that was it was a solid base will come with will be good for us thank you thank you very much mr medvedev and just to remind you that my guest in the studio was alexander in the very of who is the deputy chairman of gas pramanik shipment committee and director general of gas problem x. parts and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight we have someone in mind you think i could interview next time you drop a line at al gore in up at r.t. t.v. dot are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more friends and comment on what's going on and and outside russia until then stay and party and take care. all. he. says. iran first atomic power plant to share reaches operational capacity before being connected to the country's national grid. but the people should no longer be in switzerland because they don't deserve to be in switzerland swiss voters get ready to choose whether immigrants who commit serious crime should be deported from the country. and with experts claiming georgian foreign debt is spiraling out of control many blame president

can we even have a couple of majors there and the british premier league mr medvedev speaking of the liberal marches that you were mentioning a minute ago. norway and qatar are giving more flexible terms to today you can parties what can gas probably do to make russian gas more competitive are you ready to compromise on prices and what about the other as egypt is very often presented or one of the easier forces because we know like it from inside. of a joint venture sort of a subsidy it is close those across those would would do know how the system works and it's acquired. exaggerations and now you could buy gas was a guaranteed supply on the spot the basis because a sport hops look really cute enough you know the uninterrupted bull supply and plays a very. yes that the. spot but isis up and. you see how the dollars which is critical still a long total quantum of crisis and it's a deflection is that supply and demand is the system is working and the use it is a little gas so that is a low dose but if they show for the gears and the market will react and obviously there was a limit sl

of discussion and so on in general when the russian president mr medvedev met the group of international businessman i think there's a big concern that price is effective first of all small and medium sized business and without the support of the. encouraging the bank for example for micro financing they'll be difficult to. build up. some of the business of the reports which is so i think the one of the why the one of the seriously here the on the agenda in so and your opinion what role can the banking system in place to reinvigorate small and medium sized business. i think it is definitely a quite a difficult decision for the bank because. financing this to me is this considered to be maurice large company what will this cost to date is that some kind of the. special encouragement for the bank or rather the special schemes and the russian presence sets that in russia the number of schemes west set for example through russian bank of development through the large banks when the government provide substantial supports. for all through the special program a full financing as in these i thi

mr. medvedev said he was looking to assure russian bases, but it will also be good for other countries security. the use to have more than a dozen bases around the world but now have just too. the european commission has banned the chemical bisphenol-a and baby bottles. the ban has been introduced because of fears that the compounds could affect development, immune response, and tumor promotion in very young children. there is no such thing as pure chocolate. the e.u. high court in luxembourg on thursday said that whether it includes vegetable oil or is made from 100% cocoa butter, it is just chocolate. the only place to promote purity is in the ingredients list. voters in switzerland go to the polls this weekend to decide on a proposal that would automatically deport foreign residents who commit crimes. supporters of the proposal clement foreigners are disproportionately responsible for crimes. opponents say it will not reduce crime, which is low anyway, but could affect all their lives in switzerland. >> the black sheep are everywhere. campaigners hopes swiss voters will say yes to kicking th

mr putin or mr medvedev is not fair but why do you think that happens i mean it's more or less understandable why american media would pro-trade russia as an enemy because it's a long time history and it's in their mentality but you are up i will russia has enjoyed fairly good relationship with europe and stable relationship for the past twenty years why were you perfectly right there is no russian soft power in the media in europe you don't have any influence inside medias in europe that's not the case with the us because a lot of pro u.s. supporters inside the medias have networks very efficient and very powerful networks i realize but during view iraq war i realize almost each. all strong was the us inside in my country thanks to networks so. invest future really promote possibility to develop vision. russian soft core but doesn't mean propaganda but means new friendship networks we've russian expert to explain exactly what are the goals of your foreign policy thank you very much for this interview and they should write extra. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand desert of b

