our industry is adjusting by implementing the so-called import substitution program so on the one hand sanctions do impose limitations here on the other hand our industry can benefit from it but an interview given at the guide our economic forum you which proposed the idea that russia should become a new norway and that its economy should no longer depend on all the prices and this is all great but how is it possible that at least one third of russia's budget is generated by oil and gas. that is true yes but before it was sixty percent so almost two thirds immediate sales proceeds accounted for sixty percent of our budget and in two thousand and seventeen there were forty percent in our new budget allocated about one third of its oil and gas and that's our current goal to go down to one third and i think this is going to is close to what i consider normal if we talk about the so-called neulander gas deficit this is the figure you get by substracting oil and gas revenues from the total revenues it used to amount to

thirteen percent of the g.d.p. so. can you imagine if our budget deficit was equal to thirteen percent of the g.d.p. without oil and gas and now it is down to seven percent of the g.d.p. our goal for twenty nineteen is to go below six percent of the g.d.p. and we're really decreasing our dependence on oil and gas and we're taking that they receive those absolutely so there are real actions that will introduce tangible results in the order something that absolutely. yes they are. going to we're going to take a short break right now where a lack will continue talking to the precious finance minister will talk more about cryptic currencies and precious and went on oil industry stay with us.

turkey's decision to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what our anchor is objectives in syria and the region does it to suit a final peace settlement to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in nato. run out of the with. the best out of. the concepts i was preparing to perform i actually prepared myself to. start her.

scanty was. what. was it he agreed with. me she. i mean here you. know we're back with i don't see why i'm no finance minister of russia discussing the impact of russia west economics down on russia and the world economy now that's what the race some kind of paradox is going to. on one hand the west is seeking to

isolate russia and shout it out from the global on the other hand this isolate insulates russia from granik anomic not insulates russia from granting comic problems doesn't it in simple words if the financial catastrophe of two thousand and eight repeats itself today and the us economy starts to nosedive again show what really care. well it. was a. good degree of russia's integration into the global economy so high that we have no choice but to care about such developments there are many things that tie is to the global economy for example if the global economy is growing oil prices follow suit which is important for us and that's a very basic fact and if the economy is in decline in demand for a key export commodity oil is wrong as well again that's something that we will care about the demand patterns are the same when global demand is on the rise export volumes grow as well not only from russia but from any country and. that

means that russia as part of the global economy would certainly feel that if the global annual growth rate which is about three point five to two point six percent decline global actors are interested in keeping the current pace of economic development and safeguarding against any serious economic crisis and let me have no there's another aspect to this that i've been thinking about i mean since they were an isolated us why can't we just turn to using a chain and stand up last of all of the impact of the sanctions can we move money in the crypt occurrences past the existing financial system one of the what i look like to the day is using crypto currency for transactions only you know just by passing the global financial framework there. is a thing that transactions and big point which you can allow you to skirt sanctions thanks to anonymity you know this is nothing about any illusion measures to control crypto currency are already being developed. in the immediate future i believe that

every payment in crypto currencies will be monitored the same way as traditional transactions in u.s. dollars euros roubles etc but at the end of the day what is it that makes a crypto currency better which on the ruble. the answer is nothing or she's could you don't suppose there are restrictions on transactions with a certain russian company on the sanctions list how can this company deliver its product to the buyer and receive the payment of the conventional way would be to use it with dollars or euros or what have you but if the companies under sanctions this is no longer possible so if a company bought let's say some military goods from us and wants to make the transaction and there's nothing stopping them all they need to do is just to buy rubles at the exchange what about bitcoins sure but why would you want to do that the ruble is a much more simple it's reliable it's easier to use you see the problem with. this

much smarter twice as much then it goes down again your. transactions are just as transparent as with any other currency united states has a really developed a way to monitor these transactions so actually if they want so they can identify you and other countries are already working along similar lines in fact it's to google that's more secure crypto currency this is because all transactions approvals can be monitored exclusively by our central bank and no one else once again is no reason to retreat to using viewpoint especially when we can safely use our own national currency. but i can see now why be calling can be used to the sanctions but because i but generally i never heard you say that only professionals should attempt using week on a genuine discuss the possibility of passing legislation that would restrict its use but isn't that of the future it's kind of that neighbor verse that will always be like that you know one day i mean money trains first. fear of them and one on

