in europe stocks ended the session mixed in london correcting off the steady gains the previous sessions as of the european central bank and the bank of england they left the rates unchanged at one percent and point five percent respectively. here in russia markets finished as these trading sessions also makes just like in europe bearish pressure was restrained but where the gas companies which held leading position. fell on the my sex by more than two and a half percent news the company was acquiring more assets and losses of course krege and apparently were not really encouraging investors to russia's electricity company mo s. was down around two percent after the company reported an eight billion dollar loss from that famous ice storm we had in december in moscow where the gas companies were on the rise with lukoil among the leaders gaining the elite two percent. of the very strong two previous two days we see kind of consolidation or correction in fact what we see the. stores which were lacking big growth so yesterday. today for

example we are buying those who perform we stream we will we see some correction maybe some profit taking again from small accounts i think big accounts or special internationally cancer just started building the positions in the russian market and we also hear that also there are some locations relocation from turkey for example into russia and we think that these growth will continue so we have time for this our headlines are next on our.

bringing you the latest in science technology from russia. we've got the future covered. this is the arctic news channel our top story tonight poland excepts the majority of the responsibility for the plane crash which killed its president last april but

are small sco to carry out further investigations however the authors of the record say it's sound and there's nothing more to add. son in the production treaty with the u.s. and relations of the e.u. and nato highlighted by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov summed up the kremlin's international actions of twenty ten at a press conference in moscow. the cholera outbreak told traditionally slow reconstruction grips a two year after the earthquake but. thousands of haitian immigrants in the u.s. might be forced to go back to the island and the grim reality that on the streets. next tonight a man who was one true sponsible for flooding california streets with most of its hard drugs now tells r t why he's changed direction. 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 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 lie. it's like an experiment

you know my life has been an experiment in art 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 our work you know like i said i'm fond of my paper work today and my last year 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 your record has to be spotless you know so he's definitely creative 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 over nicaragua we're going to send a nice to russia he gave the senate leases hundred million dollars to fight with congress had cut off all the money from the contras so now the sandinistas had an event that. 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 they let these guys open up pipelines dinello blando on norman messes and the rest of the crew to

work with the nicaragua connection because i knew about ten to fifteen different legal right ones that was all inside of this contre organization. that was selling drugs so why am i wound 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 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 heroin 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 in america can't you know control you know heroin is on the rise and. 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 other players should be in prison right there with me and that i should be used as a go you know he felt it justice should be. level you know i'm saying 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 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 they didn't become true was on the cia payroll so it was their employees that they did nothing about now and 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 our government is really out of control you know. the air 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 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 flashlights they were the dog you want 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 with thinking the america's not thinking about getting smart good thing 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 then get no money out of the game but 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 fast and even 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 not a case where 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 the most food nor 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 a drug 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 don't learn nothing else in school with learn how to become a critical thinker and learn how to. what is right and what is. 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. that.

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or fun travel and adventure but it really meant to be. the top story tonight poland accepts the majority of the responsibility for the plane crash that killed this president last april but all small scale to carry out further investigations however the authors of the report say it's nothing more. solving the key arms reduction treaty with the u.s. and relations with the e.u. and highlighted by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov summed up the actions in

twenty ten at a press conference in moscow. the cholera outbreak i'm told for reconstruction groups a two year after the earthquake but thousands of asian immigrants in the u.s. might be forced to go back to the island and the grim reality on the streets that as we report in the program. it's now twenty two forty five pm moscow time the sport. hello there thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines. on gods is on top of the k h l after a day when rivals ackbar city park. club world player of the year and patrick here a little messy looks back in an incredible way. and we look at how russia's limpy and said to him today favorite sport in the sun in preparation for london twenty

twelve. let's start there with the cage where there is another new leader at the top of the table guard sit proudly at the summit after day one and suffered a surprise defeat on guard with an overpowering when i was to be on that single point enough to topple at bars at the summit after the very last one to mobilise much of the much needed course and i second after they were able to. follow them while locomotives stood for seven six defeat to sell about trust with their winner there in other games. after a shootout mesereau goal was because next to you grew up and lonely and more got a surprise when i read about it. in other news august hopes to reverse russia's luck on the biathlon tracks this season the thirty two year old got the team's first victory finishing first in the fifteen kilometer individual race in germany the two time olympic champion using a strong final push for the ninth world cup victory of the science of

a hit all twenty targets and skate a fast final five hundred meters to win in just forty one minutes and forty six seconds germany's under the hankel finish second last sweden. took the giants of the individual disciplines standings. nineteen members of fee for suspended over allegations of corruption have appealed against their bans are most damning from nigeria to me and from the heat. a member is a thief is the executive committee and we choose to take part in the vote on who would use the twenty eight hundred and twenty twenty two world cups that it was to spend to bring is over claimed he intended to take bribes in return for his votes want to marty was given a one year ban for breaching confidentiality rules the fist independently committee will hear the cases on a day to be arranged. now there has been an upset at football's asia cup a free go is not that three time champion saudi arabia who lost one nil to jordan the saudis had already fired their coach after losing a game to syria and this is

a must win game for them but forty two minutes in the show go looking like a cross and run right into the insanity of lots of chances to equalise the best for me with fifty broken stupidities i was i thought top of the big with japan so one. bank one victory over syria you still have a chance of reaching the courses themselves if they get to play. meanwhile you know messi has been reflecting on an amazing week he was voted football of the year for a second time in a row and then hit a hat trick in barcelona's five north rushing of real betis in the copper del rey the three man short list included messi barcelona teammates anderson yes there and having plays that some believe more deserving of the war than the arch in time but the way the twenty three year old played against best is probably silenced all of his critics as the man himself he recently passed the bosses to extend the contract

of coach pep guardiola while still giving credit to his success to take as a whole i. think i'm above everything that people see as i've said before i'm i'm very good terms with andreas and the same with chevy i share very good relationship with both of them what happened yesterday at the camp no proof that this is a collective effort we showed that this award is not just for the three of us but for the whole school it makes me very peaceful. now another two time world footballer of the year is roman and he has just completed his move from ac milan to length in rio de janeiro and look at the reception waiting for him in brazil about twenty thousand fans showed up to meet their hero from his side of forty two month contract with the club ending a ten year stint in european football he says one of the reasons he chose to come back is his desire to return to the national team. this.

