german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin pledged to keep economic ties, despite political differences. >> and the remains of pablo neruda are exhumed to investigate whether he was murdered by the pinochet regime. >> tributes have been pouring in from around the world for margaret thatcher, the former british prime minister, who died today at the age of 87 following a stroke. former leaders mikhail gorbachev, helmut kohl, and bill clinton were among those who were the first to offer praise, calling her iconic. >> she is famously known as the iron lady because of her tough and uncompromising style. thatcher was britain's first female prime minister. her economic reforms transformed britain, but were also deeply polarizing. in recent years, she largely kept out of the public eye as her health began to deteriorate. >> at her last public appearance in 2010, margaret thatcher could barely stand. at her side was british prime minister david cameron, who earlier today offered this moving statement. >> i believe she will go down as the greatest risk peacetime prime minist

vladimir putin ran on a very anti-u.s. platform i think the president obama used a lot of political capital in order to engage in work with the presidential debate and build up his stature. has ak president obama serious choice in the second term and that is for how much capital to you want to invest in russia. if you read about u.s. foreign policy a lot is the pivot to asia. syria should include russia seeing as russia is an asian power. it hasn't engaged russia at all. that is the relationship that is trained as a result of politics. i think they are having difficulty finding, and grow. -- finding common ground. -- where did you observe and terms of the u.s. reaction to russians after the bottom. -- after the bombing? we try to find out what is the relationship. i think people are focused on chechnya. we weren't focuses -- we weren't focused on the north caucuses or all of the dust -- or all of the f mitt groups. people have been trying to understand how this part of the russian federation to fit into the whole of the ru

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this year's event and over plenty of russian technology on display but also provide a chance for vladimir putin to sit down and have a chat with german chancellor angela merkel just recently to be a putin gave a interview on german television one of the things that he spoke about there was giving reassurances really to germans as well as other europeans about new laws being brought in in russia regarding n.g.o.s he said that they aren't laws that are being put in place to form any kind of witch hunt against non-government organizations working in russia they have merely in order to make these organizations reveal where their funding comes from for the work that they're doing which is the law does not prohibit anything you know there's a limit close down anything for sure to organizations financed from abroad a lot for didn't carry out any type of activity including internal political ones the only thing we want to know is who receives money and where it goes i repeat going to law is not some sort of innovation of are also gearing up to interview he fact the the you wrote he said that russia wou

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moving out to russia, it is a staple of russian political life -- vladimir putin pose a direct line t the call-in program gives russians a chance to send questions to the man in charge of the kremlin. >> thursday's edition was the 11 show, and there was a huge response. producers received over 1.2 million questions, and putin stayed on the air for close to five hours to answer as many as he could. emma putin has been cracking down on dissent, and he has been defending his record and strongly denied accusations of stalinist tendencies. >> it was a hand-picked audience that the russian president fielded questions from, ranging from russia's rampant corruption to fears of a new financial crash. after last year's mass protests, critical questions were allowed as well. this journalist asked about what he saw as stalinist style repression in politics. >> no one has tried anymore because of their political views or activities. there are only trials when people break the law. >> while putin was making his remarks, a moscow court fined the monitoring group 8000 euros for failing to comply with

russian president vladimir putin is now calling for "contact" between russian and american investigato investigators. their uncle told cnn he believes others must have influenced tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother. >> who are mentors of all of it and how possibly could he get involved and do this harm to innocent people? >> reporter: senior u.s. officials tell cnn, so far there's no solid evidence of a direct link between the brothers and international terrorist groups. but the u.s. is assembling a web of information about the men's movements and who they communicated with. it starts back in 2011. the fbi was asked then by russia to check out tamerlan tsarnaev because that country thought he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer and that he had changed drastically. the fbi interviewed him and checked its databases but found no evidence of communication with radical groups. the other government didn't provide more information even when asked. last year, tamerlan made a six-month trip to russia to visit his family, his father says. the u.s. wants to know, did he travel