using horses to deliver mail and what about you when you have you tried using big guns yourself. transactions no. he won't even. see i don't believe the future belongs to big coins the future belongs to the block chain technology yes it's what they call distributed ledger technology which we are already starting to implement in our own databases like the us a register in the country soon people will be able to store their data using block jane these kinds of applications are very promising but crypto currency is just as promising that's hard to say i think that at least for the time being transactions in conventional currencies will dominate trade reason is because they're easy to control. points there is a central bank that issues the currency with bitcoins distributed ledger nobody can control the value of the currency today it's high it's more it's not high story

volatiles like i said there's nothing backing it there's no issuing bank which means that there are no controls the whole process is very chaotic that's why i believe the conventional transactions that use dollars euros are now swiss francs still be given priority and those who wanted to make money using a bit have probably realized by now the futility of this endeavor so i wouldn't say that i mean there are quite a few have been climbing. like to keep something under the radar by paying in because they will now have to abandon that idea because it is no longer possible as for the block chain technology we will use it and actually we're already starting to apply it while i see crypto currencies as simply speculative. if you want you know what we not in your current capacity but some other day as an individual client i mean doesn't want to become a become a billionaire or some other quick to current billionaire which would anyone would be quite happy to become a billionaire you know i suppose they were what about you. are you ready to buy

some groups of girls yet will i be frank if i only knew how to pay for dresses like what koreans i mean i've used them but right now i'm clueless but i'll get to it that is for sure because i believe the craft occurrences are the future. well that's debatable let's see how these things stand after a while. now let's talk a little about what will goldman sachs recently well they made a projection of what three g.d.p. growth were russia and twenty chain what i mean while russia's own ministry for economic development expects only two percent gross if i remember right belief so why but you me if it isn't from goldman sachs why do they see a more jolly picture than the russian government or maybe there are jolly fun people listening but that could certainly be one reason but there is quite a different set of numbers there so. you know there are so many various analysts and experts some of them predict less than two percent growth for russia believe

our ministry's projection was just over two percent which of course it will be very nice to live up to three point five percent growth projections go even higher but i believe we can begin to talk about such numbers in a couple of years our task for now just to run a comprehensive structural reorganization that would trigger. a move that would involve reorganizing that taxation system works restructuring our expenses reforming economic sectors and this will give impetus to economic activity and stimulate economic growth so my only guess here is that maybe goldman sachs is aware of our reform plans and perhaps it's made its projection based on that because you should go i don't want to get about the decisions that they're russian government makes i wanted to ask you about your growth so i'm sick when you are who take a minister in this country but this guy knew that you're exaggerating when. you make

a minister and them. with so many things from sanctions to advise and rebel hauling in there so you holding your ground but in the end people are always asking you for money although that is a bottom line that's the only thing they want and they probably all use danger is that they call you and i'm sure that you know what the question of whether someone loves you or your million seems so relevant it probably makes you lie awake all night and i must be very unrewarding a lonely kind of work about how do you live with that if you do it. with your sneakers well no maybe that's just what it seems like from the outside of course everyone wants to get more money for their economic sector or projects overseen by this ministry but they all know the budget has its limits you know we cannot just take it apart piece by little piece will backfire on us or so yes i have to refuse and i have to make my case and sometimes i have to get into strong arguments and

happen sometimes to good and sometimes people do take it personally yes. sure i'm sure everyone does. you know. i guess i think. to each other by now we've been working together in this government for over five years now. and at the beginning that was probably the case which people thought. he had additional resources to this person but not to me or he's a so and so well that's not how it works we at the ministry of finance analyzed to see where the money will have more effect on growth in social welfare we have analysts who are just as good as an other ministries and sometimes they're even better because often they have to know economic sectors be education or health care or agriculture and what have you perhaps they have to know even better than the experts at the specific ministries this is very important i actually do take great care to preserve that tradition and preserve this. keep it alive this tradition of

expertise. so when your people can argue their decisions convincingly when they can justify why you can give money to this push and you cannot give money to. people don't let personal feelings get in the way. of work with. the person in your life that you feel a personal connection to trust may be outside russia for instance take love rove and kerry i mean in terms of ideology their opponent also but in terms of their personalities they match and when the rhetoric between our countries boiled down to who will be the first to push the new claimants to achieve amazing diplomatic success with iran do they nailed it but when you have a person like that i mean someone you trust and someone who is very like you maybe i don't know christian or instance or someone else which.

