thirteen willen and the russian telecom companies every year invest in the networks and comparable. solutions about three hundred building rubles so with so it's just just slightly. under five percent your camera deal can be can be comparable variable with the so-called national projects i mean you have to add up some of it and if you take the scale of the project and in the time frame work. it's going to be a record for sure that's a very you believe that one day the voting itself i mean the election will maybe organized through the internet without any posting technically technically it is possible even now but there has to be. a certain degree of the public trust and confidence in how those systems today any work if we look at the

if i'm sorry if you look at the rallies that's going on in moscow yes today that the legally public seem to have more trust in the voting in the internet than in the voting and the problem station so what you say is that if you're the government which voting to the internet yes. there will be less trust in that. you have to be able to really worry we have all we have to to you know to have some results of social votes and polls to see which part of society and how this problem. here there were between twelve. thirty and fifty thousand people here we've got about one hundred million voters in russia so probably those are the people that were taking part and those. many of them even went vote because the you know. political or creative class

they've done often goes to the voting so yes well just to be that if we if we start thinking big brother the meaning of all those so i think that like internet voting gives the government even more possibilities to control the society there than this simple probably station thing i think is a mind game if you're one of the considerations of those who are against the system so i believe it's more a psychological than time technological question in two thousand and eleven the number of internet users in russia has reached seventy million is it continue to to grow and what's the rate because because this is a lot this is a lot and we are the biggest market in europe and. bigger starting with two thousand and eleven is continuing to grow and. while we will be for the

women it is the number of russian citizens that this number so we consider this is a very positive way but it puts enormous pressure on the government and our minister because everybody is not such a spy it was just some internet. world seventy million is about a hundred it is about half and half of the population proper roughly well actually every every computer is usually used by a husband and wife a man and wife no no no this is not just just the computer people of the people so me my wife and my son who use the same computer three years. so so so so in other you know the fifty percent increase we can have it all have ok now you mentioned the soap and there people there's another act in america that's being considered now your attitude your personal attitude to these acts to what's going

and in the states the protest and did you hear any maybe talk within the russian government there about that what's the attitude of the kremlin towards similar acts having similar acts in russia. or we're not considering to. take similar acts and. the problem with the sopa and the people is not just. a problem of the united states and their intellectual property. it's the way how we are going to resolve different problems concerning the internet on the world scale what russia proposed there will be an international mechanism allowing. those kind of problems any kind whether it be intellectual property online piracy cyber crime or children proper not graffiti so the the internet is something

that is global that doesn't know any limits and any borders and if one state pretense to resolve all the problems. for his own good but disregarding the problems of other states and not cooperating with other states that's not quite right that's why we suggest the first we. know this is american idea might not work well it might work but it will mean the collapse of the internet. as we know it today because it's international with the sopa. practically and in internet participants from service provider to those search engine. will be required to seize providing services with any any internet agent accused of piracy and it doesn't matter was whether it is in the

united states or outside it you mentioning the pirates the piracy and we know that there is like the pirates party that has been organized in russia and they and their sea seeking official registration and there their leader has been in the studio a couple of days ago and he said that you personally you visited one of their gatherings well and officially but you were present at one of their at one of their meetings well mr shulman he said the following the russian government is lacking ideas and is trying to find them from external sources like the pirate party so. your visit to the pirate party meeting is it because you really want new ideas is it because you consider it to be adequate people and do you want to cooperate with they were with the people like the pirate party. because just visited on the

subject. of books to bookstore just looking for some books. by the way it was. julie and it's a very known novel of go to rebel but it was edited well ten years ago and it was the only store where to. get out of the well not not quite but this one a special novel. and there was a gathering of some young people and they recognized me and told me we're going to discuss their journey democracy in russia we've got a working group you know we're going to workshop. could you well chat with us for half an hour while and turned out that there were not just people from the working group but there were the represent of the product but it's a word was not with the players that they were in there with their photo book but i had those thirty minutes just stayed with them and discussed a couple of questions and i wasn't prepared prepared to to the unsuspicious of

questions because i didn't see their papers in eight years it was just a general change of minds but. as far as the intellectual property within the us. is concerned we do not like ideas we've got quite specific ideas that were presented by even by our president during the last g eight and g twenty summits. that were not accepted at the summits but i believe they're still being considered so we do have ideas but we take into account the fact that all of the europe part is you know appear and the even even if if it consists by now i believe of some dozens of young people but there is a certain demands. certain to move toward a model that will be different of the model how the intellectual property was ruled

in the nineteenth or the twentieth century because the people are not satisfied with the requirements of the intellectual property rights holders they want that their demands are considered as well so this is certain mixture. golden solution that lies between between the right holders and the pirates and so far their ideas might be of help as well thank you thank you thank you for just a reminder that the minister of communications of russia was my guest on the show and that's it for now. so there they are to take you.

i'm sure would be soo much brighter if you knew me by phone from phones to freshen . stunts on t.v. don't come. rushing refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a managed to clearly ruach military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus. german chancellor angela merkel arrives in china hoping to secure support from a strategic economic partner in times of crisis and to get beijing on board the western policy on iraq. plus as the international community calls in israel to stop building homes on offer by land palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie russia says it will veto the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria unless the draft is changed while moscow admits progress has been made it's yet to see a text that explicitly rules out military intervention russia is also reluctant to stop selling equipment to damascus saying that would leave syria at the mercy of unrecognized rebel forces armed with weapons smuggled from abroad to see a trip that has more. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons and arms are that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence anything that goes on inside syria when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at

all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there is a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with a government position pointis could get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we will break hullo contracts a longstanding relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to the position groups they did in libya. there's no sign of

a break in deadlock just yet the arab and western backed regime change resolution calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the central. stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for the importance of arab observers to are remain working on the ground this is what you're going to reporting there from new york now the u.s.

