targets because they needed to keep up the pressure now my fear is that order to keep up the pressure on al qaeda or its associated organizations the united states will explain you know its definition of who is a legitimate target washington is helping the current yemeni government you know order for it not to fail and to be friendly to the us friendly enough to allow the us to bomb them as washington sees fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade route but historically that kind of a prop by the united states has often led to eliminating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. you want to go to your business coming up here with dmitri after this quick break.

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i don't know where i'm welcome to business and second our first story president putin spent the day in brussels on friday trying to iron out a number of important disagreements between russia and the european union the main sticking points is and has been for quite a number of years the so-called energy package now e.u. commission president jose manuel barroso there went along and animated speech the offended the clause in the energy regulation that forbids supplies such as russia's gas problem from also the distribution networks pearson was quick to react with a little look my friend of many years mr barroso explained his position so emotionally and so long because he felt guilty when you put it he knew he was wrong.

and you just witnessed our discussion with. well that improves and labeled the legislation as uncivilized and said it is not right for its rules to be applied retroactively nevertheless the partnership between russia and the e.u. is a vital one as pointed out the cited need to say the need to transform what is today an independence by interdependence by necessity into an interdependence by choice of political choice and that's what requires political leadership on both sides meanwhile russia having over the past decade encountered several cases of unreliable ties with its neighbors like ukraine and belarus is now building immensely expensive projects like north korea notably recently launched south stream to ensure supplies but investors are not welcoming that. if gasper were a one hundred percent russian owned company purpose was political or

its purpose was. ensuring security for of supply and demand basically for for for both the you and russia and then of course it would make sense but if the your if you're traded company and obviously your number one priority is to maximizing shareholder value and i'm afraid that's not the best. idea to maximize shareholder value and i'm moving on now ten days remain before the so-called fiscal cliff kicks in in the us where when bush's tax cuts expire and the whole wave of spending cuts automatically comes into force republicans and democrats still have not come to any resolution that's our plan being a vote. reducing the chances of a deal by the end of the year and if additional found the us could head into recession again with g.d.p. growth around three percentage points lower than today cutting likely going to

sundance guys but with invested jim rogers and he said the cliff would be very painful for the rest of the world to indication because i'm going to announce something before this is all over. so i guess it sounds good but aside song to be good natasha the dance is poised to go higher and higher don't matter what they even say most but the debt story may go higher and higher because we're not solving our problems that america america's the largest debtor nation in the world. and raising taxes is certainly not helping i go is going to have more problems you seem to be pretty optimistic on all of this but if they don't agree there's going to be a deep recession in the united states how's that going to affect the asian countries not going to be around in the next year with you no matter what happens. going through the group as those are just the world as vote out it causes everybody

or you know if europe decided. you're going to see problems in america later it is about thirty two thousand forces and everybody's pulling. well and chances to see a deal reached by the end of the ceiling the fiscal cliff of slimming by the day stocks are dropping more than a percent. of mood on the markets the dollar is gaining as traders move into cash therefore the russian ruble lost around half a percent against the greenback and gained a bit against the euro and european stock markets actually were losing much more than they were at the close that you're seeing right now on your screen in this screen and afternoon action they trimmed losses as u.s. house speaker john boehner at a news conference said the policymakers must continue to work to avert the looming

fiscal cliff so that's basically given a bit of positive feeling for investors but still as you can see a negative ending rushes markets also seeing a similar picture at the end of friday's session on a negative note the end of this session the r.c.s. losing more than one percent that's on the back of not only the gloom and other markets but also commodities not providing any support is down around two percent this hour. well so from the business team for now next up talks to the author of a recent report claiming human rights violations are on the up in europe that's russia's foreign ministry commissioner for human rights constantine they'll go for a short break on tuesday was. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap nationally touring pristine arctic

landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an expressed amazement. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work i would then cons much needed cash that's why when business bad there ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you and put it at variance work central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community though the soviet union was determined to maintain

its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the. outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades he's a curious sight for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local seventy or shops. bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a rough year for what you can. grow. your.

local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like farms should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest the thing to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

because that's in the gulf russian foreign ministers and was not for human rights democracy and the rule of law great to see you again with r.t. thank you very much pleasure as mine said it's the first time that the russian foreign minister inspects the e.u. human rights violations in such great detail but when you think about it i mean the european union is really not the most problematic place when it comes to human rights if you compare it to developing countries why such a focus on here it's not maybe the most problematic place as you said but it is a pretty much problematic place as it turns out to be and this is exactly why we decided to look into it in more detail than before because in our first reports

a year ago there was a rather big paragraph on the european union but we decided to look into this matter in more detail with more precision and even more precision and we. looked through a very important influential and authoritative sources most of the sources for our report. either international including international human rights n.g.o.s like amnesty international human rights watch others reporters without borders and others or. europeans now this is why it's as some of the european journalists are ready right and put is it is very difficult to. dispute what is written in our report because these are hard facts. why say the european union

because the european union positions and most of its members position themselves as. blue words of democracy as certain yardsticks by which the international community absolutely must measure its own record wreckers in the field of human rights and nobody disputes by the way the fact that european union as such and european quite a number of its members not all but quite a number of its members develop democracies with longstanding democratic traditions and. quite a number of big achievements in the field of human rights these are facts as well and we don't dispute them in our report but what we see is that despite those facts there are some other facts there that are very serious challenges and

