the next president. i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken and i'm ready for a fight if you aim high in other things you definitely should aim high in politics . at the buttes hill especially because you know 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. i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project and i will always want to know what it means i was a successful and wealthy person even before then i don't rely on government contracts with whatever it's but we're talking about politics and politics is different real slow gore people keep saying i can be independent because i have

a lot of assets but i had most of those assets before put in what if the problem with people outside russia on the other hand don't really care if you're a crumb and project that so you make it to the runoff where you run against putin what would people outside russia know about you first they know your take 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 west take you seriously because of appalls the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's up to me my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia to have a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and making it war old leader of the whole world is changing all nations are having a hard time unless we change our country and develop it our relations with other countries will only become worse in the future when you last on this with me let's talk about the u.s. over the three years of reset invasion. russia and the u.s.

have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention the south the facts how would you build a relationship with america the purest form of the world the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we'll learn to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the u.s. are a different matter russia and america have many things in common the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have the best territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in u.s. trade is less than that of thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances is not enough now i

would suggest replacing nato with a pan european security system that's a left can russia join the european union or us should i think we should actually make it our strategic goal 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 to vladivostok what with these days all you hear in the news is syria and libya there's also run right sure 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 tomorrow there are any serato now southern border right. next to

the caucasus imagine the flow for a few g.'s we're likely to get millions of people 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 it will be as that i think of the locals and us meeting in one of the shots i wish to do regard russia as a super power. national thought mob believe our country has an important mission by virtue of our history we should set high goals and achieve them of course we haven't been doing that lately so mean you are people have lost the vision in our past week colonized vast territories like say bierria russia is a special nation or that like sixteen challenges there is a downside of course what i mean is that individual people are considered in significant and aren't sacrificed for the sake of a great goal but that was before me question took no less

a word to mean before you before you become president both oka from the president yes before i become president we need to change that completely people should be at the heart of every grand aren't the taking of people should be the top priority 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 much more difficult job than managing a company you built from scratch no matter how big it is plentiful you're absolutely right but one of a person who comes to power doesn't even have the experience of running a big company that would be even the worse of course running in the real skinny co is not the same as running the whole country but at least i have this experience 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 we can say that you're never afraid of anything in your car your book or so have fears. yes reward i'm a human being i have doubts and fears but it's

a matter of priorities it's normal to have fears 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 the 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 i'm actually very proud the time participating in the presidential election it's not everyone that can achieve this so i treat this job and this choice with great responsibility and this thing but it actually seems like a very spend ten is the signature this isn't something you've been planning your whole life or have you make decisions quickly i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are right 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 back in april when i just joined the right cause project i knew there would be

a release on blood in a square in soccer of prospect that's why i went into politics or put your shoe footprint for dooming you knew nobody knew it i got the signal this happens to me say i foresaw the crisis and i sold my assets in advance and this time it was the same thing what you felt was a wall 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 a knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the world wide and intuition added together all these things enable you to make the right move but if you were present polls indicate that the people of russia see putin as the next president and if putin returns to the kremlin and it seems that he will what would that mean for the russian economy because nature. if nothing changes the posi of stability will continue and this will seriously undermine the competitiveness. country we have to change because we are behind if we are really

the nation we can defeat any four or any rival what we need to do is we need to realize that we are at war but this is an economic war and this is a war for the future for a slice of the global policy we need to get our slice of the pie 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 perth here asking me to choose between two alternatives but actually you need more options than that in fact i don't think you can consider putin as a candidate for the prime minister's job at all he's been running the country for twelve years now and i think that's enough more than enough as regards what are called ski i know me fail on a personal level we used to have a lot of concept 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 as you would release him if you were elected president of course i

would pardon him immediately rational he also said you would turn the kremlin into museum what would you do about lenin would you keep him there like a mummy in a pyramid or bury him my attention or presence personally i think lenin should be buried but this should be done respectfully with regard to the people who disagree but i would hold a referendum on the shooter a little i don't think the next question is a referendum people often ask you whether you're going to get married or not i only ask about this because of protocol i really done now is in the president we take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single leader you say you're waiting for the love of a lifetime but your love of a lifetime may come tomorrow or in ten years and you want to be president today are you ready to get married if this helps you become president of pickle for more than oh of course not if you put it like that i genuinely believe in love and i really hope it comes to me sooner or later i work a lot and perhaps i don't give enough time. other things including dating i guess

my work takes up too much of my time it's either the data or bad luck i'm lucky in many other things but i'm not lucky in love but i should be lucky sooner or later. you have been extremely lucky your whole life and you always emphasize the importance of good luck have you ever considered why you're so lucky actually i think that to be lucky you have to work a lot of that with elizabeth with i often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign or they often try to win you over with passion or emotion but you're a very reserved person at least that's how you appear to the media also when you talk you say all the right words but it all sounds like that as if you're reciting the multiplication table do you ever get sentimental. everyone gets sentimental once in a while what can move you to tears let it be my own little secret the book that's what you tell everybody when was the last time you cried that it was back in my school days when i was bullied by three boys who were older than me they connoted

me and there was nothing i could do the whole class saw it but later i caught them all one by one going to deal with the loss thank you very much for the interview thank you. please. the loosest sleuth. least some up to pick him

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first anniversary of its uprising that toppled president mubarak. more on those stories in about fifteen minutes time first though the sport with to be. hello there welcome to the sports update has not to go to a company again and coming up in the program. into the last former shopper books are placed in the semifinals for the australian open to set up a clash with better. for the cup lower league side cardiff city are through to england's carling cup final where they'll play either manged to city or liverpool. to russia's hopes for salt young athletes returned from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in pains for

a. so let's start with the hard court so those are the open aware successfully through to the last for that soft a bit sink approach it it did in the market in an all russian quarter final their wall for dominated throughout the entire match over and see that a parent who remember knocked out syrian or williams in the previous round eventually claimed confidence straight sets six two six three victory next for the russian is better. be tough last or last couple of times and are receiving and mumbling she played very well and i mean she's the one to be very now trying to pass tennis in her career and. now coming off of some many wins last time i love i think. you know just you know i i'm looking forward to the matter you know losing.

so many times in a row so certainly you know going out there and trying to turn. the world number two. her place in the last four in the elevator the day at the expense of intelligence irani the second sea check also one in two sets but spent almost two hours on call to claim a six four six four win so sure of course they gave in their repetition of last year's wimbledon final. finally of course and meant to be in a semi in an hour star and then there is a second my best there is no no grand slam zone it's nice and of course the. ana winds and i. say my best as always and. nice mates. in the men's game and is through to the last four after a call for the victory over katie should korea japan six three six six one that

finished. the scot will play the winner of today's other quarterfinal where world number one defending champion is currently playing field seed david ferrer of spain. are defending came close to a two world vision are scared to reach the semifinals of the first grand slam of this season despite enduring cole in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring business kate will lose her number one ranking to six to seven weeks at the top. you know i was i was happy with it and i was playing not just saturday trying to be a lot of a 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 in the north first errors really went for shots and good serving and good returning i start laughing every time because the media has started and sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have. and your last one you know time's running out but those factors are still has quite a few of those years in front of me and i stand and you know the number of us are a number of years of french opens last summer you know i'll i'll definitely do my bastard child see child see even more and you know in the end of the day. you can just you know fast. in the semifinals close to as well faced a third seed victoria azarenka who came back from behind to be. six seven six six two both russian could become the new world number one if she wins the title. i was approaching this match you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for it and i 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 to see today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero. 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. let's get over to english football now where cardiff city bit crystal palace on penalties to reach their first carling cup final the main hero of the first leg gardner who scored the only goal for crystal palace became the main witold of the return match the thirty year old friend had it into his own just seven minutes in. aggregate this result stood all the way through regular and extra time despite many goal scoring opportunities at both ends of the page for the power

to autry to stay strong keeper tom hayden gave cardiff a historic three one to victory which will see them facing either mencia city or liverpool twelve really in a month's time. in the meantime spanish barcelona and real madrid are preparing for their copper del rey returning quarterfinal the catalans two one victory last week leaves them with a chance of reaching the samis their manager pep guardiola is calling on his charges to summon up one more solid performance against just a mere a newsman. he would leave being given we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get him used to clean another very good game and i understand that one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school but in local time in little first and second legs we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. to the hardwood now where six time for my

scar more score will be looking to maintain the perfect record in this season's here really as a host turkish side a face in a top sixteen clash on wednesday the muscovites want all their previous eleven games however are the men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their thirst home game in this top sixteen stage coach be honest because last rested his top man including and and needed to stitch in saturday's v to be league match and has a full fifteen strong score at his disposal against fs who are also injury free while the point guard believes the new look test will be hard to stop in their tracks. the. last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in use in the euro league it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of you. to please the greats the holder and langdon when i'm melissa know the host of new and ambitious players keen to keep our perfect record intact against.

another basketball new zealand upset into joining their best start in eight seasons as their magic beat the paces on the road and i started well and were leading twenty nine twenty two after the first quarter i learned the top score of the night i understand how to side to improve and the teams were tired at fault for all the tough time during this second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated. straight three pointers pushed magic into a sixty three fifty six lead midway through the third period then anderson and finished things up closing with twenty four and fourteen points respectively one hundred two to eighty three it finished a meeting in dallas suffer their first home defeat of the season. now back here in moscow russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic

winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall they can bet it is 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 current limiting to host either the youth summer games in two into eighteen for the winter edition in twenty twenty two rushes elizabeth the two gold in the figure skating last week and is broke and is also russia's medal hope for the cynic games in sochi in twenty fourteen. and trying not to think of the pressure and just do my job by listening to my coach and i think we trust him i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely com. golf tiger woods is raring to go in what should be his first full season in a while the now former world number one is getting ready to play a big golf championship after ending his two year term drought with victory at last

month's world challenge event in california. well look at for this year you know that's something that i have to say because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare a washer and towards end of the year and you know that i 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 and. played really wall the last three events so i'm really looking for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done toward the end of last year for sure. ok that's all from me for today more sports stories from around the globe time heo not to eat with my call i couldn't get by.

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egyptians angry at slow reforms gather in central cairo as the country marks the uprisings first anniversary. worldwide news live from moscow's city center this is our with me wrong show and we are getting a new talk show the world media is already in a spin over its host it's the man who's exposed to wrongs at the highest level of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by here on r.t. laura many would say two thousand and eleven it was the year all of a song this really sounds like it's going to be virt show to watch how did this come about. and we certainly believe it is my my producers and directors worked tirelessly.