of the vote his opponents insist the poll was rigged while c.i.s. observers have said it was a legitimate of the same time a west even monitors have demanded explanations from the country's government on the arrests and claimed the ballot didn't fully meet international standards russia's president mitterrand made to describe the election as an internal matter for velo ruse he added that the country will always be a close ally and friend and hope to continue on the path of democracy parties giving us our of always in the heart of minsk when the rallies broke out she's keeping us up to date. it's all quiet right now in the belorussian capital of course a very stark contrast to what was taking place last night when thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the capital they were here first where we are right now in october sky square thousands of people with flags and banners chanting slogans calling the election of fraudulent one and asking for attacks on the incumbent president and victor in this election to step down and give the people

a democratic choice they then blocked off one of minsk central highways and move towards the parliament building some of the protesters tried to storm the building breaking down doors smashing the windows riot police of course tried to resist and pushed everybody out of the way got really differentiating between civilians and journalists anybody and everybody who was close to them got hit including our very own cameramen who were hit on the face with police baton police dispersed the riots brutally put very efficiently very quickly it was in a matter of minutes that the square which was filled with thousands of people was emptied by a riot police in full riot gear one of the opposition leaders and one of the presidential candidates mr nuclei of was attacked our on his way to the protest he left his office with a few of his supporters they were attacked by a number of men in black without any official law enforcement insignia. the

presidential candidate was beaten and hospitalized with a serious concussion and we know according to his wife a later security officials came and took him out of the hospital she doesn't know where he is opposition leaders of course calling for more people to come out on the streets and protest an election they believe to have been fraudulent the election in which incumbent president. has secured his fourth consecutive victory with a landslide win forty two official results he received over seventy percent of the vote securing himself another stay in office continuing his sixteen year stretch of uninterrupted power opposition leaders those that haven't been detained or are seriously injured are planning to take more people out into the streets of the capital and the will of course be keeping you updated with more information when we get it. the editor of russia in global affairs magazine told me about sunday's protest and meant to place because many think alexander lukashenko has been in

power too long. i think that people who went to the streets day they doubt that. he can weep but he can't win so much the message of this so it's so i think it's good to be. indication of nervousness of the regime that results are so high and they have the protests were beaten so or so hardly first it seems like people and bill it was started to be time to look at he's in power so since nine to ninety four it's a long long time second opposition is very. skilful and bad politically because they. were seven or eight persons for a very limited electorate so it's not serious bob at the same time elections in bill it was just to be organized in the way we share so to say makes

victory for misimpression free to seek you. thoughts there from fielder editor of russia in global affairs magazine now coming up in the program a call to break ties find out why iranian employees want to know brothels and to defy magic relations. plus a lot and president is visiting moscow for the first time soviet union a lot we bought everybody. but first north korea says it will not for a tally eight against the south's war games close to a disputed maritime zone calling them a reckless military provocation pyongyang says its artillery shelling of a south korean island last month was a response to a similar military exercise two civilians and two marines were killed in what's considered one of the biggest player up between the two to be a since the war in one thousand fifties russia has called on seoul to cancel the exercise warning it could further destabilize this stabilized i should say the

already volatile korean peninsula. there may be issued a sort of an aggravation of tension and a serious conflict for that matter so in the big chamber when they have this private meeting which was also of course asked for by the russian federation. we reiterated the call or a full forty strained on both borders in the no one certain terms we asked for would ask the republic of korea to differing from conducting this exercise at this at this point in time but there are certain political circumstances would try to deal with this situation unfortunately so far the security council has not been entirely successful. professor ruediger frank from the university of vienna says that these war games conducted by south korea are damaging the country's reputation . rather cleared out solved group b. if you things to gain and very many things to use from such

a strategy it seems that domestic politics you want to succumb to ration by president embark seems to some degree need to determine the process he needs to show strength through some people probably also up the cost of a long list of foreign policy it is also a measure that certainly strengthens the yourself to be a u.s. ally of according to all salt of the media is that it is very state as a president and internationally south korea is taking a very great place because south korea is not north korea and north korea be kind of expect when you coast behavior because that's what you always do the south koreans in the last years were able to display themselves as the good guys as the peaceful the constantly being who fired the north. commute itself takes such a hard time that are measured approach. to through quickly how has the public opinion of local changes in regards off. the part of the problem so

