dramatically increase their economic cooperation that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists at a business forum in but when you've got a piece going off has been following the talks. but you know putting me to. a speech at the forum focusing on the cooperation between russia and the european union calling for more cooperation and more ties in fact he said that if russia and the european union want to stay competitive in the world in the international economy of an it is vital for both to work together he also called european partners not to hamper cooperation between european companies and russian companies once again he talked about creating a free economic zone the free trade zone between russia and the european union from long to avoid us talk and hold the international community was specifically business elites here in germany and the european union to put their efforts together in order to sort of the remaining problems many of which are still quite visible here in europe and in russia as well but let's listen to what was going to

. >> vladimir putin's ideas go beyond closer cooperation with europe. he suggested russia could be joining the world trade organization next year. [applause] >> for more on this, i spoke earlier with our political correspondent who follow us conference between the two leaders. i asked if this apparent dispute over russia's vision of a free- trade zone that would stretch across europe and russia has been settled. >> well, not really settled, brian. chancellor merkel described the idea as an important vision for the future, but she did appear to pour cold water on an earlier by pointed out that russia has introduc tariffs and protectionist measures that german exporters struggle with, and another problem with the idea is that russia is also building a free-trade zone with cause extent and belarus, which chancellor merkel said made it more difficult, but she said the first thing russia has to do is make sure that it does going to world trade organization, and mr. putin believes -- repeated that he believes that will happen next year. >> what else came out

the eve of his visit to germany and prime minister putin shared his views with. germany and their article which is called russia and europe from learning the crisis lessons to a new agenda in partnership it reads i quote in a few years we will have worn interest share and a deficit of energy resources that means high prices for european consumers and quote what exactly makes russia and probably gazprom so unhappy about the new p. and engine rooms this topic was a serious subject of a decent celebration meeting in brussels well instead of just looking workers at the new us history of russia european union and their look we concentrated. and while it was a serious ones is introduction of the so the energy makers should remain patient which is spoiled for being called next year and there's a reason of our concern that if this package will be implemented splined it will means or the interest of serious players to invest in infrastructure will be substantially deteriorated and if it will happen. it will be neuer the worst month of those of the length of cup race it ju

russian prime minister vladimir putin came forward with the idea of creating a unified european energy network it must secure fast and easy delivery of natural gas from russia to european consumers and help avoid transit problems in this plan that the south and north trains the new pipelines developed by gazprom along with its european partners will be integrated into the system now what else will it take to fulfill the some project joining me now is deputy chairman of the gas plant management committee and director general of gas from export alexander admits that . russian prime minister vladimir putin has been criticizing europe's idea of implementing the so-called third energy package the europeans want to diversify the energy market aimed at creating equal competitive conditions for all oil and gas suppliers but putin says this will deter investors from pumping money into the new gas projects but some critics are saying guess prom state of affairs is far from ideal the monopolies biggest foreign shareholder the german consarn on he's planning to sell his gasp. from shares worth poi

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well we've been bringing you live coverage of german chancellor angela merkel there and not a mere putin addressing the media following their meetings today in berlin we'll bring you more reaction and analysis on what they had to say a little later here on. we have. all the stories. of the news stories this hour afghan officials are blaming nato for setting up peace talks with a man posing as a senior taliban commander present hamid karzai even hold negotiations with the impulse to before the roos revealed the scam began almost six months ago when afghan officials were approached by supposed taliban agents offering peace talks which intelligence reportedly arranged the meetings while the cia oversaw the entire thing but the man claiming to be a high ranking medicines is going to be a shop keeper from pakistan you're not going to do the fake it still remains a mystery the scandal is left the u.s. led coalition red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to step on things but if you can treat it says that nato should have done its homework. how come the con artist managed to outfox

putin has shaped russia and in a small town in central russia, he finds a dark side of the new russian stability and uncorpses reports of shocking police violence. >> the small town of stovall, 500 kilometers east of moscow. the landmarks here are familiar to almost every town in russia. but the drab apartment buildings are not the only thing common to places like this. so is the growing feeling that russia is becoming a policed state. >> the level of police violence today is truly extraordinary. and because of that, many people go in fear of the police. they believe they can act with impunity, in this town in the last few months there's been two reported cases offs extreme police violence. one of them a 50-year-old man was taken from his apartment, taken to a local police station and then tortured for hours. what happened in this building is not an aberration. the story pavel is about to tell me will be familiar to thousands of other russians. so is the fear he and his wife now live with. she is still reluctant to let him speak. the police accused pavel of killing one of his best frie

energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details. but first the people of switzerland have voted in a proposal to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes from the country and nationwide battle was initiated by the same right wing party behind last year's vote to ban the building of a new minarets ad in a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack on immigrants or his tests are silly as more from zurich so today in a referendum the swiss people have decided in favor of a new law making it mandatory for foreign criminals convicted of serious crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country now this has been a very controversial issue since the proposal was initially passed and today the decision has been made the swiss are in favor of the slow. change of mentality but the swiss authorities know what the population once and they will become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism if you say hundreds of thousands comes and a few hundr

energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a visit business visit to germany stay with us for details on that story coming up a little and. the people of switzerland have approved a proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country the nationwide ban it was initiated by a right wing party and measures and raise questions over whether the swiss are discriminating against immigrants. is in zurich for us. so today in a referendum the swiss people have decided in favor of a new law making it mandatory for foreign criminals convicted of serious crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country now this has been a very controversial issue since the proposal was initially passed and today the decision has been made the swiss are in favor of this. change of mentality. what the population wants and become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism. hundreds of thousands of columns and a few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with. just to give you a bit of a background this was first passed by t

energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details. twenty six suspected terrorists with alleged links to al qaeda were arrested in europe this week eleven of them are suspected of being part of a chechen islamist network planning to commit attacks in belgium group is also thought to be raising money for terrorism in russia's volatile north caucasus region those were detained in connection with a separate probe targeting an extremist group recruiting jihadi fighters from iraq and afghanistan british security analyst peter power says once it's lost clear that russia and the west are fighting a common enemy the potential for cooperation is vast let's not fool ourselves that al qaida is somehow great regiments of uniformed soldiers marching over the horizon it is in fact much more a franchise yes there's a strong power base in the foothills between afghanistan and pakistan and it's clearly. a strong cobol now operating in yemen but we're now seeing this creeping out under this broad term of al-qaeda but it doesn't necessarily

to russia's prime minister has been thrill seeking again we'll look at vladimir putin's latest extreme hobby. but first to iraq where the war has arrived at the economy with estimates suggesting that a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line many resort to illegal means to make ends meet smuggling spirits into neighboring iran where drinking is bad r.t. sebastian meyer follows the blues trail. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a brain. although alcohol is forbidden in islam a public much of tehran's bourgeoisie can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around absolute funky teachers here mr chavez risky black and white. back here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear not. responsive will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it into iran for over four hundred miles of

should dramatically increase their economic cooperation the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of the some of germany's top industrialists business form. has been following discussions now joins us live with more details on this hello to you tell us what's been going on at the form itself. well so far it's been quite a busy for one of the discussions is going on as we speak russia's prime minister vladimir putin is currently meeting with germany's business elite and the discussion at the moment has gone a little bit beyond just business. was asked what are the biggest problems in the world that he currently sees right now he said that this is terrorism this is a racial and religious hatred and economic inefficiency says that the last year and two years have shown that some of the decisions made by some of the global business leaders had had a devastating effect on the economy and there should be definitely more economic efficiency in the global economy now previously before that meeting. at the former focusing on the cooperation between russia and the european union cal

barney's a little scottish terrier, little tiny guy who i adore, and putin kind of dissedr him. [laughter] and i then, and then putin kindly invited us over -- and he was a gracious host, by the way -- he said, would you like to meet my dog? i said, sure, and out bounds coney. huge dog. and he says bigger, faster and stronger than barney. [laughter] yeah, he changed. >> he changed. you had a day that changed your presidency too. >> yes. >> you were in florida on the morning of september 11th, 2001, it took you a while to get backy to washington.ur >> it did.f >> can you tell us something about what it was like to beingt president of the united states that day?ha >> my role became clarified. st the priority of my administration changed from no child left behind or tax cuts or economic growth or dealing with the dot.com bust to protecting america. and when andy card said the second plane has hit the second tower, america's under attack, i was staring at young children.ar and my first reaction was angert and then my role became clear. the contrast between the evil of the attackers

