the burqa ban in france or the inciting hate trial of wilders in the netherlands we'll have michael moynihan from reason magazine on all of that we get back. seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v.'s here headline the french government stands firm on its plan to raise the retirement age is violent protests an industrial action paralyzed the country unions say around three million people took to the streets energy supplies have also been hit in france to import electricity. and there are more protests this time in london after the u.k. government announced the biggest reduction in public spending since the second world war almost five hundred thousand public sector jobs will go along with multi-billion pound cuts to the defense budget the aim is to reduce record debts that swelled during the global financial crisis that some economists are saying the cuts should have gone even deeper. and a deadly show of loyalty to the terror attack on the chechen parliament on tuesday may have been a pledge of allegiance to al qaida according to the republic's interior ministry t