the chechen parliament was a message to al qaeda militant leader is hungry for power and. according to experts. triggered soledad the race for ratings by u.s. news channels leads to dramatic reporting of facts and evidence which is what they seem. weak human trafficking laws allow india to become a sex trade center with girls from whole villages big cities ending up in. moscow this welcome to the program the man thought to be behind it tuesday's attack on the chechen parliament that left three people dead a new terrorist leader in the region that's the view of the republics interior

ministry it's believed that hussein wanted to show that he's capable of leading militants he recently broke away from one of the world's most wanted international terrorists our correspondent reports on. we're standing in front of the church in palm and that has been attacked by the militants three people were killed and seventeen injured as the chechen terror minister reports the man behind this attack could be her same god kind of annual leader of the chechen militants and this is the way his show when al qaeda what he's capable off before her send her car was operating under dog omar and then a taurus and most wanted criminal in russia mark is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been put on the most wanted terrorist list by think you were saying just to remind you that we were to those drilled into the parliament parking zone killed

a security guard opened fire and stormed the parliament the federal forces blocked the militants inside the building and the operation was success all militants were killed and this is no one can do a commented on the situation because just the police did a very good deals we sent teams of six people in them in fifteen minutes to kill all the militants. from the building the whole area right now is been cleaned and today the chechen parliament resumes its normal working hours and victims as far as we know will be receiving compensations from the state. artie's works on a little trouble right there now you are with r.t. still to come for you this hour a report from one of the global sex trade biggest hubs. we have no work in our village i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer find out how these women became victims of sex trafficking driven into

a life of misery and exploitation. and we visit one of the world's most polluted towns in the russian europe to see if there's any hope for a cleaner future for the people of. the u.k. is to announce massive budget cuts expected to bring in twenty five percent reduction for most of government departments it follows yesterday's cuts to its defense budget worth almost five billion dollars that will mean that its nuclear deterrent renewal the will be delayed and the army will be reduced the announcement follows similar calls from germany and france and has caused washington to worry over nato its capabilities but john stevens a former conservative m.e.p. says these cuts show a new era of equality is coming for the alliance. the time when nato was essential an american operation in which everybody else was a satellite i think is now over i think that's no longer financially sustainable for the americans and so what we're seeing i think in with the british move towards

france in the nuclear area with the discussions between the french and the germans with the other initiatives in european defense to build a serious european pillar so that what data is is a partnership of equals between europe and america the more your appear nato becomes the more favorably disposed it will be towards european affairs because certainly the french and the germans and i think the british too increasingly recognize that there is such a thing as your ratio there is a europe here and russian defense interest but in a sense the time where we had a an old western and old east is over we have a new west in which russia is very much a part facing a new east if you like which is the rise of asia the rise of china in particular. all immigrants in germany should actively integrate into society that's what the

german president has told the turkish parliament his statement and reiterate chancellor merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed it comes amid a rise of immigration issues in europe including a clamp down on migrants in france and a swedish anti immigration party taking seats in the country's parliament former british m.p. keith best says that it's the germans who set the trend for movement of labor around europe. i do not think people mean by integration that everybody should look the same they should all wear the same clothes they should all eat the same cuisine but they do mean that people should live in harmony with one another one of the problems that one faces in most countries now have very mixed populations that some results of global much greater ease for people to migrate from one country to another not necessarily permanently just for temporary reasons but you've got to remember of course germany really set the trend

a long time ago by bringing in the gas star biter from turkey i mean these were people who were invited in by the german state just as indeed britain invited many people in from the caribbean in order to help to rebuild britain and to do some of the jobs which british people would not necessarily be prepared to do themselves. the issue of immigration is also the topic for debate in the latest edition of cross talk which you can see on r.t. in just about twenty minutes time. governments in europe in general are facing dire economic problems and it's very easy in such a context to play on anti immigrant feelings within society and to conjure up the front specter of foreigners who are to be blamed for economic social and political problems when clearly governments are failing to tackle these very problems every survey in sweden shows that it's

a huge cost even taking account tax benefits from immigrants and the immigrants that i'm talking about is not a western it is not a norwegian story english or whatever it's mostly from cultural countries that are cultural far from sweden those so you are you're saying you're saying muslims right is that what you're saying and i'm saying i'm saying mostly from the middle east and africa ok well then to say by the way ok. early bird may get the worm but it may be the wrong word artie's prius trader found that the scramble by twenty four hour news channels in the us to break a story first soon sees them backtracking to get their facts straight. pretty mainstream cable stations two favorite words we're following some breaking

news important breaking news that isn't really news we're seeing or could it be something. what is this they are words what we call a global killer could it be the end of the world. ok maybe a slight exaggeration but what the cable news channels do when it comes to breaking stories is it much better you have to engage people and the way to engage them is with conflict and fear remember when the brooklyn bridge was shut down because of a suspicious package i would also point out that this news comes as we've also reported this other story today we don't know if there's any connection here but you know the news that the pakistani taliban wants to carry out an attack because the times square attack failed a potential terrorist attack oh wait five minutes later fox had this to say. moments ago we told you about the brooklyn bridge shut down in both directions because of a suspicious package well we have just now learned and why p.d.

