europe's day of protest is unlikely to lead to a change of policy, either here in spain or across europe, because europe's leaders are now committed to reducing their deficits, mainly through spending cuts. gavin hewitt, bbc news, madrid. >> 80% of humans across the world live near rivers that are under threat, according to a new study. it also finds that around 3.5 million people in the developing world live in areas where access to clean water is not guaranteed. the researchers accused developed nations of failing to address threats to water sources and urge poorer countries to invest in water infrastructure. the italian prime minister has won a vote of confidence in the lower parliament. his center coalition had a vote of 33. that could allow him to stay in office until 2013. india has launched a nationwide biometric id scheme. details of more than 1 billion citizens will be on line in the central basis, the biggest in the world according to the government in delhi. the french government and the european commission have been at loggerheads under the deportation from france of hundreds

created a crisis of confidence in the europe germany and france want there to be consequences for the countries which ran up excessive deficits like greece is this a necessary step well of course i think people have to countries have to be have to live within their means so to speak not spending extravagantly but when they talk about consequences for greece they also have to consider the consequences for greece another week come trees will have consequences for them i mean if if if they cut down on government spending in the mediterranean countries that will mean less demand for german exports and so it will impact them it's not just consequences for the for the weak countries it's consequences for everyone so i think they have to be very very careful in wanting greece to pay the price of its extravagance because. paying that price the germans will also have to pay a price they're the strongest country in the your opinion and from so as well and what other countries which could be potentially subject to these matches greece italy spain ireland. england. portugal they're all they've al

germany was the price paid for hitler's promise not to start a war in europe which he breached not only a year later. according to many research as it was the conflict over these two dozen and that in effect triggered to. the division of czechoslovakia have been affirmative which went on behind the scenes of these talks and played the decisive role in them people in various countries including russia are still looking for the answers documents declassified by the foreign intelligence service seventy years on are directly related to the events of those times. at a no contest family take lunch seriously on a day off towards noon all of the family gets together in this house in the suburbs of munich traditional bavarian sausages are served on such occasions. here the sausages. just put up their actual loss in general traditions are respected in this family they know the back is they see desson german when he was only eight years old he and his parents were deported from czechoslovakia now that he is away from his homeland anything reminding him of his past home is especially found people t

well goal over the next three years is to become the best in europe in the next couple of years we're going to rebrand the whole chain we've managed to recover and regain the confidence of both consumers and banks but quite profitable and we've announced four percent ebit dollar year to date but we still have a lot to do we began the year with one target for profit but it looks like we'll exceed it but at least one and a half times also us to nominate his chief all that during the board of noise extraordinary election in october twenty eight the votes being repeated after accusations of cheating during an earlier vote the two principal shareholders and enter ross have competed for control of the board a list of candidates will be submitted on september twenty first at the latest spare bank could offer a four point six billion dollars loan to rosol the small banks have been graft told reporters in. the island we have giant needs to refinance is debt to have national bank graft has also announced that the privatization of nine point three percent stake in the bank won't happen this year

well goal over the next three years is to become the best in europe in the next couple of years we're going to rebrand the whole chain we've managed to recover and regain the confidence of both consumers and banks were quite profitable and we've announced four percent ebit dollar year to date but we still have a lot to do we began the year with one target for profit but it looks like we'll exceed it but at least one and a half times he told the update for now but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com on the back and. wealthy british. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy max cons are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. her. mom. took. her. this history still keeps it secret but now it's time to reveal the hidden from the soviet files the count's in case ever no one. more news today violence is once again flared up if these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are today. breaking news here on our t.v. at least sixteen people have been killed in a c

a service we're doing europe a disservice by having this artificial currency imposed on it it can only lead to political tensions like in greece where the greece population greek population now has to suffer the taxpayers germany has to suffer if the only ones that didn't suffer in greece were the banks because they were fully rescued so that's to me is a deal that is not quiet equitable all over europe really we've seen quite extraordinary scenes from spain as well where there's been a general strikes occurred and this is the first general strike in spain since two thousand and two and it mocks the split really between the unions and the socialist government which of course is always been quite cozy previously and that's because they now has an unemployment rate of twenty percent we seem transport workers go out on strike so nobody can get to work they're just wasting aimlessly at bus stops in the metro workers going out on strike so no rubbish has been collected nearly one hundred percent of steel workers it will doubt and the car industry in spain is almost ground to a halt in dubli

