hundreds of on authorized guns from a u.s. military weapons depot in afghanistan and all by using the name of eric cartman as in the south part character there was of course that story of how blackwater contractors used government money to pay for their prostitutes and in the most recent turn of events a texas business that has admitted that blackwater used to have him buy steroids by the case so the contractors get nice and juiced up and yet somehow after not only the negative press surrounding these stories but the fact that the security firm has deep fraud at the u.s. government time and time again they still keep getting awarded contract whatever happened to that pledge that hillary clinton made when she was still campaigning when she said that they would be banned from federal contracts. i guess she forgot all about that one she lost but seriously is there nothing they can do no matter how bad it's going to make the government just say no contractors do not come cheap

not to the american government or the american taxpayer or the american image abroad so i just hope that our lawmakers were aboard those contracts. that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in to make sure that you come back tomorrow well have a fun look back at some of the show's funniest guests and stories and some of those skits that we had so much fun creating in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the show on facebook and of follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all the you tube dot com slash the alone a show or you post the interviews as well as the show in its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. and around the world.

former russian tycoon mikhail hotter kosky awaits his sentence after he was found guilty of stealing oil and laundering profits. we need to cut the spending yes we need to cut spending the night of course in the u.s. senate but as education and health care suffer a major cuts war funding is remains if you. shady dealings the bank of moscow falls foul of the law as it suspected of laundering billions allegedly marketed by the us mayor's wife and. you should know that for most of all the real sort of put together for their own purpose which. pre-disaster two we can make speaks out on how whistleblower web sites really get their information.

and in moscow you're watching r t a marina josh welcome to the program a moscow court is to stand as former oil tycoon me how to kosky after convicting him of investment it's the second trial for holocaust who's coming to the end of his previous jail term for tax evasion and fraud we'll be joined by our correspondent in a time of the later in the program for more on this in the meantime the u.s. federal debt has hit its highest level in over sixty years but while the public sector is certain to suffer major cuts the military budget continues to get rubber stamp approval r.t.g. haha office finds out how unnecessary wars are for america or whether they are just an addiction. if there is one issue that both sides of the aisle agree on and we need to cut the spending yes we need to cut spending it's cutting spending to

reduce the country's budget deficit even top pentagon officials acknowledge it as the country's most potent problem the biggest threat we have to our national security as are the federal government's debt now stands at thirteen point eight trillion dollars and it's projected to hit twenty trillion by the end of the coming decade we're not going to cut the budget half. the country's military budget now seven hundred twenty five billion dollars a price tag of epic and historic proportions the largest since world war two. it includes one hundred fifty nine billion dollars for america's wars in iraq and afghanistan the reality is this is what america does neil cons like robert kagan who urged war with iraq long before nine eleven helps keep this reality alive by equating military might to global leadership and world domination we intervene in

grenada nine hundred eighty three panama ninety nine iraq nine hundred ninety one somalia nine hundred ninety two haiti nine hundred ninety four bosnia one thousand nine hundred five cost of zero nine hundred ninety nine afghanistan two thousand and one in iraq two thousand and three. the united states spends nearly as much on military hardware fixtures and training as all other countries combined we see at a time when there's twenty five to thirty million people who are unemployed or underemployed where forty seven million americans can't go to a doctor when they're sick there's limitless funds limitless resources for the war budget the military budget is hardly ever questioned that town that is dominated by its industrial complex. advertisements lined the metro. commercials showcase the latest hardware and politicians cave into the lobbying campaigns and you can see it by the budget figures that the united states is in

fact a warfare state it's addicted to militarism its addicted to war spending and its addicted to war profits this is where the war profiteers are headquartered tearing over the pentagon this place is known as contractors row and it's from this clear point we see the revolving door through which employees from the defense contracting enterprise one job to the government and likewise a significant number of officials in the government the pentagon and the cia fly into jobs in the military industrial complex despite this military contractors spend close to thirty five million dollars lobbying congress according to the congressional research service defense contractors also dish out substantial amounts of money for campaign contributions in election years meanwhile a congressional watchdog group found in two thousand and eight over one hundred fifty members of congress had one hundred ninety six million dollars collectively invested in defense contractors and so as lawmakers scream louder too we need to

