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center here in moscow this is. police in moscow have detained a renowned. over an acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet. dancer pavel dmitrichenko is the latest suspect detained in the case and has put the spotlight on infighting of one of the world's biggest and best known as well let's now talk to these and she joins me now live in central moscow i gather a number of people have been arrested today in connection with the case to tell us more give us more of the details on this developing story. well indeed developments have been unfolding the lightning fast speeds throughout tuesday earlier in the day investigators have arrested the man who was believed to be the person who actually carried out the attack. in the middle of january then they arrested the man who was his driver and then came the biggest shocker of them all they have also they are also saying they have arrested. mr chang go the soloist the

chief dancer of the bolshoi ballet theater now i think it's important to note that we will we were talking to the press secretary of the bolshoi theater earlier today she said that she sincerely hopes it's nobody but she knows that it's nobody from within the bolshoi theater itself but it looks like her expectations have fallen short really in that regard now the attack on sergei filin has happened on january seventeenth happened at night friday outside of his host when he was coming home from work he described as having stepped out of his car and then i was approached by an assailant and masked assailant who splashed still for an acid into his face of course you can expect to get really has under went through to receive pain that he was literally writhing in agony for about twenty minutes in the snow until an ambulance arrived and the doctors in moscow had been. capable of saving the part of his death face and neck which had been badly burned there there was a lot of worry about his eyesight which has been significantly damaged and as

a gay film has undergone more than ten restorative surgeries in order to keep his sight he's actually in treatment right now in germany now he is the artistic director of the bolshoi theatre ballet troops that means that he literally has the art the chance to make or break a career of the dempster and that of course has caused a lot of controversy within the troop itself and the investigators from the very beginning have been saying that they believe the attack has been connected with sergei filin separ fashion likes to tease although this is a particularly serious incident the bolshoi has been a place of intrigue throughout its history and in particular in recent years. absolutely it looks absolutely glamorous and gorgeous from the outside but you can really talk about heinous really terrible things happening on the inside particularly with the sensitive and there's a lot of competitiveness inside the ballet troupe there has been talk about bribes about threats being made. by some of the dancers significant others are husbands

towards the existing directors of the bolshoi theatre there has been instances of dresses being cut of even glass being stuffed into the dancing shoes of the ballet dancers and of course this is the latest development is just the latest in the string of events which have been happening in the bush over the past couple of years there was one incident with a man who was expected to become the director of the bolshoi theatre who was well on his way to go in approaching that feat when pornographic pictures of him have surfaced on the internet essentially ending his career and then of course there was this very tragic very dangerous incident with sergei filin which really drew did draw a lot of unwanted attention towards the bolshoi. thanks very much indeed for that live update i mean in central moscow and of course we'll be staying on the story keeping you up to date with all the developments bring you live updates throughout the night. a bankers' bonuses can never be too big that's the view

of the u.k. authorities who oppose the plans for curbs britain's finance minister has given a resolute known to the blocks plan to prevent bankers from receiving bonuses bigger than their base salaries. reports from london now on the reaction. this is a measure that's likely to be quite popular with a lot of the general public because a lot of very hard working people that find it very hard just to get by on their every day wages if we compare the figures in two thousand and two the overall bonuses paid out to bank is in the u.k. were seven billion pounds whereas most recently that figure has gone up to seen billion pounds and that's something that quite a great swathe of the general public for a very hard to stomach at a time when wages are forming and the price of the centuries are going after all the time because of inflation so while george osborne says that this is

a way to really save the financial services industry and it would be playing for britain to have this cap imposed a lot of critics would say that this is the chancellor just trying to protect the bankers that would ultimately then vote for the conservative party at the next general election what many people here in the u.k. are also saying is that this could really be the tipping point for the e.u. and britain that this could be an issue that could really force the britain to think about other potential ways of isolating themselves father and perhaps even a british exit from the european union. in london the british conservative m.p. brooks newmark told me earlier that the prospect of bankers leaving london is much worse than public outrage at their excessive pay packets. we're well aware of the toxicity of this issue and we're well aware of the insensitivity of many bankers

