with r.t. live from the heart of moscow a quick recap now at the top stories out of ninety european banks a failed stress tests based on a worst case economic scenario a majority of them were in spain to be next in line for an international battle. group of model 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 libyan rebels are now officially recognized by more than thirty other countries including the us and the recognition of potentially hands the opposition access to billions of dollars of could assets frozen in american banks. all right eye wall governments cut back spending to tackle debts that refused to budge europeans themselves a less convinced that they should pay for the mistakes of banks and politicians next we hear from a u.k. trade union leader who says the public won't take this without a fight. today i'm talking to mark so what 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 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 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 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 addressed you seem to see these cuts in terms of right and wrong almost a moral position but isn't there a bottom line that 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 the u.k. economy isn't 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 go millions of houses we have schools hospitals

well first recognizing actually economically these cuts will 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 make friends with us you've said that the government cuts are now just attack working people but how do you think that strikes you're proposing will affect the government and the ruling classes. what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that 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 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. i'm 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 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 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 sector do you think there's really public support for what you're doing the 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 it 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 message to private sector workers is 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 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 cost in the last 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 pensions 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 their mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they are in a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you won't negotiate 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 prolifically very powerful we've already seen in britain a march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people transform the political mood in this country from march can do to our viewers we're walking strikes actually to how exactly do you think that march changed political me is transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people the confidence that however small the community and i

have a small of a back seat for example keeping alive 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 are poor strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to them at the. prices that we're seeing in the may was caused certainly in part by a reckless financial services sector do you think there's political will now to create a more. community. where i would always question whether. the carbon twenty three multimillionaires in that when they have cabinet members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the ego 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 the 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 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 at home and to enjoy another war abroad while i think there isn't any political 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 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 not make the situation in those countries worse as well as of the same time take valuable resources going to schools and hospitals and finally your opposite number at unison the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of industrial action that carries on. are you prepared to join. yes we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike but because we want a government to set up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of the apprentice 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 a protest is as hard hitting as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so welcome thank you very much like you.

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headlines on this saturday here on our next to the sports. thanks rory always great to have your company here in twenty four hour our t.v. this is sports today plenty ahead to go. back to the u.s.s.r. it's a salvi a clash of yesteryear with. kiev set to meet for a place in the champions league group stages. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star ali six a bonobo revealed she's talking culture. and taking the plunge one man's quest to talk a little sick stream claque tracks in the world takes and among many other destinations to siberia. fascinating stuff and more than just

a moment but let's get underway with some live action on goal for joint british open leaders darren clarke and lucas plummer they've just teed off some with clark aiming for another strong showing after firing two rounds of sixty eight on thursday and again on friday on the northern irishman has already birdied out the first take on our right lead with blubber being on the same putting him john in the leader forward to join first strong leader thomas bjorn the shots behind clark after carding a birdie at the second yesterday's yesterday i should say world of the long looked on the field to make the cuts. now for some news russian tennis player alisa clip bonobo has revealed she has cancer of the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday to talk about hasn't played a match since may missing post the french open on wimbledon in a message on the w.t. website the muscovite said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma put out and she was hopeful she may have

a chance to return to the sport if treatment is successful over the next few months . princeton football where it's a blast from the past in champions league qualifying two time former russian champions routine has on set to meet ukrainian here for a place in the group stages the first match of the double header taking place later this month they're drawing on thank you with the headquarters in geneva puts together the clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years but have been also meeting twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine the kiev are fit winning the home tie three one before holding her biography is meant to call a straw in concern neither of the two sides progress the losing are to group winners barcelona on a french will champions enter. scottish midfielder charlie adam has opened his goal scoring tally for a new side liverpool as the reds thrashed a malaysian select six three in a pre-season friendly former bloc pool none of them hitting the nets from the spot

with bit through the first half an equaliser from a free kick back on level terms shortly before the break however it was essentially one way reds traffic after the restart david m. dog netting twice as many minutes before. followed that up with a sliding fourth goal for liverpool accountable for marching by then but local top scorer mohammad saffi served up a quick brace off the bench to put malaysia within a ball however stoppage time put an end to the comeback of a real guess heading home his second of the night here and then dirk point completed the six three scoreline with just thirty seconds left to play. elsewhere and as a patient is having fever pitch stateside with david beckham preparing to face his former side real madrid for the first time since leaving spain some four years ago but reality manager joe simmering you're putting his charges through their paces

