the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. much but also among brothers involved in the mines and since i started working in a mine i stated. multinationals. to cash cows to be milked dry and if i think that in this country is gold medal logie as an environmental cost which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. most book most but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay for. the modest effect on r.t. .

which great. song from steve. stone totty don't come. i don't welcome to business on tea with me dimitri medvedev russia's budget plan for next three years has been signed by president vladimir putin today setting the budget deficit a point eight percent of g.d.p. for the next year this budget has been drawn up by a finance minister in the on off with regard to the new rules for the use of oil and gas money which in the past has been used as a safety net by the former finance minister nick seclusion to see russia for bad times now let's get more details on how this works with casey pilgrim she's at the business desk so katie how does the budget look first of all that

a major well i'll start with the numbers first of all if we look at revenues the budget has set this up four hundred fourteen billion dollars but if we look at the deficit but saying we're looking at five hundred twenty billion dollars now that of a putin has said he doesn't want to borrow as much money but there is a certain purchase that's going to happen next year we're going to be looking at seven billion dollars of your eyeballs us to nominated a year right balance a big purchase loan the money to make russia will be borrowing again though it hasn't done so in the past couple of years yet even though he's vowed not to and if we go why about twenty eleven actually there was no external born until there was no need because at that time the cost was well full of oil ma they now also the former finance minister. he was also crazy at the time for the fact that he put money away for a rainy day and he set up this fund so that you're in the financial crisis of two

thousand and eight russia was actually ok there was no disaster struck here and that's because he learnt from the mistakes made back in one nine hundred ninety i am so you remember yourself there we had all your promise say we had the ruble as well it's just a disaster so let me give you the lowdown on what putin is going to do because he is going to adopt a lot of our. policies he is going to save up as well now he said that the extra cash that's made from oil above the ten year average oil price is going to go into or is a reserve fund now was the reserve fund reaches seven percent of g.d.p. that's going to go into a lot of the savings and if you'd like to make a first three versions not around for more than a year now his policy is still live on yeah looks that way i mean he's well respected you know that in the financial world. people have got a lot to say for his policies definitely even the average russian person would say

that and we know that he did fall out with the president time to make him mad that a lot of that was posted because he criticized russian spending a lot of the military he said too much was being spent on that and today he spoke about this project and his opinion on that since have a listen. to the new budget has all the same flaws i was talking earlier about with the government and these exact disagreements the reasons for my dismissals which first of all the inflated budget for defense and law enforcement these expenses are not only enormously blown up they're not effective. the new budget is forecast to run a deficit you should be only trying to either be from ninety seven to one hundred ten dollars per barrel but if the oil price goes to eighty dollars it will be a critical point for russia we might not get new loans and lose our investment rating so oil prices continue to determine our future. so dependency on

oil and too much spending on military that's a long way short of that i also want to mention that in retaliation of the budget he's actually set up his own website it's called open budget and the whole point of it is so that the average russian can get past all the jog and all of the big wigs talk about and really see what the budget means for them where this money is being spent in terms of regions such money and relating to the masses because sometimes budgets go over people's heads right so it's a good website so yeah i actually i have tried it out in test mode though at the moment but at the same time i mean if you look at the basic keynesian principles of economics and hard times if you have surplus money spend it on something which will not lead to overproduction so maybe military is the way forward or you could say that but then if you look at the u.s. they're spending trillions of dollars money that you could argue they don't actually have whereas russia they are at the moment living within that means so that is where they're choosing to spend the money at the money but if you look at

the past i mentioned two thousand and eleven that money that surplus money was needed and used then you know you could argue what would have happened if we had of hands that money here in russia to spend on the rainy day all right thank you so much for that let's move on over into the markets u.s. markets are staging a comeback financials leading the gains on the nasdaq apple is down four point three percent for the first session as it's preparing for first day's hearing against samsung in their long standing battle over in europe we've had a positive session moderately to china to continue its stimulus program in the near future mining stocks in the lead in london rio tinto of between billiton they're up more than two and a half percent a common currency is down against the dollar while the russian ruble manage some strength against both currencies that's a traditional for the russian ruble in. the month of december and the russian market so i have t.

boost of under two percent at the close of wednesday session among blue chips luke burbank saw gains better than the markets but even more so let's let's move over actually doing business russian style is notorious abroad as conducted by honest intelligence units proved to foreign companies are concerned of russia's expansion but surprisingly enough the biggest problem of foreign investors in russia it's not corruption it's not red tape as you might expect but it's the language barrier telefonica examined the reports. russian business is not as scary as it seems the main message from this survey they asked two hundred top managers and company have all over the world whether they want to do business with russians what attracts them how does what puts them off the interesting fact is that seventy percent of those who have already worked with russians said they would continue to do so of those who have never worked with russians only forty percent said they