some of the big banks in terms of the way they have rewarded themselves given these times of out starting but there is a practical problem which is that the people who are in banks and banks themselves are very mobile so they can go anywhere in the world they don't need to be in london or paris or frankfurt or even zurich for that matter they can go anywhere and do their business because most business is done online or on a telephone or can be done abroad city of london is a hugely important center for us in terms of our expertise it contributes a huge amount to the exchequer and if we damage that by trying to penalise those who actually you know do do a good job within their banking institutions we're going to drive that business away i do not want to see the business driven away and a lot of this decision making is being done by those countries that do not have as

large a financial center as we've got a deep delve into the finances of the e.u. and elsewhere across the globe and the latest edition of r.t. is kaiser report has a preview of the program that is coming up a little later today for e. why are stock brokers on drugs why did stockbrokers start so much cocaine why did the brokers and bankers at j.p. morgan and goldman sachs and barclays royal bank of scotland why do they sniff their weight and coke every morning just to get started to begin their day rampaging through the markets stealing people's wealth because they are being treated like rats by the pharmaceutical companies to get them into a state of perpetual larceny and it's working. because a report coming your way into later today those career has threatened to end the decades long cease fire with its southern neighbor if it goes ahead with its joint military drills with the u.s. pyongyang also cited the u.s.

led attempts to slap it with sanctions as being behind this decision it comes as washington is allowing up more punishment for north korea described as some of the toughest ever imposed by the u.n. a resolution is expected to be passed later this week wolf for more on renewed tensions on the korean peninsula i'm joined by colin forty's an expert on east asia he's also an m.e.p. it's not the first threat of this kind we've heard coming from north korea but do you think with this military exercise and of course the threat of these new sanctions could actually provoke north korea into pursuing that war that has naturally stopped still ongoing. while at the moment is no i mean there's a difference between if you want to remove so you no longer recognize an armistice when i started shooting again they're not quite the same thing but clearly north korea feels under pressure at the moment from the u.n. security council it looks like you're going to have a joint u.s. china resolution which could be very critical of north korea impose new sanctions

at least in theory if not in practice negates the regime and they're responding significant isn't it that china is actually cooperating with the u.s. over this. while i was in beijing quite recently the chinese. government is genuinely annoyed with north korea. with this particularly with the third nuclear test because it's a giving excuse to the united states and japan to deploy theater missile defense which nobody threatens north korea but threatens china and at the same time gives to the you much more nationalistic incoming government in japan and an excuse for removing article nine from the constitution's a referendum and actually try to sing to a degree japan where clearly those troops are not an army and navy and air force are not just for your career but also are there available with the boundary

disputes we have been in the region. let's talk about these new sanctions which being drafted at the moment and expected to go ahead. with the u.n. security council susan rice she says that she's the america's u.n. representative she says that this will indeed have an impact on ending north korea's nuclear ambitions but but will they. well actually rather depends on china and russia because you can actually impose effective sanctions. by sea with the proliferation security initiative the united states is actually launched the problem is the law of the land version and there are two years between that north korea has one with china and one with russia all the evidence says up until now i mean pyongyang has never had it so good i mean if you've got the money in pyongyang you can buy almost anything and certainly the view in the view in the

region is there's a fairly large amount of sophisticated russian military technology also available to the north koreans so will russia and will try to actually close that border after they voted for the sanctions or will they merely if you all think job done what about the chances of north korea launching another nuclear weapon as a test what could be the consequences then. well i think things would you just get worse my own view frankly is that. kim jong un as demonstrated his strength to the military or very important in north korea through through the satellite launch in december and then and the nuclear test last month i think he's more likely to be turning away once you get through the next month or so towards looking at economic modernization rolls and repeating the missile on the nuclear test. i can be wrong of course it's very difficult to read north korea but it seems

to me that that's where the thinking is and frankly they probably don't have the capacity to do either of those things in the very near future you've seen considerable periods of time between satellite launches and between nuclear tests i don't think they're on the table ready to use now just briefly going to talk about taking military action against iran over its perceived nuclear ambitions we don't hear similar rhetoric towards north korea a military campaign there we. well i mean i think people are rather concerned about what the consequences might be we we saw the consequences of the the last attempt at regime change in the korean peninsula which was the korean war which killed millions. and of course there's china there i mean china whatever it thinks of north korea actually prefers north korea rather than the americans are only up on the yellow river great to talk to you thank you very much indeed for your time glyn

