show must go on as ordinary persians look on drinking their coffee and mineral water members of trade unions and students continue taking to the streets just outside the french senate protesting a reform that is pretty much already guaranteed to take place they haven't even had a chance to learn the new slogans but it's not enough to stop them. this is of heard we can strike. against 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 with 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. it

is that the french people are tired of losing battles that drag on grinding life in the country to a halt for extremist there's an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far. even more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the never ending protests it appears public opinion is changing and the trade unions may well lose not only the battle but the war as well. gasoline as are the r.t. pairs. douglas weber of paris based professor of political science argues that as the protesters don't directly suffer financially from their own actions they are more than prepared to go on. certainly the of the protests and strikes that had caused some economic damage of those probably quite hard work next act exact figure on this but one ought to bear in mind i think that the the people are 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 an all of these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in fact they are able to go on actually i think for a long and e.u. leaders summit in brussels has moved closer towards tighter budgetary discipline for member states in order to avert future debt crisis and threats to the euro separately eleven of the twenty seven member countries have rejected plans to increase that use budget by six percent saying it was unacceptable in current cash strapped times they agreed on an increase of two point nine percent and ways of reigning in budget busting nations eurozone members in breach of guidelines will be fined but even leaders rejected a german plane to strip them of voting rights but there's to be a new bailout scheme for euro countries as well facing bankruptcy as pushed for by

germany's angela merkel it will now however require changes to the lisbon treaty which only came into force eleven months ago after years of torture us work that use economic crisis and threat to the euro has prompted countries which have not yet adopted the single currency to demand tougher regulation here's what polish foreign minister sikorski had to say. one poland is an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone we want to join you your resume 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 corner me and want countries not full of such rules to be rewarded british m.e.p. from the euro skeptic u.k. independence party gerard bhatt says the large e.u. economies use every crisis to feed their ambitions but ignore what he claims is the

only solution to the problems getting rid of the single currency their problem is always that there isn't enough european union not that there's too much of it 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 konami 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. will 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 bailing out countries like greece and of course spain and italy and portugal what we need is to get rid of the european single currency get rid of all the over regulation on business and allow economies to actually revive and become more healthy under proper free market economic conditions the why things are going at the moment is they can ever inevitably only get worse. this is r t still to come in the program a cyber lord who might end up in jail. spammers

a source for hard to find lost networks the point was controlled computers to emails but it seems that once you do start looking in the right place the results can be fast dramatic look at how russia has investigation into one of the world's most notorious spammers has slashed the circulation of e-mail ads by one bit. and the exodus we travel to oxford and ask what's worrying academics there has some fear britain's research reputation could soon become history. a pakistani born american has been accused of carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro as part of a terror plot but which was in reality an f.b.i. set up for. has been arrested for collaborating with people he believed were al qaida members but who were actually f.b.i.

agents though he is accused of helping to plan a major attack on u.s. soil officials say there's no indication he was ever in touch with real militants the incident has however stoked fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. but our team is. examining the claims that the f.b.i. is not fighting terrorism but rather 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 say. jewish facilities here in the bronx but also take them to military aircraft. terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have two more that the suspects quickly dubbed the newburgh four. our poor illiterate ex conflicts with neither passports nor licenses direction by

a foreign entity or terrorist group instead it direction came from shahid hussain a pakistani immigrant on the f.b.i. payroll reportedly paid nearly one hundred thousand dollars for his services f.b.i. operatives provided the fake c four and actually showed them a fake stinger missile fake weapons and a manufactured terror plot according to court testimony hussein recruited the economically strapped defended by offering cars in 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 hand to you against terrorism allegedly boiling pot suppress the country question is will there be any plots well with our government in place to help free despite surprisingly little criticism from amnesty international and human rights watch others have expressed a war over what they term entrapment

a practice considered unacceptable in countries all throughout europe and i think it is i know it is 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 crimes that would not have occurred if you had not planned on. seeing it into a community bin laden is still out there you are a real terrorists out there that we should be concerned about and they should use groups where you sources. and 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 our. 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 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 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 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 formats 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 will so of me or for political gain. and this is a god damned shame as a son of said to be a god damn larry king today. r.t. new york. remember you can always find more on all the stories we're covering on our website r t v dot com and if you like to get your news from the internet simply follow us on twitter let's have a look at what's online for you at the moment. ever wondered which court your best suited for the answer is in your d.n.a. passport learn how scientists are becoming an essential part of sports achievement also. find out which sign of mother nature sent to global warming skeptics to convince them that climate issue is just a lot of. russia's

