good to have you with us this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital b. twenty four hours a day top stories now eight out of nineteen european banks have failed stress test based on a worst case economic scenario a majority of them were in spain meanwhile italy has approved the toughest thirty 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 is rapidly losing hours on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire crumbling all sides.

preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel signed with the north of around one hundred thirty nine. cannot be back with not a summary for you in about fifteen minutes from now on the meantime e.u. governments cut back spending to tackle that's that refused to budge europeans themselves unless 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 marx to 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 mr walker thanks for talking to r.t. today now 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 cuts that most people will have seen in their lifetime they are projected 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 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 see if it looks like they might 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 kill millions of houses we build schools hospitals well first recognise and actually economically these cuts will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where actually they depress the economy and we think make things worse you've said that the government cuts are an outrageous attack on working people but how do you think the 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. 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 to government 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 first richest country in the world and so if we raise 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 in the tax code 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 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 provision i do you think that's really public support for what you're doing probably 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 problems my masters to private sector workers is they're being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector. because pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all levels up and not cut down to the worst similarly 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'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 and i

don't believe people should have the levers of a pension slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment unless the government fundamentally accepts they have to talk about those things and i believe the introduction is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't like its 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 won't negotiate 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 five hundred thousand people transform the political mood in this country from march can do that our view is well well could strikes actually how exactly do you think that not change the political needs is transformed in that

it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people a confidence that i have a smaller community and however small they have seen for example keeping a library 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 said they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to them i do. questions that we're seeing at the. 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 twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have members themselves who are granted fit in the past by playing fast and loose with. all ego clearly not morrow 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 caused and as we're doing this interview i have members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million trousering millions more enormous is going to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis. has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently. said he needed more money to sustain a campaign in libya. 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 enter into another war abroad which is what i think there is and politico consistency quite clearly we have been told there were. everything that we hold dear to be slashed and yet we can still talk

about renewing try again 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 at the same time to valuable resources that 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 because we want a government to step up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of their printers 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 the protest the protests this is politicking as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so what thank you very much like you.

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lives. with more stories for you more developments in less than fifteen minutes another all the latest in the world of sports with. thanks as always bill grip the have you with us this is sports today here on twenty four hour t.v. plenty heading. back to the u.s.s.r. to solve be a clash of yesteryear with rubin. said to me for a place in the champions league group stages. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star lisa clifford bolivar reveals she's fighting cancer. on teaching the plunge one man's quest to talk a little sick stream tracks in the world takes him among other destinations to siberia. let's get on the way with golf where overnight leader of the british open

darren clarke he still a one of the men to catch son wage the northern irishman fired off rounds of sixty eight on thursday and friday and has just begun the back nine today holding a one stroke lead alongside justin johnson the american on the northern irish man both on four under lucas lower he had been sitting alongside clark at the top after yesterday's run but there's no slip back to second after a disappointing start to the thomas bjorn piece there as well. some sad news the russian tennis player. has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday. and played a much since maybe missing both the french open and wimbledon in a message on the w t a website the muscovites said she's being treated for lymphoma but added she was hopeful she may have a chance to return to the sport if treatment is successful over the next few months

. our thoughts are with her let's move to football where it's a blast from the past in champions league qualifying time former russian champions rubin kazan set to meet ukrainians they know mickey have for a place in the group stages the first match of the double header taking place later this month a draw putting together the clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years we've been. meeting twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine the key winning the home tie three one before holding his men to cool a strong case on either of the two sides progress though losing are to group winners of course and eventual champions enter. the scottish midfielder charlie adam has open his goalscoring tally for liverpool the rage thrash the malaysian select six three and a pre-season friendly former black pool not i'm hitting the net from the spot midway through the first half an equaliser from

a free kick box on level terms shortly before the break though however it was essentially one way read strike after the restart stephen engelberg met him twice as many minutes before moxy world we guess fall develop with a sliding fourth goal for liverpool constable four one margin by then the local tops were mohammad saffi served up a quick brace off the bench to put malaysia with a no go. however stoppage time put an end to the comeback is heading home his second all tonight i then turquoise completed the six three score and we just thirty seconds left. i also anticipation is really hitting fever pitch stateside with david back and preparing to face his former side of the real madrid for the first time since leaving spain four years ago who ryall knowledge are two similarly new putting his charges through their paces ahead of a friendly with beckons her inside the los angeles galaxy. the last reason the

curtain on rails a north american tour with lost the technicals flexing their muscles ahead of the new premier league season key to kick off next month seventy five thousand fans well they're expected to pack into the los angeles coliseum for saturday's fixture . we're not going to look we haven't had much time to analyze the l.a. galaxy squads between already know the team good play really hard and they have very good individual players like landon donovan hohn public and david beckham but most importantly for us this is a preparation game. were not true thirds of the way through this year's tour de france on its belgian cyclist. claiming celebrating after claiming his need in stage when their victory offices fourteen also saw the amiga form a lot of writer of the king of the mountains classification voluntary just two points ahead of spain samuel sanchez who trailed by twenty one seconds to come in

second he was third fastest twenty five seconds further. local hopeful thomas voeckler retained the yellow jersey after finishing with the peloton. 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 revealed they too will wear black for at least one of their games this autumn's world cup and eventual where this dark awaits trip for their clash with argentina and september the tenth three so my bros after all the kiwi scene here of me block their colors since seventy four the english rugby union didn't consult the all blacks counterparts before making the decision but new zealand's prime minister see as england well they're playing at shady all game. i think it's a bunch of want to be easy actually there's only one team that we split but broaden it's the. surprise that. the good news is they can't we are going to play the whigs

was with the times on but here he should stick to what made him not mincing his words good to see moto g.p. standings leader casey stoner he secured his six pole of the season after prevailing in qualifying for some this german grand prix the tie session the session rang the former world champion edging on reps all on the team it drops the ball reading world time to jorge lorenzo will complete before the start of the race tomorrow pretty pace setter marco simoncelli he's fourth on the grid despite dominating both of friday's practices with. seven time for a champion volunteer lawsuit lugging way behind you a six think on the day. we struggled a little bit this morning until the end of the practice we did a little action on both tires and and fastest right around the end which was a race distance so we're really happy with that but it still wasn't quite fast enough so this afternoon we worked a lot more on both bikes going into different directions and then we managed to

make big step forward each time we try and tried something different there spanish were flying high up the leaders red bull x. fighters avenger madrid's home hero delhi tourist sending a capacity crowd into raptures at a story bull ring in the capital unlikely any given sunday no real both were to be seen at the plaza the tourists they love enter since their mind boggling bikes once were on offer with former runner up for is hitting the bulls eye to the like twenty five thousand yards and it was a second win of the season for torres as he maintained his third place overall but was there a victory for the spaniard who should be all the happier to triumph on the sport's tenth anniversary last years were up under a villa of norway hard to sell for fifths but just enough though to see him top of the standings with two more freestyle shows to go but i was on tour is for stole the show. i'm very happy now because it is their second time that they were here no measure is really important for me because i added injury to motherwell but now i

can ride it is a funny and if you thought that was cute get a load of this world champion kayaker some certainly enjoys taking his sports would be extreme exploring the remotest parts of the globe including siberia here in russia mikaela got shaw for reports on a man who dared to dream. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but sees that these are rather an exception for michael to. rule in rapids and plunge water falls how would these adrenaline junkies arrive to and the best of them all the young. and there are new zealander some sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge twenty two he's the reigning extreme kayaking will champion and he sets out on a global joy need to find the toughest was the way the reason the so-called rebbe gods the world renowned biographer could spell certain death for so since quest began in siberia russia were just faced with huge amounts of what are you looking

down these ridges 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 want to settle for anything in between salmon coach was arguably the most mountain 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 dylan donned a posh talisman only a life changing experience had a cold climate for the whole expression you're looking down at the river and 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 clarity with all the treacherous terms negotiated in that whole time out and since sam moved on to iceland prizes are the first thing that might pop into minds but after these three want to fall to be the other one

some of them are higher than an eight story building so free fall off them and heat in the water again is not dissimilar to car crash and survived and is what gives these men this softer thrills what survives coming to your brain's reset or worse at motion. but you just can't get that goal come through it's just you know the risk to family was smaller than the rewards of the room was just so great that basic worthwhile if that wasn't an option ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is there that the newseum. the found she's reviewed khalid's the shocking blue waters of the uk was sued provided the cascades of his dreams some even discovered and want to fold if it never been caught on before and should be have the least amount more defined adventures should come building on. some people call that nine boggling stuff that is all yours for fallacy in just

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