we have decided to montreux distance with no possibility of retreat where here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plan of both of these protests 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 the viewer now we have the blockade was auctions and disruption to the traffic because of lack of fuel and blocked access to. it. 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 and sounds 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 in the streets. even prime minister have seen as a cold technical record 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 and for extremist there's an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far lou pool is even more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the neverending protests it appears public opinion is changing and the trade unions may well lose not only the battle. all right.

well for more on the situation in france i'm now joined by douglas weber he's a professor of political science from inside it's one of the world's largest graduate business schools thanks very much indeed for joining us there in paris professor since it's looking like a case of it's looking like a case of fait accompli now isn't it so why do you think these people are still striking and protesting in the streets. well the first thing to be borne in mind i think is that the numbers that have turned dark put in days protests have been a great deal lower than in previous weeks so the wave of protests is actually declining otherwise i would say. they are clinging to the straws that the president may still be forced to actually not promulgated the law and to practice and be given a. window in this respect by the fact that the system in the parliament has taken

a case brought on the pension reform to the. courts and the law want to come into effect until the court has actually ruled on this issue so do you think the final point i think. carol final point is that in two thousand and two thousand and six after a law concerning youth unemployment had been passed in the parliament the president was persuaded to actually not put it into force so there is this precedent which gives a declining number of protesters the hope that they still might defeat the pension reform do you think that legal challenge you're talking about a little earlier could be successful though do you think there's just a little bit too much optimism placed on that from those who are rejecting or angry about this new reform. it's highly unlikely the court i think would actually rule the law somehow unconstitutional so indeed i think that simply grasping at a straw in this case this case is simply giving the protesters the chance to

actually continue their protests and i think probably that they might still. abort this reform also from what you're saying a little earlier saying the situation slightly different from what we saw in back in one thousand nine hundred five is this a case of really then the unions losing their power in france and their power is definitely on the way. i would certainly say that they're not quite as powerful as they were ten or fifteen years ago firstly death lost a lot of members secondly there are going to number of legal changes making it harder for them to strike for example public servants are not paid when on are when they are on strike and in the public transport system with a minimum service place which requires the transport workers to actually keep a certain number of trains and underground trains for example going. the context is not quite the same as it was even in two thousand and six when as i

said before the massive protests against a youth unemployment law were actually quite successful one other point is that in this case actually there was a kind of coalition or alliance of workers trade unions and university students and although in the case of the of the pension reform secondary school students have come out in the case of the prospects of the university students are actually remained very very calm and quiet and this sort of coalition against a government reform attempt is lacking in this case just just finally briefly is there a narnia here where the protestors are against these cuts but actually it seems their actions of course in the country a lot of money i mean to me two hundred million euros a day sounds a lot of money but is that sort of money affordable to france or could it in fact as a result of this action result in more cuts been needed to cover these costs. well certainly the of the protests and strikes of heads cause some economic damage of

the us probably quite hard with an exact exact figure on this one out of their own mind i think that the the people actually are striking. they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike in the public sector apart from the fact that they won't be paid for the days they were on strike they won't be affected by the negative economic fallout of the of these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in fact they are able to go on actually i think of for so long but i should add that of course there is that reason convenience in certain parts of france many motorists not been able to find pictures of fill their cars and so on but i think the daily life saved in france is carried on much disaffected by the strikes than the media coverage of these protests and strikes abroad actually suggest for thanks very much it's very interesting to what you have to say there in paris douglas where the professor of

political science from the in c. a business school we appreciate time here marty thanks for joining us. thank you very. well european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself is after up more cash now that's rankling largest states 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 disagreements about spending and there's been treaty amendments are said to dominate a meeting of e.u. heads in brussels and even the polish foreign minister sikorski said poland with a public debt worth half its g.d.p. once the eurozone to change. the world poland is an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone want to join the euro zone with the greek crisis would be impossible we want rules that will not let it happen on public gets should be paid we support strict rules in the economy and we want countries that full of such rules to be rewarded. british m.e.p.

and you're a skeptic gerard 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 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 created in the first place economically 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. it 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 buying out countries like greece and of course buying in 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 why things are

going at the moment is they can ever inevitably only get worse. still to come in the program if we're not sending too much junk mail might land one man in jail. promise. hard to find out how vast networks of pirates control futures to pass on email but it seems that once you do start looking in the right place the results can be fast dramatic. look at how russia's investigation into one of the world's biggest spammers has slashed circulation of email and ads by one thing. but first a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro as part of his suspected terror plot. is accused of providing support to people he believes al qaeda members but who are actually f.b.i. agents u.s. counterterrorism official said there's no indication of who 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 authorities marina portnoy found out critics say the f.b.i. may not be fighting terrorism but instead in trapping vulnerable. may. two thousand and nine according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their plan today for african-american muslims are arrested we have to say sir paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism and the divisions that. jewish facilities here in the bronx but also take on a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have more than the suspects quickly dubbed the new book for our poor illiterate ex conflicts 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 spy offering carson can carry out the orchestrated operation then the agent provocateur or testified as the government's key witness in post nine eleven america the f.b.i. has upped its ante against terrorism allegedly boiling hot summers the country question is would there be any plots well without government form 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 term entrapment a prop just considered unacceptable 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 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 creating scenarios they are manufacturing. crimes that would not have occurred if you knew we had not planned on unconstructive seen into a community bin laden is still out there there are real terrorists there that we should be concerned about and they should use those resources declined those individuals in not sit back in rely on a moment's to make up 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 in we're going 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 doing all the research everything else and then grabbing them and then claiming that these were homegrown terrorists it's just a fiction downs created this ten foot wide visual listing the names of individuals he believes were entrapped by the f.b.i. government the size of for some reason your ideology is causes them concern because then they can come after you and they can manufacture crimes against you and they can make up a whole case and put you through a 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 for mexico 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. government that will sell a family off for political gain. and this is a god damn shame there's

