this is our third week on strike and we're demonstrating against the reform we have decided to mount resistance with no possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plan of both of these protests meal a convincing enough for news broadcasts 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 roles rocktober the unions had only one tactic left to leave the protests and try to tame go 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 gas to your it is implicitly did so was changed between one thousand nine hundred five when the same unions managed to shop 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 for trade unions or as one on the streets. even prime minister was seen as a cold check nicorette missed by 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 unfold extremist there's an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far gould is even more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the never ending protests it appears public opinion. and the trade unions may well not

only to battle. douglas webb a professor of political science from one of the world's largest graduate business school says as the action of the protesters isn't hitting them directly in the pocket they're more than prepared to go on. certainly the the protests and strikes that had caused some economic damage with are probably quite hard what an exact exact figure on this but not a bear in mind i think that the people are actually striking they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike and 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. long while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets

the european union itself is after more care well that's rankling large estates 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 budget rules disagreements about spending and lisbon treaty amendments are set to dominate a meeting of e.u. heads in brussels and even the polish foreign minister sikorski said poland with a public debt worth of its g.d.p. once the euro zone to change. the world will and is an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone will 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 not full of such rules to be rewarded. well let's go live to frankfurt now and speak to german market analysis analyst and author michael moss thank you very much indeed mr ross for joining us there and frank first. when the

eurozone project started almost everyone was very keen to be part of it now that the crisis has hit someone say that the dream seems to be fading away so from your point of view would it all go wrong. everybody wanted to be part of the euro but not all especially the eastern countries thinking a little bit more complex about this scene recently i have been to a park for example and check year and this year they are not so keen anymore to come into the euro because this is also a disadvantage just as everybody can see. the talks a discussion about the convention the treaty of lisbon. and this is a very complicated thing there are some criticism there is some criticism especially here in germany around this theme because the treaty of lisp on something like a constitution something like the e.u. constitution in the constitution is not

a diary where you write something new in every day so it's a very complicated matter to change the constitution also if there are only little changes as predicted i think this will become more critical and what american demands never will become reality in my opinion the how can you do private you remember state forwards voting rights is only a theoretical discussion and we will see that he will never come through. just to ask you you say well you know why should it loses voting rights but surely if a country breaks the rules and overspends and starts asking for the largest countries to bail it out and it clearly has broken the rules surely it should be punished. you know what this punishment is very complicated and it's also a big deficit of the twentieth of march solution as well as your fears about how will you do it at the end i mean if you compare the you to germany we have many

federal states. as a matter of fact the weak states especially in the middle and in the north and east of germany are always supported by the stronger states and so what will you do if greece or italy portugal has higher deficits i think the idea of punishing them is only a seer reticle idea because if you punish them then the problem becomes even harder if they have to make authority how will they pay back their debts so there are many many contradictions in my opinion this will never never work out and what they want at the moment of course is another difficult issue these crisis make a newsman mission isn't that talking about them it's also only a theoretical idea as a matter of fact this will become what i would interpret as a moral hazard issue because if you have laws that automatically rescue you

then you have a mechanism that everybody for example in the south can have its own party and if they have too many debts and already the stronger parts will bail them out there is a big thing about the idea behind the idea in the. region also in the treaty of lisp or not to have a bail of law and this means that everybody is responsible when they make their fiscal policy and so on if we have a law and we will basically have to maybe in the future. countries do that beyond their deficits beyond their means so they have no restrictions anymore and we're seeing pictures of david cameron of the moment and we're talking to you now obviously the british prime minister very unhappy about the plans for the e.u. to increase the budget along with many other countries do you think those countries have a right to say to the you know you're not have more money we're having to save money

at home you should be doing the same as well. this will be the issue for the euro in the future in my opinion because if one says no germany could say no for a rescue package then we have a big big problems then you one or two or three countries will go bankrupt if you wouldn't have greece for example in greece would for sure have gone bankrupt that meant automatically a vicious circle death spiral in the southern parts of the e.u. because it is then automatically investors will think we cannot give money anymore to portugal to spend it less. so then you have a. much higher problem so we are really really in a dilemma here which is only very very difficult to be but as a matter of fact again this dilemma was already written by the introduction of the euro we have here many critical people professor economists who warned about the

euro that is like this they said it was programmed that this problems will happen and as we see they have happened thank you very much it's very interesting to hear what you have to say. joining us live there thanks for joining us on. well coming up later in the program sending too much junk mail it might land one man in jail. the most obvious source for hard to find out how vast networks point was controlled. e-mails but it's news that once you do start looking in the right place the results can be fast dramatic we look at how russia's investigation into one of the world's biggest spammers has slashed circulation of. one faith. a story still to come but first a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro is part of a suspected terror plot photo that is accused of providing support to people he

