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by further violent protests against cutbacks and pension reform but i think there is now turning towards the rioters for making the country's die situation what's. a geisha is of child abuse and one of the roughest oldest conference teenage boarding students accuse the nuns of beating them. and we visit one of the world's most polluted towns in the russian to see if there's any hope of a future person. and i would welcome to wate well news twenty four hours a day fronts is braced for another day of unrest after three million people took to the streets on tuesday heading stones torching cars and smashing shop windows there

angry at government plans to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two which would still be one of the newest to europe but not everyone wants to protest he's covering as out of a report on those who say the country needs to get back to reality and back to work . the young smart and ambitious lucy is slipping her time between a master's degree and working for a large international company for her the recent protests in paris are first and foremost a personal distraction i'm not driving because in paris you don't really need your car so i'm using the. headquarter of my company yeah it's it's longer i need like one and not moral according to trade union officials in france over three million people took to the streets across the country but people like you see no the numbers don't always reflect reality t.j. sion in france there is

a committee it's just to avoid. like six years ago i made the same when i was in high school. i went to this race because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd certainly give off a celebratory vibe singing dancing and shouting but while they're spending day after day protesting a reform that is aim to aid their country their very actions are doing serious damage basically this is one of the reform to. restore the. system remove disincentive for working at older ages. of the commitment of the government to. take structural reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as. the numbers really speak for themselves france has a huge foreign debt the fourth largest in the world and unlike in the united states

there is no board advertising the numbers also unlike the united states where there is no annual paid leave the french enjoy the longest paid holidays thirty days a year their retirement age. which is what the people are protesting about this time is one of the lowest in the world countries also affected by the global financial crisis like italy and spain have already increased there but with less widespread opposition from the people so are these protests a true sign of a democracy or simply a force of habit by the french people used to pouring out in the streets to get their way or is this is a sign that government needs to negotiate with trade unions more we have to say to the french people that it's they who choose the deputies and members of. meet in the streets. by revolutionaries fortunately we live in a democratic state and people who. sides it's necessary to respect and in the

year to. be made a mistake and change our leaders these are the people who run the country the my way or the highway philosophy certainly attention grabbing but who will back down first is still anyone's guess on the one hand it is a constitutional right of the people to project something they don't believe in and don't agree on the other hand as well they think if you do it too much it becomes a farce and democracy becomes a blackmailed institution in the hands of the people catch us our art harris. well professor told me that the demonstrators being reasonable considering they would still get to touch most other europeans. the problem with the retirement age is 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 youngest ages 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 generous benefit regime and it's very difficult for them to we're actually except to let go of it. money wise things aren't shaping up any better across the english channel britain has announced its largest cuts in public spending since the second world war the u.k. wants to slash one hundred twenty billion dollars from its next four years plans

for raising the age to sixty six with welfare benefits also among the hardest hit. towns and. streets saying the cuts will condemn is a moment that some economists believe the government should have gone even further . 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 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 next year when really almost three certain departments are facing very severe cuts but it's definitely patrick i mean let's not forget. well that's every pound the government taken from the private sector in either taxation 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 public sites have expanded in 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 productive private sector to the non productive public sector and this is very unhealthy for long term economic prosperity. well the economy may be depressed but that doesn't mean you have to be as we learn later we need to be americans dressing up their problems to escape recession. and the huge price one industrial russian town paid for the country's economic boom as it's become one of the most heated places in the world. prosecutors are to look into claims of child abuse at a convent in central russia teenagers say teachers beat them with belts as well as depriving them of food and sleep i think nations that. there were similar accusations

a year ago but no evidence of abuse was found. in the region and can tell us more about this but what do we know so far about these allegations. well gary what we know is that we have three teenagers whose state of the boarding school at the convent which is right behind me right now they have gone to one of russia's major newspapers is misty and they say that they were severely mistreated by the nuns at the boarding school the convent and now we're talking about two girls and a boy and all of them are reportedly reportedly have marks so severe beatings in their arms and legs bruises all over their bodies and they talk about the fact that the nonce beat regularly left them without food and or sleep it's very easy punishment one of the girls to says that she was made eat a cup of salt as a punishment another girl reportedly has a spine injury she cannot sit for very long because the kids were made to work in the fields from early dusk till from dusk till dawn and this girl says that one of

the dance beat her on the back with a wooden stake because the nun thought that the girl was not working in the field briskly enough so as a matter of fact this has all the markings of something that seemed to come out of a straight out of a charles dickens tale but unfortunately if these allegations do prove to be true. then we're talking about some of the most severe case of child abuse which has his russian russian orthodox church in recent years thousand very loud accusations and of course other moscow do you also see and the most you are looking into investigating the case of the allegations as well as the prosecutor general's office as well as the children's ombudsman of russia i was also looking into investigating this case because the course the allegations sound in fact too severe to be true but if they do prove to be true then we're talking about a very serious case of child abuse kerry shocking allegations there are similar claims a year ago found nothing so didn't investigation at the time lead to any changes at

the convent. not particularly in fact one of the most one of those to interesting moments in this entire story is that one of the girls who is claiming that she was beat by the nuns now last year testified that none of this was going on and now she says that she deeply regrets the fact that she did not tell the truth to investigators last year you see the investigation which was carried out last year only had to rely on testimonials of the pupils who were staying at the boarding school and on testimonials of their parents and most of them overwhelming overwhelmingly spoke in support of the nuns and of the convent and they said that nothing of the sort was going on but of course now one of the mothers of the pupils who were who are staying at the school says that she wished she wishes she did tell the truth last year because she says that when she tried to visit her daughter in several occasions last year and then this year as well she was not allowed to see her and when she did see her she saw bruises on her daughter's body and she says

she heard cries coming from from various rooms and she she says that she wishes she did tell the truth so we're talking about people who are deeply religious a lot of them seem to. be really set on protecting the convent so investigators are not allowed into the convent in selfridges a matter of fact. the boarding school has been disbanded and it's sort of broken not broken up into separate pieces and spread all over this district so there is no real boarding school on the premises of this convent and yet the nuns do continue to teach we can call that teaching the pupils in the boarding school which is now separate instead he says and how many pupils are still there to do it is not exactly known at this point so this is something very so this is something of a very serious importance to the entire russian society as a matter of fact and of course a very huge importance to the russian orthodox church but they are reporting from the marriage and thank you. don't forget there's much more for you at our