ford there former member of the european parliament and also an expert on east asia thanks for joining us live here on r.t. . but it may be one of the world's most reclusive states but it seems the power of the web is slowly lifting the veil of secrecy on the korea instagram and twitter and now in the country and there are even claims that pirate bay was preparing to drop anchor there well earlier or to correspondent and i spoke to my colleague lisa . started with a tweet by the bureau chief of the associated press in korea ms jane leavy who on february twenty fifth tweeted that this is my first tweet using career links new mobile internet service hello world from com center in pyongyang this tweet has gone to like millions of reach we definite did open the floodgates in some way that after that we've seen instagram pictures facebook tags check ins all coming from one of the world's most closed countries and definitely this is a breakthrough and nothing we have experienced before well certainly exciting stuff but i mean this is actually translate to the locals the people on the ground are

they running around posting instagram photos in tweets well the korea link is the only internet provider in korea you know phrase like that would have been a thinkable three years ago yeah it launched this service the mobile internet service but now for now it's only available to visiting guests it's not available to the local population but they can already send text messages to each other and even make a video calls to each other which is already a breakthrough for a country where having curtains and windows is outlawed because then it would mean you have something to hide so which is not something i heard about before and i'm curious is this something to you personally would have ever imagined seeing in north korea i mean you've been to the country what's what's it been like when you visited well i saw the curtains part i saw all windows were open when i was there some seven years ago to change and about them in a way when i came there i was shocked because my cell phone was confiscated at passport control and the only one time i could use internet i could go online was from a russian embassy because they had a contract with

a chinese satellite provider and i was the only way i could actually go online to do to post something to post some pictures from inside the north korean country so definitely the situation has changed now compared to what it was like seven years ago when i was there and i'm curious of course it's hard for us just speculate as to why these changes are happening since it's a fairly closed country but do you believe that this has ended it with a change in leadership by younger. more energetic man who is perhaps more aware of things like three g. for example absolutely when kim jong il the late korean leader said that the country needs to embrace the new high tech technology the new high tech era probably his son who is now in charge of the country took these words very seriously recently saw a visit of one of the google stop executives to the country something unthinkable again which is crazy if you think about it three four years ago then we saw a visit over from the n.b.a. player former n.b.a. player dennis rodman who actually said kim jong un his friend for life so all this

shows that north korea wants to open up the world the question is certainly to what extent the country will open itself of course and i'm really curious i'll say this whole pirate bay story what exactly is going on there i think it's about that well first we heard a statement published on pirate bay's web site that i quote today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of korea to fight our battles from the network it is ironic in many ways because pirate bay as we know has always been prosecuted globally and north korea is also in a very difficult situation let's put it this way. they even changed their logo for a short period of time the typical pirate ship was replaced with a ship having north korean flags on it later we contacted people from the pirate bay who said this was a joke which was aimed at directing attention to their problems that they are being prosecuted but certainly as we know all jokes have some truth behind them. just to remind you we've got lots of stories coming up including this. must be

coupled with a clear and credible military threat. israel's benjamin netanyahu pulls no punches on iran saying diplomacy is a waste of time in preventing to run from achieving its alleged nuclear ambitions. plus sexy no longer report on how the new emerging studies face of lynn make some feel the city's soul is being stolen all that and more after a short break. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes when we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the

pronunciation of some place on earth like course to lowball or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he was reading it off of a teleprompter right now i am reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them to the even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches if you're deeply versed on some subject that you should need to read word for word from a teleprompter to give a speech just try writing some notes and speaking with your brain and maybe your heart like in the good old days but that's just my opinion. continues here in r.t. with the afghan presidential election approaching next year the taliban says it's

seriously considering entering politics former official in the militias said the group could launch a political party but that doesn't necessarily mean an end to the insurgency of course one of the original goals of the u.s. led war in afghanistan was to remove the taliban from power so let's have a look at what this has cost both countries well since the launch of the military operation in two thousand and one more than two thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed the total coalition losses have topped three thousand lives and the number of americans injured in the line of duty exceeds seventeen thousand and the death toll among afghan civilians is staggering more than thirty thousand lives lost in the war and from the human factor to the financial burden as far as america is concerned the price tag of the decade long effort is a massive seven hundred billion dollars now if the taliban return to power all these sacrifices could turn out to be in vain and a taliban victory could easily become reality that's according to former afghan