mr president what subjects did you discuss with the russian president vladimir putin during your meeting with him. first of all i'd like to thank artie's arabic channel for what it's been doing for the arab world as a whole and yemen in particular this is my first visit to russia since i was elected in two thousand and twelve i came to thank the russian government and mr putin for supporting the people of yemen at the time of the crisis in twenty eleven yemen was on the brink of civil war but its political forces the ruling party of zisha and parties together with our social youth and women's organizations agreed that we should take the way of peace and stop the civil war that had been raging in our capital city center for more than a year we all agreed that we were going to act according to the gulf cooperation council initiative and its implementation mechanism we then held an early election on february twenty fourth two thousand and twelve a compromise president was elected and we continued to establish peace in yemen according to the mechanism i mentioned above but we also managed to

grilled by the nation russian president vladimir putin holds his first countrywide q. and a session since reelection saying he's always been dismayed by the west defying tourists in russia as quote insurgents. unemployment in spain are rockets to more than twenty seven per cent with protesters who are suffering at the hands of austerity taking to the streets of lisbon and madrid venting anger at the trio of international lenders. under a strike at the guantanamo bay detention center dragging on u.s. officials admitting the scale of the protest is rising ninety four detainees now said to be involved. eight pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t we begin with some breaking news this hour u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has said his intelligence services have quote some confidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons on a small scale he said it's thought that the nerve agent sarin was used against civilians and rebel fighters these comments the first confirmation by the u.s. of alleged use of such weapons but only on tuesday hagel ha

grilled by the nation russian president vladimir putin's held his first countrywide q. and a session since reelection saying he's always been dismayed by the west fighting terrorists in russia as well insurgents. protests are growing in madrid venting anger at the government and the troika of international lenders after spain's unemployment soars above twenty seven percent while in portugal thousands of demonstrated against austerity as well. as a good having you with us here on our t.v. our top story the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said his intelligence services have quote some confidence that syria's government used chemical weapons on a small scale he said it's believed the nerve agent sarin was deployed against civilians and rebel fighters are merino porton has more. the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said at the white house and has informed members of congress that intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that syrian president bashar al assad's government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition specificall

for twenty three team bringing it down to two point four percent according to russian president vladimir putin these are disturbing symptoms at the same time he stressed that the russian economy has good margins of safety. i do not want to dramatize the situation not necessarily with the russian economy has a sufficient safety net just. growing volatility on global markets prices on oil and other resources are still rather harsh russia has substantial gold and currency reserves its budget reserve funds are a reliable safety cushion and what is most important people's real incomes are not shrinking but are steadily growing many experts are optimistic about the second half of twenty thirteen among their analysts from d.t.b. group they see a chance of fresh an economy rebounding this would in part be zero to a low base effect and slowing inflation investments into the russian market has so far been receding this chemo sleep due to risks that related with cyprus and falling commodity prices however legislation aimed at simplifying some procedures is on the way for example paying taxes was already

off but just really quickly you mentioned yesterday's press conference and russian president vladimir putin had this to say about the attacks were going to play out over terrorism in general take a listen common americans are not to be blamed they don't understand what is happening here i am addressing them and our citizens to say that russia too is a victim of international terrorism i was always a paul when our western partners and the western media labeled terrorists who committed bloody cross of our country as insurgents and almost never as terrorists these groups received intelligence financial and political support sometimes directly and sometimes it rightly we said declarations merely proclaiming terrorism a common threat were not enough we must get the job done those two proven opposition all too we'll well see that a really quickly because we're running out of time but is this very a very different point of view normally that we've seen in the us so we've been told that kerry has a face yet this is the notion that the gates of fact does care indeed have a nationality. what putin ju

