the reform we have decided to montreux distance with no possibility of retreat we're here because we have resolved that we have an obligation to complete our plans of these protests meal a convincing enough for news broadcast but do the unions in france really hold any sway at the moment the only thing they've achieved is to cost the already struggling economy a shocking two hundred million euros a day. as the protests spread across the country they got out of control of the unions throughout october the unions had only one tactic left to lead the protests and try to tame them to avert widespread violence because of this the risk we face is greater than just the spread of violence which we face before now we have the blockade of production and disruption to the traffic because of lack of fuel and blocked access to gas stations and fuel. so what has changed between one thousand nine hundred five when the same unions managed to shelf the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five the unions enjoyed a lot more public support compared to now where only fifty percent of the people

say they would support those on the streets but not go out themselves today only the two main train unions are united in their fight against the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five most of the existing french trade unions were as one on the streets the then prime minister was seen as a cold technocrat and 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 the former prime ministers but the main difference it seems is that the french people are tired of losing battles that drag on grinding life in the country to a halt. extremist there is an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far. 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. battle. gas trainers are about right t.

carriers. and douglas weber 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 are more than prepared to go on certainly the protests and strikes that had caused some economic damage of dollars probably quite hard for the next exact figure on those but not a bear in mind i think that the the people actually striking they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike from 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 for so long while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself is after more cash 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 the countries which break budget rules disagreements about spending and lisbon treaty amendments are set to dominate a meeting of e.u. heads in brussels even the polish foreign minister of course said poland with a public debt worth half of its g.d.p. what's the euro zone to change. the world poland is an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone but want to. says the large 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 out 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 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 the 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 the wide things that go on at the moment is they can never inevitably only get worse. well coming up later in the program here on r.t. for you sending too much junk mail might land one man in jail.

spammers are source for hard to find out how vast networks but why was 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 take. a look at how russia's investigation into one of the world's biggest spammers this last circulation of the. one thing. and also more in britain's best minds while we travel to. academics for the u.k.'s reputation as one of the world's best places for search might soon become a thing of the past. that story still to come but 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 met is accused of providing support to people heap of the 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 fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. . marine a port. critics say the f.b.i.

may not be fighting terrorism but instead in trapping 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 you have to say sarah paraded in front of new york news cameras presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism if you will. jewish facilities here in the. military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have thwarted the suspects quickly dubbed the new book for our poor illiterate ex convicts with neither passports nor licenses direction. instead direction came from. shaheed 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 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 opted to empty against terrorism allegedly boiling pot surprise the country question is would there be any lots of oil without a government in place to help create that despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a war over what they term entrapment it's a practice considered unacceptable in countries all throughout europe and i don't think it is i know what is says entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccullum is the ont of twenty nine year old david williams one of the newburgh four she says her nephew

is languishing behind bars for a fake terror attack grown in the home of the u.s. government they are creating scenarios one manufacturing crime that would not have occurred if you had not planned on. seeing it 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 crime well these are all people that we begin to identify attorney steve downs who tracks cases like newburgh for argues the u.s. government is systematically employing preemptive prosecution targeting those whom officials deem predisposed to committing crimes be. for an actual crime is committed they are 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 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 verdict all format 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 owns a government that was so family awful political game. and this is a god damn shame as a subset to be

a goddamn king today. r.t.e. new york. and durham m.b. can always get more on all the stories we're covering on our website it's all t. dot com it also find expert opinion video clips and blogs that's a quick look and see what's online for you at the moment ever wonder which force you are best suited for well the answer is in your d.n.a. passport apparently and how scientists are becoming an essential part of sports achievements also. find out which side mother nature sent to global warming skeptics to convince them of the issue is just a lot of hot air all available at r.t. the. russian security forces afforded a major terror attack in the country's self the head of the f.s.b. told president vet of the terrorist plan to strike in the city appeared to go to

