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former russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky waits to hear his side in the south are being found guilty of embezzling oil profits. and that's a logo outside the courthouse in central moscow bring you all the way these details on this high profile case. we need to cut the spending yes we need to cut spending u.s. senators call out in unison but as i do occasionally health care suffer a major cuts the money flow to the military is not stand at all. and shady dealings surrounding mosque. former mayor bankers could be could end up in jail for laundering billions allegedly pocketed by the wife of the capital's former top official. who should know the government more information than all the real

solution put together for the real purpose of. a predecessor to wiki leaks speaks out on how whistleblower web sites really get their information. in business that russia's as a medium joined with some has rejected the sand it's taken neural think back to the company more in twenty minutes. two pm in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story a moscow court will sentence former oil tycoon and once russia's richest man mikhail khodorkovsky after convicting him of embezzlement it's the second trial for how to cough ski who's coming to the end of his previous jail term for tax evasion and fraud or he's until you know the code is outside the court where reading out the verdict has entered its third day. uhura's expects to hear the food verdict on the case of morning laundering by his former business partner what the navy did 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 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 two weeks do you read the food verdict on the charges of debts evasion by you held without a book and what the navy ship right now michael would that it would go with plain words charges being accused go to. the court concluded the medical scandal at the 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 after all the oil extracting companies each was forced into a deal that was highly on profitable for them but extremely profitable for you can see their results thirty billion dollars worth of oil still and by that. through you can here's how it worked the oil was bought from the companies i don't know middle price said by ucas it was then sold at the same level to 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 because that of course again puts on leverage they used for money laundering of twenty seven billion u.s. dollars worth of work russia has lashed out all. it's a criticism coming from the international community on this case saying that the

charges that the two are being oppressed with a serious charge is that would have been at it would have had serious consequences everywhere in the world in the united states and still are simply situation appeared itself then that person could be facing a lifetime in prison and. those statements from the russian foreign ministry team to the united states have said that this trial it is serious damage to you he would like involved and in germany has also said that it is a step away from would nice ation but motions 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 at them exert pressure upon detroit or unacceptable. in his recent

interview with with head still believing russian t.v. channels the russian president has on this tour that nobody has the roy we need to fear with the followers of the poor meanwhile the defense will continue to argue the verdict they are prepared. to appeal to the international court of human rights is that is what it takes to prove their point they're also planning. appeal to the russian president. the u.s. federal debt has hit its highest level in more than sixty years but while the public sector is certain to suffer a major cuts the military budget continues to get a rubber stamp approval or his jihad hafiz investigates the flow of cash from capitol hill to the pentagon. 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 is our 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 budget. just. a 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 ninety 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 questions that town that is dominated by its industrial complex. advertisements lined the metro. commercial showcase the latest hardware and power. titian's 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. . u.s. government has spent more than eighty billion dollars on intelligence is here that's three times more than a last figure at this close twelve years ago john young founder of the whistleblower website cryptome dot org says the american government trains those who leaked the information so they can justify spending billions on intelligence. you have to teach young people how to run the streaming operations by leaking information to test the system called a team should be teams that do combat on the internet probably he was very hard hackers to do that in fact for free for employees no such group. no one knows more more conspiracy theory national security out of perot's conspiracy theories all the

time but they put out the story that is just a conspiracy theory as though it's comparable but if they're the ones who cook up the threads that are for more complex and bizarre than anything we ordinary people could ever cook up and they could billions to fight it. that interview coming your way in around twenty minutes here on our t.v. . stay with us still ahead siberian military might the right. you to the land of the cossacks to test the bravery of the marshall and there. but first an investigation is underway into how moscow airports dealt with the bad weather conditions that 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 flights freezing rain ruptured power cables leaving the largest airport dead of all without electricity for hours at another hubei stop runways many many planes couldn't take

off frustrated passengers who said they hadn't gotten any information about their flights reportedly tried to break through passport control many people had both airports complained they weren't given enough food or water or hotel beds that they were promised. almost seven and a half billion dollars were regularly spent on construction in the russian capital these are the preliminary findings by the russian government auditors on how state funds were used over the past two years when you're luzhkov was still moscow mayor the president fired him in september citing a loss of trust but as artie's a catarina grouch over reports alleged fraud involving the ex mayor and his wife 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 you're a lush cough and his wife russia's richest woman in

a 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 simming really effective fraught the bank of moscow owned by a friend of which golf 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 bought land from but sooner and it covered her debts well bankers across the world were committing suicide the eggs man's wife came out squeaky clean.

