despite all of two days of trading after a long new year holidays the russian stock markets are outperforming rival emerging markets chief strategist dead after capitol hill to weston so as the positive trend is likely to continue at least for the first part of the year there are some strong fundamentals speaking in favor of at least in the near term and that is that over the last year you've seen the samir region being an underperforming us one was the best performer last year i will continue to believe that the metals names madison miley will be a key. sort of interest for good for investors possibly also oil companies near term given that all process of these levels although when you're looking at the energy space possible long term gas still looks more attractive than they will never see because oil moves have tended to outperform on the long run given taxes and the lack of growth yields on russian state bombs dropped to a four month low its high oil prices boosted confidence in the world's largest

energy exporter russian heels dropped twenty basis points last month to an average of four point nine percent according to the j.p. morgan chase bond index that's twenty one basis points below the average of five point one percent for developing european countries or in costs are declining on the back of last year's fourteen percent jump in oil prices which pushed it above ninety dollars per barrel that surge is helping russia's outlook to improve as almost half the country's budget revenues based on oil and gas. that's your business update for this hour join me in fifty minutes time for more.

good to have you with us. from the russian capital we have twenty four top stories this hour poland angrily russian investigators report the part of town was mostly

to blame for the plane crash which killed the country's president of. the findings a sound. political. disaster last april. united states of haitian immigrants back home to a country still struggling to keep its people one year after being struck by a massive earthquake washington suspended deportation after the quake but since we started. selling sex in spanish newspapers this designed to protect women is leaving prostitutes seeing red they say it's not stopping people trafficking but instead depriving them. a man who at one time was responsible for flooding california streets with most of its drugs he tells auti why he's changed direction that's. next on. freeway ricky ross is the street legit he went from being

a poor illiterate aspiring tennis star to one of the biggest drug dealers in los angeles history after being part of an international drug ring and making up to two million dollars a day he started over from scratch and trying to build another empire this time the legal way twenty years of prison have turned this former kingpin into a fully literate activist who is trying to make a difference by keeping kids from following in his footsteps today he says with r.t. to talk about his rise and fall and to discuss his connection to the cia contra oversea ricky ross thank you for joining us today a lot of poor neighborhoods here in los angeles have suffered from gangs and drug abuse and a lot of people blame you for that now how do you think that you can help and rebuild these communities when i think i'm the perfect one for this job that needs

to be done because i mean if you haven't lived this life. it's like an experiment you know my life has been an experiment and had i not been through this experiment then i would know what happened you know most people don't know what happened in south central they don't know how you get started selling drugs they don't know how you get out of selling drugs they don't know how you can go from being an inmate of it twenty years ago to being as literate as i am now you know basically i do a lot of work you know like i said i'm fond of my paperwork today and my lawsuit what do you think about the rapper rick ross taken on your persona. he's never sold drugs he's never been involved in any type of crime you know he was a college boy play football from what i understand and it was a prison guard you know and you know to be a prison guard you reckon has to be squaddies you know so he's definitely created a fried. you know these perpetrators. what role does the

u.s. government play in bringing crack cocaine into l a's poor black neighborhoods the government needed this money to fight this war over nicaragua we're going to send him east is russia haig a descendant leases hundred million dollars to fight with congress hey cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an advantage. reagan and bush had made the contras their pay pete they felt that if russia took over nicaragua they would be too close to america they would be in our backyard. i believe that they felt it was more valuable to sacrifice. particular secular sector of america and a race of people in america and order to save the whole country so of course they

let these guys open up pipelines deniro blando on norman messes and the rest of the crew to work within the ground connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different ones that was all inside of this organization. that was selling drugs so why the i'm allowing these guys or basically turning a blind eye because i don't think the government necessarily gave them the drugs or not but in a sense they sanctioned it because they turn a blind eye they knew that these guys were selling drugs but they did absolutely nothing about it i also believe that had they not let these guys sell drugs. is possible i would have never become a drug dealer what does that say about our government when they're looking the other way while a deadly substance is coming into our communities for the sake of fighting a communist regime in central america. says that our government will sacrifice of

people to accomplish to go and this is not the first time that they've done that we've known numerous times history where they have sacrificed expressly the black man in that case it's tough to hear that the ends justify the means they felt it was more valuable for them to keep russia out of america you know and for america to keep its way of life do you think that the cia or any other sort of government agency is still helping to funnel drugs into america. well i mean if we look at afghanistan you know when taliban controlled. afghanistan dude school runs was was almost zero point three and now it's you know hundreds of percent more than it was at that time so. it makes you wonder i mean you know what is really going on how can the taliban control drugs and now america can't you know control you know heroin is on the rise in. and it's afghanistan heroin

