george weston. you can the letter told her to sit down to go and. read this the colonel was her child as a treat. not a student demonstrations against university tuition fee hikes and education counts are expected in britain the fourth there's a base parliamentary vote the latest in a wave of protests sweeping europe in economic crisis. we can leaks founder julian assange souls to the top of an online poll to become time magazine's person of the get the speculation mounds the u.s. and driving his extradition to sweden from london for eventually trial and. on with foreign wars and losing popularity at home and the pentagon seeks to drum up public support for its going to page in afghanistan using the news media as a weapon.

news for russia and around the world this is all see with me thanks for joining us in britain huge student demonstrations are expected on the day parliament votes and government plans to raise tuition fees and deep education cuts with critics describing the moves at the funeral for education protest leaders have expressed fury at the government targeting universities while bailing out banks and failed european economies like oil and the war and it gauges the mood ahead of the vote. another wave of protests is set to grip the ukase capitol on thursday this is crunch time for the student protesters as it's their final chance to make their voices heard ahead of the evening vote in parliament on increases in to wish and fees for university students they say it will mean a university education will become elitist a privilege for the few rather than

a right for the many and the protesters are unlikely to let this chance go by they'll be anxious to have as much impact as they can judging from previous protests that'll mean violence vandalism and major disruption in london and other cities and there's also a distinct possibility that the case will get involved and that could certainly mean that things got ugly this is expected to be the biggest demonstration against the rise in fees so far estimates of the number of people expected to march in london range between twenty and forty thousand and that's in london alone this comes against a backdrop of a europe in crisis as billions from national budgets goes to save banks and into the coffers of the european union after a summer of the austerity demonstrations on the continent the u.k. seen a wave of autumn process and ireland for its own demonstrations earlier this week as its parliament passed the toughest budget in irish history to secure an i.m.f.

and the e.u. bailout of one hundred fourteen billion dollars the feeling on the street is that ordinary working people and the lens advantage to being made to hastily mistakes are made by switches and process he speculates one of the groups who resent this the most is the german taxpayer europe's largest economy is footing the bill for bailouts and e.u. access and there's a growing feeling amongst germans that it's not fair that they should bail others out meanwhile student groups here are saying their aim is to shut down cities and towns up and down the country by blockading and. picketing schools universities and institutions and it's not just the students who are protesting the r m t one of the u.k.'s most powerful trade unions has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out onto the streets and support the students wednesday already saw a series of marches ruled howard's and stated sydney university towns around the

country some of which have lasted days these appear to be designed to be dark to the main event until thursday develop of the action in london is expected to take place around parliament's around a thousand police on the streets of westminster as process does try to directly lobby m.p.'s into voting against a fee hike but it's widely believed this won't be the end of civil unrest in the u.k. if the fee hike goes through more people are expected to join with the students in what's already being dubbed a winter of discontent as the european people feel more and more they're being required to pay for the mistakes of a privileged super rich few. and term a cool been a labor member of parliament in london says the consequences of tripling tuition fees with a monstrous for p u k. firstly i opposed the student phase and voted against the money for labor government they were wrong to do it and i think it was setting off a trend which we are now are seeing the consequences of however the increase of

three hundred percent in student fees which is what the government is hoping to put through tomorrow is absolute masters what you see is the end of access to higher education for people of average and below average incomes it's going to really preserve the well for the future the trend will bring we'll have a less well educated less school less qualified population and it will do enormous damage to the international standing of our universities and our colleges and the whole principle of our higher education system i see education as an investment for the future we're investing in young people investing in skills were investing in mobile to investing in our future cut that where's the economic growth of the future where the adventures of tomorrow where the writers and the artists and musicians of tomorrow this is causing in the course a society those that created this economic mess that we're in are the ones who should pay for it's a transaction tax a wealth tax a tax on the very wealthiest people in our society would help to close the gap

there is no need to basically the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt in quick march in time you need a more sensible more rational more humane approach to the whole issue we're not getting that from the government at the moment i do however saying. there is a sort of caravan of despair that goes around europe that denigrates people aren't an economy then the very same people through the bond markets and making huge amounts of money out of loaning money to those governments so the irish bonds for example of being traded at nine percent at the present time way above the current rate of inflation you know and or indeed anywhere in europe and i think that when all the additions and all the psalms and all the investigations down at the end of this will see that in all this despair some people have made themselves very very rich. it's just after two am here in central moscow. much more also count.