security forces have foiled a major terror attack in the country's south the head of the f.s.b. told president medvedev that terrorists were preparing for a huge bomb attack in the city of pitt of course in the poll region but they were thwarted by a special operation. on tuesday group of militants planned to carry out a terror act in p.t. kursk during this 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. the attack on august the seventeen injured thirty people explosives were hidden in a car parked outside a cafe in a busy street it's believed the attack was organized by

a chechen terrorist doku umarov who claimed responsibility for the moscow metro bombings in march that killed forty omar of is thought to have links to al qaeda and is wanted for terrorism in russia and abroad. russian prosecutors have charged a man suspected of being the world's worst spammer in the first prosecution of its kind in the country you go to of who's been specializing in pharmaceutical ads is blamed for a fifth of the world's junk e-mails are tom barton reports. 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 accounts he's considered the biggest spam and based on he's reading knees and the number of messages he was sending. views the website 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 yet it is a pretty dangerous and currently the node is the. number of spot especially a pharmaceutical spare 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 take a look at some other headlines from around the world indonesia's most volatile volcano has begun erupting again one of the two natural disasters at opposite ends of the country which have claimed almost four hundred lives in the past few days a tsunami hit several islands killing three hundred forty three while over thirty died after an earlier volcanic eruption scores are still missing with many feared

swept away by the massive wave rescue teams are continuing to search the worst hit areas in hopes of reaching survivors. when it is looking into claims that nepalis peacekeeping mission was the source of a cholera epidemic in haiti investigators took samples of foul smelling waste trickling from the mission to a nearby river the cholera outbreak has infected nearly five thousand people in the earthquake ravaged nation and left over three hundred dead international aid workers are now working to stop the spread of the outbreak which began on october twentieth. in the u.k. the impact of the harshest spending cuts since world war two are already being felt only a week after they were announced despite britain's high academic reputation some of the brightest brains in universities are looking abroad for better funded research positions artie's lore and it has more. 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 for research into whatever he likes plus a generous salary that's a lot of money he says roughly half what he gets in oxford to run his entire department with thirty academic staff and all that entails for now britain has one

of the best research reputations in the world held by prestigious universities like oxford but some academics believe that ranking could be undone within five years if funding is withdrawn and this 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 engineers 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 artie oxford. workers of the u.s. need to unite and push for change in labor laws that's the call from professor and historian norman markowitz in an interview to r.t. that's coming your way in a few moments he says americans will be happier if they shift to the left.

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 the 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 sour cosi 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 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 paula 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 a center that would be considered conservative in the european context a responsible left to find that one must serve and it does not exist on media in

media labor leaders are almost never. taken seriously in media unless they go on strike is that why people feel like there is no real labor movement in the united states because we were seeing millions of people who've lost their jobs whereas the labor movement the labor movement. is. one third growth we have 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 an often sivan positive alliance 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 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 you about the middle class teacher and right from a marxist standpoint yes 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 that 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 the working class what happens if the working class is not working what happens in

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 novel are planning to colonize outer space but if we're showing to the other planets in his speaking of you know you know we could be holding 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 it isn't it is yes yes no it's not a fantasy at all the united states. 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 of 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 tens of me of course tens of million rights post the economic collapse do you think this american sort of pride and patriotism that you mentioned will that end up feeding and where will the seven-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 and 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.

live from moscow this is our t.v. where it is six thirty in the morning glad to have you with us let's get right now a new wave of demonstrations in france over the raising of the pension age by two years sixty two as the parliamentary national assembly finally approves a bitterly contested bill however public support for widespread union disruption which has been crippling the country costing hundreds of millions of euro day appears to be falling. leaders' summit has agreed to outline measures for stricter financial discipline and new ways of handling financial downturns including that needed to change the lisbon treaty to allow for bailouts for budget

busting nation is also over. european commission and european parliament plans to up the news of budget by almost six percent but some nations opposed to as they seek to impose are spending cuts at home. more fears of home grown terrorism us following the arrest of an alleged terror suspect in an f.b.i. sting but critics say the authorities are using entrapment to swoop in on people who are not real threats. is accused of providing support to people who believed were hiding members but were actually f.b.i. agents. cut and thrust debate and cross talk is coming your way shortly host peter lavelle and his guests ask if global food security and talk of a crisis is a myth or for real. hunger for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face.