cut spending and federal spending for education health care and social services has been reduced cutting the military budget which makes up over twenty percent of the federal budget is not on washington's agenda jan hottest r. t. washington d.c. . the us government has spent more than eighty billion dollars on intelligence this year and that's three times more than the last figure it disclosed twelve years ago john young founder of whistleblowing website cryptome dot org says the american government trains those who leaked the information so they can justify spending billions on intelligence. there are schools to train people like bradley manning are doing just that on the internet it's at fort huachuca this is one of their training syllabuses that we publish as they. actually teach young people how to run the sting operations by leaking information to test the system build something called a team should be teams that do combat on the internet but leaking the stuff they part hackers to do that hackers in fact are

a favorite employees now of such groups no one knows more more conspiracy theory than spies do national security out of bravo's conspiracy theories all the time but they put out the story that is just conspiracy theory as always contemptible but in fact they're the ones who cook up the threads that are far more complex and bizarre than anything we ordinary people could ever cook up and they get billions to fight it i. would add if you watch the full interview in around twenty minutes time here on our team. now let's go back to our top story a moscow court is still to sentence for oil tycoon me harder kosky african victim him of embezzling meant we can all cross live tell a corresponding kind of of the following the case for us here in moscow and tell you the reading of the verdict is answering its third day now so is the judge any closer to giving the sentence. there is nothing unusual about the fact that it's taking so long to reach the verdict this is the way russian judicial system works

first the person is either found guilty or not guilty and then the judge goes into the details of the birth and in this case those three hundred they just were paperwork on the case of money laundering. i hope that of course the former business partner but then they do so it could still be a warlock sunday was found guilty of flops evasion leading the wording to new leads to still going to have to worry to some more thought it looks like more to find out what the sentence will be simply slightly better what. will this guy see or by my word that would. the court concluded that mikhail had that of course blood on the liberty of planned and carried out a complicated scheme of embezzling oil and money through dealings with three smaller subsidiaries of ucas some i don't have to guess you guns give to gas and all oil extracting companies each was forced into

a deal that was highly unprofitable for them but extremely profitable for you can they result thirty billion dollars worth of oil still and by that of course. through ucas here's how it worked the oil was bought from the companies that are nominal price set by ucas it was then sold at the same level to offshore trading companies secretly owned by her that skin liberty of when it was then resold at market price they pocketed the difference six billion dollars was moved offshore three times alone. so basically that all means that the prosecution claims that we got of course kennedy's former business partner plus the. still trying to seven billion u.s. dollars worth of oil. while the time to cost his case has triggered strong reaction both abroad and within russia so tell us more about that. will you there has been rather critical reaction to this from the west germany has said

that this verdict is a step back in the within the zation off russia washington has said that this case actually see really worsens the situation with human rights in the country with russia ignores all those problems as it claims that it is a domestic cases and domestic issue that has to be solved with the within the borders over the country and it's only russia's you show system that has to be involved in this russian foreign ministry has also expressed their concerns about the comments coming and criticism coming from the west saying that this should stay in russia. this issue rests with them over the british rule system of the russian federation. any of them exert pressure upon the floor or an acceptable. in his recent interview we would have still believe the russian t.v.

channels the russian pros the person on this court that nobody has the roy beginning to feel. worse over the course. meanwhile over there both these defense does not agree with the verdict they're saying that they are prepared to appeal to the russian president after the reading of the verdict is finished and if what it takes to prove a point is to appeal to the european court of human rights that they're also prepared to do so meanwhile here in central most of the outside the court yard where the verdict is being read will be free all the latest details and of course as soon as the sentence is announced it we will in for absolutely tie thanks very much indeed for the subject. and still have for us our here in our siberian military might the russian team takes the land of the cossacks to test the bravery of the marshall man. and an investigation is

underway into how moscow's airports dealt with bad weather conditions which stranded thousands of people flights are slowly getting back on schedule after days of delays and cancellations airports are working hard to clear the backlog but many people are still waiting for their flight freezing rain ruptured power cables leaving the largest airport without electricity for hours at another hot iced up runways meant many planes couldn't take off frustrated passengers who said they had received no information about their flights reportedly try to break through passport control and many people of both airports complaining weren't given enough food and water or hotel beds that they were promised. almost seven out of have billion dollars were irregularly expand on construction in the capital these are the preliminary findings by russian government auditors on how state funds were used over the past two years when your english cough was still in