the phone go ice here is a pool of live the legend as well as the example of the beauty before the need to create but the aren't the only thing. because it's. so they close up team continues its tall the safety of perelman be put hills of the year all this time showing its mystical side. we can expand the julian assange is now in prison in england on a swedish extradition rape warrant has climbed to the top position in times online paul to be named person i think yeah in stark contrast there have been calls on u.s. television for the internet whistleblower chief to be killed australia's foreign minister says paul american security and not as sanjay is to blame for recently of u.s. diplomatic cables how could it have been attacking their web sites of swedish prosecutors and international payment systems that have blocked donations to weaken leagues

with credit card giant gnostic card the latest to suffer the thirty nine year old was held in london on charges of technical rape under swedish law which were previously dropped against him and security and as james believes the timing will make for additional ten to go just after a huge leak of highly embarrassing american diplomatic communications to chairs that sweden is being pressured by the us. maybe in the near future will come across some leaked documents showing how the us put pressure on sweden and great britain to secure the arrest of julius arms i think let people make up their own minds it's very unusual for a man to be accused of having consensual sex but not necessarily using a condom but suddenly find himself on the same list interpol lives alongside senior mexican drug lords so i think i'll let most people make up their own minds but it's seems to be incredible coincidence this is happening right now america wants to disk. it and dismantle the entire wiki leaks operation one of the documents that of

the recent diplomatic cables was from a saudi king who suggested they wanted to cut the head off the snake in iran to to end the regime then i think the americans are attempting a similar thing with wiki leaks going after its leader in its most public face and hoping therefore that the entire pack of cards will collapse beneath it and of course americans are now in this thing the support of other countries and of major international banking networks of internet and the odds are really up against the wiki leaks now remember he wasn't expecting to be arrested and it has happened in the past that often people are arrested on on minor crimes such as better what's happening in sweden so they can gather more evidence to charge him for more serious crimes under perhaps the espionage act which could see him be jailed for a serious amount of time and despite the rest of it's found and in turn u.s. pressure weekly's has vowed to keep releasing secret documents however investigative journalist and r.t.

contributor wayne mattson thanks son she may have been initially many pilate and used by american intelligence but has now been dumped. i think you're only in a songe who came out of the hacker community is probably useful to somebody but he may have outlived his usefulness like a another patsy once outlived his usefulness as lee harvey oswald i think what we have with just somebody who got involved with computer computer hacking early on in australia may have worked with some groups like the chaos computer club out of hamburg and may have been co-opted by the intelligence agencies now he's you know a guest of scotland yard presumably and he's probably being visited by certain people at the u.s. embassy in london who probably have a lot of curiosity about some of what he's been involved with i would almost guarantee he's being visited by some americans courtesy of our british cousins. russian embassy officials in london have finally been allowed to contact

a young russian woman arrested without charge almost a week ago on suspicion of spying twenty five year old count has a two new faces deportation she worked as an assistant to british and paid mike. the case says she was gathering information on nuclear facilities there are now waiting for their fish open mission of the british side for personal meeting with the to live in london had initially blocks access to the woman. western media from releasing the bone styles candle and digging up new characters such as another russian blonde who's the boss helps to prolong the media suggests my current code has a fascination with eastern european women. if you also have a fascination with spies turned off scandals you'll get plenty more on our website home and of course will feature plenty other stories too including. footie factions are angry funs block one of moscow's main roads for almost an hour after

a fellow supported by a rival. class colmar a dog and the crew keeper in sas of wants to record a song in washington as producers think it will drive the finance crazy. a growing number of americans believe the war in afghanistan can be won according to a set of a just released in the u.s. and with draw all dates postponed again and again the pentagon seems to be growing more desperate to find ways a winning public support for an import compay. when it comes to afghanistan. and iraq the stories americans here often sound these taking part in a turning point for american troops and the united states optimistic the story lines the marines are taking extraordinary risks to avoid civilian casualties often follow the official line of the united states department of defense very closely

for example the mainstream media reported that this scene represents the last american combat troops in iraq nevermind that fifty thousand american troops remain a new iraq with reports on the ground confirming some of at least forty five hundred special ops forces continue to be directly engaged in military operations it's not coincidental to build this narrative probably progress progress the pentagon spends a lot of money and effort and what critics like j. dilla barito who served as a marine in afghanistan and iraq called propaganda for stories that look like any other game so the public is not told it was produced by the military the pentagon has really pulled the curtain over much of the mainstream media and it's because the mainstream media wants the story they want to tell the story of the american

