vladimir putin is the consummate kremlin conjuror. he has erased the memory of medvedev's presidency. he has made many of his predecessors reforms disappear even without a magic wand. there are plenty of examples. medvedev had been decriminalized slander. putin has reversed that. medvedev ipad reset ties with america. under putin, sons of a thaw have vanished. medvedev's decision to keep russian clocks an hour ahead is now under review. it all makes medvedev look weak. >> putin would like things to be written in marble, just no one but him. >> dmitry medvedev has not disappeared completely. he is still the prime minister and leader of the ruling party. it is his record as president that is being erased and with its his reputation as a political player. today prime minister medvedev's decision not to run for president again left many liberals feeling betrayed. they had been counting on him to make russia more western, more democratic. was that realistic? >> you cannot degree democracy by waving a wand. now we shall have democracy, no.

plus kremlin the kremlin caroline wozniacki be sam stosur to claim her twentieth tour title in moscow. and going through the opposition e.c.u. conference leaders practice or come from the four one down to base to make a. full stop with a full way to scar back to within just two points of leaders and after winning two know at home to ten man that will be in the russian primarily to scar taking the lead from the spot with twenty minutes to go after. ended there by even my car no one but us who saw him home well it was a bad day from a car no he didn't so we're straight red after a high challenge we can see the honda here and the army men did make the most of the extra man muso scoring their second eight minutes from time to be able to discard them the final straw man for the second in the title. just behind a high flying public be called one nil they call it anchors volley and not. the victory they are third in the table four points off the top spot. a brace from an arm a striker alexander according gave his side it two one win over lowly mordovia twenty one year old getting his first j

behind the kremlin walls, it is all smoke and mirrors. to succeed, you need a cool head, sleight of hand, and there is something else you've got to be good at. making people disappear. and it vladimir putin is the consummate conjurer. since becoming president again, he has begun to wave away the memory of dmitri medvedev's presidency. he has made many of his predecessors reforms and disappear. there are plenty of examples prepare. medvedev had decriminalized slander. putin has read criminalize it. even medvedev's decision to scrap wintertime and keep russian clocks an hour ahead is all under review. it makes him look weak. >> he was and he's gone. putin with light -- prudent would like things to be written in marble. no one but him. >> he has not been able to get rid of him completely. he is still precious prime minister and head of the ruling party. he with a proven's actions, is seen as weaker. his decision not to run for president again men -- made many russian liberals feel betrayed. they were counting on him to lead them into somethi

it seemed a documentary aired on pro-kremlin tv is enough to open a case. the putin administration is showing less and less restraint when it comes to silencing his critics. >> u.s. president barack obama and his republican challenger mitt romney are back on the campaign trail today visiting key swing states just hours after squaring off in a confrontatioal tv debate. >> obama is visiting the swing state of ohio. mitt romney on the other hand spent the day in virginia, another key state likely to determine this election's outcome. >> last night's debates saw a obama back in rhetorical form of less than three weeks to go -- with less than three weeks to go. >> after a listless performance in the first debate, barack obama promised to be more aggressive in the rematch. after preliminary niceties, both candidates went on the attack. >> the middle class has been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been too scarce. i know what it takes to bring them back. >> when he said behind closed doors that 47% of the country considered themselves victims, who r

moscow epic caroline wozniacki tribes in another three set marathon to overcome some studies at the kremlin cup. and putting up dani pedrosa wins a range shortened malaysian motor g.p. cut their ends i was over all the eight to twenty three points with just two races to go. but first let's kick off with four board says go back to within just two points of leaders and after winning two nil at home to ten man rubin to lead from back into second place in the russian premier league there's going mistry i guess they do do india and akhmed muso made up for his absence up front so chances came and went begging for the nigeria forward in the first half then with twenty minutes to go the feet footed twenty year old and got a penalty even marcano was the guilty man and sweden midfielder rasmus elm made no mistake to not chop his first goal for the army men and marcano soon saw a straight read off challenge on keisuke honda. finally got his name on the scoresheet after latching on to alexander sound as poss to complete the two no scoreline eight minutes from time. while in the early kick off igor leve

blood and kill maria kirilenko such as a shock to think as the last remaining russian goes out of the kremlin. while cutting up dani pedrosa dominates practice in malaysia ahead of pace you started out championship lead a full day in the end zone just three zero to g.p. races to go. on to strike a light spot like moscow missed top scorer in manual and the need for that crucial trip to russia premier league leaders. the first of tennis where the last remaining russian maria kirilenko house crashed out in the quarterfinals of the kremlin cup following a straight set defeat by sweden sofia arvidson that was seeded seventh at the home of the twenty five year old said later that eunice gill after committing twice as many unforced errors as her opponent to bow out six three six three and is next up i'm seeded albertson is world number one of four while the one caroline wozniacki the dine at last did so the back is dominique estival about six two seven six six one just over to our. top seed sam stosur will play another former world number one on iran a bench that both enjoyed comfortable with. an ou

