it was never a mystery but i don't do you agree with mr sarkozy about the. monetary system international monetary system and do you support. the position of different presidents on this issue mr medvedev do you agree that the problem with. the. question to mr sarkozy and european commission. has. a procedure against trend sense and destroying our tory practices. as for the topic about the. government says you know what are the future architect or do we see one and. we are also one of the well water france heading the european union. although we also carried our discussions about giving an issue i think. the adequate and final found c. exchange rate. and we also have to perform in this thing that is also kind of the not protectionism and we should probably be protecting our own position like you would think as for the other you see about russia and just you. know it is also an important thing but real also from the here being a union have an interest as their. currency system and we also under. all possible efforts and know that you make.

mr. sarkozy is an inevitable position. this is a pivotal part of his reform program. is this just a union backlash? or is there actually a popular movement against his presidency? where will that leave him in 2012? the next few weeks may provide the answer. >> the european commission has suspended its threat of legal action against france over the expulsion of row of people, accusing them of criminal activity. -- roma people, accusing them of criminal activity. at least 16 people had been killed in pakistan's port city of karachi. used cars and machine parts are traded there, there was more violence around the city. bloodshed triggered. a former british prime minister, lady thatcher, admitted to hospital in london, described as a routine condition for an infection. reports say that she has not completely recovered from the small illness that kept her away from her 85th birthday. gunmen stormed the party -- the parliament building, in chechnya, randomly shooting and setting off explosives. they have described themselves as stable and prosperous, declaring victory with

mr. sarkozy said [unintelligible] he has been proved wrong. know it is more difficult than it was in the past, -- >> you have a constitutional right to strike, haven't you? >> absolutely. >> you have to jump through quite a few hoops if you want to strike. is there steen and building up in the trade union movement? -- is there steam building up? >> i think there is. many people are only beginning to get a feeling of how grandees cuts will be -- how grim these cuts will be. this be reflected in disputes? possibly yes, the government's intentions are the pay freeze and potential huge job cuts. talking about almost half a million in the public sector. that is without looking at the impact in the private sector. it worries about pension, all these could lead to difficult disputes. >> could we see scenes of the kinds we have seen in france? >> that i am not sure. we certainly could see major demonstrations. we are going to be organizing early next year a major demonstration, but we are very careful. it is too easy for us in the media in this countr

mr. sarkozy and his style, and his unwillingness to give way. for the president, that is the dangerous legacy of the last two months of demonstrations. bbc news, paris. >> that are an irritant for any traveler flying to the united states and make most of us feel a bit safer, but airport security checks will be massively scaled back in some of the biggest names in the british airline industry have their way. the chairman of british airways says some current checks forcing us to take off our shoes, for instance, are completely redundant. he plans to look again at regulations imposed by the u.s. and the e.u.. tom simons reports. >> how do you stop an attack on an airliner? the answer -- a mixture of scanning technology and some of the toughest restrictions ever imposed on air travelers. but the chairman of british airways, speaking to an airline conference, has described many of the current measures as completely redundant. he says britain and europe were guilty of kowtowing to the americans, who increased restrictions on u.s.-bound flights. britai

us now live with the lakers so despite the intense public pressure that we've witnessed it seems mr sarkozy got his way in the. kevin it was a very close decision by the french senate the votes are one seventy seven to one fifty three so a very short margin by which this controversial pension reform has been approved of course this isn't the final leg of this reforms journey it will have to be approved by a committee comprised of both the upper and lower houses of parliament that committee is set to meet on monday the twenty fifth of october but this step in itself is a very big deal of course for the french people who have been protesting this proposed decision for days causing k. . and basically forcing the country to a standstill as they blocked oil refineries and costing millions to the french air industry to various other people relying on transport transportation of goods vehicles and so on so that this reform has already been said by the french government to be instrumental in helping the french economy off its knees as it suffers from the effects of the global financial crisis but t

mr. sarkozy. >> you will remember that at a certain point a slightly disappointed harold mcmillan said of de gaulle, he says europe and means france. and there was some truth in that, that until german unification which we marked the 20th anniversary of just the other day, france was effectively the center of europe. it was the driver of the european-- you -- >> and france is therefore much more ambivalent about the european project because it's not sure it's that old european project any more. and it feels somehow that germany is now really if he center. having said that, in my view, the much larger problem we have is not france but germany. because what drove the european project as you know for a half century was a combination of the french driver and the german motor. and now the french driver is not sure where he wants to go. and the german motor is not sure if it wants to go there. >> rose: well said. you also said that europe needs a children ilio gaullist or a gualo churchilliast strategy. that is a great leader frame of mind. >> it means something absolutely fundamental to our ti

