he wants vladimir putin to rethink his support for the assad regime.t is a different frenchman whose company vladimir putin refers -- prefers, gerard depar diueu, who made another visit to russia earlier this week. he is treated as a hero wherever he goes. his presence has dominated french-russian relations of late. >> the french president has to ignore that and focus on his work. his main challenge is to expand trade relations between france and russia. france, right all eu countries, is in a crisis and needs new markets. >> is another of hollande -- that is another of hollande's priorities on this visit. >> in germany, the man who wants to replace angela merkel as chancellor in september is in hot water over italy's e -- election. >> he spoke of the near winners as clowns. one of them, beppe grillo, is a comedian, so he might not be that defended -- offended. >> the other is silvio berlusconi. he is a two-time former prime minister. >> the italian president's state visit to germany has been overshadowed by the diplomatic incident created by peer stei

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but president vladimir putin says that he does not support such sanctions we because. should have the ability to say so and i just want to bring you out should they have gotten this week's radway past summer i bet you france does we're going to probably live in through the abstraction i'm friends with president putin and francois hollande here in moscow. in your plans and mitchell is beneficial helping both states for russia france has been and remains an important strategic partner. and today we can say with assurance the. last year we said the task together with mr president on the success succeeding of relationships has been fulfilled will confirm for a full political dialogue which has been maintained all the time we strengthened humanitarian ties and cannot economic contraction. increase over. corporations has been built on emphasis with and with emphasis on modern technologies we've been implementing a number of law interesting projects such as space aviation and energy including nuclear energy. program so use in the big space center causes a lot of interest on b

. >> the games are seen at least in part as a bit of a personal prestige project for president vladimir putin, who says that everything is running smoothly and that the country will be ready for the games. >> but there has been controversy and accusations of corruption, and the games are also not coming cheap. >> so she is a prestige project for russian president vladimir putin. he wants to show the world russia can pull off an international sporting festival despite all its problems. -- sochi is a prestige project. 2/3 of the results are completed. environmentalists say vast swathes of forest have been filled to build the slopes. they say the futuristic venues are a lot on the landscape, but the ioc president disagrees. >> @ i am very impressed with the fact that the site is very compact, high quality, and it is situated in beautiful surroundings. >> but the project has been dogged by allegations of corruption and mismanagement as well as delays. human rights organizations have accused the administration of forced evacuation of residents, and they say foreign residents have been cheate

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they were just weeks away from picking up their new son, preston, from a russian orphanage, when vladimirnounced a ban on americans adopting russian children. >> i cannot put into words how my wife and i feel right now and we ask president putin, please, consider alternate means, but don't let these children suffer. please. that's all we ask. >> reporter: despite the ban, the summers decided to travel to russia. when you left for russia, did you know for sure that you'd be able to bring preston home? >> we did not know. we just prayed and kept the faith and just kept believing that, you know, all of our efforts would pay off. >> reporter: it was mid-january, and they visited preston in his orphanage outside moscow. they finalized his paperwork, and went to pick up his passport at a russian government office. >> she looked at it and she said in russian, "americans?" "i thought there was a ban on americans. how can we give them this passport." >> we held our breath and i gasped for air and i said, "oh, no. please, don't let us go through all this and we're going to have problems." >> report

and a farmer enjoying the fireworks they're down meanwhile russian president vladimir putin has been personally checking the olympic venues and says that he's generally happy with what he saw he didn't ever fire one top official over delays and cost overruns and construction work following this rather well abrupt conversation let's take a look. in your view are there any cost overruns and yes a serious increase in costs but since they use their own funds for the construes own funds. it's financed by the funds of president pollyanna who's the shareholder of course upon your spare ventures so it's largely financed by the states bank yes that's the bank pays for these cost overruns yes it spending one of the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall cost the villagers were initially we were assessing the amount of the loan. what's a rough estimate. this initial price was one point two billion now it's a billion one point two billion has turned into eight billion yes well done good work let's move on to. some of his usual sarcasm from vladimir putin there which of course as

for joining me sir during this visit to moscow you had a chance to meet with russia's president vladimir putin was rushes been to join the always discussed was almost the only topic because we did not have time to discuss too many more we discuss the g twenty also the accession of russia into the o.e.c.d. is for us of a game changer and it's going to be very important russia is very large economy it's a very important presence in the world of energy it's a very important presence in all these international fora accent and so we really are very interested very excited about the bus ability of having as a member and i think russia can benefit also from being in an institution that is not about lending money is not about giving grants it's not about the fixing economies that are not broken it's about policy discussions about what are the best possible policies and therefore what can be the best practices. that russia can adopt we're not going to tell russia what to do with russia we're going to develop the russians what other countries in the world are doing about the same problem of health

