we both schools hospitals well first recognizing actually economically these cuts will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who then pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where actually they depress the economy and we think my friends worse you've said that the government cuts just attack working people but how do you think the strikes you're proposing will affect the. ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that doesn't happen in this country for decades it's the start not the finish to the government is will come back in the autumn and we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government realise 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 you say. 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 first 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 of 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. where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and a lot of private sector workers say that see the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector pervade. do you think there's really public support for

what you're doing well the opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important arriving 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 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 what you would do except 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're costing less because that'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're having a chat with a few people in the room is one thing saying you won't negotiate when there 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 poetically very powerful we've already seen in britain a march of one hundred five hundred thousand people transformed the political mood in this country from march can do that our viewers well could strikes actually do 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 him. however small the community and i have

a small they seem for example. they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's giving 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 said they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to the crisis 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 exist when the carbon twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have 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 that 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 struggling to make ends meet they don't have holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million as trousering millions more in bonuses 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 air force said that 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 cause these days kinds of things to happen that the government would cut spending and to enjoy another war abroad while i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we've been told that. 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 they misjudged what people claim they are about and we should actually find a way out of those pretty quickly not make the situation in those countries worse as well as at the same time take valuable resources that could go into schools and hospitals and finally you opposite number. the country's biggest you need it stressing this wave of industrial action that carries. are you prepared to join us we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike but because we want the government to sit up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of. how 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 protesters as soon as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds thank you very much.

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headlines on r t eight nineteen european banks have failed a stress test based on the worst case economics. are in spain meanwhile italy has approved a tough austerity budget and diverting 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 atlantic with his media empire crumbling on all sides of. the us more than thirty other countries now recognize the libyan rebel of the country's legitimate government their recognition potentially has the opposition access to billions of dollars of assets frozen in america banks. are so you know those are the headlines time for your world of sports i tell you i

had a quick look through your bulletins earlier and i have to say car king has never looked so thrilling and yet so terrifying absolutely some amazing pictures things people do for fun you wouldn't catch me doing i'll tell you that but it is quite extraordinary adrenaline junkie yeah you know these people they do it for fun the 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 plenty ahead over the next ten minutes think. back to the u.s.s.r. it's a song we had a clash of yesteryear with. the now much kiev set to meet for a place in the champions league group stages. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star lisa clip on the but reveals she's fighting

cancer. and taking the plunge in one man's quest to talk a little steak green tricks in the world takes him among other places to siberia. and with golf or day three up 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 yes to the evening look at slower 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 the top on four on their part and joining him at the summits is darning clark the northern irishman sinking and eagle and five birdies including this. post his second straight sixty eight for pleasure a shot back including martin timer seen here who had a steady round of sixty nine first round leader thomas bjorn along with chad

campbell are also tied in second place and so to a spaniard make him an a as he sunk this long birdie putt up the six before finishing on three younger for the world's top two of luke donald to number two leave it west with both missed the cut to the same can't be said for amateur tom lewis and he made the headlines for all the right reasons sitting only three shots off the pace on in contention after this. some sad news russian tennis player. has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday but hasn't played a match since may missing both the french open wimbledon and the message on the w.t. a website the mosque invites said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma but added 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 ukrainian steal my career for a place in the group stages the first match of the double header taken place later this month the draw was ninety two if the headquarters in geneva now the game pits together the clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years rubin also met twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine the kiev outfit winning the home tie three one before holding men to a cooler straw in neither of the two sides progress though losing out to group winners barcelona and eventual champions inter milan. now anticipation is hitting fever 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 appearing to face off against beckons current side the los angeles galaxy the not to raise the curtain on the realities

of north american tour with last galactic codes flexing their muscles and of the new premier league season due to kick off next month seventy five thousand fans are expected to cheer them on after the los angeles coliseum. we haven't had much time to analyze the l.a. galaxy squad between already know the team play really hard and they have very good individual players like landon donovan hohn problem and david beckham but no simple computer on species and preparation game. plenty of drama the silk way rally russian firdaus kabir off thought he'd won the moscow of the sort she raced after finishing top of the standings after today's the last stage was cancelled because of flooding but officials have hung him a one hour penalty after speeding on a rude section meaning he slips a second low price is now a champion of disappointment for could be off who came twelfth in this case truck

