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him all the states the less the blame russians demand equal justice and the spotlight falls on cases of influential figures using their connection to invade prosecution. for another crisis as the u.k. prepares for a view of massive public service cuts economists warn the country is on the verge of plunging into an even deeper recession. criminals in the us heroes at home the kremlin awards russian secret service agents at the center of the biggest spy swap since the cold war. around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow the daughter of a powerful siberian official will be retried over a horrific car crash that left one woman dead and another paralyzed

a public outcry was sparked when initially it was revealed that cover was not going to be charged over the incident which took place a year ago c.c.t.v. footage showed a toyota veering onto the pavement and then the car's driver only checking for damage ignoring the critically injured pedestrians. pregnant at the time of the crash got a three year suspended sentence and was given time to raise a child it was alleged to high profile mother a regional electoral committee official could have tipped the case in her favor. first now 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 and very difficult road to recovery it was 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 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 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 or they being denied a criminal trial does make it to the civil courts. 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. the 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 there 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 the 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. but i made my online statement not because i want compensation for my health but because

i have 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 serf airth r.t. cheney had been squeege in. well 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 on 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 and that was fred with the moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor well coming up this hour from a storm is 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 rights but at the same point in time you know you're going to wake up in the morning with a hangover. the u.k. fights to recover from the credit crunch some say nothing's been learned and the worst is yet to come. before that the leaders of france and germany say their countries are facing the same security threats as russia and efforts to tackle them should help in building a new partnership with moscow in consequence here and meeting ahead of a summit with me to medvedev in the small french resort town of the hill country as are of reports. they're going to be some very serious issues of course on the table

as the three leaders tackle various issues relevant not only to the european community but also to the international agenda issues such as stability and the middle east the ongoing situation in afghanistan and iran nuclear agenda those are all going to be discussed by the means of a defined his colleagues from france and germany but it's also issues of course that are relevant to europe specifically and they are expected to dominate the talks here and specifically the issue of global european security proposed by the russian president a little earlier russia's cooperation with the north atlantic treaty organization is also going to be discussed of course and that will be dove tailing into the new proposal for a global european security plan and various other aspects of european cooperation of course the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the various effects that it has had on bilateral trade on european trade on russia's relations with those members of the e.u. the negotiations to have a visa free regime for russian citizens wishing to travel to europe right now of

course we know that russian citizens are obliged to get a visa in order to enter the european union that's according to the shang an agreement that is currently in force for a number of years of officials have been talking all over the possibility of removing the visa regime and making travel for russians into europe visa free and that is yet another issue that medium and if a certain to raise with nicolas sarkozy and angola merkel and of course many russians are keeping their fingers crossed that something definitive will come out of those talks and tones clown from the european council on foreign relations told me a little earlier that improving ties between most combe will still could pave the way to a new era in russia relations. there have been indeed great to within the e.u. about how to manage the relationship with russia what we've seen over the last few weeks and months is a narrowing of these divisions and in particular the the very important fact of the russian rapprochement has really engineered a whole new dynamic and i think the u.

today is much less divided than it was two or three years ago and this is the background against which this meeting is taking place and i would almost argue that it couldn't take place without the background being what it is you know i think that's an absolutely crucial fact there was a big split between berlin and also especially about how to manage the relationship with moscow that was a source of strain in the pro to term relationship that is now gone and we are seeing a much more polished anomic overall. in germany experts are divided over chancellor angela merkel's comments that immigrants then need to do more to integrate she said attempt to create a multicultural society doesn't fail but critics have dubbed her speech as a way to score cheap political points a survey found a third of people in germany believe foreigners are taking over and that's a cave the founder of the image you tonio foundation which works to combat racism in germany says immigration policy has to be addressed across europe. we have

specially east germany a lot of neo nazi groups this is these are hard core new nazis who killed a lot of people and we have also a big the rise of anti immigrant feelings in the population of west germany so now with this discussion we have in this moment things are rising and i fear that there will be more victims of rape violence immigration is the future you cannot work and live in a globalized world in the middle of the world in europe without immigration and moving populations so you have to really make a good policy of immigration all over europe and we see this there the history of europe with its long history of nationalism and small countries is

