truly. socialist. read this and the colonel was hotel retreat. and he said through. the streets in the back on a day which is government buildings and even the royal attacks. with unemployment and homelessness in the u.s. side a fifty year high banks may pay out bonuses early to help the wall street elite avoid higher taxes and. if you're pushing for democracy. why do they put mr assad in jail is not democracy at work when there's a fig about. the arrest of the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks shows the west has no right to dictate its democracy to others russian prime

minister vladimir putin says. six am in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story the british parliament has narrowly passed a bill that will triple university tuition fees the vote came as thousands of students and trade unionists took to the streets protesting against the latest in a wave of austerity measures in europe a demonstration that later wrapped into rioting and violence. was in london following the abouts. we saw the demonstrations spreads to oxford street and regent street the main shopping streets here and loved and we've also seen an attack on the royal family today the prince of wales prince charles and his wife camilla which travelling to the fair to not far away for most of the streets when that call

was attacked by protesters they smashed one of the when days and they covered that car and kate because they seem to listen with public buildings the treasury had his windows kicked in and process has tried to enter that interesting the different from all the demonstrations that we've seen in london in that it's increasingly difficult to find students who totally condemn the violence that's been taking place some of that up 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 to carry on demonstrations like this and really trying to push through something which will go to war has passed today there's going to be thousands of people going to go to the fast to the working class is going to stave off people to come to the fold because that's something i think everyone we straight into today has said that this is not going to be the end of the protests of course the bill that's being passed today waiting to fight this

generation of students necessarily is going to affect the next generation say they say go to university from around two thousand and twelve and the the the effect on them will be that some of them will pay triple what current students are paying so it's gone up from just under five thousand dollars to around fourteen thousand dollars but there's also a lot of anger against to lift the liberal democrats who are one fall fall 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 save say they really take to leeward. and there's a lot of bad feeling about that we spoke to chris knight 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 let the people down in this case let's hear what he had to

say about this this protest is taking place from a vicious. spirit of sixty eight come again we. saw 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 a much bigger scary right 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 to the u.k. and to ireland earlier this week we saw a big demonstration in. government through a the toughest budget in irish history following and e.u. and i.m.f. bailouts 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 former british prime minister gordon brown says 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 twenty eleven sam bowman the head of research at the adam smith institute says there is certainly some truth to the statement. for one is going to be right about something i mean it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the. ultimate white crisis i think it is probably because the government wouldn't be surprising that brown would try and excuse ramping up government debt by irresponsible leaders but i think the bailout it failed to markets. are 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 eurozone and the sooner the better really i think we need to 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 that 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 eurozone project is all about. turning to the u.s. financial woes u.s. largest banks may pay or record bonuses this month or early next year so the wall street's elite can avoid paying higher tax rates but with homelessness at a level not seen since the depression critics have slammed the sums that will be handed out to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout. takes a look at the flow of cash that made that 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 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. you would like to thank you just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. but after you think these are back to indulge it pampering at the law at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend the 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 record breaking profits one hundred fifty thousand. pounds 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. 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 up. errantly 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. thousand dollars thousand dollars it's hard not to have

a good time when you're surrounded. 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. 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. thank you 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. our team. and you think of that display of wealth was bad coming up billionaire dreams russia style. boss romano gets. the last getzel delivery of his latest luxury yacht find out just how much a boat with pools and helicopter pads and possibly even its own a missile defense system is costing the russian tycoon. if you will. and learning foreign languages is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's traffic stay with us for more.

but first russian prime minister vladimir putin says the arrest of the founder of wiki leaks website giuliana. shows the west doesn't follow the democratic rules that it claims to preach the statement was made at a briefing with his french counterpart counterpart francois theni on thursday saying for months but still about the information on the renowned site wiki leaks did you really think the u.s. diplomatic corps is a transparent source of information diplomats. if you're pushing for democracy all the way why did they put mr saunders in jail is that democracy at work there's a saying about the calling the kettle black. songe faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations around five thousand hackers are now reportedly taking part in the cyber attacks this comes as the wiki leaks founder is leading an odd line poll for time magazine to be named its person of the

