morgan burning down a low aleksei for imax nice to be chewed nice to be hi stacey. all right lois show the people the your work show the people oh my god it's too hot for t.v. . yeah it looks fantastic look out it out it's hot. yeah i can feel it over here buddy you are burning up the art world you put up on e-bay and it's already attracting dozens of big prices skyrocketing people understand that the wave of today is a burning banks and you're on the bleeding edge of this movement now tell us what exactly gave you that moment of inspiration to create change burning you know i kind of led up to it through a series of paintings that i that i started doing of one of them was these sort of fantasy riot scenes because we've been seeing so much of that on television and then there was also a series of just just regular buildings that were on fire well then i combined that the chocolate in my peanut butter was my love for impressionist plane air painting painting on location combined with my with the symbolic fire of of economic destruction that is being wrought upon us s

whole thing to him and i was the third i quit sports and got a job however luckily russia's coach aleksey how plan of invited me to their training camp in one and made several examinations that proved that i am fully fit to compete so i stayed here in russia fortunately listen got back into the sport less than a year after he had quit and since then he has won the russian championship twice was a runner up at the world championship last year and tops the world rankings this season and the belorussians. he leads a very strong team that includes two world champions for elephants a geek i came and double olympic champion me see if it is they will wait and see live that is what i worried so much when i got back to training alex a two time olympic champion i've seen my save and wondered how can i become such a legendary athlete the levels seem to be unreachable for me but i saw the train with the team and the guys showed me how health a battle is hard to train every fencing touch every second game in swimming and running every faultless right every accurate shot can make the difference between

the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you that shortly after present may have suggested. on the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government just remind that the question is not a problem and republic what a presidential republican such statements are absolutely unacceptable to you will be able to watch the entire interview with the russian president later in the day on r.t. . and still to come on the program the beginnings of a new monetary and disaster fold in libya. finding themselves catastrophic water food and supplies in the desert. now case and action by market panic unseen since the financial crash of two thousand and eight the german government scramble to approve a massive expansion of emergency bailout fund the new measures mean berlin now guarantees nomic contribution of two hundred eleven billion a year most analysts however agree that a move must be done to prevent a

rejected selling harvin state energy company nothing gas to russia's gazprom in return for cheaper fuel aleksei unicef's has a big sales. experts are speculating whether this is the start of when you gas conflict and you gas war between russia and ukraine as very harsh statements are coming from both sides for ukraine's president a victory on the court which has accused russia of humiliating ukraine in the course of negotiations and saying that he will not tolerate a relation like this and may even take this discussion over a new contract when you gas prices between ukraine and russia in stockholm at the same time we've heard a very sharp response from the kremlin. the press office of. russia's president even if they did that russia is ready for any legal action should ukraine decide to take such measures the essence of this new conflict is that ukraine is not happy with the price it is paying four thousand cubic meters of russian gas kremlin waits for some commercial offer to provide such discounts such as for instance a merger between the ukrainian gas monopolists natural gas and the russian

if you do financial spoke about the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you that shortly after prison they have suggested pushing the floor of the country's top job on the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government reminded that the russia is not a problem and so republic but a presidential republican such statements are absolutely unacceptable to you will be able to watch the entire interview with the russian president later in the day an artsy a canadian a town again many thanks for. reporting for us live from moscow. so it's come in the program the beginnings of a new humanitarian disaster on fold in libya things of billions flee from vicious fighting between the m.d.c. and get down to loyalists finding themselves catastrophic initial water food supplies in the desert. kicked into action by market panic on scenes of the financial crisis of two thousand and eight the german

ottawa thanks for joining me russia's economic policy will continue war less on the course said by aleksey could in speaking to business r t deputy finance minister sergei explains the government's thinking in the wake of a shock sacking of his boss. was amused if you look at the but it is. the first deputy prime minister. agrees with explosives used to gudrid on the key issues he says the ego's parameters of the state budget for next year would develop and will remain and that he will meet with the ministry agree to any move again. let's take a look at the markets now all prices are heading up on expectations an expanded european bailout fund will support economic growth and demand for fuel flights we just trading at eighty two dollars a barrel while brand is at one hundred over one hundred three dollars per barrel asian shares are mostly lower on friday on the final day of the fourth quarter with investors trading nervously ahead of further developments on the europe's debt crisis meanwhile energy companies managed to notch some gains on the nikkei with jack's holdings up one point four

