after they were cancelled in japan because of the earthquake prime minister vladimir putin offered her russia to step in and take over the finals and now the international skating federation has agreed to accept the weeklong torn it will get underway in moscow on april the twenty fifth. which was that you didn't see a national blow to sure france and counterparts that all the athletes and supporters will feel tell dirigible champ you should see moscow for the russian national finals will be the first could you should be discreet because our squad consists of very young skaters so it's the beginning of a long road for them. to stay on in preparations for such a. national. let's stay on the ice but move to the k h l where sound about you live have won the first game needs some conference final against magnitogorsk the home side edging out the visitors if all three in the ensoul about scoring are to just thirty seconds through the graeme kirk door of equalised mesler before elemental put them in front minutes later but salad at home three on the trot to leave third

couple dined prime minister vladimir putin confirms that moscow will host the twenty eleven world you're sitting championships. so he starts at lunch trash talking which he became one of their cage else in the final series. of the four wheels to four legs for the one shot and sebastian vettel spots his red bull racer for a bite she said of the string round three. one that story coming up but we do start with the news that russia will host the twenty eleven world figure skating championships tokyo was the whole the event this week but the recent mega quake tsunami and subsequent nuclear threat in japan means all sporting events there are counsel for the forseeable future prime minister vladimir putin offering some days ago for russia to step in and take over the finals if the international skating federation agreed on they now have the weeklong tournaments will get on the we had to rename mega sport on april twenty fifth in moscow the same city that held the tournament half dozen years ago for the ten winter olympic hosts bun coover or other regions how to also offer to the stage. but use

so prime minister vladimir putin promising all help the russia can give to japan as they attempt to deal with the consequences from this earthquake tsunami and then the nuclear problems that they're facing out fukushima with the risk of meltdown still a possibility there and he's right says the far east e.u. it doesn't kilometers over the sea from japan so what's the situation there like of the moment and there were any concerns in connection to what's going on in japan. well there are a russia very very close very very close to the japanese mainland and very close indeed to where this is all going on in fukushima. before very very close to the seaboard of japan and also the russian far east in seaports in the city of lot of a major port there also the island the sakhalin very very close to this very very many people who are worried there about the potential of nuclear for out coming towards them any kind of cloud of nuclear dust now the russian nuclear monitoring services have been wanting to what they wanted to watch over the next twenty four hours very closely to see if there are any

capitol boy prime minister vladimir putin confirms that law school will host the twenty levon the world figure skating championships. final preps russian gear up for their first competitive game of the year european qualifier with armenia euro bonds . there is a trickle in the celebrate after knocking out three in a row world champions australia from the world cup. or not coming up but we start with the news that russia will host the twenty eleven a world figure skating championships tokyo was still holding events this week but the recent mega quake tsunami and subsequent nuclear threat in japan means all sporting events there are console's for the forseeable future prime minister vladimir putin offering some days ago for russia to step in and take over the finals if the international skating federation agrees day of the week long tournaments will get on the way and we know that mega sport on april twenty fifth in moscow the same city that held the tournaments half a dozen years ago twenty ten winter olympic host hoover or other reach also offer to host. countries that year the sickness

mania analysts one of the issues also could be discussed is finding a job for prime minister vladimir putin if you doesn't seek or in the next presidential election in russia according to these. these rumors he could be offered the seat of the chairman of the international olympic committee or even the seat of the secretary general of the united nations but let's put speculation aside for a moment there are real issues which need to be discussed between the two sides like the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington in force. also russia's accession into the world trade organization which could happen as soon as this year it's already been backed by the european union and the united states and of course some key international affairs including the situation in north africa and the middle east of course and that situation is kind of the elephant in the room is the response to the arab world crisis likely to be a source of friction between the two in these possible talks. this is quite an interesting issue since the reset of relations between russia and the united sea

trover according to that book prime minister vladimir putin has called on all emergency officials in russia's far east to be prepared to act according to the worst case scenario that's comes to start an optimistic forecast by the head of the country's state nuclear energy company he says the region is out of any immediate danger in any case it doesn't even in the worst case scenario if there's a complete meltdown there's no longer be a nuclear explosion only a radioactive leak is new create a large exclusion zone around the station where there will be you know the energy to propel the radioactive cloud high up in the air ship so even if there is very strong wind blowing in our direction for several days there's still no danger of the russian far east now japan has asked the international atomic energy agency to help the country deal with its nuclear crisis its comes amid concerns of similar incidents taking place around the world and also he's done a bushel has been following the developments in europe and our brings us all the latest from brussels. the japanese government has offici

reactor russia is pledging to jointly develop a new nuclear power plant in belarus prime minister vladimir putin met with his russian counterpart in minsk on tuesday to reiterate russia's position. it was not really sure but we are facing a crisis related to what is happening in japan which will certainly influence the global economy we intend to go ahead with our plans to build a nuclear power plants and bulbs the project we're going to develop on campus leaders c.t. and technological advancements. a. second ago how an asian markets reacting to a situation in japan would have reacted rather massive selloff on tokyo stock exchange continued on tuesday investors will try to guess just how bad the transmitter company could be there for the nikkei is down ten and a half a sentence heard consecutive slap on contango bank records motors closing the session and down almost three percent the increased losses were compounded by japan's prime minister's statement that a quote from standstill amount of radiation or anything the regime a nuclear power plant. what we have seen today is just an over reaction

outside of the japanese embassy and enough to solidarity between the two nations prime minister vladimir putin has invited the russian the japanese judo team to come over here to russia to train. well the situation in fukushima has caused many countries around the world to review their own nuclear programs now russia has said that then u.k. programme will continue armed is safe. i would like to emphasize that at this time we possess an entire arsenal of advanced technological measures to ensure the crisis free and stable operation of nuclear power plants and these measures should and will be utilized to the maximum well as the situation continues to worsen by the day we see that it really brings into the foreground the the realisation that mankind which is monthly in control when it comes to technology and that technology being impacted upon by the forces of nature that we can now hear reports from my colleague alexey out of sheer speed is in ukraine. it was a failed experiment that led to history's biggest nuclear disaster in april nine hundred eighty six the chernobyl reactor exploded as a r

and for homeless descent of rocket boosters expended with each launch russian prime minister vladimir putin made his way to the future in the region of russia's far east symbolic groundbreaking in august of two thousand and ten. stages as a leading space. prove a country's access to space as will be capable of launching all types of ships into orbit this includes flights and positions to the moon and. it's central to these plans may have been designed. but it will lift off on the power of engines built by another key player in russia's aerospace industry moscow base to go much. we've chosen the engine. that we've developed for sale to american. the v one eighty from the store. we've made some adjustments to adapt it to the rockets that will fly from the. primary design elements will be largely changed a lot of the technical adjustments aimed to improving the. engines will be made. back in the late soviet period in a march with the makers of the r d one seventy the most powerful liquid fuel rocket engine in history in the ninety's they started work on a new model they cut down to two combust

roads to secure yes clocks viewing the new russian proposal with uncertainty but the recent visit vladimir putin pay to brussels following the dramatic events in the arab east has shown that the european energy sector investors are returning to russia to what degree is this change politically motivated first ask the press secretary of the russian prime minister dmitry peskov. after the gas transit crisis two years ago european started to actively look for alternatives to russian gas supplies to launch the idea of their own of pipeline gastronomy at least and central asia but the project is still just a pile of paperwork to liquefied natural gas is becoming increasingly popular with investors were trying to diversify their shipping possibilities but looks like even considering. the interest has come back and russia. miter thank you very much for coming televisor to be here with you again a pleasure so i was going to move first of all i just. came to my mind that many years ago when on the first news conferences one of the first questions to your boss was who is mr putin well i think it may be app

also today we should point out defense secretary robert gates arrived in russia and vladimir putin took that moment to slam the military strikes in libya, saying it was like a medieval crusade. those are fighting words clearly intended to incite the entire arab world. that was enough to draw a rebuke from russia's president, medvedev, but it does overshadow the trip. >> chuck todd, who's traveling with the traveling white house in south america, chuck, given the fact that the machinery of the presidency can now move with the executive in a way it never did decades ago, is the criticism the president is getting from the other side, does it have to do with where he is physically or the aspects of this attack and how it was carried out? >> reporter: well, brian, it has to do with the fact that they were caught a little bit off guard by how much criticism they're getting from members of congress. part of this is geographical. it would be a lot easier if the president were sitting in the oval office and a republican senator, like richard lugar, has a bunch of questions, he physically brings

