this area we have spoken of pharmaceutical railroads where we have joint projects on a high speed rail road. aerospace corporation we had two agreements signed and this is going to name enable us to continue to work in harmony and build a lot of new satellites we are working on a few projects here we have also discussed defense and nuclear issues as well as food security. various industries and also discuss two major events coming up first and foremost this is their food bowl the world cup in twenty eight. and as i said we. discussed all of this in order to

facilitate further involvement of french businesses in this events and i'd like to thank mr putin for political support that he offered us in this area thanks to this we have been able to overcome a lot of red tape. i believe that our businesses should exchange technology and put in joint efforts in countries markets. to discuss to konami development investment. french investment in russia and russian investment in france a few months ago mr putin told me that we should to our best in order to. order to find the best use for this investment and facilitate the cooperation

between russian fan for direct investment and our bank i'm talking about investment into our economy that can help create new jobs. i mean thousands and thousands of new jobs including those that should be preserved and we have discussed the fact that these procedures should be facilitated and laid easier. and i believe we should again do our best for foreign investment to be accepted in france in the best possible way and we should create a favorable environment for that. in fact. it is advisable to remove all kinds of credit curdles to this investment in france . and we should. visit free travel for businessmen and other groups of travelers we are going to work in this direction and.

do our best to expand investment in all countries we have also talked about cultural cooperation that is rooted in our history but also. it's continued in the present and we have enjoyed very close ties that. will enable us to fulfill very far reaching projects in the future i have personally undertaken an obligation. to spread the use of the russian language in france for it to be taught in french schools and other educational institutions and so on. france twenty thirteen will be the year of cinema theatre. into other cultural events. and we are going to implement

a lot of joint initiatives in twenty fourteen we are setting up to very important events in france and not only in france first. anniversary. of to commemorate the first world war and. the french resistance in one thousand nine hundred forty four . and we would like to stress that the russian french people do remember the sacrifices that our russian friends made during those worse. there is also one project that we are very much interested in. the french i see a man called religious center and we have agreed that all the procedures should be facilitated we have. reviewed the project all the architectural project the draft of the. center.

now we have a really. rigorous international agenda to i would like to thank mr putin for the support that he provided to france in mali. french the french had a very good assessment of the situation because this operation was. performed under the aegis of the security council and we did decide to fight terrorism in mali and i gave mr putin ever very accurate description of how our military operation was going on and about how we are fighting terrorism and terrorist groups and how we cooperate with mali and army. we also discussed transformation of this military mission into their peace keeping

mission and we hope that we will receive the necessary support we have the same assessment of the risk of spreading nuclear weapons and. we believe that we should do our best to to prevent iran from working on its nuclear program any further we believe that this is the only possible way to sit down and negotiate however right now unfortunately in spite of sanctions they snigger process has yielded no results we've spoken about syria as well we have the same goal. there we might defer on how to achieve this goal we can still find a common language and a common approach because as i said we have come and go. frist

goal is to prevent disintegration of the country and cousens hewing this is to be prevented and we believe that the political dialogue should take a new shape so to say for all the parties to be represented in this style or to find the necessary solution to the crisis i would also like to say few words on. the build up to the g eight and g twenty meetings where russia will be the care. where we are going to discuss truly burning issues. which is. stable economic growth and facilitating konami exchange and we would like to avoid strict economic restrictions to avoid really strong economic restrictions to that we can employ the european

potential in order to achieve the maximum possible growth. there are also a number of topics where we can work together for instance fighting drug trafficking which is really for everyone including france as well as counterterrorist operations that's basically what we have discussed and i think this is a really essential stage in our relations i would like to thank everyone who has helped us to prepare this event including mr maher and all the ministers who contributed to the build up of this to this event as well as the russian side i think this is very important for the development of our actions. so our guests and journalists from france or presenters of russian media can ask two questions each to the president's. let's start with russian media please the floor is yours. the region. hello interfax mr.