mr. sarkozy is dealing with retirement reform in france. we have some problems with our debt, greek financial problems. you know these problems. maybe it is not the best date to promote a new ambitious space program. but we have to go somewhere in the political field. otherwise, there will be nothing significant in the next years. so this is my vision. it is a little bit of everything together. i wanted to emphasize, point out how important it is that we sell our message to the political community. we cannot think -- obviously, everything we do is marvelous and brilliant. those days are over. we are facing, i think, a very potentially positive challenges with the shrinking economy, the will of the u.s. to cooperate with international's. that is welcome in europe, especially for us. so we will have to define. i hope the launcher will define this new ambition. we do not know how we will participate, i hope that we can. but there has to be something beyond the launcher, beyond the strict ambition to have jobs immediately. i would say we have t

mr president a last question. friends for radio questions for president sarkozy this is about the domestic situation. the demonstrations against the pension reform and the problems with the if you will . at demonstrations in the schools of the radicalization of this movement and a breakdown of. just my colleagues question on the domestic situation in france. which i have thought a great deal. i thought a great deal before starting the pension reform in france. this reform. if you. had been postponed for too long. and there was no longer any possibility of postponement because. we need certainty for the pension as of today and tomorrow that their pensions will be paid what's the pension situation in france. the situation. is such that pensions are being paid by printing money money in the bank and this situation cannot last it cannot last for reasons of fairness it will be totally just that the pensioners who worked all their lives when they retire pensions are not paid this is not a specifically french situation you know hold all the world's countries this is a question there's any question was raise

in caracas so thank you mr president thank you to all of you here alexandre headers and just like alexander harrison used in saying the present let's go together because sarkozy our future from our president our president and we're going to do this together because russia is a great country because nobody and we are a small country but remember greats that part of the willingness to believe or believe it or fired for it just like believe or used to say to you can struggle you believe and and a world of equality and rules that are small to paul world thank you so much to my dear friend steve are you have. not been in a salon you see here i brought some of the falklands from venice well that's the best thing in the world and i'm going to set about to give it to all of you you can try it it's going to be cheap to do so you should think of buying it. and here we have a lot of love and we have some jam of our bananas the best bananas in the world as a. result cause well. oh to me the. that's the best thing the past product from our country to you my friends i see we're going to show you. i was just going to give us my post here about proceeding with the political

right having said that president sarkozy doesn't look like he's going to make any concessions and it doesn't look like he's going to back down so what is next can you hear me. mr mccarthy can you hear me. i think we've lost the connection there that was fair conch shell the economists from the economic and social research institute. well whereas the french are still taking to the streets in huge numbers the british government's also proposing austerity measures appear to be taking a more pragmatic approach to the issue evidence of the taxpayers' alliance explains . i think we did have a few small protests around westminster here the other day mostly led by the unions who have fears about how this will impact on public services and job losses but i think the important things to stress is that mostly broadly speaking people in britain are giving their support to these cops the most recent polling said that you know people are on board people understand that the u.k. has been spending more money than we have running a deficit and every year that we do that our national debt gets bigger and bigger and people understand that there now is a need to cut spending beca

mr van so will will the hatred of moscow towards satisfy really remain unconditional may russia may russia somehow somehow restart bullish relations with. until he's in power well of course by. one sarkozy who always in power russia will remain russia will remain i said be the enemy of i'm not saying georgia about georgia rule in of regime. of circus war in two thousand and thirteen war. was his plays better go and probably you will yes and this case some changes could start a again the question is who's going to come in his place and what's going to happen i really believe nothing will be no major changes they still will be georgia still will be demanding. the area back and russia will still will not let it do not let it happen but now the question is what's a question was going to happen in line with the political of a constitutional reform and the reason is that circus really will change the constitution the way that the major power in the country will go to be proud. minister the question is if circus would move to the to the prime minister position who is going to be ruling the country if that will be the case i believe the russia will still stay the. not. just. north of the friend