the grand imperial. hotel treat. and approve university tuition fees sparking violence in the streets of london as the process wind down we look back on a day which has seen government buildings and even the royal family attack. even with unemployment and homelessness in the u.s. of a fifty year high banks may pay out. a void higher taxes. if you're pushing for democracy push all the way why did they put mr assad to jail . for. the rest of the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the west has no right to dictate its version of democracy to

all those prime minister. live from our studios here in central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day so london has erupted in protests the latest european capital to see huge demonstrations against government austerity cuts thousands of students and trade unionists flooded the streets as the british parliament narrowly passed a new law tripling university tuition fees well joins me now live from london. laura the bill that's brought student protest is into the streets it was passed by an extremely narrow margin but tell us why this new lower school so much public outrage. it was an unexpectedly three hundred. three to three hundred

two in the end and the sound bites of what this bill is about essentially is tripling the cost of going to university for students in the sort of next generation to not the students who are there now but the next generation of university students from around two thousand and twelve so the cost is going to rise from just under five thousand dollars to fourteen thousand dollars and so students are up in arms about that essentially and they were joined today by the trade unions the other thing that is really that students have found extraordinary about this is that the liberal democrats which is the party that is is popular among students and of course forms part of the coalition government that's ruling the u.k. at the moment the liberal democrats campaigned on a ticket of abolishing student fees altogether and now the anger is that they have turned around many old and they're now taking for a ride a student fees rather than abolishing them so there's a lot of anger at nick clegg the leader of the liberal democrats a lot of the chanting has been nick clegg shame on you for turning blue which is of

course the color of the conservative party to say that's what's been going on today essentially those are the bad bones of the. demonstration peacefully before the bill was passed in the mold they know that it's winding down what are your thoughts on the events we saw today. it did start peacefully it started in quite a sort of jolie way everyone was ever was chanting and shouting and singing but then of course it's winter here in the u.k. and say darkness comes quite early and that's when sort of rounds around tough boss three four o'clock it starts to turn fairly nasty and it's interesting that a lot of the students who we've spoken to at previous protests really condemned and he still see a violent but it's been actually more difficult states today to find students here which condemn the violence and let's just say what some of them had to say following the vote which of course they were disappointed at the result let's hear

what the students had to say. to our own times russians really trying to push through something that you guys will have passed today has been to because the people that i'm going to go to the best to be the working class is going to say the right people who are going to do something before i think because of the bill that's something for gay rights you know just somebody like to have that one lie to say yeah i mean if those protesters right either. we have seen quite a bit of violence today the police when the process was winding down a little bit she to fairly a fairly hot blooded quite angry statement they said that the offices had come to come to work today in an effort to facilitate a peaceful process but they found themselves under constant violent attack from these processes they said that they've been come under fire protesters are throwing

fences at them all the missiles and also we saw ourselves protesters throwing flags and firecrackers directly at police and we've also seen extraordinarily the cause of the prince of wales prince charles and his wife camilla attacked on their way to the theater and a group of protesters set upon that car they kicked in the wind days and they threw paint all avery the couple is on hand and they did carry on to their evening at that there too but they must be quite surprised to come across a group of protesters and we've also seen demonstrations all over town police tried to contain it about three hundred meters behind me and parliament square but it did break out on to oxford street and regent street the main shopping areas in london and also today we've spoken to chris knight he's a professor of anthropology and it's very rare to come to a demonstration in london in london at which he is not he's a seasoned demonstrator and he said essentially that he's pleased with how today went off and that this is just the beginning. for me vicious. spirit

of sixty eight come again. in sixty nine to shape a shortened parachute in prague of course young people leading the struggle for freedom and first the students moved and then the workers this is exactly what's happening here except i think it will be a much bigger scary walk across europe. as i say this demonstration is now winding down police have managed to get processed us out of column and square about three hundred meters behind me and they're feeding them across the bridge and hoping to pick them off from that the other thing that they're doing is letting them out very very slowly from that cordon they have pictures of processes to vandalize the treasury earlier on who smashed the windows and tried to get in and we're hearing reports that police are trying to identify those who vandalized the treasury from c.c.t.v. pitches that they have and so they're letting them out very slowly but one thing appears to be for sure from the people that we've spoken to today that this is not

the last protest that we're going to see in london in fact things could get demonstrably worse or at laura let's leave it there for the moment we'll hear more from you throughout the evening thanks very much in the meantime reporting live from london. other news now the u.s. is largest banks may pale bonuses this month rather than early next year so wall street's a leader can avoid higher tax rates with homelessness level not seen since the depression critics of the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout oh geez miniport looks at this flow of money which many average americans 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 nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty 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 it 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 her mere selling sites sixty five thousand dollars what you like so you would like to thank you just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. good afternoon think on the very spot our 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 fish shell 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 the 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 the price tags that exceed the average annual income of three u.s. households combined expecting a very very busy year the most probably the busiest i will see my business boosted perhaps by bonuses coming from one street where street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million a pair. 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 for the 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 eighty's also 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. edition of his program. plaguing the world's economies that's coming up in about twenty minutes from now. here's a preview. j.p. morgan of j.p. morgan as the fed that's part of the u.s. banking cartel jamie diamond is ben bernanke used dirty underwear. and ben bernanke 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 junk diaper debt collateralized by baby poop and your old tired global economy goes into the into the swamp now why is jamie diamond and want to animal bay right now i don't get it here.

