margetts. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. russian billionaire. has big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and sets his sights on the prime minister's position. in an exclusive interview two or three russia's third richest man says it's not me who find out all the details in just a few moments. dozens dying terrible things in afghanistan as barack obama promises to follow through with the decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country. london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives the

former egyptian finance minister to live openly in britain despite a thirty year jail sentence back home. international news income and live from our studios here in central moscow this is . one of russia's richest men has set his sights on politics after the world of business become profitable has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december's parliamentary elections. has spoken exclusively to the billionaire. because it is not yet known as a successful politician but he is known as a very successful businessman and when it comes to brought up and to write cause they have quite ambitious goals as well which are not only to get into the state duma to the next election but also to become the second most powerful political

force in the country right there next to the united russia party and even though. political career is just starting he's already aiming for the senior levels off for russia's political elite i'm not the kind of person who tends to dream or plunges into illusions we have particular goals to get into russia's lower house of parliament with the maximum number of votes what i also understand is that i could be a good prime minister if the party successful i would fight for disposition. of himself has asked the members of the right course party not to refer to themselves as the opposition explaining that the cruelly of the term opposition is critically understood by millions of russians who according to paul sort of see the current opposition in russia as a disorganized marginal force on capable of making any changes the changes that

paul and his party are talking about and they are already giving concrete ideas off continuing the modernization off russia and making a liberal improvements. surely is quite a colorful character starting from his time to this man is over two meters tall to basically all the things that he undertakes has become quite successful he's known to be quite a sports fan a morsel arts expert he's known to be quite an active a jet skier he holds of the new jersey nets successful the u.s. and basketball team one of his latest projects the your my b. which is a core currently being developed. in russia and even though it's not yet being produced there is apparently already of huge queue for these cars for years and years ahead of most of the projects that are put off of has undertaken really did become successful that's why there is a reason to believe that the right cause party really does stand

a chance. and you can see the full exclusive interview with we call profit off all day sunday on t. along the way as financial woes grip europe we take to the streets of new york to find out of people there feel they are heading down the same road. greece is working. but i feel like we're on the right but i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country have to lower their their expectations it was pretty bad during the great depression that is a bottom that we can compare it to get that bad but i don't think we're there yet. still to come this hour but first a suicide bomb blast in a hospital in eastern afghanistan has killed at least thirty five and wounded dozens more the attack comes a day after a bomb ripped through a market in another part of the country killing ten despite the recent surge of violence in afghanistan barack obama has announced the withdrawal of over thirty

thousand u.s. soldiers by the end of next year obama's military commanders according to plan risky and advice a much smaller troop reduction all this is international investigators say the nearly ten year long u.s. mission has failed to reduce corruption among afghan officials called the base journalist because as i says you're going nato occupation is infuriating the afghan people. why did the actions and the mines get in wars. and specially. the niger and also the. villagers and also some. social. turning people to join insurgencies groups and point again is this government. going to say you are all living in tensions and. because of this.

because of this now because of this wrong and fix it was was more. intelligence and some people. doing taliban time we do not have this tension all the afghans have tension at least. at night at least. to someone. locally in the country of. this government gathering government and the support of here so we have some achievement i shouldn't say we. i that we have some achievement we have some construction but most of them a lot in the use of us not and it was a dance. egypt's former finance minister sentenced to thirty years in prison is living openly in london the spy being wanted by cairo use of protest guard he was convicted of abusing power for personal profit but fled the country after the revolution and artie's lohr reports this isn't the first time london has provided

a safe haven for rich foreign fugitives. when egypt erupted into violence at the start of the year the u.k. was among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in with a new era of democracy the old guard was swept aside but many running in fear for their lives ran straight to a new life in london and the local egyptian community is horrified angry disappointed some of them call it shame when in the end. because it is a long time now with the british government being. people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world you said trust garley is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzlement in egypt he said to be running around london a free man boutros ghali was convicted in absentia of corruption profiteering and

abusing state and private assets he's also been ordered to repay more than ten million dollars and p. andrew slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but is disappointed by the response but expect to see some more action both against the money and all the goods it's been extorted from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i feel pressing to cover here today but secondly we do have a very strong tradition in this country of upholding international law and i want to see that continue i do want the current government to neglect that you take many think they're already negligent in case an international arrest warrant has. reportedly been issued by egypt but critics feel money and connections secure a ticket to freedom in the u.k. but this guy he would not have approved them to get into the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money has got i mean you can get

to remain with your money in the u.k. if your money is clear meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide it is not a stranger to the west very much one of the websites men in egypt was one of the worst men in egypt so that is sound refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the egyptian diaspora in the u.k. is a million strong and said here in london to community leaders say that people assume angry that's no guarantee took ali will stay safe and alone if you remain a lousy excuse to put christie letting support for the middle east in the pro-democracy movement. to great great see your avatar. your opinion is important to us go online visit our website r.t.

