mr prothero hello and thank you for the time always glad to oblige do or think you can be the next president you're probably the most mark i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken and i'm ready for a fight if you aim high in other things you definitely should aim high in politics and your group of those attributes here especially with can you know people often ask you if you're a kremlin project but i'd like to ask you about something else you're very much you're smart you have the reputation of a maverick and you have a strong team how did you end up in a situation where no one believes that you are not a common project the problem of all i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project or i will always want to know what it means i was a successful and wealthy person even before but you know i don't rely on government

contracts to whatever it's what we're talking about politics and politics is different real slow go it will keep seeing i can be independent because i have a lot of assets but i had most of those asses before put in what if the problem with people outside russia on the other hand don't really care if you're a crumb and project that so you make it to the runoff where you run against putin what would people outside russia know about you first they know you were taken then they know about the scandal in france where you were practically accused of being a pimp and also the fact that you own the new jersey nets why should the west take you seriously because of a process the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's up to mean my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia to have a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and making it world leader for the whole world is changing all nations are having a hard time unless we change our. country and develop that our relations with other

countries will only become worse in the future when you last on this with let's talk about the u.s. over the three years of resetting relations russia and the us have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention missile defense how would you build a relationship with america appears to be of the old the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we'll learn to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the u.s. are a different matter russia and america have many things in common with the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have the best territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in us treat is less than

that of thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship proved to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old system of checks and balances is not enough now i would suggest replacing nido with a pan-european security system that someone can russia join the european union or u.s. should i think we should actually make it our strategic goal of course we'll need to consider how to organize this common market but strategically i agree with gen to goal who said decades ago that we need a united europe from lisbon to vladivostok the guy who left the loop with these days all you hear in the news is syria and libya there is also run that right shouldn't protect syria and iran against the west or assure you or your ship though i believe that russia being an international leader should go together with the rest of the civilized world but at the same time we must be. given clear guarantees

that our national interest will not suffer from take iran for example let's say a war erupts there tomorrow there any serato now southern border right next to the caucasus imagine the flow of freshly cheese we're likely to get millions of people so there is no way the sushi can be decided without russia we must be present at the negotiating table and have a sane decisions regarding iran needless to say no one in the world would want to iran to have weapons of mass destruction that will be as that i think of the vocals and yes those in the mode of the shots i wish to do regard russia as a superpower. national thought i believe our country has an important mission which by virtue of our history we should set high goals with an achiever them of course we haven't been doing that lately so mean you are people have lost the vision you know of the past week colonized the vast territories likes a barrier that russia is a special nation or that like sixteen challenges there is

a downside of course what i mean is that an individual people are considered in significant in are sacrificed for the sake of a great goal but that was before me this question took no us at what do you mean before you before you become president both oka from the president yes before i become president we need to change that completely people should be at the heart of every grand aren't the taking of people should be the top priority but if you come to power you would have to make really tough decisions or just government spending reform the entire economy this is a much more difficult job than managing a company you built from scratch no matter how big it is plentiful you are absolutely right but one of a person who comes to power doesn't even have the experience of running a big company that would be even worse of course running in the real snicko is not the same as running the whole country but at least i have this experience i want to change my country in such a way that we could travel abroad and tell people that we live in russia and they

would look at us with envy you can say that you are never afraid of anything you have come here before course to have fears. yes reward i'm a human being i have doubts and fears but it's a matter of priorities it's normal to have fears but you need to know how to overcome your fears or if the future of our country's at stake and you're willing to assume their responsibility it is not a matter of having no fear it's a matter of realizing that your country's capable of doing this and that you can make a contribution to your country's development i'm actually very proud the time participating in the presidential election it's not everyone that can achieve this so i treat this job and this choice with great responsibility and this but it actually seems like a very spend ten is the signature this isn't something you've been planning your whole life or have you make decisions quickly i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are right i get

a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics back in april when i just joined the right cause project i knew there would be a release on blog in a square and so harsh prospect that's why i went into politics or put it here to show but probably for do mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me say i foresaw the crisis and i sold my assets in advance and this time it was the same thing what you felt was a wall is it intuition when you look at the board i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of the knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the world wide and intuition added together all these things enable you to make the right move but if you were present polls indicate that the people of russia see putin as the next president if putin returns to the kremlin and it seems that he will what would that mean for the russian economy just nature. if