the actual moral high ground that's all who has been occupied it's not really been endangered in many ways. russia's foreign minister has warned that the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington cannot be amended or renegotiated sergey lavrov voiced his hope that the u.s. senate will ratify the treaty soon and said russian lawmakers are ready to do the same on sunday barack obama's democrats fought back another republican attempt to amend the deal a senate vote turned down calls to order and effectively kill off the start treaty how does one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements start with slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third signed by the me through going to visit and barack obama in april it needs to be ratified by both the american senate and the russian duma it's a race against time for the democrats who majority in the senate will be reduced in january they need over a dozen republican votes to pass the treaty obama is now phoning senators

personally urging them to support starts. with lott via gripped by economic recession the baltic state now wants partnership with russia. visits is the first violent fan leader to moscow since it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety one. reports. the two presidents discussed bilateral trade and economic cooperation and signed a number of treaties now just to remind you that is currently going through a deep economic crisis and this is particularly important for last year as it is seeking economic partners and investment poem many analysts say that this meeting could be the first sign of the improvement of the relations of lot in russia the two of the former soviet republics there is a number of thorny issues which has been really making their relations of the two

countries difficult in the past two decades and the main problem is the are the rights of more than a half million ethnic russians living in now in latvia out of the more than three hundred thousand roughly fifteen percent of latino population have the status of nonresidents those who have the status all can deprive of their basic political rights such as for example they can to a vote in any latvian elections as well as a social and economic rights russia's president meeting with said that the problem has been discussed it is indeed a very sensitive issue as the lives of many people have been impacted and he also said that the problem primarily needs to be dealt with by the local authorities now of course the other problem between russia and large here is the different reading of history at large there has always maintained that it was occupied by the soviet

troops russia has always disagreed with that sounds and the nationalist moves and rousseau phobia are quite strong in latvia now the two presidents agreed that a special commission will be created to deal with these differences in the reading of the history allowing the damage and as scientists to discuss this issue in detail however most analysts agree that this first visit by latvian president could be the first step towards normalization of the relations between the two countries . here with our live from moscow on the way in just a few minutes wiki leaks worries find out what the united states thinks about and could have in store troubled arab nation. but first a group of influential iranian and paintings have voted for tehran to break all diplomatic ties with the u.k. after its ambassador criticized the country's human rights record the move comes on

the back of the advance claim that britain's intelligence service was involving assassination of a top you'll soon find such a huge star rar was killed during a bomb attack in the iranian capital last month there on race little commentator qian mokhtari says the threat to break off diplomatic ties is a morning that iran not than britain's member. iran doesn't seem problem problem with britain and the us for as long as. i could i mix and scientists are not assassinated in broad daylight in tehran very little happens here when things like this happen when bombs go off it is almost always from overseas seems to still be you know a person funeral type of anger and it feels that it didn't speak out against the domestic affairs of other nations it will whereas the iranian lawmaker is quite clearly disagree but this is to send a strong warning well

a strong warning this is to send the warning to to britain that iran is prepared to go as far as that if such as alleged actions by proxy terrorist organizations are not stopped. well with the flurry of wiki leaks to have shed more light on us foreign policy we're revelations about washington's involvement in counterterrorism operations in yemen the whistle blowing web site has provided more details of how fears are growing that the arab nation is becoming a terror hotspot as he's going to each to caen has been finding out some are concerned about it turning into a new war. america's secret aims in yemen are secret no more as confirmed by recent week a leaks this patch of classified diplomatic cables u.s. special operations forces are carrying out strikes against suspected terrorists in yemen and the yemeni government is taking the credit in exchange for yemen's

cooperation the u.s. heavily finances the country's fragile government but u.s. plans in yemen go further than targets the military are discussing the long term basis and asking for more than a billion dollars to for i don't hide out there for some of the how the dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in inconclusive wars in distant lands that would cost us a fortune there's a kind of intelligence national security bureaucracy. in this country all sere and americans are russian only scared when the parcel bomb he styria broke out in the u.s. twenty four hour news regime did not fall forward cutting americans worst fears a second suspicious package from yet it was found and a better facility that an ideal country as a nation like o'connor years ago already believed out in the arabian peninsula is behind the shipment the packages from yemen gave rise to

