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much ado about something else france is paralyzed by riots over a retirement age increase. its biggest social spending cuts and. experts say the massive. amount of heat to be behind the attack. may have been. keen to demonstrate its strength to al qaeda. weak human trafficking. as british girls come to the big city by promises of a better life. around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us in france public transport has paralyzed flights canceled and three million people protesting demanding the government back

. reforms people took to the streets hurling stones torching cars and smashing shop windows. is following the unrest. if i may not a hook like a fierce rally opposing a recent government decision to call in the pension plan. jolly crowd is doing exactly that thing standing outside the fringe senate demanding that you get us or go see the french president stop pushing forward his proposed television the form that is said to guarantee chance at rebuilding its economy and actually making it the global financial crisis will these people however want none of it in the face with a chance at all who are going to have years more they've taken to the streets with the unions bringing in figures of up to three million people mation why all protestant this recent decision by the french government this is certainly seems to

have become a somewhat traditional french stall tactic any time french people are unhappy about a decision that their government makes they take to the streets effectively blackmailing its own government into force saying in their hands in their decisions the last thing of course the dividend was the belief or giving in to it is still the protesters voting against the as didn't use resources and to force this is the first time that the french president nicolas sarkozy is actually refusing to listen to the protesters who are vowing to go ahead with the pension reform despite the crippling protests that have basically left the country in a standstill traffic communications c. and g. matters everything has become suspended in mid-air as strikers across the country take to the streets some clashing violently with police others like these just standing outside and screaming i'm still going to lose their voices until their

horse where they go but sadistically of course it's quite a different picture despite the fact that the country's economy is suffering or a huge amounts of money just by the. project it seems that the people who are definitely in favor of such measures over sixty percent of the country's population according to recent opinion polls say that they believe this method to be effective while forty three percent of the people say they don't believe strikes like these will actually manage to achieve anything however achieving our knowledge it seems that the people cheer are definitely a lot more inclined to strike stand out on the streets and demand that they are heard rather than work earn their money and actually attempt to change their country's economy for the better how exactly this will turn out financially her friends what they will have to pay in terms of losses to the economy is still being determined by economists but here it is already clear that the damage done to the

country just by these few days of the process is here. and the government will have to do something in order to get the country back into order of course to get us or cozy saying that he will not give in to what is called blackmailed by the people and the reform is necessary for the country's economy to get back on track. our reporter covering his are for their own pull the political professor from the university seals pose says prince's demonstrations all on reasonable. the problem was the retirement age has been raised actually a number of years ago because of the observed democratic demographic trends and so there are actually several attempts before to streamline the system into. 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 youngest ages 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 generous benefit regime and it's very difficult for them to 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 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 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 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. and 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 more than a billion pounds at a cost of a relish half a million public sector jobs the state pension age will be raised to sixty six by the year twenty twenty that's four years earlier than planned one of the hardest hit will be welfare benefits which will be slashed by seven billion pounds thousands of taken to the streets to oppose the measures but dr richard wellings the deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs tells me that the government should have gone even further. cut is the word on everyone's lips

this week in the u.k. public sector cuts in the say put the cobra hence its spending review which will see nearly half a million jobs to go in the next four years that ans cuts to the defense budget too which will mean that the u.k. will no longer be able to mount an 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 are operational left a legacy of world war two prime minister david cameron's announced they'll all be pulled out over the next ten years but did the british people even know they still have troops pasted to germany and was do they think they're doing that no more all right we should our church. of the. strength.

don't top post did you know that person still had street stationed in germany know about it 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 streets it looks like the government has proven to cops when that was . reporting that in london well still to come to visit one of the world's most polluted. price to pay for the economic payment has been enormous but the seychelle and environmental sky was clear that they will investigate if there's any hope of a future for a place with a legacy of pollution. that provides. a story still to come first a gang split could have been behind tuesday's strike on the church in parliament the russian republics interior ministry has sent a man thought to be behind the term attack may have been trying to assert his

authority in the region to al-qaeda or to fix on the 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 terrorists are reports the man behind this attack could be her same kind of a new leader of the chechen militants and this is the way his so we know what he's capable off forty year old guy kind of destroyed 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 kind of was operated on to draw kumara the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia call maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed

fourteen people talk omar has been on the most wanted terrorist list by they do or say just to remind you that the only way to is drilled 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 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. 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 the poor 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 currency 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 she 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 pins 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 new heading for. either their parents nor do they have any idea who it is like their 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 the identify who they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train. 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. 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. but once you're older brothers they're condemned. now campaigners want to see villagers admit given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers. r.t. . the town of may have once been a center of economic activity and wealth for centuries here in russia but it has fallen into disrepair years of industrial activity unlikely to be called green such a small town copper transformed the town and pollution is choked this once charming place will surface reports from the toxic tel 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 earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world its thing to a large copper smelter and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape here devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases just have 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 the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that accompany of an inherited we do look to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done the snout has 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. to do 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 lifeblood 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 near the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. well this industry is really doing druce 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 no breathing equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the companies say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about our hope for a cleaner future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of care that the mistakes of the past the time being remain ever present sarah for r.t. care about. what on the top that you want some other world news while the violence

has broken out of a couple of thousand demonstrators running outside the presidential palace the protesters have been one of the head of state. resignation because there's been no change in the country since he took office a year ago. to displace the palpable he's the one manager has been 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 have killed at least forty people and some two hundred thousand homes have been swamped officials warn that the death toll could rise as the search continues police say a bus swept away two days ago by heavy waters 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 trapped inside. uncle darry families of taking attractors to the european union to protest over milk prices juices from france germany and italy were among those who blockaded the parliament building in strasburg demanding that

supermarkets pay more for them prices of roughly parked over the last two years mostly hitting small private for. russia's proposal for a new pan european security treaty is not aimed at narrow objectives and will help all the participants that was one of the messages of the russian president dmitry medvedev as he met with those taking part in 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 others said 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 i'm glad 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. better programs and more cooperation. 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 is discussion meetings now attracts more and more nations are not in the block well this year the conflict is taking place here in moscow. while our top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing the path with europe has told r.t. that russia's relations with nato would thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped while that full interview is coming up in just a few moments here on r.t. .

