canada. china operations are today. the russian prime minister is grilled by the people in his annual public he defends the right to protest legally and valve to replace them with the opposition in the future. prime minister putin calls for cameras to be placed in polling stations in an effort to stamp out electoral the fraud joins me in a few moments for more on this plus all of the key points for blood amir putin's record breaking for the whole both q. and a session. knocked out with charcoal more here and human rights groups sound me along as the u.s. is close to authorizing indefinite detention for terrorists. and as the years

own struggle to break free from crippling debt and face of the leaving spectral perception the helping hand in the very heart of europe. very welcome to this is aussie live from moscow but the man who has faced down critics of russia's disputed parliamentary election but also hinted at reforms in making the voting process more transparent while the commons ok ms he addressed the public in his annual televised q. and a with the nation but the prime minister not shying away from a series of tough questions as cross live. in moscow for more on what's been said peter the session comes hot on the heels not all of that disputed election which left many people question the fan and solve the results how's the team of putin

responded to all those. well yes this question and answer session coming just a few weeks after the parliamentary elections here in the country and right to me of putin was addressing technology the internet and specifically no he said that because it during the hour following the parliamentary elections we saw videos go viral online allegedly showing electoral fraud and speaking on the internet vladimir putin said that the internet due to its nation nature could not be limited and also said that it if it could it wasn't the role of government to do that now he also said that technology should be used by the electoral commission to try and stamp out any potential voting alleged irregularities and he wants to see cameras in place ahead of the presidential election next year. i'm now asking the election commission to install web cameras at every polling

station in the country and there are over ninety finals and these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station little rule out any allegations of fraud. concerning the presidential election next year prime minister putin laid out his plans his campaign policies he wants to modernize russia's economy and increase and strengthen democracy in the country now talking about some of the potential. contenders for the president in the presidential race some of the people who he'll be running against he spoke about me broke it off saying that he was a worthy and strong opponent so every student go as far as to wish crocker of luck of course a lot of the putin will be running against him in that election promise of it and did say though that if we saw at any point that the people were not on side with him he wouldn't he would remove himself from office ok peter many thanks for that

our piece for all of us we will be returning to the prime minister's q. and a session very shortly but right now let's get one of our other top stories a bleak outlook remains after the euro zone as it faces a recession solutions to the crisis in energy corporation being discussed in brussels at the moment where russian president medvedev is offering a helping hand i talked with tom technocrats let's listen in now to what's being south the question task facing russia equally demanding. you have said mr president an ambitious vision for russia's modernization in the twenty first century a vision based on a modern economy and ensuring for political reform i will repeat what i said two years ago the e.u. wants to be russia's partners in its more origination we are indeed strategic part of the. in many ways we are strongly interdependent in a spirit of mutual benefit so we can only win by deepening our cooperation even

further the results of the two last years are remarkable today's summit is the proof it is a summit off results. russian w at york session is the major achievement it is a leverage for modernisation it opens a myriad of new opportunities for trade investment and global growth we have no high expectations on the possibilities to move ahead on a new agreement with russia on mobility approving to come in steps and amendments on the visa waiver agreements is an important step further to freeze a free travel and opens up for more people to people contacts days would further open up russia to the e.u. and e.u. to russia to principles and values of our strategic partnership are also being tested and evaluated on the basis of developments in political fields indeed the

support of european public opinion to our developing story partnership is an important assets closely related to these fields in this context the union paid keen attention to the conduct of the duma elections last week and we had an honest discussion on these issues at the summit. free and fair elections the respect of human rights and the rule of law freedom of speech and the right of assembly are key for democracies and we welcome to fact that five hundred elections up service waiting vital to the duma elections we are concerned by united in a good attitudes and like a fairness as reported by. other observers as well as parts of the russian public and we have concerted body densham of protesters in contrast the recent large demonstrations were peaceful and your target is he my few handled each friday what we dare for welcome your pledge and commitment mr president to investigate in