now. is now getting into a crisis saw neet will need a long time to to make it better but you have to in front of us you have to really change the policy of immigration inside europe. and that was an attack again the founder of the. and turn your foundation well on the way this is for you here in r.t. italian in beijing find out why new surge of italian troops in afghanistan is being blamed for wrecking a series of secret operations. that story still to come but first 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 as laura emmott's now 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. there are lot worse to come i think we're still to come in the worse yet there's more to come how much. 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 he 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 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 or 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 people want to feel better you know but it's the fundamentals are not great people are still in denial of. the moment when the tax man. chasing people who can be

a problem that idea may come home to roost 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 ever it r.t. . russia's southern president our region is mourning the victims of last week's flash floods that took the lives of fourteen people and left twelve missing the floods followed heavy rain that caused rivers to burst their banks and spillover into nearby areas more than twenty villages were completely swamped with around five thousand people caught up in the disaster the storm also led to mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north corp railroad cleanup operations are still underway and authorities have promised to help all those

affected. and that's a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world students are blockaded entrances to schools and vehicles on foreign paris and must say they've joined nationwide protests against increasing the retirement age from sixty to sixty two years and cuts in spending nearly a quarter of gas stations across france have run out of petrol as truck drivers throw their weight behind the strikes but also fears that showed the airport in paris could be left without fuel workers say they won't stop protesting until the pension bill is abandoned and the senate has to hold a deciding vote on wednesday. the trial in turkey has started into the case of more than one hundred fifty people charged with links to a separatist kurdish guerrilla group overturn an act of mayors are among suspects who have been 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 have been fighting for twenty since one thousand. for. thousands of

fleeing their homes after a super typhoon hit the northern coast of the philippines. the typhoon is capable of causing catastrophic damage one man is 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. an indian high court has begun hearing an appeal by the only surviving government of the mumbai terror attacks two years ago pakistani national mohammad is expected to contest the death sentence handed to me he's accused of mass murder committing a terrorist act and. india accomplice were convicted for the bloodiest part of the attacks killing more than fifty people. last several months. russian secret service agents sent back from the u.s. the summer in a high profile spy scandal to receive state awards from the president. all of employees of the russian intelligence services in

a ceremony at the kremlin palace. has more. this story was probably the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war in june. 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 their property and belongings were taken away by american authorities that were also banned from ever coming back to america and a green light is given by the white house itself there also brigitte 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 too. in spies this whole ceremony was held in the relatively secret

atmosphere we don't exactly know how many people receive these 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 now out of those ten people g. ported from the united states probably the most popular figure was and is on a chop on who's a young 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 the type of character we usually see on cinema screens in james bond movies and not in the in news reports that's why probably the most attention from the media was aimed at her as this

story was broadcasted across the world and there are reports in some russian media including the radio station that was also there and was also given a state award but this is still unconfirmed information and more of speculation be unofficial at the moment. by the way to get the latest on everything we're covering here on our website at www dot com let's have a quick look and see what's there on line at the moments of the russian capital cools off some of the city's catwalks heating up as designers from all over the world display their spring summer collections for russian fashion week. and just to all the russian mafia running take a test to see if your knowledge of these wise guys is good enough to get you into their closed circle speeches and plenty more.