better than persians presidential plans russia's leaders suggest the finance minister quits its all to aleksey kudrin said on sunday that he would not serve under a new government if it meant the top seeds which jolts the crap. from here is a need to scramble for on the edge into rescue plans and stave off a lapse and a new wave of global recession and sasha malia she found the commission of north trees in compton from queens to the sublime. new cancer europe all doing america has been a. great power has been through the palestinian statehood bid we showed president mahmoud abbas has within the last week the us that is rather being blamed for schooling and historic period of. time now to check in literally just what was used in the caves. a lot of thank you for joining me for the latest sports news and here's what's coming up. tracking the army midfield assault on small church and alexander could return as injury hit taste go and get set to host italian giants into well on in the champions league. one million dollars short american bill haas wins the fed ex cop in atlanta beating until may and

and now he's got the same punishment for a high challenge on another shot stopper crania suburbs aleksey feel that a lot of stopped a suspension ends in a fortnight time with the russian cup the only competition he can play until. now hard work and more hard work that in essence was the visor maria shut up about during a tennis clinic in taiwan and three time grand slam champion along with russia's top ranked are in asia to compete at the pan pacific open in two q this weekend it's not a process where you just go to sleep you wake up and all this. when you're a champion it's a lot of a lot of years and a great team around you you know from fundamentals to learning how to play you know and developing your skills during matches transitioning to playing against you know professional athletes and russian tennis players it's a step by step process. and finally it's rare for bowlegged that stirring a lot of attention this week the international backyard football championship has kicked off in the black sea resort of upset but artie's benson but out of one of those attending the opening day. mi

and staying on the subject of the economy also he spoke to russia's finance minister aleksei could ring to discuss the country's plans for weathering future financial storms. and always say advance the commies are about to plunge into another recession the debt crisis in europe is threatening to involve more countries it's not clear how the u.s. is going to pay off their gigantic debt analysts give a pretty grim picture of what's coming to find out how russia plans to deal with these developments in the world economy i'm joined by russia's finance minister. thank you very much for joining me out of sitting at a beach hello prime minister vladimir putin said russia has sustained the head of the crisis and that in fact the level of unemployment in russia now is lower than it had been before the crisis we know very well that we deserve credit for russia actually being able to withstand a very severe financial crisis from several years ago we are talking about the stabilization fund that if you developed it and other measures but here we see a new wave of problems in the world economy proba

if you just spoke about the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you of shortly after prison leader suggested largemouth pushing the floor. on the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government meaning you just pointed out that school you must have been doing his job for way too long if you got so bored of it that he's making such irresponsible statements and making them abroad nonetheless he said with his professionalism and experience we should have no trouble whatsoever finding another job and another way to serve his country. and we'll be bringing you the full version of our interview so due to dinner at around four thirty pm g.m.t. . our international desk inspectors having trouble with think ministries in greece because angry work is on keep on them in their latest anti austerity protest the delegation are in athens to decide whether greece is now for another portion of the bailo

about do you believe it or you feel about the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you of shortly after presently have suggested blood human pushing the floor of the country's top job on the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government with you just pointed out that soon you must have been doing his job for way too long if you got so bored of it that he's making such irresponsible statements and making them abroad nonetheless he. with his professionalism and experience who should have no trouble whatsoever finding another job another way to serve his country. and we'll bring you that interview. in full right here on r t in about twenty five it's time. now thousands of egyptians have gathered in cairo's main square to take part in a mass protest named reclaim the revolution they feel left down by the transitional military council and want the current emergency rule to be lifted acti

russia that vladimir putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve and also the finance minister aleksey could that in could step down it's hard to see how much of an impact that is having on the markets right now because due to the the outside factors that are already leaving the markets calm incredibly volatile as i say things going on in the united states also in europe so at the moment it's difficult to see just how much of an impact the news that putin will run and the day he could and could step down is having on the markets right now. ok thank you peter all over for thanks very much and now let's take a look at the figures here in moscow he has recovered from earlier losses as we've just said now. one point three percent in the mines x. is up over three percent this hour now let's have a look at some index movers on the my xix most energy majors are bouncing back from earlier losses with look oil gaining now almost four percent telecommunications giant ross telecom is also off the company's listing twenty five percent of its approach as in london and the banking stocks are no exce

joining me as we've been reporting russia needs a new finance minister following the sharp departure of aleksey kudrin on monday jacob nell from morgan stanley russia says there are few candidates who could succeed could win but although hard to find it hard to match the confidence. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code knew how the qualifications on paper and perhaps personality to be the minister of finance visit the central bank governor who works in the ministry of finance his view can he was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those two could reach the president's economic advisor his deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such as school child you have a passage each to two to fulfill the role want to treat with the track record he has the credibility and you don't build it up overnight so i'm not sure leads to study this until today. take a look at the markets now here the figures for the r.t.s. and noise expose that are adding over two and a half percent this hour and let's have a look at some index holders on the rise x. energy stocks on the r

and they asked him do you hate banks do you plan to do that to the bank now aleksey for the artists responded the flame symbolized bringing the system down some might say that the banks are the terrorists you know i mean the cops are obviously harassing this guy and somebody made a good point of comments that hollywood movies to predict things blowing up all the time to show up in a studio and say are you planning on blowing up the things that you're depicting being blown up in your depiction of this oh i mean it's just harassment by cops they don't understand in america particularly in california that banks are terrorists that they are basically terrorist and their children are banking offspring of their joining it's created a new generation of terrorists just like we see in other countries around the world has nothing to stop the terrorism so they're spawning new terrorists and it's as simple as of yet but the same sort of harriet beecher stowe was met with the same sort of shock and outrage by the community when she depicted in. so these are the same thing here's a guy who's painting the t

to our business update this hour russia's economic policy will continue more or less on the course aleksei could remain speaking exclusively to business r.t. deputy finance minister sergei store cheick explains the department's thinking in the wake of the shock cycle the finance minister. giggles amused you because with a bit of history you won't well the new chief the first deputy prime minister well of agrees with experience mr coote really on the key issues he says that all those programs in the state budget for next year which would develop and will remain in use and if you look at the ministry agreed to any moral obligations you will accumulate as a collective of markets now all prices are heading up on expectations that an expanded european bailout fund will support economic growth and about for fuel flight so it is trading at eighty two dollars per barrel while the grand plan is that one hundred and four dollars per hour asian stock markets are in the red with investors trading nervously ahead of the further developments of europe's debt crisis meanwhile latest reports are japanese

and now he's got the same punishment for a high challenge on another shot stopper clearly a side of aleksey fielder of wellington stuck to his suspension ends in a fortnight's time with the russian cup the only competition he can play in until that. now costs richest prizes up for grabs this week thought of candidates will have the chance to battle for a town million dollar bonus added to our championship in our plants the event is the climax of the fed ex play offs first introduced in two thousand and seven tiger woods twice of b.j. singh and defending champion jim few. have wanted in the previous year as this season is going to be an open field battle between world number one luke donald webb sim some. dustin johnson and last week's b.m.w. championship winner justin rose anyone else in confession could also grab the prize money in case not of those top five contenders wins. hopefully you get a little bit more fun and don't forget about the pressure obviously the pressure on my own come some day you know there's a lot to play for it's not just going to be ten million person in playing for

and as we've been reporting russia needs a new finance minister following the shock departure of aleksey kudrin on monday jacob from morgan stanley russia says there are a few candidates who could succeed but all will find it hard to match the confidence he in spite. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code who have the qualifications on paper and perhaps personality to be the minister of finance there's ignatieff the central bank governor who worked in the ministry of finance this view given there was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those to walk of which the president's economic advisor those deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such a store jack you have the capacity to to to fulfill the role want to trade with the track record he has the credibility and you don't build that up overnight and russia needs a steady hand on the fiscal tiller today. let's take a look at the markets the r.t.s. is adding three and a half percent and then my six is up two and a half percent this hour let's have a look at some of the individual shares moved on th

