bill in just one finnish company. and the whole of friends only fifteen million is that normal. not really. that is true which i'm sure you. and i would like to draw your attention to the fact that i recalled this before tim company this is the finnish energy company we have allowed them access. to the most sensitive areas in siberia including those objects that belong to the nuclear cycle so russian economy is very open to our partners and highlight of my hope because regardless of all that turbulence currently observed. we have managed to achieve micro economic stability and that is very important for invested we've been continuously working on targeting inflation and we have managed to do that just last year the inflation

stude at the record low. two point five percent. it's a good look at the central bank says that this year we'll have two point eight percent . which some experts things that. are pretty looks to be going to be higher but that steel a mark of stability and we've been taking targeted actions and not just because the commodity prices are growing last year we saw we managed to cut our expenses and to be able to cut the deficit to one point half percent and this year we have a profit zero four zero point five percent. reasonably at the same time unemployment rate is five point one percent the historic low as well. all of this taken together is very good tend to our gold reserves growing as a while increasing as well at the beginning of the year we had. four hundred forty

billion now we have four hundred fifty one hundred sixty billion in gold reserves. as for trade balance we also have that showing positive dynamics in europe. one hundred infer billion billions if i'm not mistaken this creates the basis for a very firm and robust actions we believe that our friends french companies are going to keep developing their businesses in russia and they're going to get revenue and profit just yesterday i met with investors the main invest investors. that contribute to russian economy in certain for rain funds and foundations have undertaking i'm chris a dented measures you know they automatically call invest with our russian direction vestment fund automatically into any project where our fund invests our partners invested well. because they trust

their. when you may wish to commercial we understand that this is our task to create attractive conditions for investors this is one of the key areas where working on this is quite evident for us and we do take that into account just on par with the need to which is which increase our industrial capacity that's now stands at five percent a year that that's the target we want to achieve we want to have a structured economy engine. the part for that allows for investment because it is for his best meant that we want to achieve through we. were given that option of the key decision to change the structure of economy to make it more in the vein to mr shocking said that i was infected but with digitisation but i feel fine would that i was not in fact it your way or that. the global economy is

now carrying. you that is ation and being pregnant has something is not a disease that's a normal state there's a probably ladies applauding. and during one of the panelists eager to shove olive's talks about that that's clear why he's not in the government right now he's not father. he's going to work in the one of the development banks in russia together with the government so he'll be in high demand. to review my french colleague. were you know you talked about the need to develop cities this is one of the areas. we see as a priority the development of space in genoa french colleagues have a lot of expertise. they are truly world class x. pretend president has been talking about our joint work in outer space but this is not the only thing we did together just last year we had fifteen or seventeen

launches and for this year we have to have free launches such groups. i would like to remind you that we also work together in aircraft construction and our medium range aircraft superjet one hundred. we're not sure about the percentage at least twenty five percent. spillage. for twenty five percent of this aircraft are french components and we are already selling this aircraft in french markets we know that the business is very complex and it's very hard to promote your products on this market a little bit when it comes to aircraft construction we are working in pharmaceuticals in constructions together with a lot of areas where we work together. with what. i really like and that we have very diversified relationships with funds and working from that we can assure our future success. or and president micron talked about

the need to boost economic serenity but this is the task the whole well now faces i'm not going to go into detail not going to point fingers at anyone at all pretty much going to criticize anyone we're not gathered here for that but it is quite evident. we need to boost our market capacity is to create robust cooperation. we need to. resist the closure of markets. if you put any type of opposite parrot ism in this sense economics or parrot ism would not lead to anything good we have all that between a decent place we do not have to oppose ourselves to anyone but we might develop cooperation and achieve positive results undoubtedly those results would benefit both russia and france thank you very much.

