mineral water members of trade unions and students continue taking to the streets just outside the french senate protesting a reform that is pretty much already guaranteed to take place they haven't even had a chance to learn the new slogans but it's not enough to stop them. this is of heard we can strike and we're demonstrating against the reform we have decided to montreux distance with no possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plans with these protests meal 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. 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 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. in more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the never ending true test it appears public opinion is changing and the trade unions may well lose not only the battle but the war as well gasoline as are the r.t.e. pairs. while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself is after more cash that's right wing largest states which resent paying for the problems of smaller nations they're pushing for strict new penalties including the loss of voting rights for countries which break the budget rules and even polish foreign minister sikorski said poland with a public debt worth half of its g.d.p. once the eurozone to change. the world poland is an aspiring

european country that wants to join the euro zone but want to join the euro zone with the greek crisis would be impossible we want rules that will not let it happen public debt should be paid we support strict rules in the economy and we want countries that full of search rules to be rewarded. british a euro skeptic or gerard batten says the largely you economies use every crisis to feed their ambitions. their problem is always that there isn't enough european union not that there's too much of it but they don't have enough power so they see every crisis as an excuse for demanding more power to solve the problems that they've created in the first place in a terrible state because of the european single currency greece portugal spain all these countries their economies are going down the tubes the economies of countries like germany and france and the u.k. would be a lot more healthy if they weren't burdened with regulation and in the case of france and germany with membership of the euro and of course they have to bear the tremendous burden of countries like greece and of course spain and italy and

portugal what we need is to get rid of the european single currency get rid of all the over regulation on business and allow economies to actually revive and become more healthy under proper free market economic conditions the wide things that go on at the moment is they can ever inevitably only get worse. you are with are to you it's good to have your company today and still to come this hour. while you might be busy bickering with itself one of the european nations is busy building bridges with russia i doubt how the war so i moved putting their differences behind . a pakistani born american who's been arrested for carrying else a variable in the washington d.c. metro was part of a suspected terror plot. is accused of providing support to people he believed were al qaeda but who were actually f.b.i. agents and u.s. counterterrorism officials said there's no indication our maid was ever in touch

with real militants but still the incident has helped stoke fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in america and as artie's marine important found out critics say the f.b.i. may not be fighting terrorism so much as entrapping vulnerable you. may two thousand and nine according to the f.b.i. four men intended to carry out their planned day for african him. muslims are arrested you have to say sir paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism for you to say. jewish facilities here in the bronx and also taking a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to afford it the suspects quickly dubbed the new book for our poor illiterate ex conflicts with neither passports nor licenses direction by a foreign entity or terrorist group instead direction came from shahid hussein

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 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 plots well without government in place to help free that despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a war over what they term entrapments a practice considered unacceptable infantry all throughout europe but i don't think

it is i know it is entrapment aleesha macwilliams 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 creating scenarios they all manufacturing crimes that would not have occurred if you had not planned. seen into a coup. bin ladin is still out there there are real terrorists out there that we should be concerned about and they should use those resources to find those individuals in nut bag in 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 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. government that will so of me or for political gain.

and this is a god damn shame as a son of said to be a god damn king to date. r.t. new york. remember you can always get more on all the stories we're covering on our website arts he thought comp you'll also find expert opinion video clips on blogs let's have a look now at what's online and waiting for you today ever wondered which the. your best suited for the answer is in your d.n.a. passport learn how scientists are becoming an essential part of sports achievement and also. find out which sign mother nature sent so global warming skeptics to convince them the issue is just a lot of hot air. poland

and russia are sealing a new level of relations as foreign minister sergei lavrov versus the country he's met with his counterpart i'll slap sikorsky we have both of them agreeing the potential of their partnership is huge the turnaround follows years of distrust between the two nations let's find out more now about this to get your life to warsaw and to r.t. has more if a lot of hungary or so it seems that the two countries are out for a further thaw and ties tell us more about that. well rory strategic committee over russian polish relations has taken place here in one of the most beautiful parks of warsaw in a historic part of the c.t.a. now he's touring a building called kos on the water and it seems to me that the atmosphere of this meeting has been as bright and as warm as the these place is rather nice and rather picturesque indeed when the two countries foreign ministers came to the media today

they looked very happy and there has been a feeling a clear feeling but do you size up pretty much that is fine with what they've achieved and what they've had in the press briefing has just approved aides it's proved they cite this nice to love rove and mr sikorski have repeatedly emphasized that the relations between russia and poland are currently at significantly improving and they. we've been talking about trade turnover between the two country which has increased dramatically in recent times and many border issues between the two countries and cultural events with both sides taken place organizing and many many are the things by life issues. that there are many facts indicating that the reason a good relation house relations progress in quite well between warsaw and most i saw this in toward mr love rob has said about that. i can say once again that the

potential for our cooperation is just huge and both sides are ready to use that potential to the mutual benefit of our people. i says. asia is a russian poor and have also discussed many international global scene poland is nato and do you ma'am there and of course the relations between russia and nato and do you have also been on the agenda today and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has expressed his gratitude for paul and to support many russian. position on many global issues and cherry russian views in many international problems rory. you mentioned that there is a warming in relations between poland and russia and there are potentially many issues in the pipeline they could work together on but the mood between the two has been grim for many many years taught me what brought about this change. you are

absolutely right for relations between russia and poland have been far from ideal from even warm for many many years and actually it is a terrible tragedy this april's tariff plane crash which took the life of. the polish president his wife and ninety four other people including many polish ministries and politicians this tragedy actually has brought the team nations closer following this terrific this horrible. event this loss for all polish nation president dmitry medvedev expressed his condolences and russia has actually done a lot to help paul and to go through it in many many aspects and special especially in war what is about the investigation of this tragic event and we have to say that this investigation the situation of this tragic event

is still under go ahead with poland and russia carburated walking very close in age and polish specialists have been allowed to work is really in russia and russia. they have given axes to all materials and added and poulan to rain vest to gauge clearly at this. event and just today mr love rob has once again reiterated that russia is now ready to satisfy polish requests and de vry their parts all crashed plane. will be soon delivered to paul and sons in polish authorities have been asking for while polish foreign minister has once again express his gratitude for russia to helping overcome this tragic event very horrid artie's marie ivanovna live for us from warsaw thank you.

