. >> president obama and then russian president dmitry medvedev of russia ry medvedev of russia agreed to join forces on agreed to join counterterrorism. specifically against chechen terrorist doku umarov and his al-qaeda affiliated caucasus emrit. umarov's casualty business emrit is in a region between the caspian and black seas that includes the russian republic of dagestan. after this agreement was reached, russian intelligence then asked the fbi to investigate tamerlan tsarnaev, the elder of two brothers charged with carrying out the boston marathon bombings that killed three people. two americans and a chinese national and wounded 260 on april the 15th. tamerlan was age 26 when he was shot and killed four days after the marathon by police in watertown, massachusetts, where he and his brother dzhokhar, age 19, had sought refuge. okay. back to russia's request in 2011. the fbi fulfilled the russian request and interviewed tamerlan and found nothing suspicious. but the russians were not satisfied with the fbi nothing suspicious report so the russians then asked the cia to look into t

lauren frayer will allow banks to start a lending at reasonable rates last week prime minister dmitry medvedev said the government was working hard on the lowering mortgage rates which he said should be down to ten percent by the end of the year the average rate now is twelve and a half percent. and let's now take a look at the markets and we'll start with wall street where trade is pretty active the sour and we're seeing a very upbeat picture there pretty much across the board investors are waiting for the earnings season to swing the sentiment one way or the other and it's obviously pretty good as we speak now moving on to europe and what we're seeing there is actually a mixed picture and london the footsie end of the day higher thanks mainly to mining stocks rallying on alcoa as of beat earnings in germany the dax finished the day more than a quarter percent down and that's on some disappointing european results of the of the european currency we move over to the currency market was actually doing quite well climbed against the dollar to a three week high and that's on some upbeat news on t

and the new start treaty that president obama and medvedev of ssiaave gned is a very important step towards reducing our nuclear arsenals down to zero. because the us and russia have about 90-odd percent of the nuclear weapons in the world today. if they continue to make severe cuts in their arsenals, which leaves them, by the way, with more than enough weapons to destroy the world over, so they're not cutting back in this new start treaty in any way that will make this country less secure. and that is what all the military experts say. they all support this new start treaty. the military leadership of this country supports the new start treaty, because it will take the us and russia closer to bringing together the other nuclear states when they see that the us and russia really are serious, and don't intend to keep weapons while telling everyone else they can't have them. then you will find all countries, including countries like iran... if they feel that everyone is being treated the same way, and held to the same standards, you will find that is the root to dealing with the nuclear arsen

called the mike needs to act unfriendly use of four week a lot we've heard from prime minister dmitry medvedev saying that u.s. authorities have the full right to deny entry visas to anyone without even having to explain why not to mention passing any controversial laws or black lists and many or more russian lawmakers believe that the magnitsky act harms america's own interests is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bum administration which claims to be an administrator that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships it was definitely a blow to the relations between moscow and washington and now this is happening ahead of a visit by a senior u.s. foreign advisor to moscow on monday for talks and these lists are definitely not going to make his job any easier. reporting there and in the meantime stephen cohen a professor of russian studies at a new york university he believes that president obama has become a hostage to anti russian mood so mung us cold war has obama did not want magnetosphere it was impo

the basic principles of presumption of innocence and due process russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev has made a similar point he noted that the u.s. government already has the full authority to deny he said to anyone they want without having the special law in place so russia sees it as a message a message that will most certainly prompt a similar response from moscow russian lawmakers have already passed legislation targeting american officials the into to have been involved in human rights violations but they haven't published any lists yet critics of the magnitsky law even here in the u.s. have pointed out the perhaps before punishing russian officials for alleged violations the u.s. could look into human rights abuses committed by americans in guantanamo iraq afghanistan anyway moscow does not see the tit for tat moves as a positive development a bit about sergei magnitsky himself he accused the number of russian officials of corruption but was himself accused of tax evasion and died in a moscow jail four years ago he's colleagues and family said he died because he was regularly

the marking its character unfriendly also for week a lot we've heard from prime minister dmitry medvedev saying that u.s. authorities have the full right to deny entry visas to anyone without even having to explain why not to mention passing any controversial laws or black lists and many or more sed russian lawmakers believe that there are going to act harms america's own interests is like so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bomb administration which claims to be ministration that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships it was definitely a blow to the relations between moscow and washington and now this is happening ahead of a visit by a senior u.s. for an advisor to moscow on monday for talks and these lists are definitely not going to make its job any easier and as always we're always interested to know what you think about the stories we cover each day here in our team right here on our website r.t. dot com on our home page today what you think this crisis between moscow and washington could lead to it's on our home page you

well russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev has made a very similar point he noted that the u.s. government already has the full authority to deny a visa to anyone they want without having the special laws in place so russia sees it as a message a message that will most certainly prompt a similar response from moscow russian lawmakers have already passed the legislation targeting american officials deemed to have been involved in violations of the rights of russian nationals including russian children who were adopted and abused by the u.s. adoptive parents possible cited a number of those cases but they haven't published any lists yet critics of the magnets killed by the way here in the u.s. even if you u.s. lawmakers have pointed out that perhaps before punishing russian officials for alleged violations the u.s. could be could could look into human rights abuses committed by americans see in. iraq ghana stand anyway a moscow does not see the tit for tat moves as a positive development and here's what the russian president's spokesperson said quote the appearance of any lists wi

lack of leadership from the white house and a prime minister in the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev said despite this latest spot there is still room for cooperation with washington do you think that this means the exchange is something of a sideshow or do you think that it really is a stumbling block. well i already said it's changed and poison the atmosphere it's going to make it harder for example. president obama to make concessions on let's say missile defense to president clinton because there is this attitude with russia doesn't deserve any concessions and i'm guessing that it president putin would like to modify his position on european missile defense and i mention that because it's on the table at the moment it's an important issue that there will be forces in the russian political philosophy that the world owes its problem isis to the united states so it's not a side show. now you have said that leaders of both countries are not in control of this decline overall in relations how so and how do you think that they can turn things around now when i've already explained the

now the russian foreign ministry has called it was a four vehicle for from prime minister dmitry medvedev who said american authorities have all the rights to ban anyone from entering the united states without having to even having to explain the reasons moreover without having to pass any controversial wars or controversial blacklists now some russian lawmakers actually believe that the magnitsky act america is all interest. right it's like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bomb administrator which claims to be an administrator and that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships. now all of this comes ahead of a visit senior u.s. foreign advisor to moscow on monday for talks and one thing is for sure these are all lists are definitely not going to make his job in easier. over pushing there live from central moscow you go many thanks indeed and stephen after cohen a professor of russian studies and history at new york university it feels the diplomatic fallout is due to the incompetence of u.s. congress

. >>> now, russian prime minister dmeet re-medvedev is defending his economic report amid fears that falling prices could push the economy into recession. this as president putin is stepping up pressure on his long-term ally. geoff cutmore is at the russian forum taking place in moscow. as i said earlier, this is a good time to be there. i'd love to know, in fact, how much people are making of this rift. >> it's fascinating. i mean, this story about growth and about declining commodity prices, it just comes in the middle of what is a perfect storm for the eurozone and the european land mass at large. you want to try and get a handle on just where we go next. there are many competing voices in this story, not least that of vaklav clause, president of the czech republic until about six weeks ago who is now with me at our position. and a noted euro skeptic, i guess i should put out there. and your book says the shattering of illusions, europe. just explain to us what you think needs to happen next after the cypriot crisis to move this story in the right direction. >> well, i look for a

during his term as russian president, dmitri medvedev caused a deep freeze in tokyo when he visited the islands in 2010. japanese prime minister shinzo abe knows the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough with president putin over control of the islands are slim. any resolution of the dispute would mark a turning point. a loose translation of the city's name means "ruler of the east." nearly 80% of the commercial production of the city comes -- exploiting the resources of the sea of japan. a straw poll we conducted on the seafront shows people in the far east of russia were strongly opposed to any concessions. >> we've already given away our territory in alaska. i do not think we should give up these islands. have huge resources. it is pointless to give them away. why should we? >> all of our sea products come from there. we will starve if we give them up. >> they are not starving at the moment though. japanese sushi bars have taken the city by storm. whose fish are they? david chittick, al jazeera. >> sri lankans will have to pay more for their electricity after the government raised pri

russia's former finance minister alex a clue drip who resigned after an argument with president dmitri medvedev along those present tense table has the reputation of someone who can save the day largely thanks to a good run russia came out of the two thousand and eight crisis relatively unscathed but now the russian press is speculating about him getting a post in the presidential administration which many say could turn into a shadow cabinet earlier i asked ben eris the editor in chief of business new europe if he things could drink of soon make his way back into the government. katrina's governance of inglorious the much as he was one of the best central bank governors in the world in the last decade and he steered russia through some very nasty crises and we had one in two thousand and four two thousand and eight was a big one and putin has to make stream the good job of balancing the needs of being kept behind the reserve for over six hundred billion dollars in reserves we saw russia through the two thousand and one crisis with very little pain or certain i mean because they're suffering bu

