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and i agree backlash against roth is in france says the country is gripped by protests and violence over pension reform critics say they're only making the situation worse. maybe of maybe just often sometimes three times a day for delicious each time. one of russia's oldest conflicts to my allegations of child cruelty prosecutors here accusations of severe physical abuse from. the. strikes back against the hollywood comedy at the country. around the clock around the world this is. good to have you with us it's another day of on rest in france 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 but is katrina's are if it is in paris where people back on the streets. young 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 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 a proposed pension reform that you start to see the french president is attempting to push forward in order to try to help the french economy get its i mean 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. that's necessary in order to get the job done now 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 the government and the french president sarkozy is saying that it 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 what 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 strike 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 that 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 protests 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 say that this is really disruptive to their regular day to day lives. 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 do introduce so.

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 lucy know the numbers don't always reflect reality t.v. in france there is also like a committee is just to avoid school. 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 their very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reforms that. restore the. system remove this incentive for working at older

ages as well give a signal of the commitment of the government to. structural reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as top of 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 so are these protests a true sign of a democracy or simply a force of habit 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 and in a year and a half will 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 protest against 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 captured as art harris for most of the millions flooding through the streets throughout france a young people to model from a think tank over which promotes the role of youth in european society explain the scale of the unrest is actually 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 policy. 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. of twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs are freeing opportunities. well more stories still to come your way this hour here on r.t. including. the small scale lawmakers see in the new study good to be on and join me alice to put in just a few moments. we'll bring you the latest from the glamorous world of beauty is turning the heads of the top designers russian fashion week those stories to come. but first the 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 fuld the convent in the vladimir region is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the country dating back to the twelfth century it already faced abuse allegations a year ago but no evidence was found to prove the claims back then. 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 we see one of the loudest child abuse scandals in recent years in russia now the teenagers two girls and boys say that the nuns at the convent have regularly mistreated them beaten them and have done all sorts of career 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 beauty which

ensures that 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 who had no one to complain to. i tried to escape but they forced me to come back i thought back but couldn't really do anything to shove me in the car and took me back dear 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 allegation is that they are presenting are true and the details of the additions offer 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 salt will stand on a stool all night 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 onto 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 in that very girl said that all the i can say she is presented by a sixteen year old teenager who has escaped a year ago we're 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 arrest again to find out what really is going on behind this conference walls when in about twenty minutes from now we have an exclusive interview with the president

all they quit all told r.t. 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 when you can watch that in full in the next hour but before here's a brief preview. 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 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 and all this 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. moscow's numerics been sworn in with an inauguration ceremony the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of a kind of the chosen by president medvedev the capital's new man in charge is being described as a skillful manager who can tackle the tough issues moscow faces artie's alice habits has more. moscow does now how the its new mayor tearing out inauguration ceremony earlier today attended by president medvedev is thirty days did not and it was sworn in as the new mosque a city mayor there earlier in the day we did have the opportunity to hear the villain 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 profound sense to establish a fund to slow down the city's roads and traffic were used to tackle corruption

head on particularly in the housing sector found say he wants to preserve the city's cultural and historical architecture but these are all just words of this poll watchers here in this city remain skeptical so they gave the speech on 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 jet he's a trained lawyer and he was by all accounts a very successful governor of the siberian too many regions and two big things are on the agenda very short of a fast poll he's got to tackle the twenty eleven sixteenth's budgets second leave what's widely predicted to be one of the coldest winters on record is just around the corner sooty this call to move moscow 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 people like

the look of the sixty's drastically cheering the early ninety's followed during the last stages all of his term allegations of corruption with jokes about every which turn up from points of complicated a carrot to a public peace sunspot i president medvedev last month when he was told that he no longer the confidence of the president a very harsh condemnation that baseball good english golf did notice a ten today's inauguration ceremony but he did tell his supporters not today. to the streets all created a disruption and he also issued an official statement saying that he wished the new mayor the very best of luck for the remainder of his time. and not his love from the center for post-industrial study says the new man must concentrate more on developing infrastructure rather than social problems. i think. here foster the politics of you know. social benefits for many people which missiles cough initiated i think he can change the. way of life for disabled people

quite easily and i think all the possibilities for the little people in homes and. so on i think the social problems will be not the first priority from as those have been because they're quite are already solved and have been solved for many years in moscow and it's easy steps to do to give more money to the people well coming up next our special report which uncovers a fraud epidemic of our time we get the real story of plunder on wall street where a financial system in our investment permits to prosper leaving millions. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about this it's about me to.

need it. now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light sweet. small world news for you this hour in a world update and it's only three policemen and given the stand the test is opposing the dumping of rubbish from naples close to the town security forces were trying to break a blockade by locals to dump trucks in the village protesters used as another projectiles during the confrontation and the police car was also a second front. in the european union budget demands an additional nine hundred million pounds from the u.k. prime minister said he would oppose the e.u.

decision next month in brussels governments if it went through in the same day pronounces largest cuts and public spending since the second world war thousands of protesters came out in the streets of london saying it will condemn the u.k. to get is brutal. they say revenge is a dish best served cold and kazakhstan is hitting about four years old after the hollywood movie borat mocks the nation a directive from the central asian country has created what he thinks is the perfect post as you go on that reports. i'm not a robot. so i would. visit my god say i have a god like that this right down of kosik they said oh right best. not be. like the way in 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 kazakh 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 mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law have 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 demanders of the movie made the whole world laugh at us will make the whole world well for down.

there being several previous responses to bore out not least this video by a rap collective to threaten to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for an international release. and after marrying a donkey will it becomes pregnant with this child. either of nerve. this autumn's moscow fashion week sees the unveiling of the most stylish trends for the twenty eleven spring summer season in a collection by more than fifty russian designers the glitzy festival could become a real arms race for up and coming designers and artists are celia presents the new project showcased on this year's trendy event. now we're here in the russian fashion week held in moscow it is the last day of the twenty first season and each time this event of help it does put the russian capital in b. international fashion spotlight now of course in fashion there always a season ahead so just as we're preparing to get our coats out for the worst of

winter there showcasing the spring summer two thousand and eleven collection and just by watching you would wish that you could jump a season ahead as well now over the past few days they've had more than fifty designer showcasing their work coming from russia the neighboring countries france italy malaysia peru and many more now another feature of this fashion week is that they're celebrating the hero of france in russia so there have been a lot of collaboration between the french russians and everyone who is here and another interesting feature is that this season the launch of the russian fashion museum that is a nationwide project supported by the ministry of culture here in russia and it showcases more than thirty thousand collection pieces from the centuries past as well as book tour pieces and of course this is also a platform for young and upcoming designers designers that the world has yet to know about so it is a piece for the arts and for the fashion savvy this is the place to be but of course that's not all all there is to win just as everyone else is busy in between shows and models are getting ready designers are getting ready people like me can

enjoy groups like these where i can just sit down relax and enjoy some pampering so i'm going to have a make over that's exactly what i'm going to do right now. with. ten minutes from now we have an exclusive interview with the president meanwhile joins me now. responds to the appointment of the new. bureaucracy of the top issues according to the business community here in the capital we'll have more details on that later in the program but first this hour the real cynical shareholders who voted against changing the board directs is an extraordinary general meeting in moscow the vote was called in order to dispute between its two main shareholders interval some. control of the russian mining giant which each owning twenty five percent all correspondent john a bushel has been following events from the meeting in the center of moscow. because failed here in his attempt to rebalance control of russia's biggest miner

in his favor but the vote was much closer than expected minority shareholders to hold the key to this whole dispute was swayed at the last moment by the argument that royal billionaire shareholder of living put on in the corner holds control of the mining giant is not fulfilling its potential the head of roussel who is also on the board of north nickel told us that they should be focusing on their morning operations and we believe that there are uses every single program which have to be put in place and the keep women and green devalue of the company. to fifty or sixty billion in eighteen to twenty four months and then it's simple i mean the poor is known for assets that are hopeful bunch of non-progressive sitting on the balance sheet. which morning ties they have to be either sold to the market or they have to be spun spin off as an indicator for g q three this is being seen as just the

beginning of the conflicts i did they will continue the dialogue with interest there's talk of this now being taken to the courts talk of a point of no return said the two sides are not talking to each other they're going through the media through media press releases to communicate with each other and shareholders and the specter hanging over all of this is the government says he doesn't want to get involved but if the two sides the two major shareholders call reach agreement then the government may have to. time else take a look at how markets are doing in u.s. stocks are extending their gains into a second day after another batch of strong earnings reports has a polemic doesn't translate these are very shattered and next are four times the signs that growth in china slowed during the third quarter over in europe markets climbs a clutch of companies also announced financial results with no. bridge to the movie

at the same time credits was a way down the downside. in profit in frankfurt the dax moving more. and here in russia the markets rallied to six month highs with closing more than three percent. of gains in crude and metals and also. the government announced it will sell stakes in the five year privatization program and. five percent on the six. city duma has approved it as a city's new mayor promising to cut red tape and corruption his arrival has been greeted with some optimism by the 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. regions in russia so this abandoned delivered his mayoral strategy to his 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 which will you then you may or should not only focusing largely shoes but also his or small issues. public counsel satish to city district still 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 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 in these a 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. 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 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 greater 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 sati moscow. shop day without you can always find more in a website called slash business.