should become part of the educational. screen. there are plenty of opportunities in big cities where small cities and towns need support from the state should also work to harmonize or s. new york relations. we have if mrs is representing in some hundred and eight c. . nations nationalities speaking more than two hundred thirty languages for thousands of years we evolved lived in russia representatives of different confessionals and different ethnicities our societies does not tolerate any ideology based on hatred and dextre extremism as a commission to which of sad. the patriots and extremism

e extremism it is a sign of weakness but we still have a lot of issues that lead to conflicts between economic people of various ethnicities who if new cities we need to remove the courses for before massive migration within the country we need to see them develop read the regions where there are no jobs and people have said my grades we need to give more attention to ethical education and moral education we need to teach them about. tolerance just as we teach grandma history of them you need a place to preserve our country and it we should apply a zero tolerance policy on the extremism of all crimes that are used to incite interest nick hate suits and this should be our priority.

colleagues with him in the decade which is to come should be signed up to upgrade and requip our. forces by mentioned the decisions that we're taking to solve the housing issues simply the salary cuts by the year twenty twenty the russian army should get. modern equipment and should be required smike seventy percent army. will require the decrease of the family becomes a decrease of the. risk of the conscription of service soldiers. to be delayed and the number should go down to four hundred twenty five thousand when he should move on to belittle professional service priorities. ensure security and. secure cooperation with other countries in the interests of

russian my people i spoke recently on missile shield. you've all heard my statement but i would like to have three but look can confirm one thing we are open for constructive dialogue and for some specific negotiations with our partners if they learned here our points of view and we hope they will meet us halfway we believe that we hope that. they will keep on. having that atmosphere of confidence in the governor and. we are open to the thought on the gauche asians on the new agreement on the theory of the pan european security. with the young and. another priority is the attempt suicide overcomes the consequences of the financial crisis we now

need to implement decisions announced by the year twenty on reforming the financial system and a lot remind you that it was in the past year i had some initiative that we need to introduce a mechanism on. when we go to minutes and the consequences see shelves. or in introducing new frames were the new framework that we were a security. also new measures to secure the internet and also in fighting piracy and we hope that there will be negotiations on this part of the shows are being discussed with libya g. eight some of them are discussed on that and i think the g twenty we shoot of course used the potential of the shanghai cooperation organization and the brics countries the events of the past few months have indicated. that

russia's role in solving political issues. with that we saw all these issues through diplomacy without any external interference and of course using the potential of the united nations proces and to give additional input is to to gratian to see any process is. integration cooperation with our partners we need to have. more of them in a partnership with the collective security treaty organization and we will use all of the potential. to secure our borders we also need to use the potential of the customs union and the single. trade. and we thought that we now have a new addition task we have blocked on create seen the eurasian economic union.

and it's we'll use the fact that you've done if it's of our economies and therefore and provides tangible benefits for all of our citizens for you that we want good europe which is transparent and we're open to other partners. from. other countries they can join the united we believe that this economic union will be a link. between europe and asia and the asia pacific region but we and it's will exert its influence and it will be a major player in the world economy. and i think that you that with the people of russia their friends. through all these years. worked with one goal in mind to make the lives of our people better.

make sure that the people of our country feel safer and. that they're not afraid for their children and grandchildren. that the life of the older generation has led to the dignity and back watching the will this is why it was so important to retain the economic and political stability in the country. that you might make this is why it is so crucial that we begin the modernization of our country. however there are indeed difficult times ahead here we'll build a brush and. may last for several years. and competition for the mines for their ideas for resources is only going to grow fiercer and we are in the epicenter of this competition with it even in the toughest of circumstances we have no right to stop in our development would that this work is go into require determination lots of effort and of course time overcoming you know share. in the

numerous established stereotypes. and it is only together that we can go this hard road together. with the. yes of course we differ in our views of the world but it's not really new sometimes we have very different ideas of priorities. don't we have differences on how we should act. however ultimately it is the same thing we all want and a better life for the people of our country. by of them or with those and. this is why we should learn to listen to each other that was in the you should learn to respect public opinion you know you as a leader. and not hoists our decisions not force the decisions of on the public. you may be on the but i was on that you were must also carry on what we began to

heath before must carry on renewing the russian state and the russian society in general in the play and we have got used to because this is what this is what i want every one of you recognize his or her possible responsibility for how his closest most beloved people leave deal for the success of your business. and therefore for the future of our beloved country or with yourself i fully recognize my responsibility for everything that has to be done yet you know you've got in the way what i believe in every one of you you know so well and i know we will succeed .