a fairly impartial manner reports about electoral problems we hope that russia will cooperate well we did a c.e.o. to ensure a smooth monitoring of the presidential elections. we also touched upon a number of international and regional issues both in the south and in the east russia is one of our main interact with us and today as always i appreciate our open and constructive exchange first we confirmed the need to deepen our cooperation on the protracted conflicts in our common neighborhood we welcome the resumption of formal five to sue talks on to an issue on georgia the e.u. welcomed the spirit of compromise that gave way to the bilateral agreements under russian w.q. accession and i hope this can be build upon in the context obligations as agreed in the ceasefire agreement of the twelfth of august two thousand and eight have to be

implemented and second on the arab spring it is our shared interest in need to national community at large the e.u. and russia that it goes in the right direction of more democracy most social justice the rule of law and sense balance on syria more specifically i ask for russian support to the action by the un security council and to the out of bleak plans to nuclear program of your own remains an issue of major concern or close cooperation based on common views with russia remains of critical importance in order to find a diplomatic solution mr president to conclude much of the progress harvested here today is due to your personal commitment to a productive and constructive e.u. russia relationship the e.u. will work to stay discourse also in the coming years thank you. thank you for your

remarks it is different i now give the floor to the president of the european commission is that it was a man who advises thank you very much you have to know ladies and gentlemen it was indeed a very successful summit to summit of results where we made real progress on a number of years. as of our bilateral agenda we also have a very substantial discussion on issues of common interest from the political developments in russia to the economic situation and you're a peon union and also the prospects for the development of the global economy indeed we share a truly strategic partnership and i'm convinced that we can only gain from further deepening our corporations it is through a frank open regular constructive dialogue that we can achieve our common goals last night we had a comprehensive exchange of views on the global economic situation the latest developments regarding euro area development little development seen in russia and i was really very happy with the quality of the conversation during the summit to

be also the ported to celebrate the accession of russia to the world trade organization which is officially scheduled to take place tomorrow after eighteen years of negotiation this is a major achievement in the the the opens do opportunities for trade and for development of our bilateral economic relations which are already strong in fact in spite of the economic situation that trade goods between european union and russia this year had very very impressive results russia is you opinion inserted largest trading partner and european union is the first trading partner for four russian. let me take these occasions to tell you how pleased i am with the news coming today from from geneva in fact negotiations in geneva on the renewed government procurement agreement so-called g.p.a. were concluded successfully today between dupion union and the other parties on an

updated set of ten the rules and additional market access commitments this agreement which russia will also be able to join after its accession is a significant contribution to the multilateral trading system which prove the relevance of the hero in particular in the current economic climate this will lead to more trade and i believe to benefit. all economies including of course europe's economy today semi it was also no question to discuss so we can go further i think we should bring our contract links to a new level which is commensurate with the importance of our relations i am convinced that with strong commitment of both sides we will achieve in the future a balance in the vicious agreement that will bring benefits to our citizens and also to development of our economic and all kinds of relationship our partnership from other ization is now in a phase of full implementation and you continue to fully support it indeed after

the partnership between your opinion and russia many of our member states signed their old bottle modernization and partnership you now have twenty three modernization partnerships this is a clear signal that european union is russia's most important partner you modernization and modernization to succeed must engage the most creative sectors of society and must be of course broad based including the civil society we need to strengthen our cooperation in all those fields but we are as i've said also engaged in building a partnership that goes beyond the relationship between the office. sorry it is it is important to have closer ties between our peoples that's why i'm also pleased to confirm that today we have launched the common steps towards visa free travel this is a potential benefits to our citizens and for people to people contacts you know that to achieve real progress the task ahead of us is to fully implement the agreed

common steps which can lead to the opening of these away of a negotiation i'm confident that this process will continue in a positive direction our common goal is to have a visa free regime between russia and european union on energy we also discussed some matters of energy we are welcome to progress in the energy dialogue and also the close you russia energy partnership i stress that a reliable transparent rules based energy framework applying to all of the reuters remains a key priority for european union. we have very very strong common interests with russia in energy and in many other fields this summit was by the quality of the dialogue and by the constructive tone of the conversations and the other testimony to this and so i will work also to thank personally president medvedev for is strong commitment to the russian. ships and to thank him for what was i believe a very successful summit i think you for that thank you i should know like to give

the floor to the president of the russian federation mr davis treatment with your. name of them and his brother says ladies and gentlemen to your colleagues the but put it into the restroom with always good to speak you don't have to say much unless i'm going to share as many of colleagues what can. we do any damage in the black system on our chief mentality. she said we took stock randomly of the old range of a ration between a huge and i mean you couldn't pray should be long enough for all the child out of the not spaces we. talked a lot about the coordinate our approaches because the phrases in your that's development your. dream i'd love to be able to during that hour we're going to area within the box about the need to have knights and that a lot of the global economy on g.

