and end up in brothels. around the clock around the world this is r t in moscow good to have you with us in france public transport is paralyzed flights canceled and one million people

protesting demanding the government backs down from retirement age reforms the protests erupted into volunteer after president nicolas sarkozy valid his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two still lower than in most european countries people took to the streets throughout the nation hurling stones and bottles burning cars and breaking windows and still police use force and tear gas to push back the protestors after the interior minister had sent in officers to stop the rioting. political professor from the university says france's demonstrations all unreasonable. the problem with the retirement age as been raised actually a number of years ago because of the observed democratic demographic trends and so there have been actually several attempts before to streamline the system to. increase the number of years that people have to work 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 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 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 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 budget slashed by eighty three billion pounds and the cut of around the half a million public sector jobs 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 point seven billion pounds thousands of taking to the streets to oppose the measures but dr richard was the deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs thinks the government should have gone even further. i think actually george osborne should have gone further with the 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 we 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't rely on economic growth being strong for the next year when really but by recovery that. you mentioned the dates 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 one hundred thousand or so each year so that's only about two percent or so of the public sector workforce and i think a lot of that can be absorbed through natural wastage that obviously some 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 are the types ational barwig so you're not actually taking money out of the economy i mean we've seen huge number of job losses in the private side. during the

recession and at the same time the public sector of expanding and pensions welfare benefits went up so you need to restore the balance in the economy we've had a huge transfer from the productive private sector to the non productive public sector and this is very unhealthy for long term economic prosperity. he would also have to put off renewing its nuclear deterrent system and withdraw twenty thousand british troops based in germany after the government announced multi-billion pound cuts to the country's defense budget well to ignore em it talks to people in london to find out if they are aware or even care about what was being spent on british troops abroad. cup 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 nearly half a million jobs go in the next four years and cuts to the defense budget say that now britain's spending on defense as a proportion of her gross national product will be noted that in any peace 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 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 that they still had troops pasted to germany i want to they think that doing that now david cameron says is 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 think we shall just on the strength. of issues around for more for our i'm going to talk supposedly 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 peace what do you

think they're doing that. you've got to forgive. no it was. in london or coming up we visit one of the world's most polluted turns. the paper the economic team has been in. the social and environmental sky. if there's any hope of a cleaner future for a place with a legacy of pollution and deprivation. but first the gang split could have been 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. as the details. we're standing in front of the church in parliament 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 kind of near leader

of the church and 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 church and president runs on god doing 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 that guy was also involved in training suicide bombers and there have been several suicide blast in grozny this year before percenter kind of was operated under maher and then a taurus and most wanted criminal in russia call mark is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been called on the most wanted terrorist list by they do or say just to remind you that the militants drove 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 six as 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 evacuated all members of parliament from the building the whole area 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. the town of color bush may have once been a center of economic activity and wealth for centuries here in russia but it's now fallen into disrepair today years of industrial activity unlikely to be called green smelting copper transformed the town and pollution has choked this once charming place of first reports now 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 care

about a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world its thing to a large copper and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases and digestive system diseases are common 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. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that a company of the air as it were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. it's not who's found it takes with 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 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 and people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life when it is case in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster the town fallon's a poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents here are the more the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. this industry is really dangerous it's a rude everything the units often feel and all impurities come to tyrone on the

other hand things did use to be market 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 break many of the staff appeared to be working with maybe the 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 now hate working in a future where 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 the main every president. kerry bash.

india is working to combat a sex trafficking problem which campaigner says 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 instead many become victims of human traffickers trapped into a life of virtual slavery as 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. she said he wants to reach marty 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 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. neither their parents nor he had any idea what they're doing i know it 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 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 they've identified what they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but still 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. 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 here and sort of brothers there condemned to a life of bondage now campaigners want to see villagers admit pod given more warnings of the dangers and the police want 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 and will help all the participants it was one of the messages of the russian president dmitry medvedev as he met with the participants of the munich security conference. at the go on a first proposed new pan-european security treaty there was

a mixed reaction some said it is time to change the old system that russians are trying to deceive europeans but security is a serious thing it's inappropriate to make one country or book safe at the expense of others no one goes that russia's voice is being heard by my counterparts in france germany and other countries personal relations do not decide everything in foreign policy but they really help a recent reset in russia u.s. relations could not have been successful without a good relationship with president obama some of us believe that it was a good idea to push the reset button. but some of us believe that we should actually go try to go further. and write new software. has better programs and more cooperation. they munich security conference is an annual meeting of high level officials from around forty countries and nine hundred sixty two leading discussion meetings now attracts more and more nations that are

not actually in the bloc this year the conference is taking place here in moscow. and 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 fifteen minutes from now but here's a brief preview for you. 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 i think that labor's new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts of perceiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about needles global rule in circumvention of international laws. and some more news for you now the state of the day in our world update violence has broken

out in the indonesian capital of two thousand demonstrators rallied outside the presidential palace the protest is a big head of states resignation because there's been no change in the country since he took office a year ago police used tear gas to disperse the crowd but at least one man injured have been similar rallies across the country with some protesters setting cars on fire. the death toll from hurricane meggie in the philippines has risen to nineteen with many injured over three hundred thousand people have been affected by the extreme weather thousands of acres of farmland and food supplies have been destroyed many years now moving to the southern coast of china where people are bracing themselves. and the frontal dairy farmers are taking their tractors to the european union to protest over milk prices producers in france germany and italy were among those who blockaded the e.u. parliament building in strasbourg and demanding that supermarkets. pay more for them milk prices have roughly whole of the over the last two years mostly getting small private films. just

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a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g. hello and welcome to the business program here on our table with michelle obama's folly there are government has revealed some of the details of his privatization program the state will sell stakes in around one hundred companies by two thousand and fifteen worth around fifty eight billion dollars the program covers the whole spectrum of the government's involvement in business among the most notable offerings of the sale of shares in bank to below controlling its serious investors

share interest in the government's taking spare bank will be reduced to controlling what it's holding in national airline era float it could also sell up to fifteen percent of oil company rules enough by two thousand and fifteen deputy prime minister. said the program was intended to help russia modernize its economy. but the main goal of the. change the investment of these assets to address private investors and then if you change the structure of the companies to make them more transparent please stable and reliable. but look at the markets now and here in russia they finished wednesday session makes the r.c.a.'s down zero point eight percent energy majors the main loser the group boiling down more than five percent banking stocks were up there but. never gold mining it is seeking regular see approval for a one billion dollar initial public offering in london the i.p.o.

may started this month that's according to sources close to the deal this 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. sent of shares allocated to the initial public offering the road show starts on wednesday and looks expected to be concluded after. the new mayor of moscow is due to be appointed on thursday the kind of sea of the head of the government administration and deputy prime minister came as no surprise other than the global reports the nomination of them yunnan known as a successful manager has been met with optimism in the business community. a professional lawyer and experienced manager who ruled russia spoiled which 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 savannah. 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 to his future colleagues in the duma among his top priorities are to reduce brock recy 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 on global issues but also as all small issues. bubbly council satish the city district still in 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 she was lucky to pass all the registration from l.g. 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 that's her strong hope. will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and will be last with our series and speaking we want less bureaucracy and more transparency another important thing for small business is to have. an opportunity for you 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 president and prime minister putin has the prospect of creature coordination 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 under stooge they are still prodigious. business r.t. moscow. russia update for you can always find more stories on our website.

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