how would say introduce somebody or attract some attention to come to your market you have to understand what you will do we have no this is a new we have no plan that is the biggest mistake but in general to be involved in the world economic relations definitely is good but how showing us is complaining then i quote most integrated companies the favorite braincell have put himself have so far failed to become globally competitive or highly capitalized nor are they consistently profitable and quote so do you think that he's ready to address the importance of it the main reason are the situation the lack of transparency the. official management most of whom are. personal friends and so on yeah i don't put and takes a lot of flak about about the so-called. corruption that's.

it's. he's he's at the top so he has to stop here he has to answer for what's happening in the country but. i guess that and this may be unpopular but he's probably trying i imagine he's trying to do something maybe he's not doing enough. i don't mean to apologize. on the putin payroll that's for sure but i mean i wish i was but. i don't but i don't think i think a course you have to fight hard you know it's a tough problem and it has a history and he inherited it it started before his his time and the quote from your putin's promises that i quote the government will support large infrastructure projects firstly this means transportation their words andrew liable communication with siberia and russia's far east and quote well the question to you as a free successful businessman you were so so are so the cost of road construction

it's too high in russia it's raising corruption suspicion so so what's putin what is he proposing to control it and why could couldn't they start construction rosewood ten twelve years ago. it's a difficult question but i'll try to make the answer first of all in the whole world there are few programs international programs which can be very useful and convenience to many countries it's. instructions and build the buildings yes it's a very good because it's a lot of people who will be involved a lot of money turnover and etc etc etc and then the same time he has to declare to the any other sector of economy possibility to develop so this is two way one belong to the state sector and another one belongs to the private sector if you will have a very good combination between these two and give to them very good road and

conditions. definitely all of them has to strengthen again is the corruption and this is the main question how. for both of you well one of the favorite favorite person nationals in the putin's government is mr force and how they can be had to their the education minister the same goes for simcoe reforms hated by by the parents by the kids by teachers by everybody put in says new cation is the primary base for the new economy let's hear the quote. restoring the innovative nature of the economy should begin with universities which should be seen as move centers with fundamental science and resources for innovative people we need to pursue a national objective that results in globally competitive russian universities by twenty twenty we should have several world class universities that spanned the entire spectrum of more material and social technology. if i would

comment on this i would say that putin is understands that the quality of education in russia is falling and the rate of the brain drain is rising which is what your strange way but it is admitting so do you think that something urgent should be don't rush and u.k. should please show even obviously i mean i mean if if if somebody plans to stay in russia and plans lead russia they have to keep russia strong and that has that means they have to keep what they have you keep keep obviously keep your your best people in the country i mean that's why it was impossible and so you could hear it right you couldn't open the doors in the soviet period you spent twenty years investing in these people and you had a closed system a closed economy you couldn't just open the doors and say ok you want to go so you're taking our equivalent of i don't know how much is a great brain worth two hundred thousand five hundred thousand just take it and go

and then who work in another economy can't do that well and he has. the protests to how much of. a pair of feet were feet from the bolshoi i mean. i mean that's just a common sense so obviously that's his job can he do it. i wish him luck because i like this country rich as far as my opinion a long time ago during the period of soviet era we had a very good. system of education it was in my opinion one of the best but it was previous period and the new period has to have the new variance of education which will be much more convenience to the new economy definitely we need force and maybe he is not so good in this way because he didn't think about this like about something extraordinary he thinking i have a task i'll try to do the best but it's not in my forces in general we have to see

that the new house a structure of the new russia just grooving just don't enforce it is not the last period he just maybe just maybe he's not clear we're going so smart but we have to do more in this way and this is i'm in this way i supporting mr putin exactly because if you want to build a new country you have to have the new kind of education i want to just add if i may that russia has a tradition of great as you said in tradition of great education and it also has the resource it's the ninth or the sixth largest economy depending on how you're judging in the world can afford and if it does if they don't do that and it's a big failure in a while one thing more you have a lot of program is the. people who are making the programs in the united states from who belong to the rusher and so that we have a capacity to have a potential but the main idea how to organize it and force and unfortunately he's not the best person to do move to move to push this process that is the question.