a sam said to be a goddamn larry king today. r.t. new york. and remember you can always get more on all the stories we're covering here on screen at the moment on a website that's on. all the time but opinion video clips and blogs have a quick look and see what's on the line from day. one of which sport you're best suited for what is in your d.n.a. . becoming an essential part of sports achievement also. find out which sign mother nature sent to global warming skeptics to convince them the issue is just a lot of. stories on. russia's security forces of water the major terror attack in the country self the head of

the f.s.b. told president medvedev the terrorist plan to strike in the city of in the region. on tuesday a group of militants planned to carry out a terror act. during the special operation two of them were killed and four of them arrested six hundred kilograms of explosives seized a makeshift explosives lab was found this group is linked to the. terror attack left some thirty people injured explosives were hidden in a car that was parked outside a cafe in a busy street it's believed the attack was organized by the chechen terrorist. who claimed responsibility for the moscow metro bombings in march they killed forty model was thought to have links to al qaeda and is wanted for terrorism in russia and abroad. on that have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day more than three hundred people have been confirmed dead following the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have attended funeral ceremonies for the

victims of a four hundred people are still missing 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. the scale of the fatalities. or physical or epidemic in haiti is moving ever closer to the capital that's according to aid agencies which have been struggling to contain the outbreak or three hundred people to be reported dead while thousands have been hospitalized contaminated water remains a main source of infection just occasions it's because of the problem of focusing on a nepalese peacekeeping base. internet users across the world canel breathe a slight sigh of relief after investigation busted the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer you go to solve is now on the run the russian is blamed for a fifth of the world's junk e-mails. you might want to noticed that there have been less spam messages churning around the internet every day in the past few

weeks in fact fifty billion less spammers are a source for hard to find and how vast networks 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 he's considered the biggest spam an eight and he's reading these 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 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 the amount of prescription drug related junk mail has dropped significantly not into a fifth less daily spam traffic worldwide spam itself is 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 their previously high levels tom bottom r.t. . back with a look at our main stories in ten minutes from now the meantime stephanie will be

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hello and welcome to the business bulletin the russian government has unveiled its proposed general plan to develop the oil industry and till two thousand and twenty speaking at a conference in the sim our region prime minister vladimir putin stressed the need to increase or decrease traction to maintain current levels. that you can live with themselves that the main potential law is an increasing the efficiency of all extraction as well as the development of small and medium sized fields especially as many of them are located in already developed areas as a result of increasing reserves and the development of new fields and improving efficiency we can anticipate that the current level of oil extraction of five hundred million tonnes per year will continue for the next ten years. while maintaining all extraction is a priority for the government the countries refiners are looking at paying increased taxes and as tanya reports this may make some downstream operations on profitable. that's spent five and

a half billion dollars to build this state of the art oil refinery in central russia the refining efficiency of this complex is unique for russia one to seven per cent of all the crew that arrives here is turned into a usable product with only three per cent waste. analysts warn however such expensive projects may stop making economic sense if the government increases expert juta on refined products up to ninety percent of the tax on crude aleksey caulk and from your all safe says the government is thinking about the conscious deficit and which areas of the oil industry it most wants to develop they just might be looking for this sector that it's not yet tax and taxed enough and not this generating cash and so what they seeing with observing is that there's there's a. lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the burden shift of the of some segment at the moment the average exploit juta on refined products such as

patch oil and kerosene as about fifty five percent of the time crude the prime minister says there are about two hundred fifty of oil refineries in russia producing a very low quality product but to make a lot of money on preferential taxation putin wants the government to introduce a new tax regime for the oil sector by them the of this year but analysts warn against an indiscriminate rise for refiners the best way to turn courage complex refining to boost seconder to pastor would probably be to increase it slightly every from the current. forces seventy two maybe forty five said their father fifty eighty. split that is the average for duty would be somewhere around sixty percent of the crew do it instead of fifty five fifty percent now maybe slightly more than that so that companies that are producing too

much heavy fuel oil would penalised the biggest problem for the oil sector is the lack of new oil field projects and massive under-investment in extraction the government wants to ensure there is no tailing off and the conscious crude output even. that is at the expense of farmers. business our team. and let's turn now to the equity markets european stocks were positive on thursday the footsie finished half a percent higher shares of royal dutch shell have gained more than one percent on the well received earnings reports from the oil giant which a telecom unfolds fog and among the top again is on the dax and at wall street has reversed gains made out open on thursday a lower dollar and better job this data has been lending support but caution over the extent of expected federal reserve economy stimulation is now weighing. and here in moscow the russian markets finished flat to mixed on thursday a raising gains made early in the session to call is the main blue chip loser on

the my six down one and a quarter percent close to that bank also weighed. 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 washer charges to european airlines to fly over siberia germany france finland and austria will be the first to face proceedings the other twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says countries doing unilateral deals with russia is competitive as the aviation rules require all e.u. systems and companies to be treated equally. possible a few minor 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 services up to european levels

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