abe will meet later this year with vladimir putin to discuss the territories which are controlled by russia and claimed by japan. abe and obama agreed to cooperate on another source of concern. they said they'll work through the u.n. secretary council on tougher sanctions in north korea. they have urged leaders in pyongyang to stop the provocation, however, those leaders have already signalled their intentions to defy those warnings. president obama indulged the japan-u.s. alliance the central foundation for allegiance security. abe agreed it worked to their mutual benefit. >>> china's leaders were paying close attention to abe's visit, and they didn't like what they heard. a government spokesperson took issue with another statement on ownership of the senkaku islands. >> translator: no matter what excuses are made, japan can't change the fact that it illegally occupies chinese territory. >> they will urge china's leaders to address the issue correctly. she said they should be able to work to improve bilateral relations. they propose a transpacific free trade agreement. china is outs

the accusation is that vladimir owns $2 million worth of undeclared property in the united states. daniel reports from moscow. >> he was the chair of the ethics committee, but today in a dramatic session, he had to resign amid allegations he had $2 million worth of property in florida, which he had not declared in the parliamentary register. why didn't you declare it? >> i have not got any properties. >> the ones people are talking about. >> what people? >> the properties are beachfront properties in miami and a villa on a vast plot of land. a paper trail was under its by opposition activists. under the rules, the deputies have to declare all their income, property, and cars. for the first time in years russians are feeling the heat on their property. as the opposition tries to prove their allegations that united russia is a party of crooks and thieves. >> president hu dain will be hoping this with resignation at the center -- president hu will be hoping this registration stops. lossmir's departure is a for russia's president. he was one of putin's longest serving allies in the dum

president vladimir putin has tightened the laws, arguing that russia can take care of her children herself, but not everybody is convinced. and that invalid's home 90 four near st. petersburg is one of the better orphanages -- >> invalid home #four near st. petersburg is one of the better orphanages, but the children are still left alone for long periods of time. volunteers helped care for the children. they do what they can, but they would like to do more. >> if you interact with the children several times a week, you can tell that they become a bit more alert and take in more of their surroundings. >> home number four dates back to the soviet era. it houses nearly 400 children. for 10 years now, natalia has been coordinating volunteers from germany. she says they often take better care of the children. >> russia still has a way to go. heare, an invalid is not seen as a complete person. there are many who think the children get too much care. the main thing is they are out of sight, out of mind. >> images from a children's home near moscow. this boy has down syndrome. his mother gave him

president vladimir putin has tightened the laws, arguing that russia can take care of her children herself, but not everybody is convinced. and that invalid's home 90 four near st. petersburg is one of the better orphanages -- >> invalid home #four near st. petersburg is one of the better orphanages, but the children are still left alone for long periods of time. volunteers helped care for the children. they do what they can, but they would like to do more. >> if you interact with the children several times a week, you can tell that they become a bit more alert and take in more of their surroundings. >> home number four dates back to the soviet era. it houses nearly 400 children. for 10 years now, natalia has been coordinating volunteers from germany. she says they often take better care of the children. >> russia still has a way to go. heare, an invalid is not seen as a complete person. there are many who think the children get too much care. the main thing is they are out of sight, out of mind. >> images from a children's home near moscow. this boy has down syndrome. his mother gave him

stuart: so is vladimir putin, the boss of russia, is he wrong?y, 570 tons of gold in the last ten years and he says he's doing it because there may be a cataclysm in the dollar, the yen or the british pound or the euro. >> yeah, i don't think he's right. the on the fox news i held up a gold coin and i said buy this don't ever sell this coin. $600 an ounce was that day now it's 1600 and change, over the last year or so i talked to a lot of people and the newsletter on gold and some physical commodities, a year or so back off, don't be buying more, don't sell what you have don't be buying more, i think that putin is off base, buying and accumulating right here. and i would say, look, this money, this pool is about to move out of the commodity trade and into the other things, i think it's going to be equities and i'm darn sure and betting my dollar, my own dollars it's going to be real estate as well. stuart: and that's fascinating. so you agree with a lot of the people on the program, equities, stocks and real estate. >> yeah. >> get it out of gold

indeed twenty years old today and they've got some a quite a posse that's going on the president vladimir putin probably expect you know he's very proud of the company but also a kind of friendly thing rocco is an interesting one we're veil off of the break in the business but i thought as a life over to you. if you have a business that you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge mark silva role of junior from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted up to five thousand youths some of whom were as young as ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need. think about is the fact that the us has by far the world's l

