in india oh she's a great ability to move joyce below to the home of villas the gateway hotel the grand imperial troy to george was the first coromandel you can tell this was richard good to see don't need to go and. read this the colonel was her child has to retreat. and broadcasting live a direct from the heart of moscow where it is two thirty in the morning this is our team is really glad to have you with you taking you through the top headlines from finance to scandals in the media both europe look at those headlines right now eight out of ninety european banks have failed stress tests and based on the worst case economic scenario the majority of them were in spain meanwhile italy has approved a tough austerity budget aimed at of hurting

a full scale financial crisis. rupert murdoch has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world he's a rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire trying to stop itself from self destructing the iron grip his newspapers once held on british politicians hasn't crumbled as they turned on him seeking a new press regulation with public outrage now their most powerful weapon in taming the tabloids. and preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river before the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel sank with the loss of around one hundred thirty lives. while the government cut back spending to tackle debts that refused to budge europeans that selves are less convinced they should pay for the mistakes of banks and politicians next we hear from the u.k. trade union leader who says of the public will take this without

a fight. 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 let's just look at thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is part of the 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 big that most people will have seen in their lifetime they are projected to mean a 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 yours is ultimately. you seem to see these cuts in terms of right and wrong almost a moral position but is 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 millions of houses schools hospitals well first recognise and actually economically these cuts now if you will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who them pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto welfare where actually they depress the economy and we can make things worse you've said that the government cuts are now just 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's hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish of 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. we 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 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 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 where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector

becoming the model i'd like to see a rise in the 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 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 sector provision i do you think there's really public support for what you're doing opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important and 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 master's to private sector workers because they're being exploited by their

shareholders and by the company chiefs and not by public sector. because pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up and not cut down to the worst what. would you expect 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 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're having a chat 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 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 only from march can do that our view is well well could strikes actually to 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 and it gave people a confidence that however small the community and i have are small they have seen for example in a library or 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 survey of course strikes now in the most recent polls

a majority says they are sympathetic to them and to. crisis that we're seeing it was called certainly in part by a reckless financial services sector do you think there's political will now to create a more responsible banking community. or i would always question whether the exists when the carbon twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have cabinet members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with taxes already 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 course of 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 holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already millionaires trousering millions more and want to says 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 in afghanistan do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster because the kinds of things to happen that the government would cut spending at home and into another war abroad well i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we've been told there were. everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about renewing tribe and i'm fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya are all 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 at the same time to 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. are you prepared to join. we want more and more people to be involved because we want to be on strike because we want the government to sit up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of 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 the protest the protest is this politics and it's possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so what thanks very much. with the end of the boer war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons specifically a game that the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake specially. weapons on hair trigger alert. because of that to use it

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eight out of the ninety european banks have failed the stress tests are based on a worst case economic scenario a majority of them were 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 peace at rapidly losing allies on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire trying to stop itself from self destructing. and 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 sank with a loss of around one hundred thirty lives. and sports is up next with unit. pretty happy with this this is sports today plenty of heads over the next ten minutes including. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star lisa cliff reveals she's fighting cancer. capital clash the top two squads in world beach volleyball but that are for supremacy in moscow with the clock ticking down ahead of next year's london olympics. taking the plunge one man's quest to tackle the most extreme tracks in the world takes him among other destinations to siberia. but let's start with some news russian tennis player elise

equivalent of us has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday. and played a match since may missing both the french open and wimbledon in a message on the w.t. a website the muscovite said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma but i did she was hopeful she may have a chance to return to the sport if treatment is successful over the next few months . our very best to her let's move to golf for darren clarke will enter the last day of this year's british open as the man to catch the overnight leader firing off rounds of sixty nine on saturday to ensure he would take a one stroke lead into the final day justin johnson taking the lead from cork at one stage during the bach nine but northern irishman clarke wrestled it back with a twelve foot putt on the fourth being told rickie fowler and thomas bjorn like two shots behind american johnson with the lurking in the well kevin is alongside lucas

glover tied for fifth. for pole and scottish midfielder charlie adam has opened his goalscoring at conference liverpool as the reds thrashed out malaysian select six. three in a pre-season friendly former block them hitting the net from the spot midway through the first half an equaliser from a free kick the bucket level term shortly before the break. however it was essentially one we read traffic out for the restart even end dog getting twice as many minutes before. with a sliding fourth goal for liverpool a comfortable for one margin by the. local top scorer mohammad saffi served up a quick brace of the bench to put malaysia within a cool however stoppage time put an end to become i guess heading home his second of the night here. then completed the six three scoreline with just thirty seconds