caroline wozniacki triumphed in yet another grueling three setter to beat sam stosur and lift the kremlin cup but they cruised through the first set six two but the australian top seed for back in the second to take back six four and it was a close affair in the decider before wozniacki converted her second match point to edge that seven five and lift the cup for her second title of the season and the twenty two year old could also break back into the world's top ten should she win the tournament of champions which gets underway in bulgaria later this month all stars that hasn't claimed a title since her victory at the us open last year. both prover well and. such a good for her them sly's situation has some. different things to some of the other players start to know the serve place more kind of tennis which makes it difficult to spin and everything but i was very pleased about there were handled everything out there. now it's a motor sport and done a producer has won a rain shortened malaysian grand prix to cut the gap to merge a g.p. leader jorge lorenzo to twenty three points with jus

it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches far as the eye can see apt for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worshippers and blessid walter to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location had of the uses for the russians the russian crowd a revolt against the tsar and eighteen plenty five known as the decemberists will stand here in droves there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. th

plus caroline mostly ascii claims the kremlin karpov to be the sandstones or an american encounter in moscow. and on track danny rose it keeps his moto g.p. title hopes alive with victory at the rain shortened malaysia growing praise. but first will kick things off with football where to scour back to within just two points of ladies angie after winning two know that home to ten men through being too late for terry back into second place in the russian primarily took the lead from the spot with twenty minutes to get. up and did their buy event and i. swatted it was a bad day for mcconaughey then so are straight red card after a high challenge here seeking honda and the army men made the most of the extra man moves to scoring their second eight minutes from time to notice the final score. volley danger is a much g.'s course midway through the second half to a high flying terek a wonder when it was the chechen side picked up that second straight victory and finished the day four points adrift of angie. elsewhere alexandra florian was the herefordshire now moscow as the russian strike un

below and ill maria kirilenko suffers a shock defeat as the last remaining russian goes out of the kremlin cup. while hopping up dani pedrosa dominates spurs practice in malaysia ahead of casey stoner and championship leader while de lorenzo with just three moto g.p. races to go. on the late show sunday weaving saves to sky again as the obvious men cringe and over time when it party's on belgrade to maintain their one hundred percent record in the u.a.e. . but first tennis where the last remaining russian maria kirilenko has crashed out in the quarter finals of the kremlin cup following a straight set defeat by sweden syfy all bits and kirilenko was seeded seventh at the home to once but the twenty five year old said later that she was ill after committing twice as many unforced errors as her opponents to bow out of the six three six three and was next up for unseated all that is former world number one car on thousand and sixteen the day and at last it's like is dominic. civil while top seeded sam stosur takes on cars like a pall over the czech republic and fourth seed and redondo beach p

clo and illness here in lanka such as a shock defeat as the last remaining russian goes out of the kremlin cup. and coughing up dani pedrosa dominates first practice in malaysia ahead casey stoner and championship leader paul de lorenzo just voted g.p. races to go. first a folk all inspired title missed top scorer emmanuel in any case through a back spasm as the moscow club travel south to take on russian premier league in the early kick off on saturday the capital club also miss ireland midfielder aiden mcgeady will mean well and she will look to go five points clear of tesco moscow at the top after whose hiddink side grabbed the lead for the first time in their history last month and maintains their position with a two nil victory at the number four. to go one spot attack a six but should they win they could go level on points with the place today well meanwhile in london sun to have john terry begins his four much ban and misses chelsea's lunchtime dobby at tottenham a spurs manager and davie as pro-us bases his former club for the first time while later champions manchester city go to

stop by with the telly and let's go straight to the kremlin cup where top seed sam stosur is taking on the former world number one caroline wozniacki in the women's final on the strange just level the match of one certain all having lost the first to the dying sixty two she's just won the second six porson it's now gone through a deciding set this would be what this is wozniacki is first crimea final since last august last those that hasn't won a tournament since the famous u.s. open win last year while the men's final gets underway shortly at the olympic skier in there in moscow and that will see sleaze and the face thomas baluchi from brazil the fourth final of the year for seppi who's the favorite going into this match. not turning to football in the russian premier league terek are currently taking on with the chance of going second in the table this afternoon the chechen side i've only lost two of the last ten in victory today would see them go within four points of angie at the top and they had just taken the lead a goal of the day with the only goal in this game so fast growing

