it's good to have you with us on this saturday with a quick summary of the headlines now european banks have failed the stress tests on whether they could cope with another credit crunch italy meanwhile has approved a tough austerity budget of a full scale financial crisis the country is the euro zone's third largest economy which some consider too big to bail out. rupert murdoch loses lieutenants on both sides of the atlantic as the screws typing on

a media empire built on peddling sleaze and sometimes even victims. in america is resigning following friday's departure of the embattled rebecca brooks. also faces a probe for allegedly hacking the phones of nine eleven victims. and libya's bank balance of power shifts the u.s. joins dozens of its allies in recognizing a rebel oath as the legitimate governing body it also gives them access to billions of dollars of khadafi assets frozen by america but skeptics say it's a desperate effort against the libyan leader as nato airstrikes fail to make significant progress. governments wind back spending to tackle the debt the refuses to budge europeans themselves are less convinced they should suffer his wages and jobs a pad back off he hears from a union leader who says the public won't stand for bailing out of his mistakes stay with us.

today i'm talking to marx to watch because he was one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union he's three hundred thousand members are walking out of a proposed reforms to the pension scheme mr walker thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is possible plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be gives an impression of what they might mean for the cuts of the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. to mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private sector as a direct result we're seeing changes in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to that in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social services everything that

people have taken for granted over years is ultimately. you seem to see these cuts in terms of right and wrong almost a moral position but isn't there has to be respected for example they didn't reform and soon it looks like they might not be able to afford teachers or nurses. in greece this is the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now. millions of houses schools hospitals are well first recognizing actually economically it will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who can pay tax and insurance rather than throw them on to. where actually they depress the economy and we think my friends with us you've said that the government cuts just attack working people. but how do you think that

strikes you're proposing will affect the government and the ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that has hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish to the government is will come back in the autumn when we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government realize that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe that pressure ultimately can force them to change direction the government's bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem excessive a lot of money how do you suggest that they would use it. i don't think they should reduce it i'm quite clear that retirement of dignity and old age where you don't have to struggle to make ends meet should be what we aspire for in the fifth richest country in the world and so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and instead of

a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a rising the pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement and not be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three or four years the tax gap where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year we actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and a lot of private sector workers say that you the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private provision i do you think there's really public support for what you're doing ali opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important and are either at the right level or should even be higher that's incredible when you think of the propaganda we've had over the last two years from politicians in the media telling everybody the public sector pensions are the cause of people's problems my masters to pry. sector workers if they're being exploited by their

shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector workers pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up not cut down to the worst what you simulate what would you accept in terms of pension reform well i personally believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they cost in the last because it's not about pensions it's about raising taxes to solve the deficit i don't believe people should be forced to work longer i don't believe people should have the levers of their pension slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment unless the government fundamentally accepts they have to talk about those things then i believe the industrial action is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to negotiate so what's the point of striking. when the point is to change your mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go see it when they could be millions of

people taking strike action is entirely another we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and students all becoming a joint campaign is going to be politically very powerful and already seen in a march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people three months ago transformed the political mood in this country wolf i'm not going to our legal work that strikes actually how exactly do you think that march changed the political needs is transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station it gave people a confidence that however small a community and i have a small they have seen for example keeping alive they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from a march to now for unions balancing members and members voting overwhelmingly for a strike so it's clearly transforming not. people's confidence but the opinion

polls clearly are shifting whereas a majority before strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to the crisis that we're seeing in the. financial services sector do you think there is political will to create a more responsible banking community. or i would always question whether the exists when the carbon twenty three multimillionaires in that when they have members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with paying their taxes although you go clearly not moral therefore i don't actually believe there is the political will of this government to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich course but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking sector cost and as we're doing this interview members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet the job holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already millionaires trousering millions more

in bonuses that's got to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis. has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently the air force said that he needed more money to sustain a campaign in libya and also enough got it started do you think there's a moral vacuum in westminster because if these kinds of things to happen that the government would cut spending and to enjoy another war which is what i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we have been told there were strapped for cash everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing trident on fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya are wrong and misjudged what people claim are about and we should actually find a way out of those pretty quickly and not make the situation in those countries worse as well as the same time take valuable resources. going to schools and

hospitals and finally you opposite number at unison the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of industrial action that carries on students are you prepared to join us if we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike because we want the government to set up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of their practices you know sent home i want to work very closely with him and all the other trade unions in britain to ensure that when working people are making a protest the protest is a politician as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so welcome thank you very much like you. were at the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared keep the risk is not zero that something

