a million people rally against the government in one hundred cities across brazil with an eighteen year old becoming the first fatality reported among the activists . a recent poll skepticism is on a dramatic rise in france we look into why people in one of the founding members of the twenty seven nation bloc think they'd be better off than i am today. and the u.s. army is the gauge in the huge disposal destroying expensive military hardware in afghanistan we asked why billions of taxpayers' money is ending up on the scrap heap.

there good to have you company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrew felt. now one hundred cities across brazil have seen a fresh wave of mass protests while the first death has been reported among the demonstrators in the state of reports say the anti-government rally amassed a staggering one million people when activists in rio de janeiro attempted to approach the city hall they were met by police with tear gas and rubber bullets dozens of people were left injured following the clash crowds gathered in the capital brasilia brasilia also received the same treatment from the authorities while president rousseff has canceled a visit to japan to deal with the crisis arctic national has this report. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets all over brazil in an unprecedented public protests the hottest sport of the unrest remains sell paolo where tear gas has been

fired protesters who tried to take over the local government building in the capital brasilia clashes have erupted when riot police faced off with protesters trying to break through towards the congress in rio de janeiro local police resorted to tear gas to disperse crowds marching towards city hall police say some three hundred thousand people have rallied but organizers claim it's twice as many there are reports that around thirty people have been injured earlier around eight thousand security officers have been deployed near the city stadium ahead of time for the ration scottish football match between the spanish and eighty football teams such rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the protesters say they're angry at the government's excessive spending for the two thousand and fourteen world cup and another point of discontent is the increase of public transport fees in several brazilian cities the country's health authorities later reversed their decision to increase the first but this doesn't

seem to have a peace demonstrators they say they are also angry over the underfunded health care and education systems the unrest come six months ahead of elections in brazil and as we can see there are plenty of complaints to worst president dilma rousseff government the protesters say they will remain until they see change and promise a fresh wave of rallies to take place for the next days while political analyst and even tell she believes it is ultimately be colossal gap between the rich and the poor that in writing the papal. brazil has very serious problems social problems it has to cope with probably poverty it has to cope with grandparents government corruption even though president dilma rousseff has done a relatively good job in the sense that as soon as she came into power she threw out her. labor minister she threw out her sports minister her defense minister.

four months others because of corruption something much better than what is being done in argentina with corruption is being ignored by the government so in spite of that people are becoming very angry over the huge divide between the very poor and the very rich which just continues decade after decade and the fact that all government action to have it's always are insufficient it's just not enough usually when the international monetary fund and the major bankers poor money into countries whether it's brazil spain italy argentina or even the united states it goes to the wrong pockets and that is a global phenomenon so in a way what people are demanding is for more real president representation and not this so-called democracy which is merely money sloshing whereby the really powerful and the really rich and sure that their candidates always get into power and do their bidding it's the same old story in country after country and in different continents meanwhile france is growing increasingly frustrated at the european union that's according to a new poll held across the twenty seven nation bloc so let's take

a look at the numbers now sixty two percent of french people think the e.u. is moving in the wrong direction they are stressed by the rise of germany as a political force and feel that brussels has mishandled europe's financial crisis meanwhile unemployment in france continues to rise and this also comes amid some dire approval ratings for president francois hollande which has decreased almost two fold in the year he has been in power for right wing political leader marine le pen believes the french want to break free from the concept that ruined their country's economy. but the boat. first of all you need to understand that the french do not really talk about both e.u. and the euro common currency virtually imposed on us religiously defended here or in other words there is no diversity of opinions of them or anything you say against the euro will be useful to blasphemy but i am asking for is

a referendum polls are a good thing but i do remember the polls promised that when asked about the european constitution france would vote for it at the end of the day are fifty five percent of french citizens said no to the constitution that's why we need a wide public debate a referendum to ask the people what they think about full border transparency with the shrinking countries and about this currency that killed our economy we need to ask them how come the e.u. guidelines are more important that our own constitution which in shrines the will of a sovereign nation these essential topics have yet to become subject to public debate in france and i'm sure that if they were discussed today the french would opt for freedom political analyst alex caldwell believes many french people now i think the whole structure is fundamentally wrong. i think there are so you could list

a lot of arguments against the you could say that it's not really do look to because the you do missions on the elected by the by the european citizens you could say that it's too expensive because some member states give a little credit to the e.u. budget but don't receive as much money and where the euro as given to europe actually is a way for specific member states to postpone structural reforms and so she's the only good example of that word a lot of people are concerned always with think is the going to greet on the very idea of the e.u. that the three disagree on what form it should be you would. be shifting if you're . many many you believe their voices are not being heard by brussels a taste test or cilla went to investigate just high much citizens of the bloc are involved or even familiar with its politics this is brussels the capital of europe

and hold to the european institutions that make laws and decisions that affect the lives of five hundred million citizens the question is how much to the citizens really know about europe do you know what the european flag stands for. the iron man. who is the president of the european council their plan turns. into the bench in one room how many countries in the e.u. and if they're going for that and who is a twenty eight country. given. that not. only what does the flag of the stars on the flag mean what do they mean. vitalism. it's an appalling emblem there's nothing in the middle of it. but what do the stars on the flag mean on the european union's flag. those are the

