the russian leadership he met with the prime minister and with the head of russia's gas monopoly gazprom and he came in fourth place so i think after the war of this long conflict with russia being seen as moscow's friend doesn't pay off at the ballot box here in ukraine having said that of the petro poroshenko has been the face of ukraine standing up to russia on the world stage he's really put trade himself as the commander in chief and someone who'd stand up to putin so in that sense he has less baggage potentially he would be in a position to restart talks and to start a new page but for now it really seems like a consensus in ukraine that no one really wants to be seen as moscow's best friend connelly in kiev thank you nick. so let's head to football now and the german team i'm trapped frankfurt made a remarkable comeback in the europa league to reach the semifinals of a european competition for the first time since one nine hundred eighty they trailed portuguese club benfica four two from the first leg but overturn the deficit with a two nil with at home a boisterous crowd roared t

for an industrial construction firm that has a multi-year contract with russianan oil and gas compy gazprom-neft to modernize siberia's gaindustry.. right now, about 500 specialists with russianare here.d gas compy thousands of workers will come soon. alina: the chinese workers are friendly. they've just come here to work. and eventually they'll move onn or go back home. they're not here to settle down and start families. they just don't have the time. they're taken to work at 6:00 in the morning and they come back home at 11:00 at night. they just don't have the time to get to know the locals. reporter: gennady drozdov is skeptical. he takes us along to the taiga, a seven-hour drive north of omsk. russia is home to the largest forested regions on earth. nearly half the country is covered with birch, pine, oak, and other types of trees. these forests play a vital role in stabilizing the global climate. there's not much work to be had here, and what there is, is often badly paid. no one's keeping a close eye on what goes on. the world wide fund for nature estimates that around 30 million cubic me

in southern russia so she hosted it tournaments for children organized by the russian oil company gazprom left. most said. it was. does it for me this i'll be back in about thirty seven minutes with a look at your news international. montes how they don't how to put international memorial towards twenty nine see the now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or part of a global news conference to participate in sunday's show published works in video rich and much go toward don't altie dot com and into now. this is the follow through a period of sort of the all to see whether it's just pushed right if. you will boil to the minute that it was and i go to the. moon is its appeal to. all of the good of the team you know that all you want to solicit the good will but you have an enemy that is a liberal socialist that mean that you almost all. end up well it was pretty good way to lose a. little bit of a change there too which could be a hope of it only then will. i come. near to you to marry your money you don't n

and natural gas in the international markets they've got two state controlled corporations they are gazprom and ross nafta and every ounce of oil and gas that russia sells is oil and gas that somebody is not buying from b.p. from exxon mobil from wall street in london based natural gas and oil corporations and the energy markets have a lot to do with the geo political tension that is going on there's a big incentive for wall street in london energy corporations to push russia out of the market. you know it's not as if by doesn't have enough aside from being a two time loser in the primaries and going out for a third time is running for president do you think this could be an issue for him as he gets and once eventually actually says i'm running and runs you could be an issue for having the. well the crazy thing is you know joe biden just like his proclivities with women he does this out in the open he doesn't try to cover it up he's sitting there in the meeting basically saying that he got the general prosecutor of ukraine fired that he called him up and you had him on the phone and told th