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an angry black mass of dense rioters in france as the country is gripped by protester violence over pension reform critics say they're only making their dire situation worse. you do what you just may beat us often sometimes three times a day for two issues it's time to run one of russia's oldest convents deny allegations of child cruelty as prosecutors here accusations of severe physical abuse from teenage boarders. plus a complex stunt filmmaker hopes to have the last laugh as he strikes back against the hollywood comedy borax that mocked his country. and coming up in a business update gas problem buying propose a thirty four percent increase in net profits for the first half of the year we'll have the details at about twenty minutes time.

live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me a nice and now way it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in paris and we begin in france where it's another day of unrest ahead of a possible senate vote on raising the retirement age the upper house is debating eight hundred amendments that oppose the controversial bill approved by the lower house in september marseilles airport has been blocked by protesters and more nationwide demonstrations are planned petrel supplies are running low on gas stations are closed despite the president's orders to open fuel depots anger is rising at proposals to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two which would still be one of the lowest in europe but not everyone wants to. protest artie's considering those are of a reports now on boats 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 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 t.j. sion in france there is also like a committee it's just to avoid school it's 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 aimed to aid their country they're very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reform to. restore the. system remove disincentive for working us older ages as well give a signal of the commitment of the government to. take structural reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well. 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. it's 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 their 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 sign that government needs to negotiate with trade unions more so we have to say to the french people that is they who chose the deputies and members of the senate who make the laws laws are not made in the streets laws are drafted and approved not by revolutionaries fortunately we live in a democratic state and people who we select to be in power adopt laws besides it's necessary to respect the laws and in a year and a half we'll have the opportunity to say that we made a mistake and change our leaders but until then 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 speaking something they don't believe in and don't agree but 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 catchers are the art harris. but more stories coming your way here on our t.v. this hour including. the capital's new boss and inauguration ceremony of moscow's new mayor is taking place we'll bring you more details in just a few minutes. but first an ancient convent in russia is under investigation over claims of child abuse within its walls teenagers say they were severely beaten deprived of food and sleep for the slightest fault there were similar allegations a year ago but now. evidence of abuse was found that the convent denies the accusations of scott has details what we do know so far is that we have three

teenagers who have seemed to escape from a boarding school located at this very convent that's right behind me and if their allegations prove to be true this may actually be we be one of the loudest child abuse scandals in recent years in russia now the teenagers two girls in a boy say that the nuns at the convent have regularly mistreated them beaten them and have done all sorts of hariri a horrific things to them in order to bring them into model citizens as the boarding school positions it's all to be let's actually have a listen to what the teenagers themselves have to say on the matter view which just may beat us often sometimes three times a day forty lashes each time once it was in one hundred and three lashes for one girl who cried every day our eyes were never dry and i was puffy who would always have headaches from crying so much and we had no one to to complain. i tried to escape but they forced me to come back i thought burke but couldn't really do

anything he shows me the car and took me back there and they did escape it seems and the man they went to is the head of another boarding school also a christian boarding school located in a neighboring town of suzy and that man took them under his wing and is now doing everything in his power in order to find out whether or not these allegations in fact are true and to protect the children because according to them again the allegations that they are presenting are true and the details of the locations are also with us have a listen to what he has to say. one girl was hit with a garden tool and now has a spinal injury which she will have to live with for the rest of her life they would make kids eat a cup of sold. reading psalms and they were not allowed to sleep all kneel down on a tray with nails one girl was forced to put her hand in a hot oven. one of the peculiar points about the investigation that did take place last year was the fact that the investigators were not allowed into the premises of

the convent and of course the boarding school so they had to rely on hearsay and on the testimonials of the students of the boarding school and ironically one of the students is now one of the three teenagers who have now escaped and at that point that very girl said that all the ica's ations presented by a sixteen year old teenager who has escaped a year ago were not true of course now she says that she deeply regrets the fact that she did not tell the truth but of course now we have to wait for yet another mr gates and to find out what really is going on behind this conference walls. what about twenty minutes here on r t we have an exclusive interview with the president of ecuador rafael correa told us how the recent protests in his country may have been an attempted coup d'etat he says he was caught up in the riots and describes how he feared for his life. according to the current theory it was discontent expressed due to a misunderstanding of a good new law concerning the military and the poor. i was going to explain the essence of law my way but once we arrived we were met with tear gas and with

