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spots throughout russia over claims influential figures who are using bad connections to evade justice. preparing for the worst would die watering cuts in the u.k. public service is set to be revealed some economists predict the country could be put into recession. spies in the us heroes at home russian secret service agents made famous when sent back to america this summer i've just received a presidential awards. live from moscow this welcome to the program. the daughter of a powerful siberian official will be retried over a horrific car crash that left one woman dead and another paralyzed public outcry

was sparked when initially it was revealed that shopping was not going to be charged over the incident which took place a year ago c.c.t.v. footage showed a toilet of veering onto the pavement and then the car's driver only checking for damage ignoring the critically injured pedestrians shopping pregnant at the time of the crash got a three year suspended sentence and was given time to raise her child it was alleged her high profile mother original electoral committee official could have tipped the case in her favor and as artie's sarah furthur reports it's not the first time a kid with connections in russia has been accused of escaping justice. when valarie three day as was may's down by a car it was the beginning of a long in for a difficult marriage to recover me it was in this bus stop that valerie was not the seriously injured but that was five years ago and since then he's been our neighbor

to say that but investigated he suffered horrific injuries and the memories is that day still very clear in his mind. i remember exactly how it all happened moment by moment my friend oh yeah and myself we're standing here as we parted he left across the street on the green light i remember the green light vividly i had turned and began walking in 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 they being denied a criminal trial did make it to the civil courts. if. we asked for one hundred thousand dollars in compensation but at the time of the trial she claimed she was just a poor student. with twenty dollars monthly allowance so she was ordered to pay three thousand dollars to me and she did in installments but even before the trial

she was actually a major shareholder at a commercial bank in moscow. so 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 for larry's repeated attempts to get the case tried in the criminal cause of let the 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'm hoping for your objective help mr president. an investigation into the legitimacy of the refuses to launch criminal proceedings has now been ordered. no heard from the news but i

made my online statement not because i want compensation for my hills but because i've been falsely accused 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 whilst the larry left to slowly rebuild his life with the help of friends and family surface r.t. cheney had been squeege in for fred we're from the christian science monitor says media coverage helps bring privileged offenders to justice. you know this is not an unfamiliar scenario in a lot of places it is perfectly calm and in almost every country that the rich get a better ride in legal systems if only because they can hire better lawyers and and find their way navigate through the system better and the thing you notice is that the intensive press coverage that forces the authorities to make

a show of treating them equally the more publicity the more light that shone on this the better the better it will be that was fred we're the moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor well still to come for you here on r t a storm looming on the british horizon. the difficulty is that when you've drunk three bottles of vodka then you may well think that you're 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 as the u.k. fights to recover from the credit crunch some say nothing's been learned and the worst is yet to come. global security and fighting crime and terror threats are in focus for the leaders of russia france and germany they are meeting in the french resort to also discuss how to make the continent's fragile economic recovery sustainable katarina it's not about reports on this. the tranquil setting of the french seaside town is said to be the perfect backdrop for the

so-called dialogue a meeting between the heads of state of russia germany and france presidents. angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy are expected to discuss a number of issues relevant not only to their countries and specifically to european matters but also to issues that are relevant to the international community. promoting unity in the international community and improving existing international security institutions are fully aligned with the goal of economic and political modernization in russia such an approach requires overcoming old stereotypes and i think we've had some successes in this area the recent development of our ties with the u.s. improving relations with the recent border deal with norway and many other of our foreign policy initiatives all demonstrate how this approach works. in their discussions subjects like the ongoing situation in afghanistan peace in the middle east iran's nuclear ambitions all those things are going to make their way on to the agenda. from france and germany sit down to the table but of course topping the

agenda will be matters relevant to europe itself specifically matters of security and the proposed plan for a global security system such as setting a meeting of three heads of state is a lot more personal and therefore they are expecting to get a lot more results from. russia's relations with nato the north atlantic treaty organization will have to be discussed and that is also going to be on the agenda pacifically the european plans for anti-missile defense and how russia could be incorporated into those plans there will of course be discussing the consequences of the financial crisis also on the agenda are expected to be issues perhaps slightly more relevant to russians the issue of free regime for russian citizens wishing to travel to europe at the moment of course they are obliged to. visa in

order to travel within the e.u. the matter of russians being able to travel to europe without the visa is something russia has brought up frequently but of course everybody here and all of the observers are very early paying attention to what will be said about this concept of a more global approach to security specifically to european security and that of course is what we'll be updating you as a member get new information. on the way here from russia with love. from given special recognition to agents in war in this years in the united states . the u.k. is bracing itself to hear about public spending cuts worth tens of billions of pounds the coalition government will reveal the comprehensive spending review on wednesday it aims to dramatically cut the budget deficit and put the country on the road to financial recovery but some economists say the worst is yet to come reports