problems in the european union and in each and every over its member countries in the field of human rights i still like to point out that in the wake of the e.u. summit skeptics are saying that russia indulges in fault finding work to put pressure on the european union can extract some concessions on tenth shares i quote example trade are under dispute what do you say to that well i must say that we take as russia would take human rights extremely seriously these are universal values and there's such they have to be universal of course respected i mean universally not just in one or two. regions or areas rather than in the others so there should be no double standards or you know selective approach here so everywhere being a universal value of course it is not to be subject to any trade offs so we are not trading it off. i hope that our colleagues in the west in the western

countries. do not hear of this objective either. although we bump into more and more attempts to politicize human rights and especially by some western countries including by the european union against is but on our part there is absolutely no foul play we do not link we as russia do not link those issues to the issues of human rights to any other issue and we would very much like to see the same approach from our partners unfortunately it is not always the case we tried to a little bit balance it up this discussion and i mean international discussion we try to. send a message that problems everywhere some of the problems are very serious some of them and turns border problems so it is if you wish it is also an invitation to dialogue it is not just criticism for the sake of criticism we are not. saying

in our report either well reports we're not seeing that these or that can't be is not a democratic country is not a true democracy we are not jumping at those conclusions look at what we also talk about choosing and picking and european union really criticizing everything that's east of europe russia has come under heavy criticism for the past six months cracking down human rights it's accused of and they're restricting public assembly and internet freedom also restricting our curbing for an injury or traitors in russia how can russia. you know maintain a role of protector of human rights if the country itself is under such fire wall. by fire you mean criticism public criticism even heavy criticism you know well we are open to criticism and we believe that each and every country is to be open to

criticism the problem is first of all to keep this criticism constructive. to base it on hard facts as we did with our report on hard facts and not on just certain assumptions you know and secondly it is very important to refrain from direct interference there are too indirect interference in the internal affairs we are not telling them how they must be so the problem we pinpoint to the problems legs uniform and the least is very long we been point those issues like for instance the issues of migrants refugees you know asylum seekers. racial discrimination gender inequality minelli issues you know new nazis in which is on the rise in some countries especially in the baltic states the issue of ethnic minorities and national minorities let's not forget the usual russian speaking

population in latin to do is twenty which is awful still you know. those are issues which are to be discussed and we hope that the governments will tackle and the e.u. will start seriously looking into those issues in the e.u. space and declan those problems like we try to tackle our problems you know but but . we do not say we do not tell them that you must do it is specifically with the use of their lawyer in all these or their way. we are not imposing any solutions unless those solutions stand there rectally from certain international covenants to report some of the problems that you mentioned there can be traced back to the poor economic state that finds itself right now talking first and foremost of course about them rise of nationalism which you mentioned in your previous answer. but it's still going economic crisis is bad enough actually

to. majorly radicalize our majorly change this european critical system it's hard to see whether it is. tough enough you know the the crisis but obviously the crisis is a pretty tough and and we see titian every day and obviously the especially the social economic rates of the europeans in almost all the european if not all the european union countries they do suffer and look what is happening in terms of social unrest political dissatisfaction you know we see demonstrations many few stations meetings in pretty much. every country and by the way i want to mention that for the record you know. sometimes the police in there was cancerous acts in a very tough way including disproportionate use of force we are being accused

sometimes of disproportionate use of force to look what is happening in some very. respected european capitals you know the. governments there face more in more active social and the rest it does it easily in many ways to the financial and economic crisis whether it will change the political systems the landscape really radicalized well it does ridiculize certain a certain strata of the society of the european society and look what happened in the aftermath of. terrorist act the committed by break in norway. he still unfortunately has quite a lot of supporters in europe look what happened in one. pm the union country. the jewish issue

you know what i mean i mean hungary you know there was an initiative. by a faction in that particular country right we still parliamentary faction. i mean i would say extremely right wing but at the same basically. put under the under question. the activities you know the. population of that particular cancer you know this is against the backdrop of national security and so on so for this very it's very unfortunate because new amasses which i mentioned you know more and more. young people unfortunately fall under the influence of certain right wing. radio stadium extremist ideas and. fortunately new announces raise not only in the

baltic states but also in some other. european states. which is a very serious. challenge especially in the prevailing economic conditions. when quite a number of people cannot find jobs you know and cannot get access to proper education i mean those are very serious social and political challenges yes they do ridiculize a certain portion of society hopefully you governments and especially institutions as integrated institutions will. finally be more effective in tackling those issues so far they have not been you know another thing that struck me for your report is when you say that this state of affairs with the mass media is far from being perfect and you said an example of that grabbing going on between the main german ruling party the c.d.u. and actually springer a.j.

which is terminus second largest i think get me to quit so if what you're saying is true and this practices are taking place the question is is this always character stick to germany or is it spread out throughout well look at what the scandals which are still. rock for instance the united kingdom and the entire situation. around we the media sphere you know. and this news gate as it was called by john as you know i mean it is very these are very serious processes where society. discloses you know european societies disclose certain very unpleasant facts facts all of. intrusion if you wish into the private lives of. citizens and they are fiercely second.

or certainly many police and with the media and. you know. disposition of the media vs i view the authorities you know would be the ones who will power comes under under very serious scrutiny today and certainly regulations not only in germany and not only in the united kingdom but in some other countries and there was very very telling thank you very much choice and thank you very much thank you.

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