the headquarters of the new parliament's commission story there was some minor scuffles in brussels around one hundred forty eight people were detained mainly because they were carrying things according to the police that weren't suitable for carrying on a march will have no place for carrying on a march but no injuries were reported that over in spain demonstrators clashed with police lightly most of it they were throwing projectiles at the police march is madrid and in barcelona and in barcelona students set fire to a police call they also blocked streets with rubbish bins and police fired rubber bullets in the end of the day we still picketers throwing eggs at buses blocking trucks on a main road in madrid and striking workers also staged a sit in outside a bus station trying to prevent the faustian make it large and going to. also big protest in allah and those demonstrations were timed to coincide with members of the irish parliament going back to work after their summer recess to

a cement mixer which was plastered with banking slogans was driven up the entrance to the irish parliament building a man was arrested for that other say they generally a fairly peaceful day considering the number of people gathered also marches in portugal slovenia poland italy and but it has been announced that the unions in greece in athens and they're trying to show their respective governments what they call the human face budget cuts that are being proposed in meant to do all over europe basically e.u. governments spent particularly the countries that we're now calling the pigs portugal italy on and squeezed in spain and now they have to borrow money they have to save money to pay that money back and how they're proposing to do that is by cutting pay they're going to raise the retirement age in some cases in some cases they even cutting pension payments and they're slashing jobs in the public sector but people are saying if you look awful. that the bankers were reckless and then

that then that taxpayers state money had to be used to belize banks out so ordinary people shouldn't be the ones who have to suffer these protests as a saying that actually cuts in danger. what looks to be a fragile recovery and some of the economies in europe they're arguing that actually a better way to go would be tax increases on higher income groups and also investing in public services and jobs rather than cutting them in this way under can only turmoil isn't telnet affecting european is new census data shows the gap between rich and poor in america is the widest it's had within the u.s. also has the greatest disparity of wealth among industrialized western nations and also he spoke to marx fraud while an economist from the new school in new york about what the american government might change in order to improve conditions at home. the wealthy have been doing better than everybody else for the last thirty years what's happened in the last two to three years is that everybody else is doing deadweight worse so the average person adjusting for inflation and even in

some cases not adjusting for inflation in the united states is actually worse off than they were two or three years ago and the wealthiest people in the country are relatively better off and we can see a micro example of it right now in which we couldn't decide as a country to get rid of the bush tax cuts which have been ruinous to the us budget unless we were sure to pass along the savings to the top two percent of income earners what it means for millions of americans if they're in the bottom ninety percent of people in the country so eight out of nine and ten that they're feeling like they can't get ahead and that maybe times are tough for them turns out to be true for the rest of the eighty to ninety percent of the country who've seen themselves working more hours if they're fourteen enough to have a job and taking home less money and they're seeing a situation where they're increasingly living in a society that has a distribution of income that we would normally associate with a developing country and a particularly equal developing country if you're not already in the top ten percent or so of this is cya it's going to be very hard to get there and the sort

of social glue of historic american life the social mobility the ability to get ahead and work is turning into an increasingly historically viable and presently incorrect fable of understanding which has little or no bearing on the lives of people in the country particularly younger people we've had a tax policy that's more or less intentionally made the society less equal for twenty years and is now getting more unequal by the day and so the market in the tax system that we have are working together to reduce the few things we had that used to equalize the distribution of income in the country. this is coming up later in the program prepared to die to say. that's the message from some agents prepared to protest to the death to provide small holdings and only source of income from being taken to make way for new motorway all the details coming up here on. the bin changes already at city hall in moscow just

a day after the council's my son a top official accused of taking bribes has resigned while a controversial building project backed by the said his former boss has been halted and gays have finally been granted permission to run out in the center of moscow after previous police crackdowns and demonstration is wanted by openly homophobic meanwhile matches her own challenge the decision to sack him motivated politics of his correspondent. for. speaking for the first time to the media since being sacked. he was not planning to challenge the president's decision to take him from power. in important previously there were reports in the media calling schools friend straight. to the supreme court. these reports have been denied personally by the.

