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believed to be behind the chechen parliament and may be a regional militant leader demonstrate his strength to. cross europe and the french oh rioting over retirement age increase while more angry protests are expected in the u.k. which has just announced its biggest social spending cuts since world war two. human trafficking laws in india and so shop in my village girls come to the big city by promises of a better life and end up working. and coming out and they would have all the latest market. why is the price of gold it's falling from its metal breaking high and join us in about twenty minutes time.

news twenty four seven you're with the lie from moscow a guy split could have been behind tuesday's strike on the chechen parliament this according to the russia's republic interior ministry. thought so be behind the terror attack may have been trying to assert his authority in the region to al qaeda. has details. 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 terrorists or reports the man behind this attack could be her same guy collier and their leader of the chechen militants and this is the way his show when al qaeda what he's capable off forty year old guy kind of orchestrated an attack on the whole village of the chechen president runs on this august twelfth militants broke into the village early in the morning they will be blocked in one of the streets as a result of the come to terms operation six police officers died more than twenty

people were injured all militants were. also involved in train suicide bombers and there have been several suicide lost in cross me they said here before cassandra crime was operating under more of the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed fourteen people talk omar has been forced on the most wanted terrorist list by they do or say just to remind you that the militants drove into the parliament hakan so 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 how worms on can do a commented on the situation. the police did a very good job we sent two teams of six people in there it took them fifteen minutes to kill all the militants they also evacuated all members of parliament

from the building the whole area and right now is been cleaned and today the church and parliament resumes its normal working hours and victims as far as we know will be receiving compensations from the state. also use a. reporting coming out for you we visit one of the world's most polluted towns. fight to pay for the economic payment has been enormous with the social and environmental sky. we investigate if there is any hope of clean a future for a place with a legacy of pollution and deprivation. or the government has announced its largest cuts in public spending since world war two the new austerity plans will have the budget slashed by eighty three billion pounds cost of around a half a million public sector jobs thousands of taken to the streets to oppose such measures and follow. yesterday to the country's defense budget worth almost five

billion dollars renewing its nuclear deterrent system will be delayed and twenty thousand british troops in germany are to be pulled out completely with story we go to in london where she asked people what they think of new plays a military budget cuts. everyone this week in the u.k. public sector cuts in the state that the couple has its spending review which will see nearly half a million job in the next four years and cuts to the defense budget that now. defense is the proportion of gross national product will be no any time since records began and some say that marks the end of an era in which latest polls include global growth now once these cuts come into force the u.k. . anymore iraq and afghanistan are two examples of the scale of operations the

brits just be able to. the new budget take means u.k. forces will be able to carry out one operation with up to six thousand troops compare that to the ten. thousands now in afghanistan or they'll be able to commit to one a short sharp shock a major limited time intervention of thirty thousand troops that's just two thirds of the force deployed to iraq in two thousand and three. and one thing they certainly won't be able to do is station large numbers of armed forces in germany twenty thousand military personnel are operational left a legacy of world war two david cameron's announced they'll be pulled out over the next ten years but did the british people even know they still had troops post it's a job any i want to they think that doing that did you know that race and still have troops stationed in germany yes and how many of them said there are and what

would you think they're doing that small amount of margin to. continue to force social rules would it surprise you to learn there are twenty thousand of them it would just opposed to some instructions on what do you reckon they're doing that. honest opinion i don't know i don't know a french talking gesture since that will reserve troops in germany so those were those bills but now david cameron says as a part of the of the defense cuts we're going to bring them home what do you think about that is it something we should be not floral. no more or aren't we should our church of the world at the moment you personally of in charge of so on the strength . of the use of goods around drug war for all i'm going to cops personally and you were world saw go up people i'm sure you did you know that person still had street stationed in germany no i didn't know that there are twenty thousand of them still

laugh at what he thinks the purpose of it what do you think they do that. texting national security much i don't know really sorry did you know that there are still british troops stationed in germany. liev heidelberg is a very popular place to station but i thought it was predominantly americans. does it surprise you that and there are twenty thousand british troops still there what are they doing that's my question so you shouldn't be in afghanistan fighting for an illegal war that we as taxpayers have to fund what do you think they're doing that. we've got the foggiest idea the us also has significant numbers in germany and that doesn't get to be changing and that's key because the net result of all these cuts will be that the u.k. will become more and more dependent on the us forest security and rather than playing a small simple said road on the international stage the u.k. will join the ranks of countries like italy and spain which spend very little on

