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every month we give you the future we don't you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best unsigned senator domenici from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on r g. above the law children of russia's a leader accused of wreaking havoc with no fear of justice one victim is determined to bring the crimes to light. but was to come i think the worst still to go eyes in the world should. britain prepares for massive cuts to public services but
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economists say it may not help prevent another financial fallout because the government hasn't learned the lessons of alaska labs. and five star hotel or homeless shelter new yorkers aren't lacking in either with a survey suggesting that you can gap in the big apple is now wider than in india. it is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshua welcome to the program the daughter of a russian official who rammed her car into two people killing one is facing a retrial a russian court says there were major violations during the first hearing allowing the woman to go free and this case is just one example of what critics say is a trend among children of russia's a need to live recklessly beyond the law sara firth went to meet one of the alleged
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victims. when valarie three day it was mays down by a car it was the beginning of a long in ferry difficult right to recovery it was the best bus stop the following was not that the seriously injured but that was five years ago and since then he's been on able to pay that up but investigated he suffered horrific injuries and the memories of that day still very clear in his mind. i remember exactly how it all happened moment by moment my friend that we are and we so we're standing here as we parted he loved to cross the street on the green light remember the green white river green had turned and began walking through that direction when i heard a sound and saw something flying towards me the driver of the car was eighteen year old. daughter of a former high ranking f.s.b. officer for larry's case or they being denied
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a criminal trial did make it to the civil courts. we asked for three million rules in compensation she was sentenced to paying one hundred thousand roubles to me and she did instalments would be for the child she was a major shareholder at a commercial bank in moscow at the time of the trial it appears she was just a poor student with six hundred roubles a monthly maintenance allowance. larry made eight attempts to have criminal proceedings launched but was refused every time. if an ordinary person had been in her place they would have faced criminal punishment long ago the incident is too serious to refuse to open a criminal case this seems to be a consider of the population in russia which is immune from criminal prosecution it's not the first time that children of high ranking officials have caused controversy with their reckless driving an apparent lack of punishment when anna chevon caver knocked down two women killing one and severely injuring. another
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images of her checking the damage to her car and not the victims caused outrage has a three year suspended sentence was recently revoked she to problems with the legal proceedings but the case will be retried soon so a patent can commit a crime q one person and enjoy nada and remain unpunished alysha adam carr was not and will not be punished properly for what she did to us i'm sure. for larry's repeated attempts to get the case tried in the criminal cause of let's accusations against him with the abuse of the family claiming he jumped in front of the car and was trying to extort money from them in response to larry made an online play to president dmitri medvedev. i hope for your objective how mr president. an investigation into the legitimacy of the refuses to launch criminal proceedings
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has now been ordered. i made my own money statement not because i want compensation for my house because or been accused falsely and because of all the corruption i want justice. with the full investigation yet to be conducted abuse of her remains in the driving seat was larry left to slowly rebuild his life with the help of friends and family serf airth r.t. chelyabinsk region. public services in britain are facing massive cuts in their budget as the government looks to fill the huge black hole in its balance sheet but economists say the financial doomsday hasn't even happened yet and politicians are learning the lessons of the last crisis article or am it reports. the start of a new working week in the city of london in the eye of an economic storm life goes
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on as normal but those who work here know that the financial crisis is far from over. you know a lot worse to come i think worse still to come i think the worst of it there is more to come how much more they're talking about the financial crisis we've already had but according to some economists we ain't seen nothing yet certain respected finance is a saying that rather than solving the issues that caused the last financial crisis governments and central banks like the bank of england behind me actually leading us towards an even bigger meltdown and they can't see even seem to agree on was to do in europe the powers that be are stopping the money printing machine is over in the us the federal reserve has just announced another round of quantitative easing but who's right nobody is right i mean that's really the problem the difficulty is that when you've drunk three bottles of vodka then you may well think that you're
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capable of putting the world to right but at the same point in time you know you're going to wake up in the morning with a hangover this is the point where we're working up in the morning with a terrible hangover in a new book the gathering storm a group of finance he has got together to say that governments have learned nothing from this crisis policymakers are applying old models in their economic projections and that could lead to inflation hitting ordinary people hard looking at the fiscal position. of the size of the deficits that government should run in relation to the size of the economy. yes we are we facing the sort of conditions which would be war with water than with a peaceful prosperous development and that doesn't look sustainable for very long debts will have to be repaid and restructuring will have to begin but in the city there's a fear that people are in denial for sense of security i think yeah i think it's
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very convenient from the political perspective and overall feel good. to feel better you know people want to feel better you know but it's the fundamentals are not great people are still in denial but. i wonder if when the tax man starts chasing people who can't buy them they'll be a problem that idea may come home to roost early as this week when the government announces extensive cuts to public services we shouldn't assume that the period of extreme global weakness which followed the lehman brothers collapse is the worst episode in this long drawn out depression there could be much worse episode still to come. and here in the city of london that would really put the cat among the pigeons nor am it r.t. . still look on the program here on r t the french seaside town of de ville hosts some high profile guests for an international. and u.s.