hero people may think the u.s. military counterinsurgency strategy is about winning the hearts and minds of people on the ground in iraq and afghanistan but it's also about winning them at home which explains why the pentagon budgets more than five hundred million dollars on p.r. efforts to sell and market the war to americans to influence public opinion right here in the united states officials have argued that isn't exactly the case if i tried to change your opinion about the policy or practice of the department of defense that's influence the role of public affairs. is to provide you the information so that you can make an informed decision yourself so they say but the reality of the war's trillion dollar cost the thousands of casualties and millions of people displaced are summed up in this line rich progress making progress this is my first publication this is a turn in iraq war resister map the sheer growth in a group of military newspapers and says an agenda was always clear always positive

you won't find a single thing critical of the military or anything anything really that i wrote with all this information being what's provided by the pentagon you have to wonder if americans will ever understand the reality of the wars their country is fighting lord lister r.t. new york. and his guys debate whether alternative media can provide us with a clearer perspective on events that's in our latest edition of cross-talk next hour and here's a taste of what's coming. all governments lie i think what we're seeing with the advent of the internet and all of this independent more democratic media is more people calling out those lies i think with the p.d.f. thing is just an extreme recent example of that but i think if you look at the lies that were debunked in almost real time during the iraq war i think you'll find out that the reason that people disbelieve that is that they're finding out more about

the government all governments lie we can now access any information at any time instantaneously so it is easy to put on your blinders and you know focus entirely on news that kind of aligns with your worldview and watch one program and kind of you know get those news reports and things that kind of jive with you war you can go in with an open mind and and try to discover information and other things that kind of counter your your perspective. and i think taken at some other headlines from around the world eighty one people have died with that doesn't cut after a fire broke out at a prison in santiago chile it began during a riot at the other client

a prison if i only became public when an inmate used an illegal cell phone to call state television in attempts to get help witnesses claim that the prison gates access to five flights is. nineteen people have been killed up to two trains collided at a station and. one vaulted on top of the other in the impact the military is helping police and firefighters in the desperate efforts to rescue survivors trapped in the wreckage train accidents that come up in bangladesh due to pull. signaling and run down the track. is now what we continue to explore europe's eastern most city pero and take a look at this spiritual side of life. so from a thriving all at santa deformity so that military hard there's many sides to offer

visitors and those seeking legend and law won't have to look far to get in touch with them mystical side home to everything from college idols to haunted caves the city on the banks of the river comet is truly an adventure with an edge. the perm region is full of myths and legends and there are plenty of places for visitors to the area to get up close and personal with them the congo the ice caves are a few hours' drive away from the city of perm and provide visitors with some or inspiring views. normally ices grow at certain height but this particular case has them right near its mouth you can't come across this phenomenon anywhere else in the world. it's that uniqueness that has led to a string of stories becoming attached to the five kilometer long cave system of. the most ancient tale is about the legendary the man you're mark who conquered

siberia he lost his way and had to spend the winter in this cave each period gives rise to its own myth one modern me that's played out for visitors to the cave concerns the white spelling ologist someone who studies character it said that he found breaking his leg while exploring with a colleague his partner ran off leaving him to his fate and now the white spelling ologist wanders the cave networks searching for the traitors there's also a number of underground lakes within the caves. these two have legends attached to them the water dripping into one lake legend has it is the tears of a beautiful young woman tricked into marrying a cave spirit giving to it being known as the make of teens. the congo i see fall of myth legend as well as the perfect example of the beauty that the forces of nature can create but they aren't the only thing that's unique to the perm region

of visitors to this area. a rather extraordinary artist thrives. these devils are here just for decoration i started carving devils as i believe in evil forces in these a village to singing a song they've been here since nine hundred eighty eight. been working with wood since you are small boy drawing his inspiration from local mythology as with any artist events in his life reflect our years at work. i started carving them in the one nine hundred ninety s. when life was really tough they all turned out looking i was angry at a life time. terrifying vampires in which is mingle in amongst movie play hookey or the smugglers collection or the riyadh bomb or this guy is a dumb avoid next to him is he. often all the time a voice live in village houses and sometimes frighten people but they're invisible

i don't think i have one at home surely journey into the freezing darkness of the caves visit the vampires of the komi be careful your visit to the pond region doesn't result in you being the subject of future it's peter all over r.t. bridge. and he talks to congressman ron paul about everything from and the bailouts to north korea and south paleness political career.