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nineteen forty five dots on t.v. dot com. headlines on r t and eight european banks have failed stress tests on whether they can cope with another credit crunch italy meanwhile has approved a tough austerity budget aimed at a working a full scale financial crisis the country is the euro zone's of good largest economy which some consider too big to fail. rupert murdoch loses a lieutenant's on both sides of the atlantic as the screws typing on a media empire built on peddling sleaze and targeting victims of his long serving right hand man in america is resigning following friday's departure of the embattled rebecca brooks as news corp u.k. . faces

a probe for allegedly helping to find nine eleven. and libya's a bank balance of power shifts as the u.s. joins dozens of its allies and recognizing the rebel authority as the legitimate governing body it also gives them access to billions of dollars of khadafi has assets frozen by america but skeptics say it's a desperate effort against the libyan leader and nato airstrikes fail to make significant progress. right those are the headlines here on our now what i'm going to go for who's turning heads at the open championship all the details next. hello there thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines. holding off the pack down clark in lucas glover lead the open championship by single shot at the halfway stage. passed by king victory norway's paul who shot one stage thirteen

of the tour de france as local hero thomas voeckler hangs on to the lead yellow jersey. and cancer by russian tennis star alisa kleybanova reveal she is fighting the disease on her twenty second. but first the joint leaders of the open championship darren clarke and lucas glover will start their penultimate round a little later with clarke hoping for repeat the form that saw him shoot to the top of the leaderboard after carding a two under par sixty eight although there will be no world number one luke donald all number to lee westwood who both missed the cup well american glover was aiming to build on his own round of sixty six and could have ended a two as the out right leader if he had sunk busy goal he carded a seventy two leaving that fall under par and joining him at the top of the leaderboard is clarke the norm marshman had an eeg on five birdies including this one eighty post another sixty eight now four plays are a shot back and that includes martin kyra seen here it is steady round of sixty

nine first round lead it always be almost along with chad campbell also tied in second place and say to the spaniard mika angle him in there he sunk a piece along part of the six before finishing on three under. them at a time lewis grabbed the headlines when he led on the opening day and although he has slipped down the field he's still only three shots off the pace and in contention. good form yesterday that's for the shot of the day we go to five time open champion tom watson he laid down a nearly marker for the holy one at the six but a sixty one year old said he didn't see the ball forward and stick up from the table to tell what it happened from the crowd cheer these boys shot back the headlines along the clock. to protest leader made up.

pretty good but. i'm going to go with a little girl so we got through we can go thirty six holes we can trust condition because. you know it's could be any but everything coming up i'm going to get the. memorable right saw world road race champion toll who shot claim this first stage win at this year's tour de france it was the second day in the pyrenees yesterday in a norwegian decided to attack during this hundred fifty kilometer route from lord's but as they went up the first climb with the day he was passed by germany and try to open up a big lead at the cold the skate he was the first to the top of the mountain and had a lead of nearly three minutes but shove and dave monk hadn't given up and despite encouragement from her team bosses. there who showed up at the french when the round two kilometers to go before powering home county also passed boy literally it is by the end that he does get the polka dot jersey mark cavendish still holds the

sprint his green jersey thomas voeckler good enough to keep the oval lead this yellow jersey whether he will compete again today though it's doubtful the five big mountains to climb but what a stage when they're shocked. some sad news russian tennis player lisa kleybanova has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make me on her twenty second birthday she has not played a match since may i missed the french open and moved on in a message on the w.t. a website clear benefits. said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma it's hopeful she may have a chance to return to playing tennis if the treatment is successful over the next few weeks few months. we wish her well and a full recovery meanwhile the year for men's number one college farrow has reached the semifinals of the mercedes cup in stuttgart for arrow has eighty five in the world rankings since his two thousand and three french open triumph but the thirty one year old is in his first semifinal of the season after beating for

