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the man believed to be behind the attack on the chechen parliament may have been a regional militant leader keen to demonstrate his strength to al qaeda. cross europe the french are arriving over retirement age increase while more protests are expected in the u.k. which is just its biggest social spending cuts since world war two. and weak human trafficking laws in india lead to thousands of shouted life. come to the big city lured by promises of a better life and. live from moscow. welcome to the program a gang split could have been behind tuesday strike on the chechen parliament and

the russian republics interior ministry house said thought to 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 problem 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 car of annual 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 just triggered an attack on the whole village of the chechen president runs on this august twelfth military probe into the village early in the morning dual blocked in one of the streets as a result of the come to terms to 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 last uncross maybe some year before december car was operated on to draw kumar of the notorious and most wanted

criminal in russia call mark is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been put on the most wanted terrorist list by the do or see just to remind the world we weren't and strolled into the parliament hakan so killed a security guard opened fire and stormed the parliament the federal forces 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 we sent teams of six people in there in fifteen minutes to kill all the militants. from the building the whole area and 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. article talks on a little trouble reporting well coming up we visit one of the world's most polluted

towns. right ok but the economic pain has been enormous but this is a show and environmental. day we investigate if there is any hope of a clean a future for a place with a legacy of pollution and deprivation. 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 valid his conservative party would press ahead with the reforms the strikes are brought much of the country to a standstill with long queues at patrol stations on many flights canceled in the southern city of new york police clashed over the interior minister and sent in officers to stop rioting police used force and tear gas to push back the protesters . political professor from the university see or spoke discusses the reasons for

the unrest. the problem was the retirement ages been raised actually a number of years ago because of the observed democrat demographic trends and so there have been actually several attempts before to streamline the system to work increase the number of eight years that people have to work 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 a still it would still be one of the younger stages to retire in europe so 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 will actually accept to let go of it of course it depends on your generation as well you have different

positions from younger active workers who are currently paying into the system paying in for the current retirees and of course they know that within a few years the system if it's not reformed is going to go bust so they have an interest in the reform as well it's probably the people who are nearing very closely to retirements who find it more difficult to realize that they have to maintain themselves professionally for two more years and the unemployment rate for over fifty five years is rather high in france 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 the idea is to prove to his core electorate that he can deliver a very difficult reform package even in the face of strong opposition. but you can

a 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 and cut around half a million public sector jobs thousands of taken to the streets to oppose the measures it follows cuts announced yesterday to the country's defense budget worth over three billion pounds that means renewing its nuclear deterrent system will be delayed and twenty thousand british troops based in germany are to be pulled off completely with more on that story we go now to laura made in london where she asked people what they think the military was doing in germany. is the word on everyone's lips this week in the u.k. public sector cuts in the state of the club hence its spending review which will see half a million jobs over the next four years and cuts to the defense budget so that now spending on defense as

a proportion of grace national production will be no good that in any case time said records began and one thing they certainly won't be able to do is station large numbers of armed forces in germany twenty thousand military personnel operational that the legacy of world war two david cameron's announced that will be pulled out over the next ten years but did the basics people even know they still had troops pasted to job any and what did they think that doing that now david cameron says is a part of the defense cuts we're going to bring them home what do you think about that is it something we should be no rules. no more or all right we should our troops the money. i think you saw on the strength. of these. cards personally did you know that person still had street stationed in germany no i didn't know that and what do you think they're doing that. may be protecting

global these what do you think they're doing that. have got the foggiest. the russian president's proposal for a new power and european security treaty could work if agreed upon that's according to wolfgang ischinger chairman of the munich security conference the forum attracts politicians media and scientists from around forty countries and this time it's taking place right 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 the 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 measure their vento view with the aim of bringing moscow and the e.u. closer it's been confirmed verb europe is considering russia's proposal for a new security system in the region in response the russian president said he would attend a key nato summit next month in lisbon that gives the age you. are talking to r.t. the top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped that full interview is coming up in fifteen minutes but here's a preview. well 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 concept of perceiving russia as

a possible threat of were hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. and the interview is actually coming up next hour right here on r.t. . well the town of a cut of about may of once been a center of economic activity and wealth for centuries in russia but it has now fallen into disrepair years of industrial activity and pollution have choked this once charming city so if earth reports from the toxic town nicknamed the black point of the planet. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you are right in the small russian town carabaos legacy of environmental destruction once owned 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 here devastated but it's the residents who really suffer from the hordes of cardiovascular diseases

respiratory diseases or indeed just of system diseases are coming in the world of oncological diseases here he's around or i. knew in a ship 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 care about but of course lots more still remains to be done. the smarts was founded to exploit the region's rich culture that poses and has contributed to the economic progress in russia if the last twenty years the price of 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 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 phelan's 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. if all 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 wafl 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 clean a 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 care about the mistakes of the past the time being the main ever present. care about. now let's get to some other stories hitting headlines around the world this hour and afghanistan's election officials have sold nearly a quarter of the ballots from september's election that accounts for almost one point three million votes that assertion follows numerous reports of fraud although the official still incest that the election was a success. emergency workers are scrambling to get aid to flood victims in

