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france is paralyzed by further bothered protests against cutbacks and pension reform anger is now turning towards the rioters are making the country's dire situation worse. and new here is the most case to see the vote on it when you join me alex that in just a few moments the. allegations of child abuse in one of russia's oldest convents as teenagers accused of beating them. are you watching r t live from moscow to our top story now france is heading into another day of unrest the protesters now reportedly blocking must say airport they're under the government wants to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two which would still be one of the lowest in europe or senators are voting on that

move today but not everyone wants to protest. over reports on the news who say the country needs to get back to reality and back to work. 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 like 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 in france there is a committee is just to avoid school it's like six years ago i made the same when i

was in high school. i went to the strays 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 aimed 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 out order ages. of the commitment of the government to. take the reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as the coins 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 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 the senate . are not made in the streets. by revolutionaries fortunately we live in a democratic state and people who we select to be. sides it's necessary to respect them and in the year. we 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 with anything if you do it too much it becomes a farce and democracy becomes a blackmailed institution in the hands of the people. who does our art harris. told me that the demonstrators are being unreasonable considering they would still get to a top than most other europeans. the problem with 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 to. increase

the number of years that people have to pay in which is still in france lower than the average in other countries as well but all of these measures have been insufficient and so it's come to this measure of raising the retirement age which is only a raise of two years and it's still it would still be one of the younger stages to retire in europe so it's true that the public ought to be aware of. the 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. for money wise things are shaping up any better across the english channel britain has announced it's not just cuts in public spending since the second world war the u.k. wants to slash one hundred twenty billion dollars from its budget over the next four years plans to raise the retirement age to sixty six are being brought forward while welfare benefits are also in on the hardest hit it is enough to turn

thousands of protesters on to london streets saying the cuts will condemn britain to years of brutal unemployment and some economists believe 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 rely on economic growth being strong for next year when really all this really certain departments are facing very severe cuts but it's definitely patrick and let's not forget as well that. every pound the government taken from the private sector and i the types ational barwick 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 sight of expanding in pensions went welfare benefits went up so you need to really

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. a few minutes from now claims of abuse at one of russia's oldest conference to come forward in making severe punishments which center do not like we have the details. and the huge price one industrial russian town made the country's economic boom as it's become one of the most polluted places in the world. city government is to vote to approve the appointment of its new man with that set to be said ok so beyond then he was chosen by president medvedev from a shortlist proposed by the ruling united russia party the controversial previous mayor of the cough was sacked by medvedev citing a lack of trust well for more we're joined live by ortiz i just have to go to you

alice tell us more about some beyond the tories credentials what is one of russia's top political jobs bill was that you hear time and time again in relation to that case that he's never talked to an experienced damage and crucially untainted by any major corruption scandal he was a lawyer before turning see politics early in life and in two thousand and one he was elected governor something pureed always to be beaten and that he was praised by locals hugely in getting the vote system and snow removal issues problems that afflict the russian count as well but in two thousand and five became chief of the presidential administration and the last. home friday his name was put food on the shortlist of food by the united russia policy to the president of the mint that if he nominated to be on it he met with this it has to be on that on a friday journey which time date tool through some of the pope moves that face the

future mayor of most scathing feet killing corruption killing the traffic jams that paralyzed this if you want claims that day ensuring the social security routes muscovites not improving through the nation between the federal and city administrations however all of that me saying that if we did that he felt that set a case to be on and did possess the qualities needed for being mayor so what happens now day to day is that at twelve noon the most cases the government will sit to roll the lengthy session at twelve noon of one of the hall found was during which said guess agana will do the best speech they'll be a q. and a session and at the end the government will vote on whether to let so basically on into the position of must go back to the previous incumbent cough was soon controversial character too but what kind of legacy has he left for his

successor who it's a mixed legacy getting to scoff was a charismatic. man who led the secy over most cases some eight seen it is he leaves the city in an economically road but situation new budgets as well before billion dollars however even for them in bed of himself has said that the economic climate despite that our new budget could be better to invest as remain skeptical of coming to moscow and that's mostly to do with the issue of corruption something that told good in this call for germany who like to use at the beginning of his a rule he was what might be praise for transforming and improving the city during the nine. however during the leftist stages allegations of corruption dogged almost every single aspect of his leadership not included his wife elizabeth children is a female billionaire property company in tech a seemed to have something of

a monopoly in order to be. true to property deals that took place here in the city given the school says it might be criticised for building some of the ugliest buildings across the most space going to do nothing so you keep the historical all protected you steam don't look. so mixed legacy indeed. it may well be inheriting it will find me today. ok i was informed of this habit that thank you. will forget there's much more for you at our website called what might catch your eye including a disco for the deaf what kind of music you play for a couple of people including the d.j. hearing impaired find out about the moscow nightclub that's breaking the mold. and russia's prime minister has invoked a classic so get very tired of that time to get the latest budget approved. well

the fictional. play. prosecutors are to look into claims of child abuse at a convent in central russia teenagers that say teachers beat them with belts as well as depriving them of food and sleep on occasions the convent denies there were similar accusations a year ago but no evidence of abuse was found. in the school reports from the region. what we know is that we have three teenagers two girls and a boy who escaped from the convents boarding school and went straight to one of russia's major newspapers is easiest to talk about the flights that they went through according to them nuns at the convent beat them regularly they have

a newspaper demonstrated bruises and marks from beatings on their arms and in the hands and knees everywhere sensually and this is a common that surprised behind me right now apparently at that convent nuns that punished the pupils for misbehaving by making that making them stand on their knees cutting down the hours of sleep leaving them without food for days and forcing them to work in the fields one of the girls as a matter of fact says that her spine has been damaged as a result because one of the nuns thought that she wasn't working briskly enough in the fields and now we're talking about kids they were early ages from ten to sixteen and they were made to work in the fields from dusk till dawn of course the convent denies everything saying that all of these allegations are lies and this situation has got again the attention of the mosco patriarchy all of the child abuse that dampens men as well as the russian state prosecutor's office because of course if these allegations do prove to be true then this is going and this is