the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you of shortly after prison you have suggested. for. all the other side of the atlantic russian minister speaking at a press conference in washington. that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government really just pointed out that somebody must have been doing his job for way too long if he got so bored of it that he's making such irresponsible statements and making them abroad nonetheless he with his professionalism and experience moving should have no trouble whatsoever finding another job another way to serve his country i will be bringing you the full version of each union at four thirty pm g m t. international desk and scratches having trouble with his in key ministries in greece because angry work is rocky behind them in their latest. protest the delegation are in athens to decide whether greece is fit enough for another portion of the bailout the government's last challenge from a break now stage of the smart decision was suspended earlier a bit

out to be is unlikely to affect russia's economy but that's the view of russian finance minister aleksey could read and watch an exclusive interview with him in just over an hour's time here but for now a preview. with exact prices still spread it does not affect us too much at least directly because our banks do not hold any of the history books with what trends and german banks on your heart will suffer greatly because they will have on their hands that would not be cleared by us will cause problems within these banks problems with these credits and overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players. and watching the weekly here on r.t. and another high profile killing shook afghanistan this week the country's former president of the peace talks with the taliban it was assassinated on tuesday in a suicide attack but one of the in that rabbi was killed by a militant who had hidden the explosive device in his turban all the while claiming to be a taliban envoy rabbani who had led the country in the ninety's was the key figure in current peace talks with the

that is the rouble inflation covering the budget deficit we have the head of the russia central bank aleksey want to talk about the forecast for inflation for the upcoming years and it seems there's a gradual reduction of the inflation rate to twenty twelve the same level of a maximum of six percent twenty five and a half percent or twenty fourteen five percent but companies are of course using this opportunity to talk about their investment plans to promote themselves as expanding companies developing companies lukoil for example has said it's going to continue increasing foreign assets both in the united states and in asia and also in african countries to develop production over there we have also interviewed earlier on the vice president of procter and gamble's eastern european division that's the part you see a low pass and she has said that the russian market is extremely important right now because they're seeing stagnant growth in the united states and in developing markets such as europe the bric countries are proving to be most efficient so production is going to be increased in rus

russia needs a new finance minister following the sharp departure of aleksey kudrin on monday his position became untenable after the after he told me he stated he would not work on the meditative in the next administration she could now from morgan stanley russia says there are a few candidates to succeed couldn't but will find it hard to match the confidence . i think there's quite a number of people in more sco who have the qualifications on paper a perhaps a personality to be the minister of finance visit last year the central bank governor who worked in the ministry of finance business you can who was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor there's talk of rich the president's economic adviser those deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such a store chap who have a capacity to to to fulfill the role model to trim the hires to track record he has credibility and you don't build that up overnight and russia needs a steady hand on the fiscal tiller today. and that's all the business news for now but don't forget to check our website in our consul ask business for

the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you of shortly after presently have suggested pushing the floor. of the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government with you just pointed out that some who must have been doing his job for way too long if you got so bored of it that he's making such irresponsible statements and making them abroad nonetheless he said with his professionalism and experience putin should have no trouble whatsoever finding another job another way to serve his country. and we'll bring you the full of a. and all of that interview with the primitive it four thirty pm g.m.t. better coming up later this hour the return to the prettiest square as thousands take to central cairo protests against the new rule is why they believe the revolution didn't change in the country. of millions fleeing from the vicious fighting between the national transitional council and daffy l

simply washing finance minister aleksey wouldn't have said that she would not say he doesn't want to remain at his post with the government's was she was dismissed out of that investment because it has said that it is a matter of political discipline and there's no need to jam with sizes because russia is not a parliament's republic but a presidential republican such statements are simply unacceptable both insight into go for president if you will be able to which. later in the day right up it's all you know to live for us in moscow thanks but. libya's national transitional council says it won't form an interim government until the whole country is liberated and i could argue forces have already taken the airport the fugitive colonel's hometown of sirte one of the last remaining strongholds reinforcements were called in for a fresh assault in the face of strong resistance by civilians continue fleeing the besieged city and i were activist and director of the answer coalition brian becker says. we are adding to the problems in the country. clearly they're not protecting civilians when

there digesting the news like important would be making another bid for russia's presidency and that aleksei could and could be stepping down as finance minister one globally european leaders have made some progress in agreeing the size of the bailout but critically not how it should be found it now let's get the latest from peter arbor who is at the r.t.l. stock exchange here in moscow hello to you peter so what's the mood like now. the latest is the my six has made so many games however the r.t.s. is still trading in the red now this follows last week where both markets suffered shoot shoot losses following gloomy growth predictions from the united states also the ongoing debt crisis in europe having an effect there was a meeting over the weekend to try and determine a solution to this day crisis but out left more questions still to be amazing to be answered and they estimate that it could be almost two trillion euros that's needed to bail out the debt riddled countries in the eurozone now throw into the mix the big domestic news from here in russia not a mere putin will run to the preside

