in russia is in russia's benefit in many many ways obviously the vast majority of russian energy exports are going to europe europe is in a substantial recession possibly going on for many years asia will be the next vacuum for russian energy exports and dimitri if i can go to you now i mean there seems to be a major shift in going on here is russia is it a net win for russia or or a net negative how do you see it going for. world over the next two decades for example well next you could say it's a really long horizon probably i can talk about it a little bit shorter but definitely the growing demand in there is all busily beneficial for russia and. it's sort of difficult for me to imagine how it could be negative for usher. ok chris i mean in what way i mean this is there's a benefit here there's huge demand out there and we look at china and we look at india here but is it good for russia's oil sector energy sector in general look i think you really have to step back and put a question mark over the extent of future oil demand growth in asia in the middle east the i.a.e.a. reports to r

the bank of russia olson minutes for cost a few days ago but seeing capital flight in russia will be worse than expected earlier they think it's really meant to set sixty seven billion us dollars this year is about one of your interviews you actually mentioned an even bigger man's eighty four billion years told us why does money flee russia and where does it go. a lot of the forecast by the economic development ministry is actually fifty five to sixty billion dollars a year where does the money go this is goes to other countries that are just part of what some of the money that leaves russia is later vested in russia through offshore jurisdictions which but anyway we're not happy with this capital outflow of course the reason behind this kept so i'll close obviously because unfortunately the investment climate in russia is not as good as we'd like to think of it a little bit is that shelby another reason is sort of what it is safe for it to move your capital too in or short territory and then vested in russia is cool and the third reason is that that because of the crisis because inv

you know it has to follow would lead to mention the one pretty important issue that russia russia has actually has a part has plenty of oil plenty of conventional oil and just to use sounds with kurdish will flow in the us of so much about us for the united states is just so. that it's worth war so we have a lot of conventional oil before we get to the point to where united states decided to go to share or we need to do a carbon out of fifteen billion tonnes of could. take another twenty years so far far away from a point where we need to think about it show or before we go to chris i want to ask you i mean again i mean this diversification if you consider something the people i have lived here for fifteen years and we've been talking about for fifteen years sure look i mean everybody knows the four most dangerous words in english language are it's different this time i think it's quite clear that you know the pressures are building you know like the what i'm hoping is that we're now seeing what may eventually be seen as some sort of an economic tandem or in the one hand it's quite cl

of russia. exploiting something what you call we can put it in writing made in russia you could put it all grain you can put something at least some products in agriculture other such products that we can we can export. as there are many give you a couple of examples in australia. you may find russian being made in russia they say you can find is in england but a bit of but i never really saw it in poems i have seen in australia in. in the streets of people the street right drinking russian beer we were there the baltic a brand there is there's a one you you my friends russian ice cream in some of the european shops for many years already so it's moving not. because so not expect tomorrow. will be. his russian products. this is traditionally a market that. speaking of spot like you've been in the studio before you said your ministry monitors the imports of certain goods and if the rates go sky high you will take some protecting measures so are you taking any measures now one of those measures th

you dig into russia is. really the situation in so many drones we can do business much easier than in moscow who have good regions like. like. like. that it's easy you know this is not easy ideally business going deep but how do munchies get digging deep. because not between their main business is all well and everything is you know under this but. petersburg not the best region for doing business in russia actually moscow was on a special report done by a world economic forum on the last place and in the russian. but they can see we are doing our regional net. in a wood point there. are on the regional level so we're going to have decided on the thirty six people who would lead who would do this work in the region you know your point here from moscow or a bit because i know that places like pins are. really how we. as a decision both to keys as a matter local government or the governor. so it has to be agreed between to say and how are you going to work with them is going to be likely incorporation or is it

after them was not their russia at all or their russia is gone forever. when russia's white came to france the country was still in ruins reeling from the devastation wrought by world war one in which over a million frenchmen died. i read a story in the next patrick magazine about a migrant talking about a year he said the cost would make the rounds of local farms he was employed as a farm hand that was just a cover. like saying that his real job was reviving the local population because one summer with them i will probably. with the journey reaching its aims the cossacks take a sightseeing tour of paris as it turns out the traditional habits of population revival still very much alive. and attention yeah this is the so-called sex quarter sex cafes and sex shops everywhere and this is the famous. hey guys let's get off here. two hundred years ago when the russians took paris not a single painting went missing from the roof though it's true that some cause x. tore up the floors from french homes to burn on can find us. they also caught hold a famous cup in