what you. mr putin. the great new president. micron and the protocol has allowed us to present one reporter from the business community if you have the time. but if you can listen to them and see our business in person the business which is implementing our joint project now we're going to give the floor to the french when they can then the russian colleague. but. i would like to give to flow on to misstep for you and them that took the president . so it was ok we'll just break in there we have been listening to a panel discussion of the same petersburg international economic forum blossom or

putin just giving a talk there right before that and money remark from the president of france putin saying that france is a very strong partner of russia a lot of deals being done and that was essentially echoed by president. well also we have got a piece from who is our correspondent in the northern capital up there he's been looking at how the pair have actually been getting on this forum before. the first contact of this year in front of the cameras is going to happen right here. for now if you were diplomatic small none of that tapping on the shoulder but a few smiles were visible out there. now that the presidents are busy talking inside that palace it's all about what they'll choose to say to the journalists in a few hours. and now the press conference begins in this room.

with people who machine pretty don't show that you mean it that was when emanuel macron surprised the people in the room first but then his speech went on to resemble somewhat of a love letter to russia he spoke for about four times longer than lattimer putin and also showed off his affection for some of the big names in russian literature like solzhenitsyn or the state yes besides this mr macron spoke of the importance to commemorate the victims and the sufferings of the leningrad walk a day that was one of the most tragic events of the second world war which happened here in st petersburg but it wasn't just about how many nice things the french president said about russia and this palace quite surprisingly again one billion worth of business deals were inked they talked about so much and brought up so many

things syria iran ukraine cyber threats the korean crisis sanctions multi-polar world freedom of speech and even football but i'll come back to that later among other things the two leaders agreed to come up with a mechanism to bring the conflict in syria peace talks platforms together to see the awful secret of id. to acknowledge russia has increased its role in the international arena in particular the middle east the newly gained role of leader comes with responsibilities and i'm well aware of the role russia plays resolving various international conflicts the french and russian leaders were two hours late for their rendezvous with the journalists obviously that was because of this massive list of things they wanted to cover but also i guess that was due to the lavishness of their dinner and the tastiness of it i just want to tell you about

what was on their menu pancakes with a cavalier as well as a crab starter then at for additional russian soup with a french twist surgeon's steak in venison was the main course and that was all topped off with chocolate cake for dessert now i just want to quickly go back to the first seconds of the summit when emmanuel macron was leaving his limo lot more potent even hugged him and also he prepared a bucket of flowers for his wife bridget from the very start to the very end at half past eleven one of the russian journalists decided to turn away from politics and asked mr macron whether he was willing to come to russia and the month again to support the french national team during the football world cup and here's what the french leader replied in the end i hope to travel here to support our football team from makes it to the courts of fine no i'll definitely be hits

a supports it i'm optimistic by nature and then we'll meet again with president putin ily have a drink go r t and he returned making his way around the corridors of power there where we have been discussing the hot topics on the global agenda with some of the world's top business leaders and heads of international economic organizations as well. the obviously an old guard on we can see the foundations of russia in germany's economic relations is solid even in the sanctions and low oil and gas prices they've remained firm in two thousand and seventeen we had record high german private investment in russia which totaled one point six billion euros and i'm not only talking about the huge car manufacturers they invest a lot here but also many medium sized businesses and family firms. of course old report old country iraq by important words of fortune diplomacy is

always ahead of my we did we ask to keep it i know we have to be in germany to call me this is that we are to be are we said rob you or us to be it says i europe us to see the united states i was away is it is the following story of our interest to rebuild and the relation between denied state and you or by you upon the russia to stop to see these sanctions to add to sort of problem in ukraine and to get that would obviously. they fundamental for business is about how you create the confidence the stability to enable that long long term view to be taken and i think that can support that would be welcome become a business perspective i was phrase over the past nine nine months to twelve months we've seen investment into your link gas from foreign direct investors we've worked with clients to continue to invest in agriculture as you said that's been a theme over the past at least two to three years we're also seeing investment into

pharmaceuticals and increasingly interest in some of the light industry and localization yes the ability certainly word we've heard before the forum here we will continue to check in live throughout the second day of the event hearing from delegates and getting all the updates of course from our news team in st petersburg . moving on a stream on the netherlands have direct the accused russia of being involved in the dawning of malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen russia's foreign minister has already discussed this with his dutch counterpart saying they had failed to provide any evidence for that plane let's