yesterday this stage won by fellow russians higher after my diet of christophe meanwhile took the honors in the car how to read a paul finishing third during yesterday's four hundred kilometer route from stubborn pole to my car and not give him a minute fourteen second lead of the nearest rival frenchman stephan better still. now any rugby fan knows new zealand are the team who play in block their prime minister has branded england a bunch of wannabes after they reveal to you that they will wear black for at least one of their games up this autumn's world cup were the dark away strip for their clash with argentina on september the tenth. has raised some eyebrows after all the kiwis seen here have made block their color since one thousand seventy four being a shrubby union say they had to consult their new zealand country parts before making the decision to host themselves say they're not too bothered but new zealand's prime minister well he isn't copy. it's

a bunch of want to be easy actually there's only one team that we split with broad and it's the. surprise of my biggest the good news is that we've like when the plane was with the times on. the up it was just stick to what. we were all starting off now the spanish were flying high at the latest red bull x. five hundred event in madrid home hero tourists sending the capacity crowd into raptures not a storied bowl ring in the capital unlike kenny given sunday no real bowls were to be seen off the plaza to twelve still a ventus instead mind boggling bike stunts were an offer with former runner up torres hitting the bull's eye to belike twenty five thoughts of partisan fons as a second win of the season for torres maintains his third base overall a well deserved victory for the spine you're who should be all the help you triumph on the sport's tenth anniversary last years are all under a veil of norway how to sell for fifth ball just enough though to see him go top of the standings with two more freestyle shows to go but it was torres he stole the

show. i'm very happy now because it is their second time that they were here know him as ray's rainbird never made me go i had to andrey to mother both but now i can ride on the money. and finally let's finish by getting the blood pumping take a look now a champion kayaker some certain takes the sported a extreme extolling the remotest parts of the globe including here in siberia. off the story. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seems like these are rather an exception for whites want to. rule in rapids and plunge waterfalls these adrenaline junkies a raft and the best of them all the young and very new zealand sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge the twenty two he's the reigning extreme collie i can bowl champion and he set out on a global journey to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called river god

the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for so sense quest began in siberia russia were just faced with huge amounts of water and you're 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 teammates 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 got to be strong and get through it not to want to settle for anything in between salmon coach arguably the most modern river in russia called the bosch house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam going down the only a life changing experience the pinnacle moment for for the whole expression you're looking down at the river all of these emotions come up from within and you're just thinking about friends that you'd lost in the river and what's really important to you in life you know and at that stage you just see life and pure clarity with all

the treacherous terms negotiated in the. dawn to iceland geysers are the first thing that made pop into mind but after these three waterfalls should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so free fall on. and heating the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these men this sawed off to thrills whites or minds come to your brains reset and all those emotions but you just can't get that goal come through it's just all worth it you know the risk it definitely was smaller than the rewards and the robot was just so great it may sit with war if that wasn't enough some ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is there that the new zealander found his river god the shocking blue waters of the ark was to provide in the cascades of his dreams some even discovered a waterfall that had never been carved on before and should be happy at least for

now but more define adventures are sure to come. r t. after all that i think i'm happy here in the studio crazy pictures whole lot is all your sport whether it's next. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. download the official location. called touch from the top story. one life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine comes and says feed now in the palm of your. question on the dot com.

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don't need to go. wrong this is the colonel was a hotel retreat. a european bank stress tests for a worse case of economic scenario clouds threatening to rain down on the. ongoing financial storm. rupert murdoch's media empire is crumbling following allegations but the public appetite for scandal seems as strong as ever feeding the ruthless tabloid machine. recognizes the libyan rebels as the country's legitimate government. billions of dollars of assets frozen continue. you can join us on this. eight out of ninety eight european banks have failed

stress tests designed to determine whether that full and event of another crisis the majority of those are in spain the country feared to be next in line for a bailout meanwhile on friday italy passed seventy billion euros worth of cuts to fend off its own spiraling. reports the euro fairy tale seems to be moving closer to collapse. as the clouds gather a very thin in the greek battle continue timescape now like. what everybody here. is for the future if you're using countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable ground can the euro write out this financial storm this is really something quite frightening if indeed italy really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly

a totally new phase of this euro crisis new dimension theory fairy tale was all too appealing countries trip save themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left regretting taking the bait with that amount. not bad i mean the product of. this hallowed. high after more than a decade of growth businesses like badasses have been hit hard whilst the center shopping street in athens is still bustling the problems with the economy means that many businesses here in greece has simply gone and joining the euro meant european prices for many of the members with we could colonies it didn't mean european wages with one botched bailout after another year of skeptics who warned of danger from the start may have become the unlikely heroes of this tale just who the hell.