well when other foreign ministry of course. i do know many of my counterparts especially from g twenty countries as we meet fairly often several times here like mr lavrov though i don't really have a person like that when you say you don't have your own character. no but i do have a very good colleague or rather had the former finance minister of germany mr shabazz we worked together a lot especially while organizing the twenty summit in russia and we worked really discussed in the ukraine that chris worked on that in detail and we had a really good working relationship and now he changed jobs and he became the president of the bundestag in germany and of course i congratulated him. honestly i felt a little story to see him go because he's the person i work together on

international matters for six years and we had some plans for the future concerning ukraine's debt settlement for example. know he no longer works at the finance ministry so i will have to be entering into dialogue with other colleagues but since you asked about a long term partnership and a long term partner relationship that will be with mr shah but i guess. the gas prices are still one of thanks for coming and i hope you have a balanced budget with everything going to just as you planned including the oil prices thank you very much and the very best thank you let me talk into and answer one of the russian finance minister discussing everything from western sanctions to the current influence and prospects of russian economy is it for this edition of starting cost you next.

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one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the u.s. we report from the city of baltimore on what triggered the case some of the mystery surrounding it. german intelligence warns that the children of islamic state find is could be recruited to carry out terror attacks in the country describing them as living time bombs we hear expert opinion on the possible threat. to children that are trained to kill these of a direct agenda agenda to kill as many people as possible victims of crimes as a world as. a world we've got a duty of care towards the children. and the public and professional backlash as a controversial criminal case against

a doctor patient died spock's outcry across russia. watching r.t. international live with me today welcome to the program one of america's biggest police corruption scandals is unraveling in the city of baltimore officers from an elite police unit tasked with reducing crime seem to have actually been adding to it they're on trial accused of turning the law on its head. they came at me like a gang or something i remember one of the officers saying i looked like someone who needed to be robbed everybody's life is destroyed because of this my kids are afraid to go in the house the so-called gun trace task force is made up of plainclothes officers and has been trying to tackle the city's increasing murder rate however the unit has been dissolved and officers arrested with charges against

eight of them ranging from drug trafficking to planting fake evidence artie's american now reports on what triggered this case and how the place in its crimes were exposed. well it all started with an investigation into drug trafficking in new jersey then as the case unraveled federal authorities found out that the baltimore police department was also involved mostly its elite gun traced task force unit months of recordings recovered from a device planted in a police cruiser reveal that officers were involved in drug trafficking robbery falsifying reports and planting fake evidence in one case a high speed car chase resulted in a crash which the officers tried to cover up one of the indicted x. detectives involved actually broke down in tears in court it was a really bad accident none of us stopped to render aid to see if anyone was hurt we were foolish although i was doing so much wrong it got to a certain point where too much was too much altogether six officers have already

pleaded guilty and two are still being tried but there are indications there's more to the story than just one rogue police unit court records show that the city paid over half a million dollars to settle claims of misconduct and falsifying reports involving the very same officers and dating back as far as twenty fourteen so why did the author just leave it all under the rug where condit uses this those offices of very well known industries for door what are they doing and this is. where it came up it's been it's probably been plenty of complaints you can't go an extra help because you're afraid that you know this particular of so it might just do some so you might pencil it's common when we see them coming we go to opposite direction if we can and if we can we deal with this circumstance this has been corruption for a long time you know just because this is one as it was though they decide to you know come forward or you know they got caught for what they done is stuff that

particular incident but at the same time as not going to stop the corruption has to be done to stop the corruption these criminals are cops and the cops are criminals then there's the unsolved murder of detective shawn souter that took place in. november last year souter wasn't part of the country's taskforce but worked with some of the officers were now under indictment and the day before he was set to testify in the corruption probe he was shot in the head with his own weapon while on duty and another unfortunate twist which some might find suspicious a patrol car transporting the dying officer to an asp it all got into an accident there's no suspect in the murder so far and no eyewitnesses except one unnamed partner and when the police commissioner tried to redirect the investigation to the f.b.i. the agency refused saying that the case had nothing to do with the corruption probe i'm growing increasingly uncomfortable that my home aside the directives do not know all of the facts known to the f.b.i. or the u.s. attorney's office that good if revealed to us assist in furthering this murder