defense and don't have any bill that they said. after is lauren it right there over one million people are protesting throughout france demanding the government backs down from raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two after months of largely peaceful actions many protests erupted into violence this week after president nicolas sarkozy vowed his conservative party would press ahead with the reforms that strikes a chord much of the country to a halt with future petrol stations on many flights canceled in the southern city of police and youths clashed often be interior minister sent in officers to stop rioting police used tear gas to push back the protesters. while for more analysis on the situation in france when i was joined by paul a valet political professor from the university you see your book thank you for joining us mr valets so what started as relatively peaceful protests may lead to

a paralysis of the country do you think such methods are justified and how far a trade unions willing to go. actually probably we're. will be at a turning point to this week because the final vote of the law will load go into the upper chamber of the french parliament probably at the end of this week it was earlier billed for today but there are a number of amendments that will put it back till friday and after that date we have indications that some unions will stop the protests and basically concentrate on perhaps legal action against the enforcement but you have a radical fringe of some unions and some other elements in the protesters who are not under for union control who are probably willing to go on protesting now the current reforms have positive and stern for you such as cleaning up state finances

and bringing down deficits some of the measures are not as tough as greece's whose economy is in ruins sort of the protesters in france are being unreasonable unrealistic. well there is a there is a strange element in this as well because the problem was the retirement age has been raised actually a number of years ago because of the observed democratic demographic trends and so there are actually several attempts before to work store streamline the system to work increase the number of years that people have to work pay in which is still in france lower than the average in other countries as well but all of these measures have been insufficient and so it's come to this measure of raising the retirement age which is only a raise of two years and it's still it would still be one of the younger stages to retire in europe so well it's true that the public ought to be aware of. the issue

but it's true that also that they have been used to a generous benefit regime and it's very difficult for them to we're actually except to let go of it of course it depends on your generation as well do you have different positions from younger active workers who are currently paying into the system paying in for the current retirees and of course so they know that within a few years the system if it's not reformed is going to work go bust so they have an interest in the reform as well it's probably the people who are hearing very closely to retirement to find it more difficult to realise that they have to maintain itself professionally two more years and the unemployment rate for over fifty five years is rather high in france in the same way that it's rather high also for youngsters between fifteen and twenty four so that actually creates

a lot of resentment and anger and that's one of the reasons why we see these protests we are seeing some pretty impressive pictures there of protest on the streets and vehicles on fire. now let's turn our attention to the issue of politics on this because pension reform has already become a hot topic when it comes to upcoming elections the opposition socialists say that yes they will abolish it if they win in two thousand and twelve how do you think this could affect the political life of the country. well certainly they've taken a very delicate gamble in the same way that president sarkozy's also taken quite a gamble because he obviously has a vested interest in pulling off this reform and even if it makes him quite unpopular his idea is to prove to his core electorate that he can deliver a very difficult reform package even in the face of strong opposition and the socialist opposition have a stake a lot of all of their reputation on indeed repealing or preventing this measure

from being passed and now they say that if they do win the election in twenty twelve. will repeal it but that remains to be seen it also has to be seen what happens in the next few days of the protests get more violence if you have a really major problems because of the petrol or gasoline shortages then public opinion will of perhaps a swing against the protesters the more violent they get. the more difficult it is for the socialist party to be associated with such protests and to be seen as a responsible partner in government also you see that of course there are different possible presidential candidates for twenty twelve and not all of them are of the same opinion and of course the big mystery is the position of gandhi who is serving as the magic director of the i.m.f. in washington he's not allowed to take a public stance on this issue because his job requires him to stay out of national

french politics but i want it or are we going to have to bring it to an end to every sort of running out of time poll votes are about for us from paris do you see your support. very much. but the russian president's proposal for a new pan european security treaty could work if agreed that's according to wolfgang ischinger chairman of the munich security conference the former trucks politicians media and scientists from around forty countries and this time it's taking place here in moscow. the european security system which we have had for the last decade or two has not worked very well that was probably the reason why president medvedev made fundamental proposals regarding . the able and evolution of this european security system i think he is right in addressing these issues. well the comments echo the reaction of the french

