the club seventeen has been to the. way industries are rapidly developing. now wattie goes to the homeland of those with strength of mind and body. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times. which became a premier destination for nineteenth century political exiles. this is the on screen russia plays out on oxy. if mine. would be soon which brightened if you move soon from phones to its. knees for instance on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style stock. market

. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two cars a report on. this is obscene the international news broadcaster from moscow these are all top stories today no release from. the already jailed for oil tycoon been found guilty of embezzling millions in cash in the oil the former head of oil giant due course is already seventy eight years for tax evasion and form following his arrest in two

thousand and three. a tough crowd out on racially motivated crimes and justice for all criminals regardless of nationality the crime and make strong promises in response to a number of incidents of violence. plus the spoils of war on show israel and lebanon campaign tourists attention with seeing talks aimed at selling this side of the story displays include weapons tanks and missile launchers and some visitors questioning the right. you know with. twenty two thirty one here in moscow up next i can hear iconic left wing british politician tony benn tells us why he's backing the turbulent student protests there even though they've been turning violent. today i'm talking to the right honorable taney band one of britain's foremost socialist and the president of the stop the war coalition tony benn thank you so

much for talking to r.t. now you're a big believer in democracy as the means to pos power from what you call the wallet to the ballots what do you think is the state of democracy in the world today very imperfect i mean if you look at the world people are beginning to see the world as a single unit i mean my granddaughter's school in london with seventy six nationalities waiting to go to school like addressing the general assembly of the united nations and i think that the younger generation see the world now as just roco village and they wonder who governs it can be controlled how it could be influenced and so on and everyone looking at the government of the village or the country all. over the world it bound to our sense of what power do we have over the people who pass the laws and with the power of big business which is now

enormous going across the world many big decisions are made by people we didn't elect cannot remove who do not have to listen to us so it's a very very big issue i think and you are talking about organizations like the international monetary fund from the european central bank controlled or they are instruments of the international power of capital and they have a huge influence over the government policies in arlon or spain or britain or greece and and i think that issue is going to become a very big one look ahead i am how can we pulse the power from the wallet to the ballot well historically it's been done by people who campaigned for it and then the slavery was abolished because people looked. slave owner for all being a slave and said who gave him the right to do that to that man and once you are still question who gives him the right to do that then you've opened up

a debate about democracy and is that what we're seeing happening now with these protests on the streets of europe well i think all demands by people to be heard. sometimes expression themselves in protest but otherwise you know argument all these are demands. central to the future advance of mankind and how has that happened do you think that we have gone from being a fairly politically apathetic population particularly in the u.k. to turning out on the streets in huge numbers and shouting about how government well if you look at it historically history is a good guide because if you don't know where you came from you don't know where you are or great trade deals have been made by exactly the same type of political campaigning how do women get the vote do you get when you know there was a very little movement then women would determine to make paid today one how did men get the vote in britain did trade unions get recognised how did slavery and there are moments in history when people look around and say we are being

controlled by those who don't have to listen to us we've got to change it but do you support these people who are coming out to protest sometimes in quite a violent and destructive way i very strongly support it because the right to education is a basic human right i mean we now have accepted britain in most parts of the world the right to be educated the right and. the right place to justice our rights and if you take some of the way they're doing their university training you have to pay to go then you are taking away people's rights and you know for some of the central in the country we seem to be saying somewhat of a hiatus. in the process and maybe with christmas in the new year coming up what do you think is going to happen once people recover from that new year stupor and realize what's going on well i mean i'm not a forecast journalist for cross the world i try to influence the time involved in

the campaign against the cuts and i believe it will build up and build up because i think it is a threatening the whole nature of our society and so i would expect it would have very very profound political effects in the future and as a campaign what's your next step going to be to bring people together. solidarity say that students support pensioners who are finding their pensions or some disadvantage public servant support range who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. a very very powerful political movement for justice and once that happens governments have to listen you're huge supporter of free health care for all and of the welfare state in general we've got figures from the department of work and pensions that say one point six million working age people in britain have never held down a job do you think the welfare state gone too far no. i remember the birth of the

welfare state and it came in this way i was in the air force in the war as a pilot and i learned to ride africa and the nine hundred forty three i went out in a troop ship and we had thousands of young people. and which i did have a meeting on war aims and one young man i wish i knew his name but i didn't said this he shed in the one nine hundred thirty s. we had mass unemployment b. said we don't have unemployment in wartime he said if you could have full employment killing germans why can't you have full employment building hospitals recruiting doctors recruiting nurses building schools building and that was how we got there were fair state we decided in one thousand nine hundred five to apply the same determination to meet the needs of peace that we had throughout the war applied to be the needs of war and i think it wasn't an ideological so much of a practical solution and very incomplete and the conservatives in britain never

really liked it and the cuts now are a way of finding an excuse for reducing it have it not created a sort of underclass of people who aren't motivated to get a job because they can live fairly comfortably on money from the government i think so i mean there are people who are homeless and there are people who are not employed and working class people are at the mercy of those who have the money to employ them and if you can keep a lot of people unemployed that is a threat to those that work because people say to themselves oh well if i don't accept low wages my job will go to somebody else i don't accept that argument and let's go back to democracy more generally do you see it as a panacea that can be applied to countries and cultures across the world name matter what that underlying principles are i think we're have a country and our lives in the dumond of people to be. and have some control