. >> his expertise drew the attention of vladimir potanin, a future deputy prime minister of russia withkremlin, who had just been given the right to open two private banks. he asked prokhorov to run them as his partner. the downside was, the job might get him killed. during the 1990s, hundreds of russian businessmen were gunned down by contract killers hired to resolve disputes or by gangsters trying to muscle in on someone else's turf. >> it was a wild west. it was a territory with no sherriff. >> with no sherriff? >> no rules. you need to survive. >> and he did survive, and with no blood on his hands. by the time he reached 30, he was already a multimillionaire. but a much bigger pay day was just around the corner. in 1995, prokhorov and potanin's bank won the equivalent of the russian lottery. kremlin leaders gave them what amounted to an insider's opportunity to buy one of the state's most valuable assets: a huge mining and metals operation called norilsk nickel, which is among the world's largest producers of nickel, copper, and platinum. they acquired it from the kremlin in a so-c

vladimir putin fired one of the most senior officials in charge of the games after complaining yesterday about delays in the construction of the ski jump the very personal interest in the games is all about building an image of russia as a modern nation that can once more compete on the international stage with the world's most powerful country. the winter olympics has been a massively important prestige project, but for many people it ha in a building for five years. on this street overlooking the olympic park, we found this woman. her old house fell apart when the whole hillside started to slip. notice how the kitchen cabinets do not line up with the door frame. she claims that an illegal construction dump caused a landslide. >> may be if this had not happened, i might have enjoyed the olympics but now come on this is hell for -- but now, it is held for me. even if it is prestigious, for us, is a calamity. firing, mostday's of the preparations appear to be on track. these of the most expensive olympics ever. more expensive even than the beijing summer olympics. >> i did not think that

and vladimir putin loves pistachio, one thing the two have in common.nt obama has been seen eating ice cream. the president worked at a baskin robbins when he was a teenager. the president had to share the spotlight with the first lady and her bangs. she shocked all the cameras by debuting her new hair cut at the inauguration. and now she reveals the decision behind the new "do" in a chat with rachael ray. >> the bangs entered through my twitter account. i'm going to be 50 next year, okay? >> you look gorgeous. all the apples. >> it is the apples, this is my mid-life crisis, i couldn't get a sports car, they won't let me bungee jump, so i went for the bangs. >> you're the boss of your hair. >> i can do this, this is all mine. >> the first lady bungee jump. the rachael ray episode will air this wednesday. and still, why are you awake? the tweets and e-mails coming up. now just moments away. at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real

he told vladimir putin that he wants to find a solution. a swift solution is needed. >> translator: the japanese government will press ahead with its basic policy of settling the territorial dispute and pushing to sign a peace treaty with russia. we will continue our efforts to make progress in negotiations. >> the prime minister said the japanese government and public must be united in dealing with this issue. >>> the head of the all-japan judo federation wants to clear the air. he will brief officials on a scandal that's tarnished a sport that started in japan. coaches physically abused members of the women's national team. 15 team members filed a complaint with the japanese olympic committee. they said coaches engaged in violent behavior in training, such as slapping wrestlers in the face. the head coach and the director of technical development have resigned. uemura headed to paris, where he'll appear before the international judo federation. >> translator: it is my responsibility to explain what happened, because we have inconvenienced

abe will meet later this year with president vladimir putin to discuss the northern territories which controlled by russia and claimed by japan. abe and obama agree to cooperate on another source of concern. they said they'll work through the u.n. secretary council toward tougher sanctions on north korea. they have urged leaders in pyongyang to stop the provocations but those leaders have already signaled their intentions to defy those warnings. president obama endorsed the japan-u.s. alliance as the central foundation for regional security. abe agreed it worked to their mutual benefit. >> china has strongly rejected statements by abe on the senkaku islands. japan's prime minister said during his visit to washington that his country has clear historical and legal sovereignty over the senkaku islands in the east china sea. japan controls the territories. china and taiwan claim them. abe made the remark in a speech at a research institute in washington on friday. >> translator: no matter what excuses are made, japan cannot change the fact that it illegally occupies chinese territory. >>

the moscow times says the band will be lending their, quote, powerful voices to vladimir putin's fertility campaign to raise the country's dwindling population. they say the stylish trio is going to moscow and they will perform a selection of classic balance lads and hopefully giving russian men some inspiration before valentine's day. i will be on hand to iron their sleeveless v necks. is r&b an afro deash yak? take a look from my personal collection. >> ♪ what did i say? first gay marriage, then this. you open the door for everything and once you allow men to marry they are animals of different -- whatever they are. >> you are besmirching. >> i am. but that wouldn't have happened if not for gay marriage. i support everything. >> rick. why? -- i happen to think that putin is nuts. >> putin. >> i thought it was putin. he is part of putin. he is playing hard ball. they put the punk rockers in jail and they have internet restrictions. but this is actually a smart idea. the countries that repopulate are countries that win. when you look at muslims -- >> this is government stimulus, isn't that

