in the firing line barclays former bosses set for tough questioning from british m.p.'s this wednesday over a deepening banking scandal. but many people are also seeing why the u.k. government have allowed the financial industry to maintain its stranglehold over british politics the solo. ever on internet freedom parliament is expected to decide whether our highly disputed anti-piracy act will get the green light also. julian assange. it is through here it will be expose the old secrets as the final episode of julian assange as news

making interview show airs on our t.v. we look back at the highlights and impact of the series. on screen and on line twenty four hours a day seven days a week thank you for joining our team with me karen tara while the u.k.'s banking scandal is set to widen with departed barclays chief executive bob diamond to be quizzed by m.p.'s potentially dragging the bank of england and government officials into the affair the u.k.'s third largest lender has been found guilty of fixing a system of interbank lending rates it's all homeowners and businesses overcharged for loans at the height of the financial crisis the government's ordered a full parliamentary inquiry into the country's banking sector are to sarah for a three ports. it's been

a truly terrible week for the city's reputation and it could be set to get even worse than we've already seen buckley's bank leads a number of its top executives that of kools coming in the wake of the revelations that buckley's was involved in fixing key interest rates known as libel those interest rates were responsible for setting the calls the millions of businesses can see images and invest it is now following in the footsteps of the resignation of pokies chief executive paul diamond we've also seen buckley's chief operating officer jerry messier resigning as well but of course this story is so you much bigger than just a few key individuals this isn't about a few bad apples this is much deeper than that and is once again giving us a glimpse really into the roots and core of the city's banking sector now the big question now is what is going to happen next all that going to be more big resignations this scandal has once again called into question the entire culture

and practices of the banking industry and is not just barclays is thought as much as up to fifteen other institutions could also be implicated in this scandal now remember this is the industry there's always the board says they for the last four years the credit crunch a double dip recession a slew of stories about scandals involving extortionate bonuses you know we know all about the lifestyles of the rich and the shameless what the public want to know now is what is actually going to be done about it what took the inquiry at this point simply not going to cut it the public wants to see some real action here they're already big questions being asked if it why the regulatory bodies once able to step in now we know the serious fraud office the f.s.a. is looking at whether any criminal sanctions can be taken that's going to take a couple of weeks before we get. any answers but of course everyone is going to be

watching very closely as the former chief executive of buckley's bob diamond gets quizzed by m.p.'s over what exactly happened buckley's who was involved what went down there barclays was slapped with a fine of the equivalent of over four hundred fifty million dollars but economist rodney shakespeare says arrests need to be made while the whole western banking system is compromised. those are great because you see it's not just barclays of bob diamond and he's chairman it's the consequences in everyday life which is at the moment the system and it's corrections are putting money into this these zombie banks down a black hole as a result of all this employment is collapsing not just in the u.k. but right the way throughout europe and this is in the same is in the united states of america so you see there must be penalties there has to be a new pair of time thinking and frankly the whole ought to be cleared out and we

have to start again people don't realise that the politicians are complicit complicit because they think that the existing system only needs a few tweaks and a few corrections but that's not so all and me to gether but of course you have to hit those that you can pin with a criminal charge and that can be done through the charge of conspiracy to defraud the banks first sleepy and that can be done by insisting that they lend only their own money and with permission the deposits of their customers but it must be can administered on two key conditions but it only goes to the real economy and not into the casino in the gambling and it's only for the spreading of the real economy now if you do that you could in fact start to create what is now alas the claps of the western financial and economic system of which the barclay's story is only

a part here appear in parliament is due to decide on an online piracy pact which critics say risks destroying internet freedom the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement known as act hour is aimed at tackling copyright that earlier my colleague kevin allan talked to robert harris from the u.k.'s pirate party who says the treaty is unpopular and confusing at best. so. the people have. a. very very powerful no. i mean there's a lot of argument going to be devil's advocate keep it go it but support opponents of. their legal rights the two sides say yeah but where is the law do you think one

person's rights becomes an infringement in. the right i think some will have a right to any money. any sharing online and no money changing hands along with. selling the. together. to try to. sharing online money changing hands. what are people like you doing to meet these companies in the middle so to speak so that the people who make the movies and make the music they invest the time and they develop these things that develop the medicines as well don't get ripped off don't feel they're being ripped off and we'll get to enjoy these things at a fair price are you going to get around the table and talk any time soon. any.