hi mr barak cough it's good to have you with us today. the image of modern russia evokes fear in many europeans why does all the prejudice come from. indeed i sometimes notice that russia in the eyes of europeans is a country that in essence continues the tradition set up by the soviet union or something like that i don't think this approach is entirely correct russia is

a completely new country it has a new foreign policy it has gone through substantial reform but there is no longer any difference in ideology between russia and the rest of the world the reason for all this prejudice as i see it is the fact that we still bear the legacy of the cold war my generation grew up in a time when it was absolutely obvious that the world is split into there was the world of the warsaw pact and the nato world a western world in an eastern world for this dogma still lives on in the mind of some people especially in the west how close is the link between relations and the new strategic concept that will be put up for approval in november is it possible that the nature of our cooperation will change. as for russia e.u. and russia nato relations we see them as two different vectors of our foreign policy but you see the european union is a conglomerate of countries that are united first and foremost by the fact that they face the same economic problems nato is an organization that's aimed at

resolving military and political stability problems that is why our dialogue with nato is self-contained it would be a bit far fetched to talk about a connection to our relations with the e.u. so we have a full fledged dialogue with nato we are currently working on a list of threats and challenges in order to make our cooperation more specific these threats are terrorism drug trafficking and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction i think that nato is a new strategic concept should be free from such atavistic concepts perceiving russia as a possible threat or hints about nato as global role in circumvention of international laws these things are unacceptable for us and attempts to bring them into the new strategic concept will hardly help improve our relations with nato russia is actively promoting a collective security system for here where does europe need this system and how should it work. our initiative which was filed under the name president medvedev is initiative is very simple the essence of our suggestion is to devise a legally binding agreement that would be signed by fifty six zero s c e states

including the u.s. canada european states and the russian federation be agreement would restrict each of the countries that signed it from using military means except when sanctioned by the un security council no country would be allowed to strengthen its security at the expense of the security of any other state it is a very simple method and it's very effective a similar legally binding agreement is currently in effect between nato states but between east asia and european countries outside of nato this agreement is not legally binding but purely political we want to make it legal bring it into the judiciary realm don't apply a different degree of responsibility for those that would violate this order you know that n o s e e session is planned for this year the first one after nine eleven year recess this was also brought about by president videos initiative the summit will focus among other things on indivisible to curity and of the modernization of europe security structure i think the forum is participants will carefully consider the suggestions we've made on the subject and in time take them

into account because we will not be able to move on until the cold war ideas are dropped you know. the possible that the successful reset. relations may become less important in the russia america triangle. you know i would have stained from using megalomaniac metaphors such as this triangle but there are things to consider like for instance the g.d.p. value the role and share of the g.d.p. in an economy russia's g.d.p. share is six percent of that of the us it looks a bit better if we compare it to the e.u. that's why picturing these relations as a triangle is somewhat megalomaniac on russia's part i rather say that we could form a triangle together with the european union so if you insist on using a triangular shape to depict international relations in our case the caller's would be the us russia and the e.u. and. china that would truly be a global triangle does the e.u. view russia as an equal partner in all areas of its work it gets difficult at times

due to the fact that the e.u.'s path toward unification was a long and troublesome things you were up has learned as it walks that path our partners in the e.u. whether they represent the union as a whole or individual states they are very proud of these ideas but this pride is already starting to turn into self admiration and even selfishness this is why it is sometimes hard for us to negotiate this is why we often see the position of we've negotiated on it within the e.u. and your only option is to agree with us this makes life difficult of course it makes it difficult to bring our states closer together since diplomacy is the art of the possible it is the art of mutual concessions that make it possible for each side to find solutions to their specific problems in balance i didn't cooperation with the partner side there is another aspect to the e.u. has its own vision of how russia needs to be modernized how well does this vision correlate with russia's own plants we are talking first and foremost about exchanging experience and high tech we have also plans to cooperate on innovation

in the energy sphere for energy efficiency raising the share of green energy in our overall consumption and promoting green energy on both sides in order to correspond with the ease regulations on environmental protection we're discussing an exchange of scientific knowledge that would benefit both sides by raising our competitiveness on the market that would allow us to become more competitive on a global level i think that the next russia e.u. summit scheduled to take place in brussels on december the first and second will see the approval of a new action plan which we are currently working on sarah people wanted here in russia by the law have been known to use europe as a safe haven problems related to the persecution of certain individuals affect the overall state of russia relations this is a very sensitive issue you probably know that the problem here is the shortcomings of russia a year elations in the sphere of observing international law situation concern. med's archive is a clear example of this he obviously took part in terrorist activity on the territory of the russian federation despite this fact he's granted political asylum

by an e.u. state he is free to move from one european country to another obviously there is no way we can put up with this situation and of course things like that do have an influence on the character and atmosphere of our diplomatic relations that's why i'd like to call on our european partners to be more responsible because if they continue to act as they do now it will have a negative effect on the development of our relations thank you very much for this interview but you are welcome. issues that so much of which i think you have a real. issue immigration topic throughout europe. is multiculturalism lucian was.