very little. a million people rallying against the government in one hundred cities across brazil with an eighteen year old becoming the first fatality reported among the activists. a recent poll says your skepticism has seen a dramatic rise in france look into why people in one of the founding members of the twenty seven nation think they'd be better off without it. and as the u.s. army starts destroying a huge stash of expensive military hardware in afghanistan we ask why billions of taxpayers' money is ending up on the scrap heap.

broadcasting live here from moscow with international news and much more this is art. now one hundred cities across brazil have seen a fresh wave of mass protests while the first death has been reported among the demonstrators in the state of south park reports say the anti-government rally amassed a staggering one million people we had to the syria dictionary tempted to approach city schools and met by police with tear gas and rubber bullets dozens of people were left injured following the clash crowds gathered in the capital brasilia received the same from the forty's president duma who said france canceled a visit to japan to deal with the crisis teams and you know the the reports. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets all over brazil in an unprecedented public protests the hottest fourth of the rest remain sell follow with tear gas has been fired protesters tried to take over the local government building in the

capital brasilia clashes erupted when riot police faced off with protesters trying to break through towards the congress in rio de janeiro local police resorted to gas to disperse crowds marching towards city hall police say some three hundred thousand people have rallied but organizers claim it's twice as many there are reports that around thirty people have been injured earlier around eight thousand security officers have been deployed near the city stadium ahead of considerations the march between the funny and eighty football teams such rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the protectors say there are three governments excessive spending for the two thousand and fourteen world cup another point of discontent is the increase of public transport fees in several brazilian cities. the country's health or it is too late to reverse their decision g three said the first but this doesn't seem to have peace demonstrators they say they are also on we over they are underfunded for

an education systems. right now. six months ahead of elections in brasil and as we can see there are plenty of complaints was president dilma rousseff government the protesters say they will remain until they see change and promise a fresh wave of rallies to take place for the next day's major times correspondent bob use the brazilian protests a positive result social inequality. the same fight in spain in courtship go you know many countries i guess we'll liberalism specs should be you know the kingdom of the one percent the washington consensus grows in g.d.p. that doesn't take into account what girls own in everyday life in terms of people trying to struggle to get in the case of the poor brazilians steeping like

a door and a half or two dollars that they get on a bus fare initially or less than three hundred dollars a month to sit in absolute disaster and on top of it is four hours to go to bars to go to are to come back so in terms of the political elites over it's basic and there's everybody still following the washington consensus and it's still liberalism and even their old the way you old all over is protesting against economic foundations of our system that's why this is so huge. france is growing increasingly frustrated at the european union that's according to a recent poll held across the twenty seven nations take a look at some of the numbers for you now and again look up higher chart shows that sixty two percent of french people think that he was moving in the wrong direction they concerned by the rise of germany as a political force and feel that brussels has mishandled europe's financial crisis

meanwhile unemployment in france continues to rise it comes amid some dark approval ratings for president francois hollande which have decreased almost two fold in the year he's been power fifty eight percent to thirty two percent there while the french far right politically that marine le pen believes the french have had enough but. first of all you need to understand that the french do not really talk about this both e.u. and the euro a common currency virtually imposed on us i religiously defended here or in other words there is no diversity of opinion on anything you say against the euro it will be equal to blasphemy what i'm asking for is a referendum polls are a good thing but i do remember the polls promised that when asked about the european constitution france would vote for it at the end of the day fifty five percent of french citizens said no to the constitution that's why we need

a wide public debate a referendum to ask the people what they think about food border transparency with the shrinking countries and about this currency that killed our economy we need to ask them how come the e.u. guidelines are more important than our own constitution which in shrines the will of a sovereign nation these essential topics are yet to become subject to public debate in france and i'm sure if they were discussed today the french would opt for freedom. well billie's many french people now think that means basic structure is fundamentally wrong. thing that you could list a lot of arguments against the you you could say that it's not really did look to because the e.u. commission is on the elected baby here but the european citizens you could say that it's too expensive because some member states give a little credit to the e.u.

