly what i intend to work on 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 know 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 that if you look at the government schedule it is not a classified document that 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 that 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 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 a good neighborly relations with us to look for middle ground solutions to issue. does that seem extremely complicated i suppose we can tell they are ready to do it we take measures to indicate we are ready and as a result we find points of contact and i'm sure it will continue to happen in the future or here in within the idea what it is 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 and everyone remembers you calling his 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 ambitions to recreate a new empire imperiously one teacher well you don't need to be an expert to realize

that if we combine our countries potential in technology infrastructure transport energy sector mineral resources workforce territorial and language opportunities which are no less important for developing a common economic space and we combine all these potential our competitiveness will search it will grow dramatically we're 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 i think you know and if you don't i will tell you that the european parliament has more decisions binding on the member states than the supreme soviet of the soviet union ever passed with the soviet

republics and look at america north america is engulfed in intense integration processes that involve the united states canada and mexico 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 at imperial ambitions. i can tell these critics who by the way look what they don't seem to be very conscientious or scrupulous if you know what mind your own business go combat the climbing inflation and the growing national debt and even obesity do something useful. to pizza in western countries did not react strongly to your decision to run for president at the upcoming elections they said it was russia's internal affairs and as angela merkel put it they were ready to work with any legitimate lee elected president you must understand however that politically western states consider you all 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 that there is not many signs that it's working.

very well the hawk is a good word but you are certainly no doubt. 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 but naturally we have and always will defend our national interests but we have always been regarded full of others when we did it and we plan to maintain that a future. in case of a disagreement or a conflict that we will always look for a compromise that would be acceptable both to our partners and our country that what we are not interested in confrontation on the contrary we are interested in cooperation and europe is not a geographical concept because first and foremost it is a cultural concept that 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 with russia is

a multi-faith country what we have many muslims in russia as well we have judaism we have buddhism our fourth traditional religion which in 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 thank you. 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 to recall the nurdin market so losing capital for the same is true about trish i recently read an article that said there were government needed a new program to counter the next crisis a program that would be like a good scout and a girl short offering an attractive perspective all week supposedly that would help win back businesses interest and stop the prices where does your government have such a program and while we're at it since your budget is calculated presuming the price

of oil would be at least two hundred dollars per barrel oil prices are falling you going to revise the budget. because it. you know if we keep talking about the fall 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 metal for a short skirt looks good on some women while others are better off wearing something else for the longest skirt. but 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 we are 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. but the prices of our goods fall that is taking into account that only forty seven russian industries are represented well in those markets therefore we are gel to heavy blow because 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 and we will only be able to say we are ready for any changes in internal trends after our economy is diversified. mr putin gasper has been facing certain problems in western europe the german offices of gas brawled have been searched what is your take on a situation like this one of

a major companies. but i'm going to it's quite simple i have repeatedly said in public that the sellers are always trying to sell the commodity at a higher price it will produce 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 but a third energy package for example which was adopted retrospectively this is only president this should be considered unacceptable in the modern world but what it is don't 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 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 besides the natural gas market is very sparse. ific it largely depends on a concrete supplier it is a mistake to introduce a third party in the process as our partners suggest 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 in 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 russia in 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 in the united russia has to remain the

leading political party in the country and the parliament that would be a good result away spank you very much for this tool mr putin i believe we are finished with today thank you. russia. which brightened soon. from feinstein transition. team.

israeli soldier gilad shalit has been freed and headed over to israeli authorities after being held captive for five years by hamas this in exchange for a thousand palestinian prisoners or other captured soldiers families ask why israel is doing little to bring them home. serbs in northern kosovo given an extra day to remove the roadblocks at a border seized by kosovo police last month locals say they won't give it was the officers leave. new york police under investigation over claims of excessive force during the entire wall street protests but some officers are seen resorting to punching and pepper spray at peaceful rallies. joins us now with all the latest in the world of sports and in moscow maybe the place to be this week if you're

a tennis fan us right to it is the kremlin cup we caught up with the favorite for the women's title of it is upon a video as down to earth as ever plus is that they have european football to talk about i'm back just after this. i know that welcome to the sport where the pressure is mounting on some of europe's top football teams coming up injury hit to scale moscow prepared to host tribes and sport in a crunch game in the champions league. while managed to see amongst united look to get their european campaigns back on track after a sluggish start. and the debate over the safety of indy car racing intensifies after the tragic death of driver dan wheldon. but first the heavily depleted to scar take on turkey side trumps in sport in the champions league tonight the