and german chancellor angela merkel have now admitted the statement was made during putin's visit to germany on friday the russian premier said the euro is much more reliable than the dollar despite current difficulties in the region putin also said he no longer sees any obstacles to russia's accession to the world trade organization russia and germany agreed to clear the path to increase business links and to develop science and technology together and in a meeting with german businessmen the russian prime minister managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supply. so the german community doesn't know nuclear power i do want to make any comments i. don't understand what you're going to use for heating. he don't develop new nuclear power what are you going to use he would. have to get them to. thank for you all with r.t. it's good to have you with us today still ahead for you this hour from the basin of life to the hotbed. after decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world largest landlocked fees went away and. guaranteed fishing industry but now coming back and whe

russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have pledged to strengthen economic ties between their countries the announcement came during putin's visit to berlin from where ego to his going off joins me now to go to it seems that russia and germany are keen to cooperate in almost everything from gas to access to the world trade organization. well you're absolutely right judging by what we've heard today in berlin on friday russia and germany are continuing to move closer together any increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor ongoing miracle have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many spears like energy and car making and other sectors joint projects joint investments both in business and inside of science but even talked about the possibility of a. currency union of course that is something which is really far away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both leader both of them have knowledged that

. >> vladimir putin's ideas go beyond closer cooperation with europe. he suggested russia could be joining the world trade organization next year. [applause] >> for more on this, i spoke earlier with our political correspondent who follow us conference between the two leaders. i asked if this apparent dispute over russia's vision of a free- trade zone that would stretch across europe and russia has been settled. >> well, not really settled, brian. chancellor merkel described the idea as an important vision for the future, but she did appear to pour cold water on an earlier by pointed out that russia has introduced tariffs and protectionist measures that german exporters struggle with, and another problem with the idea is that russia is also building a free-trade zone with cause extent and belarus, which chancellor merkel said made it more difficult, but she said the first thing russia has to do is make sure that it does going to world trade organization, and mr. putin believes -- repeated that he believes that will happen next year. >> what else came ou

coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details on that story. but first the people of switzerland have approved a proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country the nationwide ban it was initiated by a right wing party the measures had raised questions over whether the swiss are discriminating against immigrants last year they voted to ban the construction of new minarets is in zurich for us this time it's relation to the mandatory expulsion of foreign criminals who have committed serious offenses such as murder rate for the small was put forward by the people's party people with. have the criminal currier there is no place for them in switzerland that is the idea they're getting a lot of support actually from people according to initial surveys because of all these stories of swiss nationals being attacked by foreigners who may file to fight trying to get to. keep other people who rule didn't do anything then ted no you couldn't one switzerland has the highest per capita rate of immigrants that twenty percent of their population are

some of whom are supportive of putin and medvedev government. they, therefore, are not being aggressive about going, about protecting the rights of journalists. it's apparently not in their d.n.a. at the moment. as a result, the attempt to become more democratic, i think are thin, if they have any substance whatsoever. >> bret: according to those protecting the journalists, 18 of the 19 cases of journalists are unsolved to date. >> to julie's point and pressure and how you get it to be different in russia, we are not in a position to pressure russia. we can't pressure russia on much of anything. right now, the president is in ekorea where we are playing defense with russia on what we're doing with our currency. we are playing defense with russia on a lot of issues right now. we're not in a position seemingly to engage them on this kind of stuff. time to shed the notion that russia is modernizing. russia is growing and becoming more powerful, but that is not synonymous with becoming more western or becoming more modern country or a more liberal c

russia and the european union is a vision for the future that's a message from prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel they've pledged to strengthen economic ties after talking business cooperation in berlin or has more. russia and germany are continuing to move closer together an increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor on go america will have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many spears like energy and car making and other sectors and even talked about the possibility of you know its currency union halls of course and that is something which is really far away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both of them having good knowledged that this is something inevitable which would happen if they continue moving forward with the each other a fifth of a litmus test for the currency union we all realize that it's a derivative of putting the economies together and it depends on the level of the economies develop