has declared all clear apparently a false alarm hoops no big deal what could have been the pakistani taliban turned out to be a suspicious flashlight we asked a media expert christopher chambers to have a look they can basically create their own experts who can back up whatever sin threat of corroboration it is and then they link it to this story journalistically even at a twenty four hour news cycle that look it should probably be the last thing that they say and that isn't the first time mainstream news channels have used flashy graphics and dramatic music to convince us of imminent doom and danger remember the failed christmas day bombing attempt last year while as the situation unfolded fox claimed that there could be a second incident on the same plane and just as quickly as the story became a multi-pronged terrorist attack with multiple scary play. earth fox had this to say this was not a big deal the second source saying it's

a sick passenger i think with fox it's about the balls it's about the hits on their website it's about the ratings the evolution of the breaking news story is so ridiculously over dramatize that it's become a laughingstock for popular comedic news sources to just sort of tend to fill twenty four hours of programming here so that happened somewhere today even members of the mainstream media have to laugh at themselves about the high news broke of a disturbance on board an airplane bound from washington d.c. to denver for that first hour or so after the news broke the story had a lot of worry in components early reporting was that a man from qatar a diplomat from qatar embassy in washington had reportedly tried to light an explosive device from inside the plane's bathroom while it was in the air and of course after further clarification turned out the story went more like this the diplomat from qatar had not been trying to light an explosive device he didn't have an explosive device there was no explosive device on the plane he was however

apparently smoking in the plane's bathroom with a twenty four seven cable news cycle and channels competing for a dying viewership it looks like just about anything flies when it comes to a story. there are t. washington d.c. . and you can always check out our website for updates on everything we're covering as well as expert analysis blogs and videos it's all waiting for you at r.t. top com and here's a taste of what's that right now from the couple to uncover russia's most glamorous spy gets hot for russia's prominent a men's magazine. all of that after coming in from the. early start a new research suggests unborn twins in the womb making friends with each other as early as four and a half months into pregnancy. russia

and nato should face their common challenges together german chancellor angela merkel has praised president medvedev decision to attend a key nato summit next month in lisbon the announcement came but talks between the russian and french and german leaders in the french resort of. said russia is thinking about nato as proposals concerning a european missile defense and in return chancellor merkel confirmed that europe is considering russia's proposals for a new security system in the region three leaders were keen to show they see eye to eye on most international issues the meeting aimed at bringing moscow and the e.u. close. well a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped and

full interview with is coming up next hour but here's a preview. before we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time though i think that nato has new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts are perceiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. india is working to combat a sex trafficking problem which campaigners say is the most rampant in the world thousands of girls from neighboring nepal are being brought to major cities like mumbai with promises of good jobs but they end up in brothels artie's charan singh investigates. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age to leave her village for the bright lights of mumbai only to find she was

heading for life in a brothel he said he wants to reach my why did you go with him because i didn't want to he forced me to india is the epicenter of this extra freaking industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic in st john's get support more than a quarter of a million women are trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and come from the rural areas of neighboring heading for mumbai. neither the parents nor they had any idea why it is like that parents may know a little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them bombay would represent a life state rather than a broad true it's easy to cross the border between india and if there are well established routes for trafficking in the northern state of bihar rescue groups

keep an eye on the trains passing through they have identified what they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but said nothing about thinking when we ask youngsters where they are going they say they're going to study it for girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related. the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work wise i'm not saying we have no work in our village i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer but. girls are misled by people offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters there are also girls who are convinced they can be part of a dance group and are conned into coming to india. it's easy to convince young girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big here in mumbai but

once your brothers there condemned to a litle bondage now campaigners want to see villagers in a pile given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers out and saying r.t. by. now let's get to some other world news in brief for the meantime and over a million people have taken part in public protests in front demanding the government backs down from plans to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two despite demos stretching into the seventh day president sarkozy remains adamant that the reforms must go through his promise to crack down on troublemakers the strikes are brought in much of the economy to hold with long lines forming for petrol and hundreds of flights being canceled. correct you have been effectively shut down day after attacks by gunmen left at least twenty five people dead in follows a wave of violence in the country's main economic hub in which more than fifty have been killed since the weekend a spate of killings erupted in response to