believed but al qaeda members but actually f.b.i. agents and u.s. counterterrorism official said there's no indication that was ever in touch with real militants but still the incident has helped stoke of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. facilities more important critics say the f.b.i. may not be fighting terrorism but instead in trapping vulnerabilities. in 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 prevented as the faces of homegrown terrorism for individuals that. use facilities here in the bronx it also takes on a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have toward the suspects quickly dubbed the new work 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 feat. weapons and a manufactured terror plot according to court testimony hussein recruited the economically strapped defended spy offering carson cash to 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 opted to empty against terrorism allegedly boiling hot summers the country question is would there be any lots of oil 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 i now think it is i know what is entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccullum is the art 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 had not planned on unconstructive. into a community bin ladin is still out there there are real terrorists there that we should be concerned about and they should use those resources declined those individuals and not sit back and rely on a moments to make up cry well these are all people that we began to identify attorney steve downs who tracks cases like newburgh for argues the u.s. government is systematically employing preemptive prosecution targeting those whom

officials deem predisposed to committing crimes before 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 the material setting up the. planned 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've got a 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 king today. r.t. new york. remember you can always get more on all the stories we're covering on our website is also fun thanks but opinion we did clips and blogs with see what's on you there today. ever wonder which sport you're best suited for the answer is in your d.n.a. passport and how scientists are becoming an essential part of sports achievement also online. on which sign mother nature sent to global warming skeptics to convince them the issues just a lot of hot air those stories and plenty of other features of. the cult.

russia's security forces afforded a major terror attack in the country self the head of the f.s.b. told present video of the terrorist plan to strike in the city of in the staffer paul region. on tuesday a group of militants planned to carry out a terror act in pretty good during this special operation to them were killed and four of them arrested more than two hundred kilograms of explosives seized essentially a makeshift explosives lab was found this group is linked to the august blast in p.c. kursk that terror attack less than thirty people injured exposes were hidden in a car that was parked outside a cafe in a busy street it's believed the attack was organized by chechen terrorists. claimed responsibility for the moscow metro bombings in march that killed forty model is

thought to have links to al qaeda and is wanted for terrorism in russia and abroad well let's have a brief look at other stories making headlines around the world three people to be dead following the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have attended funeral ceremonies of the victims of a four hundred people still missing in a fair to have been swept away by the giant wave nevertheless rescue teams are still hope to find survivors after reaching the worst hit areas a failure of a tsunami warning system is being blamed for the scale of the fatalities. there are fears the cholera epidemic in haiti is moving ever closer to the capital that's according to aid agencies which been struggling to contain the outbreak or the three hundred people to be reported dead while thousands have been hospitalized contaminated water remains the main source of infection and thus to go into the cause of the problem of focusing on a nepalese police keeping bodies. internet users across the world cannot breathe a slight sigh of relief after an investigation busted the man thought to be the

world's biggest spammer you go to serve is now on the run and the russian is blamed for a fifth of the world's junk e-mails has more. you might not too 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 source 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 although 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 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 move 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 yet it is a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spots especially of

pharmaceuticals better future security companies however are being cautious warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to the previously high levels tom boston r.t. . business news is next now with stephanie stay with us here on r.t. . for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. soon which brightened. song from phones to impressions.

keep. a low welcome to the business bulletin the russian government has unveiled its proposed general plan to develop the oil industry until two thousand and twenty speaking at a conference in the some our region prime minister vladimir putin stressed the need to increase order to maintain current levels. the main potential lies in increasing the efficiency of oil 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 to new for the next ten years while maintaining oil extraction is a priority for the government the countries refiners are looking at paying increased taxes on your public over reports this may make some downstream operations on profitable. that may have to spend five and a half billion dollars to build the state of the art oil refinery in central russia the refining the official sell this complex is unique for russia mind to seven per cent of all the crude that the 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 x.

producing on refined products up to ninety percent of the tax on crude. from your all safe says the government is thinking about the conscious deficit and which areas of the oil industry it's most wants to develop do they just might be looking for this sector that it's not yet tax and taxed enough and not this generates income and so what they seeing with the observing is that there's there's a. lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the shift to offer up some segment at the moment the average x. producer on refined products such as patch oil and kerosene is about fifty five percent off that on crude the prime minister says the rival two hundred fifty or refineries in russia producing a very low quality product bots making a lot of money on prisoner and tional taxation and wants the government to introduce a new tax regime for the oil sector by the end of this year but analysts warn

against an indiscriminate rise for a find there soon the best way to turn courage complex refining seconder to posture would probably be to increase its life so that companies that are producing too much heavy fuel oil would penalize the biggest problem for the oil sector he is the lack of new on field projects and massive on their investment in extraction the government wants to ensure there is no tailing off in the country's crude output even if. that is done at the expense of refiners that's your business are taking. on let's turn now to the equity markets european stocks finished high on the footsie put on half a percent shows of world that showed gained more than one percent of the reports from the oil giant deutsche telekom were among the top on the dax. and wall street has reversed gains made up open on thursday

a lower dollar. data had been the ending 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 over raising gains made earlier in the session newco was the main loser on the my sex down a one and a quarter percent close to say wait. 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 first place proceedings the other twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says countries doing unilateral deals with russia is uncompetitive as the aviation rules require e.u. citizens and companies to be treated equally. possible up to mine 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 taking into consideration the distances in russia it will be enough to compensate the economy. and that is the business update for this hour but of course you can always funnel stories if you log on to our website. slash business.

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