you can a letter to george bush which says don't need to go and. read this in the kernel was such as used to retreat. chorus of discontent britain prepares for sounds of students to protest a rise in university tuition fees just the latest angry demo against government cuts to sweep across europe. it's only a whole segment of the top that has all the cream in the u.s. wall street is predicted to hand out record year end bonuses and the country's growing unemployment and soaring debt. tapping traffic tera with moscow's bottlenecks consistently ranking among the world's worst be a look at how local drivers are learning to take advantage of the jams. and coming out from the business update i.p.a. fever is expected to continue as listings stream in this year we'll have the

details in about twenty minutes time. it is today on the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie london is braced for a mass demonstration from sauza of students there making a final attempt to prevent the british government for more than travelling the amount some will have to pay to go to university trade unionists are also expected to join in and there will be a large police presence after previous protests turned violent lore emmet says students are wondering why banks get handouts while they pay more. 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's vote in parliament on increases in she wishin fees to 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 estimates of the number of people expected to march in london ranged 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 budget scale used to save banks and into the coffers of the european union after a summer of demonstrations on the continent the u.k. seen a wave of autumn process and ireland's or its own demonstrations earlier this week as its parliament passed the toughest budget in irish history to secure an i.m.f. the e.u. bailout of one hundred fourteen billion dollars the feeling on the streets there is that ordinary working people and the less advantage to being made to pay for the mistakes made by rich bankers and prophecy speculators one of the groups who resent this the most is the german taxpayer europe's largest economy is supposed to in the

bill for bailouts and e.u. excesses and there's a growing feeling amongst germans that it's not fair that they should bail others out the bulk of the action in london is expected to take place around parliament's around a thousand police on the streets of westminster as protesters tried to directly not be m.p.'s into voting against a fee hike but it's widely believed this will 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. lauren is reporting their journey corbell labor member of parliament in london says wealthy speculators behind a financial crisis are still able to profit. what we're seeing is the end of access to higher education for people of average and below average incomes it's going to be the preserve of the wealthy or in the future this is cutting of the color of

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 hit the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt in march in time we 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 think. there is a sort of caravan of despair that goes around europe denigrates people and an economy then the very same people through the bond markets and making huge amounts of money out of loaning money to those governments the irish bonds for example of being traded at nine percent at the present time way above the current rate of inflation or indeed anywhere in europe and i think. when all the additions and all the sums and all the investigations done at the end of this will see that in all

this despair some people have made themselves very very rich. and across the atlantic there is no suffering from cuts for top financial executives who are likely to enjoy a record rise in bonuses. these guys are getting much deserved bonuses and they want to celebrate bonuses and hearty and have a great time. there's a feast on wall street as billions are spent a lot sharing intellect loss for us economy our team looks at how bonuses are benefits and cast him. and he may be sitting in a british prison awaiting for a decision on whether to be sent to sweden to stand trial for rape but we can leaks founder julian assange has climbed to the top position in times online poll to be named person of the year in stark contrast in the us there have been calls for some high profile figures for the internet whistleblower to face execution all because he sighed publish secret american diplomatic cables containing criticism of its

allies assad is being held in london on charges of technical rape under swedish law which were previously dropped against him many suspect the u.s. could be behind the allegations being reinstated as it attempts to keep him quiet but as independent journalist antony loewenstein in sydney says even if assad is silenced there will be others. well he missed certainly being ruthless for a long time to be us government would like to get a socially silent human we mean that's something that many of us in the state and in many parts of the world fundamentally opposed and we demand you straighten government provides from all support and resistance to those things if they happen one of the concerns that many of us have is that if extradited from slieve then that he will face a political trial rather than a legal trial and we became just silence for a very long time one spurious charges so we very much opposed it i very much oppose

that possibility but i think it's a real bitch and the truth is that if you knock out the julia there's always tomorrow so many also replacing the genie is out of the bottle. investigative journalist antarctic contributor wayne madsen says we can leaks has shown how freedom of speech is in danger in the us so we've got the door open pandora's box is opened and now we're seeing all the people with the agendas starting to make noise like calling for an investigation of the new york times for publishing the wiki leaks cables now i think what we could see is like we see in certain other countries licensing of people who have websites a massive government surveillance of everything we already know the they're considering the end of net neutrality well that's another that's another area we have to look at but i think the freedom of the internet is under a vicious attack right now. and if you want to know more about the facts the latest

we can be spread around the globe you can always find more on our website which is there to. find out how the whistleblower web site could unveil the secrets of the russian view of strategic partnership moscow's and what he'll dissipates difficult question to have in seas interview online. and barack obama faces a second year of losing his democratic presidents but those example will he follow plans and or jimmy carter think it through with our. bonus time is approaching a wall street and to the anger of many the rewards are set to rise but it's not just bankers' bonuses going up so is unemployment across america all linked to the

massive seven hundred billion dollars bailout of the biggest financial institutions in the country is more important i reports. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars not the first or thirty thousand take thirty two thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office that fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand votes nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars to twenty six from you amid the lackluster american economic climate christie's is seeing sunny days this painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of impressionist and modern art sold this year thank you so since two thousand and eight we've seen an increasing return of confidence to the art market new york has once again become one of christie's selling sites sixty five thousand dollars what you like you would like to think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful . after you think these are back to indulging pampering at the law at the

ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this skin caviar body crain cream costing more than seven hundred dollars for less than four ounces while the caviar facial costs more than three hundred we do have a very very very large corporate following so corporations will come in and give their employees coming at a time when corporate america is banking record breaking profits with fifty thousand. from choice to. business at wimpy jewelers has spiked but only those making top dollar can afford pieces with price tags that exceed the average annual income of three u.s. households combined expecting a very very busy talking to more. business boost and perhaps my bonus is coming from a one street where street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse

and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million a pair. well first cent from last year's record haul if anyone would know about business it would be we always want to make everyone happy here here at rick's cabaret happiness comes bearing lots of skin and beauty but doesn't come free for an evening six seven eight thousand dollars three thousand dollars it's hard not to have a good time when you're surrounded by nearly no uniform of you women who've seen a boom in business as wall street has rebounded and these guys are getting much deserved bonuses and they want to celebrate bonuses and hearty and have a great time from six cravings. to food cravings one hundred and seventy five dollar hamburger served up at the wall street burger shop and we still fellow your handful of you know every month get him for ten ounces of cool beef seared flaw graw age greer cheese and this is kind of where all the value lies

this is a white truffles was a black truffle as well as gold as in gold leaf flakes to garnish off the burger there isn't anything that's really just to make it pretty. particularly pretty for financier's working for america's biggest investment banks where employee pay is expected to average how often million dollars or more no such promise is here on main street where fifteen million americans are officially unemployed and u.s. poverty levels have reached a fifty year high forty four million people ironically that figure marks new york city's most expensive residential sale this year a seven floor fifth avenue mansion purchased for forty four million this as more than two million homes have been swallowed up by foreclosure in two thousand and ten still in the early eighty's also in this so-called rebounding u.s.

economy. to purveyors of all things luxury aren't. resurging while the majority of americans are left wondering when life will finally begin looking as pretty as the painting marina port naya r. t. new york. joslin to the founder of the trans research institute says washington lout wall street cheat when the crisis broke the gap between the rich and the poor in the us is the widest of any of the industrialized nations wages are stagnant median household income is is below two thousand levels it's only a small segment of the top that has all the cream when you talk about those bonuses hundred forty four billion dollars those handful of wall streeters are the equivalent to

a country that would rank forty ninth out of one hundred thirty four countries in the world we've said it since two thousand and eight when the top programs began it happened in front of everyone's eyes wall street has hijacked washington and who is the most dangerous banker in america that's among the financial scandals discussed in this week's kaiser report coming up next hour here in r.t. . morgan has two trillion in assets and that is comparatively mint brothers which at six hundred billion when it collapsed and took down the global financial system the fed owns j.p. morgan the j.p. morgan is the fed that's part of the u.s. banking cartel jamie diamond is ben bernanke is dirty underwear. and ben bernanke you give jamie dimon a few billion fresh and if they don't then jamie dimon says we're going to crash the u.s. economy the global economy by not rolling over this junk diapered debt collateralized

by baby poop and your old tired global economy goes into the into the swamp now why is jamie diamond in guantanamo bay right now being violated by black mortars zero never is down there walking on broken glass eating broken glass why why is he allowed to roam free why is your double standard why do the people at airports have to have people from the t.s.a. stick their hands up their strength ring up to their elbow and then jamie don't want to walk around free as a bird i don't get it he's the terrorist. moscow is infamous for miles of traffic jams leaving angry drivers fighting off road rage sorties excitable car took to the streets of the russian capital to find out how some muscovites are learning to enjoy their and less hours in traffic. terrified of traffic. moskos miles of jam snaking back as far as the eye can see

and in the midst of a lot of angry drivers fighting off road rage if you want to get anywhere better plan and early start. to the half hours that's an average time most school water is found stuck in traffic jams every day that's a world record that's why police are we drive people wrong the bad guys consistently wrangle over the air in the areas drivers on the planet. yet while some a left red faced moaning about wasted time others are trying to make the best of a bad situation sergei has spent anything five and a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as an avid chapel or he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. which used to be very first to the bug a term i was wasting in traffic jams but then i came across audiobooks and i changed

ago not only do enjoy being on the road sometimes they deliberately take a long road just to finish listening to the past two years sergei has refresh his english and learn some german all sat behind the will conversational spanish is his next goal. is that it's your. gas here. and the other way out for stress motorist is bringing some of the conference of home with them and it don't allow evidence suggests sales of car garge it's on the rise. we see a lot of demand from have a geisha devices with them built to be to those with so much traffic we have in moscow against people spend more time in their cars watching t.v. not following directions and some resort to even more eccentric tools diary is a well known mosco psychic a few years ago she would a hummer and hired a driver. or also she could travel constantly and stylishly through the clogged

highways and byways. i keep the same watch in my car i look at it when i need to make a decision and i have plenty of time for that while moving around the city for me it's a symbol of life a symbol or turning to. an eternity can seem like a very real concept while stationary in your car staring at the brake lights in front that's why drivers are finding new ways to see back relax and go with the flow however slow it's not going to artsy moscow. also take a look at some other stories from around the world and the u.s. house of representatives has approved place in prohibiting money being spent on transferring guantanamo detainees to the u.s. for trials it's yet to be approved by the senate the law was suggested after the first detainee to go in trial was found guilty of just want to hundreds of terrorist charges against him it's a setback to president obama's efforts to close the military prison.

