working hours so they can attend classes that get us on our boats plots but it has been a very successful way of getting education to people who perhaps don't have the time to act and regular classes it benefits the employees as well they get to contribute to the local community and in return receive employee is with more skills and build on what i've heard it is. despite the good work being done by programs like this one out of the estimated seven point five million functionally illiterate people in germany. only five percent are receiving any kind of education these are all over r.t. germany the government is time tonight dimitris at the business desk with the latest report for you. it's. easy to.

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russia. the future. i. learned a very welcome to you watching business on our welcome to the program president putin spent the day in brussels on friday trying to iron out a number of important disagreements between russia and the european union and the main sticking point is and has been for a number of years now the so-called third energy package now e.u. commission president jose manuel barroso in a long and animated speech defended the clause in the e.u. energy regulation that forbids suppliers such as russia's gazprom from also owning the distribution network hooten was quick to react little my friend of many years mr also explained his position still emotionally and saw a long because he felt guilty when you put it he knew he was wrong. and you just. leave

a person labelled the legislation as uncivilized and said it's not right for its rules to be applied retroactively nevertheless the partnership between russia and the e.u. is a vital one as a browser pointed out the sides needed to transform the what is today and interdependence by necessity into an interdependent by choice a political choice and that's what requires political leadership on both sides and meanwhile russia having over the past decade encountered several cases of unreliable ties with its neighbors like ukraine and belarus is now building immense the expensive projects like north stream and notably recently south stream to ensure supplies but investors are not always welcoming the fact. if gaspar were a one hundred percent russian owned company and its purpose was political or it were its purpose was. ensuring security. of supply and demand

basically for four for both the you and russian of course and it would make sense but if the your. if you were traded company and obviously your number one priority is to maximizing shareholder value and i'm afraid that's not the best. idea to maximize shareholder value moving on now ten days remain before the so-called fiscal cliff kicks in in the us when bush's tax cuts expire and a whole wave of spending cuts automatically comes into force the republicans and democrats still have not come to any resolution that's after republicans decided to abandon the plan b. vote thursday night now this is reducing the chances of a deal by the end of the year and if it is not found the u.s. could head into recession again with g.d.p. growth around three percentage points lower than today earlier my colleague natasha

shiny at sky spoke with investor jim rogers and he said the cliff would be very painful for the rest of the world to going through without stopping before this is all over what's it going to sound good but it's not going to. go higher and higher go back to what. you know i or that i or we're not solving our problems that america. is the world that are raising taxes thirty hell i go if you have more problems. you seem to be pretty optimistic on all of this but if they don't agree there's going to be id procession in the united states how's that going to affect the asian countries now it's not going to be. the next no matter what happens. going down the road with regard to the world as it does everybody. europe decided

they're. probably. later third or fourth everybody. well last chances for a deal on the fiscal cliff are slimming by the day stocks are dropping more than a percent on average in the united states there is not a single stock which is gaining on the dow this hour and the biggest loser goes to bank of america chatting two and a half the said now in currencies because of the sell off mood on the market the dollar's gaining as traders move into cash the russian ruble lost around half a percent to the greenback and gained a bit versus the euro as you can see that european stock markets actually trimmed losses in the afternoon action on friday they were losing more as u.s. house speaker john boehner at a news conference said the policy makers must continue to work to avert the looming fiscal cliff but as you can see the day ended still on

a negative note and the same happened pretty much in russia on friday negative note for the week with the r.t.s. losing more than one percent and that's on the back of not only gloom in other markets but also commodities not providing any support is almost two percent lower . right that's it from the business team for now and next up on our c.r.t. talks to the author of a recent report claiming human rights violations are on the up in europe and that's russia's foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights concerns in the gulf after a short break to stay with us. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to

add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you is there a for the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in their shattered lives. when professor designed this first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted he was out of center now days seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call

vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want a surgery because his partner was taller than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries abound in many countries and even the out there prohibitively expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared auditors in america advertised as one seventy

five hours one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so on eight centimeters would have brought me right to average if i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

because that's in the goals russian foreign ministers and what's more for human rights democracy and the rule of law great to see you again with r.t. thank you very much letter as mine so it is the first sign that the russian foreign minister inspects the e.u. human rights violations in such great detail but when you think about it i mean the european union it's really not the most problematic place when it comes to human rights if you compare it to developing i thought what countries why such focus on here it's not maybe the most problematic place as you said but it is a pretty much problematic place as it turns out to be and this is exactly why we decided to look into it in more detail than before because in our first reports a year ago there was a rather big paragraph from the european union but we decided to look into this matter in more detail with more precision and even more precision and

we. looked through a very important influential and authoritative sources most of the sources for our reports are. either international including international human rights n.g.o.s like amnesty international human rights watch other us reporters without borders and others or. european. you know this is why. some of the european journalists already read and put is it is very difficult to. dispute what is written in our report because these are hard facts. why the european union because the european union positions and most of its members position themselves as. works of democracy has

certain yardsticks by which the international community absolutely must measure its own record wreckers in the field of human rights and nobody disputes by the way the fact that european union is in the european. quite a number of its members not all but quite a number of its members developed democracies with long standing democratic traditions and. quite a number of big achievements in the field of human rights these are facts as well and we don't dispute them in our report but what we see is that despite those facts there are some other facts there that are very serious challenges and problems in the european union and in each and every over its member countries in the field of human rights i still like to point out that in the wake of the e.u. summit skeptics are saying that russia indulges in fault finding work to put

