much mystery for being here with us on the program now do you think these stocks will actually be viewed as an historic step towards peace after over a decade of conflict. well it remains to be see that what dismember it is going to turn out to look at this two thousand and one. conference which was advocated for a peaceful solution for afghanistan in a same town the presence of top on we're not there and dad admitting that the fact that ten years passed and nothing no. talks with the taliban now tours in office and they want to come and talk it could be historic it all depends on how this is going to turn out it's oh it's a lot of there will be a lot of bumpy roads that we can come here and in the near future yes but what you actually read into the fact that there are talks between these two sides i mean ten

years ago talking to taliban wasn't even think about. you true the fact was that they thought the taliban could be defeated in that way the talks could go on without the top and the toll of bombs were regarded as the terrorists in office and overnight taliban are good people and. and this has prolonging for ten years and the fact that if there is going to go for another ten decades this there will be no military solution to afghanistan i sat need a think tank in knowing to soviet era invasion of afghanistan that there was no military solution whatsoever and we knew all along that the only solution for afghanistan would be political and dad too has a bumpy road in there have some high walls to climb and yes now there have been

fears voiced both out of down a stand in the us that by engaging in the talks the taliban merely wants to regain legitimacy to impose an islamic rule in afghanistan so how much of the real danger is in the us according to you well it's again it's really hard to say that if the taliban has changed our top one are going to be coming in at least half way are somehow. down ice but the fact is that. the people in afghanistan have seen very bad. very bad memories of the past and dad really hasn't flashbacks that they can they cannot. get over it so it all depends on how this is going to turn out but told the bone them surely they're going to be pressing their own and they have

a list of demands that what needs to be done. and this marriage could could turn into a good one or could it could turn into a bad one it's just like wills will just have to see. well as it has repeatedly said before its goal is to get albans talking to afghans so why in this particular context kabul being kept out of the talks. well at the beginning i think that what happened was stat the taliban were didn't have any address they couldn't be reached so once they were reached and they made a deal with the americans look i don't really think that i would not like to talk to you rather than talk to karzai government and karzai government to them was just and still is is is a puppet government and day would rather talk to you or to the americans so that beginning that that went on until the karzai government came and said look you cannot talk with without us so now the americans are coming back and saying look we

should be bringing all the parties in in the mix and see if we can come up to a solution so pressing pakistan and pakistan pressing. the taliban looks like that there will be. and as i talked and now the talk has been changed from from the location qatar has been changed to saudi arabia that's what i'm hearing lately and we'll see what's what's going to come out indeed mr cohen there with thanks very much indeed for sharing your views of us here on the program thank you very much and. our visit of russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful livelier put and sees as one of the main tasks if he regains the top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tent comes and his third pre-election article published and lot of russia's major newspapers are going off summed up

their main points. to prime minister putin the world is currently witnessing a very interesting time when the global economic crisis has led to a reorganization of power with some traditional fever stepping down and new players gaining more influence and the prime minister says russia has all the chances to secure a place or more the leaders of course are problems and one of the main one is russia's dependency on natural resources which leads to poor weaver efficiency outdated technologies and a lack of competitiveness in other years of in this trees in russia and the prime minister also says that private investors are afraid to give money into new projects in other steers besides energy projects in a major overhaul is needed for the entire system for all sectors from the service sector to the farming industry but it's not an easy task since russia is a huge country with diverse climates band big population these aren't really tast

for the next several months about for the next several years for the prime minister is also listed set off for coup or industries which have to be developed they include the traditional space exploration and nuclear energy there's also the pharmaceutics and high tech industries aviation and so on and the prime minister says even though the state has to start reducing its influence on the economy there are these couper steers of industries where control is simply essential russia needs more innovations more new technologies which has to be based on a better education and better jobs the country has to stop importing technologies from abroad and work on some it's all new ones it's very important that russia has managed to finally get into the world trade organization which is going to help its

modernize the entire system so these are some of the key id. put forward by the prime minister in this order go forming the foundation of his electoral program. can offer reporting there or andrew will be here with a sports update later this hour including the latest from the record breaking ground slam final before that though we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with natasha. twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching business r.t. prime minister vladimir putin has admitted russia is still failing to attract enough investment and his election campaign article published on monday putin calls for a limiting state control over business and boosting ties with close neighbors like bellows kazakhstan and ukraine the prime minister hopes this will attract direct foreign investment earlier the economic ministry said cash foreigners invest in

russia should increase by forty percent this year the head of the country's direct investment fund explains what people like about russia is an opportunity for growth because we all know that middle class tripled in russia and the last five years even though some people are criticizing russia and basically saying it needs to be more effective it needs to be more transparent everybody recognizes that this in the fish and says sometimes it's actually you know a crucial part to it too for growth because if we can make go into prices more efficient we can grow much faster than most other countries. the world's largest alimony and producer rule sol is cutting production for the first time since the crisis of two thousand and eight the company's c.e.o. with a deposit told bloomberg the output may be lowered by six percent within a year and a half truths all rivals such as alcoa in rio tinto are also decreasing production after the price slump who saw me close some of its unofficial production lines

