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banks rises in front of the country's brick by the pros house and violence other potential reforms critics say about only making the situation was. also enough to run one of russia's oldest commons denied it gave the child cruelty trust prosecutors here accusations of severe physical abuse from teenage border is . leading them dry e.u. divonne so almost a billion pounds in extra contributed from the u.k. has been met with rage as the country grapples with its largest public spending cuts since the second world war. and welcome to aussie twenty following years live from moscow volatile main story

now to gas and water cannon that have been used against around paging protesters in france french authorities have resorted to extreme measures to battle violence paula by students and trade unions while the senate debates a controversial pension reform bill on his country now sideways in paris for us. yana 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 the proposed pension reform that you but i start to see the french president is attempting to push forward in order to try and help the french economy get off its means 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 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 nicolas 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 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 my. 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 destructive to their of 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 don't. so i'm using the

. 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 in france there is a committee is 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 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 their very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reform to. restore the. system remove disincentive for working out the order

ages. of the commitment of the government to. take structural reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as. 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 project to gain 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 catch us our of our art harris . a russian common design the investigation of the claims of child abuse within its walls teenagers say they were severely beaten deprived of food and sleep for the slightest fault the convent in the region is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in this country dating back to the not to the twelfth century that have already faced abuse allegations again we go but no evidence was found to prove the claims back than also. some first hand accounts of the case. the walls

of this convent are supposed to provide sanctuary to teenagers inside his personal place to turn him into a model citizen is what signed young people at the boarding school can say it has turned into more the prison for them and experience it will take the months to recover from three teenagers went public with their allegations of horrific mistreatment at the convent boarding school tuition just may beat us often sometimes three times a day forty lashes each time once it was around 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. father vitale is the head of another christian boarding school he was the one the teenagers turned to immediately after running away confiding in him their experiences. one girl was had 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 or stand on a stool all night reading songs and they were not allowed to sleep or kneel down on a tray with nails one girl was forced to put a hand in a hot oven. but some believe a traditionally harsh bringing has been customary in russia and the line between abuse and parenting or instructing is hard to distinguish between with. life in the convent is in fact a very tough religious ability and sometimes demands physical attacks in actions that can easily be confused with abuse but that doesn't mean that the abuse is really there because a person only accept such a life full internally in case of a child with the parents' approval. but not all parents whose children are the same at the boarding school are ready to cope with the reality of their children choosing god over family if you really are. in february words. having our daughter

back home from the convent we were pulled over by the traffic police who said we had abducted our own daughter we took her back to the monastery but. her parents wanted her to get treatment for a serious medical condition but if she was twenty one they were legally any bill to take her with them this is not the first time that the convent has found itself in the midst of a controversy last year a teenage girl ran away from the boarding school going public with very similar claims ironically one of the teenagers who escaped this year testified in the school's favor back then. and list a geisha did not confirm that mr of ms goal of chain co were being confined by police and thus we have decided not to open a criminal case due to the absence of criminal act. but now some of those who defended the convent and its rules a year ago say they regret not telling the truth back then in goes carty central

russia. in the face a wide ranging public sector spending cuts across the continent the european union has voted to increase its spending the move will cause the u.k. alone an additional nine hundred million pounds that comes as the country announced its largest public spending cuts of the second world war thousands of protesters took to the streets of london saying it all condemned the u.k. to get a brutal employment and robert jones director of think tank the bridge groups as the here system is to corrupt to give them money. but the timing is astounding really as we are making these cuts in britain to pay off the enormous debt that we've been left having to give more money to the u.s. is money that the british taxpayer the british government cannot afford to give it shouldn't be giving this money to the european union contributions are set to advise the e.u. accounts haven't been signed off in over fifteen years because so much for waste

and mismanagement within the european union we just shouldn't be giving this money at all while the european union has gone too far in union laws take supremacies over british law over the laws of every member state within the european union and we've worked out that it causes a lot of damage economically overburdened with regulation as well as handing too much money to brussels really british law in britain should be solved in our own laws their own politicians but westminster should have precedence over those in brussels that's what we want to see we want to see a europe of nation states that can work and cooperate together but not be governed by the institutions of the european union based in brussels which no one has ever elected force legislation on the citizens of the u. you that was robert all the direction i think the bridge group. now the u.s. senate is to consider