m.p. . this government has so much so many problems the western world have lost their credibility and this government has no credibility so in that sort of a situation that taliban and had they been smart they would have scored big in the political front but i think the taliban can take advantage of this void and fill that vacuum it is up to the taliban to show their real face not the face that is pushed by the british intelligence are the facts on the intelligence the west is is confused the west is looking for an exit a very speedy exit and there i'm afraid that they will probably do whatever is possible whatever is convenient to put up a very very tedious farm ila and very temporary fix and leave and then things will go back to where it had started that's the problem in the

region has to realize that we have to find a sustainable fixes for this problem not a temporary face saving thing for the nato to leave and then leave a big problem for afghanistan for the neighborhood. and we're always interested in your views on the stories we cover and today we're asking you to vote on whether you believe the afghan taliban can transform itself from unarmed insurgency into a credible political force you could see here we have to say had to come and take part in our on line poll.

the israeli prime minister has made it clear he's not backing down from the idea of a potential attack on iran and even netanyahu told a gathering of america's powerful pro israeli lobby that the goshi ations are a waste of time and only the threat of direct military action will crush iran's nuclear ambitions while the israeli prime minister's address enjoyed a warm welcome at the apec conference he's struggling at home with the deadline for him to form a coalition government well to talk about this i'm joined live from tel aviv by jeff barak he's a columnist for the jerusalem post jeff why is that yahoo pushing ahead with this military record when clearly it's got enough on its hands hasn't it trying to form a coalition and of course push those push through those austerity measures. form of government is the reason why he didn't go to washington in person to address the pro israel lobby he even opened his video speech with an apology saying due to his coalition difficulties he had to stay home for this trip but on the same time iran

is very much at the center of mr netanyahu thoughts and don't forget u.s. president barack obama is due to visit israel towards the end of march so i think mr netanyahu wants to create a very very strong. surrounding iran before mr obama's visit to make sure that iran really does feel the pressure so do you think also he's concerned that if he has troubles at home that doesn't give a very good impression to a barber when he visits what the americans have made it clear the president will only visit should mr know should mr netanyahu succeed in forming his government it looks now that within the next week or so mr netanyahu will have his government although as we said a week of prime minister than he was before the elections in these elections he lost quite a lot of support and he no longer has i think the government of his dreams will be sitting in a combination of politics that would really rather not be sitting with so we could position if you get c.n.n.

most people think thinks he will but what about his words to the apec summit what's the reaction did he get from israelis back at home especially when he's calling for formalized relationship with israel and the u.s. . well i mean listen to how to say anything different from what he's been saying for the past year or so don't forget when he went to the united nations at the end of last year you know he said iran is coming close to a red line and therefore won't allow it to cross the nuclear red line he basically repeated the same message to the apac audience in washington and this is a message of the israelis have been hearing from this on the tenure for a long time and it hasn't been seen as anything different there is a feeling and i think the american sherratt diplomacy by itself won't actually work there needs to be a credible threat of military action to persuade the iranians that going ahead with their nuclear program is not in their best interests but if you carry on threatening and it becomes empty rhetoric are you putting yourself in a difficult position because people eventually say when are you going to do it and

clearly he's now putting himself in that position where military action is going to have to happen well first of all it's not only empty rhetoric iran hasn't reached the red line that mr netanyahu has been warning about and the americans have also been saying the same thing they want diplomacy to work they want sanctions to work but if they feel that iran is crossing the nuclear threshold then this vice president joe biden said the in the same to the same audience the other night then america will act militarily so i don't think at the moment we should assume it's empty rhetoric i think there is a credible threat behind the talks so if israel did take action it would mean that it's got the support of the u.s. . that i don't know but i would find it very very hard to believe that israel would take action against american interests i think something of this magnitude would be something that is fraud want to coordinate with america and also israel has made made it quite clear that you know and a nuclear iran is not just an israeli issue it's a world issues are plenty of arab states for example saudi arabia who are just as