bound to be one of the loudest scandals to hit russian orthodox church in recent years almost exactly a year ago a girl as sixteen year old has escaped from the convent she has written a letter to the russian president and to the russian. talking about the abuses that went on in this convent but at that point in this togethers were not allowed into the convent premises they were not allowed to enter the boarding school to see for themselves what was going on and they were forced to rely on the testimonials of the pupils and their parents and at that point ironically one of the girls who is now accusing the convent of mistreatment one of the girls actually spoke in favor of the convent and said that nothing of the store. it was going on of course now she said this is says that she is regretting the fact that she essentially lied last year that in fact these abuses are taking place her mother also spoke to the newspaper to use this year and she said that she's also very regretful of the fact

that she did not tell the truth during the investigations last year because she says that afterwards she was not allowed to see her daughter for days and when she did see her her daughter seemed to be lacking in sleep and an obviously unhappy and mother has also reported hearing crying coming out from the boarding school rooms. hinting at the fact that children were regularly mistreated and beaten and otherwise be miserable there so of course investigations will be carried out again we don't not know how they will be going on since probably the investigators will not be let into the school premises yet again. a look now at some other news making international headlines this hour iran says it released its stocks of enriched uranium by about one fifth officials admit they now have thirty three kilos of a nuclear fuel which to twenty percent which is enough for research reactor falls well short of being able to build atomic bombs but continue to enrich uranium iran is defying u.n. sanctions which president ahmadinejad's regime rejects and necessary western

countries remain convinced he runs goal was to create weapons grade fuel. a single engine plane has crashed in northeast columbia killing all five on board and went down shortly after taking off from the town of the union official say there were no problems reported by the pilots before the crash rescue workers have recovered four of the five bodies of. around one hundred thirty four tons of marijuana have been torched by the authorities in mexico the guard scale burning took place just days after police officers on it made its biggest bust in recent years marianna had an estimated street value of one hundred thirty three million dollars police didn't say whether it came from mexico or to been ported further south. between a rock and a hard place in the town of kara bashed once a scent of economic activity and wealth in 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 unlikely to be considered environmentally friendly toxic towns smelters trying to clean up their act sara for three ports. it's a bleak sight that greets when you arrive 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 it's 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 of system diseases are common in the world of uncle article 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 a company of inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the smelters founded to explore 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 a different way usually you can see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an

environmental disaster zone the town 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. 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 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 that care about the mistakes of the past the time being the main ever present. artie karabakh. corrina joins us next well the latest business news. oh welcome to the latest business program. good to have you with us then you mayor of moscow is due to be confirmed on thursday the nomination of sort of the sabean who is seen as having close ties with the ruling tandem of president video 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 teeming region said is a banyan 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. original sin russia so he said benyon delivered his mayoral strategy do use future colleagues in the moscow 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 results small issues. public council to

city districts doing the small business we also expect him to think how to live the excessive tick spirit so that small companies would have an opportunity to invest in new technology they remain open to little greek cafe in the center of moscow in the middle of the extreme summer heat and like many other intrapreneur as she was lucky to pass all the registration from allergies 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 her strong hope that suggests abandon will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and will be last part seriously speaking we want less bureaucracy and more transparency another important thing for small business. if you 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 create a 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 stude they are still prodigious. business r.t. moscow. the russian government has revealed some of the details of its 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 and business along the most notable offerings are the sale of shares in bt bank to below controlling of sirius investor interest the government's stake in the bank will be reduced to controlling as well as holding a national airline air flight it could also sell up to fifteen percent of all

company rostam 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 will be to change the investment of people. to address private investors and then if you change the structure of leadership of the companies to make them more transparent be stable and reliable. how the markets are doing as a stock markets are lower the sergeant band benchmark index rose point two percent in the morning session after the dollar jumped against again on comments by u.s. treasury secretary. he said that the world needs to agree on guidelines for current exchange policy. and here in russia the markets are trading higher in morning trading session following yesterday's gains on wall street the r.t.s. is up a quarter of a percent is also slightly up nearly all the blue chips are gaining which was never a part of the stance on the r.t.s. bottom a trend though is gazprom one look at all that are currently trading in the red.

russia's fourth largest still maker m.k. has launched a new metal processing plant in a venture with turkish company at a cost facility is worth two hundred fifteen million dollars our correspondent in the question of was in the south of turkey got the ground up. russ's not the dynamic a current interest that am expanding abroad especially into the market so maybe the east and this want to end this stuff and part of it is just another example of i'm paisa time to increase our force as well as all of us say as well this is the first joint venture between russia and the model companies and the total cost of this process is not to make it to be over one point seven billion dollars on it this month will be only the seeds by this year will the find this stuff to

production platforms what is here and down the room in the south and part of. the stop and want is that the area it's simple to supply the whole facility with the law materials both companies and bought it and so building a seat for the ride and you have the production side and as we were told this before it is the biggest and capable to time at one moment according to common pace of chairman off the board because this the board ship is enables the company to consider supplying to european and middle east markets were at the moment of the priority is to use the mastic markets sun m m k has the controlling stake in the project however is still the whole get them out it has been so you must as model consumption in the country is growing fifteen percent on the week and to turkey doesn't pop enough the steel model and that's why it employs

that quite a lot and we were told today of the inventory itself production from this facility will go primarily to turkey at following its dynamic growth. and once you object to this hour but do join me in about fifteen minutes from now for more business news here are today. well.