all. it can hear dr swan's policeman swines ministers' wives and i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids

out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological piece physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's got it killing me see. the close up team has been to the region where industries are rapidly developing. valois t. 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 old

school push or pull itself on oxy. former russian tycoon real hard kosky awaits his sentence after he was found guilty of stealing oil and laundering profits. and that's a look outside the courthouse in central moscow bring you all the latest details on this high profile case. we need to cut the spending yes we need to cut spending and not of course in the u.s. senate but as education and health care suffer a major cuts war funding remains in use. shady dealings the bank of moscow suspected of laundering billions allegedly pocketed by the x. mayor's wife and. put together for their own purpose each separate assessor to we can be speaks out on how whistleblower web

sites really get their information. and in business russia i'm joined from sol has rejected the sale of its stake in the world to make go back to the company more in business in twenty minutes. watching r.t. live from moscow ten am here in marina joshua welcome to the program a moscow court is to sentence former oil tycoon me after convicting him of embezzlement as a second trial for coming to the end of his previous jail term for tax evasion and fraud charges an italian over who is following developments outside the board for us here in moscow one tither reading of the verdict has entered its third day and is there any indication as to when the judge will give the sentence. well the lure is expects to hear the food verdict on the case of money laundering by his former

business partner but. by the end of this year but the fact that it's taking so long game is no surprise to anyone as the way it works in russia is first. the person is announced to be either guilty or not guilty and then the judge gets into the details of the verdict and in this case the verdict itself is three hundred pages worth of paperwork so you do the math as for how much time it could possibly take to read it. after the first trial it took the judge about june weeks do you read the food verdict on the charges of tax evasion while you have it out of course and. so this is always a long procedure back then they were charged with. when they were charged with tax evasion for eight years they were sentenced behind bars and they were supposed to be released next year but right now the prosecutors are demanding to extend the

term up to fourteen years and please them right now that it was for will explain what charges that you are being accused of this time. the court concluded the medical scan blood on neighbors if planned and carried out a complicated scheme of embezzling oil and money through dealings with three smaller subsidiaries of ucas some modern you have to guess you gonski have to guess and all oil extracting companies each was forced into a deal that was highly on profitable for them but extremely profitable for you can see there was out thirty billion dollars worth of oil stolen by her that. through you can here's how it worked the oil was bought from the companies i don't know me or price said by ucas it was then so at the same level two offshore trading companies secretly owned by could that skin a bit if when it was then resold at market price they pocketed the difference six

billion dollars was moved offshore through tomsk alone. so that's according to the prosecutors the scheme used by the. if. they used to. for money laundering of twenty seven billion u.s. dollars worth of oil. the guy had a house because cases trigger strong words between russia and other countries what exactly has been said there. has lashed out all the criticism coming from the international community on this case saying that the charges that the two are being pressed with a serious charges that would have been at that would have had serious consequences everywhere in the world and in the united states of similar super situation appeared itself in a person could be facing a lifetime with reason and. those statements from the russian foreign ministry

which are the united states has said that this trial is a serious damage to human rights in vosh and in germany has also said that it is a step away from would nice ation but russian foreign ministry insists that this is a domestic issue that has to be resolved within the borders of the country without the pressure from the international community on the courthouse. this issue rests with a group of them over the british rule system of the russian federation. any of them . a poem good pro or only acceptable. in his recent interview will really hurt still believing russian t.v. channels the russian president person on this court. nobody has the roy to interfere with a far worse over the course. meanwhile the defense will continue to argue the verdict they are prepared. to appeal to the international. all human

rights if that is what it takes to prove their point they're also planning to appeal to the russian president. thanks for bringing us the latest the time fourteen there. and the us federal debt has hit its highest level in over sixty years but while the public sector is certain to suffer a major cuts the military budget continues to get rubber stamp approval on hoppus find out how necessary 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

is projected to hit twenty trillion by the end of the coming decade we're not going to cut the defense budget in 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 neo 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 nine hundred eighty nine iraq nine hundred ninety one somalia nine hundred ninety two haiti nine hundred ninety four bosnian 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 the 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 addictive the 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 employs 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.

. and the u.s. government has spent more than eighty billion dollars on intelligence this year well that's three times more than the last figure disclosed twelve years ago john young founder of whistleblowing website cryptome dot org says your merican government trains those who leaked the information so they can justify spending billions on intelligence. schools to train people like bradley manning and doing just that on the internet at fort huachuca this is one of the training that we publish. people. to run these sting operations by a leaking information to test the system there's something called a team should be teams that do combat on the internet but leaking this stuff very hard hackers to do that in fact her favorite employees know 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 though it's contemptible but in fact they're the ones who cook up the

thread starter for a more complex and those are than anything we ordinary people could ever cook up and they get billions to fight it. and i can watch the full interview in around twenty minutes here on our team. and so i have for the sour a siberian a military mind from. russia closer team takes you to the land of the cossacks to test the bravery of martial man. and of us to geishas our way 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 air for the media off without electricity for hours at another hot iced up runway meant many planes couldn't take off frustrated passengers who

said they had received no information about their flights reportedly tried to break through passport control and many people out there or took place important given enough food or water or hotel bad that they were problems. almost seven and i have billion dollars were irregularly span of construction in the capital and 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 mayor the president fired him in september citing a loss of trust but as a getting rich over report alleged fraud involving the ex mayor continues to come to light. why i 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 at the central yet another scandal prosecutors suspect them of laundering some

thirteen billion rubles almost half a billion dollars in a somewhat primitive but simming the effective fraught the bank of moscow owned by a friend of the gulf is accused of approving a whopping great loan to a dummy company which then use the money to buy land from the mayor's wife was here . the scam was carried out under the control of city hall and luzhkov personally in three months this premier estate company appeared and with a 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 sooner it covered debts won't bankers across the world are committing suicide the eggs man's wife came out squeaky clean.