twenty one of the topical matters i wonder if you can look relations between russia going college to. a number president level i believe that for the first time this year the volume of trade between our countries will equal about one hundred billion dollars people i mean this is almost half of all your trade. russian federation has a global goods in the one seeing good positive dynamics you know you were sectors we. see good prospects. so both of you and i are sure that it will be even better after. more of rush exceeds to the world trade organization i wanted to thank you for your viewers and darkness once again for the helps of the old constructive conversation throughout the. hour with relations nationally recent days once again it's definitely in the black and on successes of

the past year energy. launch of the first phase of the north european with this gas pipeline it will enforce energy security although difficult does remain being as frank we need to be guided by our own interest we spoke about it when the darkness i'm referring to the implementation of the third energy package. plans for guiding the construction of the interstate more. and intercontinental gas pipelines but what's important is that we exchange information we are in dialogue and i'm confident we'll continue cooperating and exchanging views are these and other matters anyways russia is and remains a reliable stable supplier of the hydrocarbons to europe will and will continue many years of successful experience lockouts ration would be guaranteed when you behave guard investments that were made in the sector and where not to be arraigned versification of gas cooperation between the e.u.

and other countries knew about the ship the modernization of the past few years it has become the key to your colleagues between russia and the member states you know one of the judgments are very impressive it was up with vision of. negotiations launched. a missile launcher. so use from. launch pad after the press conference we'll have a meeting with the participants of the round table of industrial. listen to this illustration would like to know during the progress in the first like has been said recently completed the green on the list of joint steps and. practical work to me is a very jean we're very now again a lot you know vinyl and we came to a conclusion and that's what matters to many citizens travelling from russia to you e.u. and vice versa it has become easier for many but not for older still got

a hope that in the near future we will be prepared to fully abolish visit to the question do european union like my colleagues just said one of the important bits of the corporation which will always exchange views and give assessments but each other's actions metallics rather tough is human rights and pressure on its part must be similar don't meant because although we have some problems to master glee there are similar problems in the european union for instance rates of russians begin minority in some european countries and then extremism and xenophobia and e.u. countries but i cannot turn a blind eye to that we need to combat that little new as usual gender we had topical and regional issues we have which is in the found group are good we are discussing those matters where it's always done openly in the spirit of partnership i believe the exchange of valuable information that helps you understand each other

better learn more about the situation and the region we discussed i don't least asian all i'm going to the general situation was spoke about iranian nuclear program spoke about the balkans we spoke about protracted conflict so once again the whole range of issues the table so once again i want to thank colleagues for the old constant productive frank dialogue for their ability to compromise but rather those years we have the world in which you very. constructive celerity and that. thought measuring in i think it possible for us to say that today relations between e.u. and russia at the highest historic level and i hope they will continue developing in the same spirit thank you you. mentioned i work on the floor for some questions there is room for two questions on the e.u. side and two questions on the russian side says we start with the e.u. side and then my colleague will take over for the russian sites please state your

name and the media your present before addressing your question please. sebastian offer from reuters a question for mr van rompuy do you have a date yet for a next summit of e.u. leaders and what kind of progress do you expect to make on a fiscal compact by then. thank you for that question informed this morning the twenty seven member states. will convene a meeting of the european council by the and of generally beginning of february i convened that meeting after consultation with the president of the european commission the polish prime minister and the danish prime minister the current president of the council and the upcoming president of the council. on the agenda. we will have first of all the implementation of the decisions we have taken in