mr president's. going by your statements you have a lot of views that are uncommon on the situation in the middle east and in africa i mean in mali and syria but mr french president talking to explain the fact that. france speaks against militants in mali to support the legitimate government in that the same time in syria it supports. against the militants at the same time in syria it supports militants against diligent and government while russia in both countries supports the legitimate governments in both countries. and can you please also comment to do he's got. bring these positions closer because talking about having a common opinions on the disintegration of the country is one thing but fighting on

different sides is a totally different matter. yes . you have said that we are working in the right direction but we're sure to kind of combine the sections this is a little bit difficult nevertheless we can say that there's been a lot of progress and said we have a common goal to fight terrorism and to war disintegration of the country of course we do have different opinions on how to achieve political interests has his own opinion and we think that it's impossible to achieve that by cooperating with bashar assad but. size think that he's the representative of the syrian people to speak to if we remain. if we're trained these positions

would be difficult to bring them closer so let's imagine a political dialogue that can engage all the parties to the conflict and this is just a jew we are currently looking for a political dialogue though we would like to retain our positions but we shouldn't lose time every day that we lose. bringing tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of civilians. killed. i'm talking about terrorist attacks and there are ridiculous ation of the population that could result in sad consequences i believe that we should find a political solution to the crisis and this is exactly what we were trying to achieve together with mr putin and in the near future we had we will try to implement this. the situation is front and learn to win and consequently. on a way to support the legitimate governments only we're fighting against radicals and

terrorists. and this of course we support friends in this matter when we are. sticking to the same position clearly and obviously therefore we supported. france's actions in mali as for syria and other regions then i have to say that the way discussed for acts silly and we even argued a bit in some areas but i believe the mister president agreed in some areas with our opinion and i believe that we'll have to reckon with opinions of our partners on some aspects of this complicated problem i believe that with. a bottle of good wine you can't really resolve it or even without a bottle of good vodka we just have to sit and discuss it but in the course of our discussion mr prison forming some new suggestions which i believe could be discussed with all the partners and try to implement them.

a big bottle of port to the i mean yes i do have also in that i certainly. was also and then sort of it. since national. mr president so i've got to question too. and if mr putin also come out some bad to that will be really great. my question has to do it with him and ride rights record to twelve. twenty twelve and since nine hundred ninety one it has been the most difficult in terms of human rights records so what would you say as a french president on the situation in russia. we always in our foreign policy have been concerned about human rights records and

i have always raised this question or international forums but it's not up to me to judge i simply gave an assessment whenever there is some inconsistency of some violations i speak of this openly and frankly for this situation to be corrected rather than just. talking about all this and then forgetting about this that's what we really aim a boat. together with our friends friends and colleagues including person to launder we don't i have any issues that we cannot discuss nothing is ever served we can discuss everything openly. and objects are going i believe i don't believe that in two thousand and twelve there were any special difficulties with human rights in two thousand and twelve. we had an election campaign in our country and at the end of the year before last we also had.

to come pain as we had last year in the election campaign to the state duma the parliament and then the presidential campaign straightaway and in every country and you cannot help but agree in every country during large election campaigns there are always escalations of political struggle there are always mutual complaints and it's always accompanied by. challenges and callings for the other side or to third parties in this argument. to support one party or not there are never always so talks about violations it's just the universal channel of worldwide practice i don't believe that in two thousand and twelve something changed in this regard in our country and we made a fundamental choice for development of a democratic institute it's. not going to turn from this road let's continue

russian journalist please the floor is yours re an obvious. hello. i have a question about money to both presidents about about the money money and investments . investments french investments into russian economy were over nine billion dollars and russian investments were just so over one hundred eighty million dollars. the question is a person puts. how can you explain what's the relation is it that russian. businessmen are too lazy to invest in french industries or are there new complications in a friend's question to mr along and. everybody talks about investment climate in russia being not very far verbal but going by statistics. oh we can talk about that otherwise may be there are some complaints by french businessmen did they report to

you and how. detailed was your conversation about investments as for complains because the question was firstly addressed to me there are always complaints and i don't know what their. friend should businessman a complaint a french president by they complain to me and not only french ones but other ones all other foreign obviousness and complain to me not just foreign but even the domestic ones as well. and the business society always has complaints against the government and i'm sure that french business community also has complaints to the french government really been working on improving our mechanisms on improving all the just lation on eliminating. excessive administrative hindrances and making the best conditions for investments into the russian economy in overall the process has been developing quite positively i believe. the fact that russian

investments sarn sufficient in france can be explained not so much by their friendship policy but the overall condition of. the overall state of these issues in the european union there have been a lot of to connote logical and legal. obstacles i'm not going to talk about this part but there is another aspect which we discussed today it's quite hard to communicate the visa problems as is there the visa regime prevents us from proper communication it's an entire range of problems which involves many aspects and not just about friends of the european union countries have the same just. like in overall the european investments are times more in russia than ours. in the european union countries. the potential investment potential in russia is quite high and then it's been growing all the

