weiner scandal. why not what's really happening to the global economy is because reports on. the. russian billionaire mea culpa talking often to 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 vent to find out all the details in just a few moments. 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. and london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives byline the former egyptian finance minister to live openly in britain despite the thirty year jail sentence back on.

international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is . one of russia's richest man has set his sights on politics after concrete the world of business. has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to run in december's parliamentary elections. office spoken exclusively to the 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 rights cause 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 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 of a russia's political elite i'm not the kind of person who chance to dream or plunges into allusions where 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 cause party not to refer to themselves as the opposition explaining that the cruelly the term opposition is critically understood by millions of russians who according to prof of see the current opposition in russia as i do it's organized a marginal force on capable of making any changes to changes that paul and his party are talking about and they are already getting concrete ideas continuing to

modernization off russia and making a liberal improvements. surely is quite eight colorful character starting from these times 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 also the new jersey nets a successful u.s. 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 been produced there's apparently already a huge a queue for these cars for years and years ahead most of the projects that make up a lot of his undertaken really did become successful that's why there is a reason to believe that the right course party really does stand a chance and there you can see the full exclusive interview with me later on sunday

here on r.t. . a suicide bomb blast the 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 and 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 at the end of next year military commanders are calling the plan risky and advise 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 a place journalist. says going occupation is infuriating the afghan people. why did the actions and the. war. and specially. not severe. religious and. social seven is.

turning people who join some insurgencies groups against this government. and outside their capital kabul and country. living in tensions and they cannot. stroll through to their sleeves because of this. because of this not because of this wrong and flick this was my idea of. intelligence services that some people who are doing taliban turn really do not have this tension all the. tension at least. this trial. locally in a country. that this government government and the support i feel so much even and i shouldn't say. i shouldn't hide it we have some achievement we have some construction work most of them. in the use of us not and use our.

well there are plenty of comments and analysis on the situation in afghanistan and website that's a dot com blog on discover why some an afghanistan say they felt safer with the taliban than the u.s. plus also on the web site of the moment a long fall from grace find out why ukraine's navy unit to machine code has found herself in court and in public is waiting for you on line. also that fairy tale gone bad after the rags to riches model. the splits from her heiress to credit husband. egypt's former finance minister sentenced to thirty years in prison is living openly in london a spy plane wanted by current use of poachers garnett was convicted of abusing

power for personal profit but fled the country after the general revolution. reports this isn't the first time london has provided a safe haven for rich foreign fugitives. when egypt abrupt it 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 angry disappointed some of them call it she won in the end. because it is a long time now that the british government be allowing people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world. carly is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzle ment's in egypt he said to be running

around london a pre-marital boutros ghali was convicted in absentia of corruption profiteering and at losing state and private assets he's also been ordered to repay more than ten million dollars and he under the 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 that's been exported from egypt i love it. or countries but also get fugitives from justice in this country and that's what i'm still pressing to cover here for the second year 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 treaty 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.

which is clearly 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 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 she's not a stranger to the west she's 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 part of the million strong fences here in london to community leaders say that people assume angry that's no guarantee a big truck ali will say things and they look if you remain the more you pay allows itself to be accused of hypocrisy pledging support for the middle east and the pro-democracy movement well maybe a great. great great see your avatar team.

your opinion is important to us here in our to go online visit our website r.t. dot com to take part in the latest poll as you can see street last year why does the u.k. . exiles so far the most popular response to this question is because money talks so far behind on thirty nine percent because they cannot turn it back some will make one thing come in handy. many of you agree that it's because political leverage is better than none or that the u.k. is a treaty democratic country can log on and vote express your opinion. on the way financial worries 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 looking bad spain is looking bad 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 is

a bottom that we can compare it to i know it will get that bad but i don't think we're there yet. plus twenty first century activists find out why thousands of israelis are applying for european and american passports in the hope of leaving the promised land. but also still to come this hour we discover what the unpredictable south pole has in store for those brave enough to try and weather it. but first a 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 the north the city. is in an attic of costs with an exorcist. as of the moment of the number of people has risen to over fifty where there's so much once you've been 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 light meanwhile russian emergencies

ministry's plane has a wife and brought medical specialist from moscow and these ads will a child to point those injuries and work out a list of a dozen people was the most severe ones to bring them to moscow for special treatment the blast happened during a wedding ceremony and here in a russia's north caucasus weddings are big celebrations and usually not less than three hundred guests are invited for this type of ceremonies and the food is being cooked outside in special apostles' that's why it requires gas chemistries and one of these gas canister used 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. go talk to some other world news briefing the world triple blast have been

heard of the station under attack by militants in the northwest of at least ten officers are reportedly. dozen of those of believed to be trapped inside the compound was just the latest of recent weeks teams of insurgents targeting security forces pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was in revenge for the killing of. at least eleven people died after a militia group allegedly allied to the northern government attacked saw him. tens of thousands of refugees displaced by fighting so the officials say the attacks are part of the plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the self before going to independence next month. both sides ended more than two decades of a civil war in two thousand and five which claimed over two million lives. people have been killed in a nato airstrike on civilian sites according to libyan state television more than