cross live now to europe correspondent peter all over who has been following developments for us hi there peter what do we know so fine. well the netherlands and australia have said that they hold russia legally responsible for the deaths of two hundred ninety eight people that were on board a malaysian airlines flight m.h. seventeen when it went down over eastern ukraine now this and now from. and the hague comes after the joint investigation team put forward their latest findings and their investigation into the downing of this craft to the aircraft what we heard from the head of the t was that they still had no still couldn't confirm who shot down the plane or why the plane had been targeted in the first place. the questions everyone wants answered from day one are why was flight m h seventeen should down and who is responsible for this appalling act i can't give you the answers to these specific questions to date well as being reaction from

russia as you would imagine the presidential spokesperson dimitri of spokes person about amir putin of course said the news about the netherlands and investigators the netherlands and australia beg your pardon saying that the investigation hadn't allowed russia to take part that it allowed the ukrainian side to take part but not russia and while russia wasn't part of it they couldn't make comment on just how trustworthy it was just a periscope was then asked another question was the kremlin saying that they had absolutely nothing to do with the downing of m h seventeen he replied it's certainly what we've also heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he said that there was no evidence of russian involvement that russia was ready to help with the investigation but it must remain transparent or must become transparent to the russian side on thursday now following this lengthy statement from the joint investigation team we heard from the russian ministry of defense now

they had numerous issues with the evidence that was provided by the joint investigation team they said this the allegations were put forward of a russian a book missile launcher leaving a base in course making its way into ukraine and then heading back to that base in course squaw's and true that the brigade implicated in the the documents put forward and the images put forward by the investigation team weren't correct that book missile launcher that particular brigade had never left the country also on the missile casing which was also presented to the press on thursday this misallocating is believed to be understood to be from the investigators point of view the casing from the missile that was used to shoot. down the plane now the russian side they say. that. they to be where the question where this misallocating came from in fact actually accused the ukrainian side of having

passed it over to the investigators but we look at the missile casing itself it gives us a lot more clues about where it may have come from now what we do know about it is that the casing shown is a casing for a book ninety nine m. three eight or its variants. this was the one that was alleged to have shot down m.h. seventeen it was made in the moscow region in one thousand nine hundred eighty six now if we look at the russian arsenal that they have all of those missiles that were made in one thousand nine hundred six decommissioned in two thousand and eleven this particular missile has a shelf life of fifteen years and then can be extended by ten years more maximum these missiles however have been wouldn't of been used by the russian side are still in operation in ukraine and the latest bit of m.h. seventy news that we've had as been on friday morning where the belling path open source journalism collective they've laid out their latest findings in which they

played audio recordings that they say link russia to the shooting down of the passenger jet now russia has refuted in the past things put forward by betting cats as the organization themselves say they aren't a professional investigative unit also the russian side raising questions over the reliance on social media for betting kept getting its information but the latest news the netherlands and australia are saying that they will hold russia legally responsible for the killing of two hundred ninety eight people and the downing of m.h. seven hundred four years ago in july twenty fourth senior thanks for taking us through all of our peter oliver artie's europe correspondent more news when we return in ninety seconds. eleven i want to show you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

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twenty one minutes into the program welcome back israel supreme court has dismissed the petition from human rights groups that propose making it illegal to use live ammunition against on armed. protesters well let's cross live to tel aviv are appalled by to bring us up to date hi paula yeah this is a subject that's been very much in focus in recent weeks isn't it what exactly did the petition call for. well as you correctly say what we're hearing from the israeli supreme court is that they have unanimous unanimously dismissed a petition that was borne forward back to israeli human rights groups now they claim that the israeli army behaved in contravention of international law with its

use of snipers and live ammunition and this of course is referencing the recent protests we've seen along the israel gaza border the supreme court however found that the israeli defense forces had acted within the rule of law and that the protesters posed a real danger. every week the israeli military has responded to the civilian peaceful protests with lethal and other excessive force adeline demand the israeli supreme court issue an immediate ruling that the israeli military's open fire policy in gaza is illegal. now the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman has praised the ruling of the supreme court on his twitter account if references protests have began on march the thirtieth and since then we've seen around a hundred and fifteen palestinians killed more than thirty were killed in just one day in the worst day of violence in the last two years and that was the day that the americans moved their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and what these human

