in the firing line barclay's former boss is set for tough questioning from british m.p.'s this wednesday over a deepening banking scandal. and many people are also seeing why the ek governments have allowed the financial industry to maintain its stranglehold over push politics aside a little. and a vote on internet freedom the e.u. parliament is expected to decide whether a highly disputed anti piracy act will get the green light also. drew in a sign. it is true for three weeks is the secret as the final episode of julian assange as news making interview show airs on our t.v.

we'll look back at the highlights and impact the series. life from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now it's great to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital eleven am in london and the u.k. is 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 the government and government officials into the affair and the u.k. stores largest lender has been found guilty of fixing a system of interbank lending rates it's all homeowners and businesses over charge for loans at the height of the financial crisis the government's ordered a full parliamentary inquiry into the country's banking sector artie's sorry for

reports. 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 bogeys chief executive paul dimond we've also seen buckley's chief operating officer jerry messier resigning as well but of course this story is slowly 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 they're 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 that this is the industry this already both sides like for the last four years the credit crunch a double dip recession a slew of stories about scandals involving extortion of 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 with talk of 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 all over 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 go. any answers but of course everyone is going to be watching very closely as the former chief executive of barclays bob diamond gets quizzed by m.p.'s over what exactly happened buckley's who was involved what went down there. now barclays was slapped with a fine of the equivalent of over four hundred fifty million dollars but economists run these shakespeare says a rat's need to be made on 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 its 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 as in the united states of america so you see there must be penalties there has to be

a new paradigm thinking and frankly the whole ought to be cleared out and we have to start again people don't realize 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 in together but of course you have to hit those that you can pin with a criminal charge and that can be done to the charge of conspiracy to defraud the banks first e.p. 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 and the gambling and it's only for the spreading of the real economy so 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 of the european parliament is due to decide on an online piracy pact which critics say risk destroying internet freedom the n.t. counterfeiting trade agreement known as act is aimed at tackling copyright theft my colleague kevin owen talked to robert harris from the u.k.'s pirate party who says the treaty is unpopular and confusing at best. so. there are people who. agree this is a. very very powerful no. i mean there's a lot of argument going to be devil's advocate go it but support opponents of. their legal rights there's two sides say yes but where is the law do you think

where one person drives becomes an infringement in. the right things i would have a right to any money. online and no money changing hands along with me. selling the. sharing of my 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 invest the time in it they develop these things or develop the medicines as well don't get ripped off don't feel they're being ripped off or we'll get to enjoy these things at a fair price i get together on the table and talk any time soon. any.

way in which i. mean. they want how. cool stuff. we were thirty and coming up this hour mind your language of the view over the right to use russian in ukraine spills over into brawls on the streets and in parliament as well we've got more on this in a few minutes here in our team also. scientists working at the large hydrogen collider in search of announce they may have made major discovery of recent times after finding something consistent with the elusive god particle or higgs posted join me in a few moments for more on mount. first he's a man under pressure from all corners sweden is set on extraditing julian of science to answer sex crime allegations while the u.s. is investigating him for a huge leap of secret files by wiki leaks now the whistleblower is currently holed

up in ecuador us embassy in london waiting for a decision on an asylum bed under house arrest the sun to produce an interview show aired here on r.t. which made world headlines laura smith looks back at the news making program. i'm julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this western white people for what it promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes julie and i saw and 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 call for serious

negotiations dialogue and he said it was for a matter of a long as you make every day because the alternative to that i know what the cause of the first is to somebody inside syria because it's sensitive to the situation in syria also the gist of it was that he had to 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 threaten to turn physical my god i've never had a i blazed a trail had they been in the same room maintains europe is dead agrees it was a disastrous spirit europe but europe is a cultural theme park significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state just took out of the pie i have had personal experience with

a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have opposing the global politics to change also made waves but two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tariq ali and chomsky the world protest movement showing modern politics are no longer fit for purpose to them the own so could lie in latin america you mentioned a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened there is the three most repressed. part of the population of the indigenous population has moved into the political arena i want you to know i am not defending him 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 and significantly represents stiff of the times i'll miss it looking forward to season two of julian assange. but there's no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy was 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 judean ourselves for westby a knowledge or worse given half a chance he's currently 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 the interview and it ends on a friendly but chilling note. it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and we welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you for. taking. thank you to. our songs has 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. but you can find all the episodes of julian assange to show at a song r t v dot com and while you're online resort to check out all the other stories we're covering on our website at archie dot com including 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. such challenging the laws of gravity