the air the president fired him in september citing a loss of trust but as a given they were telling reports alleged fraud involving the ex where continues to come to light. why call the workers at one of moscow's banks are facing jail for lending too much credit and trust to the city's former mayor your english cough and his wife russia's richest woman in the buckboard and find themselves of the central yet another scandal prosecutors suspect them of laundering some thirteen billion rubles almost half a billion dollars in a somewhat primitive but seemingly effective for a lot the bank of moscow owned by a friend of which golf is accused of approving a whopping great loan to tell me company which then use the money to buy land from the mayor's wife who is here. the scam was carried out under the control of city hall and luzhkov personally in three months the premier estate company appeared and

with little more than three hundred bucks in his account to get a loan worth five hundred million dollars unbelievable it was clear the company may not pay it back and could evaporate then this premier state company board learn from but soon are covered debts bankers across the world are committing suicide the eggs man's wife came out squeaky clean. on closer inspection into p.s. the bank of moscow may only have been a middleman in the transaction suspiciously a couple of weeks before the loan city hall gave the bank fifteen billion rubles and it is shewed new shares prosecutors suspect this was the money given to prime your estate to buy land from the mayor's wife many are now wondering did the mayor really steal the money for the love of his life we'll ask him good mosque of ice

they say the shady deal was so blatant it looked as if the former mayor took the money from the city budget wrapped it up for christmas christmas for it from his office and presented it to his wife in full view of the vote and. the price paid for the land also raises questions seven million dollars perhaps or of land on moscow's outskirts is astronomic experts say and there is no sign of any construction taking place all of these paths to the bad smell left behind by the former mayors acrimonious exit. will of the months instead of promoting himself and playing political games should have worked the city has a huge number of problems corruption is going through the roof and this is unheard of it's impossible to get anywhere through third competition who gets all the work contracts and tenders who is always one until recently as the mayor of moscow used

to say those who exhibited standing business skills improve their right to work on these projects the most talented entrepreneurs but we know what kind of decisions were made. i know that these allegations are out in the open experts believe losing cianci will be forced to pick up the tap dog law school got out of the case has received too much publicity this people will have to be one should not forget that the man has changed so if they don't pay up they'll be jailed to find those in charge will be easy there's a loan agreement in place. so the consequences of controversial time as mayor are still being felt and it could be that it's small time bank workers that will be paying the price of alleged big time corruption exiting the church over r t. and all our stories and much more always available on our website or t dot com but here's a taste of what's lined up. why tourists are the latest weapons being engaged by

israel and lebanon as the bitter rivals launch a competing war zone theme parks to get their points across. and hundreds of people in southern russia thought they were about to welcome visitors from another world if they spotted a u.f.o. in the sky or more down to earth explanation had to r.t. dot com. twelve people have reportedly been killed in a military cargo plane crash in central russia twenty two came down in the tour region south of moscow it is believed there are no survivors a preliminary investigation says it may have been caused by engine failure prosecutors are now looking into the crash. watching r.t. live from moscow let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and west african leaders have made racked appeal to persuade i rico's president laurent gbagbo to quit things war and he faces military action if he does not pass power to other samatar whom the

united nations recognizes as the winner of last month's elections more than one hundred seventy people have been killed and tens of thousands been displaced due to violence following last month's disputed ballots. airline schedules on the northeastern coast of america are struggling to return to normal after severe blizzards caused thousands of flights to be canceled services have now resumed into and out of boston new york and philadelphia but heavy snow and strong winds are still causing delays thousands of travelers are expected to be stranded until the end of this week as the situation's only improving very slowly. severe flooding continues to cause massive chaos across northeastern australia nearly a thousand people have been forced to flee their homes and around three hundred roads across queensland have been closed giving two major highways to the state capital brisbane authorities have declared several towns in the region disaster

zones and it's the worst flooding to hit in the area in decades and more rain is predicted over the next few days. the russia close of team continues its journey exploring war of the country taking us to the region in southwestern siberia. it lies more than two thousand kilometers from moscow and the region has a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hard drives summers the main city arms is the administrative center for st mary and cossacks who settled there in the sixteenth century town barton explores the military might of the marshall people. except in soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend the province here both

people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture that i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. and much now i'm glad to see media they started when we turned servant to trickle at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities or if that's for me i was a very good do i do for six eleventh's as well as that i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got three old ottoman the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of the youngsters in the village built this gym themselves and now the training in it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen the training communally fosters a team spirit to fill in this cost exercising. a team

spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog the bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. they were selected for their speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf welcome with gauri is master not just of his hounds but of this whole cost village he's called the atom out and he has to show skill in leadership from solving village disputes down to training dogs to catch hares. although he prefers the larger prey will always more restrictive be thought into which in old times to get the chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wolf tied up the three in a war after the day's outdoor training we caught up with our ottoman at the evening

meal where he tells us about the history the cossacks originally came from lamb's far to the west of here but they proved a useful militia force conquering and securing siberia for the czars in return for grants of land. the idea was to create villages along the country's border so that people are bound to the land they're living on. the cossacks strong independent traditions were disliked by the communists they were suppressed and marginalized since the end of the soviet union they've been trying to rebuild their self-sufficient way of life especially when it comes to resisting the bad habits of the city. it's no easy matter living in the country of course but on the other hand we're protected from the harm of the city from drugs alcohol smoking would go. but tonight at least the elders of the village were allowing themselves a few liberties. with me to talk more about life in the siberian villages is alex

jude you've been here for a while now in russia and in arms and you've also told outside the big city so how would you compare life within the cities of russia and outside them. well i'd say the obs is quite a lot more provincial than. before. in the u.k. i'm from us a small town in the north of england so i'm used to the small town life but i've also been to two villages around on the skin in the region people though are much more down to earth they're tied to the landlord and have a lot most if not farm to keep animals their. fees lot more healthy than what we have in the big cities and supermarkets and so on it's all locally grown except say tea coffee and sugar. and i guess you could say the lifestyle is healthier except boyishly the drinking is the stereotype also people do that it just as they haven't got much else to do. but i say the people there are a lot closer to each other and they got close to close knit communities because

they rely on each other a lot more than say in a bigger city. ok so you've described a more close to lifestyle family values are going to great connection to where they're wrong how would you say that that helps people there to survive the greatest challenge that there is which is the ferocious russian winter i so that song which is current of all console russian culture in general. like the west where who are much more individualized take care take care of themselves i'd say that people here in russia and especially in the russian villages have to have to look out for each other just because you can't rely on number one all the time. and if there's something which which you are lacking. the material in terms of family care like child care and so on are the first people you'll turn to russia will be your family and your friends and neighbors and so on so something essential and so that's been a sea oil tactic in russia from the leave for the coming this time and ensuring the

country time differently so that's something which continues in prevails today. a view there from someone outside russia seeing life in the russian verges and it seems that those close knit ties and strong family values are enough to get people through even the worst of the russian weapons. the breeze up today here in our own time now for some business years with us don't go away. hello and a very warm welcome time to see what's going on in the world of business where the slow recovery in foreign investment russian banks have been helping business out here they increase the volume of lending to nonfinancial enterprises by ten percent to around thirty six billion dollars the average interest rate for long term loans

has declined to around eleven percent while a few months ago it was around fourteen but russia's prime minister of approaches that level needs to fall further to support new enterprises. that it's time to take a look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are high on wednesday the hang sang is up more than a percent chinese banks and property shares are on the rise up to recent losses and high crude price is supporting energy producers nikkei is a round hundred percent high although exporters weighed by strong honda motor fell zero point six percent as well this. and russia the stock markets closed in the black on tuesday helped by stronger crude price they are she has more than a percent up and the my sixteen just a notch energy stocks were on when the rise with ross nafta more than one percent on the my six. russian stocks will see

a positive starts next year with high oil price supporting the market that's according to mark rubenstein from i have so much. in commodities we're seeing we continue to see strength in commodity prices and both in their. oral segment and then the middle segment and this is just another sort of indication where are we heading for the next year which i think we're heading this conclusion days of the year or is this just a good time to sort of look at your positions and think our strategy for the next year. the russian government is having another go at some probing russia's notorious rhodes this time by increasing spending that's according to the head of russia's federal roads agency must leave the ship goods upon you to the. next year from the federal budget a total of around three billion dollars will be allocated for all the roads in the country that's an increase of over twenty percent from two thousand and ten which

that's why we plan to increase the level and volume of road maintenance and russia's aluminum giant roussel has rejected the sale of its stake in the rolls to nickel back to the company that's according to venture misty newspaper the risk nickel offered to buy twenty five percent stake for twelve billion dollars but they only mean company wanted four billion dollars of mate to end the long lasting fassel for control over the coals giant nickel giant between its two main shareholders will sell and interest holding. that's your business update for that sol you can get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business and join me in less than two minutes from.