and he's a. he's. on the streets to protest. the government buildings and. the pennies. from. even with unemployment and homelessness in the u.s. at a fifty year high banks may pay out bonuses to help the wall street avoid higher taxes . if you're pushing for democracy push all the way. to put mr songs in jail is that democracy at work there's a saying about the pot calling the kettle black. the rest of the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks shows the west has no right to dictate its version of democracy to all those russian prime minister vladimir putin.

from our studios here in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day so the british parliament has just approved a bill to raise university tuition fees in england the vote came amid mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unions it turned out the largest in a string of ronnie's against sweeping austerity measures and budget cuts across europe well i'll take your emma to is in london for us with the latest developments laura the unpopular plan has finally gone through but with a very narrow margin give us the details on this. that's right but it was an unexpectedly merry margin even the people who are protesting and today didn't expect it to be this narry two hundred twenty three three hundred twenty three

m.p.'s voted in favor of the measure to increase university tuition fees and three hundred two voted against now in recent days we've seen a lot being of m.p.'s by their party leaders to vote in favor of this measure but that doesn't seem to have worked i mean obviously this measure has gone through in the end but it does suggest some want of a split in what is britain's first coalition government a coalition of the liberal democrats and the conservative party so that's been interesting in itself and of course it has sparked a lot of demonstrations across the country. today's demonstrations start of those quite a peaceful march but then in turn violent you've been in the middle of all of this throughout the day tell us what's been going on around you. we all right you did stuff fairly peacefully it's around midday today and it carries on that way with various groups of protesters converging on the houses of parliament which are about three hundred meters down the rate behind me then really as darkness fell sort of

around three thirty four o'clock i started to get get violent police have have trapped a large number of protesters just outside the parliament building and from that the process does assessing things on fire smashing telephone boxes we've seen received reports that some of them have in fact broken out and starting to smash the windows of the treasury which is just down the road that they release groups of of rampaging students throughout london but particularly in parliament square this evening throwing firecrackers at police and generally causing trouble we do have three protesters with us this hour they are not causing trouble they're very kindly speaking to russia today and we've got first madam what are you doing here why was it important for you to come down with our i was able to meet him. or use a university education myself and it didn't cost anything like what the coalition opposing and more subtly they voted for to tell you what the measures that are

taken nine thousand a year will prevent thousands of ordinary people from going to university than making an education system which is only available for the rich and this is another example i think of the government trying to make boldly people pay for a crisis that the rich created and camilla tell me how you feel about this mess and now that it's been passed now that it will become you know common practice and you know if they are really angry and very disappointed about what's happened but think can remember is that this is just the start of the protests when i'm a trade unionist on profit no enough come down to support the students because i think they've shown the way to go really left it we need much bigger protests they can trade unions are calling massive protests in march i think that we need more trade unions to come out and support them and and sara what about the violence that we've seen from what we must admit to be a small minority of protesters well i think what we've seen is the real violence has come first each side the violence has come from the place and charging the

source is not so the demonstration of students who want it to take that time is that democratic right to have a demonstration outside parliament which it contains the people who are supposed to represent us and i think the real violence comes from the condom government who are completely smashing up our education system smashing up the whole public services and people's lives are going to be destroyed by this people are rightly andre and i think a few broken windows along the way doesn't mean very much to and do you also think this is not the end accidently i think the part is the continued i think the student demonstrations over the last few weeks hundreds of thousand people on the streets around the country will actually be an inspiration to people whacking people who are facing similar attacks and they will come out and demonstrate and protest and bring down the government as well ok the message from the demonstrates is that this is by name means the end of what they'll be doing on the streets of london. all round the country you might be able to hear a helicopter just circling above me lot of helicopters in the sky watching what these protested doing on parliament square we're expecting this violence to