russian prime minister vladimir putin says the rest of the founder of wiki leaks website to name a song shows the west doesn't follow the democratic rules of preachers the statement was made in the briefing with his french counterpart forceful feel on thursday. saying for months a quarter but still about the information on that renowned site wiki leaks did you really think the u.s. diplomatic corps is a transparent source of information to put much to ask for mr assad just if you're pushing for democracy all the way why did they put mr assad's in jail is that democracy at work there's a saying about the pot calling the kettle black. for civil mulcher. julian the sarge faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations around five thousand hackers are now reportedly taking part in the cyber attacks 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 be then extradited to the u.s. some american politicians have even suggested he should face execution leaders sweden's pirate party says the cyber battle with the sea 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 and it's still a battle of the still a battlefield so. the prosecution authority. 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 wiki leaks 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 julian assange extradition as there is an ulterior motive well that's the view of civil rights activist liam hanlon. just go look at the fact that how often does it all go off to people sex related charges it's just. old be chasing people for your ex all the charges that relate to sexual offenses so i think it's completely politically motivated the swedish prosecutors dropped just this case two months ago right and now they've just picked it back up again like this really so i always say there's a very good chance the american got on this one night that no doubt about it because it definitely if you get extradited from the u.s. labor force as they say we might have no doubt whatsoever that he is charging right

allegation charge just. you know it's charges you know it's like it's one thing civil rights activist liam hammond there and by the way you can access more information on the last stories we're covering here on screen by simply clicking your mouse onto our new and improved web site it's not even come as a quick look at some of the things we've goldfield on line that at the moment my friend the electric employee would be king and sees through the eyes of a robot people with school while he copes with his long illness. it's on the web site will keep going they say well that's one towards the saying our perspective on new zealand terrifying shark attacks in the popular sharm el sheikh resort in egypt which killed one and injured four. traffic jams or is prominent a feature of the russian capital is red square and moscow's roads are not just choked by cars at russia the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day

this is meant to some motorists coming up with some rather creative ways to pass the time in the gridlock as all these works on a bike found 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 school water is found stuck in traffic jams every day that's a world record that's quite literally drives people wrong the bad muscovites consistently wrangle over the air and various drivers on the planet. yet while some a left red faced moaning about wasted time others are trying to make the best of the bad striation sergei has spend 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. which used to be very first rate about the time i was wasting in traffic jams but then i came across audio books and i changed ago not only do enjoy being on the road sometimes they deliberately take a long road just to finish listening but the past two years sergei has refresh his english and learn some german all sat behind the will conversational spanish is his next goal. here. and the other way out for stress motorist is bringing some of the comforts of home with them and go to the avid and suggest sales of car god jets on the rise. we see a lot of demand for have a geisha device has been built to be two years with so much traffic we have in moscow i guess people spend more time in their cars wishing to be following directions and some resort to even more eccentric tools diary is well known most

psychics just a few years ago she would a hummer and hard to drive a. or also she could travel stylishly through the globe highways and byways. 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 i turn into. 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 the flow however slow down a boycott artsy moscow. well now let's have a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day and first to haiti with take to the streets there to protest the preliminary results of last month's presidential these four people were killed during clashes between some political offices have been set on fire while the

capital's main streets of burning tarzan concrete blocks businesses schools have been shut. authorities in the u.s. of. san diego they say the building was packed with explosive chemicals of the type used by suicide. was the best way to destroy it was rented by unemployed software engineer. fifty four year old george beck was arrested last month when a backyard explosion. the battle against drugs in afghanistan is intensifying with a new player joining the fight a central asian drugs quartet has been formed here in moscow with russia pakistan to take a stand pledging support to call on the sidelines of the meeting or to talk to the afghan drugs chief and that interview is next here on r.t. stay with us for that.

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 anacortes 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 any

a while you might have gotten drugs is 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 and instead we do a shark hunt 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 start 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 they were 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 where you buy that this proves that there is a link to international terrorist organizations on the 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 of violent into 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 and an international side according to the strategy we've developed a joy told him exports were. 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 on a program with one encouraging them to grow other crops such a sweet but what concrete steps to take more of them which. counter-narcotics ministry persists so you regional cooperation now the joint bilateral operations against drug dealers are carried out in the country along with a romal 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 see it just talking about concrete steps and international support russia advocates burning the poppy crop why cannot this be done. i thought i was able to afford it 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 intends 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 when these problems still exist are existing and will exist therefore if we've managed to cut opium production away forty five percent it's only woman aspect as a result of this reduction opium prices have soared later two hundred percent which by itself proves 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 on 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 the e.u. and us tonight about half a big. indoor still 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 or not requires a very comprehensive approach like we see the provinces where the war still rages on where there is no security account for 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. you know what you mentioned donated money disappearing i should say 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 the t. bought support for elimination of the rate of eight to 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 never said anything of this kind because he was 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 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 the afghans will assume

responsibility for security in the country i am sure when they assume just one hundred 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 hearts thank you very much minister. country and afghan people peace and prosperity in the nearest future thank you very much. wealthy british.

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