on closer inspection into piers 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 should 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 the alleged scam haggard mosque of ice face a vitiated deal was so blatant it looked as if the former mayor took the money from the city budgets wrapped it up for christmas christmas for it from his office and presumed it to his wife in full view of the. 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 adds to the bad smell left behind by the former mayors acrimonious exit. villages in the months instead of promoting themselves and playing political games should have worked the city has a huge number of problems corruption is going through the roof this is unheard of it's impossible to get anywhere through fair competition who gets all the work contracts and tenders who has always won until recently as the mayor of moscow used to say those who exhibited outstanding business skills and prove their right to work on these projects are the most talented entrepreneurs but we know what kinds of decisions were made. to. know that these allegations are out in the open experts believe those in charge will be forced to pick up the tap which is the word for glasgow got out of the case has received too much publicity this people will have to pay one should not forget that the man has changed so if they don't

pay up they'll be jailed friend those in charge will be easy there's a loan agreement in place. so the consequences of laskowski 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 of r r t moscow. and our stories are much more always available at our website or to dot com and here's a taste of what's lined up there now. why your star latest weapon is being engaged by israel in lebanon as the bitter rivals launch 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 is the spot of the year following . this guy for more down to earth explanation had to r.t. dot com. all twelve people on board a military cargo plane were killed when it crashed in central russia twenty two

came down to a region south of moscow all those who died were crew members a preliminary investigation says the crash may have been caused by engine failure and prosecutors are now looking into the incident now a sequel to some other stories from around the world west african leaders made a direct appeal to persuade ivory coast president to quit the war and he faces military action if he does not pass power to listen atar from the united nations recognizes as the winner of last month's election 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 proving very slowly. so we're flooding continues to cause massive chaos across northeastern australia nearly a thousand people have been forced to leave their homes at around three hundred roads across queensland have been closed including two major highways through the state capital brisbane the saudis have declared several towns in the region disaster zones as the worst flooding to hit the area in decades and more rain is predicted a worry the next few days. the russian close of team dinis its journey exploring war of the country taking us to the region in southwestern siberia. it lies more than two thousand kilometers from moscow the region has a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hard dry summers the main city arms is the administrative center for

a siberian cossacks who settled there in the sixteenth century dumbarton explores the military might of the marshall people excepting 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. those 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 calm the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much and i'm glad to see media they started when we turned servant to trickle at the age of thirteen the brilliant chance abilities that it was for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber let's go through all our term and 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 with training communally fosters a team spirit crucial in this cause exercising. a team spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog the bars 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. 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 willow was more restrictive likely to root in old times to get the

chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wolf tied up. with the ring 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. here before and of 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. 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 jud you've been here for a while now in russia and in arms and you've also traveled outside the big city so how would you compare life within the cities of russia and outside of. well i'd say the obs is quite a lot more provincial than some piers where four hours before. a vote in the u.k. i'm from. it's a small town in the north of england so i'm used to the small town life also being two to villages around on the skin in the region people there are much more down to earth they're tied to the land a lot of them have a lot months if not found so they keep animals. food 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

noisily the drinking is the stereotype also people do that it is to say they haven't got much else to do. but when i say the people there are a lot closer to each other and they got close to that close knit communities because they rely on each other a lot more than say in a bigger city 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 weather. and there's always business news with you here don't go away.

time to get the latest from the world of business very welcome russia's giant roussel has rejected the sale of its stake in the rules back to the company that's according to veges two newspaper the world's critical offered to buy twenty five percent stake for twelve billion dollars but the medium company wanted four billion dollars more the offer was made to end the long lasting battle for control over minor the twenty two main shareholders roussel and interrupts. with a slow recovery in foreign investment russian banks have been helping business out this year they increased the volume of lending to a non financial enterprises by ten percent to iran 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 bill to. that

level needs to fall further to support prices. when it's time to take a look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are high on wednesday the one saying is up more than a percent chinese banks and probably the shares out of the rise up to recent losses and high crude price is supporting energy producers nikkei is cent higher although supporters are weighed by strong media and want to motor zero point six percent as well it's kind of. and in russia they are ts has started wednesday's trading session in the red and the minus six figures that we see on the screen obviously is closing the ports will stop trading in a few minutes. and russia stocks will see a positive start next year with high commodity price supporting the market that's according to mark rubenstein from i've seen that triple. in commodities we're seeing we continue to see strength in commodity prices and both and they're.

in there with oil 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 up this concluding 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 russia is taking new steps to consolidate its power industry state controlled here to lety into raw is raising cash in order to buy up to fifteen billion dollars of assets the company has decided to place more than thirteen trillion additional shares next year that's almost five times its current capital into raleigh aims to acquire the stakes and up to eighty companies the move is part of the government's plan to consolidate russia's fragmented power industry under one state controlled company in order to support the sector. of the government just having another go at

improving russia's notorious roads this type by increasing spending that's according to the head of russia's federal road 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. that's all we have time for now but you can always find more stories on our website that started dot com slash business.