russia ukraine or maybe even europe. the closure who's interested in creating this consortium alluded that ukraine would be willing to make some concessions for the sake of this consortium. we think that all sides will benefit from this is for a steep interests are concerned but. because on the gas business side of things is long there is a very tight technological connection. between nafta and gas products. it was created as one system. therefore we control the system from one place you know it will be able to save more we will be able to be flexible and so on and so forth. that you will be shown how would your a benefit from this consortium. on interrupted delivery. point different entities controls supply and transit you know ukraine is responsible for transit to russian gas prong are responsible for supply to move just one control sensor yes and the whole system will be more reliable obviously which europe will naturally benefit from these figures. is convinced that this consortium is beneficial not only to you but a

so does nato still have means to attract well ukraine but in effect well you know nato has status. allows needed to have an open door policy to all the european nations who apply. for nato join for nato membership and to meet the criteria as of nato membership so theoretically speaking any country in europe. loading lichtenstein on dora may join nato i do not know about the holy see either that you can can do that or not but what about keller well well you know i don't think so now well it depends it depends on the development of democratic processes and belarus i think it depends on nato's leaders opinion that the development of the democratic process. will be more attentive due to the opinion of the bill the russian people ok so so so so you think that though that this new ukraine's position is tough and they are going to hold on hold on to it until until the new president well i think that no one in brussels going to insist that kiev has to join nato it's a sovereign decision of the sovereign state and those that don't know do your great and there was a referendum so i think. th

this conflict and if ukraine cannot pay according to this called ukraine must i don't know give us some essence or sell some property so the problem of ukraine but ukraine you still want the press and russia understand maybe you will give us some discount because the main question is what will be the price of russian gas at the beginning to solve them eleven situation is but at that event for example at the end of two thousand and eight but they saying twenty thirty percent is still the possibility of these new crisis between now look at this. and that's all the updates for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website on our website that's archie dot com slash business thank you for joining us. the clues it seems to speak to the times. where rich academic life gives birth to innovative ideas. no argy goes to the area which together with boosting industrial development. congress to make a journey in good russian.

but for ukraine not on the i.m.f. monny is important by the signal as a government is doing right since the loan is split in several crunchers and should this one go ahead it will become the second part of the loan and will amount to a little over one billion us dollars the delegation says it will reveal its verdict no earlier than november the fifteenth experts have little doubt that this time the i.m.f. delegation will say yes to another tragedy of money for ukraine the question is whether they will be as optimistic the next time inspectors come to kiev in february twenty seventh alexey russia for business today from key of ukraine the school about innovation project has drawn attention to the large number of russian high tech company already in existence and the head of investment company our capital school cover could help create many more. but this first project for russia tried to unwalled a lot of western experience and even any projects which will be launched in school need to have but this appearance of forei

this conflict and if we ukraine cannot win according to this call ukraine must i don't know give us some essence or sell some property it's so the problem of ukraine but ukraine is still i simply want the press in russia understand maybe you will give us some discount because the main question is what will be the price of russian gas at the beginning of two cells and eleven situation is we have them for example at the end of two thousand and eight but they saying twenty or thirty percent is still the possibility of these new crisis between our countries and as all the updates for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business stay with us.

for business today from key of ukraine. computer chip maker intel says russia is the hub of engineering talent but it lacks people with business skills that's according to the head of intel's operations department. as far as the software development the killers are russia is well over fifty percent of our total well over fifty percent of our total outside of the us population show russia is very sick if we're going to continue to develop our talent here we have got to let it out of the forty spirit a lot of different disciplines that the plan is to. really to help support the next generation by the prosecutor what is going to be seeing with our budget here which is really great scientist are really good engineers business savvy people that they can just start to school for a very important start up. russia might see the largest alliance ever created within its domestic market ran on the sun wants to expand its ownership of aft of us to a controlling stake with the recent blessing from prime minister putin it seems most like

