they haven't even had a chance to learn the new slogans but it's not enough to stop them. this is all third we can strike and we're demonstrating against the reform we have decided to mount resistance with no possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plan of. 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 productions 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 trade unions are united in their fight against the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five most of the existing free trade unions were as one on the streets even 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 bringing 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 who is even more.

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. as over r t pairs. well to stay with us here on r.t. there's a lot more coming your way including as britain slashes the budget the country's best minds are beginning to look elsewhere we speak to an oxford academic with a stop warning for the future. a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. underground as part of a suspected terror plot federal is accused of working with people he believed were members of al qaeda but who were actually f.b.i. agents and u.s. counterterrorism official says there's no indication the maid was ever in touch with real militants and as artie's marina found out critics say the f.b.i. is increasingly using tactics that amount 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 we have to say sorry paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism for individuals. to jewish facilities here in the bronx and also take on a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have more than the suspects quickly dubbed the newburgh four are poor illiterate x. convicts with neither passports nor licenses no direction by a foreign entity or a real 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 spies offering cars in cash to carry out the orchestrated operation then the agent provocateur or testified as the government's key witness in this nine eleven america the f.b.i. has upped its ante against terrorism allegedly boiling pot surprise the country question is would there be any lots of oil without a government in place to help free that despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a lord over what they termed entrapment a practice considered on its sceptical in countries all throughout europe but i don't think it is i know what is entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccullum is the ont of twenty nine year old david williams one of the newburgh four 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 they are manufacturing crimes

that would not have occurred if you had not planned on unconstructive seen 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 goes 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 began 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 and actual crime is committed they're 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 of the material setting up the plan. 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 decides that 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 slaveholders i got government all this government that will sell of me or for political gain. and this is a god damn shame as a son said to be a goddamn larry king today. r.t. new york internet users across the globe can now breathe

a sigh of relief after the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer was revealed thirty one year old you got to go surf is accused of being behind a fifth of the world's 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 we will be in a cage. it depends on on there he moved recently although 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 he has an easy counts he's considered the biggest spam and based on his grabbing knees and the number of messages he was sending. goose effused the web site spam it dot com and glove med dot com which supposedly paid spammers to promote fake versions of prescription drugs are 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 over 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 of the big problem for everyone so from this point of view yes it does a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spots especially a pharmaceutical spam computer security companies however are being cautious warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to the previously high levels tom watson r.t. . the obama administration has come in for heavy criticism after a computer glitch knocked out fifty us into continental ballistic missiles they were knocked offline for forty five minutes and many believe the white house's taking too much responsibility for global nuclear security rather than sorting out its own problems 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 we're public opinion is that we don't inform i think that we are at the very dangerous crossroads. notwithstanding this this incident in wyoming because the united states and its allies nato have are pointing nuclear weapons at not only other run but several other countries they have said that they can use these weapons all the preemptive basis that's political analyst michel chossudovsky there and hans christiansen from the federation of american scientists says that 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 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 and get down to significantly lower numbers without bleachers like this and there is the expectation that some people in congress will tie to who go 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 but i certainly hope not. eruptions of two volcanoes in income in russia's far east of course an entire town to be covered in ash more than five thousand people have been forced to stay at home with their windows shut most of the roads in the region are closed due to almost zero visibility the volcanoes are still spewing ash one of them also

erupted last year. more than two dozen active volcanoes. now let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and that the death toll from the last of the tsunami volcano eruption in indonesia has reached over three hundred and forty hundreds are still missing after the tsunami triggered by a massive quake struck off western sumatra over twenty thousand people have been forced to seek refuge in shelters rescue workers couldn't reach victims for two days due to bad weather. has stepped up security after a threat from osama bin laden made against a french people arrived he said band of muslim veils and support of the u.s. in afghanistan justifies the threat of violence the comments were made in an audiotape which has been aired on al-jazeera this is the first time france has been specifically targeted by al qaeda. in haiti international aid workers and the

u.n. trying to put a stop to the spread of cholera samples are being taken from a river near a nepalese peacekeeping base over fears a waste from the site caused the deadly outbreak at least three hundred people have died so far and over four and a half thousand have been hospitalized. around our bout of the lisbon treaty amendments is set to dominate a meeting of e.u. heads in brussels germany and france want stricter penalties including the loss of voting rights for countries which break budget rules critics argue this may lead to more referendums throughout europe smaller member states say for. germany are trying to influence policy without consultation. and britain is already beginning to suffer from the drastic consequences of the huge budget cuts announced last week the country's universities are among the sectors affected and as our teaser laura