khan and wozniacki climbs the kremlin cup after beating sam stosur in a mountain encounter in moscow. and all the chalk on the big drives the kids is now taking the title hopes alive with victory the rain shortened malaysian parade. with the football where tears are just back to within two points of leaders and after winning tindall at home to ten men through being in the russian premier league to sky took the lead from the spot with twenty minutes to go. up ended there by evander carr no and slotted home it was a bad day then so red after a high challenge. and the army man made the most of the extra man moves scoring their second eight minutes from time to kneel to discard the final score the army man to second in the table. for just behind them a high flying today beat. volley enough to victory up to thirty four points off the top. and a break from the nama striker alexander korean gave his side a two one win over lowly mood tovia the twenty one year old getting his first just after six minutes however that early strike was cancelled out by retaken penalty from bruce. gordon respond

tennis and top seed some stories are will face former world number one caroline wozniacki in the kremlin cup final after both tough three set women's stories are injured eight aces to come from a set down and knock out another former world number one out of age two six six three six two while the ascii prevailed in a back and forth match against unseeded swede serbia all bids in six three seven six six four with the final score in this one. in the last two encounters between the two the last time they played each other was almost two years ago. now moving on to motor sport of motor g.p. lead a whole day lorenzo has set a new track record to secure pole position for sunday's pivotal malaysian grand prix they are right and left it late in the qualifying session to edge out his only title rival and close five years dani pedrosa to second spot on the grid into these and they are the physio so will complete the front row ahead of outgoing champion casey stoner he's twenty eight points clear at the top of the standings with three races left which means the two thousand and ten way that could s

at the line but not to be tried in another three set marathon dr atomic some studies and when the kremlin. thing up dani pedrosa wins a writing short malaysian military g.p. to cut a hole there in the end zone over a week to twenty three points with just two races to go. the first that kicked off with football where tesco are back to within just two points of leaders and she after winning two nil it's home to ten man rubin to leapfrog back into second place in the russian premier league discover mistry gets a do doing bia and akhmed made up for his absence out front their chances came and went begging for the nigeria forward in the first half then with twenty minutes to go the feet forty twenty year old and taste a penalty marc garneau was the guilty man and sweden midfielder rasmus elm made no fuss to knocked up his first goal for the isle of man and maracana soon saw a straight red offer offside challenge on keisuke honda while musette finally got on the scoresheet after latching on to alexander's sound as poss to completes the two no scoreline eight minutes from time. while in the earl

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and the kremlin cup top seed some starters that lines up a final showdown against caroline wozniacki to produce weight in three sets here in moscow. but first a football and one in summer all these own goal deep into stoppage time helped angie fight back from a goal down and win two on a time to ten months to go five points clear at the top of the russian premier league before kick off the fans remembered the victims of the stampede that killed sixty six spectators during spot tax your way for a cup match against the dutch side holland at the luzhniki thirty years ago well in the match got underway brazilian strike a balance and was denied by the woodwork before setting up midfield at the no four spot and that ten minutes before half time but a yellow card on either side of the interval for kudelka left the visitors with ten men angeles in a try all right equalized midway through the second home walk to the drawer looking imminence and injury time free kick resulted in surround the heading into is a net to ensure and she won two one and remain unbeaten in six games. one handed their

former tennis number one caroline wozniacki says she's very pleased to have won the kremlin cup to reach a career milestone the dane be destroyed in a gruelling three set in moscow to claim her twentieth title the dane cruised through the first set sixty but the astray and top seed fought back in the second to take that six ball and it was a close affair in the decider before wozniacki converted her second match point to edge that seven five and lifted her second title of the season and the twenty two year old could also break back into the world's top ten should she win the tournament of champions which gets underway in bulgaria later this month. also very well on. such a good for her slice and she has some. different things to some of the other players start you know the serve to place more men's kind of tennis which makes it difficult with the spin and everything but i was very pleased about the way i handled everything out there. and italian and he was crowned the men's champion he came from a set down to beat brazil's thomas baluchi in the final this is the third title of said he's

wrong you all are close and have all of these things are happening something has happened in the kremlin they realize we've got to do something different i don't know if it's because putin is worried about his place in history or just that he's been around long enough now to know that other people do things differently from the way the k.g.b. did they for decades i don't know what's happened but it's my perception that something has happened. to me if i'm asked one more question you know you've seen a change in the wind things like the russia direct front and convince you that the there's a new thinking in the kremlin nevertheless russia suffers from this appalling investment image and you can see that in the equity markets and in the other bric countries a very rated russia is yet to do that do you think there's anything to be done about russia's investment image just it's you know it's still got this james bond esque cold war. hanging around it how can russia get rid of that. well the only way the russia's going to get rid of it is for the things to change they are changing but it take