ukrainian boxer vladimir putin has been in prediction mode the multiple world heavyweight belt older stating his bite with david haye will go into twelve runs but it's then that britain the younger brother kayo is the only possible i've come the unification fight is said to take place on either june twenty fifth or july second this year to score at current levels the i.d.f. fungible b.-o. prawns well hey is that the be a champion that bus now looks to be set in stone after months of negotiations the venue however will be announced next. and you form a one season starts this weekend in melbourne and once again ferrari will be high among the favorites for the constructors' championship winter testing is going pretty well for the marinello based i fit the sport hoping it will give fernando alonso inflict a musket each season alone so narrowly missed out on the third drivers' world championship last year to. also claim the constructors title simply raring to get into competitive here this year. this is what we are here for. for the misquote i mean everyone will come forward to arrive in

championships after they were cancelled in japan because of a year with quake prime minister vladimir putin offered for russia to step in and take over the finals and now the international skating federation has accepted the weeklong tournament will get underway in moscow on april the twenty fifth. it's easy to get it. to sure our friends and counterparts that all the athletes and their supporters will feel tell during the world championships in moscow for the russian national team these finals will be the first competition and so be skilled because our squad consists of very young skaters so it's the beginning of a long road for them first in stone and preparations for the sochi winter olympics . now big weekend lies ahead for russia's footballers with the european qualifiers getting back underway pick up the cars men its first serious test of the year taking place and yet a van where everyone pretty in armenia lie in wait and from there is rich poor fit . really can underline how important it actually sees for the russians as they look to try and solidify of their lead at the top of group

and eventually things moving people began to work better there with you know when i met with vladimir putin a year ago at the first think you said was that our industrial production was in decline. or that when i can tell you that this year alone thanks to the federal program we're going to launch it polymer production in a revival but she factories. brickyard and another one. speaking of your meeting with wood and you said that it's the problem of unemployment remains very serious you said the task would be to decrease down employment rate by fifteen or twenty percent however so far it's been nearly four percent why is this something that puts investors off. and it's rather a question of our failure it seems to me to the plans that we had made with the an economic not all economic but also social. in terms of employment and considerable money was okayed it to levy attention on the labor market but there are still learning from our mistakes in taking advantage of the. facilities that we are going to launch with we hope to improve the situation connection with and secondly we are creating ne

skating championships after they were cancelled in japan because of the earthquake prime minister vladimir putin offered for russia to step in and take over the finals and now the international skating federation has agreed to accept a week long torment will get underway in moscow on a potential fix. which was that you use your national luck to share our friends and counterparts that all the athletes and blue supporters will feel tell during the world championships in moscow for the russian national t.v. these finals will be the first people to be discreet you'll see because our squad can see some very young skaters the beginning of a long road for them first to stone and preparations for the summer it's not as important as the cage all playoffs continue today with lokomotiv hoping to square their western conference final with atlanta who produced a shock when in their scale not all about you live have got their noses in front in the eastern conference final against most of the magnet of course after four three victory yesterday at the home side of edging out to their full phrase we say tell abo

tsunami in japan means all sporting events are council there for the time being prime minister vladimir putin offered some days ago for russia to step in and take over the finals if the international skating federation agreed on the no weeklong tournaments will get underway on april twenty fifth moscow the same city that held the tournament half a dozen years ago but cooper and four other cities had also offered to host the challenges. in the n.b.a. the slide of youth is continuing as does their hopes of a post-season place a one hundred sixty ninety four loss to oklahoma their latest defeats the salt lake city squad are four games behind in memphis where the final playoff spot of the west under though they're looking good russell westbrook getting thirty one points for them while the country around twenty nine simply would no longer for the love of my rant now with the high string of reaching the n.b.a. this year the twenty two year old all but assuring the victory of three pointers in the fourth and final score of one of the six. it's not what you'd expect to see from a reading world champi

