place they haven't even had a chance to learn the new slogans but it's not enough to stop yourself this is all third week on strike and we're demonstrating against the reform we have decided to mantras instance with no possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved it we have an obligation to complete our plan of both of these protest mail a convincing enough for news broadcast but do the unions in france really hold any sway at the moment the only thing they've achieved is to cost the already struggling economy a shocking two hundred million euros a day. as the protests spread across the country they got out of control of the unions throughout october the unions had only one tactic left to lead the protests and try to tame them to avert widespread violence because of this the risk we face is greater than just the spread of violence which we face before now we have the blockade of productions and disruption to the traffic because of lack of fuel and blocked access to gas to cure it. 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 technical ratman 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's an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far this event. 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 not only to battle the good. gantry miserable right to. while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself is after more cash that's wrangling large estates which resent paying for the problems of smaller nations pushing for strict new penalties including the loss of voting rights for countries which break budget rules and even the polish foreign minister has said poland with a public debt worth half of its g.d.p. what's the euro zone to change. from. 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 on public debt should be paid we support strict rules in the economy and we want countries that full of such rules to be rewarded. and british m.e.p.

and euro skeptic gerald batten says the large e.u. economies use every crisis to feed their ambitions but ignore the only solution to the problems and that is getting rid of the single currency. their problem is always that there isn't enough european union not of this 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 economically is in a terrible state because of the european single currency greece portugal spain all these countries their economies are going down the chub so the economies of countries like germany and france and the u.k. it would 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 bailing out countries like greece and of course bahrain 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 way things are going at the moment is they can ever inevitably only get worse. still to come this hour here on latif. he might be. one of the european nations is busy. with russia i don't know more so and will stay up next and they differences behind. that still to come for you here first a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro as part of a suspected terror plot for a comment is accused of providing support to people he believes al qaeda members actually f.b.i. agents counterterrorism official said there's no indication ahmed was ever in touch with real minutes and still incident has helped stoke fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and its. 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. the four men intended to carry out their planned day for african-american muslims are arrested but you have to say sir paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism for individuals that. use facilities here in the bronx and also take out a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have toward the suspects quickly dubbed the new book for our poor illiterate ex convicts with neither passports nor licenses no direction by a foreign entity or terrorist group instead direction came from shahid hussain a pakistani immigrant on the f.b.i. payroll reportedly paid nearly one hundred thousand dollars for his services f.b.i. operatives provided the fake c four and actually showed them a fake stinger missile fake weapons and a manufactured terror plot according to court testimony hussein recruited the

economically strapped defendants by offering cars in cash to carry out the orchestrated operation. then the agent provocateur war testified as the government's key witness in post nine eleven america the f.b.i. has upped its anti against terrorism allegedly boiling hot summers the country question is would there be any lots of oil with our government in place to help free despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a lot more over what they term entrapment a practice considered unacceptable in countries all throughout europe i now think it is and nobody is tracking it alicia mcwilliams mccullum is the art of twenty nine year old david williams one of the new book for she says her nephew is languishing behind bars for a fake terror attack grown in the home of the u.s. government they are out creating scenarios they are manufacturing crimes

that would not have occurred if we knew we 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 those resources to find those individuals in not sit back and rely on a moments to make up cry 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 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 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 this is

just a fiction downs created this ten foot wide visual listing the names of individuals he believe. keeps 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 away 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 government. government that will sell a family off a political game. and this is a god damn shame there's a sentence said to be a god damn king to date. r.t. new york. and do remember you can always get more on all the stories we're covering

on screen on our website that's dot com online all the time there you'll find expert opinion video clips and blogs let's have a quick look and see what's on one day every one of which for you best suited for well apparently 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 to global warming skeptics to convince them the issue is just a lot of hot air. poland and russia receiving a new level of relations as the foreign minister sergey lavrov visits the country he's met with his counterpart on other stuff sikorsky with both of them agreeing the potential of their partnership is huge the turnaround follows years of distrust between the two nations if an ocean is in warsaw. well the two country's foreign

ministers came to the media today they looked very happy and there has been a feeling a clear feeling but believe saudis are pretty much that is fine with what they've achieved and what they've said to the press briefing has just proved it's proved a 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 of the border issues between the two countries and cultural events and many many other things bilateral issues. that there are many facts indicating that the reason a good relation how the relations progressing quite well between warsaw and most good 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 plane crash which took the life of left kaczynski polish president his wife and ninety four other people including many polish minister is and politicians this tragedy actually has brought the two nations closer full of in this north for all polish nation president richard but if expressed his condolences and russia has actually done a lot to help poland to go through it. all coming your way later this hour what's worrying britain's best minds for couples walks with top academics fear the u.k.'s reputation as one of the world's best places for research might soon become a thing of the past. but first internet users across the globe a slight sigh of relief after an investigation busted the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer you go to is now on the run the russian is going for

a fifth of the world's junk e-mails tom bolton has more. you might not too 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 source hard to find and have vast networks of pirates 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 who no pictures of him are available bigger goose of a suspected of flooding the web with bogus marketing. according to the law you 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 is considered the biggest spam and based on his reading these 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 rated as 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 but denied he promotes spam but now that he's gone him out 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 yes it does a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spots especially of pharmaceuticals that computer security companies however are being cautious warning

that spam volumes could quickly spring back to the preview. high enough tom boston r.t. well let's have a quick look at other stories making headlines around the world now at this stage of the day more than three hundred forty people are being confirmed dead following the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have attended funeral service 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 the fatalities. u.n. chief moon's issued an ultimatum to military government visiting neighboring cambodia he said the release political prisoners or risk november's general election not being recognized and it will be the country's first since nine hundred ninety when sun suu kyi won the pro-democracy leader has been under house arrest since then. has been under military rule since nine hundred sixty two.

