possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plans with these protests mail a convincing enough for news broadcast but do the unions in france really hold any sway at the moment the only thing they've achieved is to cost the already struggling economy a shocking two hundred million euros a day. as the protests spread across the country they got out of control of the unions throughout october the unions had only one tactic left to lead the protests and try to tame them to avert widespread violence because of this the risk we face is greater than just the spread of violence which we face before now we have the blockade of production and disruption to the traffic because of lack of fuel and blocked access to gas stations and fuel. so what has changed between one thousand nine hundred five when the same unions managed to shelf the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five the unions enjoyed a lot more public support compared to now where only fifty percent of the people

say they would support those on the streets but not go out themselves today only the two main train unions are united in their fight against the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five most of the existing french trade unions were as one on the streets the then prime minister was seen as a cold technocrat despite the fact that the current french president nicolas sarkozy is not a popular figure in france his popularity ratings are still a lot higher than former prime ministers but the main difference it seems is that the french people are tired of losing battles that drag on grinding life in the country to a halt. extremist there is an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far. even more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the never ending protests it appears public opinion is changing and the trade unions may well lose not only the battle but the war as well. r t pairs. and

watching as you live from moscow stay with us as there is lots more coming your way including. as britain slashes its budget the country's best minds are beginning to look elsewhere we speak to the oxford academic with a stark warning for the future. pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. on the ground as part of a suspected terror plot. is accused of working with people he believed were members of al qaida but who were actually u.s. agents and u.s. counterterrorism officials said there is no indication ahmed was ever in touch with real militants and found out the f.b.i. is increasingly using tactics that critics say amounts to entrapment. may two thousand and nine according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their plan. for african-american muslims are arrested you have to say sir paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as

the faces of homegrown terrorism even if it was a. jewish facilities here in the branch. of military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have thwarted the suspects quickly dubbed the newburgh four are poor illiterate x. conflicts with neither passports nor licenses direction by a foreign entity or terrorist group instead direction came from shahid hussain a pakistani immigrant on the f.b.i. payroll reportedly paid nearly one hundred thousand dollars for his services f.b.i. operatives provided the fake c four and actually showed them a fake stinger missile fake weapons and a manufactured terror plot according to court testimony hussein recruited the economically strapped defended spy offering cars in cash to carry out the orchestrated operation then the agent provocateur or testified as the government's key would. it was nine eleven on there are the f.b.i.

has upped its anti against terrorism how much of the boiling pot surprise the country question is would there be any dots well with our government in place to help free that despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a lot more over what they termed entrapment a practice considered unacceptable in countries all throughout europe i now think it is i know what is in track and it alicia mcwilliams mccullum is the honor of twenty nine year old david williams one of the new book for she says her nephew is languishing behind bars for a fake terror attack grown in the home of the u.s. government they are out creating scenarios manufacturing crimes that would not have occurred if you had not planned on unconstructive seat into a community bin ladin is still out there be

a real terrorists out there that we should be concerned about and they should use those resources to find those individuals in not sit back and rely on a woman's to make up crime well these are all people that we begin to identify attorney steve downs who tracks cases like newburgh for argues the u.s. government is systematically employing preemptive prosecution targeting those whom officials deem predisposed to committing crimes before an actual crime is committed or taking some really down and rather vulnerable individuals and not only implanting the ideology of jihad on them giving them all the things that they need all the material setting up the plan and doing all the research everything else and then grabbing them and then claiming that these were homegrown terrorists it's just a fiction downs created this ten foot wide visual listing the names of individuals he believes were entrapped by the f.b.i. government the size. for some reason your ideology is causes them concern because

then they can come after you and they can manufacture crimes against you and they can make up a whole case and put you through the whole thing and eventually if they can persuade a jury that this manufactured case is valid you can go to jail for a very long time guilty verdicts for all formats as is the case of david williams and the other three who now face life in prison i don't have slave owners i got government owns a government that will so of me or for political gain. and this is a god damn shame because of some of said to be a goddamn larry king to date. r.t. new york. and in the program next hour our interview with american professor historian norman markowitz with millions in the u.s. left homeless due to foreclosures and millions more are left without jobs he compares modern day america to a famous story from science fiction. in the united states.

the people who are called the middle class the working class that's a very important point and the consciousness what happens if the working class is not working what happens in the working class is not working. then they become what in marxist terms would be the will of the proletariat the marginalized poor do you know the utopian movie playground or a world where you have a small group of enormously powerful super corporations and a world and the masses of people living in a kind of endless slum and the rich in that in that the whole the elites are planning to colonize outer space but if we're showing to the other planets that speaking of you know that you know we commute rolling the situation on the masses really being in terrible conditions many are saying that that is what's going on right now yeah well so it's not but it isn't it is yes yes no it's not

a fantasy it all. better now users across the globe could now have a sigh of relief after the man saad to be the world's biggest spammer was revealed thirty one year old eager goose is accused of being behind a fifth of all global junk e-mails and he's now on the run. you might not have noticed but there have been less spam messages churning around the internet every day in the past few weeks in fact fifty billion less spammers are a source for hard to find and how vast networks acquire is controlled computers to pass on emails but it seems that once you do start looking in the right place the results can be fast dramatic officials say the recent fall in spam emails is because the world's most prolific spammer has done a runner i hope will be. it depends on on there he moved recently although no pictures of him are available bigger goose

of is suspected of flooding the web with bogus marketing. according to the law he might get as much as five years in prison for this kind of crime we can't tell at this point how much money has an easy counts he's considered the biggest spammer based on his grabbing knees and the number of messages he was sending. gustaf used the web site spam it dot com and glove med dot com which supposedly paid spammers to promote fake versions of prescription drugs often quite new blee anyone who responded to the mails will be paying to further the scam rate it is the internet's largest such operation but with the russian police investigation closing in on who serve who still to fled the country searches of the seven removable hard drives for flash cards and three laptops found in his moscow apartment may bring charges related to his online empire which reportedly made him move a million dollars both to serve and his lawyer have denied he promotes spam but now

that he's gone the amount of prescription drug related junk mail has dropped significantly amounting to a fifth less daily spam traffic worldwide spam itself is a big problem for everyone so from this point of view yes it does a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spot especially a pharmaceutical spare computer security companies however are being cautious warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to their previously high levels tom watson r.t. . the obama administration has come in for heavy criticism after a computer glitch not fifty u.s. intercontinental ballistic missiles are flying for forty five minutes many believe the white house is taking too much responsibility for global nuclear security rather than sorting out its own problems but legal analysts michel says that asking is among the critics. the mistakes in computer systems

is something which is ongoing in you know in the storage and deployment it's known and documented invariably the news doesn't get out. and the public opinion is simply not informed instead we're told that the threat to humanity is the age one n one well i i i think that we are very dangerous prostrates. notwithstanding this this incident in wyoming cos the united states and its allies nato have pointing nuclear weapons at not only had to run but several other countries and they have said that they can use these weapons on a preemptive basis not any kind of nuclear attack on iran would lead to a world war three scenario this is this is very clear and it's well understood but it is not front page news the threat to humanity resulting from from those weapons

is not front page news and hans kristensen from the federation of american scientists says washington's nuclear policy has to objectives and it's impossible to achieve them bolz. if you talk about the importance of nuclear disarmament and how to get there are concrete steps. and at the same time also talk about the importance of maintaining a strong nuclear deterrent for the indefinite future how are you going to square those two objectives which one is most important and how can you show and demonstrate that you're more making more progress on one of them than the other and so this is the big dilemma of course for policy like that of the obama administration so this is a big big unknown how are we going to move forward on this and get down to significantly lower numbers without bleachers like this and there is the expectation that some people in congress will try try to hold on to this particular

incident and use that as an excuse for why they should not ratify the new start treaty whether it comes to that. i don't know we'll have to see and britain is already beginning to suffer from the drastic consequences of the huge budget cuts and now it's last week the country's universities are among the sectors affected and as artie's laura and i found out top academics are starting to look abroad for a better funded research positions elsewhere. oxford city of dreaming spires and academic excellence but not for long according to some if the government refuses to support it professor brian foster loves oxford he's a particle physicist head of one of the leading research departments in the world but he's also a reluctant participant in a brain drain as scientists abandon the u.k. for better funding abroad everything about oxford is fantastic except before we're getting to do our research from the government you know perpetually going down

becomes a point when you can no longer even with the best people do what you need to do so professor foster's off to hamburg where the government will give him a million euros a year for research into whatever he likes plus a generous salary that's a lot of money he says roughly half what he gets in oxford to run his entire department with thirty academics start and all that entails for now britain has one of the best research reputations in the world held by prestigious universities like oxford but some academics believe that ranking could be undone within five years if funding is withdrawn and this is a time when other countries like singapore france and germany are increasing their budgets scientific research got off relatively lightly in the government's recent spending cuts it will see only nine percent of its money disappear due to inflation in the next four years instead of the feared twenty five percent hold coalition

government has recognized the importance of science and research for the future of british economy so even in these tough times when we have to save money we are protecting the science and research budget in cash terms it's going to be absolutely stable for the next four years but it may be too little too late the u.k. has international agreements with institutes like cern in swiss. and and it's already finding it difficult to meet its obligations in the past three years it's withdrawn from several such agreements since the time i've been here the amount of funding that we received in oxford which is one of the world's leading universities in this is one of the world's leading particle physics groups has dropped by approximately a factor of two sort of size of my department is about one half of that in terms of support staff technicians engineers but it was when i arrived dreaming spires they may be but if the government continues to cut funding academics say the only thing

they'll be trimming of is former glory nor am it artsy oxford and looking ahead financial analyst max kaiser and state herbert explore a new possible cause of the financial crisis steiner purely psychiatric one you can see the kaiser report in two hours' time but here is a preview. bankers cause credit crisis for kicks the bankers blew up the financial system for the thrill of it according to one british academic there's a masochistic element to dealing with the client some of them enjoy getting you know roughed up by the broker those are your best clients it's not about fraud so much it's about six psycho financial cares i've got a financial terrorist right here is to see that looks like lloyd blankfein to remax you know this lloyd blankfein c.e.o. of goldman sachs is a financial terrorist so now since these guys have been proven to be very ill and

psychologically addicted to losing people's money what's happening in the foreclosure fraud states is knowledge is coming out now that for example a three hundred thousand dollar mortgage that they foreclosed on they get paid like nine million dollars on a credit default swap because they're pathologically trying to kill people it's it's an extension of the whole cost so this man as a whole cost perpetrator lloyd blankfein so i'm trying to think what we should do to him should we waterboard him about waterboarding lloyd blankfein. acetic look at some other stories from around the world and the death toll from the double disasters of a tsunami and volcano in indonesia has reached over three hundred forty hundreds are still missing after a tsunami triggered by a massive quake struck off western some madra over twenty thousand people have been forced to seek refuge in shelters rescue workers could reach victims for two days due to bad weather. salah bin laden has threatened france over the recent data

veils in support of the u.s. in afghanistan the comments were made in an audio tape which has been aired on al-jazeera he said that the band of the burka justifies violence against french people and this is the first time france has been specifically targeted by al qaida . gunmen have killed fifteen people. a car wash in a mexican pacific coast state the country's third massacre in less than a week president felipe calderon is called for a minute's silence for the victims of the attack of the two other massacres that have occurred since friday killing twenty seven people a territorial battle between drug cartels has raged and stayed out of juarez for nearly three years claiming more than six thousand lives. origen time president. has died at sixty after suffering a severe heart attack the popular husband of current president cristina fernandez was a likely candidate in next year's presidential elections his supporters have planned

a mass gathering outside his presidential palace kirshner served as president from two thousand and three to two thousand and seven bringing argentina out of severe economic crisis and encouraging judicial changes that set in motion dozens of human rights trials. you're watching are to you live from moscow a lot more to come your way and also a lot is available on our world website or to accomplish now take a look at what's there right now have you ever thought of how you will look in twenty years or how to keep your inherited diseases russian scientists believe in huge an attic passport could provide answers to these questions. in global warming skeptics celebrate climate fools day find out who they say benefits from new restrictions on global industry and all that and more available at r.t.l. com also on our you tube channel.

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welcome to the program good to have you with us russia's winter wheat harvest will total forty million tonnes in two thousand and eleven according to the agriculture minister forty million hectares have been sown that's four million hectares less than the target this is also raised fears of another poor harvest in two thousand and eleven this summer's heat wave drought and fire has a negative effect on both the summer crop and the autumn sowing season analysts say the success of russia's winter wheat crop will determine global brain prices. the heat wave in russia this summer has helped coca-cola put some face on its sales coca-cola hellenic bottling company says the weather coupled with improving economic conditions led to a thirty percent increase in sales the company has fourteen plans and seventy five distribution centers in russia. took a dialogue has been in talks with both radio and this sound about the possibility

of selling their twenty percent stake in russian carmaker after the us manos c.e.o. carlos gong spoke exclusively to business r.t. at the world economic forum for the middle east and north africa on wednesday he explained the french and japanese firms position on this matter. but we have a desire to buy a truck a dialogue share and after and we are in negotiations however we have not come to any decision yet we are not in a hurry and have plenty of time however both renault and nissan are interested in buying troika dialog share. russia state energy company into row u.s. has sealed the deal to build a hydro power plant in ecuador according to the newly signed contract the project will cost more than one hundred forty million dollars the company has opened an office in the south american country earlier this month and the project was first discussed by the president of ecuador and russia when they met in moscow last year

. now it's look at the markets asian stocks rose on thursday the nikkei is hovering between positive and negative this hour investors were awaiting the results from japan central bank meeting that key interest rates unchanged at zero two point one percent of firms that have reported strong results when the mount canon jumped more than four percent after the company raised the full year operating profit forecast . of the russian markets finished lower on wednesday with both indices shedding more than one percent of all the blue chips and it in the red banks were among the worst performance. more than two percent in the minds eggs ross nast also on the performance down two percent calls. take you b.p. could invest up to two billion dollars in a shell gas project in ukraine. the russian british oil company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test wells . warns the investment will be possible only once

a memorandum has been signed with the ukrainian government. about one fifth of russia's insurance companies are facing bankruptcy the insurance watchdog said out of seven hundred firms up to two hundred fifty are in financial difficulties however major market players say the industry is in need of some rationalization. the so not a day will mill and yourselves a business so leaves a market it will make the market off healthy and good news is that the whole share of the market goes such companies believe hardly exceed five percent so the real customers will know it's there only be effected by the cleaning of the market. well his state kerry airflight has entered into a sponsorship agreement with n.b.a. team the new jersey nets owned by russian billionaire mikhail prokhorov this is the first time air flight has supported a professional sports team in the u.s.

the deals been great for two years but team representatives hope it will be extended this is the second sponsorship contract prophets team has signed with a russian company that agreed to a five year old lives with spelling earlier this week. that's all the business is for now we'll have more for you in less than fifteen minutes.

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reminder the top stories here on our team the french are again to head out on to the streets to protest against pension reforms angry at the senate for moving the new bill closer to becoming a law. how to make an anime the eyes facing a backlash over its approach to dealing with homegrown terror critics agents helped organize applauds simply for the p.r. boost it gets one of soils them. global junk e-mail has fallen by a record fifty billion a day after the band thought to be the world's biggest spammer and was tracked down . the speed lines here are to be back to the top of the hour with more updates the mean time of bring you the interview show spotlight and today host al gore knob

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