decisive and determined foreign policy i think it is a very good gesture in the part of that mr medvedev and had no other choice given the the given commands a. persistent name not visiting the the islands i think there's a very into mr nick wise to pan pushing so hard for these ottomans. i think it's for me it's hard to second guess obviously all of japan's motives. but what i see is that you know after a string of very short lived governments cabinets in japan i think we've find here one that wants to. to play a strong hand in foreign policy given the dire economic straits in which japan finds itself along with the many other countries of the world but i think. just that kind of assertiveness on the part of japan is untimely because on the eve of the visit and there are other more pressing issues i think for japan to to deal with hakim now is military presence so the end by the united states i think now sixty five years old is something that could be dealt with a lot more positively and successfully for for japan. you've mentioned the eve of the visit of course you're talking about pre

i think mr medvedev for wanted to make a very strong point that the a.b.m. system which may be created jointly between united states europe and russia. may become the foundation for a new relationship as they say in the united states if the game changer something which will dramatically change the strategic equation if it does not happen he wanted to say then we may be all for a new period of confrontation looking from today and you are as raise does not look as a very. high probability. but i think he was putting the stress on the fact that if we don't move forward we will definitely move backward and what is backward what is behind our backs it's a cold war and so if we do not progress in our relationship with the west and nato woman a very will find ourselves to regress same and then the relationship between russia and nato as it has happened many times in history will become very called again and maybe we will face an new period of confrontation so i think that was the meaning of. his speech and i'm certain there was a strong rhetorical aspect to his sta

mr. medvedev outlawed the sale of ships to iran which canceled the deal five years in the making to sell iran $800 million of s-300 missiles. if russia allows the sale would help iran defend their nuclear facilities. the anti-defamation league and ju incouncil are calling for americans to let the treaty go forward. we are deeply concerned that the failure to ratify the new start treaty will have national security far beyond the treaty itself. joined by former secretary of defense under president reagan, lawrence corub. >> nice to be with you again. >> thanks for your time. senator kyle suggested the treaty doesn't do enough to modernize the u.s. arsenal. mr. gates says it does too as do seven out of eight former commanders of the u.s. nuclear forces, as does the senator from indiana, the republican, dick lugar. can you explain to senator kyle why his concern might be misguided here? >> well, not only is it challenged by the real experts but president obama has increased spending on nuclear modernization by 20% over what president bush did and remember that when president bush had an arms

mr. medvedev speak out on this does not help the republicans.hey're not going to take instructions from russia on how to vote on a security treaty with russia. >> quickly, one of the things that he walk aid way from was an agreement with nato allies, 2014 being a goal for the u.s. as well as nato allies. no longer to do combat missions but training missions with the afghan forces instead. a number of people who expressed doubt about that, including the russian president and the head of the u.n. is that realistic to think that 2014, by the end of 2014 they can make that kind of transition? >> goodness gracious. what the president has really done is moved the deadline back. we thought we would see the beginning of the end of the next summer. he's saying 2014 before we see the final troops. he's giving himself a lot more room. and it's been pretty deft -- this trip overall i have to tell you was a much better trip for the president than was the one to asia. this trip he seemed to have in. orchestrated it well. good agreement on missile defense. thi

part over president medvedev visit to the caribbean islands is causing concern with us i stated repeatedly to such actions and protests from unacceptable and we reaffirm this position mr lavrov also said that president medvedev may visit more of the korean islands in the future as four islands have based in me just off the northwest coast of japan they came under control of moscow after nine hundred forty five and japan currently believes that they should be returned to them at the moment this all comes on the on the eve just about next week we see the apec summit taking place in japan and yokohama now we're hearing from the kremlin that president medvedev will still be attending the apec summit and the japanese side is saying that bilateral talks between president medvedev and the japanese prime minister will go ahead as planned and we can hear now from the japanese foreign minister about the recalling of his ambassador. it is extremely regrettable the president made very to visited the crew islands even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations we decided not ambassador kono should return home temporarily s

one says russian president dimitri medvedev plays robin to mr. putin's batman. french prime minister sarkozy is called an emperrer with no clothes. italian prime minister berlusconi, feckless, vain and ineffective. north korea's kim jong-il, a flabby old chap. embarrassing to be sure, but not a threat to national security. >> in my conversations, at least one of my counterparts said to me, well, don't worry about it, you should see what we say about you. >> reporter: today, attorney general eric holder said that crimes have been committed with these leaks. and, diane, he announced that the justice department has launched an investigation to try to figure out how it all happened and to hold those responsible accountable. >> well, thanks, john. of course, that's the question asked all day long, how could this happen? at the center of it all, of course, the mysterious, defiant editor in chief, julian assange, who considers himself a revolutionary, while others condemn him as reckless about innocent human life. he has been behind doors today but he e-mailed with our

vehicles clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twenty seventh and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit in the upcoming january. lexi you to shift your reporting there well many experts still believe the war in afghanistan cannot be won despite all efforts my basic view is that the war is completely unwinnable russia may be making friendly noises towards nato now because of that as we know there's a rapprochement between the alliance and russia but in my view it's basically formal in other words these are gestures that they're. meant well i don't think russia is playing a double game i'm not trying to say that i'm simply saying that the war cannot be won the soviet union learned that lesson in the one nine hundred eighty s. the british learned it in the nineteenth century and the americans are in the process of learning it although it seems that they haven't learned yet so i don't believe that a military solution could in other words the sh

clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twenty seventh and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit in the coming january. reporting more analysis on efforts to resolve the problems in afghanistan and are joined by evenness often truck from the moscow state university of international relations so we're seeing get more cooperation between moscow and nato on afghanistan tell me this just how significant is the expansion of the transit deal. well the expansion of transit is very important because nato and the united states have problems in pakistan with the security and reliability of transit through this country and that's why so-called northern roll call for transit through russia and central asia namely kazakhstan that builds because don is extremely important for what they have of we call sex a household name they have the united states is not going to stand and i think that western partners should value a lot drosh willingness to coo

vehicles clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twentieth levin and this visit of the foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit and the upcoming january interview with afghan foreign minister dr zalmai rassoul says fighting drug production and trafficking is a common aim but the west should increase its efforts to and thereby reduce demand for the poppy production in afghanistan have to result of thirty years of war and lawlessness and despair of the afghan people who do new tomorrow he's going to be alive for not you know security for their future this cannot be done by afghanistan alone we need support of international community by to pick which are not produced in afghanistan is outside afghanistan and came inside afghanistan we will do our things our job to deduce and eliminate poppy cultivation afghanistan but also day was in the region should do did it float to reduce the demand because because because the demand the production of poppies there so it's a common if

vehicles clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twentieth levon and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit in the upcoming january. well for more on the efforts to resolve the problems in afghanistan let's now talk to a political expert from the paris by u.s. institute of democracy and cooperation john laughlin so the u.s. has a recently admitted that things aren't exactly going its way in afghanistan now russia might think it's helping with today's announcement by clearing transit ways for nato but surely military hardware we're talking guns and troops wouldn't that be more useful would not help the situation. but. you might say that on the other hand my basic view is that the war is completely unwinnable russia may be making friendly noises towards nato now because of as we know there's a rapprochement between the alliance and russia but in my view it's basically formal in other words these are gestures that they're. meant well i don't thin

vehicles clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twentieth levon and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit in the upcoming january. alexina chefs give them the head of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament constantine calls the job says it's in moscow's own interests to expand cooperation with nato in afghanistan as a russian political defer to support this idea of providing the russian territory for the transit for the simple reason he is equally interested in having a success story this is not the case here because these are parisian he in our view is meant to solve two problems one is to combat terrorism coming from the territorial for second line. combat production of drugs coming from the. in most cases we see that the problem does not. become lower it continues to grow in both cases but to create additional problems for nato in this sense would mean that we should just promote more problems of the same kind