and german leaders who met president and hear their views and the view on tuesday with the aim of bringing moscow and the e.u. closer it's been confirmed that europe is considering russia's proposals for a new security system in the region in response the russian president said he would attend the nato summit next month in lisbon. while talking to r.t. a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe so just that russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped the full interview is coming your way in about fifteen minutes time here's a preview. 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 needles global rule in 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 being brought to major cities like mumbai with promises of good jobs instead many become victims of human traffickers trapped into a life of virtual slavery artie's counseling 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 them. i didn't want to he forced me to india is the epicenter of the sex trafficking industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of

laws against traffic pinson johns it's taught more than a quarter of a million been 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 have any idea of what the real world is like that didn't mean one little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them it would represent a lifestyle rather than abroad 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 the of identify who they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but. when we ask youngsters where they're going they say they're going to study it for girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her brother 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 why. 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 here in seoul two brothers there condemned to a litle bondage now campaigners want to see villagers in a body given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers out and saying r.t. mumbai. the town of. one spino center of economic activity well for

centuries in russia but it has fallen into disrepair and today years of industrial activity and pollution have choked this once charming city south for three ports from the toxic town nicknamed the black point of the planet. it's a bleak sight. in the small russian town of caravan a legacy of environmental destruction and the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's a large copper 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 of your digestive system diseases are common in the world for diseases here which is rather high under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress. we immediately

began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that accompany of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the smelt has found it takes 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 the government 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 that 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 phelan's a poverty so it was

a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents here the more the same pollution an unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. if this industry is really dangerous it's a rule everything the units often feel 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 for the 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 the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the companies 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 and care about the mistakes of the past the time being the main ever present. karabakh. and in just a moment charlotte with a business. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. much brighter. from stupid.

stunts on t.v. don't. allow it welcome to the business program here on our tail with michelle obama's folly shares an aeroflot have enjoyed a strong run off to find they could join said the government should sell a minority stake in the airline but. think that's unlikely the government would be willing to lose control of the flagship to the private sector. well. there all show boat. lost here.

and there in. time take a look forming now on u.s. stock prices are rising in early trade bouncing back today after pulling back on concerns a bit worried that china's economy things are dominating that headlines allies stocks the roi then cross the border after delta airlines are forced to have a nineteenth jump in passenger revenue internet companies netflix and e-bay were announced third quarter earnings after the marketplace in neighboring europe saw the reverse early losses to trade slightly higher but it will be a pretty thriving uplift in the outlook of the hunt for the other high profile shares also gaining and here in russia the markets are mixed as we approach the end of the trading session here in moscow the r.c.s. is down about one percent this hour at the gym angels are the main losers this neurochemical down more than the banking stocks are. going to be

a trading over the sets. in gold and president significant drop in price since its record breaking level of one thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars last week the price fell two point one percent july levels amid a strengthening dollar and china's central bank decision to raise interest rates. saying with precious little. about seven dollars gold mining units and speaking regulars here approval a warm and billion dollar initial public offering in london. to seal. the seas share offering by russian company says united it will raise two point two four billion in hong kong. and russian road and bridge builder. an indicative price range of six point two five to eight dollars per share for its upcoming i.p.o. the company would raise up to half a billion dollars if it manages to sell the twenty five percent of shares allocated

to national public offering the road show starts on wednesday and is expected to be concluded in november. the car industry now in sales of persia citron have 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 cells in europe and emerging markets in particular cells here in russia sold seventy one percent with persian increasing its market share it's more than three percent the comedy consists of funding operations in russia china brazil and argentina with the ambition of generating hoth of its cells outside europe by two thousand and sixteen yahoo's net profit went up one hundred thirteen percent in the third quarter of two thousand and ten the world's second largest internet search engine and nearly four hundred million dollars in one hundred eighty six million in the same period into the night over four months was flat as it continues to climb out of stagnation

recently yahoo was subject to a possible takeover by a group of private investors but no official bits have yet been made. and finally this hour has not been a brilliant near for thieves shoplifting has cost global retail industry around six percent less in two thousand and ten compared to last year according to the british center for retired research which is polled shopkeepers from forty two countries including russia global retail fare totaled around one hundred billion dollars injure brazil suffering the most in russia shot with just all around one and a half percent of total turnover shoplifters mostly prefer branded mobile phones electronics cosmetics and children's wear. shop day for this you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.