he is accused of having links to the kremlin. some suspect him even of being a stooge about -- vladimir putin. he denies all of this. he says that he sold his businesses in russia and portrays himself as a crowd georgian. it must be said that even though he wants to keep the pro- western, pro-nato course i and georgia, he says at the same time he wants to reestablish links with russia. four years ago they avoided a war. he says he wants to really reestablish links together again with moscow, which many georgians support. they think it just makes sense. from a western perspective, it is difficult to see how you rely on both, wanting to join nato, taking part in missions, but that might be a difficult bridge to combine. the other problem is that there are members of the opposition coalition who do have anti- western, anti-coalition views. >> thank you very much, damien. the high court in london, lawyers are challenging the extradition to the united states on health grounds. it is being seen as a last ditch attempt to avoid being se

>> just what is the problem with relationship between like kremlin and opposition? for the time being our opposition unfortunately plays the same values as kremlin values but just the opposite. so my concept is to have very profound, straightforward dialogue with if government, with people, with every person. it's very important. >> rose: does president putin welcome that dialogue? >> i have no problem to speak. no problem. but if you want to speak, if you want to have a positive opinion you cannot rest this opinion to the public, to putin, to all other people. it depends what is your feeling from inside. i came to politics from business and i feel that it's not about making money. the main goal for business is to change mentality. so change community, to change life. and if you want to change you need to fight for your values and having a very strong team. we know how to change it. because when i was a chief executive we changed drastically the mentality of people there. >> rose: mr. court kov ski, will he die in prison? >> i hope not. i think it's a very active qu

agency for international development closed its offices in russia this month after the kremlin accused of it of political meddling part of moscow's crackdown on pro-democracy groups. but as amanda walker of our british partner sky news reports us aid showed nongovernmental organizations that were helping many in need. >> kirill and valentin morning school rush with the daily routine but you can sense the underlying joy that they're doing at all. >> they like school very much because i have friends-- . >> reporter: the lack of a special school in their area saw kirill spend much of his childhood confined to their 7th floor flat. valentina says when he was little he kept asking me mom, why am i always on my own. am i a bad person. for years valentina fought local authorities to refuse to let kirill who has spinal muscular atrophy attend a mainstream school. but with the support of a u.s. aid-sponsored ngo she was able to apply enough pressure to make her local school accessible so he could attend. she say was that help, they would have been lost. perspektiva was the fgo that gave that vi

. >> all three women's convictions still stand, and it looks like the kremlin's strategy has worked. many russians have forgotten that pussy riot just wanted to protest the way the church and state are intertwined in putin's russia. >> talks over a $45 million merger between bae and eas failed today. >> bankers and officials in paris and at eads blamed germany for the failure. officials in berlin painted a different picture, though, citing concerns about the fate of german production sites, the reaction of investors, and the symbolism of creating a giant military firm in the center of the country. >> the two companies were unable to overcome concerns raised by britain, france, and germany. berlin especially was worried about losing jobs and control over strategically important technology. speaking in brussels, the german defense minister refused to accept any blame for the failure of the merger. >> this was a commercial decision made after many discussions. we have stated our opinion, and i have no further comments to make on that. >> from a business point of view, the deal made sens

. >>> russia, land of the kremlin and crazy video, let's find out what happened in this city when a 12d decided to drive a truck carrying sand. that truck hit 12 cars and the accident sent three people to the hospital. >> and a 12-year-old was behind the wheel? >> a 12-year-old. >> did somebody think he was capable enough to drive it? >> no idea why the kid was behind the wheel. that's not the only thing that happened with the big truck. check out this dash cam video. the truck has the dash cam video and somebody is behind him and somebody passes him. >> that was close. >> the truck doesn't like it. the truck bumps the audi. >> he looked like he bumped it or got super close. but the audi slows down and then he really bumps it. a couple of times. >> what is this guy thinking in the audi? he was a jerk to try to pass to begin with. now look what you did, you got a bumper full of dents. >> he shouldn't have given him the one-finger salute. and he gets out of the car like what's up, man? people drive the way they are in life. this guy is in the a nice guy in life. he's selfish and not cons