a contentious election which some say was rigged. russia boasts a lush nature and picturesque views but there's one place in the ural mountains where the landscape is very different it's the town of which is one of the most polluted places on earth sara for three ports on what's being done to clean up its environment and its reputation. it's a bleak sight that greets when you arrive in the small russian town of caravan a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's a large copper smelter and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's the residents who really suffer from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases or just of system diseases are coming in the world of oncological diseases

here is rather high under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act to progress slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that a company of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done the smart has found it takes put the region's rich copper deposits and has contributed to the economic progress in russia if the last twenty years the price to pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence a caravan when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is blowing in a different way usually you can't see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life

when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster in the town felons of poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents knew the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. well this industry is really dangerous it's a rule everything the units often fail and all impurities come to tyrone on the other hand things did used to be much worse so there have been some improvements despite millions in investment to modernize the plant when we visited the working conditions still seemed way fully inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with neighboring equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the company say that they're winning the battle to cut

emissions and with further investment plans can care about our hope for a cleaner future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of tower that the mistakes of the past the time being remain ever present their affair. care about. time out of the business news with career. my. head of welcome to the business program good to have you with us this hour shares an air flight have enjoyed a strong run after finance minister aleksei quoted inside the government should so a minority stake in the airline. from what i'll see it thinks it's unlikely the government will be willing to lose control of the flagship to the private sector.

so there will this. all of what you will push in there i'll share bold. in different industries so it will stage at last here to create is it. on an airline industry and go to. so i don't see it isn't to change the norm. and they're going. to look at the markets a stock markets were down on wednesday that's after trying to raise interest rates by twenty five basis points its first hike in nearly three years resource related shares took a hit as investors why for commodities the nicky's ended the trading day one point seven percent lower and hong kong was also down point eight percent. european shares are flat topped against four drug makers offset pulling back number nor has gained six point three percent of the us health regulators declined to approve

diabetes drugs being developed by even in pharmaceuticals financials among the worst performers on concerns that other banks may be poised to take back billions of our futures. and here in russia markets are low enough to the trading the r.t.s. is down around a percent this hour to my six also slightly lower dragged by energy majors from a record low dollar both of forces banking stocks are up though their bank and incident are trading over half the same high. gold as opposed to the first significant drop in price since its record breaking level of one thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars last week price fell two point one percent to july levels and with the strengthening dollar china's central banks decision to raise interest rates. and staying with the precious metal sever stalls gold mining unit is seeking regulatory approval for a one billion dollars initial public offering. the i.p.o.

me start as early as this month according to sources close to the deal the sale will be the largest overseas share offering by a russian company since since united will solve raised two point twenty four billion dollars in hong kong in check. western road and bridge building most the trust has set an indicator of price range of six point twenty five to eight dollars per share for its upcoming i.p.o. the company would raise up to half a billion dollars if the latter just to sell the twenty five percent of shares allocated to the initial public offering the road show starts on wednesday and is expected to be concluded in of that. and european investors a lobbying for a visa free regime between russ alba e.u. but in exchange they want russia to make it easier for ford as to move around the country without having to register when they go to a different city we have to stress test for example with the foreign minister about a month ago russian foreign minister. current discussions or continues discussions

with the european union officials european commission but also member state governments about it we are clearly in favor of visa free regime but what is also being said from the side of the your being straight of the road is is that on the other side then russia has to also ease the regime for foreigners here in the country which means that the registration and the limitations on free movement in russia should be removed. sales of pedro cetera and cars jumped ten percent in the third quarter beating forecasts the french manufacturer has also raised its full year earnings outlook the company benefited from stronger sales in europe and emerging markets in particular sales in russia soared seventy one percent with pedro increasing its market share to more than three percent the com maker is expanding operations in russia china brazil and argentina with the ambition of generating half of its sales outside europe by two thousand and fifteen. and yet

was that profit went up one hundred thirteen percent in the third quarter of two thousand and ten the world's second largest internet search engine earned nearly four hundred million dollars that's up from one hundred eighty six million in the same period in two thousand and nine yahoo's overall performance was flat as it continues to climb out of financial stagnation recently yahoo was subject to a possible takeover by a.o.l. and a group of private investors however no official bids have been made yet and that's your update for this hour charlotte lois farley will be with you next hour with more business news here on r.t. .

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