now about eight minutes time it's the business but for now a historic talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly begun in cutter they are discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay pakistan who previously thought of attempts at such talks has now let taliban leaders pass safely through its territory to qatar and nouri from the think tank new world strategies coalition i think there's a lot of art now realizes that only through negotiation can get the u.s. to leave the region i really think that islam about has been pressured by the international community is a symptom to islamabad must have come up with an idea that look i really think the only way that we can get americans out of afghanistan it will be to talk with them and once you assure we assure americans that disses if it will be fine and this is

the way out. i believe that americans will leave and then we can all be back to back to normal that whatever that they want to express imposed on of on afghanistan . ok let's take a moment here and i'll see to check out some other stories making headlines around the world for you in brief thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are kept closed is the most speakers at the rally called for independence from us foreign policy stage for the protests if any attempt to open the channels is made border checkpoints stopped supplies for nato troops in afghanistan late last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. ten people have been killed and injured in a highway crash in florida it happened in the early hours of the morning off the smoke from a nearby brush fire combined with reduced visibility on the road multiple vehicles

were involved in the accident with some of them bursting into flames leaving wreckage covering almost one mile of the highway. well reversion over russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful vladimir putin sees as one of the main tasks if he needs to if he can in that way regain the top job fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tent comes in his third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers a lot of his going off summed up the main point. according to prime minister putin the world is currently witnessing a very interesting time when the global economic crisis has led to 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 oman the leaders of course are problems and one of the main one is russia's

dependency on natural resources which leads to poor labor efficiency outdated technologies and a lack of competitiveness in other spheres 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 and 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 and a big population these aren't really tast for the next several months about for the next several years the prime minister's also listed a set of four couper industries which have to be developed they include the traditional space exploration and nuclear energy there's also the pharmaceutics and high tech came a coal industries a lesion 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 own 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 ideas put forward by the prime minister in this order go forming the foundation of his electoral program. talk is that you go to preschool reporting right there ok well as i promised natasha joins us next with latest business update. hello welcome to the business program on our t.v.

as we've just been hearing william and putin has outlined the changes he thinks need to be made to the russian economy putin recognizes the need to diversify away from wrong materials reduce the control over business and improve the investment climate earlier i spoke to yvonne chukar of akron a sons capital he told me that while the ideas were not new they were still relevant. these are not. fundamentally new things that putin is proposing however at the same time i would argue for the very first time we're hearing of such lofty goals at a very high level we should remember that this is the second very important speech the region has delivered on the economy over the last two weeks he. started with a speech on twenty second of december when he said that the potential growth of the russian economy should be raised to sixty one percent and this is the second major speech i think it's a very important one of course it is very rich on the rhetorical the key question

for us is whether it will be reached on implementation you mentioned that rhetoric is one thing but implementation is something different how do you think these ideas will be implemented i actually think. they'll be strong market economics and political economy incentives for put in turn as a president to be to be much much more informal the end to a much more proactive in introducing and implementing these kind of reforms this is an idea that we've been trying to advance year to in essence capital russia is already running a significant fiscal deficit based on our estimates into two years' time russia will start running current account deficits these deficits will need to be financed somehow therefore it's really it will be imperative for direction economy to change and i think that putting understands that i think that he would like to ensure that russia's image as an investment destination is changed a little bit and i think there are enough incentives for us to assume that he might

be a little bit more broadly formally entered in his term as a president of course if he if he wins the election. and let's now check out the markets all first and it's losing value traders are cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels late on monday even tensions with iran feel to support the world price iran's deputy oil minister said the crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars. the barrel if the e.u. embargo the country's exports comes into force in july this hour the w g i's under ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is topping one hundred eleven dollars and i want to equities european bourses of failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. summit greece is likely to be in the spotlight the officials they are trying to reach a deal with private bondholders in the first up this hour the footsie is shutting three quarters of a percent the dax is around one percent lower. and here moscow the markets are shedding value the sour in sympathy with global indices lower oil is also adding to

the pressure of the r.t.s. is down more than one percent the my six is losing three quarters of a percent and now on to the biggest movers on the my six most financials are in the red with bare bank losing around one and a half percent and energy majors also retreating gal's promise half a percent down the lukoil has slipped into bread it was gaining earlier in the day now it's down just a notch. and now the currency rates lower oil prices a wing on the ruble it's losing against both the dollar and the euro and the euro itself is retreating against the dollar ahead of the euro zone summit. and now a business r.t.e. exclusive alleged repast of the owner of the world's biggest alimony and producer was sol and one of russia's richest men predicts the first half of the year could be tough for his business he sees commodity prices remain stable but he doesn't