on closer inspection and to 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 mask of ice face a vitiated 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 young. 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 x. it was villagers in the months instead of promoting themselves and playing political games the mayor 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 someone who gets all the work contracts and tenders who has always won until recently as the mirror 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 to friend those in charge it 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 exhibit pressure r t moscow. all our stories and more are always available just a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now. all white taurus are the latest weapons being engaged by israel in eleven august the bitter rivals like competing war zone theme parks to get across their point. and hundreds of people in southern russia thought they were about to welcome visitors from another world as they spotted a u.f.o. . in the sky for more down to earth explanation click on over to r t dot com. all twelve people aboard a military cargo plane were killed when it crashed in central russia the engine of

twenty two came down in the tula region south of moscow all who died were crew members a preliminary investigation says the crash may have been caused by engine failure prosecutors are now looking into the incident. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe severe flooding continues to cause 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 including two major highways to the state capital brisbane authorities have declared several towns in the region disaster zones it's the worst flooding to hit the area in decades and more rain is predicted over the next few days. so korea's president says resuming six party peace talks with the north is the only way to dismantle its nuclear ambitions you know its main came amid rising tensions in the region which escalated after the north shelled one of the south's islands last month killing four people on yang said the attack was in response to seoul's aggressive war games which have been called

a provocation by the north it's not to be the worst spike in tensions on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago. west african leaders have made a direct appeal to ivory coast president laurent gbagbo to step down they warned he faces military action if he doesn't pass power to alasania ouattara whom the united nations recognizes as the winner of last month's elections one hundred seventy people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced due to violence following last month's disputed ballot. airline schedules on the northeastern coast of the united states 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 or. expected to be stranded until the end of this week as a situation is improving very slowly. now the rush of close up team continues its

journey exploring more of the country taking us now to the oem screen in southwestern siberia. the region is more than two thousand kilometers from moscow it has a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hot dry summers the main city on the administrative center for a siberian cossacks who settled there in the sixteenth century artie's tom barton 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 that front here both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture but 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. let's. see media they start teaching us friday when we turn seventh and to trickle at the age of thirteen the billion chance abilities and as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as that i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got through all our tom and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part the youngsters in the village built this gym themselves another training in it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen the training communally fosters a team spirit crucial in this cossacks society. a team spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog that. bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. even though they were selected for their

speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf will go with gori is master not just of his hounds but of this whole course 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 morris for to 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. here before and if 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 our self-sufficient way of life especially when it comes to resisting the bad habits of the city. it's no easy matter livin 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 who are allowing themselves a few liberties. with me to talk more about life in the siberian villages is alex dude 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 i was before. the 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 but i also been 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 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 oyster the drinking is the stereotype of russian people doing that is just as 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. ok so you've described a more close to lifestyle family values and a kind of great connection to where they're from 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 your console russian culture in

general. like the west where you are much more individualized take care take care of themselves so 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 your liking where the road be 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 it's absolutely essential and so that's been a survival to tactic in russia from the move for the communist time and during the congress time definitely so that song 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 weather.

stay with us here at our team hughley is up next with all the business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the business desk russia's alumium giant true sol has rejected the sale of its stake in rolls to nickel back to the company and wants to make an offer to buy only solace twenty five percent stay for twelve billion dollars for salt says it will keep the stake because it is a strategic asset how weathered media reports say were solvers not satisfied with the price was fate to end the long lasting battle for control of the miners between its two main shareholders who sell and interrupts holding the last nickel has finally satisfied with saul's demand for extraordinary general meeting to take place on march the eleventh. that's a lot of bull as there were nickels offer of thirteen billion dollars fully

complies with the market price of the share and i want to stress once again that the company is ready for negotiation and we are ready to continue the talks in the price. the world's leading drinks make up perhaps a coke gets the green light from russian authorities in a spit for the country's juice sent dairy giant wimbledon pepsi co's largest international deal in balls paying three point eight billion dollars for a six to six percent stake from mr letterman which and says the company's investment plan involves spending over one billion dollars and wimbledon in the coming five years to prove all means pepsico rests believed in russian market from its rival coca-cola which had earlier porch truth may could lead them. stage technology cool brochure ross nano how successfully raised over one billion dollars in its first borns float on the my success change to see over the company i like that despite the long maturity period of seven years and large total amount

all the state secured loans were successfully traded the money raised from the bones issue will help us not only diversify its funds used to invest in nanotechnology projects. and a quick look at markets european stocks to mixed the some of the foods here reopened for the first time since christmas eve and slipped into red this hour the taxes up oil stocks gained on high current prices shares of francisco child game one percent and royal dutch shell advance one point four percent another bright support was gold mine a round of gold resources which is up four and a half percent in london. and here in russia the markets are also mixed r.t.s. has slipped into negative territory after early gains in the my six up around half cent. the world's taiko has jumped almost three percent on reports the company's buying around twelve million of its shares from the market remains the top loser

after the comic con has announced its suspending it to the chief for new year holidays and once price increases a lot of cars. russia is taking new steps to consolidate its power industry state controlled utility into rao 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 raw to acquire the stakes in 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. that's all we have time for now join me in less than fifteen minutes and get more stores for website r.t. dot com slash business.