dot com and take part in the latest poll we're holding at the moment and there on screen you can see that we're asking you why does the u.k. exiles well so far the most popular response to this question is because money talks paul behind them thirty nine percent is because they do not turn their backs on what may one day come in handy and not many of you agree that it's actually because of political leverage and saying that the u.k. is a truly democratic country log on and vote because here we have to set off you don't call. coming up this twenty first century exodus you can find out why fels of his ratings are applying for european and american passports in the hope of leaving the promised land. also still to come this hour we discover what the predictable self poll has in store for those brave enough to try and whether it. but first the number of wounded in

a gas explosion in russia's north caucasus has risen to fifty five with twenty in serious condition the blast happened at a wedding ceremony in the capital of north assertive. isn't really. there we'll cross over to for the latest but what's being done to help the victims of this explosion. well the number of injured people indeed has increased as now more people are asking for magical help and of the moment of the number of injured people has risen to over thirty with the sum of twenty being any serious condition now some of those people have even burns all across their bodies and they're all have been placed in three different local hospitals here in of lead meanwhile russian emergencies ministry's plane has arrived to us and it brought medical specialists from moscow and these acts a chunk of those injured and work out a list of a dozen people were the most severe ones to bring them to moscow for special

treatments. can you explain exactly what happened during these celebrations. well the blast happened during a wedding ceremony and here in the russia's north caucasus weddings are big celebrations and usually not last three hundred guests are invited for this type of ceremonies and the food is being cooked outside in special capsules that's why it requires gas canisters and won over this gas canister exploded and seriously injured a significant number of people and for this very was saying over four hundred guests were invited but at the time of the blast only one hundred were present in the yard near the residential area so the scale of this accident could have been bigger. thanks very much indeed for that live update question of reporting from russia's republican who said hugh. why not update you on some other world news in

brief now on our world update this hour triple blasts have been heard of a police station under attack by militants in the northwest of pakistan at least ten officers of reportedly being killed some two dozen others are believed to be trapped inside the compound itself the latest assault in recent weeks involving teams of armed insurgents targeting security forces no group has claimed responsibility but the taliban have carried out similar attacks in the past. to sit down now at least eleven people have died after a militia group allegedly allied to the northern government attacked a southern town hosts tens of thousands of refugees displaced by fighting southern officials say the attacks are part of a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the cell before it gained independence next month both sides ended more than two decades of a civil war in two thousand and five which it claimed over two million lives. fifteen people have been killed in a nato air strike on civilians sites that's according to libyan state television more than twenty others were reportedly hurt by the attack in the eastern town of

brega a t.v. report did not specify exactly when the assault took place the lances rejected the allegations saying that it only hit legitimate military targets. in syria twenty people including two children were killed when security forces reportedly opened fire on demonstrators without warning a new wave of protests thousands took to the streets of several cities to call on president bashar assad to step down after four decades of his family's rule in the capital damascus protesters also came under fire as they blocked roads leading to the city center a three month long crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead. and now we have more on the situation in syria online for you just visit our web site is our t dot com online and what an interview there with one independent journalist who says that e.u. sanctions will not bring any resolution to the crisis in syria. also online there's no fairytale. ending for a real life cinderella russian girl to

a global supermodel tell what you know about splits from a practical. and smooth jazz legend sex often as dave calls visits moscow and talks to on t.v. about his passion for music and you can watch that interview with him on our website at all t. don't call me. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images before all has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day.