. the start of a new working week in the city of london in the eye of an economic storm life goes on as normal but those who work here know that the financial crisis is far from over. yeah a lot worse to come i think worse still to come i think the worst of it has more to come how much a lot 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 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 see even seem to agree on was to do in europe the powers that be are stopping the money printing machines over in the u.s. 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 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 learnt nothing from this crisis policymakers are applying old models in their economic projections and that could lead to inflation hitting ordinary people hard debt 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 very convenient from a political perspective and overall feel good factor to. to feel better you know if people want to feel better you know but it's the fundamentals are not great people

are still in denial. when they're on the tax man sobs. seeing people who can't buy even though 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 london. right now let's check out some other news stories now making headlines around the world this hour and a student's blockaded entrances to schools and said vehicles on fire in paris and mar say they joined nationwide protests against government pension reform plans nearly a quarter of gas stations across france have now run out of petrol as truck drivers throw their weight behind the strikes there are also fears the charles de gaulle

airport in paris could be left without fuel workers say they won't stop protesting in until the pension bill is abandoned the senate has to hold a deciding vote on wednesday. the trial in turkey has started into more than one hundred fifty people charged with links to a separatist kurdish guerrilla group over ten elected mayors are among suspects being held in prison for eighteen months and the case is being closely watched by human rights activists it comes at a time when the turkish government is trying to reconcile with the kurdish minority who have been fighting for autonomy since nineteen eighty-four. thousands are fleeing their homes after a super typhoon hit the northern coast of the philippines meteorologists have warned the typhoon is capable of causing catastrophic damage one man has already drowned in a state of emergency has been declared it's been four years since another storm of

similar strength triggered mudslides and left dozens of people dead. all three civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan police say the explosion occurred as they were inspecting a suspicious package the blast killed three passers by and eight other civilians were injured earlier nine security guards protecting a nato supply convoy were killed in the south of the country in what was thought to be a taliban style attack. well italy has joined the u.s. surge in afghanistan which will bring the number of italian troops in the country to full found by the end of the year but a leaked report suggests rome is not following the rules of engagement its alleged italian troops carried out secret operations involving raids on afghan villages and reportedly resulting in the deaths of civilians well for more insight on this we're now joined live by journalist from rome that of producer so do tell us what do you make of these leaks about what the italian military is up to and in afghanistan why

was the government not talking about it. well first of all we're talking about some fourteen thousand documents documents that were leaked on the we can leak internet web site and there were debates of several reports that came out recently one of them one of the most. read weekly magazine made the scoop we can say. and those reports are about those super operation accordingly to look at documents involved italian troops not following the rule of rules of engagement to basically if i can keep as many suppression doing the dirty job in order to clean the areas that are under their control it's and those operation involved by accident the killing of civilians and other. plesent. were not meant to be in the duties of our soldiers so why in the government is now talking about that because

basically we really is fighting a war into. iow in afghanistan what's happening is that we are there oficial the. peace keeping rebuilding or reconstruction mission because that was the way that the governments. of the political establishment in general not just the government also the opposition parties sought to detail in public opinion our engagement in afghanistan which is an engagement which is not well seen but probably public opinion being very costly in terms of money of course but also in terms of risks and. of the lives of our soldiers. in a place which is seen by the public opinion as very remote and not really leading to the to the national security because the obsession with terrorism which is something that some countries namely for example the united states or britain feel particularly strong is something which is felt less strong only if one in italy so

ok was there if i have to jump in there your mother so you're saying the public opinion on this isn't is not positive when it comes to italy's role in afghanistan but tell me this in a friendly all currently boosting the number of troops on the ground whether you're going to leave or not what's the timeframe here. the problem is that there is really no time frame we had this sort of minute misunderstanding recently a week ago when our ministry of defense said following a previous statements by person and barack obama of the united states he said that italy will be leaving in two thousand and eleven but yesterday and italian journalists on the italian public television right interview richard holbrooke which is the u.s. envoy to afghanistan who basically corrected our. statements d'italia speight statements to say saying that actually the united states are now leaving in two thousand and eleven they will be starting to leave and that. italy is asked

to of follow due coalition and to stay as long as the situation on the ground are so hard we're getting some conflicting reports here on how long the troops are going to be staying whether it's italy or america tell me this though do you think it's always really gaining anything by sending its troops to fight and die in afghanistan. yes or no i mean the problem is that we are not there because our government or our establishment in general is concerned about the situation in afghanistan so we're not really there for strategic calculation the one we're there because it's a way two hundred to coalition and differentiate that we have with the united states it's more political engagement right this is something which is very crude if you like that and it's something that of course is not publicly obert ties it's not something which is made which is subject of public statements of course but that's basically the substance of our stay in afghanistan and this means that we have really no strategic thinking about our staying or and so there you are going