budget but don't receive as much money and where the euro as given to europe actually is a way for specific member states to postpone structural reforms and so she's clearly a good example of that word a lot of people are concerned they're always with the think is they don't agree on the very idea of the e.u. there are three disagree on what force should the e.u. . be shifting if your and many in the e.u. believe their voices are not being heard by brussels. or went to investigate just how much citizens on the block are involved or even familiar with its politics. this is brussels the capital of europe and whole to the european institutions that make laws of decisions that affect the lives of five hundred million citizens the question is how much do these citizens really know about europe do you know what

the european flag that stands for. who is the president of the european council. how many countries in the e.u. . started going through that and who was the twenty eighth country. we did. not. know what does the flag of the stars of the flag mean what do they mean. it's an appalling and has nothing in the middle of it. but what do the stars on the flag mean on the european union flag. those are the member states now here and for the european parliament there's this exhibit which showcases some of the key moments in the history of the european union certainly some of these will be more familiar to citizens of the country where it actually took place or when it comes to e.u.

institutions how they function how they work service and showed that most europeans know very little about what actually goes on that would want to serve it but you're a barometer it shows that the knowledge of it europeans have with us is just three point four points out of ten of this survey also shows that a majority of e.u. citizens think that the e.u. is a good thing however a majority of them also think that their voices do not count fifty four percent in fact now in this report it also says that only twenty five percent of europeans know that there's even an upcoming election in two thousand and fourteen to elect their members of the european parliament right behind me there's no democracy in the u.k. nor in germany or in brussels we need more. developed. as for strong involvement of citizen well there are officials and very you see institutions calling for a more democratic europe but in order to do so they will need to get people more involved and interested in the first place if we are to achieve this reporting from

brussels i'm tests are still yeah. after three weeks of street battles authorities in turkey now say they are prepared to allow one form of protest people standing still in the street. police once again rain tear gas down on the protesters tom barton was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute the air is heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannon charged into the center of this street your non corrupt dispersing kronenberg have . many things happening in mind a police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protest has been so i'm going about in the past weeks past saying the prime minister otoh wants government to authoritarian and the police that are all supporting that government all is well and they will do nothing to try and ease

back concerns will this affect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though anger on the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis mr to this particular crossroads has become a scene for nightly confrontations between the police and protesters. however earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police response very different with these vehicles charging in and chasing protesters down side street liberal use of water cannon which is strip the bomb puppetry and left deborah over the streets. really not the kind of response people were hoping to see from a police force that has really come in for a lot of criticism from a lot of corners of turkish society in the last two weeks more news coming your way

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too costly push it back home the list of items that were shredded. and crushed to be sold as scrap include. around two thousand mine resistant ambush protected because or more a.p.c. they were designed to counter the threat of roadside bombs and cost around a million dollars apiece scrapyard in afghanistan are very busy now dismantling expensive equipment u.s. officials are not explicit as to why they're not leaving the gear to the afghan military one of the reasons that they gave is that they provided afghan forces with lighter tactical vehicles which are presumably a better fit for the country's roads to quote one u.s. military official he said we don't want to live with a lot of equipment that they can't handle and that could compound their challenges as the u.s. is packing to leave again is that well at least the bulk of the forces the obama administration is trying to quote find a political solution with the taliban there are quite a few roadblocks on the way to that as you can imagine but after years of fierce fighting u.s. policymakers have arrived at the idea that only

a political solution can lead to a sustainable peace in afghanistan and in some way the scrapping of military gear is symbolic to how little all that were machinery has achieved there. now russia's president vladimir putin has just started his address to the world business elites at the international economic forum and simply just book. he has time to act decisively. and this is now is to take a incidents that it is the most for. the st petersburg they can all make for him because our primary. creates and most of the conditions for dynamic economic growth for a long time we've been living in the conditions of high growth of prices for our primary commanders this wedge gave three enterprises on the stage. high

costs this is no stronger the case you know. we have. one twitch can. change the situation and the moment the situation demands that we observe disappointing that we choose the right balance between long term goals and dressing and burn in the economic growth should be based on three pillars and increased labor productivity and that's meant and going to vision and. achieving progress in all these dimensions can only be achieved through decreasing costs financial costs administrative and infrastructural cost through invest jane and human capital and creating a competitive atmosphere for business and other perec reserved for growth as much as it were a conducive environment that is mark reaganomics ability. the targeted inflation.