at least eight hundred people have been killed and hundreds injured after a head on collision between two trains in eastern bangladesh witnesses described hearing a tremendous bang followed by one of the trains bolting over the other and official said the crash was the result of a signalling error the military has been told to assist emergency services and rescue operations. forces from that you can stand have seized more than one hundred seventy kilos of more water on the afghan border armed afghan drug dealers trying to cross the border under the cover of the night escape after a short clash with police more than two tons of drugs have been seized into to stand since the beginning of the year russia afghanistan pakistan not to stand have agreed to combine joint and enter caustics operations. and the drugs trade in afghanistan is native to the country but was sparked by dramatic events there and that's the view of the afghan counter cots minister who spoke to r.t. the full interview is coming your way just over ten minutes time but here's

a quick look for a war about afghans themselves never grew poppies before the problem came to the country together with the war it's the result of the impoverishment brought on by drought on the one hand and by war on the other on the poppy has a very short time to harvest that's why they chose this way. time now for a business update was shot in just a few moments. ziggy . blair welcome to business program here on r t with michelle and miss folly the first time ever russia has sold more bonds that it offered the country's finance

ministry so two hundred nine million dollars of knows more than one hundred ninety billion dollars they have planned making it the highest yield in six months and they say russia hard to accept this because of rising inflation which will cause the cost of boring to grow in the future. russia's sever star aims to build a new plant in india in a joint venture with the state backed m m m d c the project is worth more than two billion dollars and it's the first time it's still make a set with dollars building it from scratch it previously bought all production facilities in particular in the usa and europe the companies seeking to get rid of those proved unprofitable india is seeing the fastest growing steel consumption in the world ever style says it's also interested in the markets of southeast asia and africa. and the global i.p.o. market will reach record highs in two thousand and ten that's according to consultancy and some young issuers have raised around two hundred fifty billion

dollars from listings since the beginning of the year and proceeds will surpass three hundred billion by the end of december the growth has been mostly driven by asian markets hong kong also seventy four i.p.o.'s generating more than sixty billion dollars around two billion was raised by russia's restyle and agricultural bank of china attracted twenty two billion dollars in the largest i.p.o. ever analysts expect i.p.o. activity to continue growing next year. and i'm say other markets before me now here in russia the r.t.s. opened it was surging in early trading already up more than one percent its bouncing back after a slow session on wednesday where both indices finished well in the red all the main players were also down on both the bosses. every day just the markets are mostly high over the take a market benefiting from a low yet because nikkei is that no point five percent the south opposed to finish the us stock to wednesday eight regional sentiment with financial stocks rising on

the back of gains in their peers almost straight. improving investment relations and they should with key issues discussed during a meeting with russian president medvedev and belgian leaders the two countries also signed new agreements on gas and bilateral trade as aussies corresponds to reports. first of all this meeting comes off the back of the russia e.u. summit which has already been deemed the more successful so far with the european union officially backing russia's accession into the war trade organization in two thousand and eleven this is the second day of the russian president's stay in brussels and as you've said he's met with the belgian prime minister and several deals have been made one of the deals signed was a memorandum on mutual understanding on the topic of modernization this issue is being discussed at the meetings between russia and its european partners but another very important deal struck here in brussels is

a deal between russia's energy giant gazprom and the belgian energy company flukes this is going to use the company's long term storage facilities here in belgium and this is a deal which is aimed at ensuring energy security for european russian energy consumers let's listen to the c.e.o. of gas exports alexander media that is outside of him out on the the realisation of this memorandum will allow us to enter a long term lease of a strong underground gas storage facility that is not only conveniently located but also has a good turnover this will allow us to use this storage facility to help fulfill our long term contracts. it's also important to to mention that this deal will also make it much easier for european consumers to receive russian energy since it is going to be delivered from russia but it's also going to be stored here in europe

which will make it cheaper and easier for european consumers to get their hands on a russian energy. into the also industry now and sales of new calls a light commercial vehicles in russia have rocketed eighty percent in november year on year as according to the association of european businesses the number of vehicles sold reached almost one hundred ninety thousand the biggest monthly number in two years list say that growth was supported by post quizes recovery and the state rebate program because so far this year car and van sales are up twenty eight percent. russia's largest mine and nickel a sold thirty eight percent of its u.s. unit stillwater mining company the sale right seven hundred million dollars in the secondary market and it plans to sell another ten percent of stillwater some point in the future. to fifty one percent stake in two thousand and two almost three hundred fifty million dollars it says it's selling the stake the lack of operational control. for this hour you can always buy more stories on our website

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