and be the next president you're posing with i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it all taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken and i'm ready for a fight pm high in other things you definitely should aim high and poetess what people often ask you if you're a kremlin project but i'd like to ask you about something else you're very much you're smart you have the reputation of a maverick and you have a strong team how did you end up in a situation where no one believes that you are not a common project and keep snowballing with the news came that he wins he was not registered as a candidate straight away people say that it's because they want proper up to get more votes the problem of the whole truth i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project reveals i will always want to know what it means to look i was a successful and wealthy person even before politicians will perform i don't rely

on government contracts. but we're talking about politics and politics is different people keep saying i can't be independent because i have a lot of assets but i had almost all of those assets before police and what if but the only people outside russia on the other hand don't really care if you're a crumb and project that say you make it so the run up for you run against put in what would people outside russia know about you first they know you're a taker then they know about the scandal in france where you were practically accused of being a pimp and also the fact that you own the new jersey nets why should the was taken seriously because of a press the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's up to me in my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia i have a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and making it a world leader for the whole world is changing all nations are having

a hard time of it unless we change our country and develop that our relations with other countries will only become worse in the future this with let's talk about the u.s. over the three years a reset in relations russia and the u.s. have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention missile defense how would you build a relationship with america. though the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we learned to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the us are a different matter for the russian america have many things in common with the nuclear shield the fact that of both our countries are large and the multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different for both countries have a vast territory the only problem with america is that despite all that my friends

we don't try. really have economic ties with the u.s. we have the russia's share in u.s. trade is less than that of thailand below one percent and if we build a purely political relationship of if it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances he's not enough no more i would suggest replacing nato with a pan-european security system but that's what me that has suggested and nobody takes it seriously even up with the world is changing and that's why people don't take new ideas seriously but i believe there is no alternative but i think russia and europe of should have a common market as the next step we should consider introducing a new global currency based on the euro and the ruble you. can russia join the european union russia but i think we should actually make it our strategic goal

with them of course we'll need to consider how to organize this common market but strategically i agree with gen to goal who said decades ago that we need a united europe from lisbon divided us talk where you are these days all you hear in the news is syria and libya there is also rather the right should protect syria and iran against the west or assure you or yes i believe that russia being an international leader should go together with the rest of the civilized world but at the same time we must be given clear guarantees that our national interest will not suffer take iran for example let's say a war erupts there to morrow there are any sarratt on our southern border right next to the caucasus or imagine the flow of refugees we're likely to get with millions of people but the iranians surat on the caspian sea and that's where the

volga river flows to so there is no way the sushi. can be decided without russia we must be present at the negotiating table and have a sane decisions regarding iran needless to say no one in the world would want to iran to have weapons of mass destruction what about syria why are we defending it so much it is not our neighbor. at the civilians national get involved aren't you a political interests if there is a war close to our southern borders this will affect our neighbors and the situation in the caucasus there will be millions of fresh fugitives fleeing from war and all this will be happening glose to our borders we should be fully aware of that i wish to do guard russia as a superpower. abilio our country has an important mission why virtue or history we should set high goals and achieve them one of course but we

haven't been doing that lately so many people have lost the vision of where you now passed from we colonized a vast territories life's a period here russia is a special nation a few that like sixteen challenges. there is a downside of course what i mean is that an individual people are considered in significant in aren't sacrificed for the sake of a great goal. but that was before me what do you mean before you before you become president both oka from the because yes before i become president we need to change that completely with people should be at the heart of every grand aren't the taking of people should be the top priority battle with what is the first the most important change you will make if you become president more pure or shirk my very first staff would be to ensure competition in every area equal opportunity means that time to an ambitious people should be rewarded based on their merits but there

should be more equal opportunity to be there should be competition both in politics and in the economy we should provide an outlet for our people's energy currently there is no social mobility with across the board if you make it all sound very nice but if you come to power you would have to make really tough decisions or just government spending reform the entire economy this is a my. much more difficult job than managing a company you built from scratch no matter how big it is plentiful you're absolutely right that one of a person who comes to power doesn't even have the experience of running a big company for that would be even worse of course running in the real snicko is not the same as running the whole country but at least i have this experience there's also a strong team of managers who work both for me and in other companies over the twenty five years of my business career i have worked with hundreds of highly qualified managers who could be useful in the new process for we need new faces

