m.p.'s approved a hike in university tuition fees sparking violence on the streets of. smashed windows the government buildings are reportedly attack a car carrying the prince of wales from london in just to make. even with unemployment and homelessness in the us at a fifty year high banks may pale bonuses early to help the wall street and meet avoid higher taxes. plus more explanation of nato's plan to defend the baltic states and poland against russia which was revealed by wiki leaks founder of the website while waiting for extradition in a british jail has got support from all over the world.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is all to be with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour so the british parliament has approved a bill to raise university tuition fees in england the vote came amid mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unionists that taking part in the largest of a string of rallies against sweeping a starting measures and budget cuts across europe when i was in london for us with the latest developments laura tell us more about this bill which calls such anger and violence throughout the day that. it has caused a lot of anger and violence and it's a bill which has been under discussion for some time and it's now being approved by a much narrow majority than was expected three hundred twenty three members of parliament for the bail. three hundred two. that suggests that really the

first splits in this liberal democrat conservative coalition this ruling the u.k. at the moment that has sparked angry demonstrations i can actually hear smashing bottles behind me but i can actually see what's going on i think we're about to be heckled by some people and we seen demonstrations going on throughout the day we've seen a car which was containing the prince of wales and his wife travelling to the thing attacked it was his when days kicked in by processed as it is covered in paint they are now on homes and they are attending. according to the police around twenty people have been arrested three police officers have been injured one of they are in hospital one of them was knocked unconscious during that attack and six protesters have been injured and they are also in hospital but we've really seen this scene the worst of this process we think we now think striking is leaving the area i'm joined by a seasoned pre-tested chris knight he's also

a professor of anthropology we're very lucky to be joined by him because he has been inside this school all day as far as i understand chris what were you seeing going on inside that cordon how pleased are you with the way the process going today for me this is. the spirit of sixty eight come again we. saw in paris and in prague of course young people leaving the struggle for freedom and first the students moved and then the work has this is exactly what's happening here except i think it will be in a much bigger scale but across europe what happened in parliament square was absolutely brilliant we've shown this illegal government this government that in power on the basis of electing electoral fraud that they haven't got very much longer in power they but we came within a whisker of. their days are numbered this government will food and we will replace it across europe in my view with popular sovereignty government by the people for the people of the people. of the people's republic across europe. missing in

a normal meltdown of the financial system this is the attack on students and university college is of course a part of that but everybody everybody is in the firing not even the police and the firing on of course. a government without any legitimacy it out at the end of the day it depends on to depend only on the police i don't have enough police i was going to say what do you do you think about this violence is it something that you regret is an unnecessary byproduct of this i'm not going to condemn anything which young people did today there's a lot of violence going on around there violence and crime going on in high places financial crime war crime line crime you know and i think we need to crack down on crime starting at the top we want to we want the rich to pay their taxes. you must be disappointed by this it misses the narry majority that this this measure is being passed by today and not a toll disappointed that voters got absolutely no validity those those those m.p.'s they represent nobody they represent nobody but none of us vote for any of what

we've got now and we know our employees in this country that they're flipping filling their expenses they're in there for the money they're purchased after they completely corrupt and the fact that they voted against was totally predict predictable of course it would have been good to be overthrown the government today we have to wait a bit but the biggest days are numbered to as somebody that we often see at all kinds of demonstrations of what are you going to do now what's your next step well we need to keep the pressure up you need to strike. and of course we're going to a number of events in the relatively near future not to twenty six will be a very big day when the taking in congress calls out to the trade union movement to london protests against the cuts affecting all sectors of society could be a million of us on the streets of london on that day and i think i think we should be thinking in terms of the people forming a government by the people for the people of the people we need to we need a plan taking over this country taking back our country and linking up with people in italy and ireland and you know across the tri. europe we need our country back

we need our continent back and i think there's a lot there's a lot to fight for and this is only to be relishing the beginning only the beginning today and we went to see the last of you i'm absolutely sure chris and i thank you so much for joining us well that's a view on the streets of london today from chris knight he's been inside that police cordon all evening as i say this is a demonstration that for now it has looks like it's coming to an end with people being let out of that court and fed across the river and being dispersed from that but it doesn't look like the last process that we'll have seen on the streets of london were it laura not the last we've seen of you because we'll have more from you in the next hour here on r.t. in the meantime thank you very much indeed live in london. the former british prime minister gordon brown has said the problems in the eurozone of 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 some berman the head of research at the adam smith institute says there is certainly some truth in this. for once 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. response. but i think the bailout it failed to market. is still extremely high now we're seeing portugal and spain creeping upwards as well so i think we're probably going to see. it's not the end of the sooner the better really i think we need to see it start looking to the future and looking at how countries can return to their old turn to a way. they're able to get their way out of these kind of. high or low interest kind of bubbles that the euro was creating position where they have a currency that's suitable for their own economies. and germany which is really the project is all about. us is largest banks may pay out bonuses this month rather than early next year so wall street can avoid higher tax rates and with

