manned by nato protesters valve to stand firm. putin has given his first major interview since confirming he's running for president again he's outlined to russian t.v. networks why he wants to return to the kremlin and his vision of the country's course if you get such a. 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 if it is 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 i would want to take up a job or thought i do my best to complete it or at least two year old 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 presented also to proven 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 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 overlay 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. 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 could have 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 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 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 in mr putin a lot of threat. i have said this on the 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 a good neighborly relations with us to look for middle ground solutions to issues that seem extremely complex. 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 hidden within the idea what it is for global leadership you recently wrote an article for the it is 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 of the it is 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 teacher well you don't need to be an expert to realize

that if we combine our countries potential just in technology infrastructure transport energy sector mineral resources workforce territorial and language opportunities which are no less important for developing a common economic space we combine all these potential our competitiveness will surge 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 has more decisions binding on the member states than the supreme soviet of the soviet union ever passed with the

soviet republics when you look at america north america is engulfed in the 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 they don't seem to be very conscientious or scrupulous if you know what mind your own business gokhan about 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 but there's 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 that 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 regard full of others when we did it and we plan to maintain that and 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 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 you like on the beach mr putin it looks like there is another storm brewing leap stock markets a tumbling and people say the reason we so much the traders themselves can do about it to recall the nurdin market so losing capital 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 one hundred dollars per barrel oil prices are falling you going to revise the budget. because it. 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.r. session that opening it too much might harm it returning to your metal for a short skirt looks good on some women while others are better off wearing something else what was 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 on the world's largest markets because clearly our economy is not sufficiently diversified at the moment what if anything we say that openly to feel more confident the problem is when western countries markets shrink we sell fewer goods but at the prices of our goods. fall that is taking into account that only forty seven russian industries are represented well on those markets therefore we are gel to heavy blow because if we have 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. which 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 put you in the buyer's 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. this should be considered unacceptable in the modern world but it is don't despite all considerations we think ultimately go 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 but and gazprom will suffer losses and the buyers on the contrary will benefit i don't think this is justifiable guess besides the natural gas market is very specific largely. depends on a concrete supplier it is a mistake to introduce a third party in the process or as our partner 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 scenario can lead to someone will simply be given an opportunity to pocket additional margin not good at the price will not necessarily go down which 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 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 talk mr putin i believe we are finished for today thank you. wealthy british soil. sometimes it's because. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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i don't like it is for the head of the big a thing of chanting football and that's what's coming up. soldiering on injury hit tesco must go prepared to have group leaders tribes installed in a crunch game in the champions me. while manchester test is english league leaders city and did i say that to get there your campaign back on track despite this starts. around security issues the debate over the safety of indy car racing intensifies down to the tragic death and that down in status. first a heavily depleted preparing to host turkish side clubs anspaugh in the champions league has changed a night muscovite side has yes to winning great bay and has severe injury problems after a long domestic season unbeaten opponents are perched at the top of the table however they already believe they still have the players to gain the vital three points

from cos rafa courts. says can 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 eager i can fav the latest player to join the sick list also sidelined their japanese midfielder case to get honda defenders evicted advice in the gulf about can and forward sick ali 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 the recent games including the latest disappointing domestic to all draw at home to take more mobility to we've been playing with a 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 a momentary relaxation costs us dearly but i hope will make the right conclusions

from what happened and these things one happened again. it wasn't the best of starts for says come moscow in the group stages of the u.a.e. the champions league but the muscovites displayed true strength of character coming back from two goals against little to salvage a draw and since almost managed to repeat that feat in the next match against its wanted ten champions in terror but a late goal by mahratta left the army men in last place in group b. drop zones for 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 in stand in third place so the top two qualification spots are still up for grabs. drugs and war will be aiming for nothing less than a victory in moscow in order to increase that would be lead and following in the story one away with it inter 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 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 has put a lot of hope into the next two games against us says current shrub's of spore replay child or again in group b. next match which will take place on the second of the denver interrogate and the side's upcoming tie on choose they should serve in both teams aspirations for this european campaign. r.t. moscow. well meanwhile english premier league has managed to city also face selection problems as they get ready to host a out in group a man cheney inside have taken just one point from two games so far and manager about them and cheney has limited options up front cost as it is still a virtual outcast at the club after allegedly refusing to come off the bench and play against by munich in city's previous time. serving the last of a three game european suspension and big summer signing said he is struggling with

