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angry backlash against rioters in france these are live pictures from paris where thousands are on the streets as the entire country is gripped by protests and violence over pension reform critics say they're only making the dire situation worse. chose to may beat us often sometimes three times a day for two issues each time not on surat want to brussels the oldest convents deny allegations of child cruelty as prosecutors here accusations of severe physical abuse from teenage border. kazakhstan filmmaker paul five the last laugh as he strikes back against the hollywood comedy poor. that mocked his country. live from our studios in central moscow this is our t.v.

it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm actually five pm rather here in moscow which makes it three pm in paris and we begin in france where there's another day of on rest ahead of a possible senate vote on raising the retirement age the upper house is debating eight hundred amendments that opposed the controversial bill approved by the lower house in september where people are back in the streets in their hundreds of thousands on the country's infrastructure is in tatters petrol supplies are running low and gas stations are closed despite the president's orders to reopen fuel depots mar ses airport has been blocked by protesters you can see here in paris as we speak thousands hundreds of thousands out on the streets well 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 reports now 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. so i'm using the . headquarter of my company yeah it's it's longer i need like one i am not a follower 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.v. 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 they're very actions are doing serious damage basically this is one of the reform to. restore the. system remove disincentive for working out 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 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 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 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 catch it as are the art harris . let's get more analysis on the situation in france from tom di he is a general secretary of the european think tank europa no one is joining us live from paris thank you for being with us tomas now i'd like to begin by asking you french labor unions say the retirement age of sixty is a hard earned right i mean they've paid taxes they've expected this their whole lives don't they deserve to retire at sixty. excuse me i'm not trying to get the question can you please the question is do you not think that the french labor unions are right in what they say is they deserve

to retire at the age of sixty they pay taxes they've been expecting to retire at the age of sixty why should they have to work for two more years well no i don't think that the are right i think no one is right in this in this situation i mean well everyone knows that the french love to protest in the street and i think it's also part of our democracy but it's not enough to explain the situation and the strength of the station. but about the right i mean we can discuss about the position of the government and the union there is obviously a wide gap between the two. is that your question. ok we seem to still have time on the line tomorrow i just want to clarify what is your stance on these proposals to raise the retirement age do you think it needs to be done or not . yes of course it needs to be done every why telling the lie from the front

because the budget situation needs it and just the democracy figures are here to show that the system won't work we have to balance it with new financing of the system the problem today is that everyone knows. it's a need to reform the system but maybe the reform proposed by the government that will be voted by the end of the week is not the right on the left side and the union says it's an unfair reform and that basically it has not been discussed the right way it should have been discussed globally to harmonize all of the system and basically the left is saying that the government did not take the right steps to do it and moreover that the project they're voting is not finance after two thousand and eighteen so that's one of the main issue of the station

today what about the demonstrators methods we see cars being lit on fire what do you make of them do you think is this is the right way to do things to make their voices heard you said you don't think the government has spoken to the people but are the people speaking to the government here. well i think we have to stop here a minute because i've been reading a lot on the foreign press about what's happening in france we have to say that the situation is serious but it's not terrible i mean in terms of strikes it has been like seven days of strikes and we had in ninety five twenty two days so this year the strikes been for three days during saturday so it's not the same impact on the economy on the other hand it's true that there's been a lot of demonstrations with the union young people and also just

a slight bit of extremists that have been doing violence but it's really. part of it and all the main the main demonstrations are being really peaceful and well i mean the situation is not that violent it's not violent at all basically. so do you think that this is been been a little bit blown out of proportion by the media per se. yes well i mean what it's called a fight of violence and revulsion in the state in france of course but on the other hand it's a very serious problem and the situation is also very important and maybe we can explain this by other. by the context the political context is very very specific in france today and basically most of the protestations are not against the reform system it is on the one hand on the other

hand it's against nicolas sarkozy. an attitude in general you remember what a mom sorry to interrupt you seems to be a lot of young people out on the streets across france what's driving them to rally against pension reforms. well i don't think the young people that are in high school are worrying about their pensions really they are worried about their future and because you know that in france we have a very high rate of unemployment for young people it's twenty three percent the age of twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs offering opportunities and basically the young people today are saying we have no hope we have no future and the government is not showing us any general project where we could feel confident that that's what they're saying today all right tom di general secretary of the european think