continue the greatest is that just about three hundred meters behind me don't like they're going anytime soon world war from you throughout the evening there in london but for the moment. live from the city there thanks very much indeed. 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 bowman the head of research at the adam smith institute says there is certainly some truth in this. actually right about something i mean it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the. continent wide crisis i think it is probably because of the government it wouldn't be surprising that. excuse is ramping up government. responsible but i think the bailout it failed to market. is still extremely high and we're seeing 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. turn to a way that they're able to get their way out of these kind of. high or low interest kind of bubbles at the euro was creating a position where they have a currency that's suitable for their own economies rather than for france and germany which is really what the euro zone project is all about. the u.s. is largest banks may pale bonuses this month rather than early next year so you can avoid higher tax rates with homelessness seen since the depression critics have slammed the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of the government. looks at this flow of money which many average american say is going straight into the pockets of fat cats. 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 fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand. it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars take from you amid the lackluster american economic climate christie's sunny days painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of impressionist and modern art sold it this year. since two thousand and eight we've seen an increasing return of confidence to the market. new york has once again become one of christie's selling sites sixty five. you would like to think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. after you think these are back to indulge in pampering at the law at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this caviar crane cream costing more than seven hundred

dollars for less than four ounces while the caviar fish show 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. stores to. business 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 call your. business boosted perhaps by bonuses coming from a one st louis street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million apparently up for the 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 a 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 particularly pretty for financier's working for america. his biggest investment banks where employee pay is expected to average half a million dollars or more but 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 two thousand dollars 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 marina port r.t. new york. street c.e.o.'s and other top executives are skimming the cream of the banking sector increasing the gap between the rich and the poor well that's the view. 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 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. well still to come this hour for you here an extra exercise for american pilots celebrating again joint military drill in russia u.s. aviators a joy spills into a boozy brule and a siberian hotel. that it's.

going to sit. in foreign languages is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's traffic stay with us for more on that story. russian prime minister vladimir putin says the arrest of the founder of wiki leaks web site julian assange shows the west doesn't follow the democratic rules it preaches the statement was made at the briefing with his french counterpart a forceful feel on thursday. so you for months. about the information on that renowned site wiki leaks did you really think the u.s. diplomatic corps is a transparent source of information as for mr sarge if you're pushing for democracy push all the way why then did they put mr sergeant jail is that democracy at work there's a saying about the pot calling the kettle black. he faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations around five thousand hackers and now 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 the reports who would then be extradited to the u.s. some american politicians have even suggested a son should face execution while the leader of sweden's pirate party says the cyber battle we're witnessing is unprecedented. 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 it has been called the first information war the first serious information war and it is being fried word for word new weapons in a new arena but it's still weapons under still a battle but it's still a battlefield. the prosecution thought and so you don't 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. but this cyber war is unlikely to prevent june in the songes extradition as there is an ulterior motive that's the view of civil rights activist liam hand. just go look at the fact that how often does interpol go up to people on sex related charges it's just it's unheard of they both be chasing people for your it's own charges that relates a sexual offenses so i think it's completely politically motivated the swedish prosecutors dropped just this case two months ago 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 night that no doubt about it if you get say it definitely if you say she died from sweden to the us

labor force the state say i have no doubt whatsoever that he is charges will be staged right allegation charges will disappear and he will be facing espionage charges in the united states civil rights activism hand and then you can access more information on one of our stories with a click of your mouse on a new and improved website it's on t. don't come is a quick look at some of the things we've got a few online moments of friends and they create a boy with leukemia to see through the eyes of a robot to keep up with schoolwork while he copes with his long term illness. will keep going that's what tourists say after a spate of unusual and terrifying shark attacks in the popular sharm el sheikh resort in egypt four people injured and one person dead.