speaking exclusively to business our teacher pasco said he expects prices to remain weak for the first half of the year. we don't expect. you know significant improvement in that six months in the we. know in the very bullish but optimistic for the second problem is we are but it's a moment come of this market even though it's quite stable in general course we come here we're. in the positive transformation in the improvement in your slowdown in europe but in general it's the. let's not take a look at the markets european bourses of failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece is likely to be in the spotlight the officials are trying to reach a deal with private bondholders in the first hour of trade the footsie is shedding more than one percent the dax it's roughly half a percent lower. and here mosco the markets are shedding value at noon in sympathy with global indices lower oil is adding to the pressure of the r.t.s.

is down around three quarters of a percent of the my six is losing under hundred percent. and now want to the biggest movers on my six most energy majors are in the red with gazprom losing point two percent and banking stocks are mixed very bank is half percent down while bt b. is slightly higher and i want to the currency rates low oil is weighing on the ruble it's losing against both the dollar and the euro and the euro is retreating against the dollar ahead of the euro zone summit. that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in fifteen minutes i'll see that.

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welcome back here with our team here's a look at the top stories iran warns a ban on oil sales to some e.u. countries is still possible as a group of top u.i. nuclear inspectors star their three day mission in the islamic republic. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire heard on the outskirts of government tanks witnessed on the streets. cops and occupiers in the city of oakland all notions of tolerance go out the window as a policeman barred proly quality activists with rubber bullets and jail time. and

prime minister important gets down to business and comes up with russia's new economic layout in the latest article to back his presidential bid. what next as iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh west imposed sanctions we sit down with its interior minister to ask how the current standstill is influencing affairs inside the country. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that the endowed joined by iran's interior minister. it's possible thank you for your time mr stone is that they were talking several days after the e.u. introduced oil sanctions against iran and i know the iranian leadership has responded by saying the sanctions would do more harm to europe than to ron in the air still since iran gets seventy percent of its revenues from oil do you have any

fears about negative social reactions including strikes as people may lose their jobs do you take this somehow into account in your work or you know. that these speculations are new to our country and our government or the power of the people all around ruling bodies or in power as a result of popular voting therefore our government and our role for it is a completely popular and our people have participated in all areas and spheres of our life from the very start of the revolution therefore as i've said there's nothing new about these talks which are actually quite outdated and irrelevant nonetheless they keep speculating on this matter of trying to stir up psychological warfare inside our country or in the countries of the region well probably among people of their own countries that have enough of their own problems attempting to find someone else to blame for them we don't sell that much oil to your of

illnesses and our european accounts don't have that much money. so you are starting to get this all stop the u.s. and the west as a how do not conceal that one of the main tasks of these sanctions is to get the oil prices for the iranian oil lower does decreasing their revenues from the oil iran saudi is they want to we used to manipulate the political situation now. i think the way was that i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very factor can result in oil price growth in these condition is the west should expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro market this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already and so far they've been unable to find solutions with oil and energy markets will experience instability and turmoil and this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security but this is quite difficult for

the markets which going by previous experience is used to consuming certain kinds of oil and energy and this also brings up technical and economic issues at the same time we're not worried for iran at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward but in the year the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of their own economic problems covering the story iran ians navaids the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west bank and they aren't as i've said these words and when you get these speculations have been going on for thirty years and there's no news in it to the iranian people the people of iran are in charge and they always participate in everything we don't sense any problems inside the country and if i may i would like to ask you about the recent killing of a nuclear scientist there have been other similar cases and as far as we understand the investigation into it has not made great progress so far why have there been no

substantial results and who might be behind the killing. of this is clear is day and they admitted mossad and the cia as well as some european security services don't like to see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything and the greater rainy a nation of follows the path of searched. for new technologies it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves and the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad minded university professor at the highlights the grave nature of their situation that it demonstrates that the us and israel have disgraced themselves in this matter how they speak of human rights and at the same time they officially perform terrorist attacks and promote state terrorism expansion. in their slogans we see their idle talk on fighting terrorism their

deeds however do not match their words they brought their troops to afghanistan under the pretext of defending human rights and fighting terrorism and drug trafficking and drug reps of increased forty fold since the americans got there and the number of casualties among innocent men women and children has increased significantly and so has the level of instability in the region that we actually witness terrorism development in the region with drug mafia and drug related revenues have grown as well and we see contradiction between their words and deeds . the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal will people understand that they've chosen the right path the one of scientific progress the adversary doesn't want to see this happen or that it would cause harm to them physical annihilation of people in full daylight is a sign of the adversaries complete powerlessness and despair are an issue and yes