nervous about the prospects of iran getting nuclear weapons so i don't think it's right to frame it solely in a news role iran framework but also to look at it as wide a global yes and the wider global calm context if there is a military attack how would it respond to that surely they'll be a massive impact not just in the region but throughout the world the consequences unimaginable out there the consequences would be very great on the other hand the consequences of a nuclear armed iran that is threatened to wipe israel off the face of the earth to attack other countries is also to grow to contemplate so it's a very unpleasant scenario and so one hopes that diplomacy sanctions backed by the proto military action well actually persuade iran in the final analysis not to go ahead with their nuclear plans jeff great to talk to you thank you very much your time jeff barrett there from the jerusalem post he is a columnist there live in tel aviv thank you for the time thanks for joining us.

china's prime minister's open the national people's congress in beijing the event is especially significant this year due to handover of power to a new generation of communist party leaders which only occurs once a decade among their aims is a double digit boost to defense spending something which may worry china's main rival the u.s. where recent spending cuts have meant a big blow for the military professor steve saying from the university of nottingham says washington so-called pivot to asia prompted beijing's defensive stance. the new chinese president xi jinping is a much more self-confident confident assertive and nationalistic persecute and therefore we are likely to see a china much more assertive in the next ten years in terms of what is described as the american pivot back to asia the chinese sees these as a major change in american policy that is directed against china as

a less than friendly act and therefore the chinese are trying to. undermine american rebalancing and it is also part of the reasons for the double digit increase in chartres military spending more news still ahead for you after a short break this is a lot to live in moscow stay with us if we can. but . they are serving a sentence just like their mother. little

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he's continued her naughty latvia has set its sights and joining the euro zone in twenty fourteen that's a spot the currency. with the sturdy cuts and gaping holes in the country's budgets the decision also clashes with public opinion in latvia where two thirds are against your a membership but we spoke to one member of the european parliament who believes the timing couldn't be worse than levy a wants to be member of nato of the e.u. the eurozone so want to be member of a big a bloc nato i can imagine the e.u.

i can imagine the eurozone at the moment is not the right club to join because lead came out of the crisis in two thousand and ten and the economic recovery started shortly after actually doing quite well so why does that feel want to enter the eurozone if you have an economic crisis would come back to latvia. in the eurozone cannot leave you and will have to stay in it like agrees is doing now in greece's go towards a lot of suffering and that is the economic downside to perhaps the political advantage to the number of a bigger club. the remains of the german capital's in the tourist landmark the berlin wall could soon make way for a fourteen story luxury apartment block and it seems the trend for reshaping berlin is gaining momentum with more new buildings emerging as fast as the real estate prices keep growing are the people of reports and how this is affecting the lives

of the city's life long residence. who are both sexy that linz men lovingly described his city. now some berliners feel this way of life is coming under threat it isn't here if you keep your inquiries work we've seen big changes over the past ten years more and more apartment buildings have been built in areas where people traditionally used to rent what we're seeing is people being forced from their homes real estate prices in berlin have shot up by thirty two percent since two thousand and seven well ahead of the german average this is resulted in some tenants being a victim as their rented flat says sold from underneath them prompting anger and demonstrations from those who see the city's identity being sold to the highest bidder isn't. our problem here is that berlin is turning into a city split between the haves and have nots rising prices of forced people who

have lived here for years to move out and those who have come don't mix and this year has seen an increase in the amount of protests against the gentrification of lynn as well as growing resentment towards other germans and foreigners moving into the city for the most part the public image of this still poor but sexy however times are changing the new emerging face of perlin is certainly stylish however it's also becoming increasingly an affordable due to the demand from people wanting to live in a desirable location economically viable and politically secure the lynas becoming the place of choice for southern europeans to invest in during turbulent times in their own countries. can't turn sells and rents property to italians. one of the main reasons our customers are buying here is that there is no trust in

their telling economy or the. banks people see an apartment as a good way to preserve the value of their savings. was about the claims that the real estate boom is stealing and sold. this is progress berlin is developing sure it presents some challenges but this is just the same as when the wall came down and people moved into her areas if anything this creates the mall and that makes for a what it is the best new housing developments are being built all around the city to try and accommodate demand however with rental prices having risen by ninety percent in the last decade it does seem that the writing is on the wall for the dream of an affordable life in the german capital. r.t. . on life at the moment the elite military wing of hamas has shared some of its secrets with me at all if you don't call me a fine exclusive inside scoop on how the group conducts its operations and one who