rights groups claim is that the israeli army used excessive force on armed protesters but the army for its side has been quite consistent it insists that it was behaving in the same way that any sovereign state refrain in defending an internationally recognized the order it has repeatedly said that the riots were not a kind of simple civil demonstration but that they need to be understood in the context of a long standing armed conflict with him us gods as a terrorist organization they also accuse him us of encouraging the protests and of sending civilians to mix from among its own members and at the same time we hear the israeli army saying that the behavior of these soldiers was within the rules of armed conflict but as far as this petition itself goes it is about peaceful protesters and what we still don't know is how many of those who actually died were on on. was because the

bodyguard the only. level of the articles that i recall was there on the clock no no no we're not it's not like i was sure i was. or was there was i was. now there has been international outrage and demonstrations around the globe against the palestinian deaths here on the ground the situation remains tense but certainly a little bit less tense and what we've seen in the past few weeks today friday where again witnessing protesters along the israel gaza border but the numbers are fine feria to what they have been and at this stage we're not hearing any reports of violence policy here in tel aviv live this hour thank you. the

first pictures showing the destruction of north korea's only nuclear test site have been released our correspondent said on off was among the small pool of journalists invited to witness the facility being decommissioned. oh they were in there over there and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust those barracks were used for living for the soldiers too old to locate soldiers and workers there well now north korea is showing that it is destroying the infrastructure to behind these northern tunnel number two that's where five nuclear tests five most recent nuclear tests have been conducted out of four tunnels around here this one got the most battering so basically this is north korea saying look we are ready to make the first step and this is the first step that we're making to show that we are acting in good faith we're destroying all the facilities we are being told that what has been done today has rendered this site

absolutely useless now they're expecting more to come out from the united states in the international community but everything here is happening amid the atmosphere of uncertainty you the latest rhetoric by the u.s. president donald trump and he's a pale we are hearing from north koreans that this is putting the whole thing in jeopardy they don't know what to expect they are saying that well how can the united states. be trusted after you run after they pulled out of the iran deal that was negotiated four years they're saying how can the united states be trusted when they are saying that the libya model should be applied to north korea so right now again here we are being shown that they're being destroyed and north korea is saying that well the ball is in somebody else's court now and we've done of reporting from north korea pyongyang at a nuclear test site artsy

a park to the rafters watching the hawks is next from a very angry billionaire to taking a knee in the n.f.l. stay with party. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to reputation people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that poor people are no more afraid of the police than of those. who can see something happening and this is like i don't want to call the cops let that happen resident call the cops in those young black men lose their lives chasing the with that thing goes on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to pull a gun so. unfortunately around and around here we end up killing our guns a lot told from such preclusion this place to.

show seemed wrong. rowles just don't call. me. yet to shape out just because to educate and gain from an equal speech trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one foundation let it be an arms race he's on offense dramatic development only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful that a critical time time to sit down and talk.

greetings and salutations we were for wyoming on the edge of the world's most powerful nuclear weapons sites when the drugs began to take hold yes just as the us president donald trump announced this morning that he was waiving off the nuclear summit with north korea on the grounds of anger and hostility the associated press is reporting that fourteen u.s. airman have been caught operating in l.s.d. drug ring at the at the war an airport space because you know nothing mix is better than l.s.d. an access to nuclear weapons. even the late great hunter s. thompson would probably be horrified right about now impressed but ultimately horrified based on freedom of information act obtained documents the a.p.

reports that these service members accused of involvement in the l.s.d. ring were from the ninetieth missile wing which operates one third of the four hundred minutemen three missiles that stand on alert twenty four seven in underground silos scattered across the northern great plains and those foyer documents tell a sordid tale of off duty l.s.d. cocaine and other drug use and sales and sales in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen before being caught due to a slip up on social media which allowed military investigators to close in. group there's news of beer and loading on the nuclear missile base of course all comes as president donald trump announced today in a letter to north korean leader kim jong un that quote sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting.