down russian president dmitri medvedev has it before next month for the twenty fourteen winter gangs.into the semifinals. with some other because russia have failed to retain the world junior the under twenty squad losing in the final to sweden by a single goal in overtime in calgary. getting the gold in the two period. to find the net in normal time. only the second time sweden have been crime junior world champion. heist canada beat finland for will in the bronze medal guy. now in russia scott simply does have taken the at right laid at the top of the standings miller says his men edging out his former side atlanta on the road for three was a back and forth gang just outside moscow with the sides trading quick goals through and finished defenseman danny nice gal and made it to atlanta with less than seven minutes to squeeze top score attorney mortensen ground just a minute later it was his fourteenth goal of the campaign and give scar a three point lead over practical in the title while atlanta have now lost three on the trot off to atlanta the all said beating them in that previous

plus olympic countdown russian president dmitry medvedev visits before next month's test events for thetwenty four team wins again. and the top seeds charge into the semifinals in kat's hours rafael nadal i will pass russian me tell you. but we'll start with some other i so can use because russia have failed to retain their world junior crown the under twenty squad losing in the final to sweden by a single goal in overtime in calgary forward mika's abang is getting a vital go in the extra period that both sides filed to find the net in normal time this only the second time sweden has been crying junior world champions although on a bright a no for russia forward give his net self was named the tones most valuable player hosts canada the finland four nil in the bronze medal game. well in russia. have taken that right lead at the top of the k h l standings she has men edged out his former side at stand on the road for three it was a back and forth game just outside moscow with the sides trading quick goals throughout finnish defenseman yani iscar made. lampard less than seven minutes to g

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plus olympic countdown russian president dmitry medvedev visits before next month's test events for the twenty four team wins again. on the top seeds charge into the semifinals in cats hours rafael nadal i will pass russian . but will start with some other i saw can use because russia have failed to retain their world junior crang the under twenty squad losing in the finals to sweden by a single goal in overtime in calgary forward because a bang is getting a vital go and yet period that both sides to find the net in no time this only the second time sweden has been crying junior world champions all day on a broad to no for russia forgive. most valuable player hosts canada but finland for nails in the bronze medal guys. have taken that right lead at the top of the k h l standings and the losses is men aged out of his former side and found on the road for three it was a back and forth game just outside more stay with the side striding quick goals through and finish defenseman yanni this. lamp with less than seven minutes to guy the scars swedish top scorer tourney mortensen grabbed the wi

now with just over two years to go before russia's first ever winter olympics in sochi president dmitrimedvedev has urged the constructors to ensure the new venues are up and running in time for a major test avenged due to start next month medvedev inspected the sites on thursday including the. ski resort it is set to host the world cup leg on the alpine skiing circuit in just over a month's time we snowboarding in freestyle eventually a month later russia is second dog sleigh track is also set to be unveiled in late february around seventy percent of all construction work for the games has been completed according to officials. in tennis there's been little to no surprises that the season opening event rafael nadal spearheaded the top seeds charge into the semifinals of the cattle are open as a spanish world number two where we came of battling mikhail youzhny in straight sets however the seventh seed russian did put up a fight the french open champion break usually in the fifth game of the first set to take it six paul and stormed to another two breaks early in the second but usually

and then pick countdown russian president dmitry medvedev visit sochi for next month's test events forthe twenty fourteen winter games. but first the football and liverpool avoided the prospect of a shock i guess it's off the coming back from a goal down to win five wanted time to thirty year old and in the first of the f.a. cup third round tie is well it is just hartley fourteen feet long took a surprise leaders on the field through robbie simpson after twenty eight minutes but craig bellamy swiftly levelled and steven gerrard added a first top stoppage time penalty get the reds the lead in the second half jonjo shelvey netted his maiden with the pool goal for andy carroll struck his first of the season in the dying minutes and stewart downing also bagged his first goal for the reds. so no surprises on the field but could there be a giant killing among the twenty six other matches taking place the saturday well of as a tasty million dollar we currently underway and andrews is calling cup holders to take on premier league balls while later swanzy go to barnsley everton post this here t

and some other world news in brief before dmitri joins us with the business news overnight air raids by american drones in southern yemen have killed fifteen suspected al-qaeda militants the target was an insurgent base in an area taken from the government following the el sting of former president ali abdullah saleh the country's been locked in months of political turmoil and violence which saw its embattled leader step down last month and head to the u.s. for medical treatment. and you clear watchdog three day visit to iran to monitor the country's nuclear facilities and tuesday despite an offer from tehran to prolong the mission u.s. lawmakers say they intend to impose more sanctions on iran even before the inspectors publish their findings tensions have been running high between the islamic republic and the west amid accusations that terrans nuclear program is not peaceful. the search for the remaining fifteen passengers still missing from the stricken costa concordia cruise ship has been called off italian officials say the effort was too dangerous for rescue workers the search

lauren a lister reporting right there but will before we get to dmitri with a business or less to the world up to now here on out to some other international headlines a brief ten members of a single family have been killed as they slept in off about house was blown up by insurgents two police officers their wives six children they all died after insurgents planted bombs around their home three people also died when a motorcycle explosion happened in the northern city of cork they are the latest in a string of attacks since the u.s. military withdrawal in december. the international medical aid group doctors without borders is suspending its mission in the libyan city of misrata because of torture carried out in detention centers they say they repeatedly treated patients who had been interrogated also the u.n. is concerned about the conditions in which some eight thousand five hundred people are being held in the country several detainees have reportedly died most of them a huge supporter of the toppled the regime. and it's home to mutiny in new guinea has been put down a group of aro

dot com a few to keep track of the latest right there well before we get to dmitri with the business news let's get to the r.t. world update now some other international news in brief and at least twenty three of being killed in a tribal region near the pakistani afghan border when soldiers clash with militants officials say six of the dead were pakistani troops who were attacked by taliban fighters during a search operation pakistan has been battling against groups linked either to the taliban or al qaeda in the area for several years. torrential rains have brought widespread chaos to southeastern australia several local reverse of burst their banks causing landslips flash floods over four thousand residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the state of new south wales alone and with more heavy downpours and strong winds forecast for the area australia was also hit by devastating floods last year which killed thirty five. chinese new year festivities in central thailand it turned into a tragedy. pyrotechnic display erupted are seen here into a huge explosion the accident ha

before we get to dmitri with the business let's do the artsy world update here on r.t. some other international headlines for you this hour a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy across the iraqi capital and the blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country the violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. ten soldiers have reportedly being killed in the southwestern somalia after a suicide bomber detonated a lorry full of explosives outside a government building the base is used by ethiopian troops who entered somalia last month to help the country battle an al qaeda linked militant group insurgents now controlled many areas in somalia. another body has been recovered from the capsized cruise ship is released coast bringing the number of confirmed deaths to sixteen over a dozen are still missing more than ten days after the liner run aground salvage cr

for the business news with dmitri let's have a look at some other world news in brief now thousands of egyptians have flooded the streets in protest of the ongoing parliamentary elections demanding faster reforms demonstrators want immediate dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from the deposed president hosni mubarak is in these parties are expected to win majority control of the upper house of parliament and already hold the majority of seats in the lower house. the search for the remaining fifteen passengers still missing from the stricken costa concordia cruise ship has been called off italian officials say the effort was too dangerous for rescue workers the search had already been suspended several times due to poor weather and choppy waters seventeen bodies have been recovered from the concordia since it ran aground off the island of giglio earlier this month we'll be back to recap the headlines for in about five minutes from now in the meantime the latest business as promised with dmitri. and then welcome to business artsy emerging market currencies

to cross-talk yeltsin's russia i'm joined by dmitri barber chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand nine hundred one yeltsin became the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic well basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri. let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to charge what about yeltsin at this time well i think there are tw

and before we get to dmitri with the business and now it's time for the r.t. world update let's start with iraq it's where a wave of car bombs killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy or all across the iraqi capital the blasts occurred mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country where violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common one and two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. ten soldiers have reportedly been killed in southwestern somalia after a suicide bomber detonated a lorry full of explosives outside a government building the base is used by ethiopian troops who entered somalia last month to help the country battle an al qaeda linked militant group insurgents that now control many areas in somalia. turkey has slammed france for passing an armenian genocide bill after it cleared both houses of the french parliament under the new law people who deny the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly a century ago would face up