himself says that he will call the moment it's not clear exactly he's going to do just previously he officially called the united russia party. a letter to the party officially stepping down from power and also complaining about what he called a strong media campaign against him. is quite a controversial figure he was. quite a lot of time and that's why this was a mixed reaction among many people. saying it was because of him that moscow received the new modern walk and also his policies towards pension years created quite a lot of support among many most whites however there are also a lot of people accusing the school for feeling to resolve traffic problems in the city or failing to protect some of the buildings on the morals of that war office story heritage not only to get to moscow bunch of the entire nation as well and

were destroyed as moscow was getting the facelift and also us not forget. why you know about that in the first thought to be russia's richest business woman and many people do say that she was able to become so successful because of. being the mayor of moscow at the moment former team is still at power until the new mayor is appointed and a new government is put together under the old law the united russia party which holds the majority of the seats in the russian parliament passed to submit at least three candidates for the post of the head of moscow to the president who will then have to pick one of the candidates he would prefer best and i submit that this candidacy into the moscow parliament many analysts who do see that despite the fact that we still don't know nine of the names on the stand it's they do say that we're going to find them out in the near future and perhaps moscow could receive a new head as soon as within perhaps the next two weeks even. ran as the winds of

change blood through moscow city hall these former leader of the u.s. assam a how to go but charles reflected on eighteen years of luzhkov says who. i feel we will be in the first years of term as mayor and those were the most critical years when industry collapsed and the situation in the cities across russia was terrible he did a lot from moscow here to size firm controls for most of those resources and distributed them in the right way he supported all the formula women children and wards outruns in those years i myself used to say that moscow was lucky to have such a mayor as good as your real schools time passed and law school started to change these he had a billionaire wife by the authorities began to look more attentively at private activities where she was a rose whether the mayor had a room to wall to tackle moscow's problems a lot of things have now come to light it turned out that funds allocated for the

reconstruction and expansion of moscow streets and roads were invested in some enterprises from which someone received a huge profit sanctions in recent years have been far from good they've discredited edition as the chief of them. there are plenty more of the stories here waiting to be discovered also home any time and have a look and here's a preview just like. filigree man did says that trying to save it from a nuclear holocaust at least that's what a group of u.s. air force officials are. on battle of the sexes breakdowns about the invasion their russian reset of all their military apart without there being a secret. that

suspected militants have been killed in two separate counter-terror all pray shows and russia's southern republic of dagestan ten of the killed terrorists were sealed off at a private housing estate where police had found two large problems relatives of the militants were asked to persuade them to serve. but the insurgents opened fire instead police believe two terror acts were followed last week or so sad bomber blew himself up in the same region killing two policemen and wounding dozens of civilians there were no casualties among the police in the latest operations seventeen officers were slightly wounded with concussion from the blast wave of a roadside bomb in the same region afterwards and is the biggest number of militants killed by security forces and august on a day the latest in a series of continuing security operations which have been running for over a month now. and stuns the neighboring republic of english is facing a similar battle with militants and president bakiev curro himself narrowly escaped after a bomb attack on his cold war last year says counterterrorist operations are vital

for the survival of the southern regions. we don't want to brutally murder or punish anyone as a warning to others we just want to deal with this terrorist disease or we don't have written permission from the terrorist patient we're treating but for now we don't have any other choice. the central asian nation of kyrgyzstan is preparing for parliamentary elections on october tenth after months of political uncertainty and ethnic violence in the country in april anti-government riots in the competition left dozens dead and led to the ousting of former president kurmanbek bakiev two months later violent ethnic clashes between curfews and is back communities of the south left up to two thousand people dead and about one hundred thousand displaced them actually without the two thousand process taking part comes up for friends and which transforms the country into the region's fast parliamentary democracy remember those kyra pulls on one of the favorite.

is the clock ticks towards the kurdistan elections the country holds its breath while the polls bring stability or plunge the country into another round of violence and chaos meet felix king of the country's former prime minister who could be next to lead the country following the controversial reigns of us got a cause and could not get bucky if cool for his one of the few figures who have not been tarnished in the last fifteen or twenty years old because a pretty hard moral thing to get a bit of your waist in and you have a good chance of winning the next parliamentary election has a different times being the national security general the regional governor and mayor b. capital bishkek but what he's most renowned and praised for in his home country is an ability to handle crisis situations. studied in two thousand and five there were total moments marauders in the capital police and national security that had

