it's now a four thirty pm here in the russian capital with the research council eight out of ninety european banks have failed a stress test based on a worst case economic scenario a job here for in spain meanwhile italy has approved a tough austerity budget aimed at averting a full scale financial crisis. rupert murdoch has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world he's rapidly losing

allies on both sides of the his media empire crumbling. and the u.s. more than the thirty eight other countries now recognize the libyan rebels as the country's legitimate government recognition of attention leanne's the opposition abscessed of billions of dollars of assets frozen in american hands. while e.u. governments cut back spending to tackle that refused to budge europeans themselves are less convinced that they should pay for the mistakes of bikes and politicians we hear from the u.k. trade union leader who says the public won't take this without a fight to stop. today i'm talking to mark so watch because he's 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 thanks for talking to r.t.

today know this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be give us an impression of what they might mean for the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. i 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 care services everything that people have taken for granted over years is ultimately. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrongs almost a moral position but isn't there a bottom line that has to be respected 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 then we millions of houses schools hospitals were first recognizing actually economically these cuts in our view would make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where actually they depress the economy and we think we're friends with us you've said that the government cuts are now just attack working people but how do you think the strikes you're proposing will affect. the ruling classes. what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something the house hasn't gotten 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 the 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 pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement and that could 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 private sector workers say that she the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing poorly opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important to arrive 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 problem my master's to private sector workers because 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 and not cut down to the worst of what you will soon like 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 are costing less 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 accept they have to talk about those things and 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 are going to chop with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go see it when there could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another and 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 we've already seen in britain a march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people transformed the political mood in this country from march can do that our view is well what could strikes

actually do how exactly do you think that march changed to political means it's transformed it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people a confidence that however small the community and however small they had back of the scene 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 a strike so it's clearly transforming not just people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly are shifting whereas a majority before so they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to them and the. prices that we're seeing in the may was cool certainly in part by a reckless financial services sector do you think there is political will now to create a more responsible banking community. where i would always question whether the exists when the carbon was twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have cabinet members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose

with taxes although you go clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe there is a political will of this government to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich caused but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking sector caused and as we're doing this interview members on fifteen thousand pounds a year are struggling to make ends meet the dollar holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already millionaires trousering millions more and donna says that's got to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis began britain has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently the british air force commander said he needed more money to sustain these campaigns in libya and also in afghanistan do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes these kinds of things to happen that the government would cut spending and enter into another war abroad while i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we've been told there were so strapped

for cash everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing trident and 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 of the same time take valuable resources could go into 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. are you prepared to join . we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike but because we want a government to sit up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of their practice in unison and we 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 hard hitting as possible because it's designed to get the

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headlines on our t.v. and eight out of nineteen european banks have failed the stress tests based on a worst case economics and. jordi of them are in spain meanwhile italy has approved a tough austerity project ended up pushing a full scale financial crisis. rupert murdoch has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world is rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire crumbling on all sides. and the u.s. more than thirty other countries now recognize the libyan rebels as the country's

legitimate government and their recognition potentially hands the opposition access to billions of dollars of cut off assets frozen in america banks. are so you know those are the headlines but now time for your world of sports i tell you i had a quick look through your bulletins earlier and i have to say cocking has never looked so thrilling and yet so terrifying absolutely some amazing pictures of the things people do for fun or you wouldn't catch me doing i'll tell you that but it is quite extraordinary and i want to put on a junkie you know these people that do it for fun they do it for sport on the kumite the other side looking cool i think if i went in i wouldn't come out alive but listen just a sec. great to have you with us this is sports today a pleasure you head over the next ten minutes slink. back to the u.s.s.r.

it's salvi a clash of yesteryear with rubin team now much he had six to meet place in the champions league group stages. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star lisa clip on the but revealed she's fighting cancer. on taking the plunge and one man's quest to talk a little steak stream tracks in the world takes him among other places. let's get going with call for day three of the british open is under way for the leaders have tied off yet so let's take a look at how we got to the halfway stage yesterday evening lucas glover he was aiming to build on his opening round of sixty six on the american could have ended run to the right leader if it sunk this eagle glover carving a seventy to leave him out of the top one four on the park joining him at the summit is darren clarke the northern irishman sinking an eagle and five birdies

including this. post the second straight sixty eight for players or a shot clock including martin timer seen here who had a steady run sixty nine percent leader thomas bjorn along with chad campbell are also tied in second place and so to a spaniard miguel human is he sent this long birdie putt up the six before finishing and younger for the world's top two of luke donald number two leave west with both missed the cut to the same company set for amateur tom lewis and he made the headlines for all the right reasons sitting only three shots off the pace and in contention after this. some news russian tennis player lisa cleared by oliver has revealed that she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday. hasn't played a match since may missing both the french open and were moved in in a message on the w.t. a web search the moscow fight said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma but