to an area where political agenda when it comes to italy's involvement in afghanistan produce your mark on the life of the italian capital thank you. all russian secret service agents sent back from the u.s. this summer in a high profile spy scandal have received state awards from the president dmitri medvedev on it employees of the russian intelligence services in a ceremony at the kremlin palace let's not cross live to ati's are you going to scan all the more details on this so that this story made headlines around the world this summer here take us through what happened. well absolutely this story was probably the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war era in june american offshore he's announced that they've arrested a group of ten people who are suspected of being secret russian agents were working for many years in the united states undercover they've all been detained had gone and undergone trial were found guilty of being on registered illegal russian agents

had their property and belongings were taken away by american authorities that were also banned from ever coming back to america unless a big green light is given by the white house itself and they're also all bridgette from ever publishing any information on their activities while we're working undercover for russia in the united states and then they were deported from america in exchange for four people who are serving time here in russia after having been found guilty of being poor in spies now out of those ten people g. chord from the united states probably the most popular figure was and is shot on a child one who is a young up very successful business woman she used to have a british husband she used to have british citizenship which was actually taken away after this scandal last summer and this she's got the type of character we usually see on the cinema screens in james bond movies and not in the in the news

reports that's why probably even more state tensions from the media was aimed at her as this. story was broadcasted across the world are now you go to when you talk about these awards being handed out here and you just mentioned out of chapman was she among the recipients of these awards. well that's something which is not clear because this whole ceremony was held in a relatively secret atmosphere we don't exactly know how many people received the state awards we don't know exactly what state awards they were decorated with according to the president's press secretary. the people who are in the center of last summer's spy scandal between moscow and washington were also reportedly awarded state awards given state awards and there are reports in some russian media including the echo must be a radio station that on the japanese was also there and was also given the state award but this is still unconfirmed information and more all speculation be

unofficial at the moment all right i'll tease that you're going to is going to fair reporting from moscow thank you. all right time now for the business news that's coming up in just a few moments. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our jeep. in indonesia she's available in hotels coming dolly resort and spa. resort and spa . remote have been turned sentry and the result will spawn

sunday of beach otoh the listing result use a club med center tell some of the. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many as you call it a hotel the seasons hotel the sultan which. hello welcome to the business program hey on all the with michelle amos folly b.p. has agreed to sell assets in venezuela and vietnam to its russian joint venture to pay for one point eight billion dollars we do includes b.p. stakes in three joint ventures about us why the into gas fields in vietnam the sales policy to raise up to billion dollars by the end of two thousand and eleven to help the company meet its financial locations on the gulf of mexico oil spill acquisitions and finance wanting.

vs all over global expansion. to be. adopted for itself in. time to diversify itself out of russia. become a truly global company. so as a starting point i think the first step towards that goal this relatively modest sized modestly sized acquisition might be just the right size. you know the news that he made putin has been talking up the prospects the russian economy the prime minister told a meeting of foreign businessmen and investors the growth was returning of the budget deficit will be smaller than expected it was a pledge that foreign investors would get same protection as russians all correspondence united vetiver has more. there was only a top man to talk investments has met with over twenty c.e.o.'s of the global corporations to share their views on investment climate in russia addressing the

audience would have been put in doesn't explain that investment into russia when you talk to a hundred billion dollars of the c we have some and he explained how attractive russia a part of me is noting the upcoming privatization of very interesting assets the house of the head which corporations such as spezza go tell him nor areas to the young expressed their concerns of what preventing investment to flow into russia and that is administered barrier slack of access to infrastructure and to force the shoes since their last year emitting the last go into i don't labor the boring labor issue has moved up from the down start and that's the thanks to the new law that eases the regulations of the foreign labor high skilled labor force so exercise go to russia vladimir putin talking to the businessmen sad that actually russia doesn't make a difference between domestic and foreign business is just as in your position we do make a distinction between russian and foreign business when it comes to protecting the

rights of is the best is it's important for us to create comfortable conditions for those who want to make investments in russia to develop their business to promote their goods and services. come see how the markets are forming now in u.s. talks with pricing modest gains off an index of home though the sentiment climbs in october the month before the first rise in five months. better than expected earnings report to kick off the wait for us bank pays a surge in profits to quit two billion dollars and over in europe stocks are rising helped by the posted news from citi group. for the nearly five percent off a very cautious outlook for the rest of the year. no point seven percent. and here in russia yes in my sense of close in positive territory there was a last minute rally at the end of the session meaning most of the main players were up on the r.t.s. leading to games with bad bankers more than two percent off to

a strong financial support or will help lift energy produces gas pump one percent. the news in brief for you now russia's largest crude retailer mean it's increased profits by a quarter almost two hundred forty million dollars for the first nine months of the good turnover was five point four billion dollars that's a jump of thirty five percent in the previous year results are considerably better than analysts full cost model its shares are now among the top gate is only also yes standing around to. america mobile phone make a motorola is leaving russia will close offices at the beginning of two thousand and eleven will no longer officially market or distribute in the country the company first came to russia in one thousand nine hundred three and gained a leading position the since two thousand and three seen its market share steadily declined and now comes just one percent of. the country settles a number of cost cutting measures the shit including plans to close offices in

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