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russia and the european union will be created that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel who have pledged to strengthen economic ties between their countries even to more now from the german capital judging by what we've heard today in berlin on friday russia and germany are continuing to move closer together any increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor angela merkel have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many spears like energy and car making and other sectors joint projects joint investments both in business and science but even talked about the possibility of a spiritual currency union also of course and that is something which is really far away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both of them knowledge that this is something inevitable which would happen if they continue moving towards other let's listen to what was what a person had to say philip. yes from the currency u

extinction has been taking place in st petersburg the tiger form has been convened by prime minister putin bringing together conservationists and government officials from thirteen countries their aim is to double the wild tiger population by twenty twenty two and as denise velocity reports russia is leading by example. the used to be one of the moves dangerous species on earth that is until humans nearly destroyed their population currently there are just over three thousand tigers left in the world saving them is a tough task to support the park in southern russia is home to will have to try girders and contrary to popular belief they breed very well here since this place is not really is it started out as an animal shelter. tigers first appeared here just a few years ago they were taken away by a court order from street photographers who often mistreated the animals or would you know after we nursed them they gave birth to the first litter the two male cubs and one year later cassandra and cleopatra were born you can see them here they feel very well now. here in the given park the anim

and another pet project for vladimir putin the russian prime minister has given been given a crocodile and a tiger over the years and now we report on the latest leg for to be exactly the p.m.'s current. winter is on the way in russia but you'd never guess it from the way things are right now after suffering a sweltering summer in november is turning up the heat temperatures should be dipping to the freezing point but right now they're hitting fourteen celsius by day artie's arena gluco looks at why it's still hot soft in moscow. usually with pulling out our winter coats right now but something is definitely a riot in the weather department in fact it's not just most poor most guys have been enjoying several very very warm days no need for for code sore heads but if we were to go down to the south of russia in fact we could enjoy swimming and sunbathing to the fullest degree it's that hot out there and of course this is not something that russians are historically used to if we were to go back to let's say nine hundred forty one during the world war two period fuel was freezing in tank

at another pet project for of lattimer putin russia's prime minister has been given our crocodile and a tiger over the years and now we report on the latest leg or to be exact of the p.m.'s current trait. but first after failing to find a remedy for currency maneuvering in trade troubles of the g twenty some of the world leaders have headed for japan while economic strife tops the list at the summit of pacific rim nations as well the leaders also have some territorial disputes which need their attention artie's test has more from the apec meeting. free and open trade and investment has always been one of the main goals of the twenty one of member states but this year it's easier said than done it's a little more difficult especially since a lot of the leaders attending apec had just come from the g twenty. at the g twenty if not nothing really was accomplished there were no pre-meds signed between the countries and basically there was an air of the protectionism there were fears of protectionism and there were also accusations coming from the different countries that each one was prot

russian prime minister vladimir putin may be looking to become the world's fastest moving politician on four wheels he might have achieved his goal when he hit the race track in st petersburg. the world when there's no space in my old soviet car. that if they have been a little cramped the premier was still able to hit two hundred and forty kilometers per hour and he's a formula one car peyton seems to like yellow cars l.a. this year he tested a new russian highway in a canary colored lager but cars may no been out for the prime yet he's also been known to take the controls of fighter jets bikes and combine harvesters. that's all the news for now more headlines shortly. culture is that so much harder to go for you if you are profitable is the taliban bad guys republican party to make itself felt in washington how will this impact u.s. trade policy in the ongoing war in afghanistan. the moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothing. it's our sons. linda. nursed her hand to suffer to the end. it was the first but probably not the last military uses of this weap

can you just give us the key points of what putin had to say what exactly is he actually proposing. well we did hear some strong words from the russian prime minister vladimir putin was talking about the global economic crisis how it affected both russia's economy and the european economy as well and he talked about how there was a different approach in russia and in europe to businesses both sides for example of what you would approach and said that if during the crisis during the peak of the crisis european business is present in russia were helped absolutely in the same way as russian businesses were by russian authorities according to our situation here in europe was different he said that some russian businesses were simply. help also talked about at the moment. there's some type of discrimination going on concerning the russian businesses working here in europe gave a couple of examples of russian businesses who've purchased projects here in europe some energy projects as well are now being forced to give back projects despite the fact that they bought them previously absolute

and german chancellor angela merkel have admitted the statement was made during putin's visit to germany on friday the russian premier said the euro is much more reliable than the dollar despite current difficulties in the region putin also said he no longer sees any obstacles to russia's accession to the world trade organization russia and germany agreed to clear the path to increase business and to develop science and technology together and in a meeting with german businessmen the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supplies. so the german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. don't understand what you're going to use for heating you don't want gas you don't develop your nuclear power what are you going to use it would. look that it was of enough to get that through to. police. this week russia decided to give more help to nato struggling campaign in afghanistan it agreed to allow the alliance to transport armored vehicles through its territory the transit deal was confirmed by russia's foreign minister during talks with his afg

and german chancellor angela merkel have now admitted the statement was made during putin's visit to germany on friday the russian crimea said the euro is much more reliable than the dollar despite current regional difficulties putin also said he no longer sees any obstacles to russia's accession to the world trade organization with russia and germany agreed to clear the path to increase business links sun to develop science and technology together and in a meeting with german businessmen the russian prime minister going to try to lighten the serious. energy. so the german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. don't understand what you're going to use for heating. he don't develop your nuclear what are you going to use. it was enough to get it through to thank you all with r.t. it's going to join us today and still ahead for you this hour from the basin of life to the deserted wasteland. the air all sea has become a wasteland of sand cell dust and pollution and when the france joined me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected

in fact sort of batman and robin in fact prime minister vladimir putin is also referred to as the power for meal in russia which suggests that in the town down between the prime minister and the president the prime minister has more power in russia nevertheless so far we haven't heard any oh we've heard some comments from officials in russia but do you little from the top level official. heard from the president's secretary i'm not tied to my call had she said that the kremlin didn't really find anything interesting in these released of documents on the old documents and she actually compared some of the information in these documents would hollywood style the stories we've also heard from the press service off the prime minister discourse so it's too early to me to cruises from these documents is there's just too many of them we still have to be studied the exact words referring to russian the russian leader prime minister has to be studied as well and if in fact the documents we're talking about do refer to the prime minister. some analysts have been saying that this is not really new

but when i was asked a question do you trust vladimir putin after my meeting, my answer was yes. roi could have been reagan with a great dancer like trust but verify that would send an -- summit plagiarism and reporter said why? i said because i looked into his eyes and i looked into his soul. with my memory at the time that is how the whole conversation changed talking about his mom and her gift. then michael talking about the last time i met him and i was mad end spoke to his successor making it clear how the united states was objecting strongly and then i said after a conversation it was pretty tough because we were on international tv i finally said to him, i have been telling you for seven years they are hot blooded and putin said i am hot blooded. i said no vladimir, you are cold-blooded. there is a lot of stores in between like when i introduced him to barney at camp david a little scottish terrier and putin dissed -- diss tim. [laughter] and he was a gracious host and said would you like to meet my dog? i said sure. comes a big dog he said bigger faster stronger than barn

and russia's prime minister has been a thrill seeking again and we'll look at the vladimir putin's latest extreme hobby . but first our top level police investigations been launched into a vicious attack on a russian investigative journalist all led caution a correspondent for the newspaper calmer saw it was brutally beaten near his moscow home friday night has already undergone two surgeries doctors say his condition is serious but stable investigators name cautions professional activity is one likely motivation for the assault police obtained c.c.t.v. footage showing two people attacking the journalist the case is drawing a wide public response with many rallies in support of caution happening in moscow and st petersburg russian president dmitry medvedev says the attackers must be found and punished sileo former editor in chief of commerce says oleg cautioned bolder writing could indeed have provoked anger among some good yes. but of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open and outspoken in mind than in the paper

dramatically increased their economic cooperation plus the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists business forum in birdland that you're going to spin off is following the discussions russia's prime minister of idea put in is currently meeting with germany's business elite and the discussion has gone a little bit beyond just business. was asked what are the biggest problems in the world that he currently sees right now if you said that this is terrorism this is a racial and religious hatred and economic inefficiency and before that pushing me to. teach at the former focusing on the cooperation between russia and the european union calling for more cooperation and more ties in fact he said that if russia and the european union want to stay competitive in the world in the international economy than it is vital for both to work together he also called european partners not to hamper cooperation between european companies and russian companies once again he talked about creating a free economic zone a free trade zone between russia and the europ