displaying the budget and observing the budgetary rules which we have introduced and which is already in place i can give some explanations of the budgetary rule that implies that excessive money. that we have the economic situation is favorable for our channel and to enter reserve funds i'd like to reiterate a strategic course that we've chosen is not going to be changed and that is very important i'd like to point out by going to adhere to that policy whatever shuffles and the central bank of russia or the economic sections of the presidential administration on the cover managed by the way it was now dealing as they stay working for the last day and the government now and she's going to be head of

central government. the russian front and i'd like to thank her for the work she's done. ladies and gentlemen with paid a high price and where it's here to are responsible financial policy was managed to target inflation significantly there were years when inflation rates were higher than thirty percent and the before last year it was a historic minimum. to that six point one percent last year it was six point six percent now it's at seven percent it's still acceptable but we have a long way to go so we are creating at least we have to create basic conditions for long time investment which are of so high demand in order to change the structure of our economy i have already told you that the inflation rate is still high and we're going to target it. today as far as

inflation and inflation expectations are concerned. there is high influence most more not monetary factors the so-called tariff compan and. very rapid growth of tariffs as an important fact. leads to a spiraling of inflation impedes economic growth and leads to higher costs and lower competitiveness it is evident that status kind of its paces they used to. therefore we've taken a decision that the growth of regulated tariffs of infrastructure monopolist shouldn't exceed the real inflation of the preceding year this is going to be an effect for five thousand from twenty fourteen i the same time we all and the stand pretty well that the young prize for. the electricity consumer or

for his supplier is not limited to the tariff components so i ask the government to come up with start to make it as. watch which i'm sure about the and prize for the consumer should stand at an acceptable level and correspond to all the parameters when taking tariff decisions wish it. mandatorily take into account the opinion of consumers and the procedure should be a very strict sort of it shouldn't just be lofty words and wishes probably consume a council should be created under the federal tariff service and the infrastructural monopolies and regional energy commissions and i ask the government and partnership with the business community to come up with proposals on that i'd like to emphasize that our infrastructure don't monopolies have a potential to decrease their course it should companies should take a program to decrease costs and raise efficiency money should be invested smartly but constraining tariffs shouldn't lead to negative implications to

lower investment and to infrastructure so our key go and the coming as to remove many and for structural limitations which are stifling our country and which prevents how regions of russia from fulfilling their potential and this respect i'd like to say that we have been discussing for a long time the employment of our financial reserves we have some of those one of them as the reserves of our national wealth fund which should be used for the rush for the sake of russian economy and for the coming generation as they shouldn't be spent on trifles they should be channeled to finance projects which are changing the shape of the country and which open up new prospects for development therefore we've taken a very important decision that is to invest five five hundred fifty billion rubles

and profitable infrastructural projects and to get a return. the big three are no match for us the church of our country is concerned we are going to invest up to half of the reserves of the n.w. and such projects the key condition as the assessment of viability and efficiency of those projects by the business community. and this. project should also be financed by the business community but of course the government should be able and willing to give guarantees minimize the risks and act as a coin of atlas that was evidence by my yesterday's meeting where the halves of the world's biggest investment institutions yesterday had a meeting with them and i see some of them here in this hall today. ask you to act as kind as in implementing the first three of such projects which are going

to be financed. through the reserves of the national wealth funds for the first of these projects as the high speed rail in moscow caravan which is going to be the pilots part of a railroad which is going to link the central part of russia volga region and the year old reaching this second project of the central automobile ring road which as much of i'm going to be rebuilt and that has few of the most courageous and some parts of new moscow some parts of the highway are going to be built thirty to seventy kilometers from the moscow automobile. the central ring road is a new project which is going to change entirely the logistics of transportation and the central part of russia it is going to link together the central parts of the country that is going to liberate the transit burden from moscow and it is also

going to improve the transport and environmental conditions and the capital of russia itself. take care friends jaycar legs the russian participants. face meeting today i understand what it means for those who live and the central part of russia just in moscow in the moscow region who population accounts to twenty million people. and if we take into account the jason create trends then we'll understand that the number of those who are going to be using those projects is going to stand at a high rate and the last project as they modernized ration of i would translate brianne rail. and expanding it through its capacity it's one of the longest railroads in the world. at around ten thousand kilometers it is going to be our tree linking together europe and the asian pacific we are given as strong an

impetus to the development of the russian far eastern siberia our transport infrastructure as moving closer to the dynamically expanding asian markets all these projects are an invitation to work together with us and russia i'd like to reiterate we for one are willing to invest money where we're interested and strong . and reliable partners and i instruct the government of russia to as soon as possible come up with concrete mechanisms for the implementation of the project i'd like to emphasize not just lofty words but projects carefully thought through and prepared. i like to say that the near pipeline for structuring the frybread as to whether string two words china to its sea terminals in the pacific will allow us to employment large scale projects and be a pacific this infrastructure has already given the ross nafta

