students stage a protest in london the head of a parliamentary vote on tuition fee hikes rage they have to pay for the mistakes of those holding the purse strings. even with unemployment and homelessness in the us of a fifty year high banks may pay out bonuses to help the wall street elite avoid higher taxes. while the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks awaits a legal decision in the u.k. his supporters are attacking the website of the government of sweden which seeks his extradition.

from our studios here in central moscow this is r t with the twenty four hours a day london is the scene of mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unionists it's their final attempt to block the increase in tuition fees with just a couple of hours left before the british parliament votes on the plan it's the latest and the largest in a string of rallies against sweeping austerity measures and budget cuts across europe started as a relatively peaceful march later turned into violent clashes with the police which is largely outnumbered by the demonstrators parties or emmett's is among the protesters and we'll get the latest from her. a little later here on the program meanwhile the former british prime minister gordon brown has said the problems in the eurozone have amounted to much more than just the debts he fears the euro will face tough times in the first months of two thousand and eleven brahman the head of research at the adam smith institute says there is certainly some truth in this.

for once gordon brown's actually been right about something i mean it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the. crisis i think it is probably because of the government it wouldn't be surprising that. excuse ramping up government debts by a responsible but i think the bailout in ireland has failed to markets. still extremely high that we see in portugal and spain creeping up words as well so i think we're probably going to see quite a difficult year for the it's not the end of the sooner the better really i think we need to see start looking to the future and looking at how countries can return to their old turn to a way that they're able to get their way out of these kind of. high or low interest kind of bubbles that the euro is creating and get into a position where they have a currency that suitable for their own economies france and germany which is really what the euro zone project is all about. the taxpayer says the u.k. has such a budget deficit due to wasteful spending that there is no avoiding cuts it's not

simply the banking sector i mean obviously the issue is the problems with. the reckless loans lending by the banks has had a major part of this it's also been to do with the eurozone crisis and on top of that built into that the fact that such as the u.k. have now got to get to grips with their public spending we have such a huge deficit amount we're spending on paying off followed simply the interest is in the. defense budget it's just the untenable and therefore there is why this have to are taking place because the cuts have to happen. and in the latest edition of his program max kaiser asks how to stop financial terrorists plaguing the world's economies that's coming up a little later here in r.t. . the fed owns j.p. morgan j.p. morgan as the fed that's part of the u.s. banking cartel jamie dimon gives ben bernanke he is dirty underwear and ben bernanke it 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 does john diaper 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 i don't get it. the u.s. is largest banks may pay out bonuses this month rather than early next year and so wall street's elite can avoid higher tax rates and with homelessness at a level not seen since the depression critics of slander saddam's that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout artesian report now looks at this flow of money which many average american say is going straight into the pockets of fat cats. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars now 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 kristi'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 . that afternoon think. 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 thousand. from 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 time getting. some new business boosted 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 mil. and apparently about 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 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 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. 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. street c.e.o.'s and other top executives are skimming the cream off the banking sector increasing the gap between rich and poor well that's the view of gerald celente he's the founder of the 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 forty nine 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. still come out few extra exercise for american pilots were celebrating the end of a short military drill in russia the u.s. aviators joy spills into a boozy brawl in a siberian hotel. that it's

supposed. to sit no need for now which is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's tough traffic stay with us for more on that story. moscow wants an explanation from nato over a wiki leaks report the alliance agreed to plan to defend the baltic states and poland against russia the revelations form of the nato russia summit in lisbon which had been held 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 russia 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 partner 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 it's still somewhat different things. when asked about the wiki leaks revelations the secretary general of the alliance fogh rasmussen refused to comment that nato chief insisted his organization does not see russia and enemy. and staying with wiki leaks the swedish government's 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 sexual assault allegations around five thousand hackers and they are reportedly taking part in the cyber attacks it comes as the wiki leaks founder is leading an online poll for time magazine to be named its person of the year and it reports he would then be