the collection is dedicated to the memorabilia of soviet leader vladimir lenin from small statuettes to portraits. but the museum may be going too far with a life-size display of the leader. even more stunning is this figure appears to breathe. that's creepy. >>> well, a notorious romanian gangster seems to have unusual taste in pets. investigators were surprised to find four lions and two bears at the man's estate after he was arrested on multiple charges including murder and kidnapping. they believe the animals were used to threaten victims. but some neighbors said he was just an animal lover do. you expect the neighbors to tell the truth living northeast the man with lions? >> if you are going to be a gangster, go all in. >> i agree with you, it's a way to intimidate people with lions. >> let's go have a meeting with my lion. >>> time for an early look at the day ahead. general norman schwarzkopf will be laid to rest today at west point. a memorial service for the man known as stormin' norman will be held this afternoon. he drove forces like saddam hussein out. he was 78 when he d

now this figure comes out of the shadows the same week that russia's president vladimir putin introduced a draft law that restricts investment abroad barring senior officials from holding bank accounts all stocks outside the russian borders now the law is an attempt by putin to fight corruption isn't his ambition to make russia more investment friendly and earlier i spoke to jacob knell chief economist from morgan stanley russia and i asked him about this rate of illegal outflow and putin's attempts to combat it. it's always hard to know how to measure something that is illegal and therefore hidden the actual number for capital outflows provided by the central bank is much higher for instance last year we know it was about sixty billion dollars the year before eighty billion dollars so much larger number than the ten billion dollars or so that this report is talking about per year. there is a line on the central bank balance of payments called fictitious transactions where people are underreporting imports over reporting exports in order to move funds abroad but some of that may not be.

hundreds of thousands of sports men and women than guests from around the globe russian president vladimir putin has been personally checking the limpid values and said he was generally happy about what he saw but he did have some harsh criticism of tom's let's now talk to our teaser in the. in the studio it's a huge event isn't it for russia in particular how close are we for things to be completed is it ready absolutely well and i'm saying absolutely that it's an important event but you could also see that in terms of the preparedness of the venues it's basically all the venues are basically eighty percent ready to receive the sportsmen the sports women and of course the audience but we're talking about the most expensive games in history ever basically but this is a very unique situation for literally fifteen minutes away from the beach you end up with the snow capped mountains and for the first ever olympic games to be held in this tropical area and of course that puts a certain strain on certain objects and does hike up the costs and russian president was of course exploring the ski f

he was granted russian citizenship personally by president vladimir putin after complaining of france's high tax rates. he will officially register about 600 kilometers east of moscow. well, they spent the last year doing damage control in addition to some serious rethinking. >> germany's domestic intelligence agency has been reeling ever since news emerged that it failed to link a decade- long killing spree of a neo-nazi sell. >> they have unveiled new plans for doing their job better. >> get back to the basics -- the core conclusion being drawn by germany's domestic intelligence agency after its disastrous failure to pick up on the murderous right wing gang. the federal office for protection of the constitution wants to change the way it does business. >> until now, we only got the information that we were given. in future, it has to be the other way around. we have to hunt things down. we will be asking sources to supply us with the information we need. >> the authority also plans to centralize its data collection and compare information with other intelligence agencies. ghouls a to

it's thirty minutes past the hour you're watching business on r t welcome russia's president vladimir putin is flying to soar to this week to mark the one year to go free anniversary of these sochi olympic games but the sochi games kill ready claim the first place in terms of cost it's setting a world record as the most expensive olympics in history according to the state commission overseeing the preparations for the games its price tag will read fifty billion dollars that's more than ten times higher than that of the last one on one biggs games in vancouver canada our correspondent andrew farmer has all the details of the story. well with a year to go the work continues and so does the rising cost sochi will be the most expensive olympics in history with the final price tag thought to be around fifty billion dollars that is ten billion more than the summer games in beijing and ten times the amount of the last winter games in vancouver so begs the question why is it so expensive and the answer is quite simple pretty much everything has had to be built from scratch i'm standing in the

all right arts he's a song thomas reporting live from the russian capital where president vladimir putin and french president francois hollande have just wrapped up their meeting thanks. and that wraps up our main news block here on r t this hour next we take you to russia says cold opinion and a front row seat to see nature's awesome sky high light show. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. viewers who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clear fires how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy the thing is that one side is arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem

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a day you're watching r t well tough talks are expected in moscow nater on thursday as president vladimir putin hosts french. divisions over syria and iran remain a key points of foreign policy discord. is covering all the maidan visit to the russian capital. certainly an interesting day today as talks between francois hollande and bloody miller putin commence lots of items on the table for discussion including international trade relations and improving relations between the two countries but the main focus for russia are the international issues specifically syria iran and even mali now while this is president alliance first visit to moscow it's not the first time the two leaders have met they did clash this past summer specifically over the topic of syria saying bush are assad must go to prison saying that that is not a precondition for success to happen in syria and that it has to move forward through diplomatic talks and a multilateral talks with all sides and all parties involved something that the west is not really backing now on the subject of iran. is siding with the e.u. and to

the russian president, vladimir putin, among those marking this anniversary. the stalingrad battle lasted more than six months and engulfed the whole city and its people. around a million died. many through fighting. others through hunger, cold and disease. in the end, russia's red army pushed back the nazi offensive and would prove to be a turning point in the second world war. 70 years may have passed but the memories of those months have barely faded for the men who were on the front line. >> everyone thought until the ultimate victory. the people of stallip -- stalingrad were great. they've done a lot. it was difficult, winter in the tank. in the tank we left city and headed all the way to the west. stalingrad had to be almost completely rebuilt after the war in 1961, its name was changed to volgagrad. the leader who sent the troops into battle divides opinion. for some, josef stalin is a hero who transformed russia into a super power. for others, he is a tyrant and monster who persecuted millions of his own people. in recent times, there have been efforts

now this figure comes out of the shadows the same week that russia's president vladimir putin introduced a draft law that restricts investment abroad barring senior officials from holding bank accounts all stocks outside the russian borders now the law is an attempt by putin to fight corruption isn't his ambition to make russia more investment friendly and earlier i spoke to jacob knell chief economist from morgan stanley or russia and i asked him about this rate of illegal outflow and putin's attempts to combat it. it's always hard to know how to measure something that is illegal and therefore hidden the actual number for capital outflows provided by the central bank is much higher for instance last year we know it was about sixty billion dollars the year before eighty billion dollars so much larger number than the ten billion dollars or so that this report is talking about per year. there is a line on the central bank balance of payments called fictitious transactions where people are underreporting imports over reporting exports in order to move funds abroad but some of that may not b

hundreds of thousands of sportsmen and women and guests from around the globe russian president vladimir putin has been personally checking the olympic venues and said he was generally about what he saw and then he did have some harsh criticism at times. takes up the story. this is a very exciting time for russians especially for those living in tsotsi with just one year left before the games are said to start eighty percent of all they news are official numbers are saying are already completed and you have to understand this is a very unique a limb pick games this is the first time the first games there are taking place in the sub tropical area never before has it been done also you have to understand look at this this is february and we as were edging closer to the games you have to understand this is going to be a very unique event because literally you have the beach and then fifteen minutes drive you have the snow capped mountains so if you're tired of watching snowboarding or ski events you can always take a break down by the beach and possibly work on your town as well so you can

during this visit to moscow we had a chance to meet with russia's president vladimir putin was russia's bid to join the o.e.c.d. discussed. almost the only topic because we did not have time to discuss too many more we discuss the g twenty also the accession of russia into the o.e.c.d. is for us of a game changer and it's going to be very important russia is very large economy it's a very important presence in the world of energy it's a very important presence in all these international fora accent and so we really are very interested very excited about the buzz ability of having as a member and i think russia can benefit also from being in an institution that is not about lending money is not about giving grants it's not about the fixing economies that are not broken it's about policy discussions about what are the best possible policies and therefore what can be the best practices. that russia can adopt we're not going to tell russia what to do with russia we're going to tell the russians what all other countries in the world are doing about the same problem of health care the same pr

talks are expected in moscow as president vladimir putin hosts french leader front swallow and divisions over syria and iran remains the key points of foreign policy to scored thomas song thomas is covering a long maiden visit to the russian capital. it's certainly going to be an interesting day. alond has come to moscow for the first time to discuss trade relations and also to improve relations between the two countries as there are some tensions between the two but the main points of interest for russia are what's happening in iran in syria and in mali let's break that down for you first of all about the syria issue back when these two met in the summer not here in moscow but there they did have clashes about the topic of syria a lot saying at that time that bashar al assad needs to go must be ousted. saying no this is not the case that the only way that anything can happen in syria for it to be real change needs to be bilateral talks or talks with all parties involved actually pointing to what happened in libya saying that there was foreign intervention there was an overthrow of moamm