other age she was hopeful she may have a chance to return to tennis if the treatment is successful over the next few months ok let's talk football where it's a blast from the past in champions league qualifying two time former russian champions rubin kids on to meet ukrainians the nomic here for a place in the group stages the first match of the double header taken place later this month the draw was announced the arguing for headquarters in geneva now the game pits together the clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years rubin. twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine the key of our fit winning the home tie three one before holing dia's men to a color straw in neither of the two sides progress though losing our two group winners barcelona and eventual champions inter milan. now suspicion is setting favorite pitch with david beckham preparing to face his former side the real madrid

for the first time since leaving the club four years ago on the spanish giants they've also been busy manager joe simmering you're putting his charges through their paces ahead of the friendly reality praying to face off against back and sprints either los angeles galaxy the law to raise the curtain on reales a north american tour with lost the lucky cause flexing their muscles and a new premier league season due to kick off next month seventy five thousand fans are expected to cheer them on after los angeles policy. we haven't had much time to analyze the l.a. galaxy squads between already know the team they play really hard and they have very good individual players like landon donovan hohn problem and david beckham but most importantly for us this is a preparation game. plenty of drama at the so where rally russian that ferdaus kabir off thought he'd won the moscow of the sortie race after finishing top of the standings after today's last stage was cancelled because of flooding but officials

have hung him a one hour penalty after speeding on a rude section meaning he slipped a second look price there's no champion of disappointment for kabir off who came twelfth in his truck yesterday this stage won by fellow russian higher after my die of crystal palace meanwhile to be honest in the car how to greet the paul finishing third during yesterday's four hundred kilometer route from pole to my car and not give him a minute fourteen second lead of the nearest rival frenchman stephan once. any rugby fan knows new zealand are the team who play in block on their prime minister has branded england's a bunch of one of these after they revealed suit but they will wear black for at least one of their games this autumn's world will wear the dark away strip for their clash with argentina on september the tenth has raised some eyebrows after all the kiwi seen here have made their color since the eighteenth seventy four the

english rugby union see the sea consult their new zealand country parts before making the decision to host themselves say they're not too bothered put new zealand's prime minister well he isn't happy. it's a bunch of want to be easy actually there's only one thing that we would broaden it's the. surprise that maybe just the good news is they kept we were going to play the whigs was with the home side but it was just stick to to what degree we were off you know the spanish were flying the latest red bull x. fighters event in madrid home hero dummy tourist sending in a capacity crowd interrupt church not a storied bull ring in the capital one like he given sunday no real poles were to be seen on the plaza to twenty are still adventists instead mind boggling. bike stunts were an offer with former runner up torres hitting the bull's eye to belike twenty five thought as a participant funds of the second win of the season for torres he maintains his third place of role a well deserved victory for the spine your who should be holed up in your triumph

on the sport's tenth anniversary last years are up under a villa of norway how the sell for fifth bought just enough though to see him go top of the standings with she wore freestyle shoes to go but it was torres we still push the but i'm very happy now because it is there's a good thing that i win here no measure is rainbird done for me because i added injury to motherwell but now i can ride on the ice a fighting. and finally let's finish by getting the blood pumping take a look as world champion kayaker some sudden takes the sport to the extreme exposing the remotest parts of the globe including here in siberia. for us the story. coal is common quiets it looks like paradise on earth but sees like these are rather an exception for white water. in rapids and plants waterfalls these adrenaline junkies a raft 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 journey to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called river gods the world renowned younger falls could spell certain death for a rower so since quest began in siberia russia we're just faced with huge about what are you looking down these rivers in 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 out and you just gotta be strong and get through it and not want to settle for anything in between salmon coach els arguably the most modern river in russia called the brush house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claiming people's lives but luckily for sam go into on the bus callistemon only a life changing experience pedicle moment for the whole expression you're looking

down at the river all of these emotions come from within and you're just thinking about friends that you'd lost in the river and then what's really important to you in life you know it at that stage it just seemed like clarity with all the treacherous terms negotiated in the aisle to my own since sam gone to iceland geysers are the first thing that we put into mines but after these three wonderful should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so freefall off them and heating the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these man this softer thrills what's your mind's come to in your brains reset and all those emotions that that you've just conquered that goal cut through it's. sproull worth it you know the risk it differently was smaller than the rewards and the room was just started to write the basic worthwhile if that wasn't an obscene venture further into the mexican jungle

and it is said that the new zealander found she's really dogs the shocking blue waters of the ark was to provide in the cascades of his dreams some even discovered and what a fool that had never been kind of time before and should be happy at least for now but more death to find adventure is sure to come builder trophy on t.v. . after all i think i'm happy here in the studio crazy pictures whole lot is all your sport for what is next. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on. down the official t. application q i phone the i pod touch from the i q's apps to. enjoy life on the go. video on demand copies of mine gold

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