wealthy british science. sometimes. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our. russian billionaire macau prover of enters frontline politics as the leader of a liberal business minded already setting his sights on becoming prime minister. in

an exclusive interview to or t.v. russia's third richest man says if not me then who all the details in just a few moments. dozens killed in a terror attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan while president obama pushes forward with plans for a drastic troop reduction labeled a risky by the u.s. military. the u.k. accused of double standards for providing safe haven to egypt's former finance minister who was convicted of corruption despite london publicly supporting the pro-democracy movement. two am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story one of russia's richest men has set his sights on politics after conquering the world of business but how progress has been elected leader of the right cause party which plans to

run in december as parliamentary elections are he is going to have how 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 all 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 cause 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 getting 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 martial arts expert he's known to be quite an active a jet skier he also 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 washington even though it's not yet being produced there's apparently already a huge queue for these cars for years and years ahead of most of the projects that is 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 you can catch the full exclusive interview with michael proper of later on sunday here on our t.v. . at least thirty five people have been killed in eastern afghanistan with a dozen others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack at a hospital this comes just a day after a bomb tore through a market in another part of the country killing ten but despite the recent surge of violence in afghanistan president obama has announced the withdrawal of more than thirty thousand u.s. troops by the end of next year some military commanders within the u.s. called the plan a risky and advise

a much smaller troop reduction this as international investigators say the nearly ten year long u.s. led mission has failed to reduce corruption among afghan officials a couple based journalist has he's i says the ongoing nato occupation is infuriating the afghan people. why did the actions and the good thing was going to. deny to announce a deal and villages and also some public on social simonis. turning people to join some incidences groups and point again is this a government. that we don't call and can decide you know all living intentions in the night and you cannot. do this because of this. men because of this not because of this think the bulls was but i did look at the intelligence and so was this some people. do think delavan done we do not have this

tension all the. tension at this. this fall at night. to someone. locally so if they're going to say it's about this give them an go they can give a name and then there's a simple to feel some achievement i shouldn't say we shouldn't high that we have some achievement we have some construction but most of them. and the use of you is not the use of guns. there's plenty of comment and analysis on the situation in afghanistan on our website our team dot com i got to discover why some in afghanistan say they felt safer with the taliban than with the us plus the long fall from grace find out why ukraine's iron lady yulia timoshenko found herself in court our in-depth coverage waiting for you online. plus. fairy tale gone bad russia is a rags to riches model to tell you avoid on

a bus splits from her wrist a crowd of husband. egypt's former finance minister said this to thirty years in prison is living openly in london despite being wanted by cairo yousef galli who was convicted of abusing power for personal profit but fled the country after the january revolution amid reports this isn't the first time london has played host to 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 she wanted. because it is a long time now with the british government being. people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world boutros ghali 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. under the 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 that'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 govern here today exactly 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. what is going to be would not have a problem to getting to the united kingdom for so many reasons and the simplest one of them is the money has caught i mean you can leave to remain with your money in the u.k. if your money. meanwhile in egypt people aren't surprised england they say is where corrupt middle eastern officials go to high she's not a stranger to the west very much one of the websites men in egypt was one of the west's men in egypt so that he's found refuge in london is not surprising to

anybody the tapes in diaspora in the u.k. is the million dollar penn state kid in london community to say that people assume that's no guarantee took ali will stay safe and they don't leave you with. a lousy excuse to pull christie letting supports the middle east in a democracy me. to the great great sea nor am a top. europeans of porn to us go online and visit our website r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll today we're asking you why does the u.k. harbor exiles so far the most popular response to that question is because money talks are behind on thirty nine percent is because they do not turn their backs on what may one day come in handy and many agree that it's because bad political leverage is better than none but that the u.k. is a truly democratic country log on your say. stay with us here on our cheeks still

coming your way as 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 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 know where they live their expectations 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. find out why the promise land is not looking so promising for the thousands of israelis who apply for european and u.s. passports. we discover how the south pole is. both beauty and incredible danger. first though the number of wounded in a gas explosion in russia's north caucasus has version risen to fifty five with twenty in serious condition the blast happened at a wedding a ceremony in the capital of north of sirte here. with the latest.