europe today and with every story short. i live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets unless you can ascend to baghdad. then. there's the young man breaks or. the buzz of the first. version of the. crowd gathers room a real man down the street with a gun. when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial when you want to get down to brass tacks when we bring in special coverage. this time the latest news from the normal policy forum live broadcasts special guests discussions on the way to the modern state in providing security and stability on the present day world. i. will continue to update you on our breaking news story here and i'll say at least seventeen people have been killed in a car bombing at a market of russia's volatile north caucuses region over the hundred others were injured in that time in the republican north a city where an official day of her morning has begun three suspects so has been detained while securit

check out the markets now shares in europe are top and mid day trading banks are gaining after positive comments on the economy by the european central bank policymaker lloyds bank shares are gaining over three percent also heading up our sources and credit card we call it here in moscow we are ts analyze exam high and evening trading with all the major blue chips in the black leading the gains on both the board says israel's telecom that's up more than four percent banking and energy shares are also gaining woods where bank and local both trading over two point four percent of the r.t.s. and up over three percent of my six. russian oil companies are increasingly looking east several producers want to expand or establish operations in china within several years after representatives told the conference they could build new refineries with the chinese. more oil products in china vice president said priority is to expand to asia as the fastest growing region. and russia's credit rating outlook has been upgraded to positive from stable by fitch ratings the reasons for the boost acceleratin

or europe tanks completely then the emerging markets will no longer be able to export a big chunk of their goods will see a freeze up on the in the trade exchange and therefore slow down and grows. in short the merger you can't do not have the consumers to decouple they will not make it alone but given the moon will dry out look whether you are soon europe can sustain some growth in the emerging markets. this is clearly what many investors are expecting and is likely to be reflected by money flowing toward the new markets . business r.t. . have moody's investor service lowered spain's top credit rating by one notch with a stable outlook this puts additional pressure on the country's government as it prepares to pass the most austere budget and three decades this comes as the belt tightening measures imposed by the european governments provoked massive protests across europe e.u. commission is proposing new penalties on countries that let their budgets out of control measures are an effort to restore investor confidence and prevent another crisis like the one that was greece to near b

still primarily driven by events coming out from the states coming are coming out from continental europe japan china there are very few separate specifically russian that hasn't been driving a russian stocks this week and quite a few names to mention those off of us or us telecom preferred just based on local news primarily besides that we're seeing sort of the market a little bit sideways again although to be honest with you there is a potential momentum gaining place we probably going to see some substantial rise in next couple weeks because there's a new money coming into the fall so global europe global fund some of the emerging market funds are getting some information as our stories this week but you can always find more on our website that's already dot com slash business. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. every month we give you the future the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us. on our jeep. with. data gener

vallance coming out from the states coming or not coming out from continental europe japan china there are very few separate specifically russia that has it in driving russia stocks this week and quite a few names there and i'm sure there's after hours for us telecom preferred just based on local news primarily besides that we're seeing sort of the market a little bit sideways again although to be honest with you there is a potential momentum gaining place we probably going to see some substantial rise and i stop the weeks because there is a new money coming into the. global. emerging market funds and getting some inflows as our stories this week by you can always find war on our website that's already dot com slash. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. the big. welcome back to the other slava with today's full coverage of the city's millennium celebrations the global policy forum which has just been held here there is more on that in thirty minutes but first l

policy forum and that beyond shouldn't be jealous about russia's proposed new security treaty for europe as it could help everyone and he also ripped off criticism of democratic democratic standards in russia saying that adoption of a parliamentary democracy for the country would be a catastrophe just as it has been ok this time. the settlements have been lighting candles across the russian republic to mourn seventeen victims of a suicide car bomb attack on thursday the first funerals have already taken place while some of the one hundred sixty injured on being treated in the. sea investigates the rapid growth of islam in america with a number of the nine eleven terror attacks increasing despite claims the media fuels tay-sachs sentiment. now they cut to the moscow polish officers and others in one thousand nine hundred forty has been a source of division for decades between russia and poland but it's also been a cause of recent hading between the two countries since the death of the former polish president lech kaczynski and other high ranking officials in a plane crash on route to a co