time and i realized today's decision this signing of memorandums between our investment foundation the foundation of direct investments and the french partners will help resolve these issues and i want to thank our friend shah friends for this support in this process. did you write as mr putin has said. there are always certain procedures and regulations to be followed. all the way there are always pretexts to put hurdles and obstacles i'm actually saying that our work job is to facilitate this procedures customs banking procedures and all other kinds of procedures and rules. and i actually would like the investment to be more proportionate. i believe achieved

a lot of progress now that we've got pranged businesses coming to rush in creasing french increasing their exports and thus creating more jobs and fronts . that's. investment new jobs that we have seen and in chief. and other examples and we believe that we do have to salute tate's all of these procedures. when it comes to banking procedures when an investor is it a new foreign market he should be trusted. we have. signed an agreement between our bank and the russian sound of direct investment now we hope that this well they took us to a new stage this is in our interests and finally the visitor regime with the hope

that finally we will achieve what is a free travel and the procedural will become very easy very simple. i believe that this is. really wrong situation when an artist comes to france and. he wants to contribute to this country's cultural heritage and then he he is faced with all kinds of obstacles so i do that after my visit there will be a lot of new better developments. france press edge and see mr president a question about your personal relationship during your first meeting in june and we have seen a sincere dialogue between you but it was not to know very warm spirit so to say but today i haven't really seen that you see you have a warm relationship can we say that this visit has contributed to warmer

relationship between you two. mr president is always very sincere whenever he answers this questions and i'm trying to follow said. today where meeting for a second time we've spoken a few times on the phone. after this visit in june twenty twelve this is my first time to come to russia and i can say that the best thing about communicating with mr putin is that he's very direct and frank in whatever he's saying so it's very easy to comment to contact with claim and to find common ground whenever it is possible and that all we have to do is to put into practice all kinds of decisions in economic area and other areas

and when it comes to warm relationship as you say it is up to you to choose the temperature of our relations to measure it by yourself. ok president putin and french president francois hollande wrapping up a news conference here in the russian capital after hours of what we heard from them was very intense dialogue behind closed doors and debate president putin even mentioning that the two sometimes argued but again that last question there about their personal relationship it seems to have developed and even some of the journalists noticing that there was a very friendly warm vibe certainly in that hall in the kremlin this evening here in moscow two main sticking points do remain syria and iran both basically the two countries have agreed to disagree francois along pointing out that russia and

france want the same thing in the end especially for syria and that is to prevent the country from disintegrating and to prevent terrorism they do disagree though on how to get there so that does remain a sticking point they basically have agreed to continue the dialogue let's get more now from what president putin had to say with the french leader from our two sean thomas he has been following the visit sean basically agreeing to disagree on some of the main sticking points. certainly in nice and in fact if you listen to what the francois hollande has said he said that they do have common goals in fighting terrorism and preventing syria specifically from disintegrating even further the situation there certainly bad on the ground of course francoise hollande is basically supporting the opposition and putin's side is saying that the actual representative of the country is bashar assad not supporting assad what he

has done or his regime but saying that all sides have to come to the table in order for that to happen specifically on syria putin admitted to some intense dialogue even going as far as to say that they argued on the subject intensely but said that both sides are starting to see a little bit where the other is coming from and he didn't say that they were willing to change their position russia that is but they said that there's going to have to be some more dialogue with the other opposing views he then in fact made a joke about that saying that perhaps that discussion had to happen over a bottle of wine or even a bottle of vodka in order for it to be productive there moving on to mali the french president thanked putin very much for his support in mali and they said that they discussed the transition from the combat operation there into a more supportive peacekeeping mission there and was hoping that russia would work further with france and when it comes to that regard and iran when it comes to that

side france support the strong sanctions and agreeing to disagree as you said they said that they both have the same common goals of preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon and would approach it in the past has said that he supports the idea of iran having a peaceful nuclear program but in trade in exchange it has to have strong oversight and strong regulation by the i.a.e.a. another topic that they didn't fully come to together on today. all right arts he's a song thomas reporting live from the russian capital where president vladimir putin and french president francois hollande have just wrapped up their meeting thanks. and that wraps up our main news block here on r t this hour next we take you to russia says cold opinion and a front row seat to see nature's awesome sky high light show.

i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. viewers who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clear fires how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy the thing is that one side is arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind of for drones is absurd.