still pressure. stunts team don't. thousands gathered in london to present to game stop rising university tuition fees as darkness falls the protests turned violent and the parliament's got to focus on the match and. even with unemployment and homelessness in the u.s. soccer a fifty year high banks may pay out bonuses early to help the wall street elite avoid higher taxes next year. as winter slows down moscow's already tough commute some drivers are finding unusual way used to fight off road rage as they pass the time and traffic jam.

live from the center of moscow this is r.t. welcome to the program london is the scene of mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unionists it's the final attempt blocks the raising of the fees with just about a several hours left before the british government votes on the plan it's the latest in a string of rallies against a sweeping austerity measures and budget cuts across europe we can of course live to our teaser laura matt who is in london for us nationally laura i understand you're on the embankment on the river just steps away from the point where the protests are now earlier we saw you in the heart of london the protests of march towards westminster in the houses of parliament tell me what do you see that at the moment. well you are right worrying about three hundred meters away from the main praised you might be able to see remnants of it just behind me here the men. the

main process is taking place right in front of the houses of harlem where a parliament where police have cordoned the protesters into an area it's a little bit scratchy there at the moment there's a sort of small outbreaks of violence processes trying to break away from the main group and the police for the large part of that a large part letting them but also making their way up just over here towards trafalgar square so really there's this group if you walk around the city of going to the moment there's groups of of protesters all over the place with banners and shouting slogans and all that kind of thing has started starting to get dark here there are pockets of violence pay people trying to break through these police cordons throwing firecrackers firecrackers and and using flares which of course will only are in my opinion from what i've seen of other protests get worse as darkness falls and as the night draws in that churchill to take place in a couple of hours we're not sure if that they will be on time or not but it's unclear what will happen if news comes to the crowd that the measure has indeed

gone through to increase university tuition fees now to talk about the issues surrounding this whole i'm joined by dr levy rather and who is e.u. policy alice at the bridge group to us rather and thanks for talking to us now let's talk about what's brought these protests on we heard a statement from gordon brown talking to the b.b.c. this morning about how the problems in the eurozone were amounted to much more than just debts of banks and that he saw a crisis in the areas and coming in the first few months of next year what's your view on that well i'm glad he's repaired he's been rather off the very edge of lace and frankly a little bit too to do too late with the been a number of people have been saying this isn't just a make crisis that's part of the whole euro zone package for the last ten fifteen twenty years so to pop up now and say that's a problem is it's not exactly for sorry to charge that you've been predicting a crisis in the year is in for quite a long time if i'm not mistaken what what sort of crisis do you think they'll be

what will it's what shape will it take. the fundamental crisis it was down to you don't have a single economic sector as it were within the whole of the eurozone you've got you've got the north and you've got the south basically and you have countries that are more or less on top of their deficits and the national debt police had to more listen to control and those countries which are important in a particular case obviously greece and ireland which had a lesson to control and so you had a systemic problem quite from the very outset that people try to flee from the carpet and that's a lot of problems of ours today it's not simply the banking sector i mean obviously the issue is the problems with. the reckless loan lending by one of the banks has had a major part of that has also been to do with the eurozone crisis and on top of that built into that the fact that ok even such as the u.k. have now got to get to grips with public spending we have such

a huge deficit the amount we're spending on paying off followed simply the interest on loans this is in the order of a defense budget it's just actually untenable and therefore there is why this have to are taking place because the cuts have to happen and what we're seeing here really is an extension of what we see no labor europe isn't it where ordinary people come atom's the streets and say we're fed up with paying for the mistakes of the amounts to a privileged few yes absolutely i mean most famously of course recently in ireland i think people are less put in the connection between the crisis here and the u.s. and then they have in other countries and i think to be honest it's it's not quite as parky today as it has been of late and about i think certainly come the new year they'll be a lot more protests as as as a lot more people get out on the streets and we've seen allies irish banks say that they're going to pay out for see million euros in bonuses to their employees in the next couple of weeks following the bailout of their banking sector i mean what

effect do you think that's going to happen this kind of demonstrate. well i think so if the going to annoy a lot of people. per se i personally have no objections to people who work or getting bonuses but clearly if public money is being put into a business in order to help it survive and make it's for you then people should be responsible about the goodness personal view but i think i think that's one shared by the vast majority of public ok doesn't he rather and thank you very much for talking to us now we're going to be hail leaving you can hear those helicopters going by above me police helicopters and news helicopters out of course recording what's going on during this demonstration as i say i am expecting violence to get slightly worse as the night draws in and demonstrators say they're going to be holding a candlelight vigil not very far from here whilst the base is taking place at six o'clock london time so we'll have to see what happens as the night draws on indeed or we'll have to see if the today's protests have any effect on the government vote happening this evening thanks so much ati's laura met and dr lee roth and from

taxpayers alliance live from london thank you. well in the latest edition of his program the kaiser report max kaiser asks stop financial terrorists from plaguing the world's economies that's coming up a bit later here on arts. at the federal j.p. morgan to j.p. morgan i was the fed that's part of the u.s. banking cartel jamie diamond give ben bernanke is dirty underwear and ben bernanke he gives 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 diaper debt collateralized by baby poop and your old tired global economy goes into the into the swamp now why is jamie diamond in want to animal bay right now i don't get it.

