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the british science. is not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. russian billionaire mea culpa talk at all for enters big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and sets his sights on the prime minister's position. in an exclusive interview towards the russia's richest man says it's not me who point out all the details in just a few moments. also this hour not dozens die in terror of bombings 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 a fugitive allowing the former egyptian finance minister to live openly in britain
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despite a thirty year jail sentence back home. international news in comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is. one of russia's richest men has set his sights on politics after conquering the world of business become profitable has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december's parliamentary elections. office spoken exclusively to the a billionaire. because a lot of it is not yet known as a successful politician but he is known as a very successful businessman and when it comes to profit off and the right cause party they have quite ambitious goals as well which are not only to get into the state duma after the next election but also to become the second most powerful
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political force in the country right there next to the united russia party and even though a lot of political career is just starting he's already aiming for the senior levels of a 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 this position and he called himself has asked the members of the right course party not to refer to themselves as the opposition explaining that the currently the term opposition is critically understood by millions of russians who according to paul sort of see the current opposition in russia as i did so organized a marginal force i'm capable of making any changes the changes that paul heard of and his party are talking about and they are already giving concrete ideas of
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continuing the modernization of russia and making the liberal improvements we've brought actually 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 he's become quite successful he's known to be quite a sports fan the martial arts expert he's known to be quite an active a jet skier he holds of the new jersey nets a successful us 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 a huge huge for these cars for years and years ahead most of the projects that has undertaken really did become successful that's why there is a reason to believe that the right cause party really does stand
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a chance even up as you know reporting man you can see the full exclusive interview with the culprit of all day sunday here on r.t. . want to weigh this here on r.t. his financial woes grip europe we take to the streets of new york to find out of people there feel they're heading down the same road. greece is working screeners looking at feel like we're on the right i think we have to fix it on the global level but i think we reach country had to lower their expectations it was pretty bad during the great depression is a bottom that we. will get that bad but i don't think we're there yet. a suicide bomb blast in a hospital in eastern afghanistan has killed at least thirty five and wounded dozens more comes a day after a bomb ripped through a market in another part of the country killing ten and despite the recent surge of violence in afghanistan barack obama has announced it would draw about thirty
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thousand u.s. soldiers by the end of next year military commanders are calling a plan risky and advise a much smaller troop reduction as international investigators say the really ten year long u.s. mission has failed to reduce corruption among afghan officials probably doesn't mean because as i says the ongoing nato occupation is infuriating the afghan people . there why did the actions and the. wars. in niger and also here in their villages and. certainly is. turning people to join insurgents this group again is this government. outside their capital and come to your intentions and. it's. because of this.
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because of this narrative because of this. was. intelligence a rising. some people. doing taliban don't we do not have this tension. tension at least. this troll. for the. country but it does have. the support of here's some achievement i should and. i shouldn't hide it we have some achievement we have some construction but most of them. are used. egypt's former finance minister sentenced to thirty years in prison is living openly in london despite being wanted by current use of patrice garde he was convicted of abusing power for personal profit but fled the country after the general revolution and that his law and reports this isn't the first time london
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has provided a safe haven for rich foreign fugitives. when egypt erupted into violence at the start of the year the u.k. with 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 die in london and the local egyptian community is horrified i'm very disappointed some of them call it sheer wanting grounds. because it is a long time now that the british government be allowing people running away not just from egypt from all over the world. goalie is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle meant in egypt he said to be running around london a free man boutros ghali was convicted in absentia of corruption profiteering and refusing state and private assets he's also been ordered to repay more than ten
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million dollars m.p. andrew slaughter has demanded the british government does something about it but it's disappointed by the response but expect to see some more action both against the money and other goods has been exported from egypt and other. arab countries but also against fugitives from justice in this country and that while still pressing the governor here to protect it we do have a very strong tradition in this country of holding international law and i want to see that continue i don't want to be that the current government to neglect that usually many think they're already negligent in picturesque ali's 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. it is kerry would not have a problem 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 as you money in the u.k.