this is why we're once again discussing nato the position russian made to relations ukraine and nato is another serious question foreign minister grisham coul ukrainian foreign minister says that ukraine is not going to join nato anytime soon so this is the changed position our view create under the new presidency straight away nato general secretary rasmussen insists that the major's doors are still open to ukraine so does nato still have means to attract well ukraine that in effect well you know nato has status. allows needed to have an open door policy to all the european nations who apply. for nato join for nato membership and should meet the criteria of nato membership so theoretically speaking any country in europe including liechtenstein on dora may join nato i do not know about the hala see either that you can can do that or not but what about canelo reuss well well you know i don't think so now well it depends it depends on the development of democratic processes in belarus i think it depends on nato as leaders opinion but that of the development of the democratic process. o

before business today from key of ukraine. russia may see the largest alliance ever created within its domestic market rhino neeson wants to expand its ownership of after the us to a controlling stake with the recent blessing from prime minister putin it seems most likely to happen but in the question reports. green only son has got the green light to expand its stake in the country's top coming after the us investment firm troika dialog and state holding russian technologies each twenty five percent one or both could sell part of their stake unknowing in reno nissan to take control. but we have a desire to buy a truck a dialogue share and after of ours and we are in negotiations however we have not come to any decision yet we are not in a hurry and have plenty of time however both renault. are interested in buying troika dialog share analysts say the government is keen to give a foreign investor control in the comic aiming to cut its responsibility for funding the company after the us has been a have a burden through the cris

hello and welcome time to get the latest from the world of business ukraine is rapidly regaining the trust of international finance agencies says the i.m.f. all weather and i.m.f. commission which is visiting the country is still to make a decision on giving its second tranche of a certain billion dollar loan. resuscitating and i mean this was a victory which is main priority when he became ukraine's president less than a year on experts say this goal has been somewhat successful in twenty two and the country has seen a six percent growth in g.d.p. compared with the disastrous decline last year and this came partially due to less spending on imported natural resources the. successful to the crisis. to the gas price to mr. price. but despite the positive trends key of still seems to be relying on the fifteen billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund borrow two years ago by the previous administration on the victory. the funds delegation has a right to kiev to assess whether the new government is fulfilling the loans obligations some of which are deeply unpopular among t

and if we are going to school in ukraine must give us some essence or sell some property so the problem of ukraine but you can still see us in washington maybe you will some describe because remember looking at the price of russia at the beginning to solve the. situation is them for example. but they saying twenty thirty percent is still the possibility of these new crisis between other countries. and that's all the updates for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's r g dot com slash business stay with us. good samaritan. excellent professional. medics travel budget possessing an extraordinary car. the doctor who helped many people in his country. the political criminal responsible for thousands of deaths. was it an attempt to repent. or just escape a fair trial. the other life while there are no money. on our team. wealthy british style. pastime. markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy which makes cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. download the officia

resuscitating economy this was a victory on the court which is main priority when he became ukraine's president less than a year on experts say this goal has been somewhat successful in twenty jan the country has seen a six percent growth in g.d.p. compared with the disastrous decline last year and this came partially due to less spending on imported natural resources the created economy has successfully passed through the crisis the cheap gas price from russia. to the gas price by minister mr. crean will have a price which will be a little bit. to see below which is one of the last in europe but despite the positive trends key of still seems to be relying on the fifteen billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund borrowed two years ago by the previous administration under viktor yushchenko the funds delegation has a right to kiev to assess whether the new government is fulfilling the loans obligations some of which are deeply unpopular among the people i met delineations see some progress compared to the. work in two thousand and eight in two thousand and crane finally h

in ukraine the american would eventually feeders the game was fourteen points in five steam and say sky stablish they very quickly finish in the second quarter was a fifteen point advantage it was tough for the greens to match the russian champions and the result was never in doubt and defining what it became at dunk fast but it's a scope player i need this to do strange because. of the rules in your league. something. give apologists i guess followers. say this is training period but we need this game for the other game like having a bottom our hair alike being the main. it's good for me i'm used to being there so when i. want to bother my head i just want to make play them. make shots of my pay whatever they need to get going into it she'd just seventy three with the feeling it's good that they're scary mean and between the two big league but be no need to show a decent time in the year elite but the mystery of our gene. wall over in america andrei kirilenko helped utah jazz climb a comfortable one hundred twenty two ninety nine victory over oklahoma city the russian added ninetee