would be happy to the head of roussel building there. who owns assets in australia and china says business becomes easier when you get to know each other. undoubtedly personal relationships really matter it is important that there are more russians on the boards and in management of companies among regulators and experts and we have to change our people to work with others around the globe from china to america and that's the point of the report you wouldn't believe so but a language barrier turned out to be the main concern for almost half of foreign respondents the rocker c. is the second biggest problem for russia's image to present right corruption came in only thirty experts say communication is leaders because even the best traders cannot calm stereotypes foreign investors have this issue. it's been

there forever nobody believes nobody understands why should disappear and i would just maybe. make one example. i think this company should trade at discount they've always deliver what they promised relatively low cost producer production growth. they have premium leasing in that it's a. discount appears that's what russian companies want to go global this year russia becomes the fourteenth biggest global investor with direct investment. dollars. their report shows that if given the choice between bricks foreigners would prefer to be bought out by india and chinese all brazilian competent russian was the least wanted. that's from the business team for now and now after a short break an exclusive interview that r.t. had with a top female fark official about the guerrillas aspirations and the prospect of peace efforts in colombia.

it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. eat . things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's

a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's a picture postcard church is the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians are. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not only people were exiled that once a giant that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian heiress across who led

a revolt against an eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than heroin drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves leaving the ordinary normal countryside life style they even had thoughts of escape but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always echo with

a glorious past and it will likely provide the livelihood first inhabitants in the future. welcome alexandra it's good to see you here as the many revolutionary leaders who have given up on armed struggle over time some even consider the thing of the past is that it does vice one is to pursue dialogue fit into this trend that this is it that you no longer believe in god will work fair. i wouldn't say so the reason right now in havana is that we have asked for dialogue and a peaceful solution but the colombian government has kept us banned from politics which i got it on is not because we wanted to see him go because we enjoy fighting

we only use them as a means of justified protection from the terrorist ways of the colombian government . the colombian government has been trying to put an end to this armed conflict for decades so what's new and different about this is attempt at talks and how this compares to the previous one and do the prospects look in a writer's more. a lot of them we are well very optimistic and the frog delegation about the peace talks colombia has going to spread out and of rise in decline in regards to the social movement its present movement and its labor movement right now i believe that movement is gaining ground in an unprecedented way because upon the people of colombia constant take as it were any longer they are already asking for peace city and they're increasingly joining the social movement and we actually want to the colombian people to stand behind us in our efforts to establish dialogue and so they will i believe that a large scale popular movement is what makes a difference as compared to the previous attempted peace day after day more people

are taking to the streets to protest or that cause it seems that no longer afraid of the government and its terror tactics because it's more than they are willing to put up with another factor is that latin america has changed that getting support from cuba venezuela and other latin american nations and infact has been very helpful for us in forging an understanding with the colombian government it is a very powerful external factor in. this in a lot of work but in the last colombians to believe that far should take responsibility for the crimes they committed in c. the penalty for them a little stream and what's your view on this because their perspective. bridget peons. it's somewhat absurd to ask for the punishment of people who have always acted out of in a determined need to protect ourselves and as i've already said we're not at all because we want one we want peace but social justice too and we've never had any of this here in colombia if someone hits you fast and you hit them back in

self-defense are you to be punished for that this is just an example to show you how we actually view the war in colombia and our role in it it's all about self defense most of us on the other you have declared a ceasefire do you think the government of colombia and we follow suit and respond . the government seems unwilling to respond with a cease fire and that there is going to be a unilateral act for a two month period as they have been asking us to take some steps for a long time they keep saying that they need some peaceful justice so we take that step but we wonder what the response of measures from the government are. there pushing them into a couple of years ago after her diaries had been seized by the army and disclosed that all of you were in the spotlight all over the world from those notes many people concluded that you were criticizing the system or that we're going to zation

how do you explain that if that's true then how come you are members of that organization whose internal regulations you don't fully approval of let them into the political system in the. first i'd like to note that this was a very inappropriate use of my diary which was supposed to be personal property and i set out to pass it to my parents but this is a different story everything that was written bad joke with my daily routine every person in any organization have their ups and downs and can sometimes be critical why don't you makes press of criticism out loud and sides of the organization and that's one of the problem that period was particularly hard for me as i had to adapt to living in a guerrilla group in the forest moreover i needed to get used to colombian culture so it was not easy for me and i recall those days quite often that people point to terrorists many of them claim that is attacked really are going to recruit children

by force why then there was nothing of that in my diary nobody has ever one day i've never come across any speculation on this issue in the media no one tried to figure out why i wasn't anything written about me having just returned from a mass slaughter of civilians or about me recruiting kids i have never written anything like that in my diary i root for example that i had run. out of cigarettes and our commander had some so those notes were really light headed and it occurred to me how silly they were when i was reading them and i still have those were my thoughts which i had back then and you can trace back the entire process of my adaptation to living in the woods with a guerrilla group. guerilla group who lost several of their leaders in recent years and the seem to be weaker how do you view your organisation how large is it and how is it structured when it appears that here we are i think when we think of up and down that we're always prefer open eyes ation a downturn means that say terrorism and a parent is not i don't mean eating