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to provide a home for all the jews of the world but tens of thousands of fled the country over the past few years and more lining up to leave found the fears over security mean that many are seeking a new safer life in europe or the u.s. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born there before the second world war and within six years have been expelled and most of her family killed but the irony is she now wants a german passport. i want the german citizenship to help my children and grandchildren which might be shocking if it wasn't so common in israel today in the last decade some fifty thousand israelis have applied for us citizenship a quarter of a million already have a second passport it's unlikely that any other country in the world has such a large percentage of new immigrants preparing to leave it's really. the story because it is or was a stubborn to become a shill for the jewish. europe because the show.

this is my faith the american heart of tel aviv here you'll hear more english than hebrew and you'll be forgiven for thinking that you're in the us and not the promised land most israelis here have a second passport many of them grew up abroad or have a parent who came from another country. and i would never give up my canadian and probably would give up my israeli the american i wouldn't give up because i have family and i want to go to go there any time british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunities eight years ago the bar was blown up by a suicide bomber three people were killed and fifty injured the bar didn't close down but some say the rush for new passports heated up in very peak of the suicide bombings and there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase both in immigration and in the demand for passports and that demand has only grown in the last. five years israel has been in two wars and many fear another is not far off and the government's

policy of settlement expansion has only isolated the country internationally so it's no surprise this leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone leadership raising its leadership or in creating all the. frying in the comparing against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe. damn the sun has processed nearly five thousand applications for a second passport in the last ten years that works out at about forty passports a month and he's only one lawyer working in the field of faith of the draw in world war two. the one who are were the ones who got the wide worth or. if you're going to go. that can help you move out of danger zone then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the states and then

the other way around one in five or soviet jews has already returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli insecurity about the arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon pointlessly r t tel of of. good news stories from the us economy are few and far between in the moment with mass job cuts layoffs and a growing national debt however some are staying optimistic saying things could be even worse as a resident of new york has been finding out. all the latest data indicates the global economy is going limp are you personally affected this week let's talk about that have you felt the effects of a bad economy need a better job this economy is not get me

a better job here desire to try to go to college and i can because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's more nutritious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me is good so is that kind of the way it goes when when some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad spain is looking bad i feel like we're on the right. so they're just exaggerating not in greece and spain no no i feel like the reports in the u.s. are i'm actually in the military so i do not feel it at all that's the only perk that i'm one perk my job i've been getting steady paychecks for five years yet i can't see that the american military is going to go out of it if they do any time soon and i guess we have bigger problems to worry about the economy is bad and you had to cut back or we had to cut back even more would show we could take cruises you come to new york this. crucial british first time in new york city today so

that doesn't sound like you're hurting that it sounds like you're doing ok we haven't to cut back on a lot of other things do you think that we've seen the bottom of this crisis or are we headed for bread lines and even worse things that we've seen the bottom what is the bottom look like. well it was pretty bad during the great depression that is a bottom that we can compare it to i don't know if we'll get that bad but i don't think we're there yet so do you think we can fix it i'm a global level or do you think it's time countries started looking at themselves first i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country have to lower their their expectations of. the living standard i think we all have to go down whether or not you've been personally impacted the bottom line at the global economy apparently continues to fall flat. devoted scientists give up the comfort of their homes in the company of family and

friends to work in extreme conditions at the ends of the earth and thomas investigates the price people have to pay to fulfill their passion for new discoveries. antarctic storms are known to be fierce sometimes forcing those who have to endure them to take safe harbor it was pretty bad it was. thirty to thirty five. years rolling around. we had to. get in between us. so we were rolling around. trying to make a good writer. here the crew of this ship was able to pull through the tempest and even work with nearby stations to repair their damaged vessel but they were lucky operating in such a remote environment means replacement parts aren't always available and the workers here have to make do with what they can it is pretty hard to get here good

equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so. one challenge is to try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the hearts and three weather conditions and part that there is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of this operating down here that we can be more than a convenience it can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would go on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career in such moments i start to sing that good just once is to try is out here. but in antarctica time is a valuable commodity and work crews have limited time to prepare the base for winter after the accident happened we didn't even have time to make a stop which the moment required a stop to think to express compassion we had to go on with our work which we finished at about four am the next day the incident sparked an outpouring of

international support from the surrounding bases but in a twist all too appropriate for the harsh realities of working in antarctica the chilean air force plane that was to airlift. the body back to south america suffered an explosion in the left engine as it was taking off the pilots on board of hurting another fatal tragedy by a matter of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties. the key things all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response because and avoid actions that me get one of those hurt for example when the airplane engine field we have avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we don't have to airlift anybody else here we have avoided any wrists until another airplane arrives when a system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe is possible in antarctica sean thomas. and there are

more videos and stories from sean's adventures across the antarctic on his blog that's on our website it's r.t. dot com. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization. what makes antarctica so special and attractive for the wildlife in antarctica. and the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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