from the current president to someone who wants to be the next one of russia's richest men mccullough procket off has become the fifth registered candidate in the upcoming presidential election it's the first time he's run and he's considered a dark horse in the race for the kremlin and he did explain to us here at our team why he decided to fight for the top job. i make decisions quickly and i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time your butt 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 i knew there would be a really sun block this square in southern iraq which that's why i went into politics what do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me is no see i foresaw the rises and i sold my acids in advance youth and this time it was the same thing is it. i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's

a combination of knowledge experience being your weary of the current situation in the country and the world wide and intuition world added together all these things enable you to make the right move. but if you work with mccullough profit off that's here in full in just over fifteen minutes time here and now for the meantime though let's get to some other news headlines from around the world this hour time for the r.t. well the al qaeda linked militants have left the central yemeni town of rada which they captured last week and returned the insurgents demanded the release of several prisoners and the formation of a council to run the city as news of the gunman's withdrawal spread residents took to the streets in celebration militants control a string of talents in the country but rather was the closest to the capital. torrential rains have brought widespread chaos to southeastern australia several

local rivers of banks causing landslides and flash floods over four thousand residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the state of new south wales alone with more heavy downpours and strong winds forecast for the area australia was also hit by devastating floods that killed at least thirty five. chinese new year festivities in central thailand it turned into a tragedy and a dazzling pyrotechnic display erupted into a huge explosion the accident because a rocket missed fired and set light to a pile of unused fireworks four people died many more were injured in the blast set more than one hundred homes on fire as well as dozens of cars. india's labor laws guarantee full time workers a range of benefits from decent wages to paid holidays but not everyone in the country's poorer areas is able to take advantage of those rights employers have

found a legal loophole exposing many workers to exploitation through fear of losing their jobs without warning reports. it's got one of the fastest growing populations in the world and getting india's eager young workforce into skilled jobs is no mean feat business tycoon mini shopper well thinks he has the answer a temp agency that trains and then tell its labor. existed all over the world temporary stuff things that would but do know what we've heard somebody of the five minutes for the last five years filling posts and bringing home a paycheck it sounds like a perfect match but for indian firms there are extra more dubious benefits india's tough labor laws make it hard to fire workers plus permanent staff get decent hours holidays and a living wage none of which apply to hiring temps it's a cost cutting gifts keeping employers smiling all the way to the bank india has always been a famous destination for foreign companies to outsource their work at

a cheap cost but a growing trend here is for indian companies themselves to outsource their work force to agencies like instead of hiring workers for themselves everywhere from malls to restaurants in india are using agencies to hire and manage their workers for the shopper while insists his workers do benefit vital training they are unlikely to get in india as many poverty stricken regions in the woman who film you know really cannot afford to buy the expensive education it's the going to be for people who have those goes when. they don't have the grooming them because some pantry agrees she's in rolled in one of the many nationwide team lease training centers to improve her english skills and enroll in a computer accounting course to make her stand out from the crowd to potential employers. the major coffee i was very warranted to nervous about sitting for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i wanted teachers because english get motivated and gain some confidence but critics say jobs people like some end up in

should be higher paid and permanent and because the agency keeps the jobless figures down many believe it's bloody india over. boy tackling it's labor a lot me which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but shopper will insist the priority for those on his roster is putting bread on the table and that is really where we came in and said that look a job is better than one job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of him because they were low as we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move too often employers will use the law as a weapon in their hands to hit employers they're just warned an opportunity to get a job preassure either r t new delhi india. and a very soon here at odds here we meet one of russia's richest men on presidential candidates. first though it's dmitri and the business.

thanks rory as we've been reporting going to the world's biggest economic forum is taking place in the swiss resort of course this year the get together is being held under the banner of reshaping capitalism prompted by four years of financial turmoil and political protests the global elites will grapple with the thorny issue of how to create a fairer world when you see the compensation gaps that exist the unemployment levels that exist whole generations of employed potential employees that don't have jobs today the youth in different parts of the world yeah there are some fundamental issues that have to be looked at and quite frankly if we don't start with ourselves to understand our role from a business standpoint in dealing with these issues i don't know how they're going to be solved i mean to me this is a classic example of how it's a complex issue it clearly requires collaboration between the business community between governments and key policy makers and if that degree of collaboration

doesn't exist it's pretty hard to see how these problems are going to be solved for the long term. market watchers claim this year's likely to be volatile for investors but emerging markets look appealing certainly when it comes to fundamentals which remain strong among the bric economies the risk aversion though comes from the euro zone crisis which is fueling a global recession just shorts all gone from a russian telecoms major m.t.s. believes the emerging markets are the only place to go for those wanting to capitalize on growth. it's sometimes a challenge given the volatility that we see in global economies to get people interested in emerging markets however for the medium and long term we feel that investors need to look towards emerging markets because this is going to be the most natural place for growth in the world russia has what everybody needs resources to some degree intellectual capital and we feel that we're in a good position to capitalize on the long term it has been to the markets now where it was falling for the second day raising early gains after australia said it will

join the european boycotting reading in the world this is being offset by rising u.s. stockpiles of crude. moving to stocks now in europe the trading in the red the way by pharmaceuticals and telecommunications companies shares of ericsson tumbled fourteen point two percent after the firm report of the sixty five percent profit the climb for the fourth quarter banks are also under pressure on a more upbeat note chip maker holdings out of three and a half percent in london and this boy by robust earnings from apple we'll look at that just a second first to rush markets higher in afternoon trading banking and stocks are among the biggest gains let's take a look at the movers on the my sex and deeds bank and bt both adding two percent on improving sentiment euro zone's debt crisis problem burbank is indeed the one of the top again is up more than two percent so the t.v.

