in bank of moscow which is one of the city's authorities privatisation lets the best of us to newspaper says the only declared bidders so far as russia is second largest bank bt be because authorities could sell the bank to be t.v. without tender although unique credits interest in the company could boost the price. to nab and skype maker is seeking an i.p.o. in london and in moscow in order to pay debts and improve liquidity the company with a fifteen percent share of the country's steel pipe market will issue ordinary shares and opposed to suits it's the first russian i.p.o. announcement in four days and this expect the country's private issues to raise up to thirty billion dollars this year. we'll be back with more and one hour's time meanwhile go to our website i'll see to come forward slash business to find the latest i'll be back next hour as i said.

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error is mostly to blame all found but wolf hall doesn't agree. signing the key elements reduction treaty with the u.s. and relations with the e.u. and nato highlighted by russia's a foreign minister sergey lavrov summed up the president's inductions in twenty ten at a press conference in moscow. on a cholera outbreak in tortuously slow reconstruction groups haiti a year after the quake but for many haitian immigrants in the u.s. that's what the future might hold for that they face deportation. up next a man he was once responsible for flooding california streets with most of its hard drugs now he tells all see why use changed direction our interview is up next. freeway ricky ross is a 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's starting 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 sits down with r.t. to talk about his rise and fall and to discuss his connection to the cia contra controversy 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 in art and i've not been to six pm in when 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 seven 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 our work you know and i said i'm fond of my paperwork today and my last you know what do you think about the rapper rick ross taking 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 your record has to be squaddies you know so he's definitely crave the fried and. you know he's perpetrating

a lot what role does the u.s. government play in bringing crack cocaine into l a's or black neighborhoods the government needed this money to fight this woven in gravel are going to send him east is russia he gave the senate leases hundred million dollars to fight with congress to cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an event reagan and bush had made the contras their pippi 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 secor 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 the new low blando on norman messes and the rest of the crude it did work with the nicaraguan action because i knew about ten to fifteen different to go rob ones that was all inside of this organization of their efforts that was seven 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 it's possible that 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 would have sacrificed expressing a 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 the flow of their own hands was was almost zero to break and now it's you know one hundred percent more than it was at that time so. makes you wonder i mean you know what is really going on how can the taliban control drugs and now america can you know control you know heroin is on arising. and it's afghanistan heroin

the cia connection to the contras and the huge influx of drugs into los angeles wasn't exposed wasn't made public until journalists care web started to report on it gary was on a mission you know. in the prove what i did but he said that if i was in prison all other players should be in prison right there with me and i should be used. you know he felt it justice should be. leveled you know what i'm saying not to where. you got political poor you got money or. that you can excuse 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 it they tried to say he said it the government deliberately. put the drugs into bragg. they took his words and twisted i mean i never saw what he said did he think that you know the bush administration or the reagan administration anybody went into office and say hey you know we don't. put these drugs into the black community to destroy the community that's not what he said he said. what i understood him to say is that they knew it was taking place and that their workers because the art didn't become true was on the cia payroll when they were their employees they did nothing about it now in some speeches gay web talked about how the da 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 week in leaks exposing all these u.s. military secrets and we're also hearing 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 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 cookie cops it 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 flashlights they were 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 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 good thing about getting a check and when you think like that you know 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 then get no money out of the game but tell me about your involvement in the hip hop game. 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've just broken side 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 fast and facebook and my space did 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 myself looking for it is the 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 rap is a light guy talked about his son was time the dad 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 smoke we've i think would be cheaper to get a job and to be a street sweeper. i don't want to go to just get you 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 on 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 was us drug dealers and that's almost impossible right now 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 when learn how to become a critical thinker and learn how to. what is right and what is you. former drug kingpin hip hop entrepreneur and multimedia executive thank you so much for joining us today thank you. i mean it's wonderful you know and you know hopefully we get this message. to.

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you should really you know put. love me tender it's all smiles and hugs for the title fight you. know russia could be forced to spring 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 if 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 his book

winning four one dinar marie get a visit and. then school for an answer goals earlier barry speed of more for two more coming back to three two after being three nil down. before for bodies to wrap up their win another loss the ts could also go for two at home to 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 shell time now to look back at some of the highlights. it's supply.

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it may 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 key on 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 regained his form in the decider winning the rally of the match to breaks. and so i. took 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 the 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 in 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 the slip so. to to start the place in the final stage. also suffering where he became the first top seed in seven years to crash at this there in sydney the american knocked down by cranes examine the. great state six great. throughout his rushes because let's have a sheep the fourth seed samantha stosur in the previous round but couldn't overcome a lean in her career. the final the chinese coming back to set down three six six

six six we. could rely on the free time us open when i came clive says she was insane per looked at possible because lanky christ is into the semifinals an easy six hundred sixty one football and at the asia cup hosts catherine beaton china to neil to keep alive their chances of making the quarter finals why is becky stang guaranteed they'll progress from a group after a two one win over keyway to kuwait knew they had to win or face it in their elimination from the tournament while that poland's new three point then toppled companions inspect the stand who took the lead record goal scorer missing shots 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 and i think what the pundits say and then a terrific goal for the winning is pakistan's depart of exchanging passes for 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 you spent the stuff i remodel around the death phase and defending champion to iraq to one direct scored first after just twelve minutes in straight passing cutting to be around the fancy one with the poor man but around then found the shooting bridge just before the break on mars i would be allies of the same lot less than likud and they really thank you so i think you are the man who lost the free kick into the box of a day everyone then moved up in the one to rant and i took a great manager still catching his breath be. sure.

now apart from the asia 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's football chiefs the latest to voice their concern with their general secretary alex horne saying it would be a logistical nightmare adding the notion of playing in cata just leaves me in a cold sweat at the moment in contrast faith of vice president michel platini agreeing to reprogram the real world cup it says he wants to keep the twenty twenty tournament with its gulf neighbors adding it's ok to alter world cup plans after winning hosting rights tonight a g.p. where it is a big year for the karting in november the company publicly and veiled their new bike the diet while riding nicky hayden will partner one of his oldest rivals

valentino rossi and the doctor maybe putting on a brave face ahead of his first season with the catty italian may think keep a maestro struggled through all of last season with a shoulder injury problems appear not to be over yet. the bigger issue we know is my shoulder may or 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 big and i x i expect to be in a better shape at this moment of the of the of the only but unfortunately some problems so we have to work very much for reform be ready in the first the players we needed to improve the bike to modify a little bit the bike about they need also time before for modify my riding style and adapt to this. one finally makes a nice change to boxer. laughing and hugging is they talk of their next world

champion bantam wife and and 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 glowing praise. now for this fight i've known for an hour for a long time not only there were friends outside but you know throughout his career i've watched them and this is how good this man is you know throughout since i turned pro he's been a world champion. this is a big test for me now for for another month the l. it's stamping his legacy as one of the best in the bandwidth if he gets past me and for me it's to shut all those doubters. that i belong in the elite i think is trying to knock him out with complements that is all sport for the moment more a bit later. for the full we've got to.