a growing injury city a third behind great leaders by and napoli and can't afford to drop points against the british outside who've suffered two defeats. will be out of because their playful two are very well but for as is their reading part and i think that is not important for play where there are not or not where is important that we will win this game and that in that if we win this game may be after depending on their issues that come from. munich in naples but after i think that we care if we win we can we know so the group is possible we have a chance at the. well meanwhile cross city rivals manchester united are also looking to kick. start their champions league campaign the three time european champions just two points from two games and face romanian galati in bucharest star striker wayne rooney expected to leave the strong side this tuesday night united are third in group c. behind f.c. benfica who play each other in back to back matches which is something so alex

ferguson thinks could benefit his team. so you are. really going to do with the board games. so. all the pleasure of is good. i think important thing is for us to train when it way you know in advance all the problems. well elsewhere group david israel madrid have a one hundred percent record and are preparing to host french side leo who themselves could go top with a victory but coached as a rino doesn't unduly worried about keeping top spot. it's not easy to win every game in the champions league so it will be no great drama if we don't get a result or top a maximum points which makes us the best place team to win the group but first of all we have to qualify and only after that we'll think about within the group. where russian champions since and petersburg will be without captain alexander

a new coffee and top scorer alexander courage to call for wednesday's match ukrainian champion shut off the job as well as his men have travelled to dodge it for their third matching group jean defend and cough relief extract a kosher golf course made for that alex that you on earth were not on board the plane and it being porto three want to hire one last time out but were held to a goal a stall by domestic rivals dinner on saturday as in petersburg side are second in the group behind surprisingly this apple from cyprus are shut off the bottom. third in the meantime russia have learned their opponents for their final match of the year following a comprehensive euro twenty twelve qualifying calendar a cad because men are set to play for the champions greece in a friendly on november eleventh the capital city of athens is the most likely venue for the game russia but a berth that next summer's european championships after finishing top of group b. ahead of the republic of ireland greece edged croatia for top spot in quick pass.

tennis succeeds that lawmakers not so bad has become the latest russian to charge into the second round of the crimean cup here in moscow that's a sign grandson when i was hardly tell the others during her straight set when i was at least carrying a. frons i will be joined in round two by local up and coming sunday a part of vast perhaps the best top cow cycling class and we want to ask. questions are being asked about the suitability of the tracks in indy car racing following the death of drive it down well then in las vegas on sunday tributes are still being paid to the search the three year old englishman who died after a fifteen call pileup out to the last vegas motor speedway track it was the first indy race there since the track had been remodeled in two thousand and six to add 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 yesterday was proof to you know the danger of those vehicles on opals and i

think it really boils down to the fact that it's white you know i guess if you really look at the big picture in why we run research of lights it's so the car stay on the ground and then mount of the time race car if it's off the ground you cannot control it in an accident and those cars are going so fast and get airborne frequently on ovals that i would run on ovals and there's just no need so those cars are fantastic for street circuits road courses. the old poles 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. wilder's death was indeed racing's first fatal at sea in five years and the first to last vegas track in its forty year history prompting its owners to defend its safety record we have engineers and in all forms of racing that look at these

things universally nebraska people who are the experts. in crashes have been here all many occasions and have looked at our facility in the sanctioned bodies who have competed here be at nascar indy car or 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. finally to golf and being top of the world is no guarantee against the jess's as the young and apparently all conquering yani tseng has admitted she is feeling the stress ahead of the first ever tournament on the home island of taiwan saying became the youngest ever play at male or female to win five majors when she lifted the british open trophy in july at the tender age of just twenty two but despite the speech the taiwanese is still anxious to please the partisan home crowd at the inaugural l.p.g. a taiwan championship underway thursday however all the golfing elite including

world number two susan patterson will be there to try and actually saying my home soil. is here because we work on this german almost almost two years and everybody working so hard for the whole affair is a very exciting all the government is very supportive and chairman issue he's working very hard for this to be a title tardo term and so we over exciting and i hope all of players enjoy this week and i think we're going to have a great memory here and that's all the support for a couple of hours please join me again later for another update until then i think .

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