tank europe i know but thank you very much for your time you're welcome. and more stories coming your way here in our team including the capitals new. york moscow has been sworn in in a ceremony attended by the president will bring you more details in just a few minutes. but first a russian convent 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 well convent is in the lead denia region it's one of the all this institution institutions i should say of its kind in the country dating back to the twelfth century that already faced abuse allegations a year ago but no evidence was found to prove the claims back then archie's. reports. 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 the 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 has to be 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. they 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 he forced me to come back i thought back 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 your gaze and also with us have a listen to what he has to say. was hit with a garden tool and now has a spinal injury which he will have to live with for the rest of her life they would make kids eat a cup of sold. reading songs 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

this is timony all 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 in 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 find out what really is going on behind this conference walls. you're watching our team live from moscow where a new mayor has been sworn in and inauguration ceremony in the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of start a candidate chosen by president mitterrand if the capital's new man in charge has been described as a skillful manager who can tackle the tough issues facing the russian capital artist alice had burt has more. delegates to the house who. wanted as the new mayor of moscow in a noble curation ceremony attended by president to be put into bed earlier today

moscow make his though today may alter a q. and a session in which he delivered his objectives for his term in office he said he wants to establish a fund to tackle the cc's roads and crippling traffic problems and he also wants to wage war on the problems of corruption in the city particularly in the whole thing sector was the nortel option to be able to deliver on these objectives also calls for made it to be received physical observers here in the capital were made skeptical of pool so basically on it is a relative on the no he is up until lead now been described as a competent and experienced a father jack not a particular someone on tainted by any major corruption scandal he began life as a lawyer before becoming the gulf and all of the oil which siberia and a few men to reach a better he's been quietly at the plate for having sold the region so wrote to excuse him to winter snow removal problems both of the problems that also affect

the russian capital but there is a general agreement that this is the biggest challenge that staircase of beyond and has ever faced in his political life so once the pomp and ceremony it today is so bad that's when the real test will begin as to whether this man is up for the job his first big test will be tackling the twenty eleven most cases he budgets it's a mixed legacy that getting liskov that leaves behind he was charismatic he was flamboyant to during the eighty's stages of his career he was tremendously popular one day acclaim for nothing really holds moscow out of the depth that it was in jericho at the early ninety's but during the lapses stages of the career allegations of corruption talked about every which target they also extended to include his property developer wife this to as full as a process that the bella believe that he's also accused the. having the balls to go all tetra landscape doing nothing to say its cultural heritage but also not doing

enough to fight corruption in the city outsold its huge traffic problems your list calls was publicly funded last month to eat these little fish with the president a bit but it's a good it's getting to school now it's his confidence which is damning statement that his goal today get in the school office if he will not be attending the inauguration ceremony however he has also told his supporters no state to the streets to demonstrate will go with any sort of disturbance on the issue and official statements say that he wished that you must go to bed the very best of luck during his term and. that's coming up to eighteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news in grief a bomb exploded in a passenger bus in the southern philippines killing at least eight people and wounding ten authorities blame the attack on extortion gang with links to muslim militants the bus was traveling with more than fifty passengers on the force of the blast was so strong two of the victims were to capitated province is known for

kidnapping gangs and decades old muslim insurgents. the new european union budget demands an additional nine hundred million pounds from the u.k. the british prime minister david cameron said he will oppose the e.u. decision next month in brussels if it went through on the same day britain announced its largest cuts in public spending since the second world war thousands of protesters came out onto the streets of london saying it will condemn the u.k. two years of brutal unemployment. and over seven hundred clowns from the u.s. and latin america gathered in mexico city in a bid to set a new record they laughed nonstop for fifteen minutes which was the new national mark they wanted to promote peace and came at the end of a three day international. how.

