you can. see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. and agree to hike in university tuition fees sparking a wave of violence across london as the process wind down we look back on a day which is government buildings vandalized and even the royal family attacks. even with unemployment and homelessness in the u.s. at a fifty year high banks may pay zero bonuses early to help wall street elite avoid higher taxes. plus moscow wants an explanation of nato's plan to defend the baltic states and poland against russia which were revealed by wiki leaks while the web site's founder waiting for extradition to british jail get support from across the globe.

two am in moscow i'm mad good to be with you here on r t our top story 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 laura emma joins us live from london with more hello laura so you've been following these demonstrations since the very beginning they started out peacefully but the mood soon changed how serious was the trouble today. well we've seen is the statement issued by the metropolitan police quite recently saying that they're being twenty two arrests today for a variety of offenses including violent criminal damage and. three

officers were injured in a now in hospital one fairly seriously injured he was knocked unconscious during the course of a scuffle and six protesters have had to be taken to hospital there is i say all the figures that the met the metropolitan police themselves have released but some reporters are talking about much higher figures around seventy three people taken to hospital the police the bills they released quite an angry statement following today's action they say that officers came to work in order to facilitate a peaceful protest but what they were met by was a power shift of violence that came under a sustained attack protesters were throwing fences at them when i was down there earlier i saw missiles being thrown including firecrackers which were being very directly at police and along the street behind me just a short time ago various stragglers who every time they see a police car or almost a bike they tried through some sort of projectile that got them off an empty bottles which of course smashing quite a violent way the majority of the action is taken place on parliament square about

three hundred meters away from where i'm standing that's now as is most of the demonstrations but they're all struggle is still around town earlier we saw the demonstrations spread to oxford street and regent street the main shopping streets here in london and top shop their flagship store was raided by processed isn't smashed all the closed in the windows stolen that is something that happened before to talk shop just earlier this week demonstrators were in there as well protesting against philip green who owns the store he's accused of registering companies offshore in order not to pay his corporation tax if people really protesting against the little person having to pay for the excesses of the of the privileged few we've also seen an attack on the royal family today the prince of wales prince charles and his wife camilla were travelling to the theatre not far away from oxford street when their car was attacked by protesters they smashed. one of the

wind days and they covered that car in case the royal couple on holiday my sick continue on to the sets of a must have been pretty shocked to come against up against that demonstration because the scenes in vandalism of public buildings the treasury had its windows kicked in and process just tried to enter that i know say the sixty priem court it was also a vandalized and a bit of catchy vandalism some kicking in a phone box is a fame box just by the treasury with which every tiny pane of glass is being smashed by some quite meticulous person and it's interesting the different from all the demonstrations that we've seen in london and that it's increasingly difficult to find seep into a wholly condemned the violence has been taking place and some of that of a lot more of them than in previous protests seem to think that it's the violence is a means to an end rather than something to be condemned let's hear what they had to say about what's going on today. it's current mobilize to carry on demonstrations like this and really try and push through something which really does what we want war has cost today has been to because the people god i'm going to go to the fast

to the working class is going to say the right thing for people to do something for because of the will to have something to gain not just somebody like to have that one license for them in the first protest of them coming. it's becoming increasingly clear both from statements by the police and statements from m.p.'s including the home secretary that this violence. without repercussions won't go unpunished in fact what's going on on the on the next bridge down for me is that the process of being slowly fade out of parliament square which is practically empty now over the bridge where they're being let out almost one by one according to what i'm hearing so that police can identify those who vandalized the treasury from c.c.t.v. footage that they have so it's certain that more arrests will be made and the country as a whole is not going to take this lying down now the bill that sparked all these

protests has been passed by parliament so is the effect of the end of the protests are we starting to see the expression of something wider of that could possibly continue. i think everyone we've spoken to today has said that this is not going to be the end of the protests of course the bill that's being tossed today waiting to fight this generation of students necessarily is going to affect the next generation say those that go to university from around two thousand and twelve the the the effect on them will be that some of them will pay triple what current students are paying so it's going up from just under five thousand dollars to around fourteen thousand dollars but there's also a lot of anger against to live the liberal democrats who are one haul for the coalition government this really in the u.k. at the moment the liberal democrats campaigned on a platform of abolishing university tuition fees altogether and now a lot of that ministers have voted in favor of raising university fees to say they

really take silly when they don't an election promise and there's a lot of bad feeling about that we spoke to chris tonight who's the university professor and a seasoned demonstrator hardly a demonstration takes place in london and he's not back and he certainly it feels that the government has totally let the people down in this case let's hear what he had to say about about this process that's taking place. from a vicious. spirit of sixty eight come again. in sixty not just a bit short in paris and 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 in a much bigger scale but across europe. and of course this is already a europe wide movements we saw demonstrations in europe which started during the summer and then have moved from continental europe over to the u.k.

and to ireland because earlier this week we saw a big demonstration in dublin stagg off in the face it through a the toughest budget in irish history following and e.u. and i.m.f. bailout so this is certainly not something that's going to go away and in fact a lot of commentators a saying that this is just the beginning of what will be a winter of discontent and possibly also a spring of discontent artie's laura an ally for us in london thanks for. still to come how a boy can influence the decision of a prime minister vladimir putin the new dog has been named the premier made is choice from one of the thousands of versions mailed to him by the public plots. is. going to go. to. learning foreign languages is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's top

traffic stay with us to see more. but first the united states largest banks may pay out record bonuses this month rather than early next year so the wall street elite can avoid higher tax rates but with homelessness at a level not seen since the great depression critics have slammed the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout artie's marina poor nial looks at the flow of cash that 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 that fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand votes nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars to twenty six from you amid the lackluster american economic climate christie's is seeing sunny days this painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of

impressionist and modern art sold this year 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 thank you just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. good afternoon think. 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 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 young. men from choice to.

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 time for more. 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. and apparently up four percent from last year's record haul if anyone would know about business it would be we always want to make everyone happy here here at rick's cabaret happiness comes bearing lots of skin and beauty but it doesn't come free for six seven eight thousand dollars three 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 house 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 this so-called rebounding u.s. economy. if you think you purveyors of all things luxury are in fact researching while the majority of americans are left wondering when life will

finally begin looking as pretty as the painting marina port naya r.t. new york. moscow's looking to nato to explain itself after wiki leaks revealed the alliances secretly drawing up defensive plans against russia revelations follow the nato russia summit in lisbon which was declared the start of a new era in relations with both formally declaring that they no longer posed a threat to each other foreign minister sergey lavrov says nato considering russia a potential threat to the baltic states and poland butts a question mark over its sincerity. they began that plenty 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 board ship and on the other it 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 you were present

in the bid it would need to leaders approved documents strategic partner so there is a question about when you need to east and see when it's open to talking with us about what your ship was or when it's signing you months it still somewhat different. it was when asked about the weekend leaks revelations the secretary general of the alliance anders fogh rasmussen refused to comment but nato chief insisted his organization does not see russia as an enemy. as weekly leaks founder julian assange remains in a british prison and while stockholm seeks his extradition the swedish government website has reportedly come under a cyber attack by hackers assan traces extradition over sexual assault allegations which were previously dropped in sweden and which he denies about five. and hackers are now reportedly attacking web sites of companies and government bodies they claim have opposed the online whistleblower the thirty nine year old australian

meanwhile leads an online poll for time magazine's person of the year with speculation the us will later seek the extradition of assad from sweden some american politicians and even gone so far to suggest that he should face execution the leader of sweden's pirate party says the cyber battle underway is unprecedented . there's an old 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 we could be just fighting for it has been called the first information war the first serious information war it is being tried were fought with 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 authority in sweden have been 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 and so have. been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe four people have died in clashes with police into haiti during protests over preliminary results of last month's presidential election and political offices were set on fire while the streets in the capital port au prince have been blocked by burning tires and concrete blocks businesses schools and the airport were shut eye rioting involving thousands electrical commission has declared our electoral commission has declared a recount with all three candidates present in a major concession after the violent unrest. authorities in the u.s. have set fire to an alleged bomb factory near san diego that you see the building was packed with explosive chemicals were the type used by suicide bombers and

setting it on fire was the best way to destroy it the house was rented by an unemployed software engineer who is on the trail of bank robbery and bomb making charges fifty four year old george joffe who back i was arrested last month when a backyard explosion and injured a guard. traffic jams are as prominent a feature of the russian capital as red square and moscow's roads are not just choked by cars at rush hour the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day and this is led some motorists to come up with some creative ways to pass the time while spent in gridlock as artie's oksana boyko discovered. terrified of traffic. most cars 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 that i plan and early start. soon a 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 what police really drives people wrong the bad muscovites consistently rank among the angriest drivers on the planet. yet while some left red faced moaning about wasted time others are trying to make the best of the bad striation sergei has spent anything after five and a half hours in traffic but that didn't knock him for six as an avid chapel or he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. i used to be very first treated about the time i was wasting in traffic jams but then i came across audio books and changed not only do enjoy being on the road sometimes they deliberately take a long road just to finish listening but the past two years sergey has refresh his english and learned 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 ignoto evidence suggests sales of car god jets are 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 against people spend more time in their cars watching t.v. not following directions and some resort to even more eccentric tools diary is a well known most psychics just a few years ago she would a hummer and hard to drive or. and so she could travel stylishly through the globe . i keep the sun 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. and eternity can seem like a very real concept while stationary in your car staring at the brake lights in

front that's why drivers are finding new way back relax and go with the flow however small. artsy. and that's why i don't have a car in this city they say every dog has a day as did one canine who is now at the highest level of russian political life flighted mir putin's new pooch now has a name but a feat is followed a nationwide contest after the prime minister was given the past by his ball darian counterpart in sofia last month the idea came from a five year old. from moscow whose choice meant that he got to meet both the in the flesh or for as the case may be pulled and also signed a football for de mint to commemorate russia's winning the twenty eighteen world cup bid the pm has said his other dog tony already was getting well getting on well with the new couple. the

battle against drugs in afghanistan is intensifying with a new player joining the fight central asian drugs quartet has been formed in moscow with russia pakistan. pledging their support to kabul on the sidelines of the meeting are to talk to the afghan drug chief coming your way next at interview . i wanted to have million russians are addicted to heroin 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 means to be doing the 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 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 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 stuff by popular grown in the most restless areas we are by 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 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 on an international side according to the strategy we've developed joy told him exports we're 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 on a program with one encouraging them to grow other crops such a sweet but what concrete steps to take more. counter-narcotics ministry persists a 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 c it's 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 cleansed 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 that exist are existing and will exist therefore if we've managed to cause 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 proves there is a huge demand which in turn is an incentive for the farmers to grow poppy as the 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 billion dollars to a turns of agriculture in afghanistan each year but many believe they smile 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 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 at 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 may have said anything of this kind because he is very pleased with my work there 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. president karzai to these problems is a very responsible i don't agree with what general mcneill had to say. according to be agreements reached before twenty fourteen the afghans 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 and narcotic drugs is not a matter of one or two days it's a very long process this fight will continue for the outs international efforts are needed to have bases abroad destroyed afghanistan will be fighting for the arts thank you very much minister for your time country and afghan people peace and prosperity in the nearest future thank you very much.

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