all run away at that point that's when cool off friends revolutionaries would ask him to take matters into his own hands and in three days he restored. but cool of also has a reputation for being difficult. he was a close ally of both previous presidents at the beginning of their terms and soon fell out of favor with both of them finding himself in opposition and twice in prison what they need to kenya that there can never be two or three powerful figures at the top would give us politics has always been a very powerful person and the key is and a kind of have felt that he could be the person to sweep them from there and take power into his hands some predict school of the party on a number which translates as dignity is a strong position it cool to have to run against a multitude of other authorities all of whom also fancy their chances of challenging him the problem is that it's very difficult to create a democratic country in central asia kyrgyzstan is the most democratic country in

central asia unfortunately this is a very immature democracy and sometimes it leads to all some very bad results right now what kyrgyzstan needs is north demography of european i don't think it's possible in kyrgyzstan what it needs is stability and violence whoever wins the election this is a crucial decision for kurdistan a country that's been to the bring it in a r t. let's now look at some other news stories making news around the world. the european union has launched legal action against france over six torsional one of the people the government's accused of breaking rules ensuring free movement of e.u. citizens french officials have defended the controversial expulsions saying that part of the climb down on illegal immigration and crime while critics claim france is unfairly targeting an ethnic minority the french government has welcome to the u.s. decision not to lay the most serious charge and discrimination. the house of representatives

has passed legislation allowing the u.s. to retaliate against china and other nations which manipulate that currencies washington believes the iranians aren't. vineet giving a trade advantage for chinese goods and exports repeated u.s. calls for china to revalue its currency have had little effect so far in july beijing promised to expand the flexibility of the yuan assumes that the county fairs risen by only one took a stand against the dollar. and western intelligence agencies say they followed and how kind of you look to counter terrorism raises the working sometimes it's reported teams of jihadists who are planning attacks similar to the siege of two hotels in mumbai t.v.'s got the plot has been personally disrupted by drone attacks on targets in pakistan and afghanistan france germany and the u.k. are all on the heightened state of security at the awful tower was evacuated for

the second time in a week on tuesday because of a tight race. in india thousands of thoughtless say they're willing to fight to the death to stop the government building a motorway through their land while some struggle for their livelihood others say that a conversion of agricultural lands to commercial yes threatens a food crisis also has cursing reports. indian farmers spoke to their capital recently in protest against a government takeover of their land to build a new two billion dollar highway this followed the deaths of three farmers were killed after police opened fire on protesters in the state. will look to learn to develop into kenya crush it any price at any price we're ready to die and we're not you know anyone to step on our learned. these protests have stalled the government deficits to acquire farmland or industrial india which means

developers have been forced to put the roads refineries and plants on hold the major challenge is the land acquisition if the land acquisition is going to perth there should not be one because with order to. and that is what government is trying to do in case there is you know projects and they are big and the land available to you to develop is only twenty thirty percent then they believe that in the. land is an emotive issue in a country with two thirds of the population is still dependent on agriculture fifty five year old versing doesn't want to sell out but nor some offers will be hard to . think of caliper forgot about the milan goes i will lose my livelihood what will i do so i say if you are going to take my form give me a fair price for my land as well as a job some analysts believe acquiring crime agricultural land for non

agricultural purposes a food crisis in the country on a what was it a there will be no food to eat they aren't giving us good conversation and they're still taking our land without a land will we eat it or the government listens to our demand has been a month or we will take action. the farmers do have a point after all the government uses a colonial law to pay tiny amounts of compensation to farmers to buy their land for development projects the government plans to update this law by the end of the year to get into market prices for farmers but until it does vital infrastructure projects remain in limbo something just third largest economy can ill afford got and seeing r.t. in delhi. the nato summit in lisbon in november of zero focus on the alliance is cause for the twenty first century from afghanistan and missile defense to improving relations with russia and the former nato boss george robertson about how he sees the future and that's in just a moment. thank

you very much for joining us now i'll begin with a question on wars recently we've been witnessing a lot of guerrilla warfare style where you have to be trained and you have. causing a lot of problems that is nato ready to respond to such threats of in what way all

of us have to adapt. to the changing nature of conflict you know after the berlin wall came down and the cold war was over the number of conflicts in the world went down by heated percent heathy percent so we live in a much better world today but the nature of conflict has changed there are fewer casualties is that at the same time it's more difficult to deal with you know we didn't have suicide. in the cold war we have that now so it's the ether. so our own forces have got to be modernized they need to be more flexible they need to be more maneuverable they need to go a long distances here they have to be highly skilled and they have to use the most technologically advanced equipment but instead of both sides both a nato and russia we're investing in the equipment of the cold war huge tax break for missions you know the wrong type of people we wish to tax payers money on the