ahead of a friendly with beckons current los angeles galaxy and lott should resign the curtain on reales north america to work with last electricals flexing their muscles ahead of the new premier league season due to kick off next month seventy five thousand fans are expected to pack into the los angeles policy and for saturday's fixture. we haven't heard much time to analyze the early good looks the squad put through really know the team they play really hard and they have very good individual players like landon donovan hohn problem and. produce important for our species and preparation game there has been plenty of drama at the silk russian furred compere off thoughts on the mosque with a story recently finishing top of the standings after today's final stage was cancelled because of flooding but officials have hunted him a one hour penalty for speeding meaning he starts the second on low price is chopping and massive disappointment for clear off who came twelfth in his comers

truck yesterday the stage it was won by fellow i would idea christophe polish it meanwhile took the entourage in they car how to read up all finishing third during yesterday's four hundred kilometer route from start a pole to my car and thus give him a one minute fourteen second lead over nearest rival frenchman stephan. any rugby fan knows new zealand all the team who play in black on their prime minister is probably to any and punch of one of the softer they revealed to wear a block for at least one of their games this autumn's world cup payments will wear the dark away strip for their clash with argentina on september the ten minutes raise some eyebrows after all the kiwis seen here have made block their color since eighteen seventy four the english rugby union say they did consult their new zealand counterparts before making the decision but new zealand's prime minister says events are playing eight she became i think it's

a bunch of want to be easy actually there's only one team that we could broaden it's the. surprise that maybe a very good uses they can weave like in the play the whigs was with the home side but i think it should stick to to what degree fighting talk beginning already see it now the spanish were flying high at the latest red bull x. five years event in madrid home hero downie tourists sending a capacity crowd into raptures out a storied bull ring in the capital on like any given sunday no real goals were to be seen on the plaza they told us the deal as a dentist since they took nine bugging bikes stones were on offer with former runner up for is having. like twenty five thousand partisan fans it was a second win of the season for tourists as he maintained his third place overall i wos or victory for the spaniard who should be all the happier to triumph on the sport's tenth anniversary last years were under a villa of norway to sell fifth but just enough though the sea in the standings

with two more freestyle shows to go but it was the non-tourist who stole the show. i'm very happy now because it is there's a good ten that i win here no measure is really important for me because i had a injury to motherwell oath but now i can write myself funny. i thought that was goose tickler this world champion kayaker some certain enjoys taking the sport to be extreme exploring the remotest parts of the globe including say bierria. reports now on a man who dare to dream. all is calm and quiet it looks like carol as an earth but seems like these are rather an exception for whitewater kayaker grueling rapids and plunge waterfalls these adrenaline junkies are after and the best of them all the young and very new zealander sam sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge at twenty two he's the really 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 biography can spell certain death for zero or so since quest began in siberia russia we're just faced with huge amounts of water you're looking down is written in your face with a wall of water you can't even see where you're going cap see any of your teammates because you're down in the hollow and it's just like pedaling it gets caught hair and you know it's just out there trying to take it out and you discover be strong and keep through it not want to settle for anything in between salmon kowtows arguably the most modern river in russia called the bosh house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claiming people's lives but luckily for sam going down the bosh talismans only a life changing experience. for the whole expression you're looking down at the river all of these equations caught up from within and you're just thinking about friends that you had lost in the river and what's really important to you in life

you know it at this stage you just seem like pick your clarity with all the treacherous turns negotiated in the aisle to mountains some move on to iceland geysers are the first thing that may pop into mind but after these three waterfalls should be the other one some of them are higher than an eight story building so freefall off them and hitting the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survive then is what gives these men this softer thrills minds come true in your brains reset ever or worse evolutions of that you just conquered that goal come through it's. yes you know the risk differently was smaller than the reward of roboticists very great embrace it worthwhile if that wasn't enough some ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is there that the new zealander found his river gods and shark in 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 with more defined adventures are sure to come. our teeth. really breathtaking stuff that's all from for me for that matter until the next two hours i'll see you then whether it's next then roy's here with all the news at the top of the hour. the admission free accreditation free zones for charges free coming from and so free. three stooges free. download free blown just plug in video for your media projects and a free media john to our teeth on tom. hungry for the full slate we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with

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