lukoil however is continuing to decline it's cooling point one percent after losing almost two percent today. and as promised apple has posted the full four largest quarterly profit of all time earning over thirteen billion dollars for the period ending december twenty seventh the consumer electronics giant was boosted by runaway demand for its i pad and i phone devices results is only supposed to buy gas probably. mobo as such apple has set a new standard becoming the first electronics company to breach and otherwise while in gas dominated list of profitable. and belarus appears to be pulling out of a severe crisis which crushed its national currency last year getting three billion dollars support from an anti crisis fund set up by regional states including russia but i believe chairman of the your asian development bank city of looks into the country's prospects and the risks that still remain the position program of bill it

always is close to seven percent of g.d.p. of this country this is ample amount of resources so given that the current account of the country is showing signs of improving given that we have a historically high international reserves which is very close to two months of imports deliveries had never we see clear signs of stabilization in billups the challenge to build it with as well as to all countries including russia and kazakhstan is how the global economy will shape up in the in this year where the business team is back on our team around fifty five minutes time meanwhile as the headlines with rory do stay with us.

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the be. cut. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our a lot from moscow top your headlines the world of top whistleblower is to get others to spill the beans on t.v. julian a song to own interview show right here on our take the wiki leaks founder exposed some of the world's darkest secrets and his new series will come. on this channel in march. president obama kicks off his campaign to stay in the white house using

the state of the nation address to saving the economy he stressed his successes and promises millions of new jobs but critics say it doesn't quite reflect reality. and thousands of egyptians are back on where to mark a year since the uprising that toppled the president mubarak's thirty year rule but it's prostration along with the celebration because of drug reform. and with russians heading to the polls in march to elect a new president we talked to the fifth registered candidate for the race and one of the country's tycoons and owner of the new jersey nets basketball team next we hear from me about his plans for russia as he makes his first bid for the country's top job.

well hello mr prothero hello and thank you for the time always glad to oblige you do or think you can be the next president you're probably the most money 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 if you aim high in other things you definitely should aim high in politics and you're got all those attributes here especially with criminals people often ask you if you're a crime and 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 the problem of all i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project which i will always want to know what it means that i was a successful and wealthy person even before you know i don't rely on government contracts chairman to whatever it but we're talking about politics and politics is

different when your story will keep seeing i can be independent because i have a lot of assets but i had most of those assets before put in but if the problem with people outside russia on the other hand don't really care if you're a crime and project that say you make it to the runoff where you run against putin why would people outside russia know about you first they know you were taken 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 what was the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's something to me in my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia. of a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and making it world leader for 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 i mean your last thought on this with let me let's talk about the us over the three years of reset invasions 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 would be as though 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 but really the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large in multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different in both countries have the best territory the only problem with america is that we just bite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in us trade is less than that of thailand below one percent if we build

a purely political relationship proved 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 nido with a pan european security system less and less than russia join the european union or us 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 garvin must look with these days all you hear in the years is syria and libya there is also run the right should protect. any rant against the west or assure you oh 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 interests will

not suffer from 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 of refugees we're likely to get millions of people so there is no way the sushi can be decided without pressure 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 that will be as that i think of the vocals and yes moving them out of the shops i wish to do regard russia as a superpower. for national thought obviously of our country has an important mission which 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 this vision you know the past we colonized the vast territories like say beery or russia is a special nation or 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 question took no us up there do you 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 are in 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 plenty of corporate you are 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 worse of course running in the real skinny cole 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 of course before course they have fears. yes award 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 or if the future of our country's at stake and you are 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 and it's not everyone that can achieve this we so i treat this job and this choice with great responsibility and fifty 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 turn 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 and so harsh prospect that's why i went into politics or put it here to show but probably for dooming you knew nobody that 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 the knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the worldwide and intuition world added together all these things enable you to make the right move but if you were christened polls indicate that the people of russia say 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 just nature. if nothing changes the posi of stability and will continue and this will

seriously undermine the competitiveness. so our 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 piii 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 purpose 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 i know me hell 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 as you would release him if you were elected president of course i would pardon him immediately pressure 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 the president 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 political 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 political 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 either you say you are 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 a month no 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 when. 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 so that the list price of what could often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign are 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. words and everyone gets sentimental once in a while what can move you to tears let it be my a little secret or 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 con and me and there was nothing i could do the whole class saw it but only to her i caught them all one by one going to deal with the loss so i so on thank you very much for the interview possible thank you. who's.

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egyptians are going to real square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak's thirty year rule but it's frustration along with celebration because of dragging reform. and union is here next with the latest action from the world of sport. gloria always great to be sharing the studio with you we have got plenty of sport ahead you are right so these are top stories. then there were four of maria sharapova secures the last semifinal berth it's truly an open. pitch dreamz lower league side cardiff city make it through to england's carling cup final where they'll meet either your city or the.

heavy hand luggage team russia returned home happy from the inaugural limping winter games in innsbruck austria. but we get underway on the hard courts of melbourne where maria sharapova us quest for a second straight the an open title remains very much on truck the russian picking her place in the semifinals of the grand slam just a few hours ago but world number four dominating her quarterfinal with a compact katherina car of a shrub taking nothing for granted against her on seeded opponent who had knocked darts trying to williams in the previous try and six two six three would eventually finished up up next for the two thoughts and a champion petra defeated. certainly be tough i've lost her last couple of times and you see the big one and wimbledon she played really well and i think she's the one to be right now playing the best tennis of her career and. now coming off of some many wins last.