i'll be back with more news stories in half an hour from now in the meantime as promised peter lavelle and his guests discuss the investment climate in russia and the program on the money next. to you for spring overseas my great story birds will come home to roost. when their massive tongue great. empathy gives way to the motions. towards those who live on the current. welcome to on the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle to invest or not to invest this is the question asked by investors and money managers all around the world with so much uncertainty impacting the global economy how do countries like russia stack up air are they sufficiently insulated from external shocks. to discuss russia's economic and business environment i'm joined by timothy crouse he is head of the russian bank opportunity phone i have see asset management company we also have let america mirror he is chief economist at all critter financial corp and simon fenton fletcher he is a portfolio manager with renaissance asset managers ok first let's have a look at where russia's economy

out next join peter lavelle and his guest for cross talk next arc. filmmaker. and. the. director's cuts across real life in prison on charges. can. follow in welcome across doc i'm peter lavelle is collectivism replace an eating destroying meaningful social activism from the arab spring to the coney two thousand and twelve fiasco the power in reach of social networking such as facebook you tube and twitter is undeniable but are these media themselves becoming the message and can clicking and sharing change the world. can. get across not could have as i'm i'm joined by alex halliday in new york he is president of the association of internet researchers also in new york we have john perry barlow he is co-founder of the electronic frontier foundation and a fellow at harvard law school's berkman center for internet and society and in stockholm we got to get a lot of ink he is a media firas internet critic and author of networks without a cause all right gentlemen this is cross i mean you can jump in anytime you want to gird if i can go to you first in stockholm can clicking

welcome to on the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle to invest or not to invest this is the question asked by investors and money managers all around the world with so much uncertainty impacting the global economy how do countries like russia stack up ed are they sufficiently insulated from external shocks. to discuss russia's economic and business environment i'm joined by timothy crouse he is head of the russian bank opportunity fun i have see asset management company we also have let america mirror off he is chief economist at all critter financial corp and simon fenton fletcher he is a portfolio manager with renaissance asset managers ok first of this have a look at where russia's economy stands. following a significant drop in december two thousand and eleven russians tugs gained more steam in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve the sharp two thousand to eleven gave way to the capital inflows with russia would performing other brics and emerging markets in midday provide to many put unsounded between state and russia's economy had to complete

political rhetoric as an existential threat and one it won't tolerate well in crosstalk later today peter lavelle brings the two camps together with predictable results. became president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel must cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the west of what he said is clear to all he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state must cease to exist just as apartheid south africa cease to exist if that's what they mean when they call israel the two bomb states that israel must cease to exist the peace and harmony thing when the iranian state whoever said that the world of you know we're in a one day in a world of google i would advise you not to tell viewers of this program that the radiance of not referred to is rosa one bombing of two bombs that can also be you know you can only hear that you come on your show. and google. counterfeiting trade agreements or act may some prove to be a dad in the water a vote on it is due the summer. responsible for monitoring its progr

and political rhetoric as an existential threat and won't tolerate well in crosstalk later today peter lavelle brings the two camps together with predictable results. i mean president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel must cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the words of what he said is clear to all he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state must used to exist just as apartheid south africa ceased to exist that's what they mean when they call israel or to bomb states that israel must cease to exist that he's already have to arrange a thing when the iranians date whoever said that the world of you know we're in one of our movie in a world of google i would advise you to tell viewers of this program that the iranians have not refer to israel as a one going to global you can also do you know you are not only here to. come on your show. on google. to convert and take our feeding trade agreements or act may soon prove to be down in the water a vote on it is due this summer by the am of

follow in welcome across dot com peter lavelle game changer in egypt the muslim brotherhood's decision to run a presidential candidate in the upcoming election has stunned many is a policy and strategy reversal that changes the political calculus in the country is the muslim brotherhood attempting to hijack the revolution or merely trying to preserve and. kick. start. to cross out the muslim brotherhood strategy i'm joined today by elisa lapin in new york she's a writer and us space investigative journalist and focusing on the middle east and islam in london we have an ability ramdani she is a journalist an academic who specializes in the middle east and north africa and in tel aviv we go to on kesler he is middle east affairs correspondent for the jerusalem post all right folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it and the bill in london if i go to you first here what do you make of the muslim brotherhood's decision to run a candidate only a week ago two weeks ago they in fact equally denied if they were going to do it now they are we s

peter lavelle looks at the underlying message behind the attacks. there's a minority of people who exist within the muslim community who are extremists who don't believe in the democratic values we do believe in previous full coexistence i'm told and what we must not do is tanisha whole faith system whole communities based on your actions over a small number of minority extremists that exist in order and i'm reading what you say rachel here is what i am going to go through and i'm fair time arriba the rachel go ahead. isn't that exactly what we're trying to do with breivik right now is to paint all the right wing people who have moderate points of view about immigration and cultural integration with the same brush saying that this kind of rhetoric is responsible for his actions you're saying exactly the same thing about extreme. islamic fundamentalists and how they tar everybody on. the muslim religion with that brush and you're objecting to that yet you seem to think it is ok that is that is within the right to have comments like i do. but his fore

the world's largest economy argues peter lavelle asks his guests whether washington is ready to be the number to watch the full program later this hour on our team. there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining bar of you know it's the in the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline in european quality of lives g.d.p. per capita quality. education level control of corruption are still much more to better than the emerging markets if you have educated people you know there was a new talking about how the education is much better in america and then in asia for example it's a job because you're just looking at the international airport they always come in order and obviously the education seems to be considerably better. to say that this is not the case maybe there's something wrong with america. or authority and twelve minutes past the hour and spain is still a center of the crisis and cost for me not alarmingly high concerns are growing in the eurozone as fourth largest economy will need rescuing following smaller bailouts of greec

a low in welcoming rostock on peter lavelle serious eerie silence at least for now at this moment the u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria has gotten mixed reviews what happens next the u.s. nato and its regional allies are still calling for regime change while the so-called opposition in syria is anything but united is this just another lull before a more violent and deadly storms. continue. to cross talk a cease fire in syria i'm joined by joshua landis and norman he is director of the center for middle east studies and associate professor of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma in columbia we have joseph omer he's an adjunct professor at the university of south carolina and in paris we have diana johnston she is an independent political commentator and author of fool's crusade yugoslavia nato and western delusions all right folks this is crosstown that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to joseph first in colombia we have a cease fire right now there's like i said in the introduction there's mixed reviews of it where do we go from here i mean what if it is t

medical rhetoric as an existential threat and one i won't tolerate cross-talk later today peter lavelle brings the two camps together with predictable results. the president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he says israel must cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the us what he said is clear to all he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state must cease to exist just as apartheid south africa ceased to exist that's what they mean when they call israel or to bomb states israel must cease to exist that peace in the army after a tipping when the iranians date whoever said that we want a world of you know we're in a one day in a world of google i would advise you to tell viewers of this program that the iranians are not refer to as rosa one bombing of two bombs they can also be you know you can only hear that you are going to show you. on google. and take our feeding trade agreement or act out may soon prove to be dad in the water a vote on it is due this summer but the am a p responsible for m

because admitted killing seventy seven people in a bomb and last year when a little later this hour peter lavelle will be looking at the rhetoric surrounding believe it's killing spree. take on those extremists so yes we accept the. minority of all i'm saying is that there is a minority if you want to show you the minority there is a minority of people who exist within the muslim community who are extremists who don't believe in the democratic values we don't believe in previous full coexistence i'm tolerant we must not do is tanisha whole faith system all the communities based on your actions over a small number of minority extremists that exist in all of the region here i'm reading what is it rachel here is like you know fran i am character i agree by the rachel go ahead. and i'm is not exactly what we're trying to do with breivik right now is to paint all the right wing people who have moderate points of view about immigration and and cultural integration with the same brush saying that this kind of rhetoric is responsible for his actions. crosstalk a little later here on our team though to he

for next hour peter lavelle and his gas discuss the oil and power driven conflict between sudan and south sudan and it seems a risky diplomatic game played by one of their leaders just threatening to trigger all out war. but i think someone is playing a very dangerous diplomatic strategy here i think is trying to appease the international committee of show that is a statesman and to show that he can get a lot of support and show that he's not the aggressor. the victim i think on the other hand who's who's been who has not really supported by the west specifically is seen as the aggressor and i think kerry's actually playing on this game plan which is why i think he he went into hadley there and if we must remember it was the south of twenty to the north. of course the rest that we're seeing now is history. and months of protests in canada boiled over as kastrup students clashed with riot police over a tuition hike. oh ok. never spray along with other violence police tactics have resulted in many injuries since the movement began more than two months ago because back government has propose

now the possibility of an all out war between sudan and south sudan is debated in peter lavelle's crosstalk. if you. still. need to. follow in welcome to cross talk on futile about are they on the brink of war this is how the situation appears to be developing between the recently independent state of south sudan and its northern neighbor there's a lot at stake and it is said to be mostly about oil and power and the question arises is the south sudan strong enough to survive as a state. and you can. start. to cross-talk the twisted relations between sudan and south sudan i'm joined by olivia wore him in london she's director of waging peace also in london we have i'll johnson he is director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist on african affairs and in nairobi we go to wolf christian p.s. he is a fellow at the international conversion center bond all right folks this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in any time on live if i go to you first in london south sudan got its independence over a half a year ago i guess not much has been resolved as a matter of michael closer yo

still to come here are two the headlines that will be backed up by crosstalk and peter lavelle to stay with us. it's. culture is that so much pride on a child that you go into nothingness there's the taliban bad guy insane or a murderous right wing fanatic this is what a norwegian court must determine in the wake of last year's massacre of seventy seven people. one. hundred of them living here. we have died in forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find the bell the home and retire. there is here. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we have seventy acres here and i can't convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two hundred feet from. the needs of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing this is before any problems of it will fall to the right people and then as a chain. you are flows are not toxic and we did a lot of there's a lot of mis understood. ending up whatever in the flow it's. time to visit yo

blow and welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle molly in a mess in the wake of the recent military coup there are growing fears that his african state could plunge into protracted civil strife that could result in a failed state and a safe haven for terrorists for the people of mali what is it state security or democracy or night. live. to cross out the recent military coup in mali i'm joined by peter pham in washington he is the director of the atlantic council's michael and sorry africa center and in london we go to james snyder he is the editor in chief of think africa press all right gentlemen this is cross talk you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage and peter if i'm if i go to you in washington first what is in play here let's before we talk about what's going on with the coup now and afterwards let's talk about how we got there i mean there seems to be this rule of thumb is that critics of the libya intervention say i told you so the law of unintended consequences if you shake up the regime forcefully and impose order there you're going to have a i'd undesirabl

a low in welcoming rostock i'm peter lavelle well many people are turning to facebook's timeline to share all kinds of experiences and moments others are concerned about the security and safety of this new interface but there's the new facebook timeline me and who benefits from this new feature. to keep. crosstalk facebook's timeline i'm joined by terry carney in london he is the managing director of sales remedy he is also a business mentor and business developer in seattle we go to we need to run my sauce tracy is the de wayne in and get injured professor of law at the university of washington and in san francisco we have roman cardassian ski he is the c.e.o. and co-founder of news three sixty a personalized news application or a focus is crossed out that means you can jump in anytime you want and for me started as question let's take a look at timeline what facebook has recently introduced and has caused a great deal of controversy here this is and there's the patroller she's the executive producer of cross talk and this is what they have done here now it's very controversial and some

the latest edition of peter lavelle's debate show cross talk is up next. please. continue. to. follow and welcome to cross talk on people about a cosmetic change or historic paradigm shift take you a pig but it's hard to deny something important is happening in french politics with president nicolas sarkozy fighting for his political life what is the future of france the european right and the entire euro project. you can. start. to cross talk the elections in france i'm joined by robert oulds in london he is director of the bruges group also in london we have andrei stop he is the managing director at the european policy information center and in stockholm we go to richard he is a member of the swedish parliament for the sweden democrats all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime you want and rays in london first i'd like to go to you a lot of people said that after the first round of the presidential election in france that the choices were dismal but and whoever wins france still loses how do you feel about that. yes that's probably that's prob

of next on our team time for peter lavelle to try to rein in his guesses tempers flare on another edition of crosstalk. please. liz liz. liz. can you start. listening to the. live. hello and welcome to crossfire computer in pursuit of happiness as the time finally comes when we should value public aid of measurements of well being over industries such as g.d.p. and other government statistics can and should be more focused on what is known as a national happiness index for this money still make the world go round. live. you can see live. cross typing in the index of happiness i'm joined by mark and elsie in edmonton he's an economist and author of the economics of happiness building genuine wealthy is also an adjunct professor at the university of alberta in london we have some of dollar he has a researcher and data expert at the new economics foundation center for wellbeing and also in london we have christopher snowden he's a research fellow at the institute of economic affairs all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed it means you can jump in anytime you want mark do you believe in an ind

last as the world's largest economy artist peter lavelle asks his scarce whether washington is ready to be the number two but your program later today are. there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining power of the united states and the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline in european quality of lives g.d.p. per capita air quality. education level control of corruption are still much much better than most of the emerging markets if you have not educated people you know as i've always only talking about our educations much better in america then in a.d.r. for example that's their job because i'm just looking at the international record they have always coming out and obviously education seems to be considerably better in asia and then they say that this is not the case in all shows so maybe there's something wrong with that here in america. let's now take a look at some other news from around the world this hour a serious are powerful birthplace of western indonesia are have. spread panic around the indian ocean mass evacuatio