." >> a day of protest in europe. workers across the continent strike and demonstrate against government austerity cuts. the winner of this year's tour de france is suspended after testing positive for a very small amount of a banned substance. u.s. lawmakers put pressure on china to raise the value of the wan -- yuan. welcome to "bbc world news." still to come this hour, a boost for berlusconi as his government wins the vote of confidence. the survival of his coalition remains on a knife edge. delhi is almost ready for the start of the commonwealth games, but years later. -- but fears linger. workers have taken to the streets across europe in a day of protest against the austerity measures being imposed by national governments. there have been demonstrations in greece, ireland, and latvia. tens of thousands travel to brussels to march on european union headquarters. in spain, there is a general strike. >> large crowds were on the streets in madrid this evening supporting spain's first general strike in eight years. t

had quaters of demonstrators carrying balloons banners and blowing whistles people around europe and the government sure steve jobs wages and pensions trade unions expressed fewer workers to pay for the banks mistakes and warned that the sterling measures could lead to more unemployment campbell than a man a member of the european parliament blames the euro for most of the continent's current economic troubles. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions to trying to do but it's beyond i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is some a doing very well others a very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency called the euro the euro's a problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that suit and the germans are paying through the nose and you know the majority of germans now want to leave the euro and that's conceivable that we recreate all the nationa

does that he was the greatest economist of the last century in one of the articles you said that europe was declining economically and politically why is this happening and what are the signs of the crisis well of course europe's been very badly hit by the recession and it's got very high unemployment but beyond that i think europe is in decline it's it's weaker than it was. population is it is not expanding and the others are it's been affected by the rise of asia and particularly the rise of china so if you think back to one hundred years ago europe was the center of the world now of course it's not and it's much much weaker than it was and partly it has no unity there's a european union but if there's no european government and till they get european government they're not going to play or be able to play a major part in the world the world of. the collapse of the greek economy has impacted the whole of the european union. and does this mean that the e.u. is vulnerable as a groupie well of course it is because it was based on the idea that everyone is progresses at the same rate well

many groups in western europe to be part of the caravan mir in russia i was with a group called foods man travelling theatre at the time and i wasn't so interested in just coming to russia to perform so when i met with i suggested that maybe we should bring me a caravan starting in moscow of finishing and in western europe we finished in paris at the end of two larry and it developed from there so what happened was we had four groups from the east really today. which is a music group whose chief was. not. osmo going to ne other theater of the day from poland who were exiled. for out in italy and devival who is an opera lascaux from prague along with a company from france. spain and. a nuclear from for a in italy and we put together this tour starting in the park of the red army in moscow and traveling from moscow to leningrad leningrad to gloss over to prague west berlin. copenhagen bar. and we finished in paris is going to five minutes late you mentioned those cities which most of them are capitals this year so we must know more capital you prefer smaller towns this time not this one

hello and welcome to the program created good to have you with us this hour while europe is facing a multi-year slog out of the economic crisis emerging markets are attracting more attention from investors but will they be able to grow in the event of a sharp slowdown in the developed economies as a whole for its parts. in the months leading up to the summer holiday season europe was gripped by fear that it would be overwhelmed by debt there was much talk of greece rial and really spain defaulting on their bonds this open dump the bleak scenario of the euro zone collapsing and dragging down the world economy just as it was recovering from recession but a bailout package later and i'm first started to focus their attention on the other big problem the precarious state of the u.s. economy over the summer what happened was that the baucus focus very much on the concerns of a double digit in the u.s. and the fact that actually german growth was coming through very strongly and that they were quite slow to realize that the sovereign crisis in the yours had never actually gone away spreads

a handful of other countries in europe have shown some green shoots of growth. everyone on both sides of the debate recognizes how fragile the recovery is. it really depends on which side of the debate in stand. -- debate you stand. some say we go into a double-dip recession. on the other side, in the european institutions and within some governments in europe, they say that if we do not start cutting debt and our deficit, at some point, this will loom in the future. there are the first views -- diverse views and frustration rising on the side of the public sector workers. >> thank you very much. as we have said, there have been demonstrations in spain. let's go to madrid and join my colleague, jonathan charles. >> the general strike here is proving quite effective. most of the country's steel industry has shut down, and also a lot of the car industry. it has been a difficult day for commuters. normally, this square would be full of commuters. most of it has been kept in the garages by mass picketing. they're sending a message to the government that they really

looks to be a fragile recovery and some of the economies in europe they're arguing that actually a better way to go would be tax increases on hiring come groups and also investing in public services and jobs rather than cutting them in this way right artie's lorimer on top of the story for us reporting from london thanks for that. david campbell bannerman a member of the european parliament from the u.k. independence party believes the single european currency is a key factor behind the current economic turmoil. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions that it is they're trying to do but it's beyond i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency call the euro the euro's the problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that it and the germans are paying through the nose and you know

and either of them if they dominated the central europe would have the resources to dominate the whole continent the great irony is that the first world war ends with both russia and germany being defeated and the versailles settlement is created against russia and against germany and i suppose at its most basic it's very very difficult to create a stable european order to which neither russia nor germany are committed you could only do that really would you could only have defeated germany in the first place with the intervention of the americans and the full scale commitment of britain to the continent or quite apart from anything else after nine hundred eighty the americans go home and the british release spend most of their time thinking about the security of their overseas empire so the verse i settlement which is very weak for a start because it's designed against germany and against russia a century has no guarantee behind it and if you have a peace settlement which is against the two most powerful country countries on the continent and doesn't have an effective security guarant

crisis and why the stories he measures may only make things worse and he tells us why russia and europe should form a military alliance that's next on. lord skidelsky a member of the british house of lords award winning historian and corniest and an expert on russia is here with us today thank you very much for joining us this group or skidelsky your wrists and book canes the return of the must step up philosopher and economist john maynard keynes received several awards how relevant the economists feel today i would say they were very relevant in three respects first of all he explained how we got into this mess this crisis in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine secondly he tells us what we ought to do about it how to get out of it and thirdly he tells us how to avoid how we can minimize our chances of getting into another one and i think no other economist does that he was the greatest economist of the last century in one of the articles you said that europe was a declining economy cli and politically why is this happening and what are the signs of the crisis well of course e

shouldn't be jealous about russia's approach to new security treaty for europe as it could help everyone but he also a criticism of democratic standards in russia saying that the adoption of a parliamentary democracy for the contrary would be a catastrophe just as it has been based on. the sessions have been lighting candles it calls the russian republic to mourn seventeen victims of a suicide car bomb attack on thursday the festivals have already taken place while some of the one hundred sixty eight injured are being treated in moscow. investigates the rapid growth of the islamic america with a number of cold but since the nine eleven terror attacks increasing despite claims the media fuels on to some extent. a festival of travel executives born in moscow over twenty years ago helped mold the thing you were in relations between east and west on the eve of the fall of the iron curtain the man who's in charge of it today is the guest now going to show spotlight right now. wealthy british style it's time to explain the free. market why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the

ordinary money no bernard kerik tauriel problem in europe we want no. she does a place to make sure the fisa doesn't reach and the ceded to germany historians are still trying to understand what stood behind this events. one of them is your concern to ski the german. concerning the. so. important question could. have been prevented and could have been a. reason to believe that this could have been done. with france. the world war one ripping countries including france and england where we read the prospect of launch still has to choose what war and france on the dollar deal most of all could be done in order to breach the mutual support agreement under the same time avoid implementing it in full. in the nineteenth thirty eight the british prime minister has never changed and held several meetings with hitler in a bid to persuade him to stalls a war in central europe because this continent he was ready to do anything in his power to obtain these two deaths are legion. on his part fearful of the prospect of the speech of the french prime minister. to put

ordinary money no foreigner territorial problem in europe we want no track. she does a piss to make sure the fisa doesn't reach and was the ceded to germany historians are still trying to understand what stood behind the events. one of them. had a conference concerning the munich agreements of the ship. so once they answer to an important question could the dismemberment of czechoslovakia have been prevented and could to have been avoided there is some reason to believe that this could have been done the czechs had signed an agreement on mutual support with france and the soviet union. the world war one european countries including france and england where weary of the prospect of launch still has to choose what war and france on the dillard year most of all could be done in order to breach the mutual support agreement under the same time avoid implementing it in full. in the one nine hundred thirty eight the british prime minister has never changed and held several meetings with hitler in a bid to persuade him not to stall the war in central europe. this con