as well as its european and arab allies are committed to pushing president out of power but political analyst benjamin barber says forcing a regime change is a bad idea that's already plunged other arab countries into turmoil the case of libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather on critics of the recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means. fractionalization splintering various groups up against one another and the triumph over time of forces that are no more welcome to the west than the one for the displaced in libya we see a country that is unable to create any kind of see where militias are fighting one another where recently. towns like bond while he's back in the hands of gadhafi forces and the danger of libya look like somalia with rival militias and tribes or more so nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown all the killed

or steps down and no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be as the west is hoping it will be less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of iran and less support of abbas and that could be the case but no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is would you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on uncertainty. the armed wing of the opposition the free syrian army claims to have tens of thousands of officers fighting to bring down president asad but leading british journalist maddy hassan suspects the numbers are being exaggerated to provoke foreign intervention watch the full interview in just over twenty minutes. there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections are going on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of the fact that every day every week from all sides so you. had to get over in the for the for the fearful regime of the psychologist to

say well it's a pretty it's a critical and they're exaggerated story in order to get the story western division if you look at the history of it so you know the terrorists you always see there's a call to the f.s.a. the ground whether it's libya which you go about to kosovo the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the go give us the support we'll do the fighting and it has got to start you have the northern alone so that actually turns out that these groups tend not to have as much a legitimate see as they claim to be not to have as much military strength as they claim. leaders from europe's biggest economy in asia's are due to meet with germany seeking china's support for the euro zone and on e.u. foreign policy goals in the middle east this will be anglo merkel's fifth visit to china an important strategic economic partner for germany she's to hold talks with the chinese president hu jintao and premier wen jiabao and try to woo them for investment in the ailing euro also on the agenda merkel hopes to try and change

china stands on syria and iran professor simon santow chinese university of hong kong believes that china needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. i think actually there are fewer reasons of archery at first to a lot of the china to assist in the euro debt crisis but that's not the only reason you know is cooperating with the states to sanction iran and that is the live the german chancellor that wish to. the chinese that they do should not make use of this of a surety to increase the oil imports from here and so that's the second agenda but then the only chunk out of germany as to are convinced china. should not work well with iran in exchange of germans foreign affairs support and china's need is some. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and subcommands of china by the united states

right now and doesn't really engines of the united states in asia pacific so archenemy is some balancing at the art of power so one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. again log on to our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china stick a look at the side vote at the moment well so far as you can see on the chart forty two percent think the visit will help germany access new markets almost a third of voters believe beijing will extend a helping hand to a weekend you are fifteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran and a minority believe the meeting will and with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution here so you can let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website our team dot com and still ahead it's our here and our team candidates versus their critics. maybe the president of.

pakistan said you know i don't know you know find out why the carroll's comments of u.s. politicians could be costing american credibility on the international stage. u.n. inspectors say they'll return to iran again later this month in further attempts to verify the peaceful nature of tehran's nuclear program i held three days of talks in the islamic state this week stressing that iran is committed to resolving the atomic dispute western sanctions against the country have recently been stepped up and it appears to ron is developing atomic weapons despite hopeful feedback from the u.n. a group of american lawmakers want washington to bully iran into submission the top military official in the u.s. ally israel also says all possible means should be used to disrupt iran's nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry things the drums are beating for regime change. there's been almost a consensus not just in the united states in the intelligence community but even in

some degree in israel that the iranians have not made the decision to move ahead to build a nuclear weapon obviously there's belief that they are developing expertise that can be used in the future for such a decision if they were to make one so. if iran is sincere about its lack of interest in a nuclear weapon and if the west is willing to show some more flexibility in terms of how they're willing to negotiate on this i think there could be some resolution many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there's been a lot of propaganda in the last against iran but i do think that there is this there is an opportunity here for. for rand to make to achieve some openings but that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see real change in government. and we have more news on iran at our website r t v dot com

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the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades as the campaign for the twenty twelve election heats up candidates mistakes are in the limelight once again but their critics are laughing as more in a fortnight of reports some believe the comments made show nothing more than ignorance and disregard for world affairs. every four years america's top job is

up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when they ask me who's the president of you beki beki beki beki stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see why russia from land here in alaska africa was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically illiterate us candidates have supplied comedians with endless material but all jokes aside some presidential hopefuls vying to lead the world's most powerful armed forces know very little about america's military interventions you agree with president obama libya or. libya.

forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reasons. you know that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies is also a challenge obviously got to stand with our north korean allies in the case of republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers can be common i think that president bush represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world the overarching ignorance on international affairs has caused american political commentator bill maher to conclude i think anybody could be president in this dumb country ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're gonna be it when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again and then i'm say sorry go run you know for city

council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target in let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the us is why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivocally prohibit torture if i were president i would be willing to use

waterboarding i think it was very effective in me when i read the consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s. presidential. hopeful's is quite humorous but it could also be considered a national tragedy if most candidates campaigning to be leader of the so-called free world simply don't know enough about the world outside of america's borders. r.t. new york now is equal to some other stories from around the world at least seventy four people have been killed and over one thousand injured in clashes between rival football fans in violence happened in the city of port say after an upset victory by the home team over egypt top club fans stormed into the field after the game and armed with sticks stones and even forty seven people have been arrested in connection with the trouble and troops have been deployed to the city to prevent further clashes fishel fear of the death toll could rise.