our this question has been asked to understand what but let me ask it again you said that you and mr putin have differ in details whereas your stance general strategy is the same as the one with you judging by your recent statements yours in mr putin's are quite the opposite of your string us along with. like to take the situation in libya this is very important for for foreign investors. same nation centralisation and democrats his asian nations. it is very important to have a good investment climate and i recently spoke about that and i won't see anything since ational to geve up that it was going well but i will definitely reason to see should very soon. they said it including the form of the economic forum we are going to have in st petersburg soon could manage but i would like to invite you all to turn to the news local. as major investment projects are part of the investment climate welcome i don't know what will happen to this deal between ross now things look you because it's the actual i think this was a good deal if we don't consider the difficulties that they had so but in my op

vladimir putin says russia is ready to host the ice hockey world championships in five years time mr putin was on hand once a back if you support russia's bid at the international ice with the federation however a country rounded the sporting even before the vote after the two other contestants said marking crane all that moscow and st petersburg will stage the showpiece event russia also hosted the top tournament in two thousand and two thousand and seven and it's fast becoming a true sporting stronghold with the football world cup such the winter olympics university games and the country's first ever only one grand prix all happening within seven years. meanwhile a day after pulling off a memorable quarterfinal victory over limply champions canada russia are now taking on finland in the last four of the current world championships in slovakia after iliac our troops late whenever the red machine in bratislava catches lot of smell and now just one victory from the final score is currently nil nil the winner will take on sweden to decide to lift the trophy after tre crudeness stands offendi

of horrible genocides of lots of terrible death and suffering some of which the russian i think mr putin does accept that did happen under started after the decades of denial but nothing is the same as hitler zob which is to tire you wipe out all the jewish people not just kill saddam just as today we look at some of the islamist ideologues we look at dissolve a bit larger when we look at the language of syria and ideologues of people in egypt cold look at that free above all the rug and this talk about exterminating jews and wiping israel off the back of the earth frankly while just shivers but these people can get any political support anywhere in the world but sadly they do well let's talk about some of those rising trends that you talk about us again going back to that the rise of popularity of nationalist movements particularly in . what about the e.u.'s role in all this do you think it's somehow condoning such movements by not adopting a tougher stance really on nationalism and profound. i think that there's always a conflict to believe in my country there are very people who don't

vladimir putin says russia is ready to host the ice hockey world championships in five years time mr putin was on hand as the baccy to support russia's bid at the international ice what he federation ballots however the country land is full of a few even for the vote after two other contestants denmark and ukraine all that it was later officially confirmed that moscow and st petersburg will stage the showpiece event russia also hosted the top tournament in two thousand and two thousand and seven and is fast becoming a true sporting stronghold the country will also see the football world cup sochi winter olympics university games on the country's first ever fully the one great all within seven years. i mean while russia pulled off another memorable ice hockey victory in slovakia on thursday night the red machine came from a goal down to beat arch rivals canada two one to win their world championship quarterfinal and that victory sets up a semifinal with finland later this evening these were the same as outside the stadium in bratislava russian fans ecstatic at their team's pass it into the

know, if we just took putin for right now, there's no question at least on a rhetorical level that had different visions of modernization of what it means for russia, and i would put mr. medvedev kind of more indie -- they are both sort of, keeping the great power balancers meaning pro-west, unlike vladimir putin is more straight up great power balancers, occasionally leaning the other direction. but very sort of responsive to what is happening, we've seen the evolution over the past 10 years. >> we will now take a minute to change name places, name cards, but before we do i know you want to join me in getting a hand. [applause] [applause] >> in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in japan and the tornadoes in u.s., the senate commerce committee held a hearing yesterday on natural disaster preparedness. this hearing focuses on response plans. senator jay rockefeller shared this senate commerce committee hearing. it's an hour and a half. >> i'm going to put my absolutely brilliant on the record which pains me greatly. but we have a vote at 3:20. and the whole idea of doing statements and then going to you and then going to vote and then coming back doesn't make muc

when mr. putin became the president we were the first paper writing about some occasions where he was hero. i mean, yes. but now, 11 years later we have so many bloggers and so many people who consider the civil journalists who write about the corruption on high level russian authorities. and in some way right now when we don't feel ourselves are -- a civil society becomes to join around those bloggers and it's the amount of information, how -- how reach our government actually, i begin to feel the impact. for example, there is a very famous russian website, it's called -- it's about corruption in government, human process it documents about -- what kind of money it pays for cars, tables, chairs and so on. and this website began to be very popular. actually, the first time for russian internet at this collect for several days, $30,000. it's a lot for russian, internet. and the person who does this, alexander, begin to be a very popular person, a very popular pop -- politician actually. he managed to

and this way they will keep investing about and to do the confidence that was given to mrs bhutto prime minister putin is a catalyst that will help to significantly increase the investment in flow into the russian economy. high let's take a look at the markets now we start with a commodities a secular whale and it's going down right now it's below one hundred dollars per barrel down twenty nine cents brant is down just fifteen cents we've heard the u.s. reporting unchanged crude imagery is quarter of the country to expectations of an increase yet there's still a decrease in the price of commodities to move to stock markets in asia the next a loser's ground up to japan reported as g.d.p. contract by almost two percent in the first quarter the results so far greater drop the forecast is making year on year contraction of three point seven percent however the. saying is up twenty eight percent on commodity prices with property of financial stocks also boosted by weak and u.s. stores. here in moscow the markets are just about to start trading what you're seeing on your screens wednesday's close of picture

that we stood for shares of each party until the visible from russian prime minister putin to brussels and speak with mr burroughs up in terms of who's going up all the pipelines who's going to hold the generating capacity while the building layer will be asleep is to the russian to russian government to companies and western european system that the pipelines the distribution network has to be somehow be owned by the western countries right now i think this is no longer a major be sure. both bodies with the help in the cute feeling that the project needs to go ahead and therefore and i think because this is the main feature right now that everybody needs to go ahead. absolutely look i think we all agree with that what is the likelihood of south stream being exempted from the rules of the senate energy package given that new kind of already has an exemption. here. in terms of example i think. there's a very much related to the former visit mentioned by me a visit of the prime minister to brussels and i think as soon as all the parties will feel comfortable about this project the exemption be sure will g