to discuss the agenda at the st petersburg form in two thousand and twelve i'm joined by peter weston he is chief equity strategist at aton he is also editor of the new book in from the cold to the rise of russian capitalism and simon phantom fletcher he is a portfolio manager with renaissance asset managers we also have david stern he's president of kraft foods and russia and ben heiress he is editor in chief of business new europe before we start our discussion gentlemen let's have a look at a snapshot of the russian economy before the st petersburg confound. this point predictions that nothing would change with legendary reelections this spring of two thousand and twelve has turned out to be an extremely eventful period in both political and economics he is in russia to push ahead with the main economic go set for the country during his times as prime minister putin will deliver a speech as the new kremlin leader at the sixteenth international economic forum that kicks off in just a few weeks' time in st petersburg the government intends to use the forum to showcase the strength of

in just a few in petersburg the government intends to gaze the strength of the days and then you cabinet. on may twenty first. it's. likely the. country which reached eighty four in the end eleven and has shown signs of abating this year on the. dollar in states of just zero point three. it will cut well in current markets and market and. one particular market but it's a. after taking office on me. tonight and the corner me side to. define a set. of times if dition in the world bank's doing. in. so. they. go bust but it's slowing down what is now the grip. and. growth. that's been amiss. ship. this is. from our petition for. the french you think it's good. you know for your money but that it's still. burning to. the fact that. your money until the. it's quite good for the economy in so much as its hold on inflation inflation is at a twenty year low is holding down the value of the euro the ruble which is also making it easy for russians to export and so it's quite beneficial and given that russia has more than five hundred billion and they can afford to bleed a little bit of money which

russia city of st petersburg has recently become the place for a legal profession to gather and share. the second and national legal farm took place there attracting specialists from over fifty countries probably because in the modern world different legal and judicial systems just can help with copyright and conflicts so what's being done. today. thank you for pouring out. justice to. the main ideal the st petersburg legal forum is to provide a dialogue platform for lawyers politicians and economists it was founded by the russian justice ministry and for now is the only event of its kind in scale this year over two thousand people from fifty one countries came to the forum thirteen delegations were headed by top officials including the u.s. attorney general eric holder and the british justice secretary. thank you for being with us and welcome to welcome to the show well. this is a forum that you attended the st petersburg international legal forum it was the second and since last. you know in this period where there is any practical results that we reached the go because last year yo

petersburg, florida. he wakes up early and walks his 12-year-old sister terrijana six blocks to the bus stop. to the casual eye, his family's neighborhood seems pleasant and sunny. but on closer look, the scars of poverty and a lingering recession become apparent. high unemployment, foreclosures and some of e highest crime rates in the city. last month, deqonton says he began making it a point to walk with his sister, after a man she didn't know repeatedly tried to get her into his car. terrijana refused and got away unharmed. >> i always was raised in the hood, never in the quiet place. we always have violence, trouble something always going wrong and every day. you got loud music, loud people, drinking, smoking, drugs everything in that one little neighborhood. it turns the whole neighborhood into a bad zone. >> reporter: the family lives in an area of st. petersburg known as midtown-- a predominately african american section of the city that was at one time largely segregated. deqonton believes midtown

we have seen showers and thunderstorms ruined petersburg and a few more showers. even through the panhandle of west virginia. maybe through western portions of virginia. that's really about it. the wider view here shows a lot of showers and thunderstorms and they will start making their way all the way over the next 12 to 24 hours. tomorrow better chance of rain. i will show you when, how much to expect and if we will see any severe storms as well. >> all right. thank you, doug. >>> the nation's capitals experiencing a housing and economic boom. but a new study shows many of the city's lower and moderate income residents are being priced out of the market. tom sherwood has the story. >> reporter: central union mission is turning the old gate school on massachusetts avenue downtown into its new homeless shelter. the mission sites since the 1980s is being turned into a luxury condominium as part of the rapid redevelopment of the 14th and u street area. >> we wanted to go where the heed was greatest. >> reporter: upscale development is changing the face of many neigh