central vietnam raging the currents of killed at least forty people and some two hundred thousand homes have been swamped officials warned that the death toll could rise as the search continues police say a bus swept away two days ago by heavy walkers over the main highway has been found at the bottom of a river but divers have not been able to determine how many of the missing twenty passengers are stuck inside. pakistan part of correct you have been locked down day after attacks by gunman that left at least twenty five people dead the spate of killings was in response to a contentious election which some say was rigged a spike in violence and the economic center of pakistan has killed more than fifty people over the last three days. 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 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 them because i didn't want to he forced me to india is the epicenter of this extra africa industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic bins and joins it's court 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 their parents nor they had any idea what the real world is like the 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. 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 who they believe are being trafficked an order them from the train but they're not there but when we ask youngsters where they are going they say they're going to study if your girl is travelling with a boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related to 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 for girls are misled by people

offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters they're 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 here in mumbai but once you're. there condemning. given more warnings of the dangers and the police want active in clamping down on traffickers out and saying mumbai now you can always check our website for updates on everything we're covering as well as expert analysis blogs and videos that's all that dot com here's a taste of what's waiting for you right now and thousands ofin the state church in a week in protest of the clergy stun gay marriage. also its fashion week in moscow find details reports from the catwalk all of this sounds much more.

switch on some u.s. news channels and you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a hollywood blockbuster. conflict and sex are common ploys to play on people's emotions in the scramble for ratings desperate to break a story first they often news without knowing all the facts forcing them to. 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 thing our words what we call a global killer would 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 isn't much better you have to engage people and the way to engage them is with six 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 to you 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 peavy 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 could 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. perth fox had this to say this was not a big deal the second source say 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 radio the evolution of the breaking news story is so ridiculous that over dramatize that it's become a laughing stock for popular comedic news stories that. 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 its 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.

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a beach hotel the western resort. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of a ten seasons hotel. return. hello welcome to the business program hey a lot of me. and the last few minutes the russian government surveilled some of the details of its privatization program the state will sell its stakes in around nine hundred companies by two thousand and fifty worth around fifty eight billion dollars among the most notable offerings we have a government reducing its stake in v.t. back to below controlling within three years if serious investors show interest the government's stake in spag will be reduced to controlling us while it's holding a national airline ever felt it could also sell up to fifteen percent of oil

company watch a thousand and fifteen the plan is yet to be signed by president to me she would fit if one of course have more details all day and else when we get the. public to the market. u.s. stock prices are rising bouncing back a day after pulling back concerns over the growth of china's economy but dominating the headlines it's not surprising across the board after delta airlines are forced to jump into the revenue internet companies netflix e-bay were announced third quarter earnings on the marketplace and. european stocks were early losses to trade slightly higher with persia and b f that rising in the world with a handful of other high profile shares will be gaining. here in russia the market finished wednesday station mixed with the are down no point eight percent and you may just be the main loser to nucor and gas down more than two point five percent banking stocks are up but back about. gold is posted its first

significant drop in price since its record breaking level of one thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars per ounce last week the price fell two point one percent levels amid a strengthening dollar and china's central bank's decision to raise interest rates . russia's a road bridge builder. and indicative price range of six point two five to eight dollars per share for us upcoming the company would raise up to half a billion dollars if it was just to sell the twenty five shares. a public offering the very show starts on wednesday and is expected to make crude it. in other news the new mayor of moscow is due to be confirmed on thursday the nomination of sergei so be done in who's seen as having close ties with the ruling tons of a president of a given promise to putin has been greece of the some optimism by the business

community. reports. a professional lawyer and an experienced manager who ruled russia's oil rich to min wage and banyan is no stranger to power in two thousand and five he moved to moscow to have the kremlin administration and in just three years was appointed deputy prime minister tried and tested he's seen as the right man to take the keys to moscow i think sabbatical enormous experience hall for work in the government he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a system within the government stuff and he was quite successful as a governor of one of the. original russia banyan delivered his mayoral strategy future colleagues in the moscow duma among his stop priorities are to reduce bruckner c fight corruption and to prove the city's infrastructure a lot of hopes are being pinned on the new man not least by intrapreneur those who

expect him to solve the small but still important problems with the new mayor should not only focus and global issues but also as all small issues each national public council should dish to city districts doing the small business we also expect him to think how to excessive to show that small companies would have an opportunity to invest in new technology open to little greek cafe in the center of moscow in the middle of the extreme summer heat and like many other intruder knows she was lucky to pass all the registration for morality smoothly but an easy start doesn't mean any zeroed apart from high rent and interest rates she says red tape is the main thing holding her back it's her strong hope that's against the ban and will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and will be last we thought seriously speaking we want less bureaucracy and more.