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angry backlash against rioters in france as the country is gripped by protests and violence over pension reform but critics say they're only making the dire situation in parks. eugene chose and maybe just so from sometimes three times a day flotilla shows it's time to run one of russian's oldest convents deny allegations of child faulty as prosecutors here accusations are severe physical abuse from teenage reporters. plus a conflict that filmmaker hopes toppled last laugh as he strikes back against the hollywood comedy bore rot that mocked his country. or welcome to you it's seven pm here in the russian capital this is r t with me and

you said now away we begin in france where it's another day of on rast ahead of a possible senate vote on the raising of the retirement age the upper house is debating eight hundred amendments that oppose the controversial bill approved by the lower house in september because i mean isn't that the french capitol where people are back in the streets. yanga loud and proud to try and speak for their own country these people might look like they're attending a student party as they're all students and this definitely feels like a party but in fact it's anything but it's yet another day of protests in the heart of the french capital paris these people are nowhere near retirement age yet this is exactly what they're protesting the proposed pension reform but i'll start with you the french president is attempting to push forward in order to try and help the french economy get off its knees but these people do not want and added two years to their service and they are prepared to take to the streets and disrupt the life

of the country for as long as it's necessary in order to get the job done now this of course is the heart of the french capital and it's been like this or pretty much the entire day we're going to try and get over to the french senate where hearings about the pension reform are taking place and see what the people there have to say about the whole thing. only the heavy police presence outside the french senate reminds passers by that the protests that are grappling the country took place here just a few days ago the police of course are standing guard over what is happening in the senate when the real work on the pension reform is currently under place the decision could come as early as today and as late as sunday but the government has already said that they will not back down to public pressure public pressure of course has been immense for days trade unions say that they have taken out nearly three million people onto the streets and they will continue to do so until the

saree form is finally shelved but the government and the french president sarkozy is saying that is not likely how the economy will recover from the current protests however is yet another question economists have not yet had a chance to count would damage has been done by the strikes and protests that have grappled the country for days but just to compare in two thousand and seven a nine day transport strong. cost the country four hundred million euros and that is of course a huge amount of money and it is possible that the current strikes may end up costing the country the same amount or even more something in the current financial climate it definitely cannot afford but there are a surprising number of people who actually say that what they're most tired of is the protest according to popular opinion polls nearly forty percent of the country's people say that they're really tired of people protesting of all the violence and chaos that is governing their french cities and specifically in paris young and old people alike are saying that this is really disruptive to their of

regular day to day lives 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 . wrong. headquarter of my company yeah it's it's longer 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 and in france there is also like a committee just to avoid school. like six years ago i made the same when i was in high school. i went through the strike because i can avoid. the rowdy

crowd struggling 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 reforms that. restore the. system remove this incentive for working order ages. of the commitment of the government to. take structural reforms that will. restore. 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's 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 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 like 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 is certainly attention grabbing but who will back. first is still anyone's guess on the one hand it is

a constitutional right of the people to protest against something they don't believe in and don't agree but 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 doesn't have art harris. well as we've been seeing in all these pictures from france most of the millions flooding the streets throughout the country are young people who die from i think tank europe and nova which promotes the role of youth in the european society is when the scale of the unrest is due to uncertainty over young people's prospects 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. the police. in general i don't think the young people

that are in high school are worrying about their pensions really they are worried about their future. because you know that in france we have a very high rate of unemployment for young people it's twenty three percent and the age of twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs offering opportunities. more stories coming your way this hour including. sulfas must go on or make his vote see and then you may as surrogates to be on enjoy be alice to put it just a few moments from now. but first a russian convent is under investigation over claims of child abuse within its walls teenager say they were severely beaten deprived of food and sleep for the slightest fault with a convent is in the region it's one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the

country dating back to the twelfth century and it already faced abuse allegations or year ago but no evidence was found to prove the claims back that are g.'s a renewed 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 do we see one of the loudest child abuse scandals in recent years in russia now the teenagers two girls in a voice 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 in 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 we would always have headaches from crying so much and we had no one to complain to. i tried to escape but they forced me to come back i thought burke but couldn't really do anything he showed me in 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 that but 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. and in 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 testimony 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 find out what really is going on behind this conference walls. looking ahead for you we have an exclusive interview with the president of ecuador rafael correa told r t how the recent protests in his country may have been an attempted coup d'etat he said that he was caught up in the riots and described how he feared

for his life he wants that full interview next hour but here's a look. according to the current theory it was discontent expressed due to a misunderstanding of a good new law concerning the military and the police 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 proving 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 who was behind all this but that's why i opened the window and tried to explain the situation but they continued interrupting 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 destroy our homeland and they didn't have the guts to do so but.

now they say revenge is a dish best served cold and kazakhstan is heading back four years on after the hollywood movie borat mock their nation the director from the central asian country has created what he thinks is the perfect response as he now. i'm not. sure i like this oh my god they have a god like that this right now not because. 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 for years after the top grossing years film about the hapless cows 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 kazakhstan after seeing

the original movie last year with the us we have such cars and such technologies here in austin and nothing like the american film. there he meets borat brother only briefly mention in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law and a very a funny. very sad day san together that to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey. the payoff is that borat and below are not kazakhs but actually jews from romania demand of the movie made the whole world laugh at us will make the whole world well for down. there being several previous responses to bora not least this video by rep collected or threatened to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for

an international release new look and after marrying a donkey really becomes pregnant with this child. either of nerve. well coming up on the program the latest from the front line of the global currency war financial analyst max kaiser and stacy herbert discuss whether the u.s. will be missed by the world if it becomes the first casualty of this financial conflict to find out in the cars report in fifteen minutes. less has got a gun to its own head is committing a nation as and the rest of 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 board nine i mean it's all derivative hollywood's gone totally derivate they can just buy the old movies again they don't