well we've just been watching president of u.s. forces and the final state of the union address his russian president and to discuss this with me i have in the studio our political commentator peter lavelle well peter we've just heard president. talk about a lot of things and yes and he in the first part of his speech was very positive it started off in a very positive now outlining russia's achievements and achievements during his presidency and then he talked about what needs to be done and talked about what everybody wanted him to talk about ok and i think i'm going to quote him a little bit here. to be ready for dialogue on all issues treat with respect criticism criticism is legitimate russia needs to mock you see not chaos and the recent elections were a good maturity sign of russia's democracy not a negative as so many people like to put it but it was very very adamant that civil society is that it must be listened to i think he's obviously reacting to the

reaction of some people to be election and some of the protests that we've seen since the election so he's seeing reality it's very very sobering reality and we've got well you know in fact the statement that he made and he just said that russia needs democracy and not chaos was very firm one well this is where the political reform comes in this is where there's a lot of confidence of political will in the sense of what we have gone through the one nine hundred ninety s. was very chaotic then they had to build the state and in the two thousand now we have to find the right balance is exactly what the president was saying so have to find the right balance more political reform more decentralization of the political system strengthening of political parties and just listening to people more on the recent parliament didn't do that this parliament will have to so what other changes can we expect political reform will be looked at we are talking about direct election of the governors that's going to be on the spin on the agenda for a while cutting out corruption from the political process and cutting out corruption in general in this country which is a lot of time on what you should have because there's

a lot of corruption here. also looking at the criticism of the authorities there has to be more ways of doing it ok not just going to the ballot box once there are only four political parties who are going to lower the threshold which i think they should they think russia is ready for that ten years ago i don't think they were ready now they are more political voices have to get in there that can only be helpful here again this address was and i can tell our audience here that it was changed over the last week to reflect some of the events that are happening in this country it just wasn't a checklist of his presidency it's a checklist of his presidency what needs to happen what is happening now and what needs to happen in the future right into the next president so in a sense this is the program what needs to be done in the future and one of these things is a comprehensive political reform and the other thing that he focused on in his address was the modernization of the army and a lot of time looking is on the modernization what needs to be down there put it under the rubric of modernization in the financial crisis because we talked about that a lot russia has done pretty well right now but if there's another tsunami out there

or a global recession russia can get away from that and he actually warned people hard times are ahead russia cannot exist in isolation it has to deal with its partners but russia will be treated as an equal partner w t o except in things like that so i think it was you know he said during his administration or quite a few achievements i think that fair to say that's true but there's a whole lot of work ahead. all right peter thanks very much indeed for your insight on the president's address and we can now go live to our correspondent who has been watching this address with us and she can now tell us more well because we know over to you now so what were the highlights of which are made very address on the when i was listening to what you and you were saying and indeed probably those who expected that these final address of that mission that that as the president would look like it's bearable speech were disappointed because it rather looked like a long to do list of first of all political establishment had been looking at the

year was looking at that speech for us as to what metric that exactly is going to change how he's going to reform the country's political system. russia needs democracy in the bed of sir but the russian leadership will not allow whistleblowers and the stream is full russian society into shady undertaking it will not tolerate foreign interference in russia's domestic affairs the main thing which makes me but if said in response to mass protests which took place in different cities across the country following the december or parliamentary elections. people's right to express their opinion by all means is guaranteed attempts to manipulate the people of russia deceive them to instigate social to school to are acceptable but we won't allow extremists to prove a case is to draw society into the shady enterprises we won't allow interference

from outside in our internal affairs russian leaves democracy not chaos. the tickler many expected that it should be that it will be talking about his ongoing reform plans because he should the prime should let him are pushing to win the presidential election and several months from now admission if it becomes that russia is not. prime minister all these ideas initiatives would be relevant would be practical and of course mention the very forward what had to do with the elections he said that direct government elections should come back to russia he suggested to reform they saw the reform of the judicial system can be also said that russia should find its human resources among the people and create a feedback channel with the public and it early have a mind of yours is just the idea of the enlarged open government and patronage that it today can mention that and said it's in a way an elevator for the most active talented socially responsible people to

come up with their views to represent them in the government and this is a particular what he emphasized today and will suggest that actually russia needs a public t.v. station which is policy not the first neither by the government and war by public investments. that should throw in a quick my proposals are to introduce direct elections to russia's regional heads to simplify the registration of political parties to remove the need to gather signatures to take part in federal and regional parliamentary elections to cut the number of signatures needed to take part in the presidential election i also suggest changing the system for the parliamentary election i suggest introducing proportional representation in two hundred twenty five election areas. even the

representation of political parties in election committees should be bigger and introduce these troughs to punishment in the near future but he's young but i see talk more in the main highlights of meet him in bed it's address to the parliament i'm now joined by the pale my ill academy to national meeting of deflation council thank you very much for joining the care for having me here that niche and that if underline that cautious elections russia's domestic affairs is its own thing and russian russian government won't tolerate any connection here in this and that extremist tracking public interest protests illegal actions what did he mean by well i think that. you can probably find in any country in the world the wage they easily into fear that which may easily there are any interference in its domestic affairs and i think his message was very straightforward maybe a difference very articulate actually if i may say the whole structure of

the address was like a consultancy presentation that was very easy to put the text in the slide from there with all the bullet points of the lies slate with the last slide which will say next steps he underlined the program for his new government and there we do hope that he becomes the prime minister but as a future for prime minister the current because music to president is going to set a very important thing for russia is a sovereign state it's a democratic sovereign state for the first started out with history we are not the second edition of of the empire when we. were in the bolsheviks destiny and it's not the should anymore and the southern states will never tolerate for the simpler a lot of police especially concerning the life of the correctional system that recently there's been a lot of criticism coming from the west and media following russia's problem. i

think with all that direction commitment that if in mind and with forms he has a case of planning that. criticism likely to change and it will i think the only thing which is like the change on the system is the changing structure of the change in mentality of all the citizens for quite a long time almost solely to force the size of the psyche of consumers with all the sides of citizens people who are very happy that they can live their life without a shot the just traveling aboard really. enjoying home a little sense of buying cars. that will slope with ease during the soviet era but no people were becoming more and more socially politically oriented and politically involved in the things that the program of the reforms which was presented by the press the good it is the response of the ruling elite to what society really needs and you think russia's foreign partners will be a nation that is interested in. which we'll see very soon the first bomb and so i

think that coming already you know i think that it's. well if the if the if i were partners. treat us as an equal or those of the world to support these so the program to work with isolation. for the political system because it makes all the system more prosperous and more understandable if you. think it's so much in the that they get a lot of feel ahead of the international media that they can count miss up to mention it betty if they press the column and leave the final speech that. i can read and thanks very much indeed for bringing us the highlights of this address in just remind our viewers that we'll be bringing them more analysis throughout the day and of course they can't follow this in our web site r.t. dot com any time kathleen to tell thanks very much indeed for bringing us up to speed. you're watching r.t.

live from moscow let's now carry on with the other stories that we are following for you today our league observers are due to arrive in syria on thursday as part of a plan to hold violence in the country that's after one of the bloodiest weeks since the beginning of the unrest nine months ago well activists say more than two hundred people have been killed in the last few days the u.s. has renewed its call for president assad to step down warning of new international measures unless it was draws security forces fall the street syria is already suffering under a set of sanctions and as our first reports it's the ordinary people who are feeling the pain. it's been nearly ten months the third is uprising began the capital of damascus has remained largely sheltered from the conflict. in the bustling sand say it seems like it's business as usual as one says it's in the winds of change have begun civil over that will stronger the arab league's imposed tough economic sanctions the effects of which have you felt even head in

a poor area in the suburbs of damascus and her family struggling to make ends meet . has learning difficulties fava beans for a living but he barely makes one hundred fifty three and pounds a day three dollars to support him and his wife know the fuel for his vending cart has become harder to get hold of with the economic sanctions driving the. last products available and the prices are pushed higher there's been fights over gas we've been trying to manage by cutting back as much as we can but sometimes when we can't afford it which is don't eat. the economic situation in syria was one of the areas president assad had been seen to be making some progress be it slowly the for a population that it started seeing the results of economic opportunity. financial transactions fuel shortages and have blackouts have become the norm. because of

the economic sanctions people rushed to stockpile fuel and gas just in case people are a little bit afraid of the fact that water or gas might run out and this is why you see these queues this in place by the arab league it is take the sanctions with full the government hand when it came to ending the violence in the country but inside syria at the moment many feel it every day people look being punished as they could be even darker financial times ahead share prices in our stock market sick of it things change. down affected by some lows for example the use of the capital of. banks in syria. is of interest three of the banks. affected in directly on the decision of the investors and the first ping from the arab league

will be paving the way for an observer mission at the end of the month much opposition they remain skeptical about whether that too will bring about any real change for these crews up in the west of the conflict areas change can come and they meant t. seeing some parents of teeth families like finding life under the sanctions increasingly desperate sara. damascus. well the european union's impose tough new restrictions on the sale of drugs used to execute people in the us a move that's likely to worsen our ready short supply across the atlantic as aimed at fighting capital punishment and some of its controversial methods but there are fears that intrepid states may find a way around the controls as it is either ban it now reports. they've tried hanging electrocution and most recently a drug used to euthanize animals but now american jails will find it much harder to

kill prisoners on death row the main supply line for its lethal injections has been cut off of the e.u. slipped new restrictions on drug exports i really think this will make a difference and we will see the effects of this this control order in the coming months that the the u.s. relies on european drugs for use of executions and without them they're going to be stuck and lives will be saved specifically execution drugs are made in the e.u. but several american states have been importing sedatives instead drugs designed to help being used to hurt. exports of drugs like sodium thiopental will now be controlled to stop their use in a three part lethal cocktail the end of it was being used to put the condemned inmate to sleep as another drug paralyzed before the final heart stopper was administered without that initial numbing stage lethal injections are

unconstitutional under u.s. law the usual supply for these drugs has been dwindling since the only u.s. manufacturer ceased production last year american prisons though found an alternative source right here in west london at this fairly unassuming driving school the buildings also shared by dream farmer a british firm exporting british drugs the us prisons to kill people the u.k. government soon found out and banned its use so american prisons searched elsewhere r.t. reported in may how some states have begun using pen to bottle a drug normally used to put pets to sleep that's never been tested for human executions its primary use for humans is to treat epilepsy but it has no pain killing properties many feel its use on death throes tantamount to torture this can cause excruciating pain if something goes wrong and because we have no test we cannot guarantee that nothing will get around to people at risk of not being killed

being tortured to death following our report danish manufacturer impose their own restrictions to prevent penta bottles misuse the new e.u. embargo covers eight barbiturates in total including painted by us stockpiles will eventually run dry but many fear it's only a matter of time before prisons try again with something else unfortunately the death merchants in the us can sometimes be creative in terms of what they put to use in order to put people to death and so i think what we need is a clause which said if other drugs should appear on the market and we discover the u.s. is misuse. those we can quickly have a quick procedure to at those to the list without you no way to know the year aside from lethal injection other methods like hanging and firing squad a still sanctioned in the u.s. but in now rarely used these new restrictions may not choke off the drug supply completely but it will certainly tighten the noose on america's controversial death

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