well dmitri obviously the irony we don't need to point out of a bunch of capital is talking about the future of capitalism and if it's outdated what i did think was really interesting was that it of course found a very fitting defender and brian moynihan the c.e.o. of bank of america there were some tough comments about capitalism or some concerns about capitalism from people like david rubenstein the c.e.o. and founder of the private equity group the carlyle group who we know because we've talked about that investment he made the washington monument to fix the cracks but he was criticizing capitalism some others were too and brian moynihan was saying ok policymakers don't go too far though you know banks really have reined it in and you know western capitalism is all about boom and bust that's part of the deal when come on that's not the only deal dimitri you and i talk about every day on this show and i just heard yesterday in that great interview you did with addison wiggin him saying we're in year three of what he predicts is seven to ten years of people being worried just about t

now the business with dmitri. one welcome to business optimism is in short supply in this was also the fate of the euro the swaying heaviest and minds of the economic four main theme may be how to create a fairer world but for many the more pressing question is how to fix this one and finance a george soros believes the european policy makers are not helping. it is germany that dictates european policy because at times of crisis the creditors are in the driver's seat the trouble is that the austerity that germany wants to impose real a push europe into a deflationary debt spiral economic deterioration and a process a process of political and social disintegration will mutually reinforce each other. there's an amount of found an echo in russia's top banker the head of the burbank have been graphed believes the european policy makers should not focus on keeping all the current members in the single currency. the euro will have a say i think the situation would be improved if several countries left the single currenc

rarely stops at juga for more than twenty minutes but even such a short period of time is enough for dmitri says just some kid to get several shots on take. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities recalled changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and vehicle fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution. now the temperature a juga is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one may to date around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november and it may well turn out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day caucuses reserve staff record temperatures wind velocity humidity and emissary expression. one team is on shift for two months. on its way from to go to the grand northern slope the helicopter passes by now and fished the highest point on the western

my name is alex dmitri. i want to commend the port staff for drafting a policy that is so effective and simply put, the principal hierarchy of these materials, and is simply says we do reuse and recycle. the point is, reduce is in the top 10 of the hierarchy. the point is, reduce is in the top 10 of the hierarchy.

my name is alex dmitri. i want to commend the port staff for drafting a policy that is so effective and simply put, the principal hierarchy of these materials, and is simply says we do reuse and recycle. the point is, reduce is in the top 10 of the hierarchy. what we're saying as far as materials management is that reduction of material has a single beneficial impact on the environment, which you cannot reduce, reuse as much as possible, and only after you've done the reduction, then you recycle. again, i stressed the hierarchy, the top of the hierarchy is production. the measures are online and policy, to deal with plastic bags, plastic water bottles, plastic packaging, food service ware, balloons. these are all reduction measures and it will go a long way to promote source reduction restores emission -- resource emissions and conservation. there is something else i wanted to say. so, we basically supports the policy. we are available to answer questions if you have such and look forward to doing so in the

of the caucasus nature reserve all revealed in about ten minutes time after the business now with dmitri. thanks kevin the ruble here to twenty is well high against the dollar on tuesday the number of factors are pushing it higher glueing stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector now economist alexander if you're from the e.c.b. capital believes the effect is temporary and the currency will weaken later this year. so i think that it's a temporary phenomenon that's a first quarter effect and the ruble is helped by a stronger current account because of seasonally high experts and this is now a low imports and. liquidity so we expect the rubble to be strong in the first quarter and then to grady a week into what's their second half of the year. unemployment in russia fell at the end of last year jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to six point one percent in december according to a survey by bloomberg analysts had expected rates with significantly higher actually anticipated it increased to six point six percent. investment in fixed kapell so lik

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world by pulling off a record of torch relay ahead of a such a games in two thousand and fourteen dmitri china shanker presidents of the games organizing committee to flame relay an all girl youth winter olympics by got underway in austria and friday there fishel seemed happy with his prestigious task like his companions to share the limp experience in the run up to the senior games which will take place in the black sea resort of sochi in two years' time. it will be the longest ever in terms of the duration the one two three one hundred twenty three days relay which will cover of the territory of the biggest con three in the vault all nine time zones and we will cover the ninety five per cent of the biggest territory in the distance will be bigger than it what the whole of the year more than forty five thousand kilometers but we will give the unique opportunity for all the people of russia to be in gaze. right around surveyed sport is coming up next and carol be here with all the latest news. well with the. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. if you. co