excitement builds as europe and america prepare for gold strike become. spartak moscow coach ferry carpenter says his side are finally finding their rhythm after a second win in the champions league last night to three no victory over slovak side puts them level on points with chelsea at the top of group test brazilian strikeout and scored in the half compared to added the third with a minute to go after his carp and said he was delighted with the performance which was almost ideal it was the red and whites first champions league victory. over a decade behind great leaders chelsea only on goal difference the blues beating french champions marsay to notice stamford bridge first half goals came from john terry and nicolas anelka a penalty in chelsea looking good for the knockout stage. for emerges will be. more school and if you go we have a tribute to. elsewhere so european cup powerhouses i see melandri one of peace. talks there by a single goal in the eighty first minute they now top their group with two victories and you couldn't argue with the latest o

people in countries across europe protesting in. cuts to job wages and pensions there's a general strike in spain while tens of thousands are gathered in brussels to voice their opposition to the austerity measures that have gripped the e.u. . reports. this is the biggest march two thousand and one when eighty thousand people gathered or at least they hope it will be if they reach the one hundred thousand mark and it's particularly ironic and apparently coincidental that it is timed as the e.u. commission me to discuss whether they're going to punish countries that have run up huge debts countries like what we're now calling the pigs portugal italy. and spain so now they have to forward money then they have to save it up and repay those loans and the way that they are proposing to do that is by.

europe is all about deciding on a direction. it is either about setting europe up as a solution for worldwide problems or deciding to re-nationalize. >> redding says she still has to decide whether france's expulsion is in line with eu laws. if not, she will consider launching proceedings against paris at the next commission meeting. >> ireland is struggling to get back on its financial feet. >> it was a very important day for the emerald isle. things went better than expected. ireland's economy passed a key test of investor confidence this tuesday, a sale of 1.5 billion euros of government bonds that was actually oversubscribed, easing worries about the country's ability to service its debt, despite a high deficit in bank bailout costs. the national treasury and management agency says it is offering 1 billion year rose in a year bonds that will pay just over 6%, and 500 million worth that will pay just over 4.8%. the sales bit over five times the amount on auction. it offered for government borrowing. interest rates on irish bo

and europe and therefore you know that into regional trade in the merger markets is still very small and therefore if the demand in the u.s. or europe tanks completely then the emerging markets will no longer be able to export their big chunk of their goods will see a freeze up on the in the trade exchange and therefore slow down and growth. in short the merger you can't do not have the consumers to decouple they will not make it alone but given the moon water an outlook where the u.s. and europe can sustain some growth in the emerging markets looks to outperform this is clearly what many investors are expecting and is likely to be reflected by money flowing toward the new markets. business r.t. . and let's have a look at the markets the russians markets are still closed but equity markets finished off on wednesday with both iata has and the markets closing more than half a percent in the black. high with both spared bank and we see the finishing one percent higher energy majors also let some support from record one for sat close and asian stocks are mostly lower on thursday massive

you're coming from europe you're coming from the u.s. do you think china is misrepresented in the world yes or no you know there are things in china that are not good at all and that absolutely need to be changed and will change over time especially with the new generation coming up that has a much lower tolerance on. strict surratt authorities but what needs to be done is to also report the guts things about china the many things where china really has made enormous progress and that not only in economics but also it is on the way through change its in its political structure in its social economic system i think i think good biggest problem with the reporting in the western press about china is that there's news about communist china and people say they always say the words to press the communist government of china . well recovery is going to turn it is that what it used to be but there's this money. he said about what it probably years that shakes to everything about china and it gives a very distorted picture this is a very modern s

they're essentially saying no to the austerity measures they're trying to show governments across europe what they call the human face of the budget cuts that the government's trying to make in the wake of the economic crisis in europe which of course has led several countries into quite serious debt police have barricaded up banks and shops they've thrown up a ring of steel around the european union headquarters which of course is there in brussels as you say this is the biggest march since two thousand and one when eighty thousand people gathered or at least they hope it will be if they reach the one hundred thousand mog and it's particularly ironic and apparently coincidental that it is timed as the e.u. commission meets to discuss whether they're going to punish countries that have run up huge debts countries like what we're now calling the pigs portugal ireland greece and spain. we're seeing footage of just thousands of protesters hitting the streets there in brussels tell me what if they want what are they demanding. well what we've seen over the last year or so is the governments