new ambitious and honest people who have already achieved success and who would like to change the world i understand them very well because i also want the same thing which i want to change my country in such a way that we could travel abroad and tell people that we live in russia and they would look at us with and being ok say that you're never afraid of anything will come of course they have fears. i'm a human being but i have doubts and fears but it's a matter of priorities it's normal to have fears will but you need to know how to overcome your fears if the future of our country's at stake and you're willing to assume their responsibility it is not a matter of having no fear it's a matter of realizing that your country's capable of doing this and that you can make a contribution to your country's development well i'm actually very proud that i'm

participating in the presidential election it's not everyone that can achieve this so i treat this job and this choice with great responsibility for you but this thing it actually seems like a very spend ten is this isn't this isn't something you've been planning your whole life or have you make decisions quickly but i guess the first developed within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are right when i get a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics were back in april when i just joined the right cause project i knew it was there would be a release on blog in a square in the south of prospect you know for that's why i went into politics but for me what do you mean you knew nobody like you got the signal this happens i mean ways we're going to say i foresaw the crisis we're going to solve my as a certain events this time it was the same thing is it intuition when you look at

the border i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the world wide with an intuition that it together all these things enable you to make the right move with. but if you a person polls indicate that the people of russia see putin as the next president if putin returns to the kremlin and it seems that he will what would that mean for the russian economy is just an issue in europe or in europe so nothing changes the posi of stability will continue and this will seriously undermine the competitiveness of our country we have to change because we are behind if we are really the nation we can defeat any force or any rival open with what we need to do is we need to realize that we are at war with iraq but this is an economic war. this is a war for the future of the need for a slice of the global paey we need to get our slice of the pie and. people often

ask you who could be your prime minister if you could choose between political skin put in whom would you pick up as prime minister harper put both of you are asking me to choose between two alternatives but actually you need more options than that in fact i don't think you can consider put in as a candidate for the prime minister's job at all with what he's been running the country for twelve years now and i think that's enough more than enough. but as regards what our course ski because i know me fail on a personal level we used to have a lot of contact and he is a really effective as a manager but first he needs to be released and then we would need to meet and discuss things but of course i think we should take advantage of such people with their experience including their experience in politics or as you would release him if he were elected president of course i would pardon him immediately but i thank

you very much for the interview thank you. wealthy british style. it's an estimate on the. part. of the. market weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on r.g.p. .

barack obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address to his approval rating suffering on the republicans turning up the heat the president is trying to ratchet up support for reelection in november. in libya gadhafi loyalists kind of seize control of the town of bani walid and abolished the government appointed military council there the country's interim rulers admit they're not sure who's really in charge of the city saying of violence was caused by internal problems. and coming full circle into her square thousands of egyptian protesters angry at the back of reform are expected in central cairo

the country is marking the first anniversary of its popular uprising that toppled president barack. obama choose hand-out update you know when it's a sports news. hello there welcome to a sports update in r.t. to tell the company again in this. into the last former issue of books a place in the semifinals over australia to set up a clash with get. up for the cup lower league side cardiff city are through to a england's polly cup final where they'll play either managed to city or liverpool . rushers hopes for sol she returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in group. and we start with

a hard call so those are an eye opener where my reassure upper is successfully through to the semifinals that soft. and all russian of course final world number four dominated throughout the entire match and seeded apparent who remember knocked out serena williams in the previous round europe will eventually claim that confidence straight sets six two six three victory up next for the russian is. the world number two meanwhile earned her place in the last four in the elements of the day at the expense of italian star irani second seed checked. into sats but spent almost two hours on court to claim a six four six four win so sure up against a repetition of last year's wimbledon final. the men's game ended mar is through

to the last four after a call for the victory over katie couric over japan this court will play the winner of today's other quarterfinal where world number one and defending champion object which plays face seed david ferrer later on. i don't know defending champion came close to world number one occurring in vision not scared to reach the semifinals of the australian open despite injuring her uncle in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring the business world owes her number one ranking after six to seven weeks at the top. you know i was i was happy with what i was playing and i just had to try to be a little bit more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second set. so i knew that you know i mean we've both played

a really good day and you know on first errors really went for shots and good serving and good returning i start laughing every time because the media's sounds to me sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have one year left and you know time's running out but there's five. quite a few good years in front of me and i still improve and you know the number of australian open so the number of years of i will dance in french open so you know i'll i'll definitely do my best and try and see a child to win one i even more and you know in the end of the day. you can just year avast. and in the semifinal claire says a will face third seed victoria azarenka who came back from behind to be. advanced six seven six six two the russian could become the new world number one if she were to win the title . i was approaching this mess you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for it and i'm sad i'm just couldn't manage to play my game and