extradited to the u.s. some american politicians have even suggested he should face execution either a sweden's pirate party says there is an unprecedented information war going on online. there's an all out war going on on the net right now where 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 it has been called the first information war the first serious information war and it has been tried or fort worth new weapons and a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle of the. still a battlefield so. the prosecution thought and so you don't have been has been attacked visa has been a tight master card has been attacked. twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wikileaks have been attacked in the past few days. have been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people

it's very very intense on the net right now. but this cyber war is unlikely to prevent june in the extradition as there is an ulterior motive that's the view of civil rights activist lim hannan. just go look at the fact that how often does it all go off to people and sex related charges it's just i don't they are both be chasing people for your ex all the charges that are related to sexual offenses so i think it's completely politically motivated the swedish prosecutors dropped just this case to months ago right and now they've just picked it back up again up to the last really so i would say there's a very good chance that the american government is behind this one night that no doubt about it because if it definitely if you say she died from sweden to the u.s. what recourse the state saying i have no doubt whatsoever that the charges will right allegation charge will disappear and he will be facing espionage charges in

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choked by cars that russia the congestion continues throughout most of the day this is led to some motorists coming up with some rather creative ways to pass the time in the gridlock on a point to find out. 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 cool 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 muscovites 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 after five and

a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as an avid chappell or he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. i used to be very first to the buggy terminal as we stand 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 learned 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 motorists is bringing some of the comforts of home with them and it go to eleven suggest sales of car gotchas 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. 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 constantly and stylishly through the clogged highways and byways. of 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 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 the back relax and go with a smile however small. artsy. five american pilots who thought alcohol is the best way to keep yourself warm in the freezing cold of siberia and now in the media spotlight c.c.t.v.

footage showing a boozy brawl involving the servicemen who are in russia for military drills has been leaked online the fights broke out in one of the most luxurious hotels in the siberian city of new day 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 trunk serviceman or five left russia straight after the royal with the protection of diplomatic immunity. one hour back to our top story here this hour in r.t. mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unionists in central london against an increase in tuition fees are growing more violent. as in the center of it all and here's her latest report. i'm here in the thick of today's protests in london masses of people have come out to demonstrate against

a hike in university fees behind me it was estimated to be a round full two thousand people to come on to the streets the country today this is the main protest that you can see here there are also a straggling breaks of people all over london with finest out six but it could be any table they could smoke because the pretense of the burning that ban is no you can also probably hit some projectiles being thrown at the police to start they've got to make these police early it will wearing high visibility jackets yellow jackets but they were told by their superiors to take them off because that was the case but just behind what you can see all of the projectile the flare big throw you know set off a set and if it's tied to the police jacket catching fire today we're told to take them off it you can see how close westminster city inside this building m.p.'s will surely be voting on whether to increase university tuition fees this is what this protest all about here in the heart of london head just over here in this direction

downing street where the prime minister lives to quite full square for the role where demonstrations all say taking place but this is really part of a europe while eight demonstration against austerity measures the people here think that they are big day to pay for the mistakes of the privileged few because that property speculators and the money that they have lost a close earlier this week we saw protests in audience as well we've been speaking to some of the students and other people who are protesting here today and they are saying that they don't hold out much hope that the vote isn't going to be parsed in parliament but also that this is going to be the last step a straight and we're going to see on the streets of the u.k. let's hear what they have to say i don't have that much optimism in the bag but this today's meeting and it's because. as we speak to. so they seem to. treat snit more positively affected that is moving.