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policy in afghanistan aimed at destabilizing saudi forces decades ago by back find out why america is losing the war on drugs that's had. now it's one of the richest cities in the world home to bankers expensive real estate a luxury stores but recent figures suggest the pay gap between the workers is now wider than ever are teasing us is here to reports on how the big apple is split to look or. the lucky few who are shopping for shoes worth thousands of dollars to chanel's and just a wave of a wallet away just a few steps away a person with their entire life belongings in a shopping cart to curious lifestyles the rich people in new york are richer than rich people most places are living side by side with those for whom surviving in a tough economy has become a full time job according to recent published report the gap between the rich and poor in the big apple is greater than india country where the majority of the
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population lives in poverty we live in a winner take all society where there's a small number of stars who make vast salaries and where the majority of people have too much month left at the end of the money last year one and a half million people were registered living in poverty in new york meanwhile the city's richest are still enjoying the high life the rich people in new york are flying around on private planes eating caviar renting yachts the net worth of the less than sixty richest new yorkers has recently spiked by an entire nineteen billion dollars one percent of the population controls seventy percent of the returns to well it's never been that high it's never been that bad but this somehow ends up being reflected only on the less fortunate and i can spend five thousand dollars on that piece of jewelry. would you ever buy a bag for five thousand dollars. i don't think so housing is one of the main
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symbols of this wealth gap. project right now with the average. realtors selling luxury property are not afraid of going out of work probably the most expensive cafferty i've sold is about eight million thankfully new york has rebounded quicker from their protection in two thousand and nine than any of the other major american cities but that's mostly true for the rich every night about one thousand people sleep in the subway system of new york meanwhile the most expensive hotels are doing as well as ever something the rich definitely like to splurge on the new york city of luxury hotels if you have an extra buck to spend in your wallet why not spend it on a hotel room for twenty two hundred dollars
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a night or platinum massage in your room for a mere three hundred dollars this is thousands across new york fill homeless shelters with no room to spare three times one hundred eighty five i have to let you do one hundred eighty five with each meal while the number of people relying on a free meal has gone up by fifty percent over the last year others are not even keeping track of their spending three thousand four thousand. are working on a story about the gap between the rich and poor new york what do you consider yourself to be. the possibility of the wealth gap narrowing is far from being around the corner right now we're debating about whether or not to give tax breaks to the richest americans to keep this kept going to keep growing but if this gap widens even more. more new york me soon be split into two different planets a big one with tens of thousands struggling for survival and a small one with
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a very lucky few this future for the big apple could not be far especially while the city's mayor is considered the second richest person in town. new york the tiny french resort town of de ville is hosting an international brainstorming session for three major world powers russia's president will be the guest of the leaders of germany and france to focus on warming ties between moscow and the e.u. country and as our reports. the tranquil setting of the french seaside town of derby is expected to be the perfect backdrop for this so-called troika dialog to meet them individually and his colleagues in the protests are cozy and angle of merkel are expected to discuss many issues not only relating to european matters but also those concerning the international community specifically the tasks that lay before the group of eight and the group of twenty stability in the middle east the ongoing situation with afghanistan and of course iran's nuclear ambitions those are all going to be on the agenda when the russian president and his colleagues
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from france and germany sit down to the table but they're bringing a lot more to these discussions specifically issues that are more closer to home relevant to europe and the relations between european states and russia specifically a visa free regime for russian citizens is expected to be brought up in the discussions russia citizens at the moment are requested to by the schengen agreement to acquire a visa before entering european states russia forces long been negotiating a visa free regime for its citizens and that issue is definitely going to be touched upon by the russian president when he sits down to meet with his colleagues from france and germany but there are other much more serious items on the agenda as well specifically the economic crisis and its effects on europe on by a lateral and european trade with russia. there are many. other aspects to the agenda as well specifically the framework with which russia is prepared to
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cooperate with nato the north atlantic treaty organization and various other aspects of cooperation between russia and nato as well of course all those items are going to be discussed by the russian president and his colleagues from france and germany all of the leaders saying that this kind of dialogue is very helpful and has a lot of potential because it is less formal and therefore the three leaders will have a chance to speak freely and perhaps achieve more results that way we know that so far no by lateral meetings are scheduled for the agenda but will be bringing you details as and when we get. there in our political experts believe it's highly unlikely russia will ever become an equal member of the e.u. or nato. russia in my mind is too big and too russian both for european union and for nato. they're not eager to see russia.
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nato was created to keep america germany and russia. america is the real purpose of nato but keeping germany russia. and more of that interview next hour here in our team now the first of twelve u.s. soldiers accused of terrorizing and murdering afghan civilians is set to face court martial officials say the rope will tune to drugs and kill people for sport but while commanders seemed completely unaware of their actions military contributor says the case reveals of wider problem there a lot of difference between the american experience in afghanistan. but one of the most insidious and harmful difference is that it was cia who
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initiated the promotion of that drug distribution trying to undermine the morale and sprayed a core of the soviet forces in afghanistan and thirty years later during the almost ten year u.s. occupation of the contrie united states pot policy in afghanistan still condones if not promotes the drug distribution and production and trafficking in afghanistan now with the us part policy of it piecing narco farmers the united states has stepped on to the narcotics booby trap and the latest see at the case of twelve scalp scrapers and sports shooters demonstrates to what extent the u.s. drug store policy in afghanistan has backfired according to the latest data the whole platoon of the stryker brigade was heavily on doe even before their
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deployment from the continental united states to a khandahar province as a result of these bloody sculp scrapers totally dismantled disrupted and destroyed the whole concept of the hearts and minds of the counting insurgency policy in its application in afghanistan. and check out our website for more from our military contributor in the blog section is just a click away and here's a taste of what else you'll find there right now. u.s. trade unions are under fire for neglecting their duties leaders are accused of spending more time looking after their own political interests and the rights of workers. and world fashion aces are flocking to moscow as models draw their stuff in the cat walks of russian fashion week for more on the latest collections to r.t. dot com. and also take
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a look at some other stories from around the world and there are fears that paris as charles de gaulle airport could be left without fuel as a result of the strikes of french oil refineries but the country's transport minister says airports are being supplied with jet fuel it comes as hundreds of thousands of workers have been protesting against government plans to raise the retirement age meanwhile in belgium rail workers now began a twenty four hour strike against a decision to privatized the railways cargo hauling division. thousands of people are fleeing their homes in the philippines as the so-called super typhoon approaches the northern part of the country schools have also been closed as high winds and heavy rain are expected and it's four years since another storm in the country triggered mudslides and left about a thousand people dead. violence has left at least twenty five people dead in the pakistani city of karachi have a byelection to replace a politician assassinated in august police believe the violence was linked to gangs
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controlled by rival political groups there and there are fears the byelection could result in fresh violence the death of reza hyder two months ago sparked clashes that killed at least one hundred. ride of the largest prison haiti's capital port au prince has left three inmates dad it happened after one of the prisoners stole a guard's weapon tried to release others two were shot while attempting to scape from the roof and another. trampled to death seven foreigners were briefly taken hostage by prisoner this is when peacekeepers cordoned off streets around the facility. well you're watching r t live from moscow coming up soon our special feature on the u.s. state of alaska for more than a century it was part of the russian empire before it was sold to america. it's the secret incursion into the country. the invasion by means of.
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tradition the language tell you visit the dusty beat the beat. and culture. the thing is. the have the dozens are still unaware of what's going on in there are still asking why do you. think i don't know anything about. the great. attic and see that about ten minutes time here on our table before that will check of the latest business news with you and don't go away hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.