twenty others were reportedly hurt by the attack from the eastern town of brega the t.v. report did not specify exactly when the assault took place in answers rejected the allegation 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 al assad to step down after four decades of his family's rule in the capital damascus protesters also came and blocked roads leading to the city center a three month long crackdown has reportedly left fourteen hundred people dead. israel was created as the promised land to provide a home for all the jews of the world but tens of thousands of fled the country over the past few years all aligning up to leave. but fears over security mean that many seeking a new safer life in europe or the u.s. . rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born

a before the second world war and within six years had been expelled and most of her family killed but the irony is she now wants a german passport. or money 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. because he was a stubborn to become a show. because the show. will be through sleep it's. this is my face 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 them a canadian and i probably would give up my very the american i wouldn't give up because i have family there and i want to be able to go there anytime british passport or european passport is a doorway to opportunities eight years ago the bar was blown up by 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 the peak of. bombings when 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 as leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone. releasing its own creating all the. feel

of being. against anything and the payoff is a population that feels unsafe with one eye on europe more than 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 before the drop in world war paul the one who are were the one who got the wide berth for the leisure. if you can go. that can help your cause more for a hold of danger of bomb then you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and the skates then the other way around one in five of soviet jews has a really returned home and with no israeli palestinian peace talks on the horizon and a growing israeli insecurity about arab demonstrations on the doorstep this so-called

insurance passport is unlikely to lose popularity any time soon pointlessly r t tel aviv. good news stories from the us economy of the few i should say and far between with massive job cuts and layoffs and a growing national debt however some are staying optimistic same things could be even worse as only resident in new york has been finding out. all the latest data indicates the global economy is going limp are you personally impacted this week let's talk about that have you felt the effects of the bad economy or better job this economy is not a good job yes i try to go to college and i can because car to my car gas is all expensive at school so expensive so it's money vicious cycle is really bad but i'm happy because brazil is growing like for me it's good so is that kind of the way

goes one way when some countries are hurting other countries can prosper more yeah greece is looking bad screen is looking bad i feel like we're on the right. so they're just exaggerated 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 at all that's the only per annum 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 and you had. we had to come back even more so we could take you come to new york this. crucial 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 come back on a lot of other things 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 of 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 but they're not even personally impacted the bottom line is the global economy apparently continues to. the verge of 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 that is sean 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 thirty thirty. years rolling around he had to. get in between us. so we're rolling around. trying to make a good road or we can get here with 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 and it's pretty hard to get here good equipment to get here sophisticated equipment so one on one challenge here is to try to make your big science was a very small amount of equipment because of the heart and three weather conditions there is considered one of the most famous on the planet and because of this

operating down here. we're going to. be downright deadly during the same storm the crew from that little boy on t.v.'s base lost one of their team when a jeep wall down an embankment into a frigid antarctic lake. but it was most difficult experience of my career and such moments i start to sing but god just wants us to try us 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 happens we didn't even have time to make a stop was the moment required a stop to think to express compassion we had to go on with our work which we finished that's 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 of 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 by a matter of seconds still the southern continent doesn't provide the opportunity to dwell on the difficulties when a concealed under the key things all problems as soon as possible or the opportunity will be lost when there is no immediate response to precautions and avoid actions let me get one of those hurt. in the airplane engine field we have avoided doing anything that could have gotten any of us here anyway so we don't have the oil of anybody else of here we have oil any reserves until another airplane arrives but one thing into the system derived from unfortunate necessity which keeps those living and working in the face of danger and safe is possible in antarctica sean thomas. more videos and stories from sean's adventures across the antarctic on his blog and that's on our website at the moment r.t. dot com. you are than

a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for merely wildlife in antarctica is. the. expedition to the bottom of the earth are three. chicago's former mayor richard daley held office for twenty two years will next you'll be telling the secret of his political longevity spotlight is coming our way later here on r t but here's a brief preview from. you so six through his work well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't it be applied to kids and to the post of the media or you know if you put your name up you say you want to learn here now

that's it that's the first one with yeah i think people say well the public is now smart we have to limit terms the public is smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you wanted to believe in the presidential term well i don't know the american people elect obama for the fifteenth or i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind me i think any president should run but when you start limiting people that means you say the public doesn't have enough education or enough confidence or were thought to understand whether or not you're doing a good job and so my belief is you're right for you run for election and if they accept you the accept you then you carry that around well well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office see you've got too much of what we call the administrative resources i mean you can you you can you can pull more more money more resources to being reelected go back to the normal because you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't relax most people worry about that maybe they don't accumulate money i get my campaign going

and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's not a partisan job the mayor is about people and that's where the mayor's office is about the. spotlight coming away to later here and all its he will be about with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes there with us live here in moscow. the .

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more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china shop for a shelter all day. today children play war in the old keys me. much enjoy nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow all. the brass players were dying one by one

under siege the son. was. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell model arms dying but i'm not surrendering.