italy's join the u.s. led surge in afghanistan which will bring the number of attorney and troops in the country to four thousand by the end of the year but at least triple what suggests room is not following the rules of engagement to turn in troops carried out secret operations involving raids on afghan villages resulting in civilian deaths italians may be dying in afghanistan but journalists for but it says it's not for national security. the government is not talking about it because basically we really is fighting a war in denial in afghanistan what's happening is that we are there of. peace keeping rebuilding our reconstruction mission because that was the way the government sought to detail in public opinion our engagement in afghanistan which is an engagement which is not well seen but a part of the public opinion being very costly in terms not of money of course but

also in terms of risks and lives of our soldiers in a place which is seen by the public opinion as very remote and not really willing to the to the nation's security because the obsession with terrorism which is something that some countries namely for example the united states or britain feel particularly strong it's something which is felt less strong only if one in italy 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 if one a we are there because it's a way to harner to clearly and to friendship that we have with the united states it's more a political engagement and why this is something which is very crude and it's something that of course is not subject of public statements of course but that's basically the substance of our stand in afghanistan and this means that we have really no strategic thinking about our staying there we are there because nato is

there. and that was a turnin journalist for more long term short that's here now with the very latest from the world of business. hello welcome to the business program here on our team with me. b.p. has agreed to sell assets in venezuela and vietnam to its russian a joint venture to pay one point eight billion dollars dealing please b.p. stakes in fairy joint ventures in venezuela and two gas fields in vietnam was part of b.p.'s plan to raise up to thirty billion dollars by the end of two thousand and eleven to help the company meet its financial obligations after the gulf of mexico oil spill acquisitions will be financed wanting k.b.p.s. own resources and won't require additional. resources will.

be. adopted for itself in. time to do a lot of russian. troops. starting point. towards that goal. might be too strong. and in other news vladimir putin has been talking up the prospects for the russian economy the prime minister told a meeting of foreign businessmen and investors that growth was returning the budget deficit will be smaller than expected he also pledged that foreign investors would get the same protection as russians all correspondence the united motivate of a small. 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 he be able to explain that investment into russia where he talked

a hundred billion dollars to see which seven he explained how attractive russian economy is noting the upcoming privatization of very interesting us it's the house of the head which corporations. such a spectacle teller nor heiress to any young expressed their concerns of what preventing investment to flow into russia and that is admission of barriers lack of access to infrastructure and worse since their last year in the last boy into the boring labor you sure has moved up from the dead stop and that's thanks to the new law that eases the regulations of the foreign labor high skilled labor force so access to russia. talking to the businessmen is actually russia doesn't make a difference between domestic and foreign business is. we do make a distinction between russian and foreign business when it comes to protecting the rights of. 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. now separately vladimir putin has approved a plan to give companies working in the mile peninsula a tax holiday the government is keen to encourage gas production in their region which is rich in resources to access and subject to extreme wind says the plan includes exemption from the results extraction toxins zero export duty for l.n.g. as well as local tax breaks for terms of tax holidays would be great before the end of the year but will not exceed twelve gives. something on the market performing now in the u.s. to. index of home builders sentiment climbed in october in the month before the first rise in five months or so citi group has reported better than expected earnings report to kick off the week the u.s. bank has a surge in profits to two point two billion dollars. by the positive news

from citigroup shares of philips electronics but five percent off the group. outlook for the rest of the year and here in russia my second. close in positive territory there was a last minute rally at the end of the session meaning most of the main players only r.t.s. leading the gains were fair banks which climbed more than two percent after a strong financial reports a rebound in oil helped lift energy produces gas problem times more than one percent of. the news in brief or you know russia's largest food retailer chain magnates has increased profits by a quarter of almost two hundred forty million dollars in the first nine months a year turnover was five point four billion dollars that's a jump of thirty five percent on the previous year the results were considerably better than analysts and forecast magnate shares and now among the top game is only our chairs and we're up around two percent. now american mobile phone maker

motorola is leading russia or close offices at the beginning of two thousand and eleven i will no longer officially market or distribute is handsets in the country the company first came to russia in one nine hundred ninety three and gained a leading position there since two thousand and three it's seen its market share steadily declined for just one percent of the water in storage as a country motorola has set out a number of cost cutting measures this year including plans to close offices in africa and eastern europe. but not enough the latest in the world of business here in moscow we can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i'd say never real. mission obvious what is the relevance of the i.m.f. and should be questioning the logic of an institution that pays. the bill .