left on the clock six three. where no two thirds of the way through this year's tour de france on its belgian cyclists yellow to celebrating after claiming his maiden stage win on saturday the victory after a stage fourteen also saw the immediate former lover rather good sort of a king of the classification just two points ahead of spain samuel sanchez who trailed by twenty one seconds to come in second to be schleck was third fastest twenty five seconds further back local hopeful thomas voeckler retained the yellow jersey after finishing with the power of. misty may trainer and kerry walsh up on the moscow leg of the world beach. reeling a limp dick champions upsetting the current world number one pairing brazil's arrest giuliana richard from poor fate took up a safe. the last go round of the world beach volleyball chaw has become a regular fixture of the russian capital summer sporting calendar how were the ones

for competition reaches its business and a lack of russians backyard for medals as unfortunate become an all too familiar occurrence this year was to prove no exception and time is running out for the london olympics to to get underway in just a year's time however the reigning olympic champions misty main kerry walsh are optimistic that russia could start to improve soon i was here last summer they actually have a good kids program you know development program and they're just they're catching up to the rest the world but india is their big things so there is a developmental program in the works and they are bringing players that it's just taking you know it's take full time but. there's some good young tools in the developmental so you know we play two rescue teams this weekend and they're so young and they're. nevertheless russia could do well to take a leaf out of china's book the school doesn't have a long tradition and even country however china just like in practically every

sport i'm a fantastic strides in the two thousand and eight beijing bronze medalist explained why. that's about. half an hour with a partner. who can join she couldn't make it all the way to the final but they were played italian pair of mini gati and she chalabi the bronze medal home the chinese would easily take the first chance they started in the second degree came to composure when it matters most said the decider and sealed first place. hours of the main event of the day so the reigning world champions the sundry honor from brazil take on the current and big gold medal is history may carry walsh of the u.s. saying. the american jew have been in the past the pullmans here for the. it back brilliantly to seal the one sided much in straight sets and gain a much needed confidence boost for the london olympics just from

a corner i think that's what's driving us right now you know and i know i think about it every turn mary damn thing i'm not overlooking anything but be every time god let a listener be amazing is that nobody's gotten to see what we're capable of so we want to like you you are saying this behind a very brazilian rivals are bred to feed the season. the crowd was partly entertained by one of those fans will be hoping one day they'll be able to achieve a victory of a russian jew hopefully this will happen sooner rather than made richard i'm hopeful you don't see. any union fan knows new zealand are the team who play in black their prime minister has branded england a bunch of after they reveals where the color for at least one of their games at this autumn's world cup i mean it will were this dark away strip for the clash with argentina on september tenth three so my bros after all the kiwis seen here

a lot of meat locker coalescence eighteen seventy four being assured we consult the all blacks before making the decision but new zealand's prime minister says england are playing shady king. i think it's a bunch of one of these actually there's only one team that was black but. i'm surprised that. the good news is they can't play the time sought. here stick to what. fighting talk from the pm well moving on where moto g.p. standings leader casey stoner how secured his sixth call of the season after prevailing in qualifying for some this german grand prix was a title session the session ring a string for the world champion stoner aging i wrestle hundred team a dummy. while title holder who will complete it. early pacesetter marco simoncelli is set to start from fourth on the grid despite dominating both of friday's decisions. and finally get

a load of this world champion kayaker enjoys taking his sport to be extreme exploring there were bogus parts of the globe including siberia here in russia. reports on a man who dared to dream. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seas like these are rather an exception for whitewater kayaking 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 twenty two he's the reigning extreme kayaking will champion and he set out on a global johnny to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called river gods the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for zero or so since quest began in siberia russia were just faced with huge amounts of what are you looking down is written in your face with a wall of water you can't even see where you're going you can't see any of your

teammates because you took out in the hollow and it's just like headway against god's hair and you know it's just out there trying to take it out and you discover be strong and get through it not to want to settle for anything in between salmon coaches' arguably the most modern river in russia called the bush house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam hill and on the bus callistemon is only a life changing experience and a cool moment for for the whole expression you're looking down at the river always a question scout from within and you're just thinking about friends that you'd lost in the river and then what's really important to you and what you know at this stage it just seems like clarity with all the treacherous terms negotiated and. gone to iceland geysers are the first thing that may pop into mind but after these three what a full should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so

free falling off them and heat in the water again is not dissimilar to car crash and survive in is what gives these man this softer thrills what it reminds come to in your prayers reset and or worse motions that you just can't get that goal come through it's. this you know if the risk to flee was smaller than the rewards in the rulebook is just so great to base it worthwhile if that's wasn't enough some ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is said that the new zealand the found she's really dogs the shocking blue waters of the across provide in the cascades of his dreams some even discounted and want to fold it had never been caught on before and should be happy at least for now but more defined in french is sure to come. on. watching that sometimes i'm happy just to be here i'm a nice quiet little studio is all this work for i whether it's next.

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