figure skating championships after they were cancelled because of the years quite prime minister vladimir putin or food for russia to step in and take over the finals and now the international skating federation has agreed to accept a week long tournament will get underway. in moscow on april twenty fifth. it's easy to use your commercial to share our friends and counterparts that all the athletes and to supporters will feel to tell during the world championships in moscow for the russian national team these finals will be the first competition skills because our squad consists of very young skaters so it's the beginning of a long road for them to first preparations for the sort of winter olympics and i was born it was similar the experts will stay on the ice but moved to the k h l we're sad about your life i've won the first game and the eastern conference final against metal magnitogorsk the home side edging out the visiting mag we saw for a salad that scored after just thirty seconds through. the door of equalized mexico before the event have put them in front minutes later this hour that sl

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championships after they were cancelled in japan because of the recent earthquake prime minister vladimir putin suggested russia could step in and take over the finals on the international stage confederation except to be off a week on toronto gets underway in moscow i pulled twenty four. which was a period national like to show our friends and counterparts that all the athletes and two supporters will feel tell the readable championships in moscow that the russian national t.v. finals will be the first edition and so be the scale because our squad can see some very young skaters the beginning of a long road for them first step is thrown in preparations for the sochi winter olympics national borders with. a separate law so will also step in as the host of this year's world modern pentathlon championships the annual tournament was jew in cairo in september was also called off following the egyptian revolution in january so the sports elites will gather in the russian capital instead of competition getting underway and all this the thirty first three different locations in the city are being cons

the bone parliament is targeting civilians instead of protecting that russian prime minister vladimir putin has compared the operation to a medieval insane. and washington maintains its intervention will be limited even though it's behind most of the payload dropped on libya is raising fears that america's humanitarian primus will have legal consequences for civilians as it did in iraq and afghanistan. and japanese imports kept the global cold souls are after the fukushima radiation leak meanwhile the number of dead from the tsunami disaster rises to more than eight thousand workers are still struggling around the nuclear meltdown at the stricken facility which officials say may never produce energy again. we more news in about half an hour's time up next as promised it's cross talk with peter voser. can. follow in well nick rostock i'm peter lavelle divide within islam the shia and sunni the saudi invasion and suppression of the shia majority in bahrain again highlights how sectarian differences can inflame passions and impact the geopolitical water in the arab world and how will these div

the global center of sport for the next decade or so according to the country's prime minister vladimir putin all these major sporting events will not only improve russia's sports infrastructure i will also help attract international tourists to the country. we must use the preparations for the twenty fourteen olympics in sochi and a world cup in twenty teams the advancement of sport for the masses these tournament should also pave the way for widespread construction of training facilities seems to listen to or centers in russia we must leave an extensive heritage after those events i suppose the world cup can also help us attract the attention of tourists from all over the world. let's continue with ice hockey work a show new comers as you grow were unable to salvage their maiden season the men from. failing to extend their debut past the opening round of the playoffs and losing a little in their best of seven series the men from. closing mode on the roads are moving into the second round after a confident four one when in. regular season champions have been guard fairly steadily live in the

russia's heavily invested in preserving its tiger population prime minister vladimir putin personally endorsing international protection campaigns alongside celebrities such as leonardo dicaprio but despite this is now estimated that less than five hundred of these cats remain in the wild and recent reports revealed worrying statistics these animals come from a limited gene pool increasing the potential for genetic diseases and other illnesses amongst the population they were once a familiar sight across eastern russia northern china and the korean peninsula now the deforestation has eva taken poaching as their biggest threat to their natural habitats and numbers continue to wendell its neighbor continued efforts to save that much more important. we started raising money right away and the dangers facing there are more trying to our national problem and we have to solve this problem together it will be no use if we're not united. despite the many challenges russia continues its determined campaign to save the tigers even if it's only one big cats at a time. see a bug in cuba track and