last i know that iran is having parliamentary elections in a month in many countries not only arab ones election may be used as a way to create provocations there are always some people unhappy with election results and this discontent made snowball i am concerned by this that a similar scenario man followed in iran. no thank god we've had twenty nine elections to date and this. election campaign will be our thirtieth election and it will take place in absolute peace and security like all the previous ones because our defense citizens in all the regions all the cities and villages will willingly come to polling stations and cast their votes to designate their delegates to parliament to serve the purposes of development and prosperity for our country. but that is the last of the you know that r.t. has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and syria we often heard complaints from the leadership that the intelligence services of other countries have stepped up their operations

on the territories of the countries concerned in the past year the way many are ledged imaginaries in syria and libya who could see with our own eyes that some people were apparently not libyans but fought on the side of the rebels can you see any increase in the operations of intelligence services from other countries or any attempts to penetrate your territory at least in recent years since the latest events in the arab countries began. you see foreign powers and other enemies are at work everywhere they might also be present in our country but we do not feel we should worry about this of course we should look out for superpowers and our enemies attempting to interfere in the home affairs of arabic countries especially in syria and in all countries where the people are in charge of running their nations they must keep track of such attempts or i don't know of other ways yes. it's been about a year since the arab spring began with

a first even the iranian leadership hailed the movements in egypt in libya as expressing democratic sentiments but now that one year is passed the attitude towards the events around your country has changed do you still believe those are people driven by their own democratic ideas or do you see hunt of other countries in the events of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people demands are legitimate in the imperialistic regime of world supremacies is obviously trying to lead people away from the right path and neutralize the popular movement or transform it in favor of their own interests but it will have to get a pure straightforward and righteous path that people have been following in a while countries of the region however is stipulated by their willingness to defend their. right which is a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint but that is the biggest can one say that the instability in the region has considerably increased the narcotic drugs trafficking. in and out on yes afghanistan is certainly the focus of narcotic

plantations now the americans and europeans are there and since they came narcotic drugs production has increased forty four old and it's a financial source for most terrorists who infringe the security of central asian states the states of the region and russia itself it's a threat not only for iran but for the region at large and russia but if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country this threat will most probably become a serious problem for russia itself it's a fact that both iran and russia the main drugs trafficking route where at the beginning of it because the drugs first penetrate our country and then follow to turkey and then to europe and then on the other hand russia is also on the route that its northern end because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and then go to europe you know we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue.

given we as humans are convinced we have to go on with this ruthless battle so as to save our people and despite the fact that the world community does not lend us necessary assistance in this cause we're alone to bear most financial costs and human losses in order to continue the struggle shut down the borders and blockade the territory inside the country in order to prevent the trafficking so it seems iran and russia will have to take responsibility for the problem themselves that they've been in the u.s. in when was the one of our best i was just the pairing for this interview several colleagues approached me at r.t. asking if there was going to be a war between iran and the usa are you on firm. as well as well let me say this again all those fabrications are not new. to us the islamic republic of iran is a strong power capable of defending its regional security folly and the iranian people being a great and powerful nation are not afraid of those futile threats that.

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and occupiers in the city of oakland all notions of tolerance go out the window as police quality activist with grenades rubber bullets and jail time on. prime minister of jordan gets down to business and comes up with brushes new can lay out in the latest article to back his presidential bid. iran and warns a ban on the oil sales to some e.u. countries is still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors star their three day mission and the islamic republic. and dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire heard on the outskirts and government tanks witnessed on the streets. also the top

stories here in our back in fifteen minutes time with more updates and meantime let's see what's happening in sports with andrew. hello there welcome to the sport and here's a taste of what he's coming up. down under now about djokovic beats rafael nadal to win the striding open in the longest grand slam final ever see. us going to follow it but robin van persie stalls twice from the penalty spot as arsenal come from behind to be aston villa reach a win the f.a. cup. on the way to college stanley suffers a meltdown on the last hole is the farmers insurance open to give brandt snedeker an underdog keep victory. but first attorneys are no doubt djokovic has described his epic astray in open triumph over rafael nadal as the best win of his career he had lasted this need over five sets in just under six hours and what turned out to

be the longest grand slam final in history the serbian came from a set down to clinch the next team and looked in control in the fourth set. but a grueling comeback by no doubt still the spaniard force a tight decider and he led that saw to. however djokovic is back in the bank you can be the first not going to win it seven five and seal the marathon match in five hours and fifty three minutes the following fewer than five seven six four six two six seven seven five protonix are for the both the longest grand slam final and the longest ever match the strain open djokovic has and the fifth man to be in queen major title in a row in the twenty four year old who also beat nadal in all six of them matches last year all of them finals but djokovic rate this win as the best yet and the down says at the moment this is untouchable some of them is.