upon the need for a missile defense system that meets both country's security demands which dimitri medvedev who held talks with iraq a partner at the g eight summit in france said it could happen by twenty twenty. and russia calls for an international investigation into georgia's all the crackdown on protesters demanding president second release resignation dozens were hospitalized after police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds ahead of the independence day military or great. i forget you can always follow us on twitter and facebook and i'll be back with a look at our main news stories and developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we travel to somalia which has become the world's cheapest rubbish dump in recent years award winning journalist paul laura now investigates who's benefiting from poisoning somali waters and the disastrous impact on the health of the locals there that's next on r.t. . this is one of the most dangerous places on earth fought over by armed as the most groups pirates and bandits somalia is a country with no law and order a

dimitri medvedev here has the details. there are reports that the sides were engaged in last minute negotiations sunday evening an attempt to salvage this multi-billion dollar deal which expires monday night but speculation has to be he might need more time to sweetness over to t. and k b p t a k b p is a russian british joint venture all of them by b.p. offered by alford says renault have a group of russian businessmen and this shareholder agreement actually stipulates that to be should be the primary vehicle for all babies operations in russia and ukraine and business why the deal of between b.p. and was there to explore the odds of shell violates this agreement that was blocked by the stop of arbitration forced the government says that the deal is too important to be about to be energy minister sergei schwab who says that some kind of resolution should be found and therefore it is widely speculated that b.p. might go ahead and actually buy out its russian partners in the baby b. but so far the sides of failed to agree o

antiwar activist there now will he stay or will he go that's what many have been trying to ask dimitri medvedev as the it's one in twelve presidential campaign in russia draws closer and the president's latest q. and a session was a perfect opportunity to throw the question into the ring but he threw it straight back out again artie's got there you know as a lot of us has a deep sense. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. question president meet him and he did have his first major press conference on wednesday getting many a chance to voice their questions but while some were serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know all of that your wife has to parking lots on i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of these that it has washing machine like. it was the question of a possible second turn that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year and he goes with the decision over the presidential

and the question of whether dimitri medvedev will be running for the presidency and twenty twelve remains unanswered the russian leader sidestepped the issue of his two hour log q. and a session with journalists. as is that media conference has left some questions unanswered r.t. caught up with me at that as press secretary at the more cautious light on some of the most pressing issues in russian politics. it was the sixty four thousand dollar question but we're all still waiting for the payout in his biggest ever news conference president the midterm agreed it used to be backed into a corner on his plans for twenty twelve sitting in the front row man hundreds of dawn lists the president's press secretary was equally tight lipped. hello and thank you it's not a secret the answer to the main question we were all expecting was whether president regret it would announce his candidacy for twenty two hours or not well he didn't what message do you think he's sent by this. new president of the disease i think you just didn't happen the way you expected it of course you knew about the expectatio

eight summit being held in france present dimitri medvedev also confirmed it will be sending an envoy to meet rebels in benghazi moscow has agreed to become a peace mediator in libya and he said now he has more now from the view. russia has never had any illusions about colonel gadhafi and the fact that certainly not playing by the so-called rogue lobel was before that many officials throughout the day from all over the world including of course russia basically in this declaration it says word for word that daffy let go. and russia understands that resume its individual final news conference here at the g. eight i spoke more details about how russia feels about the situation in libya nationals yes we are in touch with both so it's a new forces and been gonzi and representatives of the we haven't broken diplomatic ties but i think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches to reducing the reasons for the escalation of violence which is still doing since we discussed it at the g eight and the declaration says that it could not be regime has lost its legitima

doing of course it's brought about some changes it started to work more with the internet since dimitri medvedev became president or which he may also find his personal blog that kremlin dogs are used and his blog appears on live journal and facebook where a year ago the president took to twitter account first it was entirely official and then we split it into two comments official and personal we've worked with various internet resources they give the president a feeling of feedback an opportunity to keep up with what people think and what's going on in the country to know what concerns people what problems they think important the president said at the press conference but it's an issue of major importance to him which helps him to assess impartially i think thank you very much and good luck to you and all of the team working with the president. culture is that so much of an oldish musician on the mark will be arab awakening is often referred to as revolutions in the arab middle east there can be no doubt something in the core of this is true but it's nature by. a mission free accreditation fr

doing of course it's brought about some changes it started to work more with the internet since dimitri medvedev became president or which you may also find his personal blog that kremlin dot ru and his blog appears on live journal and facebook of the year or the president took to twitter account the post it was entirely official and then we split it into two candidates official and personal we've worked with various internet resources they give the president a feeling of feedback an opportunity to keep up with what people think the most going on in the country to know what concerns people what problems they think important the president said at the press conference that it's an issue of major importance to him which helps him to assess impartially thank you very much and good luck to you and all of the team working with the president. repairing a broken ancient. highway construction and she managed to carry an eight. buses shady officials get the spoils of war and it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan. on. down the official