traffic jams as prominent a feature of the russian capital is red square and that's because roads are not just choked by cars at rush hour the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day well listen to some motorists coming up with some rather creative ways to pass the time in the gridlock is all teams of santa boca found out. 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 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 guys because this simply rank among the air in the area thrivers 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 after five and a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as another traveler he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. i used to be very first to you about the term i was wasting into i think germans but then i came across audio books and i changed it all not only do enjoy being on the road sometimes or 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 and suggest sales of car garge it's on the rise. we see

a lot of demand for my vacation devices with them built to be to those with so much traffic we have in moscow i guess people spend more time in their cars watching to be following directions and some resort to even more exam trick 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 globe 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 overturn it. and eternity can seem like a very real concept while stationary in your car staring at the brake lights and frond that's what a driver is they're finding new ways to see back relax and go with the flow however slow. are at sea. 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 were in russia for military drills has been leaked online the fight broke out at one of the most luxury of hotels in the siberian city of new day last month the polish got drunk or celebrating their last day of service and began bothering the hotel staff training to gain their attention the brawlers switch to each other security forces had to get involved to stop the punch up between the drunk servicemen or left russia straight after the royal with the protection of diplomatic immunity. as well as braving the antarctic one man also braved the sky a russian base jumper became the first person to leap off this two thousand meter high mountain on the world's cold this continent or to learn more about what it takes to perform such a feat you can watch our sports update with kate partridge in about twenty minutes from now. well coming up after

a short break it's the business update with kareena stay with us for that. hungry for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. writer if you knew new songs from stu. don't come.

to our welcome to our business program here in our prime minister porter wants to a homegrown pharmaceutical industry to supply ninety percent of essential drugs put in says he wants fifty percent of medical equipment to be produced domestically by two thousand and twenty and i will 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 domestic 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 the 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 domestically a group of french delegates including prime minister francois feel was in moscow for talks on joint efforts in the economic scientific technical and humanitarian sectors are to correspond or parts. russia's premier tried to reassure investors

but he's welcoming foreign investors off to some mixed messages in the past he said that french companies will play a central role in the false documents gas field which he said will be delayed but will still happen he added investment is a two way street all calling on europe to buy more russian gas this winter let me refer to that investor should look more to russia's regions for growth in the future he cited the success of europe's number to call make up detroit which is set up an industrial production cluster in the kaluga region south of the capital in fact trade between the two countries has jumped more than a third this year to over fifteen billion dollars russia is adopting for all these multiple of economic management with strong states control and the parking all joy and industrial corporations when it comes to the economy but even pretend

suggested that the two countries all developing a special relationship microscopist over. i can say that working on the global energy markets french companies are the most promising partners for us they are literally strategic partners doing it but you know the presidents of russia belarus and kazakhstan are holding talks in moscow on thursday to cement the legislative basis of the trilateral customs union and single economic space r.t. correspondents i know the club 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 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 the uses sorry used to have and the three leaders today have said that other countries are in some 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 service 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. person markets closed higher on thursday most of the blue chips climbed with energy majors the best performance across north park the trends was it over a quarter of a percent banking stocks were the worst befall us with the to be setting more than

say. russian oil to telecoms group systemise 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 dollars a year driven by the performance of oil company a company you know it's going to have businesses are recovering including banking interest however and yearly terms profits were down almost ten percent from the third quarter of two thousand and nine present many of them. matt outlined the company's investment strategy he very clear thirty june on. investing in two or three main groups of industries one group of infrastructure projects and the company is has a t.v. deal into the basic consumer needs seconded in full communications and the

direction is in case we have seen or just to invest into the project. and the related with the state of virginia. u.s. regulators have frozen assets of unnamed investors who bought shares in russian jews groovin bill done just before pepsico announced its takeover bid someone used a swiss bank account to buy four hundred thousand american depository receipts which are proxy for women gun shy as on the new york stock exchange it's illegal in most developed markets to use inside information to profit from moves in share prices russia adopted a law against inside trading though regulators are still working out how to enforce it when been done a.d.r.'s jumped twenty eight percent in new york last week that would have earned the unnamed investors a profit of about two point seven million dollars. that's your business update but you can always find most stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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