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much ado about something that's francis paralyzed a retirement age increase and more protests are expected in the u.k. which has just announced its biggest social spending cuts in two experts say the massive public outrage is an overreaction. believed to be behind the attack on the chechen parliament may have been a regional militant leader king to demonstrate his strength. and a weak human trafficking laws in india need to shattered lives as village girls come to the big city promises of a better life. around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow in france public transport is paralyzed flights canceled on one

million people protesting demanding the government backs down from retirement age reforms the protests erupted into vaughan and softer president nicolas sarkozy about his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two still lower than in most european countries young people took to the streets throughout the country stones and bottles burning cars and breaking windows and stores these use force and tear gas to push back the protestors after the interior minister had sent in real offices to stop the. political professor from the university poses france's unrest and violence is unreasonable. the problem with the retirement age has 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 years that people have to 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 it's true that the public ought to be aware of the 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 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 go bust so they have an interest in the reform as well it's probably the people who are nearing very

closely to retirement to find it more difficult to realize that they have to maintain themselves professionally two more years and the unemployment rate for over fifty five years is a 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 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 an idea is to prove to his core electorate that he can deliver a very difficult reform package even in the face of strong opposition 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. but there is another european country bracing itself for even more austerity the u.k. government has announced its largest cuts in public spending since world war two the new plans will have the budgets nationally eighty three billion pounds and a cut of around half a million public sector jobs the state pension age will be raised to sixty six by twenty twenty four years earlier than planned one of the hardest hit will be welfare benefits which will be slashed by seven billion pounds thousands of taking to the streets to oppose the measures but dr richard wellings deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs thinks that the government should have gone even further. and i think actually george osborne should have gone further with the cuts let's put it into perspective by two thousand and fourteen fifteen overall government spending will only have fallen by about three percent so this is actually a very tiny cut so i think you should have gone further he's relying on economic growth and rising tax revenues to make the bulk of the deficit reduction and he actually this is

a big gamble because we can rely on economic growth being strong for next year when really by recovery that. you mention the two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen will by then something like over five hundred thousand public sector jobs will be lost what will happen to those people obviously some will be retired off but surely those people will be have to be absorbed back into the jobs market if not they'll need unemployment benefits so surely that's going to cost the government even more isn't it with all those people out of work well again i mean there are actually six or seven million public sector works in the u.k. so this is five hundred thousand spread over four years which is around a hundred thousand or so each year so that's only about two percent or so of the public sector where you will see i think a lot of that can be absorbed through natural wastage that obviously certain departments are facing very severe cuts but it is definitely patrick and let's not forget as well that every pound the government has taken from the private sector in archetypes ational forward so you're not actually taking money out of the economy i mean we've seen huge number of job losses in the private sector during the

recession and at the same time the pope. even pensions when welfare benefits went up so you need to restore the balance in the economy and we've had a huge transfer from the protective private sector to the non productive public sector and this is very unhealthy for long term economic prosperity. the u.k. would also have to put off nearing its nuclear deterrent system and withdraw twenty thousand british troops based in germany after the government announced multi-billion pound comes to the country's defense budget talks to people in london to find out if they are aware or even care about what was being spent on british troops abroad. is the word on everyone's lips this week in the u.k. public sector cuts in the shape of the comprehensive spending review which will see half a million jobs in the next four years and cuts to the defense budget so that now spending on defense as a proportion of gross national product will be no mean any time since 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 he pulled out over the next ten years but did the british people even know they still had troops pasted to germany i want to 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 church the money most of the. strength. of the. cuts did you know that person still had street stationed in germany. and what do you think they're doing that. maybe protecting global peace what do you think they're doing that. you've got to forget. that was emmett's

in london. coming up here this hour on visit one of the world's most polluted towns . the pay for the economic. and environmental. investigate if there's any hope of a cleaner future for a place for the legacy of pollution deprivation. but first the gang splits could be behind tuesday's strike on the chechen parliament the russian republics interior ministry has sent a man thought to be behind the terror attack may have been trying to assert his authority in the region to al-qaeda. has the details. we're standing in front of the church and parliament that has been attacked by the militants three people were killed and seventeen injured as the chechen terror and minister reports the man behind this attack could be her same kind of a new leader of the chechen militants and this is the way he's showing what he's

capable off forty year old guy kind of orchestrated an attack on the whole village of the chechen president runs and got do this august twelve militants broke into the village early in the morning they will be locked in one of the streets as a result of the counter terrorist operation six police officers died more than twenty people were injured all militants were killed privates also involved in train suicide bombers and there have been several suicide blast in grozny this year before cassandra kind of was operated on to draw kumar of the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia doc or maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been on the most wanted terrorist list by the u.s. see just to remind you that we were to drop 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 how ramzan kadyrov 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 but also very curated all members of parliament 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. well look you heard now in twenty minutes from now you can watch our special report which uncovers a fraud epidemic of all times we get the real story of pulled the a wall street financial system a lot of investment pyramid to prosper leaving millions ripped off. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about yeah it's about me too.

but now. since this is my fil i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light switch. the tone a kind of bush may have once been a center of economic activity and wealth for centuries here in russia but it's fallen into disrepair today years of industrial activity and pollution of cho to this once charming city surface now reports from the toxic town nicknamed the black

point of the planet. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you're right in the small russian town of caravan a legacy of environmental destruction once and the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's a large cup of tea and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape it devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the hordes of cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases into the justice system diseases are coming in the level of oncological diseases here is rather high. under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that our company of inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop her but of course lots more still remains to be done