to build to modernize ukraine and gas pump system so in terms of the leading. points there i think solves. stream is to become absolutely independent for russia from our transit countries and these probably the four of current leaders ok alex sanz mazhar of the gas and oil analyst at metropolitan you very much for talking with us today. now several world leaders including russia's president medvedev have gone straight from the g twenty summit in seoul jacka home of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit but business summit has already brought some deals among them the signing of a contract between russia and china to construct a fertilizer plant in russia's tatarstan the first major facility in the region for the last twenty years or more of the world's largest of this type the project is worth one billion dollars and will involve china's national chemical engineering cooperation departments visually heavy industry subjects and russia's state owned a more me pick some of it will be seen as another attempt to settle global financial issues like pushing for

well i don't think so i'm not i don't even think it's so realistic for ukraine to belong to nato and it isn't in fact nato as a whole that is pushing for that it's the united states but it quiets the objections which came from its nato allies because germany and france said they were against it and the united states goes right ahead and keeps talking about how ukraine must be part of nato i don't think that this is going to happen and i don't think there's going to be war but i think the united states likes to intimidate russia as much as possible to to make it. subservient really all right thank you very much for that that was diana johnstone author of who was written about nato his role in the modern world. russian a businessman victor boot says he came under severe pressure from u.s. authorities to admit charges of arms trafficking and terrorism he's now in a new york prison and has rejected all accusations against him moscow says it will offer consular help to boot well the russian officials say it doesn't mean they think he's innocent parties medina portnoy has the story. mr boo

i was born in ukraine. and as a child i used to dive with a mast and a snorkel looking for sunken ships. and world war two landing craft. that's how i got interested in it. but well alex on the yoke in makes it back to dive in the black sea only once a year. i can't live without the sea. diving when the first appeared in the soviet era initially he was interested in the traces of ancient greek settlements not artifacts of war. you know. you know i once found a well under water but. there was a lot of anxious to go on for as scattered around it would go. on and when i took one of them out one would know i wanted to show it to everybody right away that they don't know that i had a straight from the surface and jumped out of the water what they are in my hand it's. decision day of the mirror expedition starts with some routine work but not all of it but this is our laboratory where we store our samples in refrigerators. there are some freezers of tables and other things a little base of the living quarters and

the current strait is a strip of water four kilometers wide it separates ukraine in crimea from russian territory. in one thousand nine hundred three during world war two the most terrible battles shook this region. distrait waters dozens of soviet and german ships sunk in around the same time. the expedition members have only four days to explore the ships at the top of the list is a soviet armored boat sunk in the summer of one nine hundred forty three. there are two gun charts our task is to look over everything here and prepare a detailed report. according to satellite imaging the boat is not far from the shore and is at a considerably shallow depth. however the divers are not expecting much from the first dish even knowing its exact location they doubt they'll find a boat in the opaque waters of the black sea. but if i go. first. one tank will be sufficient for two hours according to the schedule the initial dive is not to last more than forty minutes but the for about an hour under the surface when they come up the reason for the delay becomes apparent they found if. it. was there

e's energy commissioner says europe will avoid another freeze out this winter ukraine which transits most of russia's gas to the e.u. has started a fresh pricing route with gas problems that's raised fears over pete of two thousand and nine when a similar spat cut the supply to thousands of european homes but after the meeting gazprom enough but after meeting gas from enough to gas ukraine bosses. says this time europe is ready. to pass. some surprises me in two thousand and nine eleven really. believe the only mechanism. we have to trust them more and more transparent in those dialogue and so i. cannot avoid any part of the rises in gas between one and you. meanwhile there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. energy minister sergei shmuck also says it boils down to brussels gas problem cause it forbids the gas giant from buying into e.u. energy pipelines until foreign firms can do the same here in russia but in the interview for r.t. smart co ruled that out. but these sore point in our relations i guess problem has already made some investments in europ

reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and still to come in the program a new hope for russia's first time offenders reforms of the prison system could see fines and community service replacing jail sentences for minor crimes. now there's been a little sign of improvement of the situation in russia's volatile north caucasus according to president dmitri medvedev he's meeting security forces and local leaders in southern russia to discuss how to. bring stability for more we're now joined by of course want to get the aggression over who's following the visit to a for us so the medvedev is painting a fairly gloomy picture there what strategies have been discussed to try and change that. all the strategy is that terrorism cannot be counted singlehandedly to successfully by terrorism is the task of many this was the top message during the talks all the north coke asian leaders with the russian president the talks most of which were held behind closed doors just shortly before the meeting started the president pay credit to those who provided the security on day to day basis.

russia warns ukraine risks gas cuts off to starting afresh while the prices keep claims existing deals with gazprom don't we think and i do charter which is signed e.u. says the charter also makes parts of south stream illegal as other gas companies use the pipeline for gas problems expertise alexander made the if says he will convince brussels to back the project. so as to be really really funny would have been a project because it's short parted ways depending on some friendships on shore part was gabriel's caribbeans from gary and so was koreans. and where i was assured that in the interest of you would i be in communion to. exclusion closes. because if all the capacity of north stream so i was thirty and because vacation there was not a good supply given to solve the so it was in countries like ukraine and ball gary have ripped up existing transit contracts with gas from you can't be happy about that also. support of such or such a view because we are in the long term business and if anybody will put in danger of a long term committed ones then the question causes major investors w

being its russian ukraine side today pressed by forty points watching them fly in the fact that different competition but still test done a bit to beat bad boy you're late start behind them jim on board and joined the army man before the start of the season was one of the few shining lights in that team in the beginning to compete and he was influential for the inside and for some of their clash with ukraine. the americans would eventually premier's big game was fourteen points and five steam and say sky stablish they beat very quickly finish in the second quarter was it fifteen point advantage it was stuff for the greens to match the russian fans and there was was never in doubt and finally what it became a done fast but it's a scam i thank renewed this to do three because. of the rules in your league. something i could. give a part of the u.s. forest. service is training him but we need this game for the other game i like having a bottom are here i like being the main guy so. it's good for me i'm used to being there. i want to bother my head i just want to play very noticeable make shot

reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine. still to come on the program this hour for you here in our new hope for russia's first time offender reforms through the prison system could see fines and community service replace jail sentences for mining crimes. and bringing democracy you want to start american slam the government of the billions of taxpayer money used to fund regime change abroad first in a series of reports ahead of you here. but first there's been little sign of improvement in russia's volatile north caucuses according to president dmitri medvedev he's meeting security forces and local leaders in southern russia to discuss how to bring stability. following the visit to what's for us. terrorism cannot be counted singlehandedly to successfully fight terrorism is the task of many this was the main message as the leaders of the north caucuses gathered for a meeting with the russian president dmitry medvedev the talks were devoted to security in this russia's most volatile region they were mostly held behind closed d

because there's probably political it's about diversifying away and taking the political power away from ukraine to be able to turn off the gas because they really are over the barrel but the north st pipeline more or less solves that problem and the south stream i think is a bit of a feint on the sort of level have to but certainly they want to do on their own terms ok well that's all we have time for unfortunately bad. thank you very much editor in chief business new york thanks for coming into the program. and always have a look at how the markets are praying this hour european stocks are lower as markets took in fresh reports of blasts from the korea sovereign debt issues continue to where an investor's mining shares are weak or helping drag you down point six percent says of real things are losing three and a half percent and shares a wonderful dust up one for the house side. and russian bourses are in the red after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks most of the blue chips are following the biggest loser in that is noise it's down more than one percent the sel