let's begin with russia. russia joined the w.t.o. this summer. congress does not have veto power on that. all we can do is decide here whether to allow u.s. businesses and workers to see the benefits of russia's w.t.o. obligations. will russia always honor these obligations on its own initiative? probably not. but russia's w.t.o. membership means we can at least hold them to those obligations, and we must be prepared to enforce those obligations. that is a lesson we learned the hard way over the last few years. this bill actually does that. this bill has strong anti-bribery and anti-corruption provisions. it has mechanisms to help strengthen our intellectual property rights, but that's not all. another critical piece of this bill is the magnitsky act, placing real sanctions on those individuals who are complicit in human rights violations. this is a serious policy upgrade and a big win for human rights. at the end of the day, russia's entry in the w.t.o. can be expected to create real jobs here in the u.s. by reducing tariffs and other barriers t

a major power russia should have influence but right now it seems to me russia is gambling its influence and it's risking it by virtue of the major powers and i'm doing it is the same thing this major powers are trying to say more has russia i disagree with less not less a surprise russia or a disagree with me all you want but i'm telling you russia's position right now is one where i think they are they are putting at risk their long term interest their middle term interests and their short term interest because they are now backing a regime that actually bombing its own people this is not an excuse to i don't think we're just behaving as i read your email isn't doing it it doesn't want that on its hands rim go ahead free to of your time doing it with good men i do agree russia is gambling and supporting the regime because the gym is supporting its own interest i would say well listen this is a regime is incapable of supporting its own interest how is it going to guard the russian the russians and just can't conduit come deliver. i disagree of the russian position is motivated by the wi

to strengthen this tells even further boba but russia russia should be interested russian business russian government should be interested in in expanding cooperation and then in turning these these friendly ties into business because there's a new estimate that it might cost up two hundred twenty billion to build all the needed power plants in your country is that a true testament where i am country we are the biggest and the most diverse economy in the continent of africa with think because of our do start to look asian if you were to respond to infrastructure build that our president had announced in the state of the nation. in february of this year where we will in the next coming three years be spending eight hundred fifty billion rands on infrastructure build there's no moving forward without taking care of the needs of our energy needs but when you link our energy needs to the broader energy needs of the continent of that is on the rise but on the movie a continent that we belong to that has become the second fastest growing region economy currently in the wild with a billion people

russia was victorious. how you look at it there were all sorts of situations but at the end of the day. patriotic place in the twentieth century. divides the cars into two sections. going to repeat the maneuvers of the russian offensive from two hundred years ago. the legend of a hasty french retreat has been passed down here from generation to generation. of children to for the french turn tail they hid in the golden carriage people still look for it as you can see we too are trying to find us it's ours we call it the belorussian treasure belongs to the. locals have left no stone unturned in search of the prize even in swamps and peat bugs alas they have never found the golden carriage. in the local villages only a few elderly residents remain. i don't think more than a dozen young people live here. pensions only income twice a week they come to the bus stop to wait for a shop trailer this time the mobile shop is late and instead of the residents are greeted by cossacks approaching on the horizon. we sort

however it is clear russia and the u.s. will have to resolve some serious global issues in the near future regardless ideally they should work on them together. to go welcome to the cher one what was that smile you gave me where well when i read that introduction in the beginning of the chair i think it was because you felt that things got a lot better with the reset that obama and maybe out of began and i think they didn't get that much but. i don't think they really got bad that they looked better and the words you know you know what god said it went well though first there was the word sin so there was the word where where and what obama came to what well you can't deny that but al you and i are on time very very long time we'll be having words of politicians we had and we look beyond and probably the difference is if there is one between you and me is i mean he wasn't what and one on one but i am a historian and i think especially for americans you can't understand the relationship between the united states and russia w