there's a natural couldn't. bond i heard a program of trying to change the other day which was about a school in trying where they agreed to elect the school representative and it was a fan. sedating program because you realize that in that chinese school all the characteristics that we associate with voting in britain were taking place and then one day you know children will say well if we could choose our school represented when we were young why should we have a role in deciding the government and i think these things happen but. in order for them to develop you can't have a threatened society because of threatened society will repress domestic dissent because they feel it weakens them and we went to war in iraq ostensibly in the name of democracy but that's obviously not something that you support no i did he we did we went to war and support of interests and we use arguments governments use arguments to justify what they do and then everyone has the right no with the

information of the disposal to question these arguments and say are they valid or not and if they are not valid why we're doing it and to stop the war movement built up the biggest political campaign in britain in history of two million people out in london the next stop the war but it created a pattern of public opinion that compelled governments to train their policy and since then have you seen support for what the stop will coalition is doing to minish in any way now i think it i think it built up to the point the maximum point just when we were going to war and now with all the inquiries and thoughts about the war tisn't the most dominant question but i think governments realise that when you do get your campaign of that power against what they're doing they are very vulnerable and wiki leaks and julian are solid what do you think that wiki leaks has done to support your campaign releasing all this information about the iraq and

afghan wars well my opinion is the information is itself a very very powerful weapon in general governments want to know everything they can about us they want. tap our telephone open all letters to find out what we're doing and don't want us to know anything about them and so when all this information is circulating between ambassadors and diplomats without knowing about it we could buy it when we know we're able to put questions and so on and i think that with colleagues is a very very important event and a very profound one and very relevant to democracy and oversee the opposition to which case is saying that it puts the soldiers and those who are collaborating with the u.s. and british on race in afghanistan in danger what do you think about that well i think the question is why should we be it afghanistan or in iraq and that's the

question everybody has to answer somebody with a story about a young person an old man said to him are you interested in politics and the boy said no and so the old man said we'll take an interest in politics before politics takes an interest in you should they are missions or to afghanistan i think debates about policy are absolutely right. and let's separate house if we can for a moment the information about the iraq and afghan wars that we got from wiki leaks and then this latest u.s. diplomatic cables that have been released and i would have thought that as. an antiwar campaign you would support diplomacy by any means as a as a as a first and last resort doesn't this weaken to play misty in the world now i think all it does is to reveal the way a good program is conducted but you're quite right to privacy is the alternative to war and therefore if you can get diplomatic contacts going so much the better but

people are entitled to know what is being done in the name but does it really matter what insight is in the diplomatic corps think about presidents why isn't another sort of tattle tattle well that's gossip and go see if you have to disregard because the politics of gossip is makes people cynical about testing all that since that happens you must know it happens because it helps you to understand better what is really going on among powerful people tony bennett thank you very much. here is that so much easier to make a lot of people. spend some western lifestyles are being a little bit but with the advent of the recession all those who were once rich.

you know. in two thousand and three. racially motivated justice for all criminals regardless of nationality.

the spoils of war on show. complete. with. side of the story. questioning the reality of it. twenty two forty five here in moscow thanks for being with us tonight our programs continue we're talking sports. hello and thank you for joining me for the sports and here is what we have coming up. against the guns chelsea go to arsenal in a crunch top four clash in the english premier league. while sucker punch rushes start cruiserweight dennis lever that suffers his first career defeat this decision against marco hart. out of his out of the top russian let him

a try again is gearing himself up to win the dakar rally one of the world's toughest insurance racist for the seventh time. let's start with double and in just a few minutes time in the english premier league third place arsenal will host fourth place chelsea in a crunch london dobby the gunners are itching to beat the blues in the league for the first time in two years and narrow the gap to leaders manchester united to two points we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible and. it was not the difference between the teams and so we have a good opportunity to show that in the coming months and to show as well i believe our room for improvement is bigger than any of the team because we are very young side and so it's how we respond to what happened to us.

man united. meanwhile chelsea are aiming to get back to winning ways the blues have slipped my five point lead at the top to fourth after losing to them during three of their last five games but they're relishing the chance to put their campaign back on track as important game on low because. both both the mario room involving in the fight for the title and everyone i think that team can win this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i am happy to play this game because i think that. we move on after the bad moment and we are able to come back to play our football and to try to do everything to win. i visit the eyes now i understand why moscow has failed to go second in the k h l standings after three two shootout defeated that run to stay with a winning shot for the hosts the muscovite side had also won those previous games

in other matches your committee had no problems in ethics that set us down as they beat in five goals to one and a moscow region doll being doubled from sub goodness yakin top at lums defeat to cheers and high license reno. to record football now where the green bay packers have stayed on track for the n.f.l. playoffs after trashing the struggling new york giants forty five seventeen at home let's go straight to the second quarter where the giants tied the game at fourteen zero in the night in history and eighty five yard touchdown pass to mario manningham but it turned around in the next two years aaron rodgers paxson a concussion tossed a touchdown pass to donald late to extend the packers lead to thirty one seventy five points that missed that period and rogers sealed the win with a five yard t.d. pass to join clearing midway through the fourth to make it thirty eight seventeen