they use energy commissioner says europe will avoid another freeze out this winter ukraine which transits most of russia's gas to e.u. has started a fresh pricing role with gazprom has raised fears of a repeat of two thousand and nine when a similar spat cut the gas supply to thousands of european homes so after meeting gas problem naftogaz ukraine bosses. says this time they're ready. you know from the past. one surprises me in two thousand and i am having a really good time believe only making this and we have trust we have more more trust you have to close dialogue and so i'm sure that it. can't avoid any particular crisis in gas between russia and you. meanwhile there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. energy mississippi corps says it boils down to a so-called gas problem caused in brussels this will because the gas giants from buying into e.u. energy pipelines and to foreign firms can do the same in russia and interfere with r.t. court ruled that out. but these sore point in our relations guess proem has already made some investments in europe and we s

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russia wars ukraine risks gas cuts soft to starting a fresh price war key of claims existing deals with gas from don't meet they use energy which is signed the e.u. says the charter also makes sponsors. against companies can't choose the pipeline but counts primes export chief expungement vet it says he will convince brussels to bug the project. so steve is really funny would have been project because it's sure to ease the pain in some frame shapes on shore part was get him here to be in some gayety and source. whereas a short lived in the interest of you would have been coming into. exclusion closes because if all the basic idea of steam so i was thirty and because vacations that it was not a good supply given to solve this so it was way in countries like ukraine and ball gary have ripped up existing transit contracts with gas from you can't be happy about that also. support of such as such because we are in the long term business and if anybody will put in danger of a long thought i made one zenza question was this major investors which really could replace us. would you hope to achie

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reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine all still to come in the program new hope for russia's first time offenders reforms to the prison system could see fines and community service replace jail sentences for minor crimes. well there's been a little sign of improvement in russia's volatile north caucasus according to president dmitri medvedev he's meeting security forces and the local leaders in southern russia to discuss how to bring stability artistic out there is following the visit to the votes for us. terrorism cannot be counted singlehandedly to successfully applied terrorism is the task of many this was the main message as the leaders of the north caucuses gathered for a meeting with the russian president dmitry medvedev the talks were devoted to security in this russia's most volatile region they were mostly held behind closed doors the president opened the session with very harsh criticism of the work of russia's police and security services there indeed twenty turn was a very tough year the number of terrorist attacks group four fold compared to two thousand

see reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine and still to come in the program a new hope for russia's first clambers reforms to the prison system could see fines and community service replacing general services from my lines. of bringing democracy style american slammed the government over the billions of taxpayer money used to fund everything changed abroad and the first scenes of reports ahead. moscow says it was a fair trial for a russian businessman to victor boot was accused of arms smuggling and terrorism is now in a new york prison after his extradition from thailand where russia says it will continue to provide him with consular aid but has made no traction at over whether or not he's guilty parties marina portnoy reports. the case surrounding viktor bout has been quite a tug of war between russia and the u.s. and the presidential aide to dmitri medvedev recently spoke out saying that the charges that the u.s. have leverage against victor boot a russian citizen a serious and russia would like for those charges to be thoroughly investigated and russia is provi

see reporting from the chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and still to come in the program a new hope for russia's first time offenders reforms of the prison system could see fines and community service replacing jail sentences for minor crimes. and making democracy u.s. style american slammed the government over the billions of taxpayer money used to fund regime change or broader first see things reports ahead. now there's been a little sign of improvement to the situation in russia's volatile north caucasus according to president dmitri medvedev he's meeting security forces and local leaders in southern russia to discuss how to bring stability are things you got that aggression over is following a visit to kiss the votes for us. the strategy is that terrorism cannot be counted singlehandedly to successfully applied terrorism is the task of many this was the top message during the talks of the north coke asian leaders with the russian president the talks most of which were held behind closed doors the twenty ton was a very top tier the number of terrorist attacks group for a forward