where we're going to russia with a friend i talked to time but. right now i'm here and you know. was quick to just new league skate kill debbie schlussel the great eight show you know the marks left show that jammed into his first point but did lose one and he has since added six goals and another seven assists before since it's a different hockey here and show. to. different eyes different speed less contacts here. and i hear it's but. frank. i play my best and i try to do my best to game might be a bit less physical in the good job than in the n.h.l. although the bigger rings have nothing to do with making it less competitive one of the world's best strikers claims in some respects it's even tougher the score in europe strongest really. came to the zone and from the board you can sure the rich score goals from here it's very. tough to score because it's a. couple more metres off the skate and you can see the difference behind. changing legs is not just about how we do washington get little's a bench he collected almost all the major trophies. and. is the world's top player but

thousand and twelve championships italian stock is nascar high as he's well on his way to helping russia reach my first world cup since two thousand and two. see. much but the much more. and. you can see the. young. capello seamlessly introduced a number of new players into a setup while discarding some of the old guard full marks of andrea sherman and roman public change her life to sit at home to be combative on alexander court in above beginning to make names of him selves on the international scene on the future looks prime for then as it does for russian going into the new year things are certainly looking up for russia since fabio capello took charge of course the russians didn't do very well of the european championships where they got more tired in the first run but since entirely mistaken overlays introduced a combination of defensive stale and a good going forward and suddenly things bode well for two thousand and thirteen russia's tightness in defense has been the main difference between capello is pretty decisive as of over there is a distinct lack of pace in the center russi

set up for your business in russia or building permits russia not doing very well on those things yet and then you've got the usual suspects. corruption. bureaucracy just being too difficult and also a lack of infrastructure being set up in motion ok tom let's some dust off our crystal balls right here would you say in a year's time we're going to be having this exact same conversation about capital outflow. i would say it's very likely we will most probably having having a discussion about capital inflow or outflow quite would look like it's difficult to say it's very likely though that the there could be. some big changes there's a lot going on in world markets at the moment especially important for russia oil and gas prices and they could change a lot of things in russia's markets do change potentially in a very wide scale so i think in some form at least we can promise you it was wishy washy as it is we will be here in a year's time delivering this information for all of you watching what will be there we're not quite sure tom i thought ari look forward to the new year. right than

believes these holes is a russia's best asset and something to be proud of. it hurts when people say bad things about cossacks they may call drug lords fools layabouts all sorts there really is sad and what's worse some people even write off our most recent victories in world war two my grandfather commanded a division during that war so i know the hardships people went through. the starting point for the much was must goes up the hill you notice twenty twelve it was here in eighteen twelve on the second of september the napoleon waited in vain to be given the keys to the capital they never came. soon afterwards was plundered and razed to the ground. two years later russian troops led by the chieftain cloth of approached. napoleon dreaded the backlash the field the russians would do to paris the friendship done to moscow. feet. this ground one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow is almost as familiar to the french as it is to the russians the battlefield of. the cossacks raced across the field where some one hundred thousand people died in a single day over

then russia russia had said. it's a france cross and as we all know being one of the game is cities in russia while much of the country is under a blanket of snow during winter the city in the south of russia has a relatively mild climates which makes di deal those in sports events and training camps. a lot of the olympic federations within russia come here regularly the main pluses is that they can train outdoors all year round and breathe fresh air without having to treat an. indoor complex says as this is the case in other russian cities where the temperature is much colder. building stadiums and sports complexes doesn't come cheap the city bus and on the region are lucky but they are receiving a lot of state funding. the sums may be large. these training facilities will be used by hundreds of finds of mine women children and this legacy will ensure the future schools but for some on russia the means borrowing which of them goofy totty fashion. finally to the latest from such a as roman culture ad looks at mer

shakeup in russia's government as president putin sacks the country's defense minister following a corruption scandal that cost the budget around one hundred million dogs. in the us election alternative condit's whose voices have gone largely on her during the campaign and all given a crucial stage. for votes in the final of the presidential race. problems caused by last week's superstorm sandy lead to into the widespread use of online voting but cyber security experts warn it could result in full which could ultimately swing such a tight race. that we look at how the outcome of the election could affect the course of america's foreign affairs and its relations with the rest of the world. news live from moscow with me will receive a welcome to the program russia's president vladimir putin has sunk one of the country's key ministers the head of the defense department the move follows a recent corruption scandal around the ministry and the start of a criminal investigation let's get details on this now across. for the latest so good to see you sean i was talking about a bit of a high profile sh

show hell thank you thank you very much for being with us well let's start with the biggest story in russia u.s. relation i mean the missile shield in europe. we all remember that barack obama was caught on tape promising more flexibility to damage human value to former russian president do you think he'll keep the word do you think they'll be more flexibility from the american side understand you in the coming four years i really don't know and this is not because i'm a diplomat i actually. i mean i mean here in the u.s. we don't know anything indian we're going into a shell nothing no nothing. nothing nothing that well truly truly i hope there would be an opportunity to develop something which is different from previous four years of a standstill. whether it would be possible remains to be seen i don't believe the u.s. administration the obama administration. is it any possible mindset of immediately enter into these type of discussions with russia we are very firm in insisting upon what our two fold position that is we need a legally binding guarantees that nothing. in what is going on i

prime for then as it does from russian going into the new year things are certainly looking up for russia since five yo propeller took charge of course the russians didn't do very well at the european championships where they got more tired in the first round but since entirely mistaken overlays introduced a combination of defenses stale and a good going forward and side of things bode well for two thousand and thirteen russia's tightness in defense has been the main difference between capello's precesses of over there is a distinct lack of pace in the center russia have only conceded three times and to be entirely and more importantly they've yet to let in a goal during the world cup qualification campaign. the russians did concede twice against the usa in their latest friendly match and crossed into the italian is normally a hard man to please is generally content with how it's so much performing at the back and. the goes. desist. from the game in his forty's and. these. did the thing. that is good for us in. russia finished the final game of two thousand and twelve of the two two draw

technology innovation all the developments around russia we've. covered. welcome back and as a resume with a mixed martial arts and the chance for jeff monson to get us some revenge and yet to the day after the american last. month some return to russia to face his father i think some rather thought he had was ringside. november fifteenth two thousand and eleven million versus months and arguably the greatest mix martial artist of all time killed three million and god was in the worst run of his career coming out to fight against one of the toughest wrestlers in the business jeff months on after three shocking to fit in rural but the last emperor was back kicking and punching out an undisputed victory and harley giving their merican a chance to fly back on the ground. and a year to the day later it was time for those younger brother to take the months and test insane his work. left to go for the main event on the night he was going to be a real pleasure to watch that experience wrestling x. thirty. five the most dangerous strikers m.m.a. heavyweight divisi

it's of an emerging market it's a volatile place and so if things in or outside russia or in russia change they can they can run but on the question is what needs to change then in order to keep this money here absolutely i think. you have to consider this outflow is natural what's motivating it well the finance ministry isn't shy about saying so neither is for example the world bank in its doing business report this year published not so long ago where she came one hundred twelfth that improved its position but still things like trying to get electricity to a new business or getting business business permits it did appallingly on the rankings there is still major problems with things like infrastructure corruption and simplifying brock you see all of these things heard before and the russian government conscious is that they are going to need to improve these core underlying foundations for of for investors to want to stay in the right sun in the reality let's fast forward a year or we still going to be sat here having this same conversation about capital up like well i hope you're

we're seeing an interest in russia from foreign investors and that's because we're expecting to see the liberalization of the dead market on the local markets here in russia and basically so far only russian banks were working on the federal loans a ball in the markets but that's about to change very soon in the form depositories will get direct access to the russian market so basically what has happened was seen international funds and foreign investors selling their dollars in buying up rubles when this access will be granted now also if you take a look i government bond yields especially when it comes to ten year notes and compare russia to other countries like germany the u.s. and the u.k. the picture becomes clearer you see even though it's safe for if you will to invest in countries like the u.s. you will be get in the last strike on the floor to invest in countries like greece but then again greece has the risk of a default so in the way of russian access there's a middle ground where right now a lot of people in a lot of investors are seeing that it's a good risk to take if you