a chance to sign today a large scale contract with the chinese national oil and gas cooperation with chimp liars or suppliers for twenty five years up to forty six million tons per. contract according to their semester's worth. dollars wishes and president. the media say something about seventy million dollars but that's just pre-payment another project which will give bush a chance to get to the asian pacific markets as the construction of the real world breach over the arm or river and we have signed an agreement with the chinese counterparts. in the throughput capacity is going to be five million tons of cargo annually and it is going to be expanded up to twenty million tons to ladies and gentlemen and money of all internal investors should also be

a research basis for investment and to developing project and for that we need confidence in the financial sector and a convention system for a regular lation. three supervisory functions of a financial institutions going to be transferred to a super regulator which is going to be supervise banks and vestment and pension funds and such a super regulator is going to be established on the basis of the central bank and the near future we're going to create a special. save garden pension saving systems. on the basis of a deposition surance. this will allow us to remove the bottlenecks that exists now. we should also define the share of pension savings which is going to be channeled as investments into security as all of infrastructural projects i've already told you about there's the money which are going to be used for the three

projects but this is not enough it's just. a starting point we're going to use money money of investors of pension funds. and there's the projects have been implemented we're going to seek other sources we are also going to develop our stalk in my. so that it meets all the world's standards we are taking concrete steps to that and the moscow stock exchange is already ready for huge listings and privatization transactions and i'd like to emphasize that we're going to conduct the participation of state assets on the basis of russian financial platforms. and b d t b listing testifies to the listing was quite successful everything was organized just fine at the same time they put isolation is going to be conducted stage by stage we're going to.

mark the quality of transactions up the same time we're going to raise the transparency and openness of our public companies whatever the ownership structure we're going to create protection mechanisms for a minority shareholder and improve the. corporate governance capital was by the state owned enterprises spree often investors make their judgment on the quality of governments in the country. on the basis. of there is a state owned enterprise and very often they make unfavorable conclusions therefore we should increase the regulator the role of the state and these companies as management of these companies should receive clear parameters. capitalization of companies and return in the capital and once these indicators have been established well make a decision on rewarding or punishing the management but of course regulation or

efficiency indicators not going to supplant president ness and competition whatever the ownership structure of a company and in normal market economy there can be no preference as they should be created a competitive atmosphere in the market soft goods and services throughout the internal and a national level just a first step in this failed way. removing the limitations to the l.n.g. expert we have now a window of opportunity is appropriation and specific markets. because we expect the consumption of ellen g. to double. we're going to liberalise the export of l.n.g. this will give us a chance to take full advantage of the potential for offshore drilling and drilling . and the coastline one of our companies not attack has signed an agreement

with the chinese oil and gas corporation to cooperate on the amount of alan g. . the chinese part is going to. comply twenty percent in this camp and also strike a long term deal to export l.n.g. and to china gazprom was also preparing for signing contracts with the japan and china. we're also going to invest huge a i don't with prominent count panellist and the oil and gas attacks and startle and and to be. sure drilling however also going to increase local content and production and create cutting edge technology together with world technologically just such as general electric a legend john for man another important facts. when deciding whether to invest or

not stacks our tax policy should also be working for the development of incentivize investment more denies. the existing and create new productions in russia and create high quality jobs so devised and now were tax policy with him that if a town registry limitations for the state is not a justification for increasing the tax burden for the business over last year with improved our tax administration over the last year russia has gained thirty points and now it ranks sixty fourth as far as the quality of tax administration is concerned and where now we had many of the o.e.c.d. countries but. this is not the end of course and the me a future where i'm going to bring as close together as possible counting and bookkeeping with been talking

about it for. a long time. and we are also going to create new. investment incentives as far as an investing into the authorized capital and russian companies security is less concern. and it also concerns our projects and for our rest i'd like to add to that the travels of our legal entities is already exempt from taxation another important factor as engaging citizens to participate in the capital market we should create tax incentives so that our citizens make long term investment so that they could get a turn on the economic growth of the same time we're going to fire to the erosion of tax base and offshoring we are going to work both at the national and international levels song yesterday i met

a wide twenty young people come up with very tough ways to fight. transferring money into option and i believe we might. some of their ideas. he will be chancellor merkel. also talked with me about that we talked at the g eight about the door off shoring of the world economy russia is. striking deals with all sure jurisdictions and low tax rates sure is directions on the disclosure. of tax information. and lease agreements are becoming increasingly numerous now we are working on it within the framework of the o.e.c.d. and the f.a.a. . and sudan today russia is going to assume the f a t f presidency the russian state duma has adopted. the relevant law