a sixty billion dollars arms deal with saudi arabia and if it goes ahead it will be one of the largest arms sales in u.s. history of congress also has a month to raise any objections these saudis want new fifteen fighter planes nearly two hundred apache blackhawk helicopters as well as upgrades for existing aircraft and this sale would also include a satellite guided smart bomb system and defense miss ell's and for a look into the deal with joined by david keyes who is director of cyber didn't start org mr keys thank you very much for your time so this is a record breaking deal isn't it but why do these need all these arms. indeed it is considered the largest arms deal in american history and the reason that the saudis want the arms is first and foremost to protect itself from increasing iranian influence in the middle east power that's becoming increasingly

important in the region they also want the arms because in a classic dictatorial fashion the saudi regime does not rely on the consent of its people to be governed and therefore needed all the arms that it can acquire simply to maintain its presence in the region. yeah. and that's through going to bit more about human rights the u.s. has heavily criticized both iran and china for their human rights record why is washington you know doing the same thing when it comes to saudi arabia especially women's rights. well indeed there has been unfortunately a lack of concern for human rights in saudi arabia there are elements within the u.s. government that believe that the iranian leadership is moderate and therefore it is an ally of the united states i believe that the saudi regime is in fact quite extremist in its beliefs and in its policies saudi arabia is

a country which. prevents women from leaving the their home country without being accompanied by a male model or guardian it is a country which bans the walking of pet cats and dogs in public there is gender apartheid that bans women from driving and i think a lot more can be done to increase american concern and pressure for improvements in saudi human rights and you have that does the deal signal any kind of change of saudi arabia by the u.s. or is it a legacy from the bush administration. well unfortunately i think it's a continuation of the appeasement. the saudi dictatorship it is not america alone which has funded an armed autocratic regimes in the middle east russia as well this year announced one point eight billion dollars to libya in the last year two billion dollars to venezuela and seventy percent of the iranian arms imports have

also come from russia china has unfortunately been very bad on this issue so it really is a global phenomenon and it's and do it's due in no small part to the influence of saudi arabia throughout the west and the belief in the west it appears mint is the best policy of saudi dictatorship and can you possibly see any reason for the deal not to go to three. unfortunately not there are a handful of democratic and republican congressmen and senators who oppose the deal i personally favor a linkage in the philosophy of scoop jackson and. if saudi arabia wants sixty billion dollars worth of arms and another thirty billion dollars which are being considered then they should allow women to leave their homes in the country without a male guardian and they should see some of their dictatorial policies i think that's a much saner approach to dealing with saudi arabia unfortunately i think this deal

is going to go through regardless. right david please direct the dissidents mr keyes thank you very much indeed. new mayor has been sworn in with inauguration ceremony the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of gay sabbat in a candidate chosen by the president that if the council's new man in charge has been described as a skillful manager who can tackle the tough issues facing. moscow does now have its new mayor tearing out inauguration ceremony earlier today attended by president medvedev is so they gave john it was sworn in as the new moscow is city mayor there earlier in the day we did have the opportunity to hear the milan and lay out his objectives for his a term in office during the q. and a session with nor make his which resulted in him being vote today as he laid out his road back he says he wants to establish a fund to sort out the city's roads and traffic were used to tackle corruption head

old 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 cool water here in the 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 by all accounts a very successful governor of the siberian two men region and two big things are on the agenda very short of a fast bold he's got to tackle the twenty eleven secedes budgets secondly what's widely predicted to be one of the coldest winters on record is just around the corner as yuri luzhkov moved mosco some say like a pastoral 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 city drastically cheering the early ninety's balance during the last of stages all of his term allegations of corruption that don't seem at every which turn up from points of complicated to carrots a public peace sense probably president medvedev last month when he was told that he no longer public confidence of the president a very harsh condemnation that baseball good english calls did no such ten today's inauguration ceremony but he did tell his supporters not to take to the streets all create any sort of disruption and he also received an official statement saying that he wished the new man the very best of luck for the remainder of his time. that results he's honest have been reporting from moscow. well this all seems most fashion week seems the sees the unveiling of the most stylish trends for the twenty eleven spring summer season in the collection by more than fifty russian design is the glitz a festival can become a real honor to raise up and coming designers oxys test and i'll see their presents

the new projects showcased on this year's trendy event. now we're here in the russian fashion week in moscow it is the last day of the twenty first season and each time this event is held it does put the russian capital in the international fashion spotlight and of course behind the glitz and glamour it's all about hard work so we went backstage and we checked all the models getting ready before every show they're just scrambling of the last minute to get everything together to make sure that the show is as good as it looks for the audience so behind it in front of the camera of the a stage we are seeing a lot of action and we can see that the more and more people are trickling in and it's going to be a big party tonight now of course in fashion they're always a season ahead so just as we're preparing to get our coats out for the worst of winter they're showcasing the spring summer two thousand and eleven bill action 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 designers 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 year of france and 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 they want to be a russian a fashion museum 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 there is to it 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. it's just a matter of weeks now since police in ecuador protest against salary cuts parking what some later called a courier town and the country's president was said to have been trapped in a hospital for twelve hours before being freed thanks to a military operation their violent drama left five people dead so the details are

still unclear and to find out more he speaks to president rafael correa himself interesting moment. when not us and both us. thank you for receiving us here. this time in your home. there as you know there are different theories of what happened on september the thirtieth both on the national and international level what i do you do use

when saying that it was an attempt for could attack. there's no doubt it was an attempted coup i was support my position with arguments a bit later in our country the opposition can say whatever they like is believe here that being in opposition means denying obvious things they're even ready to argue that a circle has right angles and if i had died that day they would have said that i committed suicide anyway day by day we get more and more evidence that this was an attempt to destabilize the situation the thing is that classic couetise at least in latin america with troops over turn of a president and appointment of a new military dictator as president are impossible the twenty first century their new ways to destruct the work of a government presumably a certain part of society in this case armed people national police expressed their discontent with the new law they haven't even read to the end the law is a good one all this has happened because of misleading information this discontent serve as a basis for intrusion of political groups of corrupted groups from the police

itself of people violating human rights and resorting to torture thus these groups are taking advantage of a general discontent not to have their salaries raised but to insult the president to hold him hostage to threaten him and to finally make an assassination attempt that's clear from video recordings that they were not acting on their own their actions were coordinated by political groups that's where i'd like to stress those groups stayed in the shadow waiting for the outcome of this attempted coup d'etat but the attempt failed there were a number of coordinated operations and the evidence shows that these actions had been prepared over three weeks in order to create turmoil which was supposed to last no more than one two or three days it was joined by the armed forces looting broke out as well as skirmishes and bloodshed as a result the government would simply have to stand down but they could not foresee that i would get back to quito headquarters and when they do. treat me in such an insulting manner when they keep me hostage all this unites the country and the police itself to see that what's going on is far from demands to raise salaries

that's when the coup d'etat fail safe and you are don't address that morning you challenge those who want to kill the president asking if they have brain enough to do so what are the threat like and the moment i asked a question to the police the president is sticking his neck out what are they talking about according to the current theory it was discontent expressed due to 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 proven his way the 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 with her no to bands to raise salaries it was a political scenario long lives. this is the country's former president who is 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 that the looting and we

realized it was a political trap as i said if you want to kill me which kill me but don't destroy our homeland they didn't have the guts to do so later on in the coup failed they did try to kill the president which can be seen from the recordings and was confirmed by numerous pieces of evidence the room i stayed in was attacked by gunfire as well as the presidential car anyone can take a look at those shots there was an order to kill the president but at that moment it was cowards do not have the guts to kill me. i want to meet some doctors in the hospital where you were treated contradict the information about who had been kidnapped can you comment on that please. you can hear any kind of nonsense in a democratic society but lately it was proved that the doctor's claiming that we're not even in the hospital at the time he said that due to a number of weird canes advances there is an investigation of the opposition members actions before the thirtieth of september what clean sentences did him in and what are the preliminary results. for example in the morning of the twenty

third of september the recordings proving it fidel a rail a deputy of good tears who's behind all this was not alone the main initiator is a social democratic party its members are detained for the time of the investigation was manuka strike in quito also a few days before the clashes on the thirtieth of september seven opposition members of the national assembly made a trip to the united states where in washington they met with the ultra right who as we know financed the opposition groups activity we do not have proof that they financed the events of september thirtieth but we can prove that they financed the opposition activity what problems and internal weaknesses in your opinion have been shown since the events that we're talking about. it's absolutely clear that even before these events there were mistakes of the intelligence agency and the government and it's understandable because when we came into government our intelligence as well as police in the military were financed by the u.s.

embassy since the first of march of two thousand and eight when colombia started bombing ecuador all those disadvantages of the intelligence service were revealed and many intelligence departments knew that and they were in contact with the colombian groups but instead of reporting to the government they acknowledged the u.s. embassy so we were to disarm those groups and start controlling the intelligence agency who were to finance it appoint the heads of departments and work out a new law on the state intelligence service but it was adopted only in two thousand and nine that's why from two thousand and nine we have been reforming the intelligence service system but all those structures have been decaying and still there are people who managed to get in. but it's very difficult to reform the system of intelligence so we're still working on it it's clear how those problems appeared but it's a big problem and we have to pay a lot of attention to that when you talk about these extreme right wing groups that support it opposition on the international arena and try to obstruct the changes that are happening which groups are you talking about exactly.