edge of the visit is held firm but full minutes from the first interval russia and france are up from the piano five in the line however the french then managed to hold off their opponents until the end of one and it finished and outcome and the performance that can benefit in these ends. players always want to go to the highest level they can and they know that it would be a child lives operate at all the sole. i'd like to see it happen but the option of the russian league teams to decide if one of our players is capable of playing up i love it but i think there's a few guys who would like to try. well as overhaul one but state change the box it well we have mountains more news including just such as one of those three of the soviet expedition to everest the latest from sochi on some coloring advice from the issue out of the sea off the right. culture is that so much time in which of course you can write on it in terms of years but the physical reckoning is almost upon us by the end of this year the president of the united states and congress must come to some kind of tax and. browse

and over the past few years the black syrian across nada has emerged as one of russia's top sporting regions richard dummkopf it reports from the sport matter area with the time it starts it may look like a lot of concrete and wondering how whether this will soon be one of the biggest sporting complexes in europe when it's completed in a few years which will of course be a massive boost for russia's olympic athletes. but design looks fantastic and it will include training facilities for twenty different sports a new fifty pounds and seat a football stadium and lympics sized swimming pool and a new rowing club amongst other things when sox have on the rights to host the twenty fourteen olympics at the session was made to construct see the difference of course complexes in the class and our region of those concerned the winter sports will obviously be built in such a while those competing at the summer games will train and cross that are at hand i think this can only be good for developing our support not only in our city but also in russia. book ostergaard has big plans for future the

and this is certainly a great model for russia to follow in the future to help develop in the country before you don't see. from memorable actions to unforgettable words it's the quotes of the week russia forward alexander cup already reveals life under coach fabio capello is much stricter than former boss dick advocaat and the italian isn't apparently a fan of room service capello is very tough says the korean under at the can't we were allowed to leave our hotel or order dinner to be delivered to our rooms none of this is possible with capello. but i am alright with this he adds it's the result that matters and that capello thinks this is the only way to succeed and not want to on. ac milan vice president abu dujana galliani reveals going gone gone over much to city strike that mario balotelli could result in a bad romance balotelli yes it's true that i love him bradley says galliani although it has been said that all the loves in one's life and well. while in her own words it looks like tennis ace maria sharapova has developed quite a taste the curry which the world number two admi

after eighteen years russia eventually joined the world trade organization russia's chief negotiator maxime it back up spent twelve years of his life continually clyne between geneva and moscow to get the work done that god had to patiently see tom from isis between russia's interests and those of the other one hundred and fifty member countries eventually he made it now when the page has been turned the back of says it's not the end of the story russia has made great efforts getting into w t o and now it has to work even harder than. welcome to the show hi thank you very much for being with us there well first of all i want to ask you the question of the show without question what has changed since russia became a full fledged. member you succeeded you'd done your job so. anything anything different you know nothing nothing so i'm right nothing has changed. changed i'm not expecting any changes in the run for. it isn't just those terms with it.

west and russia sure after a propane delivery truck exploded at a petrol station thankfully believe it or not no one hurt in that incident. coming up a dry spell for go we take a look at the india's tourist hot spots well they may can get the best conditions the locals have to pay for the most basic conditions that's coming up as they offer the business we have some spectacular pictures to show before week a hate filled baby david cameron trying to convince us that tightening our belts saving is the way forward you know piers and not just the rest of us he say cuts the white full legal status say this is the only way to fix the problem plaguing historically black in britain right now that you know that as well as may also going to be talking about you got some root ball on the fact that it's incredibly out there like that so all of that i'm hoping that you know all revealed soon the never over build up to the break in business but it's all right because. the sun rises over what seems like and list forest here in the new directions quite hundred kilometers north of live all stop as in m

technology innovation all the list of elements around russia we've got the future covered. two parties keep us politics a one way street thank you will new voices disrupt the power power. but if america changes tracks us election close god monday november fifth on our team. welcome back to spotlight and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is . former russian bobsledder and a bop team racer and she as she calls her. apart from having your court case pending in germany and you're also planning to continue undergoing medical treatment in that country i mean well you know what anybody in the media who has a story would mention to miracle. was performed by the german surgeon saved a girl who was supposed to lose her leg and then most likely die anyway he managed to save your leg and your life i mean. the other medical epeat of the medics say. actually. rather than anybody can make their own miracles certainly the german doctors did an extraordinary job saving my life and crucially my leg and practically piecing me back together which was extremely difficult the do