outside of the japanese embassy and did an act of solidarity between the two nations prime minister vladimir putinhas invited the russia the japanese judo team to come over here to russia to train. well the situation in fukushima has caused many countries around the world to review their own nuclear programs now russia has said that then u.k. program will continue armed is safe though this was said by the russian foreign minister said. he also said that not only was the russian nuclear program safe but that the bushehr nuclear power plant in iran which russia had built was also safe and able to withstand an earthquake. as for our cooperation with iran in construction of this bush new shoes we're following the high standards for safety he's going to satisfy the i.a.e.a. and the u.n. energy watch don't monitor the truth in time to solicit he is under the oversight of the agency that you guarantee to any technical safety but also protection to society which is pretty cool that well as the situation continues to worsen by the day he she that really brings into the foreground the realisation that that

electricity directly to japan through an underwater cable which links the two countries prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. is a great tragedy for japan so i would like our corresponding ministries and before it is to work out plans for how to help our eastern neighbors we need to do everything to increase supplies of fuel to japan because of a slump in energy generation. second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i've just talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown that would put radioactive material into the air now the situation is being monitored very very closely in russia. this is due to of course the close proximity but also that close proximity there is a risk if th

and russian prime minister vladimir putin says he's concerned by the number of civilian deaths in libya foreign air forces have been too reckless and their actions. there is a civil war going on in libya the proposal of a no fly zone was aimed at preventing gadhafi from firing it is appalling and so protect civilians such a decision applied to a sovereign state is a difficult one but the aim was well intentioned but what are we seeing now that it is strikes on the entire territory of the country and how can it be aiming to protect civilians such means are chosen to civilian death toll actually rises. that unions the u.s. defense secretary was in moscow this week calling on the russian leadership to think about joining the military campaign in libya and although moscow abstained from voting on the un resolution which led to the no fly zone enforcement it ruled out getting involved in the coalition bombing robert gates assured prison that major operations in libya would scaled back within a few days it wasn't the only military issue which came up missile defense in europe was also discuss

shares will we be peed believes the deal is good for russia we also know that prime minister vladimir putin lauded the allies well b.p. says it will apply to proceeds with the shares more on his own without the exploration however its shareholders are concerned that to these assets will close without the right to develop the world it was a symbiotic may not make sense for the british will try the ruling by stockholm cause there's obviously a setback for the company's efforts to explode one of the world's largest on top tropes and this agreement with ross now was part of a major strategy to revive the u.k. producer after last year's gulf of mexico oil spill. to the markets where u.s. stocks and. they don't choose their use by the klein in consumer confidence this was pretty much expected that turns up half of the sensors nasdaq european stocks are lower led by bank shares and commerce bank fell four point four percent in frankfurt as fanservice speculate that maybe looking to raise capital b.p. added pressure on the front seat to the downside after a broker downgrade book soon and the dax en

robust he held talks with the russian president on wednesday he's now meeting with prime minister vladimir putin he's told talks with the opposition leaders however the focus these. time and it's not joe biden's first time in moscow we must remind our viewers so the focus the stardom is. expanding into new dimensions all resides with a focus on the in the business piece in particular the u.s. accounted for less than four percent in russia's external trade last year which is of course way beyond the potential so the two sides are now talking about what could be done to boost those trade ties. running a similar dinner put in today suggested he's a regime of course a giant b. companies russia and the u.s. are signing major deals like it was that we are afloat and boy they yes they signed a deal worth some two billion dollars joe biden was present at that the u.s. vice president also supports president me believes mission to modernize economy yesterday he visited the school kabul park this is where the russian government plans to build its own version of the us silicon valley and of course w t o rus

magnitude of the disaster and you know often as in the situation for all the trashing prime minister vladimir putin immediately offered all of the little this instance to japan colleagues and even the shipment gets the amount of radiation being released now and the amount of radiation that will be released in the coming future is so great that actually all global the fact that you know the disaster chernobyl were only one poll you know it was affected you know this really should cover the whole global so the magnitude all the loot disaster cannot be predicted now but definitely it's going to be one of the worst nuclear disasters in gold history. on our paramount you can always be on top of the developments in japan we are twitter page and the latest reports are just engineers working at the fukushima plant have been unable to appall water into a vital area one of the critical reactors understatements could have a devastating outcome a very minute instant update on our twitter account that is a party under school. assignment associate professor of international christian university in tokyo believes