amount in which of. these people. you want to have. you know with r t it's eight minutes past the hour and coming up the ninety nine percent are back or their first ever national gathering in the new assets. later we report on how occupy protesters are preparing for america's independence day and why they're being faced with a crackdown and mass arrests. and mind your language a dispute over the right to use russian in ukraine spills over into brawls in the streets and to the parliament as well we have more on this in a few minutes here on our t.v. . he's a mad under pressure from all corners sweden is set on extraditing julian assange to answer sex crimes allegations while the u.s. is investigating him for

a huge leak of secret files by wiki leaks the current the whistleblower rather is currently hold in ecuador's embassy in london waiting for a decision on his asylum bit also under house arrest of psalms was producing an interview show aired on r.t. which has made world headlines laura smith looks back at the news making progress. i'm julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemned this quote after quote evil or promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes judy and i saw interviewed opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum. and with the first guest being hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah the program proved it wasn't going to hold back from the get go talking to

a man the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we called for in serious negotiations dialogue and said to reform etc i'm always going to carry on because the alternative to that i know what the cause of the diversity is and i was inside syria because of the sensitivity of the situation in syria also that just i was there just civil war and this is exactly what america and israel want for syria elsewhere the joined up europe project came under fire from david horowitz in a show that pitted the outspoken right wing against radical leftists. the age old ideological fight threatened to turn physical had they been in the same room horowitz maintains europe is dead agrees oh it was a disastrous spirit europe but europe is a cultural theme park it's significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state that just took you out of the plot i have had personal experience

with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a passing. the global politics sea change also made waves but two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tariq ali and noam chomsky the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america you mentioned a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened there is the most repressed part of the population of the hemisphere the indigenous population has moved into the political arena i want you to know i am not defending it i think he is a dirtbag i think he is a dirtbag he obviously has no problem using his fifteen minutes of fame to sleep with anyone who is crawling dividing media opinion but getting real people talking today in a soldier's show hit the ground running and the public on the twitter sphere have

an appetite for more nothing short of groundbreaking revolutionary broadcasting. highly engaged in that significantly represents stiff of the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of julian assange his show. but there is no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm up for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would have one forcing for me and nobody would know. he was a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the us would indeed prosecute judy in our songs for west fear knowledge or worse given half a chance he's current be here at the ecuadorian embassy inducted waiting to hear whether he'll get asylum it's thought that prospect was first raised off mike during his interview with the ecuadorian president for the show broadcast on r.t.

mutual admiration is clear in that interview and it ends on a friendly but chilling note as he is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. take a. close associates given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs precariously in the balance laura smith london. fall of sort of julian assange has show in just over an hour here on our t.v. and it's on every two hours plus you can find all the previous episodes. so while you're all mine be sure to check out all the other stories we're covering on our website r.t.e. dot com. and if you're protective of your personal freedoms you could be considered

an extreme right wing terrorist in the u.s. at least that's what one study claims plus. these brazilian fighter pilots could be and big trouble after flying a bit too close to the capitol supreme court building and shattering all the windows in the world heritage landmark. the first ever nationwide protest is underway in the u.s. with the largest gathering expected for america's independence day demonstrators are rallying on the fourth of july to renew their protests against economic inequality homelessness debt and war activists started flocking to philadelphia over the weekend and already they've been met with a heavy police presence called sunday twenty six occupiers were taken into custody after a night demonstration the protests started in september last year in new york against

corporate greed corruption and the widening gap between the richest one percent and the rest of the population a little later a former wall street trader tells us that corruption in the political arena has to end for there to be real change in the u.s. . there is one general theme that unites all of occupy it is that money and politics has sort of corrupted the system to the extent that everything is broken and so i do think that that is our biggest challenge is how do we sort of pull back on that and how do we how do we fight one of my favorite signs and t. shirts i've seen and i saw a bunch of this on may day was someone was wearing a shirt that said i can't afford to live in. so i occupy wall street i mean there's been studies that have shown that the sort of bottom third of income brackets have no say have no influence over their elected officials the middle third has some say the top third has the most say so i do think that this is a big byproduct of the sort of corruption and of money and politics is the occupy movement. catch the full

interview in fifteen minutes here on our team. tear gas has been used in ukraine to disperse protesters angry and a new bill that allows wider use of the russian language in the country scuffles also broke out between demonstrators and police the protesters claim the use of russian and government offices and media impacts on the country's national language ukrainian to a half of ukrainians use russian as their primary language and under european law every ethnic group that makes up at least ten percent of all regions population can use its mother tongue locally the bill has yet to be signed into law by president victor deanna corbett who promised during his election campaign to promote russia to become a second official language and as art is only now reports scuffles frequently improve a part of ukraine's decision making. another day

another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated over a controversial language and all deputies used their fists to let their feelings be known one of the central figures in another recent scandal haunt you region's deputy but you could use the junker says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers that would have to finish my speech in order to start voting five to six people attacked me i'm a former weight lifter and could provide a strong physical reply but i didn't want to because then everyone would have said i was a thug. but it was hard to restrain myself especially after a bottle was thrown at me after these events i received threats and i had to move my family. heated debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the rada two years ago when parliament was due to ratify agreements with moscow on the stand that leaves of russia's black sea naval base small bombs went

off and the rada speaker had to hide under an umbrella from a rain of rotten eggs thrown at him it may look like chaos and anarchy but for some in ukraine's political circles it is in fact democracy in action and when you listen to be given. you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures brutal as a last resort of delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work and can only happen in a democratic state is not a fact but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst the media every day intends to disagree he says deputies are weak and cannot bring anything to a logical conclusion neither the law making process nor the fights that is why he published a guide on how they should roll over. a dip in just table is an endless source for improvisation i've counted at least eighteen things that ever