america's largest banks may pale bonuses in december rather than early next year this is so wall street at least can avoid higher tax rates with hopelessness at a level not seen since the depression critics have slammed to the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a very hefty government bailout artie's marina portnoy looks at this flow of money which many americans say is just going straight into the pockets of the fact cats. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars now in the 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 like yourself 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 so you think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. after you think areas are back to indulge in pampering at the la perri spa 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 get their employees coming at a time when corporate america is banking record breaking profits with fifty dollars . for an. informed choice to. business at wembley 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 trying to get more. business boosted perhaps by bonuses coming from a one street where street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four. and apparently up four percent 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 it doesn't come free for an evening six seven eight thousand dollars ten thousand dollars it's hard not to have a good time when you're surrounded by nearly naked beautiful women view 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 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 army. in this so-called rebounding u.s. economy. purveyors of all things luxury are in fact surging while the majority of americans are left wondering when life will finally begin looking as pretty as the painting. r.t.

new york. executives skimming the cream off the top of the banking sector increasing the gap between the rich and poor the view of general. trends research institute. 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 boy the 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 zaz wall street has hijacked washington. still to come for you here on r.t. exercise for american pilots while celebrating the end of a joint military drill in russia u.s. aviators joy spills into a booze brawl in a siberian hotel. is. learning a foreign language is is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's top traffic stay with us to learn more. by now turning our attention to the issue that of wiki leaks and swedish governments website is reportedly facing a cyber attack from supporters of the arrested whistleblowers founder julian assange he remains in a british prison and faces extradition to sweden over allegations of sexual assault

around five thousand hackers are now reportedly taking part in the cyber attacks and it comes as the wiki leaks founder is leading an online poll for time magazine to be named its person of the year amid reports he would then be extradited to the u.s. some american politicians have even suggested a sound it should face execution civil rights activist. who is from the songes native australia says there is an all teary eyed motive for the extradition well to discuss the latest developments of the story we're now joined live by the leader of sweden's pirate party rick. so your party's website has reportedly come under attack as well why do you think that is. in hers and i think that's because we are supporting wiki leaks there's an all out war going on on the net right now with the both factions trying to silence the other which ironically is quite the opposite of the freedom of expression that wiki leaks is fighting for or let's talk more about

these cyber attacks here because around five thousand people are said to be involved in the cyber attacks are we witnessing some kind of global information war possibly it is it has been called the first information war the first serious information war and it is being fried were fort worth new weapons and a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle of it's still a battlefield so. the prosecution authority in sweden have been has been attacked visa has been attacked master card has been attacked. twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wiki leaks have been attacked in the past few days and so have. been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now that's turning our attention away from the issue of these cyber attacks let's talk about the wiki leaks founder julian assange rape charges have resurfaced against him and after

being dropped in the first place and there's talk of america wanting extradited eventually from sweden to the u.s. tell me this why is why sweden bowing to u.s. pressure here if this is the case. so we don't hurt a very poor record unfortunately of being independent from the us. the politicians claim that we have quite an independent justice system we'll see how that holds out in this case though i don't see an extradition to the us coming anytime soon however it's clear that julian assange is not a person who should be in jail for journalism if he has committed a sexual sexual offense then that's a separate issue from wiki leaks. i do not think this is politically motivated at least i sincerely hope so now that we've heard some reports from u.s. politicians on capitol hill calling for a song to be executed now we also hear reports of a song you're leading an online poll for time magazine's man of the year what does

your vote go i did vote for julian assange as well i think it's appalling that politicians when faced with somebody just putting down their pens and exposing their lies are calling for sources to media to be executed that is not how we do it that is not how we handle media that it's said that that which can be destroyed by the simple truth deserves to be all right while there we are speaking to the head of a sweden's pirate party rick thank you very much thank you. well moscow wants an explanation from nato over a wiki leaks report the alliance agreed a plan to defend the baltic states and poland against russia the revelations follow the nato russia summit in lisbon which had been hailed as a breakthrough in relations between the two sides russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says reports the alliance may still consider russia

a potential threat has put a question mark over nato sincerity. they began that planning in december last year just as we held a ministerial meeting of the russian nato council where we decided to move on after the two thousand and eight crisis in the caucasus so it means that on one hand needle was talking with us about partnership and on the other was taking decisions to protect itself against us secondly these plans seem to have been approved in lisp on another platform of the needle russia council where president did it would need to leaders approved documents calling us strategic partners so there is a question about when nato is sincere when it's openly talking with us about partnership or when it's secretly deciding you monster itself somewhat different things. when asked about the wiki leaks revelations the secretary general of the alliance anders fogh rasmussen refused to comment but nato is chief insisted his