skin the stuff or pull region on choose to a group of militants planned to carry out a terror act in p.g. kursk during the special operation two of them were killed and four of them arrested more than two hundred kilograms of explosives was seized essentially a makeshift explosives lab was found this group is linked to the august blast in p.t. kursk. that terror attack less than thirty people injured explosives were hidden in a car that was parked outside a cafe on a busy street it's believed the attackers were going by the chechen terrorists who claimed responsibility for the moscow metro bombings in march that killed forty one of us ought to have links to al qaeda and is wanted for terrorism in russia and abroad internet users across the world can now breathe a slight sigh of relief after an investigation busted the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer he got to conserve is now on the run and russian is blamed for a fifth of the world's junk e-mails as more. you might not have 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 acquire is controlled computers to pass on the emails but it seems that once you do start looking in the right place the results can be fast dramatic officials say the recent fall in spam emails is because the world's most prolific spammer has done a runner although no pictures of him are available bigger goose of a suspected of flooding the web with bogus marketing. according to the law he might get as much as five years in prison for this kind of crime we can't tell at this point how much money 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 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 unmovable hard drives for flash cards and three laptops found in his moscow apartment may bring charges related to his online empire which reportedly made him over a million dollars both to serve and his lawyer have denied he promotes spam but now that he's gone the amount of prescription drug related junk mail has dropped significantly amounting to a fifth less daily spam traffic worldwide spam itself 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 spot especially a pharmaceutical spam computer security companies however are being cautious

warning that spam volumes could quickly spring back to their previously high levels tom barton r.t. . let's have a brief look at other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day three hundred seventy people confirmed the tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have 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 the fatalities. there are fears the 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 or the 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. here have gathered outside the presidential palace and to bid farewell to the late former president nestor kirchner died suddenly of

a heart attack on wednesday that an american dignitaries joined thousands of people to visit the late president's coffin three days of mourning have been declared and flags will be flown at half mast at public buildings. 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 and. found out top academics are starting to look at broad for better funded research positions. oxford city of dreaming spires and academic excellence but not for long according to some if the government refuses to support it professor brian foster loves oxford he's a particle physicist head of one of the leading research departments in the world but he's also a reluctant participant in a brain drain as scientists abandon the u.k. for better funding abroad everything about oxford is fantastic except that before

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 to research into whatever he likes plus a generous salary that's a lot of money he says roughly half what he gets in oxford to run his entire department with thirty academic staff and all that entails for now britain has one of the best research reputations in the world held by prestigious universities like oxford but some academics believe that ranking could be undone within five years if funding is withdrawn and this at a time when other countries like singapore france and germany are increasing their budgets scientific research got off relatively lightly in the government's recent spending cuts it will see only nine percent of its money disappear due to inflation

in the next four years instead of the feared twenty five percent but it may be too little too late since the time i've been here the amount of funding that we received in oxford which is one of the world's leading universities and is one of the world's leading particle physics groups has dropped by to sort of size of my department is about one half of bob in terms of support staff technicians and you news but 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 is former glory nor am it artsy oxford. workers of the u.s. need to unite and push for change and labor more from professor and historian norman mock of it's an interview to want to keep it coming your way in just a few moments he says americans will be happier if they shift to the left as an aspiration to be sure.

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 the political situations are very different the united states elected barack obama by no means a radical by no means a socialist but someone who was identified with global labor wing of the democratic party obama raised the hopes of tens of millions of people and while he has not delivered he is not sarkozy he is not the new british government he has pursued a counter cyclical keynesian policy of pumping large sums of money into the economy the united states does not have. a welfare state in the european sense do you feel like it nourishes sort of becoming a trend in the united states because we know for example recently there have been polls out that are saying in the united states nearly half of the population is

believe that the federal government paul poses some kind of threat to u.s. freedoms and civil rights americans are the most media saturated society on earth they are bombarded with counterfeit opinions that come from the mass media to them and they are encouraged to believe that these are their their ideas whose ideas are reflected in the media is that they are the russians the ideas of the right the far right and the center that would be considered conservative in the european context a responsible left to find that one must search and it does not exist on media in media leaders are almost never taken seriously in the media unless they go on strike is that why people feel like there is no real labor movement in the united states because we're wasting millions of people who've lost their jobs and where is the labor movement the labor movement. is one third