met found out top academics are starting to look at broad for better funded research positions. 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 that before 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 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 of the british economy and so even in these tough times when we're having to save money we're 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 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 a factor of two sort of size of my department now is about one half of that in terms of support staff technicians engineers and 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. looking ahead for you here on arts he financial analysts max keiser and stacy herbert explore a new possible cause of the financial crisis this time purely psychiatric one you can see the kaiser report next hour but here's

a preview. they 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 screwed 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 terrorist i've got a financial terrorist right here is stacey that looks like lloyd blankfein to remax you know sly blankfein c.e.o. of goldman sachs is a financial terrorist 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 stacey is knowledge is coming out now that for example a three hundred thousand dollars 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 it's a whole a cost so this matters a whole the cost perpetrator lloyd blankfein so i'm trying to think what we should do and i'm sure we waterboard him how about waterboarding lloyd blankfein. now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow where the twitter account is again in the spotlight this time of the russian president's posted a link to a clip from a popular t.v. show poking fun at his summer holidays. i suppose just as you go yes yes but i shall see and relax in here like usually remand i can do everything by myself we've known how to stop sticking to the still prefer these two few months to free two dogs to make you look likely to just let you leave like a little human being as russian president says he enjoyed the program even though he was the boss of some of the jokes but here there's a well known found of modern communications technology in his blog which he started

. during a visit to california as more than one hundred thousand followers. here well there are lots more stories on our website called let's have a look now. at this moment i give us the how you would look in twenty years. inherited diseases scientists believe new genetic passport could provide answers to these questions. global warming skeptics celebrate the day find out who they say benefits from new restrictions on global industry all that and much more are two dot com and of course our you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations rule the day

. time now to dive headfirst into the world of business. you carry so tell me why is the european commission launching legal proceedings against its own member states because of the overflights fees that you countries are paying russia to flying over siberia such deals break the rules the european union warned that in the program but first troika dialog has been in talks with both rayno and the sun about the possibility of selling its stake in russian comic after the us troika renault and stay holding us in technologies each on twenty five percent of us may no c.e.o. call is 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 firm's position on the not. but we have a desire to by choice

a dialogue sharon after vias 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 face in its sales coca-cola heading bottling company says the weather coupled with improving economic conditions led to a thirty percent increase in sales the company has fourteen plants at seventy five distribution centers and. let's take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mixed ahead of earnings from the region's major companies shares of that have reported strong results more in demand today callen jumped more than four percent after the company raised its full year operating profit forecast hong kong's hang seng and slightly higher helped by strong earnings from the banking sector. in europe stocks are higher at noon in london the pussys trading over

a percent. this hour shares of royal dutch shell gain one point four percent after the all john reported increases in quarterly profit and production germany's dax is up over half a percent with deutsche telekom metro and siemens leading to one and two percent. and here in russia the markets are trading in the black as well boosted by energy and financial stocks they are chances up point four percent. of the point six all the blue chips are in the black with north nickel gaining the most one and a quarter of a percent on the r.t.s. . now 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 new york times reports it may reach eight point nine percent of the country's g.d.p. investors 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 on the news. and staying with the e.u.

the european commission plans to launch legal proceedings 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 airlines to fly over siberia germany france finland and austria will be the first to face proceedings but the other twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says the deal with russia break rules that require all e.u. citizens and companies to be treated equally. russia state carrier air flight has entered into a sponsorship agreement with n.b.a. team the new jersey nets owned by russia. this is the first time air flow has supported a professional sports team in the u.s. the deal been agreed for two years but team representatives hope it will be extended this is the second sponsorship contract. signed with a russian company it agreed to a five year alliance with. earlier this month. could invest

up to two billion dollars in the say shale gas projects in ukraine's done yet screech and the russian british oil company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test test wells but he warns the investment will be possible only once a memorandum has been signed with the ukrainian government. western biggest dairy producers in bill done is bought back eighteen percent of its always known from four hundred seventy million dollars the deal marks the end of the french food companies involvement in the law which started eight years ago the transaction was able to proceed after the government approved the merger of russian. production with ukrainian you know. and about one fifth of russian 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. not a very real boardroom because most old leaves a market by market. through the. market the large companies believe probably too far. as will. the wrongly be affected by these. over market. and that's our business update for now but it can always find lost always on our website r.t. dot com as business let's watch.

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and americans are dealing with the economic downturn. speaks to professor and historian norman mock. i. t's sitting down with professor and historian norman markowitz sir thank you very much for joining us today you are welcome i'd like to be here i'd like to kick start our conversation by drawing parallels and really. comparing the situation that is going on in europe right now and in the united states in europe and here we have a lot of people that are very disappointed with the consequences of economic crises that took place and in europe we're seeing dozens of cities filled with people rallying really disappointed expressing their outrage in the united states silence why is that you know why i wouldn't say they're silent at all. the political situations are very different the united states.