gains access to the inner circle. plus the men dressed as the evil go off later in the stormtroopers is rated a shop in ukraine apparently for a good cause but i tell you what sparked a rush of the dark side. fresh clashes a broken up between protesters and police in egypt restive port saïd the city has been locked in a cycle of violence for several days now ever since demonstrators began calling for justice and a trial over a deadly soccer riot that took place last year true is following the developments from current force. clashes continue in this day between

protesters and police what we've just heard is president mohamed morsi is actually considering a minit three takeover of this restive city on the coast there seems to be a lot of anger between this civilians and the police force this comes after the nazi security agency this morning yesterday had security directorate partially as well as the governor headquarters with hundreds of i mean least five killed time now for a brief world before we get the major business with katie one man has been killed and another wounded during a wave of clashes with police across indian controlled kashmir iran is response by separatist group angered at the death of a local research scholar found hanged in southern india at the beginning of the month the region as remained tense since mohammad girl crush nearly separatist was executed in february for his involvement in the two thousand and one attack on

india's parliament. it was a venezuelan government has confirmed that president hugo chavez has suffered a serious setback in his battle against cancer the statement came after it was real that chavez was suffering from a severe risk in faction leading to mounting rumors about his declining health. minister said that the country's leader is still battling for his life and claimed illness could be the result of a deliberate attack was has not been seen in public since he underwent cancer surgery almost three months ago. syrian rebels claim to have captured the governor of the record problems when they took over the city in an overnight battle with government forces which comes after days of heavy clashes with the syrian army footage has emerged showing fighters destroying a statue of the former syrian president hafez al assad. well as promised

we time now for the business news of katie his years in the studio katie something we've been covering here with our news that is the bonuses roll those bankers bonuses massive ones obviously it's something that is causing a lot of controversy at the moment and george osborne the u.k. chancellor is defending these bonuses he is indeed he wants to keep london as a global financial hub as we know he wants to keep it competitive and he doesn't want bankers going to the likes of hong kong new york to see bonuses but i've got a few figures coming up in the business bulletin and they are quite extravagant all coming up after the break so join me. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities on the selected.

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there welcome to business with may tasty poing the saving here in moscow now buying cars by disses never popular with the masses in france often a topic of few reefer people struggling to get by in these tough economic times so the chief executive of hate just b.c.

getting a bonus package well they have a ten million dollars offer a year of money laundering scandal surrounding the bank has raised a few eyebrows or tempers i should say but at least take just b. c. turns out a profit over a pretax profits of over twenty billion dollars was six percent down on the last day now but even that is better than some other london based financial stood dishing out bonuses state but lloyds banking group of roll bank of scotland did not manage a profit yet still pay out millions in bonuses now these handouts come at a time when britain's chancellor george osborne is opposing e.u. finance ministers proposals to limit bankers' bonuses to a year's salary and today i asked shaq so dickie from e.t. capital side he's all. when it comes to the u.k. and france was more he once was sure that the city of london suffered from less

flexibility reduced competition and a flight of quality talent going elsewhere to other financial hubs such as new york and hong kong for the it's a different story they're trying to safeguard their banking system again after three years of being a world of debt crisis of of profits being eaten away by this crisis so i can say that the new has a reason for this but george osborne he's fighting for something else well let's just say these rules do go through how do you think london will be affected do you see competition really suffering as a result you mentioned talent flocking to the likes of home call new york how realistic is that. yeah i think it's hard to measure in terms of how much competition will be lost but it would really be that the talent of that would move over us with. other financial hubs with of better pay packages to their staff or senior management in the u.k. i think of the last three or four years have changed the culture is changing slowly

it still needs to change radically after the scandals that we see in two thousand and twelve with the rate. and also some of the deals with middle eastern firms that we've seen through h.s.b.c. the standard chartered so. there has to be a sea of change in the u.k. but in terms of what the immediate impact would be would be telling driving elsewhere were driven elsewhere ok let's talk about the other side to this then the people the masses i should say about already to kate on bank is getting these extortionate bonuses going to mention the hate just b.c. case today the chief executive i have a seven million pounds he will be getting as part of the package but doesn't feel some people what would be your reaction to those people that a say bank is simply don't deserve this kind of task they're just doing their job i . completely understand those concerns and the public outcry which is why