care of business and finally five national freestyle wrestling champions helping cry and in some petersburg you know lead the charge to represent their country at the fast approaching london olympic games but i have watched their rise to the top. russian freestyle wrestlers are constant favorites for and into gold so it's no big surprise that the national championship always features the world's top talent to finals on the opening day seoul two time world champion victor levitz if they lose to jump it's our souls on earth in two periods in the fifty five k. class the winner from the three time european champion made his final move five seconds before the siren staking a claim to the russian crown. the psychological approach was key to my bout against lebanon have as he had already beaten me three times before i didn't allow myself to think about the olympics and only concentrated on the russian title and that's the day's other final in the seventy four kilo category was widely considered the main event marking their return to the match all the two thousand sydney games champion. his brother

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month season this year to keep in line with other european seasons we know the champions needs in petersburg but we're just about to find out who could get that second champions league place in just a second. thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty to head over the next ten eleven minutes or so including the story simply. getting his state so in just hours after his russian presidential inauguration bloodier putin takes to the ice for a gala sporting event in moscow. let play command south for a five year bond by fifo over a head scarf usage iran's women footballers finally return to action taking on russia in a fight sell a. lot of horsing around in this early summer silly sport season takes to the racetrack for the annual mascots ground national. more not fascinating sport coming up in just a moment but let's kick off with football have the chance later today to all but a champions league place for next season the army man knowing a win would put them three points again above closest rivals currently second play . heading into the final day there's just one automatic champions le

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football now with the longest ever russian premier league season champions this past weekend zinny petersburg retaining their title in game week forty one for the strikes that made the difference in their clash with. the pick up the rest of the net bursting action here is goalscorer yet i ask. you you if . you. finally inclement weather wasn't enough to stop the brave in the bowl this weekend during the latest installment of the summer silly sports season take a look this is the traditional mud race in essex england high winds and driving rain prevented the traditional closing of the uk levy and river block water for safety reasons however hundreds of competitors didn't mind one little bit getting their kicks where they could raising thousands upon the charge because in the process we're not exactly sure who won the event but on this occasion it's safe to say it really was the taking part that. was. plenty of dirty boys and girls there for one month cleanly cut and shaven. he's here with the news after the weather. i guess.

told before one of the players released was anything petersburg and their medical christians all six others were also axed by prince harry and robin defender salvatore but can't say among them friends any will cut another two before he submit his final twenty three man of this. and italian midfielder danielle there also believes cases like that will not help the family culture their petition for telling football was already not so great internationally and this is not going to help. the people involved are able to solve their problems. let's have state basketball where the miami heat defeated the boston celtics ninety three seven tonight in game one of n.b.a.'s eastern conference finals they heat the lead from start to finish and control the action as the bron james and swain wait continue to play the highest level as they come by fifty four points and that played a major role in eastern conference final game one. i wouldn't put our best basketball tonight. looks awful this week but we had a lot of breakdowns defense when. we didn't. we want to just try to continue to get better thro

poland and ukraine asked a valuable time that it'll be a long one of the players boys to be st petersburg standards a medical crystal six others were also axed by prince harry and robin defender salvatore among them friends that it will cut another suit before he submits his final twenty three man list away and the talent builder danielle adair ross he believes cases like that will not help. some of the culture we were beautician of to tell him to do was already not so great internationally and this is not going to help much what matters worse it's the people involved are able to solve their problems clearly and so basketball the miami heat defeated the boston celtics ninety three seventy nine in game one of n.b.a.'s eastern conference finals the heat from start to finish and colby action as the bron james and swain wait can see need to play at a high level as they combine fifty two points and that played the main role in the eastern conference final game one. so summer's officially only a couple of days away meaning it's a write about science for dragons flying computers the statue of li

the longest ever russian premier league season got its champions this past weekend is a neat some petersburg retaining their title and game week forty one for the strikes that made the difference in their clash with moscow on the pic of the rest of the net bursting action here is called score. the. the. i. yes. and after the olds and ate our champions now finally bad weather was unable to stop the foolhardy and the pretty of this weekend as hundreds took part in an annual mud race in the u.k. take a look at this it is the traditional mud race in essex high winds and driving rain prevented the traditional crossing of the river for safety reasons however hundreds of competitors still took part in race ons for charitable causes we're not exactly sure who won the event but really from this accused it's safe to say it really is the taking part that. there was a rumor marina joshua's taking part and not she's definitely out there now but she's here with the news in a couple of moments time. we're going. to the. mine. would be soo much brighter if you knew about some from phones to pressure and som

on championship strike this is a goal that won the russian premier league once again present in petersburg for all the rest of the past weekend's highlights catchpole school or shortly. the russian football union has confirmed to r.t. that manager dick advocaat is to stand on for this summer's european championship the dutchman is now believed to be taking over his previous club p.s.v. eindhoven our correspondent richard from port fleet shared his thoughts about the upcoming departure. a bit surprised not surprised to be honest i mean he's always on a two plus two contracts a four year contract but he had the option of leaving his post after the european championships and to be honest i don't think the russian football union may want to advance before the euro two thousand and twelve championships got underway busy didn't want to be in a similar situation to farms where they didn't keep him on a long contract and. basically to speak to any team he wishes to even france get to the finals so really don't want to try and get a decision from up accounts before the tournament started he's actua

at moscow spoiled the celebrations of newly crowned champions and after they won three to incent petersburg to go second into the last champions league spot well it is a need look to finish that doesn't count pain in spoiled when top scorer alexander goes you go off to put them in front of twenty three minutes but the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes first the not levels the sponsor then is it needs were awarded a penalty and that is to not just beat the goalkeeper to make it to one but to just two minutes later emmanuel every kneecap put sponsor level again and then immediately saw red for an obscene gesture however despite that last rafael trujillo timespan talks went off in the eighty ninth minute to ensure they leap frog has got into second loss and it still celebrated retaining that title when you want and she all facing routine with both targeting you work for these places and at the bottom and vulgar i'll back in to avoid the relegation play offs that you take on i'm come. where did i must go miss. the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp two two draw

petersburg is 56. along the bay, 67.ture has a very slight chance. 85 is the high temperature. what is the latest on the road to? i know we have bob. >> and looks pretty good. i was just checking this. everything looks pretty good. i do not have any incidents to report. we bechet a quiet pace of -- we're looking at a quiet pace. good on the beltway bridges at the wilson and the american bridges. back to you. >> thank you. 62 degrees. >> washington diocese not happy with georgetown university. it the health and human secretary kathleen sebelius is speaking. >> how he ended up getting hit twice and not by a baseball. >> new details and development in the shooting death of trayvon martin. george zimmerman was treated for a number of injuries after the shooting including black eyes, nose fracture into cuts to the back of its head. more details. >> and george zimmerman what to his family doctor. they confer and the doctor wrote a private medical reports that specified his injuries appeared zimmerman has a close thatcher, two

by the time you get to petersburg south of the james the front goes for doesn't up miles through petersburg and richmond. its modern war and you have this gap because commanders can no longer see the field. they can't control it and the union runs telegraph lines to corps headquarters but once things start moving forward, you have a problem. you have modern weapons, modern sized armies moving over vast businesses but commanders can't control them. until over half a century later, you've really have no way to get information back about what is happening up front to the corps commander, to the army commander and so what historians attack is, why didn't they coordinate this better? why didn't they reinforce the breakthrough? well, one basic reason is they didn't have a command and control. they didn't have the communications to do so. back to meade, some down in the weeds criticisms that sickles and others raised. they said well when meade first takes over he does not want to fight a gettysburg. he wants to fight in the pipe creek line in maryland. lee did not want to fighting gettysburg eithe