slogans get out prove it as we were communists they blocked the presidential building and pin the tires therefore it was evident from the very beginning that it was a political trap and there was no wish to carry out a dialogue or no demands to raise salaries it was a political scenario long lives here is this is the country's former president was behind all this that's why i opened the window and tried to explain the situation but they continued interrupting and insulting me as we knew about the looting and we realized it was a political trap i said if you want to kill me kill me but don't distort the homeland and they didn't have the guts to do so. there were no secret deals made during the negotiations of the strategic arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. so says foreign minister sergei lavrov he was responding to allegations made by some republican u.s. senators about the start agreement which is aimed to cut clear warheads sure the go

everything that we have come to terms with is in the text of the document and the additions these are open documents both senate and state duma deputies have them there are no agreements apart from those that are stated in those documents. republicans have written to secretary of state hillary clinton demanding details of the negotiations with russia they say the records of the talks may show there were undisclosed discussions on missile defense which would limit the u.s. program the agreement is being closely scrutinized for its ratified by the senate with republicans casting doubts over whether it's an american interest moscow and washington agreed to slash nuclear stockpiles by a third and regulate missile defense intentions in april this year. well moscow's new mayor is about to be sworn in in an inauguration ceremony the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of surrogates i've been in

a candidate choose and chosen rather by president medvedev the capital's new man in charge has been described as a skillful manager who can tackle the tough issues moscow faces well our team alice hebert now joins us live hi there alice it seems to be a busy day here for surrogates i.b.m. and tell us a little bit more about what's been going on. with the inauguration ceremony attended by president to be the big bed it is about to begin and that will officially be the beginning of the case to be out of it all out the most days to see met earlier today must go don't make his devoted it all to a q. and a session which he delivered his objectives for his term in office he said he wants to establish a fund to tackle the city's roads and prepping traffic problems and that you also wants to wage war on the problems of corruption in the city particularly in the housing sector whether nortel actually be able to deliver on these objectives doesn't call for beta to be seed physical exams here in the capital were vague

skeptical of cool so basically on it is a relative all know who he is up until now we've been described as a competent and experienced a. particular someone tainted by any major corruption scandal he began life as a lawyer before becoming the gulf and all of the oil which siberia the two men to reach it there he's been one lately at playing for having sold the region so room to excuse into winter snow removal problems the big problems that also affect the russian capital but there is a general agreement that this is the biggest challenge that steady gaze upon that has ever faced in his political life so once the pomp and ceremony of today is a bed that's when the real test will begin as to what this man is up for the job his first big test we tackling the true. until eleven lost a city budget. that was moscow's previous top official your english cove was sacked

of course by president it's made of he sign of a lack of trust and confidence what kind of legacy has he left for his successor he after all was in office for eighteen years. but it's a complicated legacy he was charismatic he was from a boy into during the eighties stages of his career he was tremendously popular would like to claim for nothing really holds most go out of the depth of his injury to the early ninety's or during the last stages that it's korea allegations of corruption told him that every which touch they also extended to include his property developer wife listed as forbes has a russia that beefy bella believe that he's also accused of coming to the full scale of the tetra landscape doing nothing to save this cultural heritage but also not doing enough to fight corruption in the city outsold it's huge traffic problems you list calls was publicly funded last month alone to eighteen ease it all fits with the president a bit better saying is that you do the school the house is confidence what is

damning statement that baseball today you had in response to said that he will not be attending the inauguration ceremony however he has also told his supporters no state to the streets to demonstrate to avoid any sort of disturbance and if he found official statements say that he wished that you would most go to bed the very best of law during his term in the right way of course announcing live pictures from that inauguration of circus head down and who of course is moscow's new mayor that's a good bye and thank you to alice have virtue of speaking to us live from the cities that. are coming up later on r t the latest from the front line of the global currency war financial analyst max kaiser and stacy herbert skies whether the u.s. will be missed by the world this becomes the first casualty of this financial conflict you can find out in the kaiser report at three thirty pm g.m.t.

. us has got a gun own head is committing nation aside and the rest the world is giving out a collective huge yawn. and saying you know of the us if you want to kill yourself we don't really care we can always replay the hollywood movies we've got a plenty as they're making the same movie in over or over again anyway you know godzilla part twelve or indiana jones borat nine i mean it's all derivative ali was gone totally derivate they can just buy the old movies again they don't need hollywood anymore they're made in america anymore got to blow yourself up we don't care. let's take a look now around the globe at some other stories dominating world news this hour a bomb exploded with your boss in the southern philippines killing at least eight people and wounding ten was already blamed the attack on an extortion gang with

links to muslim militants the bus was traveling with more than fifty passengers and the force of the blast was so strong two of the victims were to capitated the province is known for kidnapping extortion gangs and decades old muslim insurgency . in colombia five people were killed when a light aircraft crashed into the mountains the single engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the northern west northwest and i should say city and then in the pilots did not make contact with the control tower to indicate any problems two of the passengers were police officers. in the new european union budget demands an additional nine hundred million pounds from. the british prime minister david cameron said one of those that you just issues that are small in the last hours the vote went through on the same day britain announced its largest costs in public spending since the second world war thousands of protesters came onto the streets of london saying it will condemn the u.k.