. >> just ahead, russian president vladimir putin takes questions on a range of issues during his annualcall-in program. after that irish president michael higgins on the challenges facing the european union. then we're live as education secretary arne duncan and health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius discuss the obama administration's agenda for early childhood education. and later a panel discusses the legacy and lessons of the holocaust for modern day europe. >> russian president vladimir putin held his annual question and answer session last week in moscow. a reported two million questions were submitted to him by text, e-mail and phone on russia's economy, the global economic crisis, corruption in government and the boston marathon bombings. from moscow, here's the first hour of the five-hour program. ♪ ♪

grilled by the nation russian president vladimir putin holding his first countrywide q. and a session since reelection saying he's always been dismayed by the west defining terrorists in russia as insurgents. unemployment peaking at a record three point two million in france and soaring above twenty percent in the twenty seven percent in spain this is live video from madrid we're looking at right now protesters saying they're suffering at the hands of austerity taking to the streets also of lisbon venting their anger at the troika of international lenders. are striking at one time in the bay detention center moves on with u.s. officials forced to admit the scale of the protest rising to ninety four detainees now said to be involved. in moscow by matter as a good to have you with us here on r t a top story during a nationwide question and answer session russian president vladimir putin called for greater cooperation between russia and the u.s. on fighting terrorism he also said he was disturbed when western nations labeled terrorists in russia as quote freedom fighters ev

economy russia's financial stability becomes one of the main topics of discussion for president vladimir putin on thursday during his nationwide q. and a session putin had to answer several questions out this week on including why they have invited former finance minister. back to the government gudrun who keep in mind was the longest serving finance minister of any g. twenty country for many is still the potential save the earth of whatever is left of the economic growth given his stellar track record during the two thousand and eight financial crisis for his part who didn't harshly criticize the current state of the economy he said the system of half measures and half reforms is really not working and that russia to this day has no clear plan for lowering into the patents on oil and gas now business our teaser. is here to bring us some more highlights from putin's q. and a session it does basically seem like you know the russian economy is running out of steam the numbers definitely speak louder than words but the sending still extremely high does that seem like perhaps the current economic

money and in general how much money did russia lose out on this or do you agree with president vladimir putin saying that what happened there is going to make investors more inclined to keep russian money to keep their money in russia. i wouldn't call it an action to expropriate russian money since there were not too many options to choose from this is a very unpleasant way to deal with the problem maybe even the worst possible plan but at least this is some kind of solution there was a better way to deal with the situation i think that the e.u. should have given more money to cyprus however the e.u. also depends on the politics of its member countries they didn't want to cover the losses of investors from other countries most of the investors were from russia and the u.k. which german taxpayers don't care much about russian or u.k. investors which that's why the choices were limited but again the e.u. had enough resources to solve this problem and be done with it they didn't have to go with the worst case scenario i think it was a better choice coming investors' money is all. the worst solut

he was, very interestingly, a conversation between vladimir putin and the president, president obama,night. and after this was all going down, before the actual capture of the second suspect, they agreed to better cooperation and terrorism and counterterrorism. but there has been a lot of dispute over the years as to whether the russians are cooperating enough, and whether putin is justified in his criticism that the u.s. should not be hammering him for human rights abuses, or more pressuring these separatists too much. that they should understand that these are terrorists, they're not freedom fighters. >> mm-hmm. andrea, with regard to working with vladimir putin on this, how much do we need to work with him to find out specifically what was going on between january and june of last year, when the older brother was over in the russian area? >> actually i've been told that u.s. officials are aware now, and the national security adviser was in russia just earlier this week, top level talks, they're aware now that this has happened. that we need russia's cooperation more than ever. puti

so live on the air is president vladimir putin.plause] >> translator: our call center is still receiving phone calls at this toll-free number. you can also ask a question by texting to 04040 or access us over the internet on the following web sites which are on your screen. we're just starting, but we already have an all-time record. over the last four days we have received 1.5 million phone calls, hundreds of thousands of texts and as me mails. in other words, we have close to two million questions. and this is just the beginning. the bulk of the workload on the telephone lines is beginning here and now. just imagine every minute as many as 3,075 individuals are trying to get through to us here at the call center and ask a question of vladimir putin. this is an unprecedented amount of interest, so, please, try your best to get in touch with us. we're waiting for your questions. there are a great number of subjects that are of interest to our citizens. vladimir putin, here in the studio today are people, some of who are well known

tsarnaev, la madre de los sospechoso insiste que sus hijos son inocentes y nego ser terrorista >> vladimir putinigar el envio de las cartas con el virus risino en cartas al presidente barack obama, este hombre dice que no tiene que ver con las cartas e ira e nuevo a corte el jueves >> se busca a un hombre sospechoso de atacar a una niña hispana, pidieron a la pequeña permanezcan en sus casas el fin de semana mientras realizan la busqueda en que se mantiene donde participan más de 100 agentes >> un hombre apuñaló a un hombre, 4 personas fueron hospitalizadas 3 más con heridsa menores, feligresesz lograron controlar y detuvieron al atacante, el agresor dijo que estaba en busca del director del coro porque pensaban que era el director de una secta secreta >> se cumplen 6 meses de paso del huracán sandy, 62 personas murieraon, el corresponsal nos muestra el contraste de quienes trecibieron ayuda y quienes continúan esperandola >> un recorrido 6 meses después de la zona por sandy ven los avances y l mucho que falta por hacer, los daños superaron los 50 mil millones de dólares, y algunos comerciantes

vladimir putin offers greater information and in reference to what russia a knew at the time back in 2011 it is only fair with great regret that they haven't provided information of operational significance. still important questions about the operation that went on around that 2011 period, but, since the bombings, both american and russian officials are saying they are working very closely together. >> that is the initial message. phil black, thank you for joining us from mascow. thank you. >>> we know that tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother was on a clearing house list for all international terrorist identities. basically, it's a watch list. about half a million names in da database. now, the percent of the people on the list are u.s. citizens or legal permanent residents. congress established this list back in 2004. and less than 5% are u.s. citizens or legal, permanent residents. the administration is talking about its decision to read dzhokhar tsarnaev his miranda rights. pamela brown is live for us this morning in devon, massachusetts. she is standing outside the prison hospital

to be a key topic next week when secretary of state john kerry travels to russia to meet with vladimir putin. today, president obama defended the work of the fbi and the department of homeland security in the case of the boston bombing attacks. the president said he sees no evidence that the agency's overlooks clues that could have disrupted the bombings. but the president adds that lessons can be learned from what happened there and he does support and intelligence review. >> the new york city medical examiner's office is now searching for human remains at a site near ground zero. that is where a piece of an airplane wing was found. it is believed to be part of what crashed into the world trade center on 9/11. of the 3000 that were killed that day, the names of about 1000 have never been recovered. >> there is new video that purports to show the crushing of the airplane in afghanistan. in the video, you see the boeing 747 go into a steep climb before it appears to stall and suddenly goes back to earth. we've added the video, so as not to show the -- we have added to the video so as not to s

. >> very significant the president just spoke to vladimir putin, the president of russia, because those air defense systems in syria are likely manned by russians. >> shepard: let brain in former assistant secretary of state and now a professor of practice at george washington university. has the ask lated? -- escalatessed? feels like it. >> i think the red loan has been crossed and the administration is right to seek international support for the next step anding too to use this also leverage to get the uhate toed nations involved. >> we're not talk can about ground troops. right? >> no, i think there's a parallel to the weapons inspections we did in the aftermath of the first gulf war. u.n. ininspectors on the ground, monitoring and securing weapons, and i think that's where perhaps this is part of a step to force assad's hand in terms of agreeing to let the u.n. team in. of course, in the u.n. team would have their experts, but if we can secure these sites at least we know they can't be used or stolen. >> shepard: there are increasing calls for arming the rebels. >> well, that remain

do you -- it's just amazing to me to be talking about exchanging intelligence information with vladimir putin you think putin used to -- i still think kgb and i don't have a great warm feeling about the kgb. so how do you go about assessing information from a country whom in earlier years was really a sworn enemy? >> well, we faced this issue with a lot of countries where we may not agree on methods, we may not agree on political objectives, but there are areas we do have agreement like terrorism. we have shared information wtd chinese when it relates to extrie extremists in china or possibly the u.s. you have to be careful in how you share and what you share, but it's a mistake to turn our backs on countries we don't always agree with when they may have a commonality in the interest of saving lives. >> let me show you a poll we have on terrorism. this is the puh research poll. 75% of folks agree with that this has been post-boston. do you think that's true? do you agree with that that there is only so much a free country can do? >> you know, i think we've come a long way since 9/11. we're mu