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escape reality. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you scape your fears by saying employed what if you get fired what are you going to do i'm screwed while some have been choosing humor to fight off the frightening reality are you afraid of a double dip recession sounds good others ways a little less legal are you afraid of the economy. what do you do to escape reality . i sit in my room and i smoke a lot of weed but many are choosing something completely different as millions of americans are very frightened of the state of the u.s. economy more and more u.s. citizens are trying to escape into the world of fantasy welcome to comic con the world's biggest gathering of comic book fans and site file overs do you feel like this costume protects you from the woods of the u.s. economy here are some of the pockets of my money sites on the body politic r t

tried on the gear to test its superpowers yeah i definitely do feel very protected from everything can't really see much but i would say several thousand people gathered on a weekday most is people i think it was the unemployment office with computer games some dancing. and imaginary battles it's easier to forget that an economic crisis is spread across the country where all of these people doing here i mean last i checked today is a work day. it's like. two pm and say how are we turning into a superhero for a day what is your main. weapon than i am power girl i've got big hands. and enjoying feeling like a child i be everyone i have a great be and i am their kind of crazy with the possibility of

a double dip recession just around the corner it could see. trickier to lure comic book shop or is it. but the world of fantasy is far from scared of losing its customers what are the most expensive and cheapest comic books you're selling today well i have some three dollars detective number thirty seven is. the last batman book for robin came along at sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take both spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to pull the u.s. economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans. or to new york. the world's other top stories right now iran says it's increased it. by about one fifth officials admit they now have thirty three killers of the nuclear fuel which to twenty percent was enough for such reactor falls well short of being able to

build atomic bombs by continuing to enrich uranium dollars to five sanctions. jets and unnecessary. ones to israel and its goal is to create as great. a single engine plane has crashed in northeast columbia killing all five on board it went down shortly after taking off from the town and officials say there were no problems reported by the pilots before the crash rescue workers have recovered for what he said. 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 police say a bus swept away two days ago by heavy water it's very. diverse been able to

determine the fate of this soldier's. between a rock and a hard place the town of kind of birth once a center of economic activity and well think russia has for years had to choose between poverty and pollution but the town's industrial heart is now attempting to change all that following decades of industrial activity likely to be considered environmentally friendly but toxic towns copper smelters trying to clean up their act. now reports. 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 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 or just of system diseases are common in the world of article diseases here is rather die 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 a company of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the smart has found it 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 a carabao and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is blowing

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 lifeblood when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster zone the town phelan's of poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents knew the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. if 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 neighboring 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 planned carabao now 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 that care about the mistakes of the past the time being the main every president. as he care about. korean is here now with a business update. welcome to a business plan. here on r.t. with the queen america the new mayor of moscow is due to be confirmed on thursday the nomination i said who is seen as having close ties with the ruling turn them of president medvedev and prime minister putin has been greeted with some optimism by

the capital's business community. a professional lawyer and an experienced manager who ruled russia's oil rich region said isabel 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 fact of system within the government stuff. and he was quite successful as a governor of one of the richest. regions in russia so he said benny and delivered his mayoral strategy do use future colleagues in the moscow duma among his top priorities are to reduce brock rissi fight corruption and to prove this it is

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 council dish to city district still 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 intruder knows 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 it's. strong hope that. we'll be able to work miracles no more so we look to new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and will be last 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 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 ok you can fly business r.t. moscow. let's look at how the markets are doing you know asia stock markets are mixed this hour japan's nikkei was coping early losses following comments by u.s. treasury secretary of the gator he said that the world needs to agree on guidelines for currency exchange policy immediately after those comments the dollar jumped against the top cow new york and the russian markets finished wednesday's session

mixed with the r.t.s. down point eight percent energy majors were the main losers with oil and gas down more than half of the banking stocks are those for bangles up more than one percent . russia's fourth largest steelmaker m.k.s. law as long a new metal processing plant joint venture with turkish company the facility is worth two hundred fifty million dollars how correspondent was in the south of turkey for the grand opening. russ's not the dynamic a current interest that am expanding abroad especially into the market so maybe the ease that this want to get in and of itself and part of it is just another example of i'm paisa time to increase our force as well as rats and all of us say as well this is the first joint venture between us and the model companies and the total

cost of this was if not to make it to be over one point seven billion dollars if this month will be the only company cheat by this year will the fines consist of two production platforms one is yeah amazon their own in the south and part of the content they stop and want and then the area to stumble to supply the whole facility what the law materials companies and busted and so building a seed for the rods and they have the production side and as we were told this before it is the biggest and the capable to time at one moment according to common pace the chairman off the board because that's the board ship is enables the company to consider supplying to european and middle east markets were the moment the priority is to east the mastic markets sun i am m.k.

was the controlling stake and the project however is still the target the mass that is consumed as model consumption in the country is growing fifteen percent to leave turkey doesn't pop enough a steel model and that's why it's important so why the law it's not as we were told today of the inventory itself production from this facility will go primarily to tell the following it's dynamic growth. that's your update for this hour most doors on a website are two dot com plus business. it's

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