maybe two years ago i would be like ok you know it's not working today. i'm going to try we'll see and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero and really you know find hard you know really take it one of a time and keep going so i think there was a different mental approach a little bit. meanwhile over in the men's draw federal probe into the semifinals with an in theory straight sets victory over eleventh seed hard martin del potro their world number three needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six to win it also number one thousand and four but the swiss modestly downplayed the seat. it's nice to win this one you know i mean venture will forget which was what was most merchants and will remind me again but. i do

not remember five hundred pound it was the use of. the bigger matches and those ones but it's a big milestone i agree it's a lot of matches and. it's been around for a long time or i'm extremely fit. which is very rare. and will next play eternal rival rafael nadal the second seemed to work much harder than the swiss to be better for hours and sixteen minutes the big serving czech won the open on a dramatic tiebreaker and the number seven seed sported a set point four two of lead then despite having bandaged right knee the dull came back with revenge to win the match in four sets six seven seven six six four six three so the world number two will now play phedre in a rare semi final meeting for the pair as it's the first time since two thousand and five they have been drawn in the same half at

a major event. when we talk about. players who are sixty and. one. then lot of matches. all ones in in a very important. very important moment for our careers. moments . let's get over to english football now where cardiff city beat crystal palace on penalties to reach their first carling cup final the main hero of the first leg clash anthony gardner who scored the only goal for crystal palace became the main villain of the return match the thirty year old defend had it. just seventeen minutes in making it one zero on aggregate this result suit all the way through regular and extra time despite many goal scoring chances at both ends of the page where the parents of all treat to safe from people told hate and gave

cardiff and he story three one victory which will see them facing the city all of a pull at wembley in a month's time. in the meantime spanish giants barcelona and real madrid are preparing for their cope with a return in quarter final of the catalans two one victory last week leaves them with the better chance of reaching the semi's their manager pep guardiola is calling on his charges to summon up one more solid performance against jews or marinas men. if you would leave think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get into simply another very good game and the standard one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school but in the knockout illegal first and second legs when we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. to the hardwood now where sixto for my

champ more score will be looking to maintain the perfect record in these seasons you really as the host turkish affairs in a top sixteen question on wednesday muscovites won all their previous eleven games however the army men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in this top sixteen stage at coachella because last rested his top men including andrei kirilenko and christie in saturday's they to be a league match and has a full fifteen strong score at his disposal against fs are also injury free what point got on top official believes the new look to scar world the heart to stop in their tracks. for the last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in the years in the euro league it's probably time for you beginning with a lot of you. to please the greats the holden and london when i'm melissa know the host of new and ambitious players keen to keep our perfect record intact against

firsts. now russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in austria where the team finished faith over all they competitors who were greeted by friends and relatives and demanded an airport after bringing home five gold for silver and seven bronze medals while the russian republic of dagestan is currently bidding to heyst either youth summer games into eighteen or they went edition in twenty twenty two rushes in his area that the. but we're sure to gold in the figure skating last week and is broke and is also russia's medal hope for the sydney games in sochi in twenty fourteen. trying not to think of the pressure and just do my job by listening to my coach and i fully trust him i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely calm. and finally golf tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be haste first full season

in a while they now are full of it former world no one is getting ready to play at the abu dhabi golf championship after and two year title drought with victory at last month's world challenge event in california i'm looking for this year you know that's. because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare last year and towards end of the year and you know that demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing what sean wants me to do on the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it. played really well the last three of it so i'm really good for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done tours in the last year for sure. ok you're up to date now i'll be back in two hours time with more sports news form around the globe see you then.

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with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address. in libya gadhafi loyalists claim they're in control of the town of bani walid as the country's interim brutus struggle to keep the peace. and coming full circle in tahrir square thousands of egyptian protesters angry at the slow pace of reform are expected in central cairo as a country marks the first anniversary of its popular uprising. that

you're watching here very warm welcome to you as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace headed november's vote for a couple hours trying to ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union address making promises of change ahead what is going to church you can was listening in. his goal was to highlight his achievements and lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among americans social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that gap is getting wider american jobs are being outsourced to other countries president obama's state of the union speech.