need hollywood anymore they don't need an america anymore got to blow yourself up we don't care. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour to italy replacements were injured in a standoff with protesters opposing the dumping of rubbish from naples close to their town security forces were trying to break the blockade by locals to allow forty dump trucks to deliver their most protesters use firecrackers and all their. project sounds during the confrontation and a police car was also set on some. new european union budget demands an additional nine hundred million pounds from. british prime minister david cameron said he would have opposed the e.u. decision next month. the vote went through on the same day britain announced its largest cots 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. troops have a factor weighted hundreds of people out of the indian administered kashmir after two muslim couple of gunfire militants fired automatic rifles at government forces as they escorted civilians out of the area after the place was sealed off it took the military nine hours we saw there were no casualties the troops. moscow's new mayor has been sworn in in the inauguration ceremony of the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of sergei sabean and my candidate chosen by president made to the capitals new man in charge has been described as a skillful manager who can tackle the tough issues moscow faces artes of us have bert has more. moscow does now how the its new mayor tearing out inauguration ceremony earlier today attended by president medvedev said against did not and it

was sworn in as the dumas scale is this during the ceremony both but gave speeches in which they reiterated their commitment to making this new still of a better life for muscovites but of course these are just words the words that most of all it's a very nice day harry whatever and you may result she did so peabody's that that's just what you see to see what was displayed interaction that you were in the day to feel continues to hear. the gun in the layout his objectives for his a term in office during the q. and a session with nor make his which resulted in him being voted in he laid out his road bout he says he wants to establish a fund to sort out the scenes roads and traffic was used he wants to tackle corruption head on the to billion the housing sector found say he wants to preserve the city's cultural and historical architecture but these are all just words abyss the waters here in this city remain skeptical so they gave john it is

a relative all know to the process through which he went through from selection nomination to election day it has been very speedy we know that he's widely regarded as an effective and competent about the job he's a trained lawyer and he was while becomes very successful governor of the siberian two men region where he was why do you criticize him with tough telling its immigration issues that it's the removal process is a problem for big problems that also affect the russian capital but this is a must go with everyone's agreed that the most scary mayor will be here is a biggest challenge to date and two big things are on the agenda very short of a fast bowler he's got to tackle the twenty eleven secedes budgets secondly what's would be predicted to be one of the coldest winters on record is just around the fullness we'll have to see whether his own polling still was to translate. i'm successful and should be getting this call to move most though some say like a passel feast of some eighteen years was hugely popular at the beginning of his

term he was widely credited with that really improving the life of most of the lights of the look of the city drastically cheering the early ninety's but during the last of stages all of his turned allegations of corruption the jokes he made every which time they will stick stretched to include his property developer wife according to pull she's a russia's only female billionaire he's also accused with just not doing enough to tackle the problems of corruption in the moscow in the russian capital role but also of the capitals that traffic problems its road systems he's also accused all of it destroying the city's architectural landscape so do a flamboyant complicated to carry it to a public piece such spotlight president medvedev last month when he was told that he no longer house the confidence of the president a very harsh condemnation that is well you know so ten today's inauguration ceremony but he did tell his supporters not to take to the streets all created is

not a disruption and he also received an official statement saying that he wished the new the very best of luck for the remainder of his time. will continue to take a look on how the new moscow mayor will affect business in the russian capital that's coming up with charlotte in the business after a short break stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news maker. interview she's available in hotels. resort and spa. resort and spa. remote have been turned on. sunday a beach hotel the western resort you said club med bonnie. the

resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of hotel seasons hotel the sultan hotel. hello welcome to business program hey on oxy with michelle i was folly. shareholders a voted against changing the board of directors an extraordinary general meeting in moscow the vote was called in order to dispute between two main shareholders into roles in a battle for control of the russian mining giant with each owning twenty five percent all correspondent dana bash who has been following events from the meeting in the center of moscow. the league 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 run 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 us 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 core us it's not just energy distribution we believe that there are uses every single program which have to be put in place and you keep women you 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 are hopeful bunch of non-christian sitting on the balance sheet. which are more enticed they have to be either sold to the market or they have to be spun spin off as it is and as an indicator for g q three 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 and the specter hanging over all of this which no one wants is the government politically putin says he will get involved if the two sides that it will put on in an interest and. pass go on the other side can reach an agreement. time else like that how the markets are doing us stocks are extending their gains interest second day after another bunch of strong earnings reports from. eleven doubles in trouble as these it overshadowed a mixed report on jobs and growth in china slowed. over in europe markets the climbing as a clutch of key companies also announced financial results with nokia and bridged

all moving at the same time credit suisse weighed on the downside after sharing a drop in profit in frankfurt dax putting on more than one percent. and here in russia the markets rallied to six month highs to be more than three percent higher . gain recruited metals and also spread bank and roll snuffed surged after the government announced it will sell to stakes as part of my view participation program that can be more than five percent on the line six. has approved the gays to be on is the city's new mayor promising to cut red tape and corruption his arrival has been greeted with optimism by the capital's business community. a professional lawyer and an 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. 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. original russia benny and delivered his mayoral strategy future colleagues in the moscow duma among he's top priorities are to reduce brock rissi 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. then you may or should not only focus on global issues but also his or small issues. public consulship dish to city districts doing the small business we also expect him to think how to

excessive to sure 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 intrapreneur as 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 her strong hope . will be able to work miracles. so we hope the new mayor will sort out the weather next summer and it 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 had 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 offer.