homelessness seen since the depression critics of the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government. 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 not the first floor thirty thousand take to thirty two thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office at fifteen sixteen seventeen 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. 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 la perouse spa at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this skin caviar 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 get their employees coming at a time when corporate america is banking record breaking profits one hundred fifty thousand. and one tries to fight 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 to. see your business boost and perhaps my bonus is coming from a one street where street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million i pads. 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. beautiful 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 half

a 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. 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 marina port r.t. new york. will 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 a 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 warty 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 zaz wall street has hijacked washington.

well still to come for you this hour how a boy can influence the decision of a prime minister that made his new dog the day the premier made his choice from one of the thousands of versions mailed to him by the public. has. learning foreign languages is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in tough traffic stay with us to see more of that story they are not. the first russia sees u.s. plans to send its fighter jets to poland as a threat to other country's national security the decision was announced by president barack obama. following their talks in washington this comes as moscow demanded explanations from nato for a wiki leaks from its agreed a plan to defend the baltic states and poland against russia revelations follow the nato russia summit in lisbon which had been held as a breakthrough in relations between the two sides russia minister sergei lavrov

says reports the alliance may still consider russia a potential threat has put a question mark over nato's 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 the one hand needle was talking with us about workmanship and on the other it was taking decisions to protect itself against us secondly these plans seem to have been approved list bought another platform over the needle russia council your president did it would need to leaders approved documents calling us strategic partners so there is a question about when nato in sincere when it's open to talking with us about what your ship was that were or when it's siding you monster it's somewhat different it's. when asked about hand wiki leaks revelations. the general of the anders fogh

rasmussen refused to comment but nato chief insisted his organization does not see russia as an enemy. as the whistle blows found the remains imprisoned the swedish government's website is reportedly facing a cyber attack from his supporters he faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations around five thousand hackers are now reportedly taking part in the cyber attacks it comes as julian assange 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 or leader of sweden's pirate party says the cyber battle we witnessing is unprecedented. 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 is being tried were fort worth new weapons and a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle it's still a battlefield so. the prosecution thought. has been attacked visa has been attacked master card has been attacked hate twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wiki leaks have been attacked in the past few days. who have been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now traffic jams are as prominent a feature of the russian capital as red square and moscow's right to not just choked by cars at russia the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day and this is led to some motorist coming up with some rather creative ways to pass the time in the gridlock as are 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 school water is found stuck in traffic jams every day that's a world record that's quite literally drives people wrong the bad guys consistently rank among the angriest 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 streak. sergei has spent anything after five and a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as an adult child alert he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. which i used to be very first through the. traffic jams but then i came across. being on the

road. for the past two years sergei has refresh his english and learned some german all sat behind the will conversational spanish is his next goal. and not a way out for stress motorist is bringing some of the comforts of home wisdom and ignoto evidence suggests sales of car gotchas on the rise. we see a lot of demand for have a geisha device has been built to be two years it was so much traffic with 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 psychics just come a few years ago she bought a hummer and hard to drive or also she could travel across the body and stylishly

through the globe. highways and byways. i keep the sand watch in my car i look at it when i need to make a decision and i have plenty of time for that moment around the city for me it's a symbol of life a symbol of our turning to. a maternity can seem like a very real concept while stationary in your car staring at the brake lights of wrong that's why drivers are finding new ways to see the back relax and go with the flow however small town america artsy moscow. where every dog has its day as did one canine now at the highest level of russian political life let me. buffy. follow the nationwide plan to help the prime minister was given the head by gary counterpart here last month the idea came from a five year old thema who's from moscow whose choice meant he got to meet in person and also turned in for the machine from right to show in front of. the. other boat

already was getting on well with the. one of the battle against drugs in afghanistan is intensifying with a new player joining the fight in central asian drug squad tets being formed here in moscow with russian. support while on the sidelines of that meeting r.t. talked to the drugs chief and the interview for his next.