vladimir putin says russia will put $50 billion in its space program, at a place near the chinese border. he said the first manned flight is expected in 2018. it is over a month since hugo chavez died of cancer, and honow the question is who will succeed him. we will find out. chavez called for them to vote for his former deupity, nicholas maduro, but henrique capriles says the tide is to his favor. nsworth.to eric far >> could maduro lose? >> you never say never but the polls indicate he will win. the question is, by what amount? on this basis the opposition is trying to test the election. there was an election october 7, when capriles went against chavez and lost by 10 points. as capriles goes against the successor, will the margin narrow and will it give m omentum for the next election? >> is maduro doing anything to get his -- >> he is doing everything he can son of himself the chavez. he mentioned chavez thousands of times, a website tracks the times maduro refers to chavez. he has claimed to see a vision of a mabird on his shoulder. if he said that as a candidacy for president it w

spokesman for russian president vladimir putin says russia wants to get official information on the boston bombing suspects from the united states and expects there to be contact between investigators of both countries. >> how likely is this? let's ask barbara starr joining us now. what do we know about this russian/u.s. connection? >> well, john, christine, good morning. this brings the investigation into the international arena, the relations between the u.s. and russia and the focus on central asia, especially the area near chechnya where this family was originally from. what we have now is, we know that the fbi in 2011, at the request of another country, no one has said it's russia but you might assume reasonably, the fbi looks at the older brother, that there was information, this country came to the fbi and said we are worried about him, we think maybe he's involved in potential troubling activity. the fbi acknowledged the request and said in part last night, they said "the request stated it was based on information that he, the older brother, was a follower of radical islam and a st

they have used that to change the hungarian constitution four times comparing them to russia's vladimir putin and. the prime minister was once a rights activists himself. now that he is in in government and, they have adopted that saying they have forgotten their roots. >> they have started to destroy democracy in hungary. if we have to be afraid in our apartments and the police can get us in the early morning without any papers. correction and not there such things in hungary for fear of retribution. they have plans protests on mine. for the students, the internet as a place for them to speak out. they say the dissent is muzzled. last month's changes to the constitution could change their lives, mandating the pay for their degrees they leave the country up a graduation. an outrage, they say. >> they cannot tell me what to do in five years' time. >> the students are in the minority here. they resent criticism from abroad. people overseas are always attacking hungary. the government's nationalism strength party as to the right of the prime minister. these are supporters of the far right anti-s

russian president vladimir putin doesn't have a reputation for fooling around, but an ambassador from japan is helping him show his playful side. presidential staff released a foet toe of putin rolling around with his dogs, one is a breed called akita. the governor gave her to putin to encourage russians and japanese to get a little closer. and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

russia's president vladimir putin has phoned barack obama to offer condolences and to pledge and commiteater support, greater coordination in dealing with the threat of international terrorism. this is something that russia has been pushing for, arguing for, for a long time now, and the u.s. president is said to have returned that commitment. john, christine? >> as you said this puts the tensions between russia and check nia into the spotlight. will this have larger implications in that tension? >> this is the important context here. russia has been fighting wars and counter insurgency operations in chechnya and the surrounding region for almost 20 years now, that is becomes increasingly islamists in their intentions and those same militants and terrorists from that region have also launched devastating atacks here in moscow and other parts of russia as well. russia has always argued its efforts to put down these militants should be viewed within the same context as the global war on terrorism but russia has always felt it hasn't got the sympathy it deserves in trying to deal with this