of the european recession and start contract thing as according to russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev in his annual report to the do you have the first as prime minister actually he explains how the government is trying to tackle these global challenges and how the economy is coping with domestic problems to slowing growth and increasing capital outflow. reports. the european recession will drag on speculating global growth that's the latest from the international monetary fund the i laugh at scott. estimates by a fraction he put. this actually globally he goes with that so i europe declined but still a very weak to feel compelled to hear that he shot what's interesting however is that the i.m.f. is more optimistic about russia's economy than the russian government the minister of a couple of big development on trade below stuff has slashed russia's growth forecast to turn a half percent and that that the country's economy may be on track to take in the world so with this in mind prime minister better today face a tough who do have to address russia's forward house of parliament the s

thought experiment and you think how would the united states react if russian, if vladimir putin and medvedev, the leaders of russia suddenly said well, we are facing a terrorist threat and a variety of other nonterrorist threats to our national security and for that reason whenever an official in the russian government believes that there is someone out there who, because we know who they are or just by their behavior as we have observed it, poses a threat of harm to russia, we reserve the right to kill them anyplace, any time, et cetera, et cetera. and we're never going to give you the evidence, we're never going to tell you why. and then they start doing that and they start killing people, some of who local residents say hey, that was a journalist or hey that was actually a critic of the russian government. that wasn't a terrorist or a combatant. what would the u.s. say if that happened. we would be saying-- . >> rose: what would the united states say. >> pie guess is that the administration would probably want to hold other countries to one standard and ourselves to a different standard.

that i have.cern i was in moscow two weeks before this one, and i met with putin, medvedev, an icn sentiment that is not -- and i see a sentiment that is not better, the relationship with syria, etc.. my fear is it may get cooler tehran.lation to plus 1 has been a miracle. passed a moment together, which was very difficult, but i level ofe the constructive work together. i think it is diminishing. >> i would say you can argue it either way, but the collapse of deal mores a nuclear likely, because that makes the supreme leader more likely to make tactical some concessions in order to relieve further isolation. that will not change his fundamental interest and acquiring and nuclear weapons capability. it will confirm for him that the best way to defend himself against the united states is to have that capacity. in terms of near term tactical decisions, the more he feels isolated and threatened, the more likely it is he will make modest concessions did have some interim agreement. >> how serious do you take the hk i-missile fatwa by khamenei? >> i do not know much about shia theology, but it wo

secretary kerry was channeling president obama when he told president medvedev that he would missileflexiblebout defense in europe so we sacrifice that as well. i think we sent the wrong message to china. >> it was not so much a question of saying let's look for the triggers to bring down the regime or anything like that. we keep hearing about how china is so upset about the north and are they angry about them now and they are rethinking all this. they're held by the fact that the last thing they want to see is that regime collapsed. and therefore they're not able to put on enough pressure to get any change. supposed to say everything is nuanced and black and white in washington policy circles but this does seem like the north koreans say, we're going to be on the track we are -- unless we're stopped. is regime collapse that might change their mind. that is possible, i am not ruling that out. until the chinese give the sense that the worst thing in the world is not the collapse of the north korean regime, the worst thing in the world this continuation of the way they're going because that wi

of seemed like secretary kerry was channeling president obama when he told the russian president, medvedev, that he'd be more flexible about missiles in europe after the election. so i think we sent the wrong message to china. >> go ahead. >> and it wasn't so much a question of saying let's look for the triggers to bring down the regime or anything like that, it's that, look, we keep hearing about how china's so upset with the north, and, boy, they're really angry at 'em now and so forth and so on, and they're rethinking all of this. but they're held up by the fact that the last thing they want to see is that regime collapse and, therefore, they're unable to put on enough pressure to get any change. i mean, this isn't, you know, i mean, i know you're supposed to say everything is nuanced and black and white in washington policy circles and so on, but this doesn't seem that nuanced. this really does seem like the north koreans say we are going to be on the track we're on unless, you know, we're stopped. now, obviously, if they thought someone was really willing to stop 'em to the point of l