activities well recently thirty's out of your team was going to europe to brussels you had a lot of folks mr putin had long talks and very interesting significant talks with mr grasso and as far as i know the abolition of the visa regime should have been should have been discussed was it and is there any progress. a visa problem was was on the agenda was one of the most important issues it was frozen by. by russian side during the talks actually we have to imagine that we had actually it's a very useful and a very effective mechanism of cooperation between the e.u. and the russian federation and we had nearly a full cabinet sitting on the russian side and let's say ninety five per sand of european commissioners from the other side. and this is really a very good opportunity to look in the broadest porous possible way call existing questions including visa. this iteration is very simple russia is ready to go as far as european side is ready to go even. he wouldn't. even fire them then. european commission because we're losing interest because we're losing moneys there were losing tourists were losi

by answering a question hose mr putin here and. i want to you mentioned around and should the upcoming elections in which he may take part as a presidential candidate mr gorbachev in the russian star of russian politics and celebrated his eightieth anniversary recently given a couple of interviews and in some of them he criticized sharply both medvedev and putin in particular one of the things that he blamed them for is that he said why are these two people going to decide who we should have as the next russian president so why isn't putin also into this criticism and do you agree that mr gorbachev had grounds for such criticism. well first of all i would rather say once again that truly tauriel means a premature. and current stage. mr prime minister have his always been very tolerant towards criticism this is why he's not answering it he's extremely flexible and he's tolerant towards the criticism. the reason i think this is my personal point of view of the reason that no answer came from either of the subjects of the criticism of

first news conference is one of the first questions to your boss was who is mr putin well i think it be appropriate to ask you this question now who is mr would feel today just a prime minister a candidate for the next presidency the leader of the united russia party or whatever whatever who is if it's. well currently he's a prime minister you don't go who you know you know i'm working for the good to do a thing as his preferred press secretary well. if you look at this. question in a broader sense well maybe he's he's a bit of everything that you have mentioned. i don't know about next next elections presidents elections said since we still have lots of times before we have this elections and since it's not a proper time to think about it it's a proper time to think about current affairs about current work and this is what we're doing so if we speak reality because the french say he's the prime minister and that he's the prime minister in

russia is a friend to us relations between our countries between mr putin and earlier our good russia is the former soviet union our generation remembers the u.s.s.r. and its position in the world ask any libyan in the street and he will tell you that russia is with this russia is a friend we know about the difficulties your country is going through but still russia's role in the resolution of this problem will be very important and the same applies to india and china and their countries with positions of their own we hope they show resilience and help libya solve the problem that it is facing today. you ask russia to use try to veto in the security council and beyond our vote on closing libya's airspace up and going to seventy miles of the. we would like russia to use its right of veto as the soviet union did there is their wish and then if that happens it will be the first time russia veto the security council vote since the end of the cold war. it would be a big step forward that would benefit the whole world not just libya. are you expecting any joint initiatives from the arab sta

deal and it was a very useful deal for us but after all sarkozy and berlusconi and condi rice and mr putin and everybody else have all done deals with libya so there's nothing specially british about it it's the world has been doing business with libya and in my opinion quite right too because after all libya has all which we need the world market needs and libya needs from the world practically everything else from from airplanes to grains and something when i say we it's not the west or britain or europe it's everybody everybody china taiwan russia indonesia brazil you name it they're all there everybody is our part to and we've recently seen a diplomatic mission goals in that sense in that have. seen is the u.k. actively trying to engage with the rebels well i hope so i mean they're not going to want to know that it was so good i think it's rather embarrassing i don't think it would produce diplomacy at its best to be frank i have said that to the british media as well but yes we should be talking to the rebels i think it's. it's a difficult thing to do it's not unique i mean in the big

as far as i'm concerned mr putin should be ashamed of himself for for calling the u.s. forces the crusaders while they're over there helping the libyan rebels even at the same time a lot of people would say that he echoes the opinion of rosa spammy absolutely receive it we actually isn't reflecting the opinion of so many billions of people in the world i mean again you see the west make a determining political outcomes in other countries in this is the perception of it here there's a there's a lot of people that have the saudi visceral switching and i want to return to go right ahead syracuse the general the junk from syracuse presumes to know what the libyan rebels should be doing while the libyan rebels themselves are the ones that have asked for western assistance in this. or a suit for us i want to reply to that real quick before we go to the break ok. the point is you can always find persons in countries to invite foreign troops and the very arab league that invited the west to input into libya i did very same arab governments that are representing the countries in

participating in the coalition operation in libya saying it is not producing the expected results from mr putin agree the protection of libyan civilians is paramount but simply achieves at a cost to innocent lives. there's a civil war going on in libya the proposal of a no fly zone was aimed at preventing gadhafi from firing at his opponents and so protect civilians such a decision applied to a sovereign state is a difficult one but the aim was well intentioned but what are we seeing now that it is strikes on the entire territory of the country and how can it be aiming to protect civilians such means are choosing not to civilian death toll actually rises . but we will continue to bring you full coverage on the situation in libya our correspondents on the ground are updating you on our to use twitter stream constantly bringing you breaking their stay in touch with what's going on there what they're witnessing there's also more on our facebook page and our team is going to. london streets were filled with more than a quarter of a million angry voices on saturday public sector worker stays britain

so as far as i'm concerned mr putin should be ashamed of himself for for calling the u.s. forces crusaders while they're over there helping the libyan rebels be able to say so i made a lot of people would say that he echoes the opinion of restraint spammy and the receipt he would be actually isn't reflecting the opinion it's a mix of billions of people in the world i mean again you see the west make a determining political outcomes in other countries in this is the perception of it here there's a there's a lot a little bit of the law there's sort of the chinese style i want to charge you to go right ahead syracuse the general the german from syracuse presumes to know what the libyan rebels should be doing well the libyan rebels themselves are the ones that have asked for western assistance in its core a suit for us what are we going to buy that real quick before we go to the great threat. and the point is you can only try and persons in countries to invite foreign troops and a very arab league that invited the west to enter into libya the very same arab governments that i

fire pipelines to free our capacity for liquefied natural gas deliveries to japan prime minister mr putin has also invited japanese companies to buy into russia's to reach feels the combined gas reserves the high of an annual global consumption. let's have a look at what's happening to the price of oil oil prices the fall in the u.s. led airstrikes against the best fueling concerns destructions to surprise brant crude is trading at around one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel is a wrong one hundred two dollars and analysts expect an increase in demand for oil as more fuel will be needed for post quake reconstruction in japan. and precious metals continue. as investors seek a financial safe haven in libya all the uncertainty gold is climbing for the full day in a row around one thousand four hundred dollars an ounce silver is extending its biggest gain for two weeks it's now trading at precious six dollars an ounce. let's take a look at held stock markets are performing european stocks the high on monday held by those gains in asia say is gaining around one point three percent while the t

mr. president. it's -- it's -- whatever the eventual outcome of the arab world social upheaval, there is a clear economic victor, winner so far, vladimir putin. right there, that's the winner. our policies, our economic policies of this administration to limit our ability and ca curl our ability to use american energy and american oil to keep down the cost of gasoline is benefiting russia. it says, russia which pumps more oil than saudi arabia is reaping a windfall from the steep rise in global energy prices resulting from instability of the middle east and north africa. russia doesn't have any oil well standing idle. right now russia is pumping oil at its top capacity. so, you know, in you can't where we in the united states, and this congress in particular, chooses winners and losers in energy, the winner seems to be russia because of the policies of this administration. and, you know, "the hill" newspaper this morning, "pump pain for obama," this clearly lies specifically at the -- at the feet of the president because of the policies of this administration. now, we've had a -- a situation in the gulf of mexico, mr. president, where there