and speaking of laughter they say of course he who laughs last last laughs rather loudest and kazakhstan is heading back for years on after the hollywood movie borat ridiculed their nation a director from the central asian country has created what he thinks is the perfect response as he reports. i'm not a lover. i like this oh my god say i haven't had sex that this right down of kosik they said oh no or at best. not be. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation demeter seem backward it's all lives now was shaking back four years after the top grossing years film about the hapless cats like t.v. reporter because it sounds premier comedy director has come up with their past the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakstan after seeing

the original movie last year with the us we have such cars and such technologies here in austin nothing like the american film. there he meets boris brother only briefly mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law have a very a funny. story. together that to engage in various high jinks. in our film below get so married to a donkey and. the payoff is that borat and below are not kazakhs but actually jews from romania. i demand of the movie made the whole world laugh at us we will move out of the whole world and the african down. there being several previous responses to burra please this video by rob collected or threatened to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for an international release a new look and after marrying

a donkey really becomes pregnant with this child. either of nerve. well that wraps it up at the news desk next hour the brings us the latest from the world of business after a short break. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. knowledge on r.g.p. . and i welcome to this program hey artie with me is folly city duma has approved. the city's new

mayor promising to cut red tape and corruption his arrival has been greeted with some optimism by the capital's business community. a professional lawyer and good experienced manager who ruled russia's oil rich region. is no stranger to power in two thousand and five he moved to moscow to have the kremlin administration and in just three years was appointed deputy prime minister tried and tested he's seen as the right man to take the keys to moscow i think so bennett has enormous experience call for work and the government he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create system within the government stuff and he was quite successful as a governor of one of the. regions and russia banyan delivered his mayoral strategy future colleagues in the duma among the stop priorities are to

reduce brock rissi fight corruption and to approve the city's infrastructure a lot of hopes are being pinned on the new man not least by intrapreneur knows we expect him to solve the small but still important problems. that you. the mayor should not only focus on global issues but also results small issues. bubbly consulship dish to city district still in 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 that we know open to little greek cafe in the center of moscow in the middle of the extreme summer heat unlike many other intrapreneur as she was lucky to pass all the registration from l.g. 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 a strong hope that. we'll be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will

sort out the weather next summer and will be last we 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 buying the new head of russia's capital is cut from the same political cloth as the country's ruling tandem of president made visit and prime minister putin this offers the prospect of creature coordination between federal and local government in the country's biggest city moscow's small business people are cautiously optimistic that their lives may be made a little easier but even they understand that although the problems in moscow are well and they are still prodigious the business r.t. moscow. markets down here are climbing as a clutch of k. companies reported financial results but not here for typical waving hi at the same time credit for its weight on the downside up to show

a sharp drop in profit. by six percent and here in russia the markets are also trading higher as crude metals gains and spare banks and rolls have searched off the government announced it will sell stakes as part of a five year program. for first. on the my sex. mirrors nicole shareholders of voted against changing the board of directors of unstored unary general meeting in moscow the vote was called in order to clarify a dispute between two main shareholders' interests and with our own battle for control of the russian mining giant with each owning twenty five percent our correspondent dana bash was at the a.g.m. he joins me live now hello to you dan and what was the vote trying to achieve and what's reaction been to the decision now not to change the board. yes all of that across guy has just failed in his attempt to rebalance the structure and control of

russia's biggest miner nor cynical as you say but the vote was much closer than anticipated many minority shareholders who hold the key in this dispute were swayed at the last moment boy the argument that nickel is not being wrong anywhere near as effectively as it should have been we have spoken just now to the deputy head of roussel he's also a board member of the north's nickel makes him so cough and he says that the company should be concentrating on so-called core assets and not really be wasting time on the chorus it's not just energy distribution let's listen in. we believe that there really is every single program which have to be put in place and if you limit it can bring the value of the company. to fifty or sixty billion in eighteen to twenty four months and then it's simple i mean the core is known core assets that hold whole bunch of known presses sitting on the balance sheet. which morning ties they have to be either sold to the market or they have to be sponsoring

offices and as and in the case of four g. three so. this is far from the end of the story this is only just the beginning in fact as i did that they will continue the dialogue in his words that seen by many as shorthand for this is going to the courts it's now been taken from this extraordinary general meeting to legal action and it's been called the point of no return the two sides are not talking to each other that has just been confirmed to us by so called and the specter hanging over all of this which no one wants is the government limit putin says he will get involved if the two sides that if we put on an interest and. go on the other side called reach an agreement. ok for now tony thank you very much our correspondent there daniel bushell at the actual shareholders meeting of an arrest nickel in the center of moscow.