organization does not seen russia as an enemy. well you can always access more information of all of our stories with a simple click of your mouse you can do that on our new and improved website dot com it's a quick look at some of the things we have waiting for you on line right now our friend electric a boy with leukemia sees through the eyes of a robot to keep up with schoolwork while he copes with his long term illness. and we'll keep going that's what tourists say after a spate of mine usual and terrifying shark attacks in the popular sharm el sheikh resort in egypt the attacks left four injured and one person dead. five american pilots who thought alcohol is the best way to keep themselves warm in

the freezing cold in siberia and now in the media spotlight c.c.t.v. footage shows a brawl involving the servicemen who were in russia for military drills it's now been leaked online the fighting broke out in one of the most luxurious hotels in the siberian city of last month the pilots got drunk while celebrating their last day of service and began bothering the hotel staff failing to gain their attention the brawlers switched to each other security forces had to get involved to stop the punch up between the drunk service men all five left russia straight after the round with the protection of diplomatic immunity while traffic jams are as prominent a feature of the russian capital as red square and of moscow's roads are not just choked by cars at rush hour the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day now this is led to some motorists coming up with some rather creative ways to pass

the time in gridlock. on a park or found out. terrified of traffic. most cause 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 tired most cool water is found stuck in traffic jams every day that's a world record that's what police really drives people wrong that bad what's the voice because this simply rank among the areas 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 spend anything five and a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as an average traveller he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. i used to be very first to

the buggy turmoil as we stand traffic jams but then i came across audiobooks 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 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. last year. and the other way out for stress motorists is bringing some of the conference of home with them and it go to eleven suggests sales of car guard jets are on the rise. we see a lot of demand for my vacation devices wouldn't be able to be to those with so much traffic we have in moscow against people spend more time in their cars watching t.v. and 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 crash debris and stylishly through the globe highways and byways with. me i keep the sand watch in my car and 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 of eternity and 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 down a bike or artsy. time out of the business news with korea. hello welcome to our business program here on r t thanks for watching a group of french delegates including prime minister francois fillon is in moscow

for talks on joint efforts in the economic scientific technical and humanitarian sectors our seas correspondent daniel bushel reports ok will have that all bush will reporting on this event later in the program prime minister porter wants a homegrown pharmaceutical industry to supply ninety percent of essential drugs as the put in says he wants fifty percent of medical equipment to be produced domestically by twenty twenty analysts say the move seems to conflict with calls to build a more open economy there is always a constant conflict for a government between trying to protect the must of producers and opening the economy but i will have to help on the opening i mean and in case of the pharmaceutical industry there is a difference between desired and possible most of the world is supplied by international conglomerates that spend a lot of money on r. and d. to be able to produce new drugs and it's very difficult to supply those all

replicated to must acquit. the presidents of russia billows and covered stan are holding talks in moscow on thursday to cement the legislative basis of the trilateral customs union and single economic space r.t. correspond to tell you who was at the event at the latest. today longshot how sad it will cancel the world taxes for belarus after creating a single economic zone between russia belarus and kazakhstan and if president lukashenko had any doubts left about this this seems to have been the final argument to convince him and today and in his turn he promised that belarus would rectify the package of the documents needed for creating a single economic zone by as soon as first of january next year which is in less than a month and all three countries together with the overall population of one hundred and seventy million people will make up for eighty percent of the economic power of the uses sorry used to happen and to three leaders today have said that other

countries are welcome to join and this is the next step towards deeper corporation between these three countries of course they face a number of difficulties while working on this package of documents as it was done in such a short period of time right after preaching the customs union the similar difficulties that european leaders were facing more creating with the e.u. but sir the three leaders today have said that's we shall see a single economic zone between russia kazakhstan and belarus boy as early as the first of january two thousand and twelve. let's have a look at the markets now here in russia the board has closed higher on thursday most of the blue chips climbed with energy majors the best performers receive the transoceanic more than half a percent stocks in europe are pointing upwards with dutch chip equipment group s.m.l. up seven percent up from lifting its water booking estimate for the fourth quarter miners are doing well in the footsie with the prisoner all over. and u.s.

stocks are high off the unemployment claims dropped to second lowest level this year stocks are trading highest level since september two thousand eight hundred three that u.s. wholesalers rode more than twice as much for a company called soft to me the biggest sales gain and seven months. now a group of french delegates including prime minister francois fiona is in moscow for talks on joint efforts in the economic scientific and technical human terran sectors oxys correspondent daniel bushnell was at. you know already news just in the bread dough will be allowed to take control of russia's ailing car manufacturer that was a quote from him as of the head of mega corporation ross technologies which controls parts about the best ross is really a don't think the french model of economy and management data intervention in the economy government backing of a mega corporation such as ross

a knowledge of and all flood nationalize they should all strategic industries also the french utilities key shareholders in goes from may new to pipelines to europe that's north stream and sell stream rosters all for helping to build the airball fees for which are based in fraud trade turnover has also almost returned to twenty to pre-crisis levels between france and russia that's almost fifteen billion dollars we expect the number of other deals today notably in energy and skolkovo which is russia's new silicon valley project throughout the course of today. on this edition of business r.t. but you can always find lost or if you log on to our web site that's artie dot com .

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