table which could be used in a fist fight like the microphone or the hook which is used to hang one's back if they maim and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved the way for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. over the years fights in the rather have been attracting impressive audiences they are usually televised live on the parliamentary channel and they all favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens national wide again almost two years it had been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians had been deprived of televised fist fights within the parliament but now with a parliamentary election looming this fall deputies are expected to intensify their fight for the right to work inside this building. reporting from kiev in ukraine. still to come in just over a minute on r.t.e. welcoming the so-called god particle in the shrine of european physics. scientists

all over the world excitedly await an announcement by nuclear research earth's which promises to herald the dawn era more on that coming up. time now for some world news in brief for you this hour the homes and offices of former french president nicolas sarkozy have been raided as part of a funding inquiry police claim his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was illegally financed by the country's richest woman which he did not earlier reports had alleged that libyan leader moammar gadhafi donated tens of millions of dollars to help him win that race in december another french former president druck was found guilty of corruption and misuse of public money receiving a two year suspended sentence. pakistan has to reopen key to nato transit routes into afghanistan the decision comes after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton expressed regret over the deaths of two dozen

pakistani soldiers in an american air strike last november the taliban probably valid to attack nato convoys along the reopened routes which will play a significant role for the alliance before the planned pullout of all combat troops from afghanistan in twenty fourteen u.s. drone attacks however continue despite persistent calls from islamabad for a halt. three people have been killed or don't for a dozen injured in peru in clashes between police and demonstrators hundred stormed a government building in the north of the country in opposition to a multibillion dollar mining project protesters have continued for months over the so-called conga scheme financed by u.s. phase company opponents claim it will harm the area's ecosystem and destroy water supplies. a militant group has said it was behind the attack on

a pro-government syrian t.v. channel last week which saw seven people killed the statement from the all nusra front was posted on an islamised internet forum it comes as president assad says he's prepared to leave his post if it brings stability to his country as u.n. peace efforts continue meanwhile government troops and rebels is intensifying nationwide. the european center for nuclear research or cern says it's ready to announce the most anticipated scientific discovery in over a decade rumor has it they found the tracks of the higgs both known as the god particle which could offer us answers as to how the universe works to break it all down artie's peter oliver spoke to a surface a physicist. since it was first theorized almost fifty years ago scientists have been striving to prove the existence of the higgs bo's'n the reason for the decades of higgs hunting is the hope that this elusive particle can fill in some of the

gaps in our understanding of how the universe works but the dominant theory physicists work with has the less than grandiose title of the standard model now if we think of our theory as a jigsaw with a whole load of pieces missing finding out that the higgs does exist would allow those gaps to be filled in giving scientists a clearer picture of what is in front of them this particle or sort of the holes of one it was not planned experiment on people was hunting quarters particles for years and now we are witnessing clearly historical one one of the reasons for such advancements in this area of physics is the large hadron collider the work done at the twenty five kilometer long particle accelerator under the border between france and switzerland has been crucial to furthering our knowledge of what makes the universe tick all for the tidy sum of two point six billion dollars despite excitement from the scientific community at times the general public struggle to

understand why this work is taking place even suggesting that experiments at the l h c could bring about serious disaster something that physicists say is ridiculous not. of where we're concerned. i don't think danger was really much more your estimate that they believe but look to. explain what is the higgs boredom it's probably i'm into because normal people's probably one more complicated than defiant in this particle well complicated mysterious and at times just plain confusing it certainly is but the possibilities that it could open up for science are endless who's to know where the discoveries made at the l h c could lie. in the future. artie. daniels our business starts now and daniel it seems i'm being warned why i have to pay for more and more money for food like bread and meat

that's right farmers have raised the alarm of the freak weather across the globe saying grain prices through the roof drought in the us has hit harvests raise prices fourteen percent in a week on usually heavy rain in russia which is a big exporter of grain is also brought record inflation some experts fear countries will now bring back export bans we saw during the summer extremes of two thousand and eight to guarantee supplies at home. china services p.m.i. is sending the shanghai exchange down but japan closed slightly in the black a few minutes ago is pretty flat as well in the first few minutes of the yesterday's big gains of almost four percent still clinging on to just going on the fourteen hundred points this hour and the ruble just last point three percent to the greenback and point two percent to the euro of yesterday's gains as well the euro's shedding to the dollar this hour crude is near its highest in a month as a role threatens retaliation for with the oil sanctions brant is still holding just

over one hundred dollars a barrel this hour and americans have been overpaying for their computers and t.v.'s off the to sheeba was felt a fixed price is the top japanese producer has been fined for colluding with competitors on the l.c.d. panels used to build p.c. screens is the second big scandal of the seven l.c.d. makers including some soon refunded cause the most whole of billion dollars in a price fixing settlement and europe today will be back next hour with more for you it seems like we're overpaying for almost everything daniel thank you. now switching gears all russian female tennis players are now out of the wimbledon tournament more details on the latest results are coming up in sport in just over fifteen minutes but first the headlines.

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