congressman ron paul is talking to us about the federal reserve the situation on the korean peninsula and sarah palin congressman good to see you as always so this i think is one of your favorite subjects the federal reserve revealing trillions of dollars in emergency aid something like nine trillion overnight loans are you surprised by this you know in a little way i know it was bad but it's probably worse than i thought you know i'm not totally surprised what they've been doing as one of the reasons why i have one of the lot of for a long time you know we're getting some figures it has it's nothing near what an audit would reveal but the the dollar numbers are very very high end of course the involvement overseas is one of the things i really wanted a lot of for but we did get some figures to show that we felt compelled to bail out foreign banks to which is a real affront to the american people because indirectly the american people have

to pay for this and i think that's one of things that shocks so many people it's not just financial institutions here in the united states also foreign banks and let's not forget i mean it was g.e. it was for rising it was harley davidson yeah and. you know it's shouldn't surprise us because the dollar was given this responsibility being the reserve currency of the world ever since one nine hundred seventy one so it was it was given much more power and privilege than it deserved and at the time you know after world war two we were we had all the gold and we had the economic might we were down but eventually though. what happened was everybody started using dollars as if they were gold as if it were gold and they put it in the reserves in now because they still trust the dollar to a large degree because we print the dollars we can bail it but we can bail out california or we can bail general motors we can bail out all the banks we can bail

out greece now they're talking about helping the entire european union. but there is a limit the market will limit it politics won't they will think they can manage this they can't do it eventually people will lose confidence and trust in the dollar and speaking of you know international affairs we've seen so many protests all over europe against the austerity measures the big question is is austerity coming to the united states in what form and are we going to see a similar reaction like the one that we're seeing all across europe i think so i think there's going to be a lot of unhappy people a lot of people saying oh no to clean up the mess we have we have to sacrifice i don't see this sacrifice i see that if the people are working hard and they want to take care of themselves if you get rid of the income tax and get rid of the regulations they can make more money and they can be more responsible they don't have to sacrifice a thing and i think there's hints that we're going to do better i mean there has been elections there are a lot of new people coming in i think that's a sign that the american people are sending people up here are saying enough is

enough and we need to have you know get our house in order the stuff about the situation in the koreas you have a very interesting opinion about this you've said or he's hinted before that the korea conflict may have been orchestrated to boost the dollar what do you mean by that it's a pretty shocking claim and one that we don't really hear very often where you know you know i don't know what is so directly as much as a rule as a repercussion when these incidents occur people rush to the dollar that's that's really just very temporary but with my noninterventionist foreign policy i just don't like to see a saber rattling by going over there with our ships and i've an allergy i draw draw to this and you know we have a problem on our taxes and the u.s. mexican border what if the interests of china would if they thought it was a player interest and they had an alliance with chavez in venezuela what if they had your game sitting in the gulf of mexico would be hysterical but we think nothing of saying well you know there's

a problem over there and we're going to show him our my word. to go over there and we're going to set all these rules and dictate what's going on in korea i think if we had stayed in korea would be one country right now i sincerely believe that if you think that i mean what's going to happen with the situation in the can i state i know they're trying to put pressure on china is china going to do anything and it's not the united states more likely to get involved where we're way too much involved in china china has a greater interest i mean i think we have a greater interest in what happens a given china should so i mean it's in their neighborhood and i think we should back away and i think japan and china south korea should decide what to do i think just about i think south korea is capable of taking care of themselves but if we always say no matter what happens we're going to be there and we're going to fight your war for you i think that encourages. a lackadaisical attitude about resolving their differences you're one of very few politicians members of congress

senator that who actually come out and say something like that you know that analogy that you make with it with china and chavez why do you think that is there seems to be you know whether it's anything that has to do with national security but whether close to the fence spending or anything like that sort of secret taliban issue that you don't touch i think there's a natural tendency especially for a man in male leaders to be macho and they and their and their country and their citizens don't like you to be wimpy they don't want you to be weak and they want you to stand strong and then when a woman gets in charge she wants to prove she's manly enough so i think is i think a single grain in our system but i'm convinced that taking the position that i have takes every bit as much conviction and belief as somebody who thinks that the solution is always violence i just approach it more from that that we can do it with nonviolence and i i i really a poor idea that we are so often our whole world just think i've lived

a good many years with. twentieth century in the well in its perpetual war our history has shown that i just don't think it should be necessary i mean there are other ways to resolve our problems well speaking of up a politician or a former politician who tells a lot of other politicians to man up sarah palin your fellow tea party member a leader telling barbara walters recently that if she were to run for president in two thousand and twelve that she believes that she could beat barack obama just wanted to get your opinion and. i guess that's a possibility you know would you support her if she ran for president when you told her i think it's too early to tell she's not even a candidate but as far as you know capability that's the big question i lot of the sort of a status when republicans come out and said you're no ronald reagan and you know this is not going to happen very well i don't hear it here made a lot of criticism or endorsements of service.

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