this is an aussie coming to life for a check of the headlines russia's finance minister aleksey kudrin has been signed by president medvedev to say did not serve under him as prime minister should lead to take over as leader after next year's elections and for criticizing aspects of budgetary policy. the united nations security council says it will consider palestine's bid for full u.n. membership on wednesday with its leaders expressing hope of success despite opposition from the u.s. which holds a veto. speculation continues over agree to dead default as euro zone leaders scrambled for another interest you plan to take it all deep recession meanwhile the international monetary fund has been criticized for not treating all countries equally and for favoring the rich.

democracy is about to give you the video about the recent discharge of the country's finance minister aleksey calling it a matter of political discipline just to remind you of shortly after present you have suggested. for. all the other side of the atlantic russian finance minister speaking at a press conference in washington has said that he does not want to remain at his post with the new government maybe just pointed out that soon must have been doing his job for way too long if he got so bored of it that he's making such irresponsible statements and making them abroad nonetheless he with his professionalism and experience we should have no trouble whatsoever finding another job another way to serve his country. and we'll be bringing you the full version of the interview of course in a four person g.m.t. . over the whole thing i. so full away. from the area near the barricades that was set up it's now encircled with columns y. and here lies offices that promise to shoot to kill anyone trying to course to cross a well known and if he had a chance he joins me live now on the on the phone fro

dry gas problem and we've already heard confirmation on that from the head of the gazprom company aleksey mediator that is very interesting especially given the fact that ukraine has been pushing very hard to change the gas deal of two thousand and nine being unhappy with the price that he is currently paying to moscow for the russian natural gas so some experts suggest that so rapid liquidation of the natural gas monopoly can be somehow related to the fact that ukraine has been trying to alter the two thousand and. thirteen soon a from russia's national energy security fund any breach of the existing contract between russia and ukraine could disrupt gas supplies to europe. if they set up. its meals that there is no legal process. i would guess rule ukraine music ukraine can take this b.s. from pipes. so russia will stop our exports to europe and stop some why the fall against the grain so with me is the beginning of the second guess well. that's a quick look at the markets european stocks fell sharply on friday as sell few stocks survived of course based selloff on the data showed us job

in the world like a harvard ball hundreds of millions of dollars later and their idea is now every aleksey it's no secret the country is like in the high fliers and instead of imports in them the school believes in teacher russians how to think outside the box and this is where their approach comes in the organizers a believe in students taking part in the real projects and analyzing business activities in countries with rapidly growing economies present with him a bit of as convinced that this project is exactly what russia needs to meet his goals of modernization and a lot of international companies are already backing the project we intend to continue to remain to be committed to skolkovo because we think it has an important role to play in transforming the business environment in russia in combination with . the innovation city. be a major. source of renewed innovation and growth for russia so the fifth anniversary celebration is not only a good opportunity to show the world how far spoke of a has come but so unite the business elite once again and discuss how to make it even better an

american jesse williams jumped over 2-point-3-5 meters the first time, edging out russian aleksey dmitrik who cleared that height on his second trial. in 400 meter hurdles, another american, lashinda demus, beat jamaican favorite melaine walker by point-2-6 seconds to mark 52-point-4-7 seconds in the ladies events... while britain's david greene won the men's event finishing at 48-point-26 seconds. and for more laps... american jennifer barringer simpson carried on the golden streak, coming in first in women's 15-hundred meters to beat britain's hannah england, while kenyan men took both the gold and the silver in 3-thousand meter steeplechase. ezekiel kemboi clinched his second world title, coming in at 8 minutes and 14- point-8-5 seconds... followed by countryman brimin kiprop kipruto. the us and kenya definitely had a good day. and now, with just three days to go... which events are coming up on friday? on its seventh day at the worlds... those of you who have been rooting for south african oscar pistorius...the 'blade runner' with amputees... will be able to see him run once more in d