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hello and a very warm welcome to the business news russia is moving closer to a new deal on increasing casta liveris to poland and its transit to germany and agreement between moscow and warsaw was to go shaded last year but was assigned to two wars that was incompatible with e.u. law it ensures ten billion cubic meters of gas a year until twenty seven from poland which imports around seventy percent of its consumption from russian gas from unposed gas monopoly p.g. and i g a now working on the details and expect the contract to be finalized but the next two weeks. the privileged regime for foreign carmakers is likely to come to an end next february that's one of the made on russia spot to the w t o in
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future foreign carmakers will have to produce cars instead of assembling them and source the parts locally mark a reports. this week the japanese company to rad opens a joint plant with gaz group subsidiary risky machinery to produce heating elements and other compounds sort of one or more how they currently our strategy is based around one consumer gods but we do plan to extend our business in russia and work with both japanese and other foreign carmakers our goal is to find new consumers by twenty twelve. foreign spare part makers a more than welcome johnson controls by connecting them out early delfi among those working in russia but it's easier for them to enter the russian market that the help of a local giant we have a very good supply base today but in some cases we need new technology and then it makes sense whereas for importers to localize. this september the ministry of
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industry and trade announced new rules become makers they should raise output to three hundred thousand cars a year from twenty five thousand and double. sixty percent the parts that they obtain locally this would boost the local component industry but industry insiders say it's too much too soon these requirements could be made by very few companies for example these are mostly that the russian o.e.m.'s who have the largest volumes and potentially some of the foreign no we are enjoying a good market share already are selling above one hundred thousand close to one hundred fifty thousand in the ministry of economic development does not favor a. very strict regulations and they are proposing an alternative which is much more flexible however not well defined in there so i would imagine the decision will be some sort of a compromise few cars nowadays have
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a national identity they can turn part swim around the globe ironically international cami is sourcing more of their parts in russia could turn out to be more russian than the better known domestic brands. business ot. banks having a lot of capital minimum risks and setting customs through skype the chief financial officer at one of the leading euro zone banks into s.s. and policy says that is how the whole banking system should operate after the financial crisis the temple of course spoke to carla messina. for sure in the future a banking system with more capital but more liquidity and less leverage because of the quality leverage where there are many reasons for the crisis and also looking at the customers the need is to be shown to try to satisfy the customer because in these two years all the clients. reduce the
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trust in banker they use their loyalty so we need to recall where the relation we. are and we need to to act in such a way to make rescale. in profitability sustainable for profitability for the future how will the companies and people feel these changes we need to to to to put in a position the client to feel more quality in the service less prize. they ever to be a p. with the relation of the bank or the point is not only communication but two to two month in relation we differ in distribution channel because we have now in a very massive especially need only very massive r t two to use our brains probably we have to move more we have to a way of of making
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a relation with the client so we do more all in banking with the adoption of course to serve the two or four for our clients. let's look at the markets now asia stock markets are mixed on monday with tokyo's nikkei slightly rising this hour meanwhile master is pulling on of course ford motor is set to sell the majority of its stake in the japanese comic that hong kong shares are declining as resource sector stocks and h.s.b.c. holdings fell on week of assistance. and russian markets ended the week mixed. r.t.s. losing a third of a percent and my six zero point six two percent better bank and rolls were among the top gaiman's both more than one percent oil and gas companies ralston after gazprom and look who ended the week in the red. emerging market stocks continue to attract cash last week as investors look to foster growth and they thought they could get for more mature condom is time monday chief strategist from bank at
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creech air gave archie his opinion on the market trends where part to see this week investors in russia are going to be cautiously bullish through the week and i think that will be again a function of economic data that's coming out as we've got u.s. industrial production coming out we've got us leading indicators we've had a good set of retail sales figures already and that's underpinning some confidence in the right side of the u.s. consumer and that filters through to a larger markets will be looking for more evidence from the fed to support qantas to be using evidence of the extent to which threat is spoken to resume and importantly the market will be looking towards from close to gauge the extent to which the capital that is being created from loose monetary policy is flowing into emerging markets in india china and importantly into russia. that's all the business for now you can get more stores small website archie dot com slash business.
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