these one hundred thirty three daredevils from a song into the record books after performing this spectacular nerve jangling bridge jump you can get the full video at our t. dot com. the first ever nationwide occupy protest is underway in the u.s. with the largest gathering expected for america's independence day demonstrators are rallying this fourth of july to renew their protest against economic and quite a quality homelessness and war the activists started flocking to philadelphia over the weekend and have already been met with a heavy police presence on 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 a wide 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 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 a lobbyist so i occupy wall street i mean there's been studies that have shown that the sort of bottom third of the income brackets have no say have no influence over their elected. the middle third has some saying the top third has the most say so why do you think that this is a big byproduct of the sort of corruption and of money and politics is the is the occupy movement. you can catch that full interview in just under fifteen minutes here on archie but look now at other news today tear gas has been used in ukraine to disperse protesters angry at

a new bill that allows wider use of the russian language in the country and scuffles also broke out between demonstrators and police the protesters claim the use of russian in government offices and media impacts on the country's national language ukrainian up to half of ukrainians use russian as their primary language under european laws and the ethnic group that makes up at least ten percent of the region's population can use its mother tongue locally the bill has yet to be signed into law by president victor you have a core group to promise during his election campaign to promote russian the second official language and starts his life here says he now reports scuffle frequently prove a part of ukraine's decision making. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated over a controversial language law deputies used their fists to let their feelings be known one of the central figures in another recent scandal haunt you regions deputy

what you could use he says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. i had to finish my speech in order to stop the 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 want to move my family. is going to. 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 someone ukraine's political circles it is in fact democracy in action when you

listen to given that. you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures brule as a last resort of delivering your point when vocal methods don't work can only happen in a democratic state it's not effective but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst to meet that if it 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 with for

a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. for the years finds 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 nash and white again for almost two years it had been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians had been deprived of televised fistfights 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. but the mails from world news in brief the late palestinian president was killed by polonium poisoning that's what a new study suggests normally high levels of the radioactive element were found in his personal belongings researchers say that exuding and analyzing arafat's remains could confirm the theory something his widow is now calling for. at least one

person is reported dead while several have been injured by a gunman holding hostages in the german city of carl's well german police have surrounded an apartment but have had no contact with the man yet the incident began during an invitation early in the morning when shots were fired as ballasts arrived officers have sealed off a large area around the building. and the home of art and offices of former french president nicolas sarkozy have been raided as part of a funding inquiry billie's claim his two thousand and seven presidential campaign was either legally financed by the country's richest woman which he denies earlier reports had alleged that ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi donated tens of millions of dollars to help sarkozy win the race in december another french former president jacques chirac was found guilty of corruption and misuse of public money receiving a two year suspended. and

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 al north front was posted on an islamist internet forum it comes as president asad says he is prepared to leave his post if it brings stability to the country as un peace efforts continue meantime the opposition remains deeply split and has failed to reach agreement on forming a unified body to represent it. but the european center for nuclear research or cern has revealed its strongest evidence yet to support the existence of the so-called god particle this could provide key information about how the universe works let's get more from artie's peter all of the. scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god

particle and why that is so important is well if this proves to be the explosion it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really use mass into equations concerning particle physics if we look at it this way. the main theory worked within this area of science is the well less than grandiose name of the standard model and if we think of that is a jigsaw puzzle with a whole load of different pieces missing if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n well that fills in some of those missing pieces giving scientists a clearer picture of what they're working with now it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to explain it to the lay person imagine that we have

a planet which is populated by of course we have norm ourselves and we believe that we understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play it on her muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explains how to get their muscles and this is done using the hugues was unwelcome just completely month difficult well it's already being heralded as potentially the discovery of the century certainly of recent time in science we are hearing from cern from the large hadron collider that it could take them around a year to definitely say whether this is the higgs boson this particle that they've found but certainly it's very exciting time for the scientific community and all eyes will be focused on cern to see where this takes us in the future. to check in now with daniel baer so i have the business doesn't traders are getting out of the euro as fast as they can what's happening euro's hit twelve year lows on the swedish kronor traders are flocking to currencies outside the euro including the

dollar and the ruble as you can see there of the service sectors contract of in italy spain and france in germany very unexpectedly stagnated role the group raising fears the euro virus has spread to europe's top economy europe is russia's biggest trading partner and that you knew this hurts the markets here in moscow the benchmark index of the u.s. is holding just over fourteen hundred point. oil is near one month as a wrong continues to test fire missiles on u.s. independence day crude brands hold for the lowdown from yesterday's big gains and twenty percent of america's crops face destruction from the drought there was the u.s. department of agriculture. corn and soybean crosses to the highest in four years big grain exporter russia is also seeing heavy rains which of push prices up further so makes perfect countries will now bring back the export burns we saw during the summer extremes of two thousand and eight to guarantee supply at home

and europe today we'll have more news for you next hour all right thanks for that. most shortly here on our today we ask a former wall street insider why she has joined the occupy movement that's coming up after the headlines and this short break.

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