well internet users across the globe could now breathe a slight sire for relief after an investigation busted the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer you've got a good stuff is now on the run the russians blame for a fifth of the world's total junk e-mails artie's tom barton as more. 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 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 he's grabbing knees and the number of messages he was sending. goose of 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 lewdly 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 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 as

a big problem for everyone so from this point of view yet it is 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 the. high levels tom box and r.t. . on it's nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other world news now in brief more than three hundred forty people have been confirmed dead following the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have attended funeral ceremonies for the victims already over four hundred people are still missing and feared to have been swept away by the giant wave nevertheless rescue teams are still hoping to find survivors after reaching the worst hit areas the failure of a tsunami warning system is being blamed for the scale of fatalities. un

chief ban ki moon has issued an ultimatum to me and mas military government while visiting neighboring come he said must release political prisoners november's general election and not being recognized the ballot will be the country's first since one nine hundred ninety when unsung suchi one of the pro-democracy leaders been under house arrest since then and me and itself has been under military rule since nine hundred sixty two. britons a drastic budget cuts announced last week are already making their impact felt universities around the country are having to make do with less and as a teaser laura found out top academics are starting to look up 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 landing which we're getting to do our research from the government is 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 at

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 but it may be too little too late 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. the size of my department now 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 continue. used to cut funding academics say the only thing they'll be dreaming of is former glory laura emmett artie oxford. and i'll talk to the business news with stephanie.

miller and welcome to the business bulletin at troika dialogue has been in talks with both renner and misandry about the possibility of selling its stake in russian comic after bouts troika and state holding the russian technologies each twenty five percent about about fantasy carlos kong spoke exclusively to business r t the world economic forum for the middle east and north africa on wednesday he explained that the french and japanese firms positions. but we have a desire to buy troika dialog share and after advise 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. are interested in buying troika dialog share. russian car producer gas could drive sales revenues up thirty percent this year the company expects total income will be around two point

seven billion dollars it also plans to increase production of light and medium sized commercial vehicles by forty percent. the tender for the tribes to talk or oil field appears to have broken down as all of the betters except one have been rejected on technical grounds the last to go was so good enough to guess which failed to pay its deposit on time with any passion after still left there's been speculation that the tender may have to be reset but alexei coconut from or else it explains the government is not obliged to do so. the simple solution is to go on with a very good thing with just one little left of the rules of the auction which is not technically an option it is more of a bidding process. so these rules don't really require the government to council the process if only one bidder is left the government may transfer for them i. just leave it as it is and proceed with with the single. which

is motion of. and that's to react to markets european stocks are higher and london of footsie is gaining just over one percent this out shares of world dutch shell has gained more than one percent on the well received reports from the oil giant dirty telecom and metro are among the top game is on the docks. and here in moscow the russian markets are trading high on thursday they supply energy stocks gazprom is the top gain on the my six pack several raised earlier losses you call is now the only blue chip in the red just dependent lower at this hour. 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 week ten year bond yields have jumped to one percent of the names. 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 to and austria will be the first face proceedings the other twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says the deals with russia break rules that require all in use citizens and companies to be treated equally. russia's state carrier air flight has entered into a sponsorship agreement with n.b.a. team the new jersey nets owned by russian billionaire become plucked off this is the first time air flight to support a professional sports team in the u.s. deals been agreed to for two years but team representatives hope it will be extended this is the second sponsor contract across team has signed with a russian company and agreed to a five year alliance with still each night vodka earlier this month. about one

fifth of russian insurance companies office sing 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. for not a very real. business or leave the market april market off well so i would go through the whole affair of the market of companies i believe probably saves five or cost them hours or will not strongly be affected by. the market. b.p. could invest up to two billion dollars in the shale gas project in ukraine's don't yet screeching the russian british oil company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test wells that b.p. warns you vestment will only be possible once a memorandum has been signed with the ukrainian government. russia's biggest dairy

producer venable down has bought back eighteen percent of its own shares from don on four hundred seventy million dollars the deal marks the end of the french food companies involvement with the venerable dan which started eight years ago the transaction was able to proceed after the government approved the merger of russia's donald is not production but the ukrainian union no. and that's all the business news for the south but of course you can always find more stories if you log on to our website that's r t dot com slash is us.

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from the russian capital this is your headlines now a fresh wave of strikes. and you were arrested in an f.b.i. sting feels fears of homegrown terrorism in the u.s. criticism the agency's entrapment song catching the wrong people. and sending too much junk mail. in jail. one of the world's biggest spammers sends him on the run and. well our interview show.

host speaks with the russian justice minister. about president. reform of the country's system do stay with us. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello again and welcome to spotlight on our team i am al green often today my guest in the studio is. one of the milestones of the three medvedev presidency is the reform of the russian penitentiary system which many considered pretty outdated.