and it is going to be signed very soon we are also making amendments to our legislation to fight any money laundering we are significantly improving the supervision over such actions crazy organizations are going to. establish the identity of their clients and disclose the information on beneficiaries and if any violations are established they will have to stop granting banking services where also introducing instruments for a tax supervision over such transactions and from a. it's going to be. on the bank accounts of individuals with adopted some amendments to the tax code. and we've also struck on a bilateral basis such as with our works partners from abroad. another

important fact is the accessibility of bank credits it is this pressure they're relevant for the sunni and we've got to take a number of measures and this respect we've got to improve the mechanism for refinancing the banking system improve the competition and expand and straw men such as still getting tears for small and medium enterprise we should also give the banks an opportunity to decrease their risks their costs and administrative costs through removing excess if control procedures and accounting procedures which should pay special attention to protecting the rights of lenders very often banks. not only cannot return. money those who they lend money to declare bankruptcy. we wish to protect their rights

and we should also protect the rights of the consumers of financial and insurance services because many of them are not well purchased and the financial felt. like to tell you something. recently a social movement has been established the popular front for russia probably it should become a platform for creating a mechanism for protecting the rights of. those take credit and we should ensure that the resources which are channeled on our priority this should be transparent. ladies and gentlemen our key priority is the improvement of business climate. everyone starting from in may of a small country to federal minister from. a police officer to the literal one force majeure agency should work for the sake of. equality our

state governance is one of the decisive factor in this respect they have for. all levels of our. leadership should clear go. and the outcomes of their work should be. assessed according to their personal efficiency and i like to say that our investment and i work internal business climate depends on that we do not distinguish between a stand between. those who come from abroad and internal act. because we are interested in the decisive way and we will do everything in our power to make russia. good place to work in and will

like to assure you of that all the measures but we've promised to improve the russian business climate is going to be employment we've. done a lot to deep pain allies. commercial disappear it's together with the business community and the russian parliament to have done a lot to humanize were you know legislation in order. to establish common approaches to settle disputes between citizens and municipal. as well as state thought is high it's like to to propose. united the supreme court and the supreme court of arbitration of russia require make can make an amendment to the russian constitution that is very important and we should take it seriously so wide like to. the judiciary

and the russian government to unite their strength and doing that probably you could do that during the session the draft was going to be submitted to the parliament and the near future. has witnessed the establishment of a new institution of business on but. business ombudsman which has. certain powers required for finding the interests of the business community and their interactions with. the government and these powers are enshrined and the law or they even have the rights to suspend the act it's taken by municipal fraud it. and very often the associations of citizens are going to have the right to file a lawsuit in the interest of great number of persons so we have

a new institution. of civil. along with the student of state ombudsman. and there is another principle decision i like to. see and months ago we had a meeting with the leaders of the most prominent business associations of russia there was a proposal to declare amnesty and so-called economic guys. you know the russian legislation has changed drastically and many people wouldn't have been convicted had the current norms been in place that time but of course we shouldn't be hasty about the amnesty we should lie a lot of those who committed serious offense against the country of the states free persons or property. we liberate it i talk about money counted peace is a raid of course those who committed crimes involving violence or threat of

violence shouldn't be acquitted either the draft. has been adjusted by the business community and the. if i can agree with it so i would ask the state duma to. consider and support i believe it can be done before the state duma jury and for some. into this draft amnesty p.m.s. is going to cover who committed crimes. related to entrepreneurial activity has been convicted for the first stop. i'm made up for the damages who are willing to do. and this is going to be withdrawn from the files of his citizens the decision on economic amnesty doesn't just restore. justice it's not just an arbiter of humanism it is a signal to our supervisory board is. it is

a chance for us to reorganize the space for the activities of entrepreneurs it will give us a chance to. increase confidence in entrepreneurial institutions i would like to emphasize that we can only achieve success if we. respect entrepreneurial activity areas and lore. and conclusion i'd like to get back to one of the principal issue of human capital we are implemented and project on saving the nation we are investing money and. developing human capital and special attention to the health care system and the social welfare system we're also. improving all levels of education including vocational education we are going to be faced with demographic challenges in the coming years but we understand that the social changes in the economy are going to be increasingly important therefore

abstract figure the g.d.p. or the industrial growth. even though they're very important can only be our ultimate goal which should be interests in concrete improvements in the lives of our citizens and we work in thank you very much. about. us president putin speaking there to the world business elites at the international economic forum in st petersburg where president has announced that russia's ross next is to boost oil supply to china in an unprecedented two hundred seventeen billion dollars deal will bring you more on this and other news just ahead so with arctic.