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much ado about something as france is paralyzed by riots over a retirement age increase and more angry protests are expected in the u.k. which has just announced its biggest social spending cuts since world war two experts say the massive public outrage is an overreaction. the man believed to be behind the attack on the chechen parliament may have been a regional militant demonstrate his strength to al-qaeda. and weak human trafficking laws in india says a shattered lives his village girls come to the big city promises of a better life and. around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow in france public transport is paralyzed flights canceled and three million people protesting demanding the government backs down from retirement age

reforms people took to the streets hurling stones and bottles burning cars and breaking windows and stores the protests erupted into violence after president nicolas sarkozy vowed his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty two still lower than in most european countries police use force and tear gas to push back the protesters. from his hour of explains what caused the habit. these people that have been here for hours protesting against what they believe will be a crippling reform to the country's domestic policy specifically of course much protested sarkozy plan to throw long. pension reform and actually prolonging the age when people retire by two and a half years saying of course that this caird see the country the boom. state needs to overcome the effects of the global financial crisis and help the european and

french economy out of its stagnant period but the people here certainly don't believe in any of it they say that it is against their constitutional rights that they demand their special reform be shelved and they're prepared to stand outside the senate and in many other cities throughout the country to see that their will is done of course on the one hand it is a constitutional right of the people to protest against something that they disagree with and for something that they believe it but in many situations and specifically france when something is done too much it becomes a farce rather than a reality and this standstill the protesters on one side and the police standing just a few meters away is symbolic to the entire economy of the country when everything is that can still pending some sort of a decision of the french government has been in situations like this previously gummi division and those forced to give in and abandon his student you know his use

reform where allowing people to hire more young people but with less social benefits of course nicolas sarkozy is already saying that he will not back down and the pension reform will continue and will take place the people of course saying that they will continue to stand on the streets for as long as necessary and we'll see the their will is done and their voices are heard according to the local trade unions over three million people took to the cities of cross over to protest the decision of the lesser goes to implement this pension reform according to the police it's closer to a million but one thing is certain the fact that these projects are having on the country's economy are tangoing the country is losing so much money and the french government it seems is losing patience while france is very badly affected by the global financial crisis something like this is definitely not. helping statistics of course to show that over sixty percent of the country's people do believe that

taking their voice to the streets and taking their opinions to the streets is something that will actually help them with forty three percent of the people saying that they disagree with the decision to literally cripple the country's economy and infrastructure by putting the people out into the streets however nobody seems to be willing to leave and simply stand continue until their voices are gone until their force with anger whether of course this will change anything all that so uncertain certainly seems to be very keen on standing by sticking to his guns and pushing the pension reform forward many many of course believing that it will give the country the necessary economic boost that it desperately needs in this time of crisis but according to the people on the streets this is not something that they're prepared to tolerate. countries out of that are imposed on a political professor from the university says francis demonstrations all

unreasonable. 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 have been actually several attempts before to streamline the system to. increase the number of 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 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 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 idea is to prove to his cause. electrets 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 plan will have the budget slashed by 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 the deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs told me earlier that 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 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't allow an economic growth being strong for next year but by recovery. to interrupt 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 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 certain departments are facing very severe cuts but it is definitely patrick and let's not forget as well that every pound the government is taken from the private sector in archetypes 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. it's that you're in a recession and at the same time the public funding and pensions welfare benefits went up so you need to restore the balance in the economy 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 or nearing its nuclear deterrent system withdraw twenty thousand british troops based in germany after the government announced multi-billion pound cans 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 school year is the cost of the defense budget to which the u.k. will be able to mount international military intervention on the scale of iraq or afghanistan and another thing the military certainly won't be able to do is to station large numbers of armed forces in germany twenty thousand military personnel operational a legacy of world war two prime minister david cameron's announced all be pulled out over the next ten. but did the british people even know they still have troops pasted to germany i was do they think they're doing that no more all right we should. the more. often we show strength.

did you know if that person still had street stationed in germany. 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 the foggiest idea talking to people on the street say looks like the government has agreed to come. reporting there in london well still to come this is it's one of the world's most polluted. cries the economic. the social and environmental. we investigate if there's any hope of a cleaner future for a place with a legacy of pollution and deprivation. that story still to come first a gang split could have been behind tuesday strike on the chechen parliament and russian republics interior ministry has said

a man thought to be behind the terror attack may have been trying to assert his authority in the region. has the 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 were reports the man behind this attack could be where same car of a new leader of the church and militants and this is the way his show we know 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 counter terrorist operation six police officers died more than twenty people were injured all militants were killed this also involved in train suicide bombers and there have been several suicide lost in grozny this year before cassandra cardiff was operated on to draw kumar of the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty

people talk omar has been forced on the most wanted terrorist list by they do or see 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 the rims on producer of 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. 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. india is working to combat a sex trafficking problem which campaigners say is the most rampant in the world thousands of girls from neighboring nepal are being brought to major cities like

mumbai with promises of good jobs 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 mari why did you go with them because i didn't want to you force me to india is the epicenter of this extra african industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is law enforcement of laws against traffic pins and joins it support more than a quarter of a million women are trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and come from the rural areas of neighboring heading for. neither their parents nor they had any idea of what their voice is like their parents mean or little bit if

television is in the village about what bombay is and to them bombay would represent a life stage rather than abroad. 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 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 brother 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 why is that i'm not saying we have no work in our bill. i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer but. girls are misled by people

offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters there are also girls who are convinced they can be part of a dance group and are conned into coming to india. it's easy to convince young girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big here in mumbai but once your brothers there can demonstrate. how campaigners want to see villagers and given more warnings of the dangers and the police are more active in clamping down on traffickers gotten saying r.t. . the town of may have once been a center of economic activity and wealth the sentry's here in russia but it is fallen into disrepair years of industrial activity unlikely to be called green with such a smile to transform the town and pollution is choked this once charming place so first reports from the toxic tale 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 copper 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. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases in digestive system diseases are common 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 but 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 about but of course lots more still remains to be done the smelters founded to explain 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 of care about and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is blowing and different 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 blood when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster zone the town fell into 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 well 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 fully inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with neighboring equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the company say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about our hope for a cleaner future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of care that the mistakes of the past the time being remain ever present so if r.t.

care about. russia's proposal for a new pan european security treaty is not aimed at narrow objectives and will help all the participants well that was one of the messages of the russian president dmitry medvedev as he met with the participants of the munich security conference at the governor's proposed a new pan-european security treaty but there was a mixed reaction some say that it's time to change the old system and i don't see that russians are trying to deceive europeans but to curate he is a serious thing it's inappropriate to make one country or block safe at the expense of others you know i'm glad that russia's voice is being heard by my counterparts in france germany and other countries option but your 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.

have better programs and more cooperation. the munich security conference is an annual meeting of high level officials from around forty countries founded in one hundred sixty two one of the leading nato discussion meetings now attracts more and more nations that are not in the block but this year the conference is taking place in moscow. time now to check out some more world news for at this stage of the day in our world update. program from the indonesian capital is about two thousand demonstrators rallied outside the presidential palace the protesters have been demanding the head of state's 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 and similar rallies across the country with some protesters setting cars on fire. emergency workers are scrambling to get aid to flood victims in central vietnam raging currents are killed at least forty people and some two hundred thousand

homes are being swarmed officials warn that the death toll could rise as the search continues police say a bus swept away two days ago by heavy water over the main highway has been found on the bottom of a river but divers and determine how many of the missing twenty passengers are trapped inside. disgruntled varied forms of taking their tractors to the european union to protest over milk prices producers in france germany italy were among those who blockaded the e.u. parliament building in strength but the demanding that supermarkets pay more for their milk prices are roughly hauled over the last two years mostly having small private farms. time now to update you on the world of business charlotte is next with the business. hello and welcome to the business program here on our team with me charlayne was folly there are government has revealed some of the details of his privatization program the state will sell stakes in around nine 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 billow controlling its serious investors share interest the government's taking spare about controlling what it's holding in national airline araf lot it could also sell up to fifteen percent of oil company rules on earth 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 would be to change the investment of these assets to address private investors and do if you change the structure of leadership of the companies to make them more transparent please stable and reliable. let's look at the markets now and here in russia they finished wednesday session mixed so they are serious down zero point eight percent energy majors the main loses recoiling calm down more than five

percent banking stocks were up based there but. never gold mining it is seeking regular sea approval for a one billion dollar initial public offering in london the i.p.o. may started this month us according to sources close to the deal will be the largest overseas share of russian company since he. 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 to the initial public offering the road show starts on wednesday and it's expected to be concluded in. the new mayor of moscow is due to be appointed on thursday the kind of say up ahead of the government ministration and deputy prime minister came

as no surprise that his neck over of course the nomination of sergei some young men known as a successful manager has been met with optimism in the business community. a professional lawyer and 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 government he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a system within the government staff. and he was quite successful as a governor of one of the. regions and russia benyon delivered his mayoral strategy future colleagues in the duma among his stop 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 mayor 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 councils dish to city district small business we also expect him to think how to live the excessive should a 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 intruder knows she was lucky to pass all the registration for morality 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 hold. and how back it's a strong hope that. will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will

sort out the weather next summer and will be last seriously speaking we want last 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 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 and to stooge they are still prodigious. business r.t. moscow. russia update for this album you can always find more stories on our website slash business.