member states now here and for the european parliament there's this exhibit which showcases some of the key moments in the history of the european union will certainly some of these will be more familiar to citizens of the country where it actually took place or when it comes to institutions how they function how they work survey so show that most europeans know very little about what actually goes on that we don't want to survey but your barometer it shows that the knowledge of that europeans have one of its issues is just three point four points out of ten this survey also shows that a majority of e.u. citizens think that the e.u. is a good thing however a majority of them also think that their voices do not count fifty four percent in fact now in this report it also says that only twenty five percent of europeans know that there's even an upcoming election in two thousand and fourteen to elect their members of the european parliament right behind me there's no democracy in the u.k. nor in germany or in brussels we need more. developments for stronger

involvement of citizen well there are officials a very you see institutions calling for a more democratic europe in order to do so they will need to get people more involved and interested in the first place if we are to achieve this reporting from brussels i'm tests are still you. know mike is in the european parliament are trying to prevent the us from keeping the continent under secret surveillance expose weeks ago by whistleblower edward snowden the european people's party has back to proposal that would force washington to alert e.u. officials if they wish to gain access to citizens' data we'll for more on this let's talk now with a member of the p.p. party mr vause thanks for coming on to the program today why is this only happening now because the european commission did know about their surveillance program. no we didn't know about these prison program and we were.

very very upset about the situation now the situation we can't accept and we have to be with it one is europe allowed to become so vulnerable in the first place. so in the european parliament we are all ways handling the questions of fundamental rights and also we are dealing now with the reform of our own data data protection issues and a very for the issue of prison is not what we are expecting from other countries to deal with the data of our own citizens and to very far we are. finding the situation very acceptable we are trying to find fundamental

of principles in handling with the data at first we should pay attention regarding the data protection issue but we say no data processing with our legal base of the second run would be saying in as a principle the process data of european citizens if you don't respect our european ok to it we understand we understand that but can any legislation actually prevent this from happening because after all it is secret spying. yeah so we try to implement. some of these probably affecting rules in the regarding the enforcement and regarding transfer data in third countries from the e.u. point of view. we will try to fix some rules inside our

new regulation to trying to make this situation better but at least we have to solve these problems politically we. give the problem back to the companies this would be a solution at all but then we have to find a way to deal with the americans also in the kind of data protection frame agreement a mature relationship or what she believes europe's relationship with america now after what's happened is the much tension here so we are already in a position that we would say we have to be very careful. to. find a way first of all the correct of the right way to

deal with this question on the political chain or. on the other hand of course the. americans know already that we are not satisfied with this solution and therefore there is a need for negotiation about this issue and do you believe american officials responsible for this spying surveillance should be brought to task do you think they should be punished at all. i don't know if this will help. that we have to find a way to get a better solution for all the citizens who are serving in the internet and not being aware of all the spying issues and therefore and also it's not expected that they will have been kind of a fraud of the fundamental rights therefore. it's not the

question of in the first row. the question of punishing it's more the less the question how to solve the situation i thank you very much for your thoughts today and coming on to say that axel evolved any pain thank you yeah you're right i'm just more news coming your way right off threshold.

do we speak your language of the will or not of the. programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a little turn to angles stories. that the spanish find out more visit i. welcome back you're watching our take now is the u.s. army rushes to complete its pullout from afghanistan part of the country already turning into huge junkyards the pentagon is now destroying state to be vehicles and

other military equipment that despite the war already having cost the american taxpayer more than six hundred thirty billion dollars. investigates. by the end of two thousand and fourteen the u.s. military will have seven billion dollars worth of military equipment in afghanistan u.s. officials say they're getting rid of what they no longer need to or what would be too costly to ship back home the list of items that will be shredded. to be sold to scrap includes around two thousand mine resistant ambush protected vehicles or m r eight pieces that were designed to counter this threat of roadside bombs and cost around a million dollars apiece. and are very busy dismantling expensive equipment u.s. officials are not explicit as to why they're not leaving the gear to the afghan military one of the reasons that they gave is that they provided afghan forces with lighter tactical vehicles which are presumably a better fit for the country's roads to quote one u.s. military official he said we don't want to live with

a lot of equipment that they can't handle and that could compound their challenges as the u.s. is packing to leave again is that will at least the bulk of the forces the obama administration is trying to find a political solution with the taliban there are quite a few roadblocks on the way to that as you can imagine but after years of fierce fighting u.s. policymakers have arrived at the idea that only a political solution can lead to a sustainable peace in afghanistan and in some way the scrapping of military gear is symbolic to how little all that machinery has achieved there. author and activist david swanson says this massive disposal of afghanistan will not even raise and in washington. that's that you know small coin in terms of the corruption of the u.s. military which is just beyond measure remember while they're destroying seven billion dollars worth of vehicles and so forth the united states congress has just