wrong weapons were fated the last war not the next conflict so we've got to adapt nato has to adapt russia has to adapt in order to be able to confront those new challenges of the threats to our security i talking about more modern weapons versus that's when the guerrilla we're talking a guerrilla warfare they're not using very highly advanced weapons themselves well there's nothing more primitive than a suicide bomber and individual who straps an explosive device to to themselves and blows themselves up themselves up as well as others a company or this is you know this is almost new it has happened in the past but never on the sun on the scale so we we've got to be in of it in the we we think about these things as a political say to this others a military side of this so that means adaptation innovation cooperation and it means cooperation make it among all of the world's these people along. to be

affected by modern warfare and too much of a tie at the present moment just take it all worth fund to its ancient ghosts of ancient conflicts and people here talking about nato and some common you know possible need to fantasy it is a fantasy and we have people in the way still. a soldier of russia russia wants to rule the world look at what catherine the great say you know i can only secure my friend dio's by expanding catherine the getting his big quarter today more fantasy i get if you go to talk to people in the streets they say we're worried about migration we are worried the bird with the the piracy on the high seas we're worried about our jobs our pensions because of economic instability we've got to focus on what people are concerned with and start working together to

deal with these problems well it's interesting that you bring up the different problems of your sense of who is nato's enemy because international terrorism first doesn't sound very convincing as you rightly brought up there are other issues that people are concerned with so who is nato is the enemy vader's enemy is instability it's what will turn of this it's the people who are the insurgents it's it's all of that exactly the same with russia's enemy is you know i've had the greatest and most successful defense riots of the world has ever know nato. and it has been it has been useful but it has survived and thrived because it wasn't just a military organization it was an alliance of values a belief in democracy a belief in people choosing their own government of freedom before the war good neighborly relations good internal relations all of these things these are values

here we need to together share of these problems. needs to be part of that community of values sure that we know what we're defending but one of the country that sort of creating a bit of instability in that at least in the minds of us in countries would be iran and now to two years ago at the pentagon has has been reportedly developing plans of attacking iran how realistic is that but i think everyone goes in option planning from the lowest to highest but you know that's that's not true because iran is not a normal country seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and iran is a country whose president the already said it wants to wipe one of its neighbors or thumb up so you can't talk about iran in terms of just a country developing a nuclear deterrence it's a danger to its neighbors and indeed as it develops a long range missiles to a much greater way really and frankly when i go to moscow i find people in

moscow even more concerned than the americans are about a nuclear iran because iran and terrified of the missile sites they're of course to the russian border and they are actually to the american border so the rhetoric might be different but we have all got a common interest in helping the people of iran to escape the state specifically to ship the stuff and to stall iran become a menace in the most volatile region of the world iran is no more a fundamentalist to kiddushin receipts are the least demonstrations of the people the people of iran want to be free they're able to demonstrate that they have been ruthlessly traced to the moment but you know this is more the host country and i think we need to be more sympathetic to the new born as decent peace loving people

in iran and encourage them to stand up to the. those who were drill press them and seek to destabilize the region. that would mean leadership. leadership is of huge importance in the world today i'm not a leader of any war i'm going to say. but there are people who must carry on the torch of leadership that the world can be and recognize what people are. and how we need to fight the new to us to be able to deal with these kids if we go. preoccupied with the ghosts of the past then we've missed the opportunity of doing something good and we take our people and in danger because we've taken our eye off the real all right thank you very much for your time pleasure.

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international news live from moscow this is an issue the headline. a one hundred thousand people have to supply did in a wave of strikes against europe as national governments impose all proposed all standards measures to pay off months of debt some run off by they found. her sitting whole just a day off so may your original sign taken with construction projects halted and the gays getting the right to run after the program by the big four by trying downs and demos and while the ousted man says he won't take me as his son thinks it will stay at home it's. the old way to stability will get another round of

bidets biggest on is gearing up for parliamentary elections affording months of political turmoil and that's the clincher it's the ballot with over two dozen polls is taking too long comes up to a referendum which brought parliamentary democracy to the country. and the next sounding to be sure spotlight and today when they try they rush imagines his ministry international development chief of as you talks about the challenges ahead . in the way that most co-hosts imagine saxophones from around the world at the form of recruiters and so on far since. zero zero. zero. zero zero zero lead. to the.