the cia connection to the contras and the huge influx of drugs into los angeles was an expose wasn't made public until journalists k. webb started to report on it gary was on a mission you know. he didn't approve what i did but he said if i was in prison all of the press should be in prison right there with me and that i should be used. you know he felt that justice should be. leveled you know what i'm saying not to where. you got political poor you got money or. if you can justice that's how gary felt everything that gary webb said was eventually proven to be factual so why do you think that it was so controversial when he was actually coming out with it and why

do you think that he was attacked so much by the mainstream media when they really tried to attack him on is that they tried to say he said it the government deliberately. put the drugs into black community you know they took his words and twisted i mean i never saw where he said did he think that you know the bush administration or the reagan administration anybody went into office and say you know we don't. put these drugs into the black community to destroy the community that's not what he said he said is that what i understood him to say is that they knew it was taking place and that their workers because the didn't become true was on the cia payroll so they was their employee and they did nothing about it now in some speeches gay web talked about how the d.a. told them that what he was reporting on would put people's lives at risk now do you think that was just a scare tactic and are there parallels from what was happening then to what is

happening right now today in the news we hear about we eat leaks exposing all these u.s. military secrets and we also hear on the news that these secrets are supposedly putting people's lives at risk i mean talk about the similarities i mean i our government is really out of control you know. we're really out of control of nobody. i mean like we fine line wrong doing in our cases and stuff there was nobody that we could run to and say you know this guy's doing such and such and such said you know even with the crooked cops there was nobody we could go to to. to express what was going on in these cops were beating us you know these cops busted my head open and with flashlights they got a dog bite me while i was hank up but there was nobody that we could go to and express what was going on you don't even know how to read when you got out of high school yet you were still able to run a multimillion dollar business i mean how is it that you're able to go to school

and never how to read where the teachers really weren't interested in teaching me they were interested in getting a paycheck which is another one of america's we're thinking see america is not thinking about getting smart it thinking about getting a check and when you think like that you know all you want is the money and the hell with the product you know so what i've learned is that the product is the most important thing you know being in the game is more important than get no money out of the game tell me about your involvement in the hip hop game mark my pet project is a social network website that i started right now it's called free win a prize dot com. with the biggest social network on the west coast. we just broke inside of one hundred thousand ranking in the united states i think with three hundred thirty thousand in the world so it's growing i think we reach

those numbers faster than in facebook in my space so making some progress. with that it's a platform where artists can come on put their music and be discovered by a different an artist come on you're looking for artists i've myself looking for it is to sign of my label back in the day rappers used to talk about real issues in the ghetto what happened is hip hop watered down they don't know what's going on in the streets they don't know about the struggle. because when rap first got out you know it talking about i mean you know the ones that i first started with was rapper's delight the guy talked about his son was time to dead he didn't want to go to school said the teacher was a jerk she must think he was a food and all the kids more we've i think would be cheaper to get a job and to be a street sweeper. i don't want to go to. mostly ignore the. i think you'd be cheap if i just got

a job in the street so he was talking about. what he was gone do you know what he thought about school what he thought about his teacher you know what he thought about all of the people around me. that's not happening now these guys just found somebody that was glamorous you know which is us drug and that's almost impossible right now when you talk to young people what is it that you really want to dig to make sure that they don't follow in your footsteps you know i don't care if you know nothing else in school with learn how to become a critical thinker and learn how to decide. what is right and what is wrong for you ricky ross former drug kingpin hip-hop entrepreneur and multimedia executive thank you so much for joining us today thank you for having me i mean it's wonderful you know and you know hopefully we get this message out man and save america.

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is in the. sport is next. hello there you're watching the sport and this is what is coming up over the next few. olympic chiefs threaten to put the brakes on russia's first ever formula one race. but it's life already tough at the top russian usually loses to hewitt ahead of you should really you know put. love me tender it's all smiles and hugs for the

title fight the view. now russia could be forced to spend its first ever formula one race in sochi to avoid any clash with the twenty fourteen winter olympics at the black sea resort the international olympic committee says it has the power to delay that race for a year if necessary have one chief bernie ecclestone signed a six year deal with russian officials in october to hold grand prix races starting in twenty forty but i.o.c. executive director gilbert fairly says we don't want to have the facility built for the grand prix put in construction or preparation of the games at risk he says there is a clause in the f one contract which allows the i.o.c. to spoiling the race by a year. now from the racing track over to the ice rink and k h l hockey no big match ups on wednesday shojo with the only top ten clubs garson paid is winning for one dinar marie get a visit is needed first then school for an answer goals earlier barry speed of more or two more coming back to three two after being three nil down. before for bodies

to wrap up their win another loss the ts to moscow for two at home to sort of the style the army man at eighteen in the table at the moment just eleven wins in forty two games. scored the most on the night holding off spot at moscow five one while there was a lot of action to enjoy over the last week in the k h l time now if you look back at some of the hi guys. since some.

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manical as of jan come a fall into twenty three in the ten it will rankings but he's beating czech thomas burdick in a warm up for the next week's strain open a two sets to one victory at the kooyong classic in melbourne but compared with me cole usually has risen to tenth in the world lost to lleyton hewitt after hewitt took the first set the game was delayed due to rain and momentum change with usually coming back to win the second but the home crowd favorite regain his form in the decider winning the rally of the match to breaks the two than three so i there are two seven five four six six four to get a light but the majority in the stands i mean while all three came from a set down to be defending translation and if it does go for six seven six. of the tournament i mean well one martin del potro his comeback has been cut short in the

second round of the sydney international the two thousand and nine us open champion before the channel. but couldn't handle ferrari myre del potro losing the first set then raising his game in the second but was unable to draw level maia closing out a valuable six three seven five win with a slip for. the to start as the place to stay. also suffering where he became the first top seed in seven years to crash at this event in sydney the american knocked down by ukraine's examine both the. great state six great. throughout his russia because let's she the fourth seed samantha stosur in the previous round but couldn't overcome a million and her call. the final the chinese coming back to set. six six six six we. could rely on the free time u.s. open when it came close and she was in sync

a look at the possible big foreign language christ is into the semifinals an easy six hundred sixty true of football and the asia cup host kathy beaton china to neil to keep alive their chances of making the quarter finals why is becky standing guaranteed they'll progress from a group after a two one win over key way to kuwait knew they had to win or face it in their elimination from the tournament while that punished me three points then took the companions but the stand who took the lead record goal scorer missing shot ski but it deflected free kick just before half time his thirty third international go i q i got back into it just after the break was brought down by the. group the pundits say and then a terrific goal for the winning is pakistan's depart of exchanging passes before a final. q i'd had a great chance to equalise but i meant i jabbed scented a back and sent you a packing they can progress any further and respect the stuff i remodel around

a death phase i was an defending champion to iraq to one direct scored first after just twelve minutes in straight passing cutting through the around the fence mahmoud one with the poor match but around then found the shooting bridge just before the break column was i would be allies of the same lot less than likud really thank you so i think you are the man who lost the free kick into the box of a good everyone and then you got the look of the match you want to run and i took the great manager is still catching his breath be. sure.

now apart from the asian cup qatar found out last month it will host the twenty twenty two world cup and faith is playing that is now likely to be held in the european winter continues to attract criticism england will change the latest voice their concern with their general secretary alex horne saying it would be a logistical nightmare adding the notion of playing in cathay just leaves me in a cold sweat at the moment in contrast fee for vice president michel platini agreeing to putting a real world cup it says he wants to keep the twenty twenty two tournament with its gulf neighbors adding it's ok to alter world cup plans after winning hosting rights to moto g.p. where it is a big year for to karting you november the company publicly on vale their new bike the diet while riding nicky hayden will partner one of his oldest rivals valentino rossi and the doctor may be putting on a brave face ahead of his first season with the cathy italia may think maestro

struggle through all of last season of a shoulder injury problems appear not to be over yet. the bigger issue we know is my shoulder my may feel. i'm not one hundred percent of fortunately the surgery or the shoulder was there was a very big need some more time for four or four big and i x i expect to be in a better shape at this moment of the of the of their only but unfortunately is the liver some problems so we have to work very much for reform be ready in the first that there is we needed to improve the bike to modify only the bike about they need also prime a forward for modify my riding style and adapt to this. one finally makes a nice change to boxing. laughing and hugging is they talk of their next world champion bantam wife amanda monte l faces challenger anita dunn and next month the first world title fight of the year but despite what's at stake both refused to be

bad boys instead it's all greens and embraces and. now for this fight i've known for a long time not only that we're friends outside but you know throughout his career i've watched him and this is how good this man is you know throughout since i turned pro he's been a world champion and. this is a big test for me now for for another month. it's stamping his legacy as one of the best in the band wade if he gets past me and for me it's to shut all those doubters . that i belong and elite i think he's trying to knock him out with compliments that is all the sport for them i'm more a bit lighter.