of the was what it was at the end of the second world war the little movement is there but its history has been the formed by cold war anticommunism. and by some of the worst labor was in the developed world what kind of relationship would you say the labor movement has with the government of the us the labor movement has aligned itself with the democratic party since the one nine hundred thirty s. that alliance made sense and was essentially north and seven positive on my hands in the one nine hundred thirty s. and one nine hundred forty s. and over the last fifteen years or so beginning with the election of john sweeney and now richard trumka the national leadership has been a lot better in terms of its commitment to workers' rights and its attempt to sort of instill and encourage militancy but at the same time the relationship with the democratic it's been called by some like

a bad marriage the union are sort of like the women within the bad marriage they know it's bad but they're afraid to get out i want to ask about the middle class teacher and right from a marxist standpoint and recently a lot of attention has been brought to the issue of the gap between the rich and poor in the united states that this gap keeping them keeps expanding has become bigger than it's ever been is the middle class basically going to cease to exist at some point well in the united states. the people who are called the middle class or the working class what happens if the working class is not working what are known to the working class is not working. then they become what in marxist terms would be the open proletariat the marginalized poor do you know the anti utopian movie blade runner a world where you have a small group of enormously powerful super corporations and the masses of people living in the kind of endless slum and the rich in that are planning to colonize

outer space but if we're showing to the other planets that he speaking of you know you know we could be rolling the situation on the masses really being in terrible conditions many are saying that that is what's going on right now yeah well so it's not that isn't it is yes yes no it's not a fantasy at all the united states. it is the richest country in human history in terms of its general wealth and it has had more poor people than any other rich country in human history the united states was never seriously invaded the united states had the richest agriculture for any developed country on earth the united states had ports of course the atlantic and the pacific and the gulf coast and the mississippi valley nights it's all these fantastic advantages along with being a magnet for capital and labor for the whole world and these advantages bred a consciousness of having it all and not really looking at the people below you

right now in the united states many people are to disadvantage millions of people tells me that tens of million rights post the economic collapse yes do you think this american sort of pride and patriotism that you mentioned will that end up feeding and where we're coming up leading the country where there are great dangers today in the united states there are dangerous and sinister reactionary forces. on like european countries where these forces are organized in groups like the national front in and in france and here these forces have become a significant force in the republican party and. the dangers of these elements. becoming a major power in the u.s. government and what they would do to immigrants to minorities to workers. what they would do in terms of. at the very least creating

a deadlock with the obama administration. the possibilities are catastrophic potentially potentially is it time to create a third party and who should carry out this push i have always believed that the best way and. the communist party of the united states stands for this in the long run to create a kind of broad party of labor and the people what we face is the reality that the people who are most committed to progressive political action have been the most loyal to the democratic party. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace

and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was a bit always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life change and side effects. wealthy british scientists. sometimes. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. china operations to rule the day. in some. grand hotel at emerald marco polo club school who turned. to gold to. create ski pundits. kempinski twenty two. dollars.

twenty. a fresh wave of strikes in france but the majority of poles becoming top of the disruption particularly after retirement reform to get all of its approval anyway. and. put in jail russia's investigation into one of the world's biggest spammers. and slashes the circulation of. one. hundred when an f.b.i. sting fuels fears of homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and criticism of the agency's entrapment tactics catching the wrong people. in less than half an hour as the news continues here in the meantime we reveal

a possible new hidden cause of the world financial crisis that's in the latest edition of the kaiser report coming up next on. geyser and this is the kaiser report market finding that's on the scandals hey how about that wiki leaks thing they put four hundred thousand documents in the public domain. and folks are saying oh this is bad for the soldiers it might endanger the soldiers you know who it's endangering former prime minister john howard who had a couple issues thrown out of there being a boat as this is a video from recent chat john howard had on us giants e bay and somebody did the right thing by trying to hit it with a couple issues that let's turn to the other major stories going on right now around the.