muscovites have yet to winning be and have huge injury problems after a long domestic season while their opponents perched at the top of the table. however the army men believe they still have the place to get a vital three points as running costs or f reports. says come moscow are one of the favorites to win the russian premier league but they're achieving 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 convey the latest player to join the sick list also sidelined their japanese midfielder case to give honda defenders a big sort of my scene you want to be shown you go. and forward sick call he said 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 out another go at it upon we've been playing with it depleted squad

for quite some time already lost most of our men were instrumental for their countries in recent international matches you obviously built up by now the moment station costs are really wonderful i think it will make the right conclusions from what happened and these things won't happen again. if i was in the best of starts for cisco moscow in the group stages of the u.a.e. for champions league but the muscovites displayed true strength of character coming back from two goals against little to salvage a draw and says almost managed to repeat that feat in the next match against its wanted ten champions in terror but a late goal by wallace arata left the army men in last place in group b. drops and swore on the other hand find themselves at the top of the group after defeating answer in italy while french outfit little have drawn both of their games and 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.

lead and following in historic one away with an interim melanic anything seems possible for this side of the club is doing pretty well in their domestic league as well in second place after six matches resumes work at 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 care has put a lot of hope into the next two games against us says current tribes of spore will play each other again in group b. next match which will take place on the second of the vendor integrity and the side's upcoming tie on choose they should serve in both teams aspirations for this european campaign one quarter of r.t. moscow. meanwhile english premier league leaders manchester city also faced selection problems they hosted a reality tonight the mancunian side have taken just one point from two games so far manager roberto mancini's limited strike not sions colors tevis is still an eye

cast at the club after allegedly refusing to play against buying munich last time mad about the telly is serving the last three game european suspension big summer signings where i was struggling with a growing injury city about heine great leaders bind and napoli and can't afford to drop points against a bigger reality side who suffered two defeats will be out of because they're playful to go very well but for us it is a really important thing that is not being bought the food play where they are not where is important that we win this game and that in that if we win this game may be after the panel there is to come from. munich and naples but after i think that we care if we win we can win or so the group is possible we have a chance at the but the most well managed united are also looking to kick start their champions league campaign they have just two points from two games and face remain united. or tell you who caressed so alex ferguson says his star striker wayne rooney will lead

a strong side tonight and isn't expected to rest many players despite a showdown with man city in the premier league at the weekend united i say behind f.c. barcelona and benfica he played each other in back to back matches something which could also help the red devils i. would wait twenty two when the board games. with all the pros rovers but. i think important thing is for us to train and it will. solve all the problems. elsewhere a great deal it is real madrid have one hundred percent record and are preparing to host french side early on who could top the group themselves with a victory keeping top spot isn't worrying. 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 worktop on maximum points which makes us the best place team to win the group but first of all we have to qualify and only have to think about the group.

so the tennis now russia's biggest tournament the kremlin cup is underway here remorse go with local girl the shivan are causing the first upset in the women's draw the twenty five year old muscovite knocked out italian seventh season of the next so who do share when a is compared true about to beat another russian or italian also made in the early exit at the hands of a stone used yesterday well visible nobody over is the top seeded player in moscow and sits at the opening matches after receiving a bye to the second round where she will face john adjuvant of ski the russian sees it as a great chance though to claim her second title of the season and he still happy with her form going into the tournament. reach two grand slam finals last year this year it was a very consistent year for me in those that i lost in the grand slams. you know played really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches

throughout the whole season i didn't lose the first or second round i've been playing deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think i'm pretty satisfied about it. well let's switch the n.f.l. now where monday night's game two of the new york jets and their three game losing streak they enjoyed a twenty four six victory over miami who have now lost all five of their opening games pressure was on jets coach rex ryan to end his team's slide while the dolphins were desperate to taste victory for the first time this season and even though the visitors enjoyed an early with a field goal soon went horribly wrong here intercepted by. who runs one hundred yards for a touchdown to make it seven three the dolphins narrowed the gap with another field goal but at the end of the half the jets were fourteen six in front of the mark sanchez up to dive into the end zone here for a five yard touchdown on the quarterback then sealed it for the jets when he found

santonio holmes who swerved his way up the field for another touchdown a twenty four six victory for the jets the dolphins are now willis in five games for the second time in five years and the pressure mounts 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 last 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 oval 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 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 it's so the cars on the ground and don't matter the type of race car if it's off the ground you cannot control it in an accident and those cars are going so fast and get your board frequently on ovals i wouldn't animals. and there just no need so 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 damn wild and stethem is indeed racing is first fatality in five years in the first of the last vegas track and it's forty history saying its own is to defend the safety record we have engineers and in all forms of racing that look at these things so the university of nebraska people who are the experts in. and crashes have been

here all many occasions and i have looked at are solely in the sanctioning bodies who have competed here be at nascar indy car 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 is all we have time for for the moment.

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