in one of the in one of the lines putin talks of the so-called rival countries he says russia is losing out to rival countries in terms of its investment climate one well what would you say sean. what this put in imply which one of those rival countries is back in. and what is it well it obviously isn't just actually read through i've been talking about enemies gravels around the world or does he really believe that somebody wants to take or to take over russia. well i mean. is he talking about china for instance or india. or is the food in about the only way we couldn't have this sort of you know we will we just talked of earlier before we came into the studio and we talked about the a bit the anti-american rhetoric of the russians and the russian government's number but we said that it's only inside it's only in the in the russia when russia

wishes go outside they're not anti-american at all i mean i mean. what putin does isn't better role for the united states is it he doesn't do anything bad for the states no the other countries in the world i mean right i mean in fact. obviously we since mr obama has kind of dealt with the nato issue so that nato no then the west is no longer pushing pushing the former soviet union poor of russia in with nato expansion into its you know into its socks. i think you know basically putin is somewhere on good terms right there's no big reason for for problems that can last very short question to mr similar to many people many ordinary people read this article says oh it's about the luxury tax there's going to be a special. luxury are you concerned with on us it is necessary because we have a country who. came out from the soviet union system and not to come to the new one

we are in the middle and if you want to in the wind somebody you have to see what the hell you are make the invitation for what he said in the future in a new world all the rich people will be how it's punish because they are not so good and you are simple people workers the collective farmers if you will be together with me will give some people that is the it's a propaganda nothing else out of thank you thank you xan thank you letter and just to remind you that my guess on the show today were journalist and filmmaker sean ramsay and filmmaker and journalist politician and businessman of lattimer samantha banks was a pleasure talking to you in just a reminder that spotlight will be back with more first time comments found was going on and outside russia until then stay on russia today and take a. election

fever hits moscow with just a month to go before the presidential vote as thousands are gathering gathering in the center of the russian capital to demonstrate. to the un expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country crime massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in a flashpoint city of homs. and violent protests against the police and the military government escalating current across egypt several people killed and hundreds injured plus.

well news the very latest developments here on our table straight to our top story now and exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for the next president but this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are gearing up to demonstrate for derelictions as well as rally in support of and against the current leadership let's get the latest from artie's appeal to all of the bitter since the controversial parliamentary election in december we've seen several mass rallies so what's going to be different this time do you think. well what we're going to see this time isn't just a rally it's going to be a march towards the rally the police have closed off the road just behind me and about one hundred meters up the road opposition supporters are are gathering ahead of what will be a march through central moscow towards by last night

a square where a rally will be held up a lot being the center of the previous demonstrations that we've seen they'll be heading off there i say walking at the marching along they say this road just behind me that's set to march is set to get underway in a little over an hour it's a little under an hour's time. tens of thousands are expected however we'll have to wait and see how much of a factor the weather will play bitterly cold here in moscow the temperature not really much better than minus twenty degrees celsius so very very cold perhaps that might keep people indoors today but certainly thousands will be on the streets and they about nine thousand police have been enrolled to try and keep the peace this is a a sanctioned demonstration the. government the authorities have said though that protesters must remain within the letter of the law and that they shouldn't do anything untoward. but yet lots of people expect that we've seen a lot of balloons among the among the protestors lot of banners placards and

slogans but this isn't the only protests taking place in moscow today there's also a series of protests from pro-government supporters from those who are against seeing any form of revolution they don't want to see russia go down the same route to say what happened in ukraine with the orange revolution and the chaos that followed they say well russia does not need to go back to essentially the dark days of the one nine hundred ninety s. and they want to stay below so protests from all stratas of the political life taking place today in the russian capital. plato who are the opposition then and what exactly do they want to achieve is that clear. well the group that will be marching behind me and taking place in the demonstration of the lot or a group made up of. the basically every single level of political life they're made up of nationalists they're made up of green party members some of the likud party

who failed to get enough votes to take seats in the parliamentary elections in. december of last year they are out in force here. there's also. a lot of who is the only independent candidate to be appearing on the ballot for president in a month's time he said he will be attending however he said it was unlikely that he would give a speech so really there is a this group of opposition come from everybody all over the every political belief they have their leaders but there is no uniting figure there i mention prophet of those also. as monk others who are it's our leaders in a group the group doesn't really have one uniting leader all gone over all belief and now that the kremlin bowed to make changes after december's voter what's actually been done since then. well since the elections last since the parliamentary elections last year last december we've seen it put into place this

little web cams web cams will be put into all polling stations ahead of the presidential election next month what this means is essentially it turns everybody with a computer into an armchair electoral monitor you'll be able to click on the webcam you want to see and you can watch the voting process. what else have seen is the the establishment of an independent league of electoral monitors that's an independent body that will be going around and checking this nothing untoward is happening in the presidential election on the on the fourth of march now what else we've seen from current prime minister vladimir putin who is running for president in that election in march is him saying that he will slash the amount of time he gets on t.v. and on radio some of it had been leveled against him that it was unfair because he had too much exposure he said well i'll give the rest of you a fair crack of the whip and i'll step back from being on t.v.