that is my goal my decision to come back to brazil was based mainly on merit i always thought i would only be back in brazil by the end of my career with the possibility of being in the world. and after we win many years overseas and give me the motivation to come back i want to return to the national team and keep my spot until the world. now a couple of local stars are leading the way it goes johannesburg open south africans martin moderates and tyrone ward top the leaderboard going into the second day they both carded a sixty two for their first round to have a one stroke lead but some big european players like darren clarke were finding it . a tricky place at the end of the day ok to be fair he had his moments didn't he and the defending champion charles foresaw was also suffering with the odd glimpse of magic to his back and forth in the spot six shots off the pace much more solid was moderates he's never won a tour event but has started very well here place play two courses for the first

couple of rounds and merits was on the hard course on the first day while still matching rival morton it was on the easier west course. switching to boxing now in britain derek his aura is incompetent named after getting another chance to fight heavyweight champ klitschko the british and commonwealth champion was originally due to take on the ukrainian shortly before christmas but the fight was called off after klitschko picked up an injury german basically to go will start as the strong favorite and enjoy the backing of the fast. majority of the crowd in mannheim when the opening bell rings in the thirtieth of april however choose or says the expected hostile atmosphere will bring out the best in him. i'm so excited to read or understand you know. what are books in front of like. two hundred three hundred people are more reality. i don't get my stride but when i'm books in front of thirty nine thousand people read for me to lee's when i get my stride so i think the energy of the people and reno is going to boost me up of

me be in disguise so i'm just excited right. and finally from the ring to the track russia's pentathlete how one of the strongest records he lympics winning medals at every game since nine hundred sixty four and i focusing on london two thousand and twelve at a unique training camp in cyprus on course that i have takes a look at the sport and the take. cyprus has been one of the top tourist destinations for many years but a couple of decades ago but it's raining a lot and has become a training base for many russian and the cascades and this story is about the national modern that's a long seen first off a bit of history for those unfamiliar with this highly competitive olympic disciplines with roots that spread all the way to ancient greece just like in modern pentathlon back in the day the sport also consisted of five events at the ancient olympics the athletes competed in a stadium foot race discus and javelin throw

a long jump and wrestling as the greeks modeled each event in accordance with the skills of a perfect soldier at the time the ward modern along with the new events was added to fend off long by the founder of the present the games but on pierre de coubertin on now back to the present day a modern pentathlete possesses a variety of talents including shooting fencing swimming running russia and its predecessor the soviet union have been winning podium places in men's events in every single employee and that it's important since the telco games in nine hundred sixty four that's a record the country would certainly like to uphold on the london games in twenty twelve however the ladies are hoping to make an impact as well or will battle the competition for a place on the national team is very high especially for the men's team the dropout rate for women is quite high though as the sport is not for everyone however i was seen as a healthier and able to get great results vary from state some of our gals have

even become european and world champions within just two years cyprus has over three hundred sunny days per year and that works perfectly with the national team's winter plans when it's impossible to train an outside practically anywhere in russia pentathlete for a quite certain infrastructure for their preparation and this island has been providing just that to separate hosts sometimes even go beyond traditional requests by. there guess just to give us the hotel where we stayed provided us with a shooting range despite the fact that it's almost impossible to get a permit to shoot in a residential area but still they managed to find a way to make shooting possible for us so they do everything they can to help us in our training they're very hospitable and very attentive to separate economy depends largely on series and during the so-called off season most and surprising hotel owners welcome the athletes from russia and other european countries the hotel hosting the national modern pentathlon same has been doing just that for the last

twenty years a successful business originally started by his father continues to thrive according to the current owner to get many athletes coming to visit us every year due to the good with it and. we start from swimming we get out of paralympic teams and to from triathlon a lot of cyclists visit us because the weather is perfect for outdoor training and out of and. financial but we see we get to meet a lot of athletes and become very good friends with them the cypriot government recognises the financial gains from visiting sports teams and continue to modernize their facilities but in the case with russian athletes or russians in general it's about more than making money and supporting the economy would have been a thought supriya it's love russians because they consider them our loyal friends not just in learning but all across cyprus the russians have stayed by our side we have to be republicans going through hard times plus your athletes show us

a great example of russia has some of the strongest athletes in the world and russians win a lot of medals in the olympic games and world championships they set an example to superheat awfully and we take great pleasure in the fact that they choose to come here to train each winter before the summer olympics the island of cyprus turns into a major sports training camp with athletes arriving not only from russia and other eastern european countries but western europe as well is it printed big tournaments in the courts for this mediterranean nation well it certainly has all the prerequisites room on cost of artsy larnaca cyprus. a lovely place to train that is all the sport for the moment the weather is coming up next. hungry for the full scoop we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice.