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so i can see the way despite the limited strike against demonstration across from. the french senate approves the controversial pension reform but the people on the streets of france may still have their final say. in russia and the u.s. agree a pakistan is the world's greatest drugs and that is but there's no agreement between the two on how to combat it. and the people of iraq facing you how has it petrol traffickers who spilled soda in fuel into rivers poisoning the well to supply. international news live from moscow this is all see with me thanks for joining us the french senate has approved deeply controversial pension changes raising the

retirement age from sixty to sixty president sarkozy's plans were met they sweet with a wave of demonstrations on strikes across the country police have broken through fuel depo brocades which have caused shortages the french leader says the measures are vital to reduce this country budget deficit and for he thinks for a national future but those on the streets say the plans are in a time on that basic rights he's catch reno's. it was a very close decision by the french senate the votes are one seventy seven to one fifty three so a very short margin by which this controversial ten children pension reform has been approved of course isn't the final leg of this the reforms journey it will have to be approved by a committee comprised of both the upper and lower houses of parliament the committee is set to meet on monday the twenty fifth of october but this step in itself is a very big deal of course for the french people who have been protesting this

proposed decision for days causing chaos and basically forcing the country to a standstill as they blocked oil refineries and costing millions to the french air industry to various other people relying on that transport transportation of goods vehicles and so on so that this reform has already been said by the french government to be instrumental in helping the french economy off its knees as it suffers from the effects of the global financial crisis but the people here have definitely not seen it that way they've been on the streets protesting saying that they do not believe they need to work for two years and to the age of sixty two currently of course the retirement age in france is sixty it's one of the lowest in the world with countries in near the nearby countries in europe like spain and italy already raising their retirement age to sixty two and even higher with not as much opposition from the people but the french people of course have their own way

of dealing with issues and their way has mostly been taking to the streets and that's exactly what they've been doing for the past two weeks however all eyes of course are going to be on the trade unions now and on the national committee but many experts already expecting this reform to be in its final stages of approval and that the committee that will meet on monday october twenty fifth will give it its final ok. and. who comparing to gaze the protests says the pension reform was vital to save the system that the french economy is based on. if there were. protests in the streets but for us the reform is a good thing we have to reform our pension system has a young student. for my generation for every young reform is really necessary because tomorrow it's our generation going up raise a bunch and for our parents our grandparents. you know that today in france one

punch in of out of town is paid by by debts so we're going to have to pay the debt in the next year with the demographic. it's going to be. in the next year or so we have to reform our pension scheme today we have to work two more years so that we can save the system in the next year. today i hate when i'll change just a few moments of how the villagers have turned a million into a very difficult dispute. details of a special forces operation in the russian he says targeting militants in the one hundred kilometer long line. russian prosecutors have demanded fourteen year sentences for the jailed oil magnate khodorkovsky and his business partner on trial for the second time is the nature's twist in the so-called ucas affair this habit. prosecutors in the case of pull all magnets

when you call c.e.o. michel holder hoskins his business partner never there how do they all start to drop the charges of theft in relation to thomas never be in case she is formally appalled all of the new polls all come to the they've also walls for a sentence of some of whom to me is against the two men this would then mean if it's up held that they would only be reducing the twenty seven team noise at seeing the defense over of political speech and that they have it if you continue to protest that they were innocent only children say that they will contest this in court next wednesday on october the twenty seventh this is the such good time that both men have a student trial this time they're charged with money laundering and they have to and embezzlement that to some three hundred and fifty million tonnes of oil from a nine hundred ninety six two thousand and three numbers i want to know one drink of some twenty three billion u.s.

dollars to make on hold a whole city was of course once upon a time the richest man in russia the only change i'll tell you but she fills in two and three when he was arrested in may thirty first two thousand and five thirty pm and that's a little bit every sentence by a most cases is to nine years imprisonment in a siberian jail all those charges of food and tax evasion that's said to schools that reduced to eight she is a little later by got more to sixteen cool both men can see these protests there were distance and say there will be charges brought against the bomb to the city motivated. russian the u.s. both agree afghan heroin needs to be wiped out but there's no agreement between the two on how to go about it afghanistan is by far the world's biggest opium producer but washington only wants to focus on targeting taliban controlled poppy fields auntie's again education explains the other side russia sees to the problem. well russia's anti-drug czar victor ivanova is talking about the ineffectiveness of the

current policy on drug production in afghanistan and how afghan drugs a fact is under estimated in the west figures hold on are just staggering more than one million people killed by afghan drugs in the last nine years of war in that country of the some point during this time the production of drugs in afghanistan grew forty times since two thousand and one not to mention that it continues to kill more than one hundred thousand people a year walled wide of which thirty thousand are washes where she is the number one victim to this drug tornado but what makes nato countries lack of action even more bizarre is the fact that the number of people who die in a don't countries each year from afghan heroin is ten times the number of soldiers killed obviously those facts are not advertised well enough and mr ivanov made that point nato countries of course including the united states continue to refuse to eradicate the cause of the problem that is the poppies the poppy fields and that is

something that russia strongly suggests and insists upon and history of on our force also giving examples of of this connection of the growing connection between hereon and terror that drug trafficking generates terrorists and this is something that all nations should worry about here is what he said. groupings encourage tells generated by global trans national drug trafficking establish not just enormously powerful organized crime but also terrorism itself competing in fighting for influence markets or control over their lucrative traffic or chose use murderous methods and penetrate the political sphere more than ever however being criminal in nature in their fight for power and influence the ultimate resort to terrorism those multiplying terrorist manifestations that are vulnerable is also puzzled by the stance the u.s. security council is taking by defining afghan drugs as far as a threat to global stability but not to global security. and that's such a warning makes it legally impossible to take drastic measures which is to

eradicate the field and destroy the drug drug labs in afghanistan afghan drug business kills thousands of people worldwide and finances global terrorist networks and the wall this just standing aside and watching and that was his point mr ivanov went on to say world powers get together at the security council and they find somali pirates activities in the gulf of aden as a threat to global security but can't take a drawing strong stance on afghan drugs which have a much more disastrous effect worldwide the reason the u.s. and other nato countries give is that they don't want to destroy the only source of income for local populations in russia says that argument doesn't work and if that iran offset the only ones who benefit from it are the landlords the drug lords the end definitely not afghan peasants an afghan peasant household makes seventy dollars a year for growing poppies and as mr von off said international forces should be after the landlords in afghanistan because they leave peasants with no choice but

growing poppies and being slaves to these drug lord drug barons and in the last nine years of war in afghanistan that policy brought nothing but death. and if you'd like to wish the full interview with the head of russia's federal drug control service you can always do go website. a militant hideout is the subject of a special operation in the russian republic of cover jean about korea to have at least ten gunmen have already been arrested by security forces in the region policemen have also found a truck with explosives near a mine where the gunmen are trapped. in the reach of. the federal forces have started their salt on the mine after the militants ignored all demands to surrender and opened fire right now they are trapped inside the industrial mine which is approximately one hundred kilometers long there's gunmen are involved in the terror attacks and the sister nation of police officers in what is in

a bowl kyra when we do know is that a car has been found by the mine this car was filled with explosives and it was it in mind also several locals collecting scrap metal have been evacuated from the scene so the counterterrorist operation is still growing on a criminal case has been launched and police has already found inside their mind there's a meal or downs of log in their mind i have to be identified. in peaceful northern iraq it's no guns a war that are putting people's lives or trist the main source of water in the region has been polluted by gangs of petroleum smugglers looking to make a quick buck and a sebastian mayor reports the health and livelihoods of the local people threat. one hundred miles northeast of baghdad a special recchi police unit makes its way to the arena in order to get a new breed of smuggling trade not in guns but in gasoline this cash of complicated jerry cans contains thousands of gallons of gasoline that was illegally trafficked

from iran a few days ago smugglers would have done the c. one river with it were intercepted by the iraqi police but many of the jerrycans didn't make the journey intact punctured by rocks or shot by the iranian police tens of thousands with their contents into the sea or one river pushing the water supply used by the thirty five thousand residents of the city of. these are the cans did ya lift over used to kill people. could use this were true we'd know because of the color is to do people count to use it and. put the money is too tempting for the local smugglers who can run ten thousand jerry cans on an average night for a few hours of work they can make up to six thousand dollars what the smugglers line their pockets downstream fishermen like you bring him in my head and watching their livelihood disappear two years ago we could catch a lot more fish. kids twenty kilos

a day now it's only five you don't want a second in the city families unable to afford their own well have to drink to fell smelling water delivered to them by miscible trucks on the outskirts of town he was forced to feed his family this water those who are true is not safe to drink but because we can't afford clean water we have no choice about one of my children get sick listen i was vomiting so i had to take her to hospital when we dream to nurture and they get sick according to the recommendations of the american environmental protection agency pollution levels in the water supply are over fifteen times higher than the safe amount. of any one hospital now means daughter is suffering from diarrhea which she contracted after having a bath in the city's tap water. i haven't been hospitalized myself but because of my child i come often i have to are the children and they suffer from diarrhea and vomiting as well comes back home to tell you we will be back here again. and with the same regularity as no means visits to the hospital the smugglers continue to

spill gasoline into dock then because water system in this remote and peaceful part of iraq ignorance agree are as dangerous as in the rest of the country sebastian meyer northern iraq fourteen. some well the news headlines and brief now. at least a hundred forty two central. and infected over one thousand people living in rural areas health officials say about. the illness doctors at the hospital are struggling to hundred all the volume of patients seeking treatment centers being rushed into a coma but to a country's worst health crisis it was during the recent months of quake which killed some three hundred thousand people. a ton of other insurgents have attacks a nato convoy in southeastern afghanistan killing three drivers and burning dollars thirteen fuel tankers the incident is the latest in a string of a time so supply convoys and both have got his start on pakistan violence on the

border between the two countries along their lines as vital supply read recently resulted in the temporary temporary closure based on child the clashing after three of its soldiers were killed by a nato missile strike at a frontier. an event targeting russia's super rich the annual millionaire fad has kicked off and most among they must have items on their shopping list for the wealthier hundreds phrase sets starting at a cool one hundred twenty thousand euros u.s.b. flash drive jewelry and diamond studded kitchen where lin so prone says that the fact that checking out just who wants to be here it's not the glamour to come out and shout and stop even would be part of me still in recovery russia is ready to celebrate you mary as luxury goods here at the millionaire marriage to thousands at reigate read somewhere. you know you might not believe it but the majority of the people here at the millionaire fair in moscow aren't millionaires they are here to

rub shoulders with and to see the toys that the millionaire and of course the billionaires get to play with this brand new lamborghini. twenty two million rubles who are that i can afford. and in order to appeal to the masses that topic on me like that. if there is not to have more than just the boy toys like helicopters and cars and beautiful women it's also got to have to be a male not like this bright red rose petals like a pair of the left but it doesn't matter how rich you are it's hands off the side of it most peoples of the nation here is a very big attraction by far in this bright red robinson forty four helicopter that no one well over six hundred thousand dollars the aim of an event like that is to make you believe that no matter how hard your life the world can be your. stuff now is that we can dial. most coaches coming up in just

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have a good job. if it becomes a. tough call. but the effect kept coming up five. missions on one for that month drilling field excursions pushing price of gold is famously right the russian does not love to drive fast maybe that explains the existence of a semi constant senses around the city and that canarsie among both male and female pilots as races. for the has a cause in school children from five to sixteen years old is used cars equipment with added safety protection then you also holds kids competitions broken down into age groups most the costs for adults are provided by next a college jeff winner of international and russian causing competitions the whole

also often organizes multilevel competitions and amateurs specialist. being on c entertainment news now and for all those who are hungry for votes today and for hot there's a new venue in the city center at the restaurant is open on the territory of moscow's museum of modern art offering its guests team and use of french transit georgian dishes you can not only enjoy contemporary art next to all the restaurants interiors off to sleep decorated to books on art and design a sharing of french found shop and there is also a plan to organize music concerts that's the venue. to celebrate its fifth anniversary in russia because the magazine in style has organized a large glamorous event called the sharp around one thousand celebrities and fashionistas have been invited to the fashion night palace which was unusual runway show models paraded the catwalk not in one simple design a collection of more mix of different brands show how to combine and wedges i'm

includes in every day life. it all happens all day on the runway you know. we try true. she stands true if you to the clothes you can find it in style i mean it makes old friends all the style of trends that are. inside magazine he said one who would like to make such show. the truck inside the tent is six hundred metres long and six twelve meters why this high quality costs smooth flight track short straight stretches and abrupt one speaking by the bar and you can see why this causing traffic is so popular ten minutes of racing time costs from two hundred fifty to seven hundred rubles that's up to twenty dollars depending on the time and day and best of all because the sense is open until two am every night. until it's not about what the race is.