dumped another over eighty billion dollars into the ongoing occupation of afghanistan for the next year virtually the same amount as last year and as we talk about it winding down and dean and rushing to a close we're talking about at least another year and a half which is longer than most wars in world history of taken from beginning to end and this one's been go on for over twelve years still terry budget in the bill just passed by congress is increasing from last year and increased seen in violation of the famous sequester limitation that has been used to eliminate money for food and health and housing and all things good and decent in the united states military budget seems immune it just continues to climb and of course it is easier to buy more equipment when you destroy the old equipment you know that the private car dealers would just love it if we all destroyed our cars and when new what's. can take a closer look at this story on our website and also there you will find shane and

grace and you're an expert for being on the ugly truth of his right here on the tactics including using palestinian children as human shields in military operations go online for the details of that oversight and i can more of these stunning pictures from the paris. cutting edge which of russia's military across that the right disguise. the russian state duma has been debating a new bill that would ban adoptions by foreigners involved in same sex marriages the bill comes amid high control the see surrounding gay rights in russia so let's bring in our say he will peace can often i he go what more can you tell us about this legislation. well this is the third reading of the draft and usually they are more of a formality since most of the disk debate is done in the previous two and well in this case concerning this draft banning gay couples from adopting children lawmakers have already approved it so the chances of the state duma giving the

green light to the whole draft in general are very high now earlier russian lawmakers passed another draft banning homosexual propaganda to children raising lots of criticism both from gay rights activists in russia and from abroad but when it comes to the general population then actually the majority of russian citizens they support these measures since according to a recent opinion poll conducted by lee while the center thirty eight percent of its respond and believe that gays have to be treated by doctors while thirteen percent believe that they have to be legally prosecuted so clearly the society in russia here is still very conservative and perhaps that's why most of the public events or rallies organized by gay rights activists in russia usually end up with them basically being physically attacked by anti gay rights activists usually they are

radical orthodox christians now if we compare the situation to western europe for instance that obviously they're societies much less conservative but issues like allowing gay couples to adopt children still raise a lot of debate there as well for instance we do remember the recent mass protest in france when tens of thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets against allowing gay couples to adopt children. thank you for that starts eagle piece. now the cream of the oil business is in some petersburg at the moment looking for ways to boost economic growth reform the global financial system and strengthen trade and. is that the foreman for us are looking for the most burning issues dominating the day's agenda good afternoon chico you see yesterday we were talking

about the devaluation of the ruble what shall we be talking about today. about the russian economy what about improving market volatility making the country more friendly for investors to come and want to spend that money improving infrastructure all of these topics are being discussed today and we know that latin uprooting the president of russia he wants to get moscow as a financial center that's his base and so how realistic is this sense right now we're going to be talking about the fact that maybe london and new york has a little search zone busy to dish you know places to go and spend jocasta and invest your money so right now i'm joined by at schuyler he is the time of citi group hello to you i know the full mouth of new york as well as epsom bats so tell me is london and new york all day moving that good to get people to go that the find out to stand out don't count out the developed markets in the big financial

settled centers and developed markets just yet that city were very interested in these trends which is why we commissioned the economist did you competitive that index project what it will look like yourself and they so we're just in twenty twenty five if we do financial centers will be new york one then also hong kong and singapore so the developed markets if they make the right investments will stay very close the top of the financial center right i do think there is a real shift going on at the moment so with asia we can see that even more as the years go on absolutely we project that the top four hundred emerging market cities will probably contribute over half the g.d.p. growth between now in two thousand and twenty five if you look at the report we commissioned by the economy. the fastest moving cities to see as they're becoming most competitive the fastest are merging market cities whether it's in sean and south korea there's mumbai for example these are the ones that are moving the fastest time and it's about mustangs i mentioned that we took some places that must

go on the global scale he's standing there but it's not quite yet what more needs to be done is it really the company well sees actually the heart of the panel international visors to support that and we've spent time with the we are with sharon on this morning and i'm talking about moscow as a financial center one of things that they are doing and the economists support picked it up because they are investing in an actual financial. center and it's called moscow city and they are trying to make it in moscow's wall street and the economist study picked up an increase in the financial strength of moscow most likely based on the investments they're making so it is getting traction it is certainly a financial center for russia and her is part of europe whether it'll become a global financial center that's what they're working to do i know your condo you were talking about a cave says global growth engines please tell me bit more about sure. in one nine hundred ninety about forty percent of population live in cities which project by

twenty fifty seventy percent of the population will have been cities that could be between six and seven billion people and the g.d.p. growth is tracking that and increasingly the innovation is happening in cities people are moving in cities but it also creates a huge requirement to invest in the structure of the kinsey estimates that urban infrastructure will fire forty trillion dollars investment in the next twenty years that's water treatment facilities that's new roads airports energy infrastructure telecommunications so all these cities will become competitive just by people moving there those governments they need to make investments in order for people to want to work there and live there ok and. thank you very much indeed for your time space very interesting city just here and more big names from st petersburg the international economic forum all day today from st petersburg to see that.

reporting live from some pretty specific. we're going to take a short break now and then we have a special report on the drug schools in mexico. i know they track approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice on gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things along for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome then please tell me how he differs from obama true obama can pronounce ninety nine percent of the words

on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have let expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's was flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion. welcome to. here you can feel it.

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