just streets despite the fact the reform they're protesting against is a given still angry french citizens say the show must go on as ordinary persons look on dragging their coffee and 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 it we have an obligation to complete our plan with 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. so what is 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 grinding life in the country to a halt for extremist there's an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far this is 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. gasoline is over r t parents. while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself fizeau off the more cash that's running ling large estates which resent paying for the problems of smaller nations have pushing for strict new penalties including the loss of voting rights for countries which break budget rules and even a polish foreign minister sikorski said poland would have public debt worth half of

its g.d.p. once the euro zone to change. in the intellect were on how long does an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone would 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. meantime british m.e.p. euro skeptic gerard batten says the large e.u. economies use every crisis to feed their ambitions but ignore the only solution to the problems getting rid of the single currency. their problem is always that there isn't enough european union not that there's too much of it 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 economically it's 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. will be a lot more healthy if they weren't burdened with e.u. 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 failing out 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 all with all it's still to come for you this hour. while you might be busy picketing with itself one of the european nation is busy building bridges with russia i don't see how or so i moved in the differences behind. a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying

else a veil of the washington d.c. metro was part of a suspected terror plot. is accused of providing support to people he believed were al qaeda members but they were actually f.b.i. agents and u.s. counterterrorism officials say there's no indication ahmed was ever in touch with real militants but still the incident has helped stoke fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and as artie's marina found out critics say the f.b.i. will be fighting terrorism so much as entrapping vulnerable. may two thousand and nine according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their planned day 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 for individuals. to. use 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 by 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 how much of the boiling pot surprise the country question is would there be any plots 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 term entrapments a practice considered unacceptable in countries all throughout europe i now think it is i know what 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 u.s. government they are out 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 grows resources to find those individuals in not sit back and rely on a woman's to make up cry well these are all people that we began 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 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 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 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 four men 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 sell a family off for political gain. and this is a god damn shame as a son of said to be a god damn larry king to date. r.t. new york. it's now eleven minutes past the hour here you are with. but you can always get more on all the stories we're covering on our website. right now to see what's waiting for you on our web site ever wonder which. also. mother nature global warming skeptics to.

russia. foreign minister visits the country he's met with his counterpart. with both of them agreeing that the potential of their partnership is huge the turnaround follows years of distrust between both nations and. is in warsaw for us. 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 they've size up pretty much that is fine with what they've achieved and what they've said in the press briefing has just proved that proved

they cite via this mr lavrov and mr sikorski have repeatedly emphasized that the relations between russia and poland are currently significantly improving and they'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 and many many are the things bilateral issues rater a chain that there are many facts indicating that the reason a good relation how his relations progressing quite well between warsaw and most of the races 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 plane crash which took the life of. the polish president his wife and ninety four other people including many polish ministers and

politicians this tragedy actually has brought the two nations closer full of in this loss for all polish nation president richard very for express his condolences and russia has actually done a lot to help poland to go through it. and coming your way later this hour what's worrying britain's best minds we travel to are why a top academics fear the u.k. is reputation of one of the world's best places for research might soon become a thing of the past. internet users across the globe the canal breather slides sigh of 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 tom barton has. he 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 out how vast networks of virus controlled computers to pass on e-mails 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 who no pictures of him are available eager 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. gooses 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 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 yet it is a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spot especially the pharmaceutical spend computer security companies however are being cautious warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to their previously high levels tom watson r.t. . we are approaching the twenty minute mark of the hour here in the russian capital

soon stephanie will be here with the latest business news for the meantime though let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world of this hour the more than three hundred forty people have been confirmed dead following the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have already attended funeral ceremonies for the victims 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 banki moons issued an ultimatum to me in a massive military government while visiting neighboring cambodia he said must release political prisoners all risk november's general election not being recognized the ballot will be the country's first since one nine hundred ninety when she won the pro-democracy leader's been under house arrest since then itself

has been under military rule since the one nine hundred sixty to. follow become chaska in russia's far east has been buried in ash after a volcano on the peninsula erupted schools and offices had to be closed and there were little signs of life for several hours thousands of people were forced to stay at home or urged to work gas masks if outside ash clouds of thousands of kilometers across the peninsula and meteorologists say they're likely to remain for another few days. britain's 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 artie's a lore and it found out top academics are starting to look at broader for better funded research positions. fifty of dreaming spires and academic. and it's 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 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 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 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 approximately the size of my department is about one half of bob in terms of support staff technicians and you news when 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. it's former glory lore and it odyssey oxford. just after

twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you are with our to thank you for joining us today now most i've had first into the world with my stuff so news that aeroflot now will be sponsoring and tell us more about this that's right a deal's been reached between mikhail prokhorov and the air carrier and i'll have more on that just a bit later for you but first choice of dialogue has been in talks since both revenue and next sound about the possibility of selling its stake in russian carmaker after about troika run and state holding russian technologies over twenty five percent of up to us going to see carlos gone spoke exclusively to business ltd at the world economic forum in the middle east and north africa on wednesday he explained the french and japanese positions. but we have a desire to buy troika dialog share and after of ours 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 his son are interested in

buying troika dialog share. with our producer guys could drive sales revenue up thirty percent this year the company expects total income will be around two point seven billion dollars it also plans to increase the production of light and medium sized commercial vehicles by forty percent. the tender for the tribes to top all fields appears to have broken down as all of the bit is except one have been rejected on technical grounds the last to go was so good nafta gatt which failed to pay its deposit on time with any bashing have still left their speculation the tender may have to be reset but alexey cocaine for moral sin explains the government is not obliged to do so. the simple solution is to go on was very good with just one bit of 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 answer but it may. just leave it as it is and proceed with with the single. which was brushed off. and that's a quick look now at the equity markets european stocks are gaining advantage the footsie is trading point eight percent higher this hour shares of the world up shell have gained more than one percent on well received earnings reports from the oil giant telecom and vote sparking are among the top papers on the tax. and here in moscow the russian markets are also trading high on thursday based upon energy stocks jaspal is the top gain on the my sex but banks are way as you call it down a third of a percent south. and the street has opened in the black on thursday a we could tell that is boosting stocks and data showing new jobless claims are at

their lowest level in three months. 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 bonds have jumped to one percent of 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 would be the first to face proceedings 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 to be treated equally. russia's state carrier araf lot has

entered into a sponsorship agreement with n.b.a. team the new jersey nets owned by russian billionaire mea culpa knock it off this is the first time arafat has supported a professional sports team in the u.s. just been agreed to for two years but team representatives hope it will be extended this is the second sponsor contract across the team has signed with a russian company that agreed to a five year allied to still reach earlier this month. 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. for not a very real board yourselves or leave the market it will by market offer also i would move through the whole affair of the market of companies i believe probably five per cent for

a real cost the most will not strongly be affected by this. over market. tanky b.p. could invest up to two billion dollars in a shell gas project in ukraine's don't yet scrooge and the russian british oil company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test wells b.p. one c investment will only be possible once a memorandum has been signed with the ukrainian government. russia's biggest dairy producer venable dan has bought back eighteen percent of its own shares from down on for four hundred seventy million dollars the deal marks the end of the french food companies involvement with wimble down which started eight years ago the transaction was able to proceed after the government approved the merger of russia's done and milk production with ukrainian new milk. and that's all the business news for this hour but of course if you log on to our website you can always find lots more updates that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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e-mail by one fifth. professor. norman to find out how americans are dealing with the economic downturn stay with us. i. sitting down with professor and historian norman marco it's sort of 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 this silent at.