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if your money. it is clear meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england stay say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to hide he's not a stranger to the west very much one of the west's men in egypt was one of the worst men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to anybody the egyptian diaspora in the u.k. is the million strong tendency here in london to community leaders say to people it's so angry there's no guarantee the truck dolly will stay safe and alone if you remain more than a lousy excuse to put christie letting supports for the middle east and the pro-democracy movement well. bring it to the whole great great sea your amateur hour t.v. . your opinion is important to us so go online and visit our website is r.t. dot com to take part in the latest poll there on screen you'll see that we're
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asking you why does the u.k. harbor exiles so far the most popular response to this question is because when money talks the problem hardly thirty nine percent is because they cannot turn their backs on what may one day come in handy many of you agree that it's because bad political leverage is better than none or that the u.k. is a truly democratic country log on and vote would be good to hear what you have to say . still to come this hour on r t twenty first century exodus find out why thousands of israelis apply for european and american passports in the hope of leaving the promised land. plus we discover what the unpredictable south pole has in store for those brave enough to try and whether in. their stores to become the person number of wounded in a gas explosion in russia's north caucasus has risen to fifty five twenty in a serious condition the blast happened at a wedding ceremony in the capital of north and south here. over is in
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a block of casts with the latest. as of the moment of the number of injury people has risen to over thirty with a 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 like meanwhile russian emergencies ministry's plane has a wife and i brought medical specialists from moscow and these are experts who will a check of point those dangerous and work out a list of a dozen people were the most severe ones to bring them to moscow for special treatment the blast happened during a wedding ceremony and here in russia's north caucasus weddings are big celebrations and usually are not last three hundred gals are invited for this type of ceremonies and the food is being cooked outside in special capsules that's why it requires gas canister use and one of these gas canister used exploded and
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seriously injured a significant number of people and for this very well 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. than other world news briefing the world got the triple blast have been heard at a police state. in the northwest of pakistan these ten officers have reportedly been killed some two dozen others are believed to be trapped inside the compound was just the latest assault in recent weeks involving teams of all of insurgents targeting security forces the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was in revenge for the killing of osama bin laden. at least eleven people have died after a militia group allegedly to the northern government attacked a southern town. tens of thousands of refugees displaced by fighting in officials say the attacks are part of
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a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the self before it gains independence next month. i did more than two decades of civil war in two thousand and five which had claimed over two million lives. fifteen people have been killed in a nato airstrike on civilian sites according to libyan state television more than twenty others were reportedly hydride the attack in the eastern town of brega a t.v. report did not specify exactly when the assault took place in answers rejected the allegations saying that it only hit legitimate military targets. in syria thirty people including two children were killed when security forces reportedly opened fire and 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 capital damascus protesters also can on the far as they blocked roads leading to the city center three miles from crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead
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. and we have more on the situation in syria online for you at the moment just visit our web site at all to dot com you can watch an interview there with one independent journalist who says the e.u. sanctions will not bring any resolution to the crisis in syria. of course online to make fairy tale ending for a real life cinderella the russian girl turned global supermodel it's what you know that splits from our us to credit cards but in the u.k. . and smooth jazz legend sex oftenest dave calls a visit to moscow and talks to all here about his passion for music and you can watch of that interview on our website at all to calm. down to be official all t. have location your body for i pod touch from the. child's life.
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russia would be soon which brightened if you knew all about the song from feinstein impressions. start on t.v. dot com. news continues here on r.t. with israel creating was of course created as the promised land to provide a home for all the jews of the world but tens of thousands have fled the country over the past few years or more are lining up to leave port a slayer fan that 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 fitted those that hold her get money i want the german
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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 thirty thousand israelis have applied for european citizenship and 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. because he is or was a stubborn to become a shill. now comes the show. you can sleep in it's. death of my face the american heart of tel aviv hear 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 them a canadian and i probably would give up my very the american i wouldn't give up
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because i have family there i want to go to go there any time british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunity eight years ago the bar was blown up by suicide bombers three people were killed and fifty injured the bar didn't close down but some say the rush for new passports heated up in there because of the bombings and there was a feeling of insecurity so yes there was an increase in immigration and in command 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 is leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone. basing its leadership on creating. frightening pains against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe no less than
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a son 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 but in world war. the one who are were the one who got the wide berth for the laotian who if you can go. that can help your. odds of danger gone then your book every year more jews leave israel for europe and the skates then the other way around one in five of soviet jews has already returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and growing israeli insecurity about arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon. r.t. tel aviv good news stories for the u.s. economy are few and far between with mass job cuts and layoffs and the growing
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national debt however some are staying optimistic saying that things could be even worse as a resident in new york has been finding elf. 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 impact of a bad economy or better job this economy is not a better job yes i try to go to college and i can because car my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's on the vicious cycle it's really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me it's good so is that kind of the way goes when some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad screen is looking bad but i feel like we're on the right . so they're just exaggerating not in greece and spain no no i feel like reports
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from us are i'm actually in the military so i do not feel that at all that's the only perk i don't want park my job i've been getting steady paycheck for five years yeah i can't be 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 you. know we have to come back even so we can take cruises to come to new york this. crucial british our 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 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 with 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
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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 living standard. i think we all had to go down there not even personally of mine at the global economy apparently continues to. 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 sean thomas investigate 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. two it was rolling around. he had to.
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get this to be clean as well so we're rolling around. trying to make a good road or we could have steered the crew of this ship was able to pull through the tempest stand even work with nearby stations to repair their damaged vessel but they were lucky operating in such a remote environment means that 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 run one showing just to try to make your big science was a very small amount of record because of the hearts and free weather conditions there is considered one of the most dangerous environments on the planet and because of this operating down here but we can be more than. we can be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that would wait until your space lost
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one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. that was most difficult experience in my career and such moments i start to think that good just wants us to try is out here with the wind but in antarctica time is a valuable commodity and work crews have limited time to prepare the base for winter after the accident happens we didn't even have time to make a start was the moment required a stop to think to express compassion we have 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 securely. 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 field tragedy of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties we're not going to get under the key
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things all the problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response to it because ns and avoid actions that me get when i was hurt for example on the airplane engine field we avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us hurt in any way so we do on housing of anybody else there's a fear we avoid any results until another airplane arrives to continue the system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe as possible in antarctica shantaram is hard to. bore videos and stories from sean's adventures across the antarctic on his blog and that you can see on our website r.t. dot com. within a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is it and charge it up and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean
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thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for merely the wildlife in antarctica. and the fragile. explorations of the bottom of the earth. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes from now let's go outside and the sport is still ahead for you this hour stay with us live here in moscow this is all to.
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today children play war in the old piecemeal. much enjoy nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barriers and announce the troops on their way to moscow. sutter's umbrellas were done one by one under ceaselessly. wanted. to play. live in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell month. but i'm not so many. republican issues and free kicks accreditation free elections for judges free
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