nothing changes the posi of stability will continue and this will seriously undermine the competitiveness. our country we have to change because we are behind if we are really the nation we can defeat any four or any rival what we need to do is we need to realize that we are at war but this is an economic war and this is a war for the future for a slice of the global piii we need to get our slice of the pie people often ask you who could be your prime minister if you could choose between political skin put in whom would you pick up as prime minister harper put purpose here asking me to choose between two alternatives but actually you need more options than that in fact i don't think you can consider it wouldn't as a candidate for the prime minister's job at all he's been running the country for twelve years now and i think that's enough of more than enough history guards what are called ski i know me fell on a personal level we used to have a lot of contact if he is a really effective as

a manager but first he needs to be released and then we would need to meet and discuss things as you would release him if you were elected president of course i would pardon him immediately rational he also said you would turn the kremlin into museum what would you do about lenin would you keep him there like a mummy in a pyramid or bury him my attention the president's personal thing lenin should be buried but this should be done respectfully with regard to the people who disagree but i would hold a referendum on the shooter a political i don't think the next question is a referendum people often ask you whether you're going to get married or not i only ask about this because of political i really done now a single president would take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single leader you say you're waiting for the love of a lifetime but your love of a lifetime may come tomorrow or in ten years and you want to be president today are you ready to get married if this helps you become president of the call for more than oh of course not if you put it like that i genuinely believe in love and i

really hope it comes to me sooner or later i work a lot and perhaps i don't give enough time. other things including dating i guess my work takes up too much of my time it's either the data or bad luck i'm lucky in many other things but i'm not lucky in love but i should be lucky sooner or later when. you have been extremely lucky your whole life and you always emphasize the importance of good luck have you ever considered why you're so lucky actually i think that to be lucky you have to work a lot so that the facility by faith with i often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign are they often try to win you over with passion or emotion but you're a very reserved person at least that's how you appear to the media also when you talk you say all the right words but it all sounds like that as if you're reciting the multiplication table do you ever get sentimental. words and everyone gets sentimental once in a while what can move you to tears let it be my own little secret with the that's

what you tell everybody what was the last time you cried that it was back in my school days when i was bullied by three boys who were older than me they connoted me and there was nothing i could do the whole class saw it but only to her i caught them all one by one going to deal with the loss i so long thank you very much for the interview thank you. who's.

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reflect reality. and thousands of egyptians. square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak's thirty year rule but it's frustration along with celebration because of dragging reform. and union is here next with the latest action from the world of sport. gloria always great to be sharing the studio with you we have got plenty of sport ahead you are right so these are top stories for. us then there were four of maria shriver but she sure is the last semifinal berth it's truly an open. pitch dreams lower league side cardiff city make it through to england's carling cup final where they'll be either monk chester city or the purple.

heavy home luggage team russia returned home happy from the inaugural a limping winter games in innsbruck austria. but we get underway on the hard courts of melbourne where maria sharapova is quest for a second straight day an open title remains very much on truck the russian picking her place in the semifinals of the grand slam just a few hours ago but world number four dominating her quarterfinal with compact here katherina car of a shrub taking nothing for granted against her on seeded opponent who had knocked darts trying to williams in the previous stride six two six three would eventually finished up optics for the two thousand and eight champion petra if we can. certainly be tough i've lost her last couple of times and i'm you see the big one and wimbledon she played really well and i mean she's the one to be right now playing in the best tennis of her career and. you know coming off of some many wins

last time i love i think. just you know i i'm looking forward to the match you know i don't like losing. so many times in a row so certainly you know be going out there and time time time. we're number to convince of our own turf. placing the semi's in the days early march up at the expense of italian star irani the second seed czech winning in two sets but spent almost two hours on court to claim that six four six four win so against could be in the last for a repeat of last year's wimbledon final. while there of course and to be in our star and then the. second my investors a grand slam so really it's nice and of course the. wind through. my breast as always and. nice mate.

the semifinals in the men's side of action will see the top four players in the world do powerful soft landing maria novak djokovic claim their spots on whedon's the murray making it through by barely breaking a sweat against key and she quarry of the twice a string open finalist wrapping things up six three six three six games to warm. the fourth seed is to make his third straight the side of done under he's going to have to do it the hard way novak djokovic his next challenge after the world number one saw david for six four seven six six one the upcoming contests to be repeats of last year's finals joker one in streets. football in cardiff city are gearing up for a shot at a premier league giant after making it through to the carling cup final the world side entered their second leg semifinal to quarterfinals i sent the final time i

should say needing to make up and after crystal palace another second side won the opening fixture one nil the score of that night on three gardiner going from hero to zero after heading into his own goal seven one one in the school and that was how things stand after both regular and extra time so the penalty she receives from goalkeeper tom but help secure part of a star three one victory in a meeting with either munch esther city or liverpool wembley in a month's time i heart of supposed to be decided tonight's out on field it's liverpool who lead one nil from the first leg but city on premier league leaders for nothing else will enter the game in high spirits humming in the high flying spurs of the weekend rival strikers mario politics the reds to a store as well misty though through suspension. the biggest rivalry in world football gets another outing also tonight it is of course barcelona versus real

madrid in the second leg of their comp of the recorder final a couple and totally advantage from last week but as usual monitor pep guardiola is preaching at tuck as the best defense. he played think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get it was to play another very good game and i understand that one can play the last five or ten minutes thinking about the school. time in bill first and second legs when we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. brings us on to the hardwood where six time champion moscow will be seeking german team there so far perfect record in this season's euro league tonight the russian powerhouse host turkish side f. as in the top sixteen the muscovites very much in form having won all their previous eleven games on the continent however the army men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in this top sixteen state head coach

. rested his main men including undercurrent chris to church for saturday's b.c.p. league match he's got an injury free fifteen strong squad. today while point guard anton crush off believes the new look c.s.k. will be hard to stop in their tracks. last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in use in the euro league it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of new police coming in to replace the greats the hold and lang are no host of new and ambitious players keen to keep perfect record and fast. ok we stay with basketball but head to the n.b.a. where indiana who are enjoying their best start in eight seasons were left to lick their wounds on tuesday after going down to orlando indiana starting the leading british twenty nine twenty two off the first quarter or longest tough score on the

night bryant understand though came to the fore the teams went in level forty five a piece of the big break during the second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated. to to go. straight three pointers pushing magic into a sixty three fifty six lead made with read through water then understood and white howard finish things up in the twenty four and fourteen points respectively one zero to eighty three things ended up meaning indiana so for their first home defeat of the season. back in moscow team russia have returned home from the normal youth olympics a winter games in austria where the squad finished fifth over all the competitors created by friends and relatives of domodedovo airport suffolk hurrying back five gold for silver and seven bronze medals a point of note is that the russian republic of dagestan this currently bidding to host either the youth summer games in twenty eight days or one tradition in twenty twenty two meanwhile brushes but as it took time

a shiver who took gold in figure skating last weekend in spring will also be eyeing up top spots on the senior source winter olympic games in twenty five. i'm trying not to think of the pressure and just do my job by listening to my coach and i fully trust him i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely calm . cricket and thirty seven year old recchi ponting has been turning back the clock as he and captain michael clarke had a huge day for a straight in the fourth test against india each player scoring a double century and a six hundred four for seven effort trips go without former all seek help and ponting making sure to take it all in there i know it come here and answer questions there are too many. celebration a celebration it has made it as much under pretty excited i haven't scored a lot of those and was companies which are a lot about lending as well. now as it was just noise it's always north america

under it and especially today when you know we didn't get off to the audience. tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season since two thousand and eight the night fully fit former world number one is getting ready to hit the greens at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year title droids with victory at last month's world challenge bent in california look at for this year you know that's something that because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare last year and towards end of the year and you know that demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing what sean wants me doing the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it. played really well my last three of it so i'm really looking for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done tours in the last year for sure and finally in baseball it is the end with new york yankees legend calling time on his illustrious career the forty

year old catcher he spent seventeen seasons in the big apple arriving at yankee stadium back in one thousand nine hundred five he won the coveted swirl series five times with the new york signed between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and nine and he is the only culture in major league baseball history to pilot three hundred thirty or better in a single season pretty weak and clearly emotional when he made the announcement of a packed media. our grew up in front of the fans my teammates playing for them you're doing has been an honor i could never wear another uniform being a part of seven world series and having five rings was something i never imagine i've been a part was just it was just priceless i will forever be a yankee and that is all the sport for in our world weather is coming up in just a tick here in twenty four hour party.

culture is that so much a given to each musician apparently trying to hide from the market egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution that you have to dispirited appears to install the military rulers who replaced with. a guitar sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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