of the moments of the number of injured people has risen to over fifty with some a twenty being any serious condition now some of this 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 and it brought medical specialists from moscow and these acts will a check of those dangerous and work out a list of a dozen people was the most severe wounds to bring them to moscow for special treatment the blast happened during a wedding ceremony and here in the russia's north caucasus the 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 councils that's why it requires gas canisters and one of these gas canisters 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe three blasts have been heard of a police station under attack by militants in the northwest of pakistan at least ten officers were reportedly killed some two dozen others believed to be trapped inside the compound the latest assault in recent weeks involving teams of armed insurgents targeting security forces pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was revenge for the killing of osama bin laden. in sudan at least eleven people have died after a militia group allegedly allied with the northern government attacked a southern town to rely host tens of thousands of refugees displaced by fighting so good officials say the attacks are part of a plan by the north to take over oil rich areas in the south before it gains independence next month both sides ended more than two decades of civil war in two

thousand and five that claimed more than two million lives. fifteen people have been killed in a nato air strike on civilian sites according to libyan state television more than twenty others reportedly hurt in the attack in the eastern town of breda the t.v. report didn't specify exactly when the assault happened the alliance has rejected the allegations saying it only had legitimate military targets. in syria twenty people including two children were killed and security forces reportedly opened fire on demonstrators with a warning and a new wave of protests thousands took to the streets of several cities calling on president bashar al assad to step down after four decades of his family's rule in the capital damascus protesters also came under fire as they block the roads leading to the city center a three month long crackdown has reportedly left some fourteen hundred people dead . the promised land of the jews israel is now facing something of an exodus of its

own tens of thousands of fled the country over the past few years with many others thinking of packing their bags paula sleeper discovered fears of security issues have forced many israelis to look for a safer haven elsewhere. rachel shites has no reason to like germany she was born there 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 you appeal to 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 he is or was a stubborn to become a shill for the jewish people and europe becomes the shell of the sleeping is.

that of my place 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 there and i want to have 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 is leading israeli journalist gideon levy that people are tired of living in a war zone. basing its leadership on creating all the. feel frying in 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 truth in world war two. the one who are favored were the ones who got the wide. or. if you're going to go. that can help you move. out of danger zone when you do it every year more jews leave israel for europe and

the states and then the other way around one in five or so if you choose 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 r t tel of of good news for the economy is few and far between with layoffs austerity and a growing us national debt but some are staying optimistic saying things could be worse as our resident on the streets of new york found 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 facts of the bad economy need a better job this economy's not get me a better job here because 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 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 sprain 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 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 we had to cut back or we had to cut back even more would show we could take cruises to come to new york this. crucial british a 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 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 home in the company of family and friends to work in extreme conditions at the ends of the earth archy's sean thomas investigates the price people have to pay to fulfill their passion for making 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. and. thirty to thirty five. years rolling around. had to. get in between us. so we're 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 rolled 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 shuttle 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 shien's 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 void in the wrists until another airplane arrives when we need 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's more video and stories from shots adventures across the antarctic on his blog that's on

our website our team dot com check it out. more than a month. in 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. discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica. and the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. former chicago mayor richard daley held office for twenty two years coming up next he tells al gore of the secret of political log j.v. spotlight coming your way in the next hour here on our team but here's a preview. you sort of six through this well well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of our american democracy democracy it in lots of countries in the world so shouldn't it be applied to the post of the mater or you know if you

put your name up you say do you want to elect the or not that's it that's the they're wrong with it i think people say well the public is not that smart we have to limit terms for the public to smarter than anyone else so they can say we like you or reject you why do you believe in the presidential term well i don't know i don't know the american people elected. fifteen thousand i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind me i think any president should run but when you start limiting people that mean just 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 run for your run for election and if they accept your they accept you then you carry that out well maybe maybe they think that when you are in office see you you've got too much of what we in russia call the administrative resource i mean you can you can you can you can pull more and more money more resources to being reelected that the graph because you just weren't

really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they had accumulated 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 what a mayor's office is about. about with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes moscow out and sports still ahead so stay with us here on our team.

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