stan the relationship between the united states and russia without remembering the history and we americans don't have a lot of use for history but the history is quite simple in the twenty one years since the soviet union did in one thousand nine hundred one in the relationship between washington and moscow all the concessions have been made by moscow. moscow his research has received nothing of significance in return now if our viewers say that can't be i invite your viewers to think of one major concession that washington has made to moscow now let's go to the parish troika to be reset peri's our group the reset between obama and present been some of that you need to read but they have even like to carry around with them i mean showing them to the cab well it began that they didn't at the americans misspelled the word for recent from the beginning but now let's be very careful analytical about this obama wanted from it get washington wanted from moscow some very persistent fix things specific things it wanted moscow to support sanctions against around correct moscow did that correct. was

and talking of the businesses dimitris next with that now dimitri russia is pledging to support the euro much needed to light that is true russia has forty two percent of its foreign currency reserves in the euro and prime minister medvedev has said today that he will be keeping it in the year and he was saying that in paris while blessing a major business deal is a way that russia and indeed russian companies can really capitalize on the miseries in your own really get something out of it well apparently there are bargains for the taking basically of the european market right now and russian companies are going ahead with that i'll tell you all about it the couple of great notes after the break thanks a lot to me to. parents versus social workers dot nabbing. dot the man you've met children have become prizes to fight for why does the law threaten families for social for if you see me in the film of the right of your home anymore they feel that they have any kind of suspicion about the world of the of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad.

syrians technology innovation all the it's them elements from around russia we've got the future covered. hello again this is our three live from moscow very good to have you company it's kevin owen here let's get across the business. dimitri said to me today richard branson has flown over especially to moscow is on a mission for some mission but he's got several reasons actually to be here millions of dollars of deals on the table but also there's one particular issue he's very frustrated about not all about it in my program. welcome to the program the head of virgin group richard branson is indeed in moscow to try and convince the russian government that virgin airways is the better choice to fly between london and moscow after rival easyjet was awarded the spirit let's now are joined our very own katie tobin she's at the business desk for more details all right katie good to see you there so the night has come charging into moscow to get his way in. as a bit of excitement about it of a height he certainly means business wear on the wear on the polls are going to exclusive interview wi

this unit has taken part in many counterterrorist operations across russia. they have a variety of firearms at their disposal but their weapon of choice is still the kalashnikov. kalash. there yet. these soldiers will endure a course of special training lasting almost until. its regular procedure a modification to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in search warrants it will be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground but. one rifle for every batch is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. in a scientific trial. the rifles designed. one that when he realized his first model was to be subjected to a severe test he looked away he couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes. testing a new variant of the kalashnikov goes through seven stages first the gun is placed into.

to be deployed in the north of the country russia has been staunchly against the from the start. threats to its national security but i. think the. tensions between moscow and washington. the agreement with the polish government the station u.s. military personnel there and going ahead with the creation of a missile defense shield which cannot be perceived in any other way by the russian government as a threat as a direct threat against russia also partly just to solidify and incorporate poland into an american influence on russia's border i think this says a lot about the obama administration playing the game of the military industrial complex which has a lot to gain economically and politically in terms of its own positioning in american politics by creating a new kind of cold war atmosphere with russia and that's what the missile defense shield is all about in addition to being very good for business they've spent one hundred billion dollars so far on missile defense shield. and you can follow that website along with how the u.s. was born don't buy a run it's going to try to t

and even higher in russia you have. under ten and the government has about twenty five percent of g.d.p. so from the oil from. creditor to the rest of the world and it's running a surplus at the moment so russia looks in a much better position from a budget point of view nearly everywhere else in the world. as check out the market figures then u.s. stocks rose in friday's shortened holiday session with encouraging economic data from germany and china helping to boost the mood as well as american consumers heading to the stalls to take advantage of black friday sales european stocks also finished the day with gains are german business confidence is rising and investors also keeping a close eye on u.s. shoppers snapping out those ballgames and also helping out retailers along the way the year i continued to strengthen to a three week high off the report from its biggest economy whereas the ruble as a result was low against the euro it did gain against the us dollar say the actors and here in moscow ended the day with gain