the white house now says president obama spoke with his russian counterpart vladimir putin today about coordinating their efforts to fight terrorism. the leaders also apparently discussed the concerns about syria and the chemical weapons there. just last week we learned that u.s. intelligence indicates the syrians may have used nerve gas against their people. that's president obama has line.in the past would the white house says right now there is not enough evidence. >> there is much more to be done to verify conclusively that the red line that the president has talked about has been crossed. >> shepard: still, the pentagon does have options in case the president decides it's time to take action. jennifer griffin with the news live at the pentagon tonight. explain the possible plans for using force, jen. >> well, both the white house and the pentagon, shep, appear to be buying time. >> we are continuing to assess what happened. i think we should wait to get the facts. before we make any judgments on what action, if any, should be taken and what kind of action. >> a no-fly zone would e

today an anti-government protester confronted russian president vladimir putin and took off her shirtwe didn't doctor the photo at all. could we zoom in on his thumbs? look at his hands. >> reporter: back on the hill, some progress in the senate. >> it will expand background checks to purchases of firearms at gun shows and over the internet. >> oh, speaking of which, holy [ bleep ] you can buy guns over the internet? >> reporter: as north korea threatens nuclear war. the u.s. is armed and ready to go. >> with this laser cannon, nothing can stop us, except bad weather, water vapor, smoke, sand or dust. >> reporter: japan welcomed adorable bear cubs into the world. elsewhere, argentineans were floored to find out this furry guy was a fraud. not a poodle but a ferret on steroids. in vietnam, a dragon-shaped bridge that actually breathes fire. while back in the states, comedian joel mchale set his own pants ablaze. an astounding escape for this guy in hawaii, fishing from his kayak, he nearly became the food. finally a family in mali made the biggest mistake after being asked to care for

. >>> japanese prime minister will meet russian president vladimir putin next sunday in russia. a japanese bank is taking the opportunity to meet with a russian bank to promote business in the country. the bank for international cooperation will go with abe and expected to sign an agreement with the bank's russian partner. the officials of the two banks are likely to share information about energy development and free trade across russia will be discussed. they will work as intermediaries in both countries interested in specific projects. >>> delegates from around 50 firms will join executives from energy, financial and trading firms will meet russian business leaders. observers say abe wants to deepen economic ties with russia before he moves on to full-scale negotiations to settle the issue of t norern terrories.ereignty that is all for me for now. i'll leave you with the market figures. >>> educators in singapore are transforming their classrooms as they try to mold the next generation of leaders, crafters and workers. the future school sents around something many carry aroun

. >>> meanwhile, president obama is expressing concern that russian leader vladimir putin, after the reported use of chemical weapons in syria, the white house says use of such weapons would be a game changer, but the pentagon says it will not speculate on any intervention plans. >>> the faa is investigating a deadly mid-air collision of two small planes. the faa says a single-engine cessna landed on a golf course in southern california on monday after colliding with another cessna about eight miles north of ventura. all three on board that plane sustained only minor injuries. in the mountains northwest of santa monica, firefighters combed through smoking wreckage of the second plane and recovered the pilot's body. it's believed he was the only one on board there. >>> parts of eastern iowa dealing with severe weather, a heavy round of hail ranging from pea size to as large as two inches falling in waterloo, causing millions of dollars in damage to cars. the hail left covering that, and some places looking more like snow. bill karins, nbc meteorologist here with us. amazing pictures t

. >> i read that vladimir putin is $40 million. he must work a lot of overtime. >> he does work nights and weekends. i think somebody has to stand up for people who put their money in offshore, nontaxable places. let's remember -- look at it this way. cypresses became an islands of a different time zone. we don't want rich people paying taxes, whether they are russian or republican. >> you do not think there is a difference between the way the russian economy works and how people get rich. russia does not have steve jobs. russia has people who steal and you get your money if you are o. >> i was not defending how one gets it. i was merely addressing the compulsion to keep it and never to surrender any to the public weal. >> there is a difference between gains which are ill-gotten or fairly gotten. >> i am not sure the a lot of the people mark is talking about who are not russian got it so fairly either. in the long run, it could have been a domino that really hurt uro that got them to finally bail them out. but if somebody is going