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those machines that you see don't need to go and. read this in the kernel was such as used to retrieve. horrors of discontent britain prepares for thousands 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 all segment of the top that has all the cream. in the u.s. wall street is predicted to hand out records here and bonuses amid the country's growing unemployment and soaring debt. and tackling traffic tara was moscow's bottlenecks consistently ranking among the world's worst we'll look at how local drivers are learning to take advantage of the jams.
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you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome london is braced for a mass demonstration from thousands of students and they are 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 arches laura abbott says students are wondering why bangs 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 vote in parliament on increases in she wish and 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
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against a backdrop of a europe in crisis as billions for 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'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 great series at 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 of the action in london is expected to take place around parliament whether it be around a thousand police on the streets of westminster as protesters try to directly not
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be m.p.'s into voting against a fee hike but it's widely believed this way 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. reporting there in germany or been a labor member of parliament in london as well see speculators behind the financial crisis are still able to profit. what we see 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 wealthier in the future this is cutting of the color 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
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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 that 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 that 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's no suffering from cuts for top financial executives who are likely to enjoy a record rise in bonuses. these guys are getting the much deserved
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bonuses and they want to celebrate the bonuses and party and have a great time. there is a feast on wall street as billions are spent on a luxury to no less lost or u.s. economy r.t. looks at how bonuses and benefits are cash dam. and he may be sitting in a british prison waiting for a decision on whether to be sent to sweden over allegations of rape but we can lease founder julian assange just climb to the top position and times online poll to be named person of the year in stark contrast to the us there have been calls for some high profile figures for the internet whistleblower to face execution all because he sighed published secret american diplomatic cables containing criticism of its allies assad is being held in london over at his ations 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
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but as independent journalists antony loewenstein in sydney says even if a son has silenced their all the others. well i think this certainly been rumors for a long time to the u.s. government would like to get a song in silence here and we should leaks i mean it's something that many of us in a stray you and me it's the world fundamentally opposed and we demand you strain government provide found more support and resistance to those things if they happen one of the concerns that many of us have is that if this extradited from sweden that he will face a political trial rather than a legal trial and we will be an attempt to silence him for a very long time on spurious charges so we very much opposed it i very much oppose that possibility but i think it's a real risk and the truth is that if you knock out the julian songs tomorrow someone else will replacing the genie's you know the. investigative journalist
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antarctic contributor wayne madsen says we can weeks have shown how freedom of speech is in danger in the u.s. . 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 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 next 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 effects the latest wiki leaks revelations had around the globe always find more on our website r.t. dot com. and find out how the whistleblower website could unveil the secrets of the
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russian nato strategic partnership oscars and voyage of nato anticipates the difficult discussions ahead seize interview online. and barack obama faces the second year blues of previous democratic presidents but whose example will he follow bill clinton or julie carter think it through with our typical. bonus time is approaching on wall street and to the anger of many their rewards are set to rise but it's not just bankers bonuses going up so as unemployment across america all linked to the massive seven hundred billion dollars bailout to the biggest financial institutions in the country are these marine a fortnight reports. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars now the
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first floor thirty thousand to thirty two thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office at 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 . you think. are back to indulge it pampering at the law at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this skin caviar
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body cream 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 the 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 year for more. business boosted perhaps by bonuses coming from one street where street is the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million. apparently about four percent from last year's record haul if anyone would know
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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 a nearly naked 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 could get him for ten ounces of cool beef seared gras 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
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doesn't like 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 were 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 us economy. to purveyors of all things luxury. are in fact surging while the majority of
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americans are left wondering when life will finally begin looking as pretty as the painting marina port naya r.t. new york terrance landed a sounder as a trans research institute says washington 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 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
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it happened in front of everyone's eyes wall street has hijacked washington and who's the most dangerous banker in america that's among the financial scandals discussed in this week's kaiser report coming up in about fifteen minutes here an hour to. j.p. morgan to j.p. morgan as the fed that's part of the u.s. banking cartel jamie diamond is ben bernanke is dirty underwear. and ben bernanke gives jamie diamond a few billion fresh t. bills 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 diaper debt collateralized by baby poop and your old tired global economy goes into the into the swamp about why it is jamie diamond and want to animal baby right now being violated by a black mortars zero never is down there walking on broken glass eating broken
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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 freeze 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 brakes hour to six on a boy who 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. most schools 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 an early start. to the half hours that's an average time most cool water is
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found stuck in traffic jams every day that's a world record that's quite literally drives people wrong the bad guys because this simply rank among the air in greece drivers on the planet. yet while some 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. i used to be very first rate about the time i was wasting in traffic jams but then i came across audio books and i changed it all not only do enjoy being on the road sometimes they deliberately take a long road just to finish listening to the past two years sergey has refresh his english and learn some german all sat behind the will conversational spanish is his next goal. is that it's your.
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last year. and the other way out for stress motorists is bringing some of the comforts of home with them and go to eleven and suggest sales of car garge it's on the rise. we see a lot of demand for my vacation devices wouldn't bill to be to those with so much traffic we have in moscow i guess people spend more time in their cars wishing to be 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 also she could travel comfortably and stylishly through the clogged. i raised him by a waist. 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
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front that's why drivers are finding new ways to see back relax and go with the flow however slow it's not like an artsy moscow. and out of other headlines from around the world the u.s. house of representatives have approved legislation giving 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 day need to go into trial was found guilty of just one of hundreds of terrorist charges against him it's a setback to president obama's efforts to close the military prison. at least nine 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 a wire of the trains of all to go over the other officials at the crash was the result of a signaling error the military has been called to a system urgency services in rescue operations. forces on the ticket stand have
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seized more than one hundred seventy kilos of marijuana on the afghan border armed afghan drug dealers trying to cross a border under the cover of the night escape after a short clash with police more than two tons of drugs have been seized stamp since the beginning of the year russia began a stand pakistan at the ticket stand have agreed to combine joint and in her contacts operations. and of the drugs trade in afghanistan as a native to the country but what was a but was sparked by dramatic events there that's the view of the ag and coward or kardex minister who spoke to r.t. the full interview is coming your way in just over an hour's time but here's a quick look. 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 is a very short time to harvest you that's why they chose this way. time
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now for a business update charla's farley is here with us. zob . but i welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me charlayne was folly the first time ever russia has sold more balls than it offered the country's finance ministry so two hundred nine billion dollars of noise more than one hundred ninety billion that it had planned making at the highest yield in six months they say russia had to accept this because of rising inflation which will cause the cost of borrowing to grow in the near future. opec appears
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unlikely to raise all supply limits to caffarelli in the oil price when it meets on saturday with ministers insisting while the economic growth can hold out crude at ninety dollars a barrel prices have benefited for a severely cold winter and improve economic outlook and upbeat for calls from goldman sachs another bags behind all pro prices in two thousand and eleven no shock news is expected from the meeting in the ecuadorian kept secret so that it might create debate because at the time for the next year opec members already producing well above their quotas any increase in production saving would send a clear message to markets is concerned about runaway prices dumping economic recovery. still now russia's aims to build a new plant in india and a joint venture with the state backed m m d c the project is worth more than two billion dollars and it's the first time several sellers go to a plant from scratch it proves the point only got to tease him to claim the usa in
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europe the company is seeking to get rid of crude of all the book india is seeing the fastest growing steel consumption in the world. that is also interested in the markets southeast asia and africa. leading a soft drink producer pepsi co will invest more than warm billion dollars in the russian market in the next three years that's according to the local head. our c.e.o. was here in russia what a year ago she committed in the noise she committed to about a billion dollar investment over the next three years and we've already invested in the no more than the old line south of moscow where we produce t.v. we produce all of our serious these we're going to expand very very supply and are investing in logistic distribution centers we're building as a p i two systems across the business so we commit to these one billion dollars daily with acquisition of will build out this will go up and so believe our
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investment commitments to russia will be much more than one billion dollars over the next three years. time now see how the markets are performing here in russia both of the climbing and the r.t.s. already outboard one percent that bouncing back after a study session on wednesday with both indices finished well in the red bull the main players are surging with no real snick of a main gain at one point five percent. over in asia stock markets are mostly high i would take a market benefiting from a lower yen to present a case that one point five percent opposed to finish for the u.s. stocks on wednesday aided regional sentiment with financial stocks wising on the back of gains in their peers on wall street. 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 of raise around two hundred fifty billion dollars from listings since the beginning of this year and prophecies will surpass three hundred billion by the end of december the growth has been mostly driven by asian markets on kong also seventy four seventy four i.p.o.'s generating more than
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sixty billion dollars billion was raised by russia's result and the agricultural bank of china a charge of twenty two billion dollars in the largest i.p.o. ever expect continue growing next year. moving to the auto industry now and sales of new calls a light commercial vehicles in russia have rocketed eighty percent year on year as according to the association of european businesses the number of vehicles sold reached almost one hundred ninety thousand to. biggest monthly number in two years and they say the growth was supported by post crisis recovery and the state rebate program used a lot so far this year cotton valen sales are up twenty eight percent. the russia's largest mine a nickel sold thirty eight percent of its u.s. unit stillwater mining company the sell it raise seven hundred million dollars on the secondary market and it has to sell another ten percent of still some point in
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the future nearest nickel bought a fifty one percent stake in two thousand and two almost three hundred fifty million dollars it says it's selling mistake due to the lack of operational control . a member of the state duma has suggested fining russia is the gambling l side this song designs at the moment the law organization setting up gambling halls of casinos anywhere other than in four zones specified by the government but no such legislation exists for the citizens which is pushed many underground is cost anyone caught gambling could be subject to a fine of sixteen to sixty five dollars. and that's your update for this hour but you can always buy most doris' on our website or to dot com slash business.
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