could sell the bank to the t.v. without attend all the uni credits interest in the company could boost the price. and chill out and buy baker is seeking an i.p.o. in london and moscow in order to pay debt and improve liquidity the governor with a fifteen percent share of the country's steel pipe market will issue ordinary shares and of course through receipts it's the third russian i.p.o. announcement in days and the so expecting the country's private issues to raise up to thirty billion dollars this year. europe's largest per fuse retailer douglas holding a sold its russian stores to competitor. the cost of the deal has not been revealed but analysts estimate douglas is thirty two shops could be worth seventy million dollars all douglas stores will work under their current branding and three years more according to the current licensing. the world economic forum is promoting the fairer sex in business new rules are being implemented to improve the gender

balance at the annual meeting of movers and shakers in the swiss ski resort of devils the delegations will now have to bring at least one woman in every five senior executives female delegates made up around seventeen percent in the forum last year and that concludes this edition of the business news on r.t. coming up next is the headlights.

world's. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've dumped a huge earth covered. very warm welcome back it's home past the hour ahead in moscow poland admits it's made a responsible for the plane crash which killed its president and ninety five top officials last april however while for how to carry out further investigations and

a news conference the british prime minister said the report is incomplete its. side being a vicky arms reduction treaty with the u.s. and relations with the e.u. and nato are highlighted by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov summed up the kremlin then stopped for actions in twenty ten at a press. in france and moscow. had a cholera outbreak until which was the slow a reconstruction grids hayseed a year after the earthquake but for many haitian immigrants in the west africa the future might hold for them if they face deportation. next a man who was once responsible for flooding california streets with most of its hard drugs now he tells r t why he's changed direction are in the next. freeway ricky ross is the street legit he went from being

a poor illiterate aspiring tennis star to one of the biggest road 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 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 lie. it's like an experiment

you know my life has been an experiment in art had i not been to six pm in 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 paper work today in my last year 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 you reckon has to be spotless you know so he's definitely crave the fried and. you know he's perpetrating

a lot what role did 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 when it grovels are going to send in east is russia haig a descendant leases hundred million dollars to fight with congress to cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an advantage. 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 secular sector of america and a race of people in america and order to save the whole country so they let these

guys open up pipelines dinello blando on norman messes and the rest of the crew to work within the ground connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different to go rob ones that was all inside of this unit contra organization. that was seven drugs so by b.m.i. wow and these guys or basically turn 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 mystery where they have sacrificed expressing the bagmen 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 degree 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't you know control you know heroin is on the rise in. and it's afghanistan heroin

they see a connection to the contras and the huge influx of drugs into los angeles wasn't exposed wasn't made public until journalists k. web 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 them stand not to where. you got political poor you got money or. if 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 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 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 is that what i understood him to say is that they knew it was taking place and there are workers because there are become true words on the cia payroll so it 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 weekend 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 that you know even with the crooked 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 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's not thinking about getting smart they're 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 getting the money out of the game 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 just broke inside of one hundred thousand ranking in the united states again 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 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 rapper's delight the guy talked about his son was telling the 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 just mostly ignored 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 or 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 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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and nato was highlighted by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov summed up the kremlin's and jones in twenty days at a press conference in moscow. the cholera outbreak in tortuously slow you construction grips haiti a year off to the quake but for many haitian immigrants in the u.s. the future might hold for them as they face deportation. balls on the way now without injury. hello there you're watching the sport and this is a taste of what is coming up battle for the top spot the leading five team to make a shallower in action we've the latest from tonight's games. plus messi magic the world player b. a his hat trick for boston the cop with a. welcome home. being yet as he returns to play football

in brazil. that stop there where the top five sides are in action tonight with the overall aid in the table at stake second place one god running behind the exact balls on goal difference at the start of besieging but have playing top spot now with no overtime win. could take that back they face after the beast a little late so well third place looking mighty by three down against sal about that in the second period there are only three points off the top selves but not against paedo in other games track down to one against atlanta and two results from tonight because nets lost that you grow slowly got a prize in. another news to members of suspended over allegations of corruption have appealed against their banned. from nigeria to marty from tahiti and members of his executive committee to take part in

a vote who will host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty world cup it's pretty damning with suspended three years over claims he intended to take bribes and return to his want to marty was given a one year ban for breaching confidentiality rules is independent committee will cases on a date yet to be arranged. meanwhile awesome vanga said his side were naive after their one nil lost in the first leg of their quarter final last night it was held at portman road and you could be forgiven for thinking that home. said little chance having lost seven times in the last nine matches an asian seven zero to manchester united in the f.a. cup but it switched right that lot in kept at the time and awesome side in the trunk the man got that right twelve minutes from time to time as pristine now with the go that will live long in his memory and that of the fans begun is to press for life implies a big speech people often for the health return like on january twenty fifth at the emirates. and i suppose the barcelona in the cup of their right crushing best is