a lot of fluids but i have seen this and the plan colombia and the patriot plans which provided for an all out or against us large scale military operations complete with as drawings some of that for our movement as presently on the defensive but we should take a brute another look into the future because part one started with the me out forty eight a man who if we still had that many today would be there in havana right now for it and why are we here quoted by from a military point of view as the government is not to want to negotiate with a losing opponent really that meant that partnering with us because they realize they have been unable to defeat us in military terms that's the most important reason behind a negotiation. like. the. do the finest members live by the rules of communism as long as it was initially cross claimed and the sounds of capitalism is influencing us as a community telling us feed us. we have our regulations which lay out

the rules and requirements for all the fact fighters at all levels from commandant down to every single guerilla including those who might have joined our ranks just yesterday those rules apply to all admittedly violations a cut there are always people who neglect rules for example being a gorilla you're not supposed to keep a personal radio or an m p three player because it can get you detected and fired and i don't like to violates this hold when it to instill some sense into them it's maybe some sort of penalty or a critical witness estimate of that person to be deliberated to the group meeting such meetings with out every eight days you can voice personal criticism if you believe that a callow guerrilla has behaved in appropriately acts as a chauvinist or gravitates towards capitalism and wants to have things one south and disregards the interests of the team of fighters comrades will point to these

issues and even the person in question may criticize oneself many problems get solved this way. it will be. the colombian government in the united states have always insisted on a bargain for the lives of drug trafficking before but the guerrillas have always it tonight and if it's not a drug mine is a lose to find your prevalent in our struggle and what. not us animal. man no in colombia known as abdullah two which of largest every citizen to pay a special tax to finance the government is not against its own people that we believe anyone who makes a million dollars or more must pay as revolutionary tax to the guerrillas so will love this tax and in areas where they grow coca plants and where people have nothing else except for the co-counsel we tax the car towers who make a lot of money on this business but we won't tax the village folk who own but if you have does of coca bush's age that is what everyone wants to do in relation

between coca and the guerrillas in other areas where they have different businesses who also larry are tags differently but the reality in colombia is such that every institution across the country is involved in drug trafficking so wherever we go collecting our tax now always local drug dealers and cartel members to be found and they will have to pay us a war acquires money just like a con needs an engine to run. earlier this year that it would no longer kidnap people but if you individuals are still held captive by us what are their prospects is their plan to have them released. logic of what i want we hold no captives. well it was some time ago there was an organization that used to claim that we're how did some three thousand people in captivity that was before last february when we announced we would stop taking captives due to

economic reasons i mean that was when we took an account of all our prisoners and found that we have nine of them all in all i think it would be helpful if a government where. the i'm a could invite the right course of human rights missions to each of our fronts for them to see first hand how many captives we have . and they would see that their alleged schools of prisoners were held are actually nonexistent now i'm aware that there are some what if two thousand people missing in our country after all these years of fighting and that suggests that some of those fifty thousand must be in our custody so why not find out what the truth is and let the world know to. you've requested to those alexandra why is it so important for a gorilla to go under a different name or turn on but it. is an enormous. interest because this is my contact name when you come to the bush is human your name because gore requires

secrecy and secrecy and mystery are waiting rooms where guerrillas secret we don't know each other's legal name is and we don't keep our that's the way it goes in any war that's a rule the media always call me by my legal name which doesn't really bother me just out from my combat names because this is what they always call me among the guerrillas and for me it was part of the rebel spirit. of tour. by joining the guerrillas was it something you couldn't get in your room so were your life was peaceful and prosperous going strong or. japan's ok. hello most important i believe being among gorillas is the most important thing is the appreciation of the international solidarity by the gorilla entire experience in my daily routine i would often go somewhere mind on my own business and then someone would come up to me and say i'm really proud of you for being here i'm so happy that i don't have to feel alone in this battle in spite of everything that

the media said about us and all the negative propaganda against all the pins in the in spite of all that came over to help us and it's very easy i would never get anything like that back into another missile you're doing on that you know do you have any regrets just do you ever think about the way many young ladies go about settling down and having the family. horse. know that you'll see magneto i mean one hundred rats many times when i would not be able to go through another track i was saying to myself i can't do it i don't gamble to do it but i've got to go back i was happy i had managed to go see the other kind of obstacle and you put up for yourself and then you overcome them each time more successfully than the last time i saw regrets about on having a family definitely no i wouldn't want a lot of that kind. what do you expect for a future so do you see yourself involved in colombia or ticks for instance will

move a little into the way i see it my future is will involve young men doing whatever is required for them when i say she needs me as a teacher or a politician i will do it for them our. largesse by all means a key player in the armed conflict as the lasting for decades now and at stake in many lies do you accept this responsibility would you be willing to ask forgiveness for anything i mean i would be willing to ask for social justice rather than forgiveness and that's it nothing muslim. which i get a sense on the thank you so much for this interview they got must.

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