investigation in the wake of the scandal baltimore police have launched an overhaul including a new commissioner bowing to rein in city violence but investigators still seem to have a very complicated plot to unravel samir khan r t reporting from baltimore. jeremy's domestic intelligence chief is warning that children of islamic state fighters in the country a living time bombs and said they could be recruited for terror plots in germany we have to consider that these children could be living time bombs there is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks islamic state uses headhunters who scour the internet for children that can be approached and tries to radicalize these children or recruit these children for terrorist attacks. the domestic intel chief also said germany should review laws restricting surveillance of mine is under the age of fourteen in recent years the country has faced several cases when minors were planning terror attacks for example back in twenty sixteen

a twelve year old boy tried but failed to blow up a christmas market in the west of the country there are also concerns that children back from syria and iraq could be targets of further radicalization according to government data about three hundred people who left germany to join isel have now returned to the country the potential threat posed by are still children is also a concern shared by a top counterterrorism officer in the u.k. some terror groups are training children to commit atrocities we need to not just understand the risk the mother poses but the risk that any child poses as well look at them and accuse brachis b.c.'s and the maybe you're arrested we discuss this with stephen morris from the english democratic party and mohammed shafique the chief executive of the ramadan foundation. we always have this little cuddly thing of children where they can do no wrong because

a bear in mind these are children that are trained to kill they are not just good in a mock in a street being antisocial these are of a direct agenda and that agenda is to kill as many people as possible so we do have to clamp down on this our security services and police are doing a tremendous amount of work to a dentist five who those children now these are children they didn't make the choice. to go and live in syria it was their parents and we should not punish the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal declaration of human rights that we should welcome them back and help them rebuild their life where we can help them but we should help them over there we don't have to bring them here what you've got you've got to do want people to bring them over here let them walk free while the been assessed well know well as they're walking through it but we don't live in the law of the jungle they are british citizens are we as a government as a society and as a country have

a duty of care towards them children in the u.k. anybody below the age of eighteen you actually classed as a child a fourteen fifteen sixteen year old or seventeen year old can just go around the streets with a knife. just like anybody else you know they are as big a threat is anybody you know you cannot you say just because they were under the age of eighteen in this country under the age of forty that they're no longer a threat because the us then themselves are victims of isis and their crimes have been returned to do you k. i'm hoping that they'll get psychological help for the trauma that they've seen and the terrorism and oppression that they've witnessed whilst living in syria if it turns out that they are involved in extremism and they are we involved in terrorism then we need to do as much work as possible to develop a closed them and to protect them protect themselves from such an evil ideology. russia's that medical community has been outraged by a criminal case brought against

a moscow hematologist she's accused of medical malpractise that allegedly led to a patient's death but many doctors and legal analysts claim the case is significantly flawed artie's if a child co has the details it was dr you learn them if you had a nose job to come to this clinic every day and work to save people's lives she was the mastermind behind this brand new unit which was meant to become the most advanced center for bone marrow transplants in moscow the plan was to open it in january but instead a court ruled that she must go to jail this is mr arenas office she has been gone for two weeks already we missed her she had a lot of plans and there are assignments for the next week on her desk it all goes back to a tragedy that happened almost five years ago she was treating a patient with leukemia and that required a morning biopsy

a routine procedure for a doctor we suited them it all went fine and the patient went off to work by evening he was suffering severe stomach pains and an ambulance took him to a private hospital then he underwent surgery and in two days passed away if a patient dies he is or her relatives always want to get justice when someone's life is taken due to somebody else i think that some punishment must follow but what caused the person's death the biopsy the surgery or something else it took the investigators and the court for years to determine that for an hour the verdict is that this office will remain empty for two years. but some of russia's top hematology called the ruling nonsense while dr misogynous callie's and former patients were simply stunned now i feel that future is being taken away from the person who saved my life and lives of many others that's a.