five nil in the first leg of their quarterfinal you messi netting a hat trick just two days after being named the world's best player for twenty ten the open scoring. and then the boss is in the second half waiting for the bags to. let me off the bat for the twenty three year old gives a nice place to make you know the. right at the same place right. there is nice talking about for a moment thinking i might finished off the right to carry me my routines. to make the next round. well so they came back to the gold standard sandwich a thrilling three three two within a reality in their quarter final first like so six strikes to enjoy the first to

put villareal one up. the losses deflected volley from a corner to stand up. and there is still another goal to come in the sausage via getting one back through of bahrain to grade the. last of the bright villareal i would be to see what. marco rubio making a three one. survey on the. the. model she's great run and cross is headed by new greedo his second of the game for him. and we're just seeing is that the alexis finds the whole idea an action packed tight oh right. i mean while real madrid preparing for the first leg against cross city royals athletic a second saying that not save it darby wins in twelve years in reality it can

extend that run the thing about on thursday is still reeling from a for a show. on monday where they conceded four first half goals in a dive defeat that joe using the ring here believes that the recent woes of the next belies their true qualities by their standards that let it go at a vintage twenty ten when you write the european super cup i'm reaching the final of the copper del rey seasons after a. successful seasons are always difficult seasons and there's a. great success for them this is and. so is never it is never easy. but as much is what matters is is not what they did before what matters is. the quality and the potential the team has. now there is a lot of football to talk about tonight asia cup has just got underway and cats are

in three time when is saudi arabia how the human ated losing one nil to jordan the satisfied. following the loss to syria jordan give yourselves a real chance of reaching the quarter finals with that win and later group data syria play japan. now the two time world player of the year on has returned home after completing his move from ac milan the thirty year old was presented as a flamingo play and rare disease near a look at this crowd about twenty thousand fans showed up to meet their hero has signed a forty two month contract with the rio club and we get ten years states and european football he says one of the reasons he chose to come back this is really is the desire to return to the national team. this because that is my goal my decision to come back to brazil was based mainly on that i always thought i would only be back in brazil by the end of my career with the possibility of being in the world cup or olympic games and after we win many years overseas of all give me the

motivation to come back which of us i want to return to the national team and keep my spot until the world cup. let's turn to tennis our russia. has fallen short at the sydney international final the twenty one year old stopped in the semifinals by veteran kim clijsters he will play china's now lead for the title seek license plate after losing the first set to come out on top four six six three seven seats while a pain from a breakdown in the first set to be. seven six six three to twenty eight year old now ranked the lead and has beaten the belgian just one hundred five previous meetings meanwhile a rain delay meant three out of four matches were played on classic in melbourne on wednesday but the weather was much worse on thursday with torrential downpours falling on the court for several hours. eventually stop stop just before three thirty looks terrific doesn't it local time with organizers hoping that the match

between you can melt and joe from to zongo held over from wednesday would take place but the rain returned just after start the drive to court and play was soon abandoned for the day andy murray was due to meet mine in chile after the three matches in the main draw but the weather wrecked those plans. russia could be forcibly first of a 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 the race for a year if necessary the f one chief bernie ecclestone signed a six year deal with russian officials in october to hold grand prix races starting in two thousand and fourteen but i've see executive director job it fairly says we don't want to have the facility built for the grand prix put in construction or preparation of the gains at risk he says there is a clause in the f one contract which allows the i.o.c. to perspire in the race by year. will stay with f one because the annual ferrari

january has continued on the slopes of the northern italian village of monday on the company or a ski resort nestled amongst the dolemite mountain range in twenty no fireworks bar techniques and a light show where the order of the day is that a full city descended on the ski resort another long. drive a search engine car life is a killer for the twenty first staging of this school for picture posing and autographs meanwhile team principal stefano to mentally discuss the current season format at the press conference. i think that the right number of races is twenty more it's on the screen i would say very bit difficult. even though we were discussing with me you know the fed to start from the fifth thirtieth of march and ending and don't know them but it's a very long. but the. action from the n.b.a. . the celebrated getting american citizenship with fourteen points is his you to

beat the visiting new york knicks and as usual all around fashion a k forty seven ninety six read bang seventy six cents in flow and gives the jazz ninety seven points here a nice pass there and williams. sitting out in the foul trouble and that was sure the winning team put up twenty five points on the bank to make sure able to stay close but the jazz found a way to protect a lead in the final friends curling contributing with a push back jam late from the gang hundred thirty one two hundred twenty five a season high ranking top. does make a nice change to boxes laughing and hugging as they talk up their next bat world champion bantamweight fernando faces challenge in the next month the first world title fight to be here but despite what is at stake both refused to be bad boys instead it was all greens and in prices and during pregnancy. 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 i'm up for another month. it's stamping his legacy as one of the best in the bad way if he gets past me and for me it's to shut all those doubters. that i belong in the elite. so that is the sport for them i'm more of it . for the full story we've got to be. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers.