we have an obligation to complete our plan of support for these protests miller 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 the 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. 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. catherine is over r t pairs all stay with us as there is a lot more. coming your way including britain slashes

a budget the country's best minds are getting to look elsewhere as we speak to the oxford academic with a stark warning for the future. of pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. a ground as part of a suspected terror plot that is accused of working with people he believed were members of al qaida by who were actually f.b.i. agents a u.s. counterterrorism official said there is no indication that was ever in touch with the real militants and as i found out critics say the f.b.i. is increasingly using tactics that amounted 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 served paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism you think you should. use facilities here in

the. terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to afford it the suspects quickly dubbed the newburg for our poor illiterate ex conflicts with neither passports nor licenses direction 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 and cash to carry out the orchestrated operation then the agent provocateur or testified as the government's key witness in those nine eleven on there are the f.b.i. has opted to ante against terrorism let's. boiling hot surprise the country

question is would there be any thoughts well with our government in place to help free despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed no more over what they term entrapments a practice considered unacceptable in contracts all throughout europe i now think it is i know it is entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccullum is the ont of twenty nine year old david williams one of the new birth for she says her nephew is languishing behind bars for a fake terror attack grown in the home of the us government they are out creating scenarios they are manufacturing crimes that would not have occurred if you had not planned. it into a community bin ladin is still out there there are real terrorists out there that we should be concerned about and they should use those resources. and 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 four 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 there taking some really daring 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 of for some reason your ideology is causes them concern because then they can come after you and they can my. you factor 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 four men as is the case of david williams and the other three who now face life in prison i don't have slaveholders i got a government owns. so of me off a political game. and this is a god damned shame because of some said to be a goddamn can to date. new york and coming up our interview with american professor in a story in norman markets who compares modern day america to an iconic so i find movie with millions in the u.s. left homeless due to foreclosures and millions more left without jobs. 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 are known as 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 the utopian movie playground or if you have 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 are showing to the other planets that in speaking of you know the elites 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 at all. and

you can see the full version of that interview next hour here on our t.v. and internat users across the globe can now have a sigh of relief after the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer was revealed thirty one year old is accused of being behind a fifth of the world's junky e-mails and he's now on the run. you might not have noticed that 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. it depends on on their he moved recently who no pictures of him are available bigger goose of

a 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 reading 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 of denying 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 as a big problem for everyone so from this point a few year does a pretty dangerous encourage through the note is the. number of spots especially the pharmaceutical spare computer security companies however being cautious warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to the previously high levels tom watson r.t. and the invalid ministration has come in for heavy criticism after a computer glitch knocked fifty us into a carton and all ballistic missiles are flying for forty five minutes led to believe the white house is taking too much responsibility for global nuclear security rather than sorting out its own problems. of 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 end and we have public opinion is simply not informed and i think that we had a very dangerous crossroads. notwithstanding this this incident in wyoming but cos the united states and its allies nato have appointing 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. and political analyst michel chossudovsky their hands christensen from the federation of american scientists says washington's nuclear policy has two objectives but it's impossible to achieve them both. 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 new put 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 we don't know how we're 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 talk to who go into 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 but i sort of open up. and eruptions of two volcanoes in kim chalk and russia's far east have caused an entire town to be covered in ash more than five thousand people have been a force to stay home with their windows shut due to almost zero visibility most of the roads in the region are closed and kino's are still spewing ash one of them also wrapped in the last year the has more than two dozen active volcanoes.

you watching live from moscow let's now take a 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 the tsunami triggered by a massive quake struck off the west and some over twenty thousand people have been forced to seek refuge in shelters rescue workers could reach victims for two days due to bad weather or. a sound. the oddness right in france over the recent ban of veils and support of the u.s. in afghanistan the comments were made in an audio tape which has been aired on al-jazeera he said the ban of the burka justifies violence against french people and this is the first time france has been specifically targeted. in haiti international aid workers and the u.n. are trying to put a stop to the spread of cholera samples are being taken from

a river in the or near police peacekeeping base over fears ways from the side because of the deadly outbreak at least three hundred people have died so far and over four and a half thousand have been hospitalized. british prime minister david cameron has phoned leaders of other unions of them to reject a planned six percent rise in next year's budget it's believe the rise will cost you k. an additional nine hundred million pounds a year increasing the country's contribution at a time of domestic budget cuts cameron has already been criticised by opposition labor party for failing to stand up for british interests. and britain is already beginning to suffer from the drastic consequences of the huge budget cards and last week the country's universities are among the sectors affected lore and found out top academics are starting to look abroad for better funded research positions. fifty of dreaming spires and academic excellence but

not for long according to some if the government refuses to support it professor brian forster 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 getting to do a research. 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 academic staff 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 british economy and so even in these tough times when we have to save money we are protecting the science and research project 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 switzerland 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 and is one of the world's leading particle physics groups has dropped by approximately the size of my department is about one half of bob 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. all of these former glory you were at mit alexi oxford. and looking have financial analyst max kaiser and stacy herbert explore a new possible cause of the financial crisis this time a purely psychiatric one and you can see the kaiser report in two hours time but here's a preview. bankers cause credit crisis for kicks 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 shares i've got a financial terrorist right here is a day 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 the cost perpetrator lloyd blankfein so i'm trying to think what we should do to him should we waterboard him how about waterboarding lloyd blankfein.

which are going to get us twitter account is again in the spotlight this time the russian president's posted a link to a clip from a popular t.v. show poking fun at his summer holidays. she probably doesn't she but yes but i shocked me and relax here like you do to man i can do everything by myself no no no stop sticky berries with. a few notes to. michael if you're excused just let me leave like. there are some presidents as he enjoyed the program even though he was the bottom of the jokes from the viet it was a well known facet of modern communications technology and his blog which he started in june joining a visit to california has warmer than a hundred thousand followers. well coming up in just a few moments we've got

a business update with caring enough to stay with us for that if you can. this is mara region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. park can tell ya he has completed the id particle has r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center furbished with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences this him our region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are

ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. twenty three minutes past one pm here in moscow welcome to business truck and our cars but in talks with both reno and miss out about the possibility of selling its stake in russian carmaker of us troika renault and state holding russian technologies twenty five percent of us you know see ok let's go on spoke exclusively to business starting at the world economic forum for the middle east and north africa on wednesday and he explained the french and japanese firms position. the more. we have a desire to buy choice a dialogue share and after the us 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. the heat wave in russia this summer has helped coca-cola put some physical sales coca-cola bottling company says the weather coupled with improving economic conditions led to a thirty percent increase in sales the company has fourteen plants and seventy five distribution centers in russia. now looking at the markets asian stock markets are mixed ahead of earnings from the region's major companies shares of firms that have reported strong results when demand callen jumped more than four percent after the company raised its full year operating profit forecast on kong's hang seng it's like higher helped by strong earnings from the banking sector now let's cross over to europe where stocks are higher in morning session as investors digest earnings report for the sum from some of the continent's biggest firms in london the foot six point seven percent higher as shares of royal dutch shell gained one and a half percent after the world giant reported increases quarterly profit and

production germany's dax is up over half a percent the sound with telecom metro and siemens being between one and a half and two percent. here in russia markets are trading higher as well boosted by energy and financial stocks the r.t.s. is up point four percent this hour and the miles x. is up point seven all the blue chips are in the black with north getting the most one a quarter of a percent on the r.t.s. . greece may have a greater budget deficit for two thousand and ten than the eight point one percent agreed as part of a rescue package from the i.m.f. and the e.u. the york times reports it may reach eight point nine percent of the country's g.d.p. just fear that greece will be unable to close the gap greek ten year bond yields have jumped to ten point three from nine point three percent. and stay with the e.u. the european commission plans to launch a legal proceeding against its own member states that pay over flight fees to russia the move is

a roundabout measure by the commission to eliminate billions of dollars in fees that russia charges european airline. to fly over siberia germany france didn't and austria will be the first to face proceedings but the other twenty three member states are also under investigation. the commission says the deals with russia break rules that require all e.u. citizens and companies be treated equally. tanky b.p. could invest up to two billion dollars at a say in the shale gas projects in ukraine's dunny its creature the russian british will company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test wells but take a b.p. warns the investment would be possible only once a memorandum has been signed with ukrainian couple. russian biggest russian biggest dairy producers dunn has brought back has bought back its eighteen percent of its own shares from the known for four hundred seventeen million dollars the deal marks the end of the french food companies involvement in the bill down

which started eight years ago the transaction was able to proceed after the government approved the merger of rushes the knowns milk production with ukrainian email. and about one fifth of russian insurance companies are facing bankruptcy dangers watchdogs said out of seven hundred firms up to two hundred fifty are in financial difficulties however major market players say the industry is a need for some rationalization. those who are not a very real. business or leave the market. market. through the whole of the market the large companies believe probably exceeds five for some small real cost but most will not strongly be affected by. the market. state carrier air flight has entered into a sponsorship agreement with n.b.a. team the new jersey nets ally 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 that broker of steam has signed with a russian company that agreed to a five year old lines with the study. earlier this month. that's all for now we'll be back with more in less than one hour meanwhile stay with us for a look at what's happening in the world.

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow a reminder of the top stories the french are again dad out on the streets to protest against pension reform angry of the senate for moving to a new bill closer to becoming law. and how to make an arrow mean the f.b.i. is facing a backlash over its approach to dealing with homegrown terror critics say agents helped organize plots simply for the p.r. guru suggests one in four of them. and global junk e-mail has fallen by a record fifty billion a day after the man thought to be the world's biggest spam i was tracked down. well next an artsy technology update takes a shine to mal and how it's still helping to change our lives.

hello and welcome to technology update this month the show goes middle only without the head banging we're talking about the most elementary of materials that have helped build our civilization and still find innovative new applications today to sylvia's metallurgical industry was blasting past competitors around the same time heavy metal started blasting out speakers by the time the country we crossed the us to become the world's top steel producer of the year of judas priest first album in one nine hundred seventy four russian metal makers have long been world class dimitri cherno if was known as the father of russian metallurgy was nineteenth century discovery of crucial temperature points and still casting changed.