. the snails was 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 of pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence to care about and 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 zone the town fallon's a poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution an unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. if well this industry is really doing druce it's

a rude 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 fully inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with navy the 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 plan and care about now hate bikini future. we aren't 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 that care about the mistakes of the past the

time being remain ever present. r.c. karabakh. india is working to combat a sex trafficking problem which campaigners say is the most rampant in the world thousands of girls from neighboring the poor love 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 as often as 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 she 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 african industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic jams and joins 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. neither their parents nor they had any idea what the void is like the parents may know a little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them it 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 the identify 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 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 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 the. 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 you're unsure two brothers there can demonstrate like a college now campaigners want to see villagers admit pod given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers out and saying r.t. mumbai. russia's proposal for a new pair and european security treaty is not aimed at narrow objectives will help all the participants that was one of the messages of dmitri medvedev as he met with the participants of the munich security conference. at the big o.

water for the first proposed a new plan european security treaty there was a mixed reaction some said that it's time to change the old system others said that russians are trying to deceive europeans i was expecting such reactions nevertheless we have to continue. my dear is not aimed at narrow objectives that security is a serious thing is it appropriate to make one country or block seats at the expense of others and one of the major directions of our foreign policy is euro atlantic but many are still eager to compare russia to the suv union it's not correct the country has changed people have changed a lot and i'm glad that russia's voice is being heard by my counterparts in france germany and other european countries and yet look at the munich security conference annual meeting of high level officials from around the country founded in one thousand nine hundred two one of those discussions and things now attracts more and more nations that are not actually in the bloc well this year the conference is

taking place here. while talking to r.t. a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped well the full interview is coming up in the next hour on r.t. but here's a brief preview for you. but you know what 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 that i think that leaders new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts of perceiving russia as a possible threat of work or hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. so more world news now here in r.t. violence has broken out in the indonesian capital as about two thousand demonstrators rallied outside the presidential palace the protesters have been demanding the head of state resignation because they say there has been no change

in the country since he took office a year ago the she's gas to disperse the crowd with at least one man injured it's been similar rallies across the country with some protesters setting cars on. the death toll from public and maybe in the philippines has risen to nineteen with many injured over three hundred thousand people have been affected by extreme weather and thousands of acres of farmland and food supplies have been destroyed and is now moving to the southern coast of china where people are bracing themselves. to scuttle dairy farmers have taken their tractors to the european union to protest over milk prices producers from france germany and italy were among those who blockaded the e.u. parliament building in stress but in the money that supermarkets pay more for their milk prices have roughly coughed over the last two years mostly hitting small private firms. by the way check out our website for updates on everything we're covering here on screen as well as x. but now this is blogs and videos all available at r.t.

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the state will sell stakes in around one hundred companies by two thousand and fifty worth around fifty eight billion dollars that's the program covers the whole spectrum of the government's involvement in business among the most notable offerings of the sale of. banks to below controlling sirius investors share interests the government's taken. to controlling its holding in national airline air a float it could also sell up to fifteen percent of oil company. fifteen deputy prime minister. said the program was intended to help russia modernize its economy. the main. the. change the investment of these assets to attract private investors and then if you change the structure of ownership of the companies to make them more transparently stable and reliable. that's a look at the markets now and here in russia they finished wednesday session mixed

for the us here down zero point eight percent energy majors the main loses lukoil of gas down more than five percent banking stocks were up based there but somewhat . of a gold mining it is seeking regular sea approval for a one billion dollar initial public offering in london. starting this month according to sources close to the deal would be the largest overseas share of russian company since. raised two point two four billion dollars in hong kong in january. on russian road and bridge builder trust to set an indicative price range of six point two five to eight dollars per share of his 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 for the initial public offering the road show starts on wednesday and it's expected to be concluded in november. the new mayor of moscow is due to be appointed on

thursday the kind of say at the head of the government ministration and deputy prime minister came as no surprise. of course the nomination of sergei some yamin known as a successful manager has been met with optimism in the business community. a professional lawyer and good experienced manager who ruled russia's oil rich region . 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 so bennett has enormous experience hall for work in the garment. 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 richest. russia benyon delivered

his mayoral strategy to his future colleagues in the moscow duma among the stop priorities are to reduce bra chrissy 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. the new mayor should not only focus in global issues but also as all small issues it's not a bubbly consulship 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 they remain open to little greek cafe in the center of moscow in the middle of the extreme summer heat and like many other intrapreneur as she was lucky to pass all the registration from l.g. smoothly but a nice start doesn't mean any zeroed apart from high rent and interest rates she says red tape is the main thing holding her back and her strong hope that the geese

abandon will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and will be last week are seriously speaking we want less bureaucracy and more transparency another important thing for small business is to have an opportunity to take part in real estate tenders for renting or buying the new head of russia's capital is cut from the same political cloth as the country's ruling tandem of president made visit and prime minister putin this offers the prospect of critical to nation between federal and local government in the country's biggest city moscow's small business people are cautiously optimistic that their lives may be made a little easier but even they understand that although the problems in moscow are well and dispute they are still prodigious. business r.t. moscow. not sure update for this but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.