the for very good anyone where they are. you know with all our tax credits of any age if they. come with the clothing it's all provided for you. can see not to come trotting lessons i don't think i'm doing too badly. to get. the job and you sensational some of the majestic museum suspension to do if it rains in the russian capital but it's all doom and gloom and generally afternoon from the skies and the sun shines through a cold night fun filled winter packed with various activities just remember to pack

she would say bullies and we've arrived at the shopping center. it's an underground shop is paradise several years ago there was simply nothing here today it's another example of the city's and the changing infrastructure and to most news excluding temperatures very lovely to. see again so it's very cold outside where the muscovites when the weather is bad the lot of that is making shopping a lot of fun around that time around shopping malls as a lot of. ways they can take months if not there again all the polling thinking they made in their pool that. fitness they can go to a lot of the pleiades a lot of choices they're putting shopping for a big mall to take in in the center or they sat outside the fence and this is a lot of shopping malls to build. its nest called the really interesting

in the. snowboarding and skiing plays they do and they have finally. gotten a lot of play they're being built on the air that this is a lot of that it seems that there's a lot source a lot. of it's raining outside where would you recommend the forest service. be with. what they're insisting is to find what they're going to do if they get called for thinking beyond that there's also a very proficient way of being healthy and getting it right so they can just feel that enough by now i think in the workplace where they can get all different kind of body heat and get warm and have tried rest and food and get it by get their hair cut or. really nice restaurant that has

a fireplace and be aware. that you can come. and so you drop absolutely that's one of my favorite things is there are three you see. one of the most popular sports entertainment is bowling there are dozens of bowling alleys and mostly with a different number of lanes in the city center stage to use all smaller you can still find them. and cinema parks but if you travel further from the sense some animal species bowling alleys like this one here. in the evening hours and separate special the kids try to stick to depending on the town and range from around ten to twenty dollars per hour i do enjoy bowling i think it's a lot of fun when you have friends over. movies and going maybe to some restaurants. if you fancy from town it's not involving physical exercise

closer enjoying performing publicly thank you keith. should be the choice for you there are several character venues and also many bars in moscow to provide their guests with this form of singalong entertainment for the latest equipment and a professional team who can even apply some computer facts to review for sound but the hardest thing may be to choose a good song for hundreds of them in various catalogues so don't be shy. and sound sensational. and if you're daring enough you might even want to climb a rock that's inside a shopping mall in the city and you can carry heavy shopping bags maybe seven fifty meters high walls to climbing all seemed such a challenge for you this rock climbing club is suitable for both professionals and how much signifies by instructors and also all the equipment you need.

to all feel it's a large ability. like a canal that some of our fellow playing the australian. if the weather is bad let's bring in about a two thousand and six with a very full life to offer insight since you can see why it's become so popular with family members of all ages to place it with the. situation just outside the most daring raid emprise good machine fee varies from three hundred fifty to small children to three thousand rubles addles pending on the day of week and time of the day through the car park park website which is also in english you can book entrance tickets online since it is a day from ten to ten a bar and restaurant knowledge base in the venue every friday and saturday the venue holds the beach nights parties hosted by resident deejays if you plan to visit was a party with children the one of the advantages of our car park is the great

playground. venue has several slides that range from. ninety to one hundred in twenty minutes is it seems to extreme and you can relax in the large weight pools you can use these while pools. that. you have. to park inside complies is an excellent spa decryption swan is made by renowned specialists everyone can enjoy a variety of body treatments performed by customers through. tendency to stream fans is a unique slide that's really one of its kind in russia it's now might be flushed down a red and yellow base and it looks wise and it feels great. on taking my rubber reins you can come all the way here without trying various small slides new indoor activities and they must. be.