think there will be growth until the second half. we don't expect. you know significant from the next six months you know we are not you know very bullish but optimistic for the second for those of the year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable in general course we can deliver. in the positive transformation you know improvement do you see the slowdown in europe but in general state. and speaking about the other risks to the business performance hugs are possible expressed concern about upcoming political changes and russian tycoon is getting ready for a transition period. federal institution so the governments are so dangerous it's not always some of the deal is a problem they might just face it's happened and we have a transition period before the government will be in the fact of maybe the from the oldest and some boards and gets the cover of going reform in the fall sick of this

to help ongoing process of adjusting the old fashioned situation to the new w children also regulations from foreign trade center europe european demand in a care and see in the price in the in the parity as a busier and of course in the center. and that's all the latest from a business team all the fact that.

if you are just joining us a very warm welcome. to the syrian capital. government. iran. as a group of. the islamic group. in the city of oakland. go out the window. with.

jail time. comes up with. its presidential bid. to face the effect of fresh. with. the current stand still is influencing. the country. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated there around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that the endowed joined by iran's interior minister. lot larger it's possible thank you for your time mr stone yesterday we 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 none 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 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 are all 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 none the less 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 stopping deal with 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 that's decreasing their revenues from the oil iran saudi is they want to we used to manipulate the political situation now. i think the way we're doing it again and 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 that 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 has now have as the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west that 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 new clothes scientist that 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 these killings think. 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 is sort of the great a 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 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 as 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 of 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. you know people understand that they've chosen the right path the one of scientific progress the adversary doesn't want to see this happen

that it would cause harm to them physical annihilation of people in full daylight as a sign of the adversary is complete powerlessness and despair at an issue and yes i asked the i now 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 may snowball i 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 dear fellow citizens in all the regions all the cities and villages will willingly come to polling stations and cast their votes to designate bed delegates to parliament to serve the purposes of development and prosperity for our country. but there is that us there that's us and 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 mercenaries 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 are 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 years worth of work until it's been about a year since the arab spring began with a first even the iranian leadership hailed the movement 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 hundred other countries in the events of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people's demands are legitimate and 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 and what 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 that because they can one say

that the instability in the region has considerably increased they not partake of drugs trafficking well. 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 world 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 if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country and 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 then follow to turkey and then to europe and 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 and 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 was you on phone. as well as 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 fully and the iranian people being a great and powerful nation are not afraid of those futile threats that. a soulless substance. can attach like a well trained army. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. all becomes a scene of nothing. the mysterious sons of russia. are teaching.

as it were shot four times in total and i want to use that word. sorry of the boys are still in my body. then people should be allowed to defend themselves with they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a national rifle association was a group of basically retired military police love to shoot holes in i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know somebody's been shot ok but to live with one of the philadelphia lawyers over streets. you can live without a gun hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense. we should be preparing a full class including the teacher i'd say it was. seventeen students yes

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sure is that so much given to each musician on the market crude blockade and the turning off of the tap as the united states and the e.u. again sanction iran iran is also threatening to impose. the headlines on r.t. and dark clouds of war looming over the syrian capital heavy artillery fire on the outskirts and government tanks witnessed on the streets. iran a warns a ban on oil sales to some e.q. countries is still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors start their three day mission in the islamic republic. cops and occupiers in the city of old notions of tolerance go out the window as police bomb pro-equality activists with grenades rubber bullets jail time. also prime minister putin gets down to business and comes up with the russia's new

economic in the latest article about his presidential bid. and the latest action from the world of sports comes next with. hello there welcome to the sporting these are the headlines. supernova joke of a child's epic astray you know you can triumph over the dow as his best ever. starts to fire three goals in seven minutes to produce an amazing comeback win over aston villa in the f.a. cup. and their way to hell charles stanley suffers a meltdown on the last hole of the farmers insurance open to give brandt snedeker an unlucky victory. but first now that djokovic has described the straight you know victory over rafael nadal as the best win of his career here outlasted the spaniard over five sets in just under six hours in what turned out to be the longest grand

slam final in history the serbian came from a set down to clinch the next two and looked in control in the fourth set. but drilling comeback by no doubt saw the spaniard force a tight decider and lead that four games to two. however djokovic hit back and eventually converted his first match point to win it seven five and seal a marathon match in five hours and fifty three minutes so the final score was five seven six four six two six seven seven five the titanic tussle with both the longest grand slam final and the longest ever match the strain open djokovic is only the fifth man to win three major titles in a row and the twenty four year old also be in all of his six matches last year against him all of those were finals but djokovic traits this win as his best and i doubt says at the moment the serb is untouched.