year this is made to reports that he would be then extradited to the u.s. so american politicians have even suggested that a songe should face execution the leader of sweden's pirate party says the cyber battles we are witnessing is on precedent there's an overload 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 tried with 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 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. but this cyber war is unlikely to prevent extradition as there is an ulterior mood teary or motive that's the view of civil rights activists liam hanlon. just look at the fact that how often does it all go off to six related charges it's just. old be chasing people for your ex all the charges that relates to sexual offenses i think it's completely politically motivated is the swedish prosecutors dropped just this twice two months ago and now they just picked it back up again like this really so obviously there's a very good chance the american got on this one night that no doubt about it because if he definitely if he has actually died from sweden the u.s. labor force the state say i have no doubt whatsoever that he is charges. right allegation charge you'll be facing espionage charges you know it starts with

commentary from civil rights activists liam hanlon well you can always get more information all the stories we're covering with a click of your mouse up a new and improved website r t dot com here's a quick look at what some of what's online for you right now. our electric friend a boy suffering from leukemia sees through the eyes of a robot to keep up with schoolwork cope with his long term illness. and 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 that killed one and injured four. traffic jams are as prominent a feature of the russian capital as even red square and moscow's roads are not just choked by cars at rush hour congestion continues throughout the entire day and this is led some motorist to come up with some rather novel ways to pass the time in the

city's infamous gridlock as artie's acts on a boy discovered. 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 why police really drives people wrong the bad guys 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 adult child alert he uses the daily commute to study foreign languages. i used to be very first

through the. traffic jams but then i came across audio books and i changed to not only do i 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 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 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 tutors with so much traffic we have i guess people spend more time in their cars watching t.v. that's all interactions and some resort to even more eccentric tools diary is well

known. just a few years ago she bought a hummer and hired to drive a. the sheep who travel constantly and stylishly through the globe highways and byways. of 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 matter moving around the city for me it's a symbol of life and symbol and i turn it on an eternity can seem like a very real concept while stationary in your car staring at the brake lights in front that's why a driver is now finding new ways to see the back relax and go with the flow however slow to the boy artsy moscow or you can just take the metro take a look at some other stories now making headlines across the globe four people have died because with police eighty during protests over preliminary results of last month's presidential election 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 shot by the rioting involving thousands the electoral commission has declared a recount with all three cabinets present a major concession after the violent unrest. already is in the u.s. have set fire to an alleged bomb factory in you're saying diego they say the building was packed with explosive chemicals of the type used by suicide bombers and setting a light was the best way to destroy it the house was rented by an unemployed software engineer who's in jail on bank robbery and bomb making a charge of fifty four year old george jakob back was arrested last month when a backyard explosion injured a gardener. if you are one of the world's richest men only the best will do sometimes but sometimes even the wealthy have to wait a little german shipbuilders were a year late in delivering a new four hundred million euro luxury luxury yacht for a russian billionaire roman album overage which was set sail from thursday

a dispute over the final cost in a specification. led to the delay the largest and most expensive private boat of its kind ever built has two helicopter pads twenty jet skis two swimming pools hot tubs a dance floor and a cinema it gets better interior decor specially designed on all five decks is made from the reptile skins and the lower reports say the sixth edition to the chelsea owner's photo has even been fitted and that will it's own missile defense system. james bond would be proud. of the battle against drugs in afghanistan is intensifying with a new player joining the fight the central asian drug quartet has been formed in moscow with russia. on the sidelines of the meeting r.t. spoke with the afghan anti-drug if the interview was coming up next.

i wanted to have million russians are addicted to heroin in afghanistan produces ninety percent of the drought and un resolution describes the flow from this central asian country as a threat to international peace and stability here with me today is the afghan. 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 more than 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 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 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 we are but that this proves that there is a limit 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 are organized crime groups are. those unable to commit a violent or to cut a grass 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. trying to help poor 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 where we're encouraging them to grow other crops such a sweet but what concrete steps to take more of them which are. the 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 see it just talking about concrete steps and international support russia advocates burning the poppy crop why cannot this big done. total be 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 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 cut opium production away 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 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 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 smile it disappears into

a corrupt political system can you explain how this happens. fighting drugs is very complicated on a 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. what about 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 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 account of the cortex 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 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 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 your time we wish your 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 give it real serious. listen or see what is the future if this is just an empty seat or is it time to seriously consider.

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