i predict that the gulf. states although we have seen violence here today they need just got dark really and we are expecting the meat to deteriorate a little bit once the darkness really sets in and also of course this crucial thing which is going to take place sometime after six pm here in london we didn't know what the mood of these protesters would be all of that data taking place in this nation has been pushed through to increase the university tuition fees the people here say that an increase in the situation fees would mean that university would become police say for the privilege for the few rather than the rights for the many and not something that they do want to see happen and indeed something that people only be sure about protesting against having to pay for what others have done all the more privileged few having to pay for the mistake that they made nor about reporting from the heart of london and of course we'll have more from there throughout the day here on r.t. now it's one of braving the antarctic and also braved the sky

a russian base jumper became the first person to leap off this two thousand meter whole mountain on the world's coldest continent well to learn more about what takes to perform a speech sports update that's coming your way in just about twenty minutes from now . well now in the meantime here's the latest business news with kareena stay with us for. how and welcome to our business program here on r t prime minister putin wants a homegrown pharmaceutical industry to supply ninety percent of essential drugs they support and says he wants fifty percent of medical equipment to be produced a mess to clean up by twenty twenty others 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 mass of producers and opening the economy but all have to happen 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 the international can go armored and spend a lot of money on or indeed to be able to produce new drugs and it's very difficult to supply those all replicated domestically and the president of russia belarus in kazakhstan are holding talks in moscow on thursday to cement the legislative base of the trilateral customs union and single economic space artie's corresponded that in overcover horse at the event has the latest. today russia has sad that it will cancel 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 seemed to have been the final argument to convince him and today and in his journey he promised that the others would ratify 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 the usus are used to have and to three leaders today have said that other countries are in some welcome to join and this is the next step towards deeper called ration 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 reaching the customs union the similar difficulties that european leaders were facing more and creating with the e.u. but so this really matters today have said that's we shall see a single economic zone between russia kazakhstan and belarus by as early as the first of january two thousand and twelve. and russian prime minister vladimir putin met his french counterpart in moscow for talks on joint efforts and the economic scientific technical and humanitarian sector and now i'm joined live by parties

caused by the daniel voice oh hello to daniel so what came out of this meeting between russian and french p.m.'s and is this a new phase in russian french relations. for me or tried to reassure investors that he's welcoming foreign investors off to send mixed messages in the polls he said that french companies will play a central role in the world with gas field which he said will be delayed but will still happen he added investment is a true. st all calling on europe to baltimore russian gas this winter and live uprooted are diverse this should look more to russia's regions for growth in the future he saw to the success of europe's number to call me. detroit which is an industrial production cluster in the kluger region sells all of the capital in fact trade between the two countries has jumped more than

a third this year to over fifteen billion dollars and russia is adopting frauds is more ball of economic management with strong state control and the parking of joy and to fill still call for asia. when it comes to the economy believe it through to the suggested that the two countries all developing a special relationship. with. i can say that working on the global energy markets french companies are the most promising partners for us they are literally strategic partners but you know to me. ok daniel thanks very much for this update that was our correspondent reporting on the meeting between russian and french prime ministers covering canonic scientific technical and humanitarian spears. and let's look at the markets now here in russia the bourses closed higher on thursday most of the blue chips climbed with energy

majors the best the best performance of the buck the trend though shedding more than half a percent at stocks in europe makes this hour the forty's driven by gains among banks and insurers barclays and world bank of scotland are both up over four and a half percent so standard chartered she has dropped out of the bank warned of rising costs the dax is shedding less than a quarter. and u.s. stocks are higher after unemployment claims dropped to second lowest level this year stocks are trading at the highest level since. summer two thousand and eight and entries at us wholesalers rose more than twice as much as forecast of companies stocked up to the biggest sales gain in seven months. but it also telecoms group sistema says net profit rose twenty seven percent on the quarter to one hundred eighty three million dollars revenues grew more than a third to seven point three billion on the year drip of the year driven by the

performance of passion after oil company the company notes its consumer businesses are recovering including banking and tourism and yearly tabs profits were down almost ten percent from the third quarter of two thousand and nine president. outlined the company's investment strategy. very clear thirty june one. investing in two or three main groups of industries in one group as infrastructure projects and the company is the positive it is linked with the basic consumer needs second the info communications and the third direction is in case we have seen or just to invest into the project. by and then later with the state of the first generation. and that's our business update for this hour thanks for watching.

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