i wanted to have million russians are addicted to dan harrowing afghanistan produces ninety percent of the drug a u.n. resolution describes the flow from this central asian country as a threat to international peace and stability here with me today is the afghan counter and a quarter minister mr is that our money thank you very much minister for being with me today. thank you i'm glad to talk to you. today the ne a while you're more than dry says about sixty five billion dollars that's five times bigger than the country's national budget who is behind this industry who takes the most benefit from it instead we do a shark out of the afghanistan itself as a victim of that evil afghanistan is

a country with nine hundred sixty thousand drug addicts which is why we started afghanistan as a victim of drugs it's a great evil for our country smugglers make huge profits and we can say for certain and prove that international terrorists are active in the part of afghanistan where opium is grown and drugs are manufactured we have already managed to cleanse twenty provinces of opium they are now ruled by law we don't have any problems with those provinces do minister say that the international terrorists mistaken the most benefit from it right that's correct we really mean. let us judge fairly afghanistan as a major manufacturer of opium is responsible for ninety percent of it on the other hand it's obvious that i hope you are wrong in the most restless areas we are but that this proves that there is a link to international terrorist organizations under taliban studies indicate of the taliban receives one hundred twenty five million dollars from drug exports therefore we can say international terrorists the taliban and organized crime

groups are involved those able to commit a violent to two categories when we say that millions of russians died from drugs nine hundred sixty thousand afghans are addicted to. afghanistan's efforts alone will not be enough while bank account is consumed five percent of drugs while the other ninety five percent are exported that's why we insist on international cooperation in the struggle against drug trafficking what is your strategy for fighting the trade more than. the drug problem has a domestic on an international side according to the strategy we've developed a joint opium exports were. trying to help our peasants financially so that they don't have to grow opium poppies to get poor peasants to give up opium affirming the government has devised an aid program with one encouraging them to grow other crops are just wheat but what concrete steps to take more of them which. counter-narcotics ministry persists on regional cooperation now the joint bilateral

operations against drug dealers are carried out in the country along with around the pakistan on what the operations were to take a star also in our plans in the past four years thousands of tons of narcotic drugs have been seeing just talking about concrete steps and international support russia advocates burning the poppy crop why cannot this be done. be able where i can say specifically that there are certain problems in the areas where the afghan government can do something against the opium poppy it has done so twenty provinces of been tens of opium plantations however in a province as war is going on with international coalition forces present the afghan army and the afghan national police force so certain problems are there and there are areas where the afghan government is not in control and if we destroy the opium fields this will result in under three children of those farmers will take revenge and join the taliban and these problems still exist are existing and will

exist therefore if we've managed to cut opium production only forty five percent it's only one aspect as a result of this reduction opium prices have soared later two hundred percent which by itself there is a huge demand which in turn is an incentive for the farmers to grow poppy as afghans themselves never grow poppies before the problem came to the country together with the war it's the result of the impoverishment brought on by droughts in the one hand and by war and the other on the poppy has a very short time to harvest that's why they chose that way and you've mentioned turn to figure a culture of the e.u. and us tonight about half of the. billion dollars to in terms of agriculture in afghanistan each year but many believe they small it disappears into a corrupt political system can you explain how this happens. fighting drugs is very complicated don it requires a very comprehensive approach like we see the provinces where the war still rages on where there is no security conference ninety eight percent of all poverty and

opium production so this is a huge problem that there is no security in those regions so can the countries donating their money to afghanistan be sure that they will go to what it is supposed to go. well not what you mentioned donated money disappearing i should say that of all the money allocated towards fighting the drug crimes of the afghan government spends twenty to thirty percent with the remaining seventy percent spent by the donors themselves they have their own projects which they found themselves yes investment of going to start very claims you are associated with the drug mafia in afghanistan and that he bought support for elimination of the rate of eighty fifteen thousand dollars a vote what do you say to these accusations. i have not heard carl icahn very say anything about me i'm not sure he may have said anything of this kind because he is

very pleased with my work to have been no resistance against me and my work is transparent u.s. general says that president karzai is the missing link in the war on drugs in afghanistan that has in that action has allowed heroin flourish as his accountant caltex minister what do you have to say to that. young who president karzai has been responsible in fulfilling his duties and the results are there twenty provinces i told you earlier have been cleansed of opium poppy some progress has been made in other areas president karzai attitude to these problems is a very responsible i don't agree with what general mcneill had to say. according to the agreements reached before twenty fourteen b. off towns will assume responsibility for security in the country i am sure when they've assumed as honored charge of their own country the efficiency of their work will grow at the same time i can assure you of the struggle against international terrorism on narcotic drugs is not a matter of one or two days it's a very long process this fight will continue for the international efforts are

needed to have bases abroad destroyed afghanistan will be fighting for the arts thank you very much minister for the time country and afghan people peace and prosperity in the nearest future thank you very much. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean if you would like to see if it will create this. city is under siege what is the future. this is an empty seat or is it time to seriously consider. wealthy british style.

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