is a cholera epidemic in haiti is moving ever closer to the capital that's according to aid agencies which have been struggling to contain the outbreak three hundred people have been reported dead while thousands have been hospitalized contaminated water remains the main source of infection investigations into the cause of the problem focusing on a nepalese peacekeeping base. britain's drastic budget cuts announced last week are already making their impact felt universities around the country are having to make do with less results. top economic system to look at broad for better funded research positions. fifty of dreaming spires and academic excellence but not a long according to some if the government refuses to support it professor brian foster. 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. the best. funding abroad everything about oxford is fantastic except that the funding for getting to do. 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 to hamburg where the government will give him a million euros a year to research into whatever he likes plus a generous salary that's a lot of money he says roughly hard what he gets in oxford to run his entire department with thirty academic staff and all that entails so 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 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 now the world's leading universities and. particle physics groups has dropped by. about a 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 count funding academics say the only thing they'll be trimming of is former glory nor am it r.t. oxford. brings up today for the moment. business is next with.

hello and welcome to the. troika dialogue. been in talks of both revenue and nissen about the possibility of selling its stake in russian comic after bob's troika ran on stage holding russian technology each own twenty five percent of out of bounds when a c.e.o. carlos god spoke exclusively to business r.t. at the world economic forum for the middle east and north africa on wednesday he explains the french and japanese firms 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. are interested in buying troika dialog share with. the. 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 the production of light and

medium sized commercial vehicles by forty percent. the tender for the tribes to toff oil field appears to have broken down as all of the bit is except one have been rejected on technical grounds the last ago was so good nafta gas which failed to pay its deposit on time with any bash still left there's been speculation that the tender may have to be reset lex a coke and from or else it explains that the government is not obliged to do so. the simplest solution is to go on with the bidding with just one little left of the rules of the york which is not technically an option it is more of a bidding process. so these rules don't really require the government to counsel 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

is bosh left. and let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are doing european stocks are positive the footsie finished half a percent high on thursday shows a bull dog shell have gained more than one percent of well received reports from the oil giant telecom unbolt fog and among the top going is on the dax. and wall street has reversed gains made it open on thursday a lower dollar and better job this data has been lending support but caution over the extent of the expected federal reserve economy stimulation is now way. and here in moscow the russian markets finished flat to mixed on thursday raising gains made earlier in the session because the main blue chip loser on the my six down one and a quarter percent at close spared by also wait. 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 in may reach eight point nine percent of the country's

g.d.p. investors fear that greece will be unable to close that gap creek ten year bond yields have jumped one 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 to eliminate billions of dollars in fees that russia charges european airlines to fly over siberia germany france finland and austria will be the faster face proceedings at the un. twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says countries doing unilateral deals with russia is uncompetitive as the aviation rules require all e.u. citizens and companies to be treated equally. up in mind what if the solution is really simple and has already been outlined by russia the mechanism of these commercial agreements will be dismantled but it will happen in such a manner not to shock the companies which get the payments at the same time russia

will consistently raise its fees for navigation of services up to european levels taking into consideration the distances in russia it will be enough to compensate the economy. russia's state carrier ira flock has entered into a sponsorship agreement with the n.b.a. team the new jersey nets owned by russian billionaire make a profit off this is the first time arafat has supported a professional sports team in the u.s. the deals been agreed for two years but team that presented its hope it will be extended is the second sponsorship contract to progress team has signed with a russian company and agree to a five year lives with. 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. not a very we'll. leave the market for markets more hurdles

through the whole fear of the market but if i believe god leads to five plus some for a real cost the models will. wrongly be affected by various cleaning our of the market. b.p. could invest up to two billion dollars in a shell gas project in ukraine's don't yet school region the russian british oil company says it could put in fifty million dollars in the first stage which involves drilling six test wells but he warns the investment will only be possible once a memorandum has been signed but the ukrainian government. and that's all the business use for now but of course you can always find most toys if you're going to a website that's r t dot com slash business.

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to live from the russian capital this is good to have you with us top stories this hour a fresh wave of strikes in go from the majority a fast becoming tired of the costly disruption particularly after retirement reform parliament's approval anyway. a new arrest in an f.b.i. sting fuels fears of homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and criticism the agency's entrapment tactics of catching the wrong people. and sending too much junk mail might put one man in jail russia's investigation into one of the world's biggest spammers sends him on the run and slashes circulation of e-mails one fifth. of the background another update from fifteen

minutes from now in the meantime we find out how americans are dealing with the economic downturn that's in a special interview next aunty. are two 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 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 why i wouldn't say their silence at all. the political situations are very different the united states.