there has been such a strong. strong case for a sea change in the banking sector i think with h.s.b.c. you see you know and his pay packet h.s.b.c. is truly a global bank and it had for his and for the c. i think he certainly believes that he doesn't need to have a salary cut down on. this particular point i think when it comes to banks such as bank of scotland and lloyds banking group the government and the taxpayer still has a big say that's where the real capping of bonuses should be and not so much for the likes of h.s.b.c. and barclays. still. banking systems don't need the government's help right now and do you think london's days as the financial hub overall do you think it's changing times but yeah i think i think there is a there's going to a big change in the banking system with more intense financial regulation coming

through more transparency and that's what london is looking at more so than what you would be looking to do. at this point right now trying to safeguard their banking system whereas in the u.k. we want to build up more trust in our banking system a lot of trust has been lost between consumers and banks to cross the you know what given the prices that we have given the scandals that we've had in the u.k. banking system so right now it's more about rebuilding trust anything else do you think the days of extravagant excessive bankers' bonuses are coming to an end yeah i think for for the e.u. for sure and for the i think it's a matter of time before we're going to see that it's a slow gradual facts of the u.k. banking system is looking to do leverage itself or start a pretty good job over the last few years i think now with with the public outcry against bankers getting such have to pay. a point where the u.k.

will have to march along with it and start looking at their payment methods well its motto in the markets now and see that the u.s. are indeed going north you can see the dow jones continues to get off to hitting the highest level on rakhal the nasdaq also why above why will the federal reserve in the u.s. commit says right now to an unconventional more tree policy investors seem confident enough for now as they keep buying up those that is in even greater accord says the numbers they speak for themselves now we've got the footsie one hundred powering back a bald the six thousand four hundred level closing. on the highest level since the beginning of january two thousand and eight mining stocks in particular did fairly well following a few days of a recent selling pressure mainland european stocks with cheered along by stronger than expected eurozone we also were looking forward to central bank meetings we've

got later in the weight with hopes of further more tree easing as well look at the dax i made a two and a half percent in positive territory as for the russian ruble that we'll see how that going on today did she manage to finish up stronger against both the u.s. dollar and the common currency in this cheese day session has probably no surprise then that the equity markets here in moscow did rather well not because of the positive momentum coming from the international markets that we've just witnessed here really being received great for the r.t.s. on the mice it's just that while up into positive territory finishing one percent or all did increase as well also a welcoming to for the energy base stocks here russia of course. now despite the global recession luxury extravagance is in demand this is geneva motor show the

likes of high end brands ferrari barely a rolls royce are varying their premiers for those in the fast lane and even the typically more practical mocha makers and general motors they're launching their luxury convertibles off area luxury in a day that's an iconic over talks about what's driving the market right now. luxury car sales are defying the slump over the depressed european car market last year ferrari posted its best ever results sales of higher vehicles are driving the market in britain with jogger a landrover sales up and b.m.w. enjoying its best year automakers are focusing on cars that are not for everybody because now not everybody can afford a car in europe all or all sales fell more than eight percent last year to their lowest level in almost two decades and figure so far the c.s. suggests that the market is getting weaker new car registrations in germany slumped

over ten percent in february they were down twelve percent and seventeen percent and france and italy respectively comment because an outcome piecing and pessimism predicting sales could slide by up to ten to sound this year they are closing down a string of factor is cutting files of jobs across europe all are you matter most in the european car markets will remain this small and such show of glamour will become trusting sharply with what's in the real world outside for years to come. ok then i'll be back in less than two hours from now with more basis to join me than if you can in the mean time they say with bill haley the latest news headlines of calls.

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a sentence just like their mother. the ones born in prison. now must pay for the crimes committed by their parents. kill babies on our teeth. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes and i speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of someplace on earth like course to loathe of all or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written

correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he's reading it off of a teleprompter right now i'm reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them to they even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject and you should need to read word for word from the teleprompter to give a speech just try writing some notes and speaking with your brain and maybe your heart like in the good old days but that's just my opinion. breaking news a lot.