two years of brutal unemployment. and over seven hundred clowns from the us to latin america gathered in mexico city in a bid to set a new record there. laughed nonstop the fifteen minutes which was new not smart they must want peace and calm at the end and can have there at the end of a three day international how about. now they say revenge is a dish best served cold and kazakhstan is heading back for years on after the hollywood movie bore rat ridicule their nation and director from the central asian country has created what he thinks is the perfect riposte as. parts i might i love. i like this oh my god they haven't got that that this right down of kosik they said no no. no i did nothing.

but they were. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insulter nation demeter soon backward it's all lives and i was shaking back for years after the top grossing years film about the hapless cause like t.v. reporter because it sounds premier comedy director has come up with a repast the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakhstan after seeing the original movie last year with the us we have such cars and such technologies here and i stand nothing like the american film. there he meets borat brother only briefly mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law have a very a family. every day. together there to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey. the payoff is that borat and below are not cows or

x. but actually jews from romania. i demand of the movie made the whole world laugh at us the whole world. is. going to be in several previous responses to bore out the law please this video by rap collective to threaten to make him. the star and the producers are hoping for an international release. and after marrying a donkey really becomes pregnant with this china. well we'll see who will have the last laugh in fact now don't forget there is much more for you on our website that's r t dot com you can log on and explore here's a look at what might catch your eye including a disco for that kind of music you play for an entire club of people including the d.j. who are hearing impaired find out about the moscow nightclub that's breaking the mold. the man who said that animals don't have the same rights as humans certainly

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i welcome to the business program hey i'm on tape with michelle and i was folly. has approved the gays again and as the city's new met promising to cut red tape and corruption his arrival has been graced with some optimism by the capital's business community. a professional lawyer and an experienced manager who ruled russia's oil rich region said it 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 staff. and he was quite successful as a governor of one of the richest. regions in russia so it is a benyon delivered his mayoral strategy does feature 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 man not least by intrapreneur those who expect him to solve the small but still important problems which will you then you may or should not only focus on global issues but also as all small issues. probably comes to city districts to small business we also expect him to think how to excessive take spirit so that small companies would have an opportunity to

invest in new technology they remain open to little green cafe in the center of moscow in the middle of the extreme summer heat and like many other entrepreneurs she was lucky to pass all the registration from allergies 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 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 it will be last thought 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 buy. the new had capital from the same political cloth as the country's ruling tandem of president and prime minister. 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 they are still prodigious. business moscow. let's have a look at the markets and stocks are climbing with a clutch of key companies reported financial results with nokia theater and british big believing all at the same time credit suisse weighed in on the downside after sharing a sharp drop in profit the footsie is up zero point seven percent and here in russia the markets are also trading off as crude of metals and gains and spare banks need to be able snuff surged off the government's now is to resell stakes as part of the five year privatization program that i just told her son the last. news in brief you know the problem bank has reported a thirty four percent increase in net profit the first half of the year the lending arm of russia's gas major said non-performing loans declined slightly with

provisions that fall into five percent of the total portfolio corporates and retail loans grew six and five percent respectively. russia's fourth largest still make m. and k. is launching a new metal processing plant in a joint venture with the turkish company. the city is worth two hundred fifty million dollars all correspondent in a question of when to the south of turkey for the ground. russia's not the dynamic a current interest that am expanding abroad especially into the market so maybe the east and this war on terror and this stuff and part of it is just another example of pace it's time to increase our force as well as all of us say as well this is the first joint venture between russia and the mountain companies and the total cost of this project is not to make it to be over one point seven billion dollars

if this month will be only from the seeds by this year well the find this stuff to production platforms what is yeah and a standalone in the south and part of. the sap and one is in the area to stumble to supply the whole facility what law materials companies and busted and so belgica see more broadly 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 thomas pace a chairman off the board because this the board ship is in mabel's the company to consider supplying to the european people east markets were at the moment of the priority is to use the mastic markets. m m k has 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 on the week and turkey doesn't top end up a steel model and that's why it influenced quite a lot we were told today of the inventory tell production from this facility will go primarily to the following its dynamic growth. update for this but you can always find most stories on our website. business. so. the.