erie, frederick, maryland, 95, right there, petersburg.getting a lot of warmth everywhere throughout the area and again that high humidity. also, what is happening just to the west there, west of the mountains with on lift or some showers in a few -- and a few thunderstorms. these are not going to mess up any fireworks this evening. you can see them here and a lot of them just east of the mountains starting to die off. as far as the future weather goes overnight, we are going to be mostly clear. so we will clear out even more. by 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, mostly clear sky throughout the area, then we will pick up a few clouds. then we will pick up a lot of storms. any time after about 2:00, 3:00 p.m. tomorrow, these storms will be coming in with the cold front making their way from west to east and know that after 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow, it will be stormy until we get to about 11:00 p.m. and on the other side of midnight. still a few isolated storms. and the area at highest risk of seeing the storms will be just to our west. western marylan

petersburg, florida. he has a national debt clock.iature version of the national debt clock positioned behind a group of senior citizens on stage. he's going to go back to that message. carol, i have to tell you, the romney campaign is keeping one eye on florida and another eye on joe biden giving a speech later today in ohio where the vice president will be going after mitt romney on this issue of bain capital, the private investment firm that mitt romney ran. the romney campaign gave their response to some attacks. i'll read that to you in just a moment. consider what the vice president is going to be talking about in this speech, he's going to talk about romney's time at bain accusing mitt romney of loading up companies with debt and then getting rid of those companies while at the same time pocketing millions of dollars in profits and the vice president is expected to say what is passed is prolog if this happened in the past, vice president biden will say what should we expect if mitt romney is president. just got a response from

resuming his pattern of travel in search of new subjects, homer went to petersburg, virginia, where he painted scenes in the black community. he began with nostalgic renditions of regional american ceremony and costume. gradually, he moved away from depictions of groups, concentrating instead on one or two figures, increasing solid and sculptural in form. his single figures were studies in stillness, meditation, and introspection, including portraits of many young women almost always seen in profile or with their eyes averted. one red-haired young woman appears repeatedly, suggesting that homer's interest in her was more than passing. he never married and never commented on this aspect of his life, but a friend recalled later thatomer spoke of women in remote tone, as of a subject matter which didn't personally interest him. during several visits to houghton farm in mountainville, new york, homer produced a flood of watercolors on pastoral themes, fashionable in late 19th-century america. he showed 23 of them at the watercolor society's 1879 exhibition. those who had complained of his

petersburg. that is correct! [ cheering ] and you're up to 900 bucks., you are still in the game. that's it for the $200s. these next questions are worth $400 each because it's a double ride, and they are a little harder still. from the hebrew word for "hit," "ga-ga" is an israeli version of what popular schoolyard game? ga-ga ball. no! what do you guys play on the playground? wall ball! not wall ball, the other one -- where you hit each other with the ball. dodge ball! i think it's dodge ball. you think that is? yeah. are you sure? i hope so. we're gonna say dodge ball. dodge ball is correct! [ cheering ] and here's the really good news, everybody. we're here, so you just won $1,300 in the cash cab! [ cheering ] congratulations, everybody. great game. see? didn't i tell you that we would win? oh! yeah, right. you have racked up $1,300 in the cash cab. way to go, guys. i've got it right here. i could give it to you now, and you can go buy bagels for everybody in the place. nice. okay. or you could stick around and risk it all and go double or nothing on

petersburg's still sets with 89 degrees and that is what we expect over the majority of the area tomorrow year when you get this kind of a difference in temperature is over a short area, a good bet a cold front is an often that is what is happening. a cold front separating the air masses right now. this front will play a role in our area. we will have a few clouds and haze the overnight. tomorrow we will get hot temperatures. this front will give us increased chances of thunderstorms. this computer model gives you storms in the evening. it pushes all the way through and brinks drier air on saturday with no -- more chance of rain. other computer models to the front in the neighborhood enough we could have thunderstorm's popping at midday to early afternoon on saturday. either one is a possibility. we will stick with the 30% chance of storms on saturday. warm and humid tomorrow, upper 80's. sunday and monday delightful temperatures in the 70's with lower humidity and lots of sunshine. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. moving you forward. >> you had a la