. >> the kremlin talks a lot about the north caucasus, but it does not do much. they say they want to address the problems and deal with unemployment, make economic reforms, but hardly anything changes. >> this year, as every year, olga is marking the anniversary of the end of her ordeal. she says she is grateful she survived, but the fear something similar could happen again remains. >> how can a nation come to terms with a past that includes a dictator, torture, and political repression? >> can agents that have -- can nations that have these terrible chapters in, learn from each other? those were the questions in berlin. >> berlin hosted a conference for leaders from countries that have been scarred by traumatic histories. and a dictatorship is one thing germany and many latin american countries have both experienced, and that was the subject of a symposium organized by germany's free democrats. in argentina, for instance, a military junta ran the country and persecuted leftist and political opponents, kidnapping, torturing, and murdering almost 30,000 people.

remaining shareholders have sold their stake to rosneft, reading a new oil giant controlled by the kremlin. russian president vladimir putin has given his blessing to the deal, saying it sent the right signal to markets. "this is a good, large deal that is necessary not only for the russian energy sector, but also for the entire russian economy." but the british company is also hoping to extend its influence within russia, with bp receiving rosneft shares alongside cash in the deal. it will have a chance to be more active in russia. russia is consolidating its position as a global energy power. for years, it has dominated the international gas markets with gazprom. now it is a giant in the oil industry, but it is paying a high price. the takeover has cost the russian state billions, money that russia urgently needs to modernize its outdated industry. >> germany's natural -- the biggest natural gas producer is set to expand its operations in the -- its operations. >> they would gain access to potentially-lucrative reserves. they should be able to see degette boost production starting next y

the anti-kremlin trio have been sentenced to two years in jail on a number of charges including disturbing the peace. they staged a protest against vladimir putin earlier this year. >> the women from pussy riot came to the appeal hearing without any great expectations that they would be released, but what came next was surely a shock. one of the trio had decided to break with the defense team. >> i do not exactly know what has happened. we met of three women on friday. one of them confirmed we would continue to work together. something must have happened over the weekend. >> the lawyers believe someone may have pressured her to create discord between the women and their legal representatives. sticking by their story that they did not commit a crime when they staged a protest in the moscow cathedral. >> my client as already stated it was an ethical mistake to stage a protest at the cathedral of christ the savior. i think those apologies should have been accepted. >> but apologies are not enough for radical members of the russian orthodox church. they staged a protest outside of the court de

headquarters of the world's biggest oil producer could be -- could soon be a stone's throw from the kremlin. they want to buy bp's 50% stake and its joint venture. >> that means that the country's third largest oil company is based imaging being taken over by the biggest one pier that would create a new giant that produces about 40% of russian oil. >> president vladimir putin is backing the deal. the future of bp and russia was discussed a few years ago. some analysts believe the acquisition is not in the industry's best interests. >> obviously, if i instead of -- if instead of two major players you have only one, that is not likely to stimulate competition, regardless of what the antitrust authority may say. competition will suffer. >> but bp is not planning to completely exit the russian market. if the deal is confirmed, vp could join forces to extract oil in the arctic. >> some sports now and the fallout from the lance armstrong doping scandal continues. now a major cycling team sponsor says it is cutting ties with the sport completely. >> this is especially significant because the dutch

at the last moment when tensions and reached their peak the kremlin and the white house found a compromise. christophe had responded to a us offer a security guarantees for cuba by deciding to have the missiles dismantled when the news reached the cuban leader fidel castro he flew into a rage the decision had been taken to hide his back one of the most seasoned soviet cantinas anastos make a young man after talks with castro. when the talks got under way my father received a message from moscow saying that my mother had died my father was in no position to go back after the news had a visible effect on castro people who showed a good deal of compassion for my father he said he respected him for staying behind and i'm sure this helped the talks. the blockade of cuba was lifted and operation got underway to remove the soviet missiles from the island they were being loaded on to upper decks without disguising them in any way the americans saw that the russians weren't fooling them those were not mockups of missiles but real hardware. the key difference job meanwhile gave himself credit for re

narrative has changed because basically the relationship between moscow and washington between the kremlin and the white house. has turned into ashes in the last months of george bush the second presidency the research brought in new. york and the russian american dialogue relationship between obama and mr medvedev and even between obama and mr putin decent relationship they have of course there are complications and the differences have not gone away a number of issues but still it's a atmosphere in which we can consider ourselves as partners partners with disagreements with mr romney we will be forced to consider ourselves as them and so it's definitely preferable to have a partner with a lot of disagreements than an enemy which would be a clear cut enemy and so i think that there are choices in those america of actions is absolutely. thank you very much for your time. no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still to know where their foundation pipes are being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of this industrial activity on th