and radio for a while. there for now live from moscow r.t. speak to all of the thank you. well we're closely following the pre-election developments in russia online you can for the live pictures r.t. dot com and also get on the latest information along with background on the presidential candidates and analysis on the protests there is what else you can find on our web site. activist group anonymous found out what the f.b.i. thinks about them all you recording online listening to what was said at our site. also online america's first lady gives everyone an impromptu lesson in it karen some top track should watch the video at r.t. dot com.

the u.n. security council is to meet later on saturday with a vote expected in a draft resolution on syria from moscow warns it will use its veto power if the text is brought to the table in its current form the draft has been softened at russia's request dropping demands for regime change and sanctions but it still contains elements that the kremlin considers loopholes unacceptable foreign intervention becomes amid reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds of legend dead rascasse claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the u.n. vote. has more now from new york. russia china and many other countries have vocalize the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security council should be new moving towards coming to our peaceful solution where both parties see in part in the conflict

should come together at the table russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it is not going to see repeated circumstances in syria in the meantime there have been reports from opposition groups in syria that roughly two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homs according to the syrian observatory for human rights the army is shelling the city of fresh ashes in other cities for a serious house also good report and clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the on international community continues to find a way to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria. parties were reported by their reporting from new york and you can keep up with the latest on the u.n. vote on syria i thought twitter feed altie on the school com. meanwhile in

egypt police gasol fired shots at protesters in trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days now seven people have been confirmed dead as violence a grips cairo and several other cities then rest to a spark when more than seventy four people died during the match clash two days ago a test is. done to prevent the tragedy. demonstrators. going to counsel to the. middle east analyst miles says addictions are furious that many of ousted president generals are in place. in main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened

a couple weeks ago when the military council order security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the mexican consul is very hesitant in transferring power to democracy or that they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down authoritarian leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as a machine in iraq what is happening right now is a large segment of civil society basically the youth of egypt who began the revolt and that revolt was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and that some of those youth are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another authoritarian regime. you know with r.t. to the head see this are the debate over copyright flares up again. i don t r a c

three two to protect intellectual property has there been a vote find out why they say violates their basic rights. thus i don't usually attraction road blocks with quantities on the concert for. humanitarian groups accuse libya's new government of abuse in their countries detention centers it's been revealed that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture but here's a basket of france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by militia group reports claim that photos of a sixty two year old. show evidence of bruising and other woman's rights groups say that torture and executions are become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by rebels mistakes but journalists. says his death is in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that eventually killed him was also gadhafi son in

custody. i don't think the militia responsible for that the likely tortured to death of mr bush will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on the on the militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a sinister. and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for the centanni is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. well protests have been raging across

europe against last week's signing of a new copyright treaty which of course is intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international act documenting force is censorship and is a violation of human rights as artesia tom barton reports more demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time actor the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free world perhaps no one

will write any books produce music or fields etc. it would disappear but much less because it's not profitable for those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas that are for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need anybody's permission to present new ideas. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger at the formation of pirate

parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaigners has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made but whether it's done in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. coming your way this hour accepting old a new way new branches of religion that change the face of the nation some are saying a transition could have been two sentences. finding true love is never easy but for those who've given up or never meeting their perfect partner can we settle for a robot pounds of synthetic sweethearts

a romance is going to become commonplace soon then we might think. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progressed to the point where it's like you know she's my wife thirty seven year old they've kept from detroit says he's been in a relationship with his sex doll for more than ten years and it's in it or in her that he found his better half slippers perhaps not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days dave cats bond with a dog seems like a joke to many but according to a british artificial intelligence researcher dr david levy in a few decades romance between humans and robots will be a common thing i'm completely convinced that within about forty years people will be falling in love with robots and even marrying them and this could be the great

grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch what are you wearing. with no talking. to him. you want. artificial intelligence engineer doc hines believes that he created the perfect alternative for those who for different reasons can't or are too busy or too lazy to connect with human beings we created like a bridge that gap between you know going in maybe going out with someone else you know just meeting someone in a bar or what have you and just randomly maybe picking up a social disease instead of dealing with it you could have the sex robot that would be your companion.