to the home side green bay eventually went on to try forty five seventeen leads the giants to fading playoff hopes. and there was an alibi for the game in chicago between the best and the york jets where the home side put themselves in contention for a playoff by after venture going and into him again thirty eight points the thirty four chicago lead ten mil at the end of the first quarter but squandered their advantage to trial twenty one ten at the close of the second however the bears fought back and won front thirty eight thirty one at the end of the search area and held on to edge their opponents trying the seventy three in eight games despite the loss the jets did confirm their playoff place to jacksonville lost to washington. their face i was a boxing match where dennis levitan. the recent loss to reigning champion moto hockey still causing shock waves after russia's biggest hope in the cruiserweight division suffered his first ever defeat by split decision.

last moments of the brown belt with w b o cruiserweight belt at stake running jump in market hawk versus russia's big toe in this division the nice lead with fox stepping back liberty is sure the title is in his hands not the one to force the show but how did the title but the judges believe an extremely controversial decision the general feeling was that libya had clearly done more. to suppose but i think of w b o experts will consider the video of the whole bags with you and early in the new year they will make a decision concerning a possible rematch between libby devon hawk plus they will look to get explanations from the supervisor and all three judges of the badges in written form with. a major disappointment his professional record is now twenty one wins and one loss however the thirty one year old useful software go what doesn't kill you makes you

stronger. frankly speaking we overestimated hug right up to the end i expected him to push forward in the giro and that's why i just held myself back trying to save energy that's why i didn't hang on the ropes after the end of the fight i was still fit i wasn't exhausted at all. i was knocking at the door and the door open but i didn't come in it's just that this fight was all about her i could have finished it several times but i didn't go for it and it was my mistake so i'm far from blaming anybody it's all up to me i was thinking over this about a lot i hope it made me stronger and more experienced i've learned much from this fight and i will do my best to become tougher it will be different next time. good order than you might be a group was it the fact is that according to the world boxing rankings after winning this battle marco hawke who had been number one became number two while

dennis negative who lost still moved upwards in the rankings did dennis's games be true popularity since the fide we've already received one hundred seventy six letters just from germans who were totally bewildered at the judges' decision and wonder when they will see levodopa fight again. according to lebanese manager but given the north east may soon take part in the so-called super six tournament the competition between the top boxers of the cruiserweight division including market hot and there or anywhere else the rematch between these two is a matter of time because they are worth more than you on our team. now the dakar rally the most prestigious and probably the toughest driving insurance race in the world will start on january the first in what is aries and russia's six time when i'll let you near check in now as the czar of dhaka is one of the favorites consulting but up off reports. well everybody will be recovering in new year's day the best cross-country drivers will be starting

a sixteen day journey from boy in osiris however the commerce muster team is facing some problems before they have even started due to extreme weather conditions they're playing question while landing in moscow ahead of a prayer race press conference. he went nearer to them. while landing at a moscow airport the plane had hardly touched the runway but it was so slippery that we slid into a field thankfully no one was injured and everyone was very happy when we finally reached the ground watching them. however this incident hasn't affected the team's determination to win the dakar rally for the tampa time this is the thirty third edition of the legendary or for old wally and the third successive time it has been held in south america with a number of participants increasing dramatically over the past three years and an area of hearty competitors will try to seize the throne ok by the way the russian team this year the route has been changed and a bigger more of a cool wind desert summer the atacama desert country was on

a par with the famous epic in desert where that used to take place and before only from each one the most team has now added one more crew this so-called junior team for missing twenty six here will drive it what he got behind the wheel. go at it and i just missed a bit but i had this much thought first of all i need not to break the truck then go the distance and get to the finish line safe and sound i have a lot to learn so i'll be keeping my eyes wide open it's my first try as. the first from my mechanic as well so it's going to be extremely hard but at the same time that they are interesting to look at a new generation of do i was is a literary way troll in the corner and having a junior team is a new step for the group that has been participating in the rally for eighteen years. frankly we've never had any competition within our own team we have one aim for the team we must perform. with as many trucks to gain as many medals and. if we fight each other we could allow other teams to win our tactic is to win as

a team and we help each other to achieve this is the tactic we've been using through the years and will keep on doing it. in twenty tears the commerce team won the first to use race for the ninth time in the top dog cart and his colleagues are determined to make a detailed picture of this here in the same boat of archie. finally there's some good news for russia on a strong professional after sports mr the talmud code announced that around one point four billion u.s. dollars was spent on sport across the country next year. that would have had a state budget for twenty eleven forty three billion rubles will be spent on sport in general of course the bulk of it will be spent on a professional sport so that's almost a third of that money will be spent on the sport right now we have around twenty five million people who do sports on a regular basis and our main goal is to increase this figure to twenty eight

million. and that's all the sports news for this bill isn't. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. feel. me.