dimitri medvedev says he will announce whether he's going to run again for president but not just yet it was one of his answers to hundreds of journalists and a mammoth media question and answer session the last at well over two hours he also discussed working working relations with prime minister putin and how russia has disappointed with nato sanctions on going in libya and he has been following the fox. possession went on for almost two and a half hours hundreds of journalists were there eight hundred in fact three hundred of them international all packed into a hole in that skolkovo but that menu was not chosen by mistake it's somewhat of a gem up for president medvedev part of his modernization plan and what it is is a project to develop the sort of tech town very similar to that of silicon valley bringing together some of the greatest russian minds and one place to develop new technology and other sorts of developments about was chosen very specially for this session lots of different issues were covered of course the biggest anticipated question are i should say answer of the d

seems to be experience some serious problems for more on this we go to the business desk where dimitri medvedev who is standing by live through what's behind this big turnaround there is a big turnaround something like two weeks ago was more than one hundred twenty dollars for. barrels around one hundred ten right now and silver was going to record highs of fifty dollars destroy answers now we have to so what's happening right now is that there's been a bunch of negative subsistence coming out from the united states has concerns about inflation in china which is continuing to rise and therefore concerns of shifted towards slowing demand for energy and for resources rather than shrinking supply is the concerns that we had becoming from tension from the middle east and north africa which. is the first place created this whole situation with energy and resources becoming higher. and german court has convicted a former nazi death camp guard of accessory to murder during world war two john demjanjuk was found guilty of helping kill thousands of jews they convicted has been released from court pendin

eight summit being held in france present dimitri medvedev also confirmed it will be sending an envoy to meet rebels in benghazi moscow has agreed to become a peace mediator in libya let's get more now from artie's and he said she's there in france and the summit is over now that was anything significant achieved. it most certainly was a failed b g yes. how wrapped up here into bill frankincense this was reached on libya leaders agreeing colonel gadhafi must go and that russia should broker the deal. new world new ideas host france but that concept on the g. eight table at a time when it looks like the old ways aren't working a war in libya on the front line with the euro crisis in the background leads to questions like this will sarkozy be known as the man who saved tens of thousands of civilians in benghazi or will he be known as the man who promised to economic ruin and a never ending war in libya he must go g. eight leaders agreed word for word in their declaration about gadhafi saying he has lost all legitimacy now it's understood behind closed doors there was harsh debate on the

moscow recapping our top story and it dimitri medvedev says the time isn't right to reveal his plans for the presidency in two thousand and twelve he was fielding questions in a marathon news conference where he also said the russia would not support a new u.n. resolution on syria after what's happened in libya when asked about jailed oil tycoon the gulf cup of coffee the president said his release would not be a threat to society. from egypt's revolution more than the end to a dictatorship but has offered in sectarian divisions of the religious clashes already claiming dozens of lives christians and muslims a claim of close to revolution leaders for failing to stem a worrying rise in interfaith violence. and big brother is battering sweden as the e.u. uses its legal clout so force the country to store people's online information sweden remains one of the few nations trying to protect internet users privacy. program we look into what's happened to america's once iconic middle class and what the government is doing about it to stay with us. can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm pet

dimitry medvedev and vladimir putin. in the event, wherever you come down on that, you hear echoes in this very valuable paper and what the authors identify as the conflict -- the age-old conflict really in europe the slab ofiles and the workers and they have it more in a subtle picture at times overlapping even of how the main schools of foreign policy thought in russia today that are really -- they do not see great contradictions between the various schools that are in competition to present their views and to make those views count in policy terms. in his introduction to the book that will build on today's conference, henry now asks the so what question. so what question is a journalistic device. every story has to have a so what paragraph. a paragraph that explains clearly to the reader why the reader should take into account this article today. and the so what question here very much is are there common points in the domestic debates in the five rising powers about their foreign policy that will enable us to glimpse

then it dimitry medvedev told a conference on nato missile defense and whether he will run for president of russia next year. >> this weekend on a "book t the" -- the gators bug book festival. -- the gaithersburg book festival. a former ambassador to yemen on the u.s. counter-terrorism efforts in that country. then, one of the most significant standoffs on the cold war era, the berlin wall. look for the complete schedule online at or get your schedule e-mail to you by signing up for our book tv alert. >> this weekend on "american history tv" -- from lectures in history, a cleveland state professor on the music of duke ellington. on "american artifacts" a look at preserving the jefferson bible. and live from jackson, mississippi, the 50th anniversary celebration of the freedom rides, when 13 men and women, black and white, boarded two buses bound for new orleans with the goal to end great southern bus stops. get the complete schedule c- span.org. >> history, as you know, is much more than politics and soldiers, social issues. it is also medicine and science and art and music and theater a