even 81 in petersburg. and looking outside on our cameras a little cloudy in washington. good visibility. temperature 78 degrees. the air is drying out a little bit. humidity at 54%. much drier air. that will be moving in later tonight and tomorrow. a lot of that dry air it's up over ohio and indiana this afternoon. we will see that tomorrow. by friday see this activity? we will see showers and storms back here later friday night. off the carolina coast that is beryl. and beryl is getting back close to wear. it will strengthen a little bit. but it's losing its tropical characteristics. it will likely become a storm but not a tropical storm. a post tropical storm. and the good news here beryl continues to move off toward the east. winds at 35. this will stat l the outer banks -- this will stat l the outer banks and go out to sea and not be too much of a problem. we are still seeing a little bit of that rain south eastern virginia moving up our way. as we look at the future cast you will notice the showers still effecting the eastern shores and out toward the beaches today.

visibilities in petersburg and harrisonburg about a quarter mile. same with the tappahannock airport but we're still at ten miles here. a quick look at temps before you head out this morning. leave the jackets at home. we do have 50s in oakland but 70 in manassas. 72 in town and 73 on the bay. let's go to monika santami. monika, i love watching you every morning. >>> and i love watching you every morning. thank you, howard. this is just one big love fest. oh, yes. we truly do like each other. it's true, we have a great time in the morning. i think you're going to have a great time this morning as well. that's because if you're headed out early, it's not going to be much of a problem. the beltway looks great. no problems between college park and bethesda. 270 is okay out of frederick. no problems on 95 out of baltimore. let's go live outside right now. if you're planning to head over here, that's a nice shot. i just found that one. the beltway at the national harbor running smoothly on the south side of town as are all of the southern maryland corrid

i'll step out of the way and you can see the 92-degree reading in petersburg. 90 in cumberland.s the warm air really coming into the area right around where the warm front is. so as the warm front makes its way, more and more off to the east we're going to see that warm air move on in. all right. let me go ahead and step on over so that we can advance through the weather system here and talk about what's going on. a mixture of clouds and sunshine. and as far as those showers go, you can see them there around hagerstown around la ray just off to the west. these are going to be sliding east and southeastward making their way right down around 495. so, again, for 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 p.m. we could be looking at an isolated shower or two around the area. your wakeup forecast for 9:00, still hanging in. and then for tomorrow morning, 65 to 66 degrees. with just a few clouds around the area. tomorrow morning is looking dry. the warm front will be moving east. for tomorrow afternoon, not dry at all. tomorrow afternoon it is going to be very stormy from about 3:00 p.m. until about 9:00 p.m.

we've got some fog in the mountains with 53 in petersburg, west virginia. 57 in winchester. the warmer stuff down south. orange 61. culpeper 57. they could be in the upper 80s this afternoon where to the east we may stay in the 70s right along the bay. expecting temps in the low, possibly middle 80s here in d.c. it is 5:29. monika santami, thursday morning being a little busy already. >>> it started off really busy. i'm happy to say things right now are a little calmer than they were earlier this morning. we did have an accident on the beltway inner loop side near route 450. that was cleared up. in frederick just getting word of debris in the roadway at 144. you see the tiny bit of yellow forming slowing out of frederick into clarksburg but no big deals to report on 270. we'll go outside live on the southbound side of 275 as i said things are -- 270 as i said things are final. the outer loop of the beltway still looking good leaving the 95 interchange. this time all the way to the west side coming in on 66. that's incident free in from manassas to centreville to fairfax. all