october and in december and of course the most important one these the as you mentioned the fiscal compact and the intergovernmental treaty so the implementation of those decisions will be on our agenda and second point will be. the discussion we couldn't have at the last latest european council on the economy on competitiveness and. employment especially on employment the president of the european commission prepared a report it was already distributed we hadn't had the occasion to discuss it i think in times of stagnation. in times of even because of course i use recession it is very important to have those topics on the agenda and not only speaking on fiscal consolidation so we have convened that meeting with twenty seven

with twenty seven by the end of january and the beginning of february. thank you second question to all of you. as a response person. mr medvedev. to which conditions could russia help the. there is a. there was a talk about the twenty billion aid could you confirm this and maybe for me another question to the side the european parliament called yesterday for new elections. to be or to be all in held in russia was this call also related among the concerns you had about the irregularities and if mr medved if wants to react to this thank you. you would.

vision pastoring the first part of your question. but i think i want to say that russia. is the beautiful is interested in. the youth so when you use. preserve ation as a powerful economic and political force says you have end up going toys civilizational toys is the mood i mentioned advantageous ties with the us or us for russia united europe is very important for us it's important that we were being states should agree and the river exercise preserve and courage to preserve all that has been done over the recent decades and chris and one of the most important reserve currencies the euro these beautiful and the e.u.

rules of the european union and member states and russia all are interested in this and forty one percent of foreign exchange reserves in russia are denominated in e.u. room or in euros in a major securities. this is why you will value cape. backing with a couple of p. you have got to coat falling on losses and one end of the international monetary fund membership panel today where we're embodied by all the commitments being the butt discipline talk of the i.m.f. and we are ready to invest the necessary financial means to back the gun then we can be rippin economy and the euro zone what we can do you are ready to look at and can see that some of the measures of support but the main thing is their decision is that odd to be taken by the e.u. member states and in the parameters that. the president of the rippin council has

just mentioned eventually he will. i'm wishing them well you will only you will be able to help you are a part of the country's shoes to provide conditions for you to assume what will the delay rate itself from the crisis in a soon as possible and recover from this downtown as soon as possible it will be conducive to it the second part related to his powers and this is to the decision of the european parliament as regards our elections i have nothing to comment to these days now election and a european parliament has no relation to see if they can comment on anything i will not comment there written decision as they mean nothing for me but i think you got it on our russian parliament. but the represents about iris factions and parties which the majority party in that position parties yes today i look through the

internet yesterday. they express the. indignation the position of the european parliament which should deal with the european issues because they have got a lot of problems in my position remains as previously mentioned. that the police to talk to us news works in a kind of scam. think you. know this is a good question i needed a visa. to come here. the point is. in breach of previous agreements between russia and the thing that presuppose that should be at least at least for half a year you all and the standard bearer intro three as i received three davies are such restrictions are very often. by other russian nationalists.

like i don't i have to get a simplified scheme based to beas are it's the question to the. european union leadership today and the road map for a visa for regime has been approved does it mean that next year that we will have these days of free travel regime and mr medvedev for you. a question about domestic politics on many occasions you said that you allow for an approach episode we would see our return of the elections of governors of russian regions today prime minister. told the russians his view about how it could happen is it doesn't coincide with your view. visa facilitation there was a substantial progress made on the grade of visa facilitation agreement and i look forward to the conclusion of these negotiations so answering very concretely your question yes i hope that next year you can save more time for it and that it will

be made easier in fact some of the provisions are precisely for journalists that's one of the categories but also civil side organizations business people so we have a program for speeding up and facilitating this kind of this is. the goal is to have a few three originally but probably not happen next year that's a longer term goal visa through jim this is a physically nation. provisions are going very well and they're look forward toward early conclusion of the negotiations in fact there have been a very important development is the last months and weeks on both sides and i hope this will be concluded very soon. or next year we'll have six days visa and afterwards i will work on that although it's the second part of

the question about our domestic affairs on many occasions i expressed myself and i won't conceal my view developed as well what has been said today by our prime minister mr putin. will join his televised breach with the russian linkup. is exactly the legal construction that we would use cast with him several days ago which is the structure of the basing on which variant of return to direct elections of russian governess can be considered it with. something to me g. or e row. that would be intrusted. to the parties they're presenting the population of on all the population of a country that bodies that. have on territory and with the use of the rule of the president as the governed.