pressure on the european union can extract some concessions on tense issues like for example trade are under dispute what do you say to that well i must say that we take as russia would take human rights extremely seriously these are universal values and they have to be universal of course respected i mean universally not just in one or two. regions or areas rather than in the others so there should be no double standards or you know selective approach here so everywhere being a universal value of course it is not to be subject to any trade offs so we are not trading it off. i hope that our colleagues in the west in the western countries. do not have this objective either. although we bump into more and more attempts to politicize human rights and especially by some

western countries including by the european union again there is but on our part there is absolutely no foul play we do not link we as russia do not link those issues to the issues of human rights to any other issue and we would very much like to see the same approach from our partners unfortunately it is not always the case we tried to a little bit balance it up this discussion and i mean international discussion we try to. send a message that problems everywhere some of the problems are very serious some of them and turns border problems so it is if you wish it is also an invitation to dialogue it is not just criticism for the sake of criticism we are not. saying in our report either well reports we're not seeing that these or that can't be is not a democratic country is not

a true democracy we are not jumping at those conclusions look at what we say point i want to choosing and picking and your opinion really criticizing everything that's east of europe russia has come under heavy criticism for the past six months cracking down human rights it's accused of. restricting public assembly and internet freedom also restricting our curbing for an injury or tear it is in russia how can russia. you know maintain a role of protector of human rights if the country itself is under such fire as a wall. by fire you mean criticism public criticism even a clerical this is you know well we are open to criticism. and we believe that each and every country is to be open to criticism the problem is first of all to keep this criticism constructive. to base it on hard facts as we did with our report on hard facts and not on just certain assumptions you know and secondly

it is very important to refrain from direct interference there too indirect interference in the internal affairs we are not telling them how they must tackle the so the problem we pinpoint to the problems like xenophobia and the least is very long we begin point those issues like for instance the issues of migrants refugees you know asylum seekers. racial discrimination gender inequality merely issues you know new nazis in which is on the rise in some countries especially in the baltic states the issue of ethnic minorities and national minorities let's not forget the usual russian speaking population in latin to do is twenty which is awful still you know that those are issues which are to be discussed and we hope that the governments will tackle and the e.u. will. start seriously looking into those issues in the e.u.

space and declan those problems like we try to tackle our problems you know but but . we do not say we do not tell them that you must do it is specifically with the use of their lawyer in all these or that way. we are not imposing any solutions unless those solutions stand there rectally from certain international covenants to report some of the problems that you mentioned there can be traced back to poor economic state that finds itself right now talking first and foremost of course about the rise of nationalism which you mentioned in your previous answer. but it's still growing economic crisis is bad enough actually to. majorly radicalize our majorly change the european critical system it's hard to see whether it is. tough enough

you know the the crisis but obviously the crisis is a pretty tough and and we see titian every day and obviously the especially the social economic rates of the europeans in almost all the european if not all the european union countries they do suffer and look what is happening in terms of social unrest political dissatisfaction you know we see demonstrations many of his the giron's meetings in pretty much. every country and by the way i want to mention it for the record of you know. sometimes the police in there was cancerous acts in a very tough way including disproportionate use of force we are being accused sometimes of disproportionate use of force up to look what is happening in some very. respected european capitals you know the.

governments there face more in more active social unrest. thus it is a link in many ways to the financial and economic crisis whether it will change the political systems the landscape really radicalized well it does ridiculize certain a certain strata of the society of the europeans to say and look what happened in the aftermath of. terrorist acts committed by a break in norway. he still unfortunately has quite a lot of supporters in europe look what happened in one. pm union country. the jewish issue you know i mean i mean hungary you know there was a an initiative by. by a faction in that particular country right we still parliamentary faction. i mean i

would say extremely right wing but at the same basically. put under the under question. the activities you know the. population of that particular cancer you know this is against the backdrop of national security and so on so for this very it's very unfortunate because new amasses which i mentioned you know more and more. young people unfortunately fall under the influence of right wing or right to stay deals extremist ideas and. fortunately new announces raise not only in the baltic states but also in some other. european states. which is a very serious. challenge especially in the prevailing economic

conditions. when quite a number of people cannot find jobs you know. and cannot get access to proper education i mean those are very serious social and political challenges yes they do ridiculize a certain portion of society hopefully you governments and especially e.u. institutions as integrated institutions will. finally be more effective in tackling those issues so far they have not been you know another thing that struck me for your report is when you say that the state of affairs with the mass media is far from being perfect and you cite an example of that crowding going on between the main german ruling party the c.d.u. an actual spring or a g. which is terminus second largest i think get me to quit so if what you're saying is true and this practices are taking place the question is is this always characteristic to germany or does it spread out throughout europe well look at what

these scandals which are still. rock for instance the united kingdom and the entire situation. around we when media sphere you know. this news gate as it was called by some journalists you know i mean it is very these are very serious processes where a society. discloses you know european societies disclose certain very unpleasant facts facts of. intrusion if you wish into the private lives of. citizens and their first listen and. off certain many purely from the with the media and.

you know. over and over disposition of the media vs ideally the authorities you know would be the ones who wield power comes under under very serious scrutiny today and certainly regulations not only in germany not only in the united kingdom but in some other countries and there was a relations very telling thank you very much ross and thank you very much thank you . thank you. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain. laid out to become a. force full. secret

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