zero at warrenton and cumberland and petersburg, west virginia. we've seen patchy fog elsewhere but the worst is southwest and west of town of the your temperatures a little bit on the cool side. 55 in martinsburg. we're 65 in d.c. with 61 in gaithersburg going into the 80s. it is 6:00 a.m. monika santami, time saver traffic. here she is. >>> hopefully i will save you some time because there's an accident. luckily it was not a huge accident. it was blocking two right lanes on the outer loop of the beltway off the 270 spur but before river road for some time. i'm going to step out and show you what it looks like from sky 9. looks like all the lanes have been reopened. just the slow traffic leftover getting by so authorities were able to move it quickly out of the road. that's good news for you if you're just heading out. coming off the 270 spur, i think that was affected as well southbound side of 270 hoo. wears what -- here's what it looks like on 95 in virginia. no issues to report. just the slow traffic. in my next report we'll update you once a

petersburg, west virginia 38. it's 43 in culpeper. 52 across the bay in easton and even 53 down in southern maryland. looking at your highs this afternoon, it's going to be a pretty one with 72 on the bay in annapolis. 74 in frederick and manassas and 73 at reagan national. 5:00 a.m., time for monika with time saver traffic. >>> thank you so much. good morning, everybody. if you're just getting up, you'll be happy to know things are pretty good outside. no big incidents to report. it's fine if you're heading on the northbound side of i-95 coming from dale city to woodbridge, up into springfield. we'll take a live look a little further north on 395 which is final at duke street heading to seminary road and the 14th street bridge. let's go back over to the maps and this time to the other side of town. if you're planning to head over into the district across the pentagon and here at the 14th street bridge on 395, no problems to report. in fact, we're going to take a live look at beltway on the south side of town. her

morning a big cluster of storms in we've w starting to produce one lone thunderstorm not far from petersburg in western areas to the west. visibility there with some haze at three miles and fog a problem. warrenton, culpeper, orange, half mile even down to zero. baltimore's improved to half mile and even though the tappahannock airport half mile visibility. some patchy dense fog is really going to be the biggest issue other the next couple of -- over the next couple of hours. 59 in easton and 66 here in d.c.. into the 80s but anytime after about 3:00, 2:00, strong storms possible west to east. monika? >>> we have a couple of minor incidents around town in prince george's county and i'm happy to say that for the most part, they're cleared up. and if you're planning to head over to the beltway, first of all there was the accident on the inner loop at the bw parkway here in green belt. we'll take a live look outside right now. and all lanes were cleaned you have -- cleared up. things are looking great as you head southbound here on the inner loop past good luck road to the vw parkway. back to t

a woman named petersburg. i had to cite the mark twain quotation not to mark twain himself which is of course what you're supposed to do according to the chicago manual and all other standard manuals but i was obliged to cite it to the peters book and fact cited peter's a times in fact i didn't find the mark twain quote in the pages book the soon as he accused me of plagiarism i went to harvard university and i said there's been this accusation i insist that you investigated please put an investigator on it they put their pocket former president of harvard with whom i had not had particularly good relations over the years and derek ma came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no basis for any plagiarism. you're listening to worldview from chicago public radio and we've been talking today with norman finkelstein assistant professor of political science at the paul think with me it's always had a controversial ads but the controversy never ends and it's conflict with harvard's alan dershowitz it began in

and petersburg is 83. and still in town but with winds southwesterly, even though they're light, that's going to allow the warmth to move in. it's turned out really nice right now. 66. national was reporting mostly cloudy at the top of the hour. we're mostly sunny at the moment. the dew points are up to 85. it's a little bit of the humid side out there. an active jet stream on shore in the northwest. it's bringing disturbances quickly, every couple of days, almost every day actually. we have the next one in the northern mississippi valley, the great lakes, and this is what hit us this morning. and there's a flow of tropical moisture coming in from alabama to tennessee. all of this means there's a threat of storms. the biggest threat is in the area of yellow in new york through the midwest. that's from the storm prediction center in oklahoma. winds gusts, hail, maybe an isolated tornado. around here, we've got enough energy and enough upper level wind speed that any storms have the potential to have their o