a spaniard marcel got a notice needing just two sets and just under one and a half to complete the win and will play arjun time qualifier for every code billboard this next. polish wild card school board is also in the semi's grinding out a three set victory over twenty three seed colombian santiago good i'll go one more place spain's pablo and do it for a place in a final. and you made the loss for him self in the state he's come up with an easy win beating jimmy cedric marcel stead sixty six one in just over an hour all the remaining players friends of net chances after the top eight seeds failed to make even the quarterfinals. plenty of drama at the silk away rally russian field as a bit of thought he had won the moscow to sochi race after finishing top of the standings when today's last stage was cancelled because of flooding but in the last

few minutes officials have given him a retrospective one hour penalty after speeding on a road section meaning he slips the second and alex low price from the czech republic has been crowned the champion real disappointment to complete it often came twelve in these cars and trucks on yesterday's stage one by fellow russian beer but we still top of the standings and for the fish with andy in that time penalty however college kids first take me on is in the car category he finished third during yesterday's four hundred kilometer route from start a poll to michael and that gave him a minute and fourteen secondly over nearest rival french minster had a handful despite the final stage being cancelled competitors are still making their way to such an via main road for the price given. what we're now into time former russian champions league is than i've been drawn against ukraine runners up in army kiev for the third qualifying round of the champions league which is a double header in the first match is g. later this month the draw was announced that you a for headquarters in geneva putting against each other the top two clubs from the

former soviet union for the second time in three years rubin and in are also met twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine ukraine outfit won the home tie three one while holding their cemented gold strong because them though neither of the two sides progressed losing out to group winners barcelona and eventual champions into my land. now any rate be found those new zealand are the team who play in black and their prime minister has branded england wonder after. they revealed they too will wear black for at least one of their games at the upcoming world cup england will wear black away strip for their clash with argentina on september tenth and it has raised some eyebrows after all the people we see here have made black their color since eight hundred seventy four the union say they did consult their new zealand counterparts and for making the decision you will blacks and sell say they're not too bothered but new zealand prime minister isn't too happy. i think it's

a bunch of want to be only one team that we would broaden it's the. surprise that made it both with just the good news is that cap would look when the plate ulick's was with the home side but it was just that to what degree and finally how much further would you go to make your dreams come true well for one man there seem to be no limits at all as world champion kayaker sam certain has taken this to be extreme and explore the remotest parts of the globe including siberia risking his life on the deadliest rivers on earth. as his story. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seas like these are rather an exception for white water kayaker grueling rapids and plunge waterfalls what these adrenaline junkies are after and the best of them all the young and very new zealander some sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge the twenty two he's the reigning extreme kayaking will champion and he sets out on a global johnny to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called real gods

the world renowned biographer could spell certain death for a row or so since quest began in siberia russia were just faced with huge amounts of water and you're looking down these ridges in it your faces the wall of water you can't even see where you're going you can't see any of your team mates because you're down in the hollow and it's just like pedaling against god's hand you know it's just out there trying to take it down and you just gotta be strong and get through it and not want to settle for anything in between salmon kowtows arguably the most modern river in russia called the bash house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam going down to pascal's meant only a life changing experience but then of course i meant for the whole expression you're looking down at the river all of these emotions come out from within you just thinking about friends that you'd lost in the river and then what's really important to you in life you know and at that stage it just seemed like parity with

all the treacherous turns negotiated in the aisle to mount since sam moved on to iceland geysers are the first thing that might pop into mind but after these three what if all should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so free fall off them and heating the water again is not dissimilar to car crash and survive in is what gives these man the softer thrills what survives current in your brain has receded and all those emotions that you just conquered that goal come through it's. just you know the risk at sea for a week was smaller than the rewards in the rowboat was just so right the basic worthwhile if that wasn't an obscene venture further into the mexican jungle and it is then that the new zealander found she's really called the shark in blue waters of a cause to provide in the cascades a few streams some even discovered a waterfall that had never been kind of fun before and should be happy at least

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