and i think if we can get russia or russia on board and america are on board we. the syrian government on board hopefully we can get or get the promise of how the site actually work while the elders are actually. station the twelve people that nelson mandela set up. and they. have people like president carter. nelson mandela. archbishop tutu people with high bar of authority they work is that as a as a as a group to try to resolve conflicts and then sometimes the individual elders i would like to bring him has been asked by the united nations to try to. you know work with the various countries involved with syria to try to to try to get this problem result and. so since you asked am i happy with the well obviously syria is a miserable place and it needs to be resolved and it should be a top priority i think of every caring politician to get to get this problem resolved was about the time when you were editing the magazine and you started up a magazine trying to stop the war in vietnam from what i understand do you think journalism can actually change the world and

are not met elsewhere criticism runs rampant elections in venezuela elections in iran elections in russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed and while nitpicking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed at home policymakers and to a great extent our media and and trickle down to the american people have literally the literally think that the rest of the world is stupid. that they don't see it that everybody naturally house to admit you know my or us that we're great and it's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear and hear him and you're out a flawed election process continues to be the first vote cast in the u.s. and if their future cannot party new york. polls still cold separate barack obama and mitt romney who have been in a dead heat for a month now but alongside the two front runners many others who were running weren't given a voice in the media so gave them the platform they needed the notion that we have been the country that stood up to the ball the as opposed to being a bully it's a growing police state qui

it was friday snowboarders from across russia showed off their skills. the moscow real monster event the shipping contest took place at a ten point venue next to the crown then to the we're not picking up a five thousand dollar prize. on saturday argentina legend and world cup winner diego maradona looked on as russia to be brazil seven four in dubai to change their second straight to feature football crowd they got sheinkopf netting four goals for the russians. and on sunday it's going down to the wire in formula one off to kill me where i can and won his first race of the year in abu dhabi but i know i'm also finished second ahead of championship leaders sebastian vettel took up a gap at the top two ten points with just two races to go. and staying with her just bought and while sebastian vettel remains on course for his third straight formula one crown russia's young driver daniel chance could be racing alongside the f one champion in a couple of years' time because the top off has the story. this russian youngster is no though dreamt of following in

iraq councils i'm a multibillion dollar arms deal with russia suspicion of corruption and its own buying process but experts question whether it's washington's hand at play. and prayers prevented amid fresh violence in bahrain's dissent clampdown an activist explains why he and more than two dozen others have their citizenship withdrawn. good evening international headlines live from our moscow headquarters who watching our team with me lucy tough enough well dozens of syrian security officers have reportedly been killed in twin bombings in the country's south it's the latest spate of violence in the escalating conflict which has already claimed tens of thousands of lives are his middle east correspondent paula slayer hostile latest. now what we understand is that there was an apparent double suicide attack according to activists on the ground the blast went off near a branch of the country's military intelligence in daraa that the explosions were followed by clashes between regime forces and rebels now targets and security institutions have become quite commonplace recently in syria ear

science technology innovation hall the list a moment around russia we've got the future covered. he continues here on r.t. if you just joined us a very warm welcome a former u.k. defense minister has come up with an extreme way to curb violence in afghanistan and pakistan he wants to drop a neutron bomb on the country's border well earlier i spoke about the unconventional suggestion here's a lord and quite the gas he's come out with a not one you'd expect from someone who has had such high government positions in the process this lord gilbert he was a defense minister under tony blair he was a member of the security and intelligence committee so privy to a lot of information sort of an expert in the defense field and he'd think he'd come up with some rather more constructive suggestions than what he's come up with bill but that's clearly not the case what has he come up with what did he propose exactly. well you know what gilbert quite literally suggested threatening to drop a neutron bomb on the pakistani afghan border in order to crack down on terrorism in the region now a neut