a lot of confusion as to whether they were really parcel bombs but one thing that was beyond doubt the fear trigger has been pointed out yemen was in the news as a terrorist in a matter of days the u.s. officially deployed predator drones in yemen and started talking about bases there they deliberately over blow all of these incidents because there is a huge constituency a huge business national security business which is paid for by the u.s. taxpayer it's a way of capturing a political supporter way of doing a lot of different things but what it's not doing is getting the most generous estimates suggest there are perhaps several hundred al qaida members in the poverty stricken strive for deserts of yet. u.s. special forces have been chasing them for we years causing dozens of civilian deaths what the u.s. is doing in yemen is really inflating the prominence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula this is a group that probably would have very little street value in the arab street or the muslim street if the united states wasn't propping up

a lockie of the sort of second coming of osama bin laden i think it's goes to show how little we've learned from the boogie man days of bush and cheney and our own policies in dangerous more in many cases that al qaeda is policies on the surface american leaders are motivated by the fear of one day receiving a parcel bomb but some say the sas has other layers of motivation you're not going to make the technology of a letter bomb go away by attacking what you think is al qaeda in yemen you're just going to make it move to another place the u.s. government is basically very much into a marketing campaign to make these things look like the government is being effective in light of modern u.s. wars and their coverage in the media we've learned that the objective pros and cons of waging a military campaign can be muted whenever fear comes into the picture and fear can justify almost anything going to check on our team washington d.c. the u.s. vice president is pledging the withdrawal of all troops from afghanistan within

three years joe biden says the pullout will begin next july and all americans will be out by twenty fourteen quote come hell or highwater he added that al qaeda no longer has the capability to pull off an attack like nine eleven but admitted the afghan insurgency is far from beaten us currently has around one hundred thousand troops and more stricken country sometimes saw another taliban driven north of the country suicide bombers stormed army recruitment center leaving at least ten people dead party's military contributor says it's up to u.s. commanders on the ground not the white house to turn the war around. the number one thing is al qaida the second it's pakistan and afghanistan it takes only the third place as the us national security in the regions are concerned on the ground it's up to the u.s. commander in afghanistan general petraeus to expand he has authority for

afghanistan to pakistan or level the lawyers said the white house told whatever they want to again and stand in pakistan that talk is cheap at the end of the day it's up to the military intelligence law enforcement and diplomatic community and their forces on the ground to make your wheel and positive impact on afghanistan and its neighbor to better security and prosperity for afghanistan and for the whole region. artie's military contributor there colonel ugandan crew show his blog is also on our website r t dot com. it's on world news in brief for you there were a series of bombings in baghdad killed one police injured over a dozen iraqi officials say the first blast which exploded in the center was caused by a roadside bomb targeting

a passing police patrol two other devices went off in eastern baghdad shia neighborhood. twelve people have been arrested in three cities across the u.k. as part of a major answered terror operation the men are aged between seventeen and twenty eight it comes after intelligence agencies in pakistan and europe and the u.s. intercepted watts to strike european cities these are searching the suspects homes for further evidence. freezing weather and severe snow is continuing to cause massive disruption to travel across europe the world's busiest international airport london heathrow has been reopened after having been closed for most of the weekend it is operating on a limited schedule flights were also canceled or delayed due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt and the arctic temperatures are predicted to last well beyond christmas. in taiwan four children were injured when

a man rammed his car the gates of a primary school as pupils while being the driver was a sixty seven year old to ventilate containers and petrol inside the vehicle in apparent suicide attempt features and apparently witnessed the incident were able to put out prior saving his life taiwanese media have a mortgage that man was having problems. for many people struggling to make ends meet in the republics of central asia russia is seen as a land of opportunity despite a recent law banning foreigners from working in russia without authorization million still flock here every year in search of a better life most are forced to work illegally and live in fear of persecution as a renewed courts for. here for the federal migration service comes knocking on the door at four o'clock in the morning officers say they arrive at this early hour before the immigrants leave for work which usually

happens around six am like duty to produce so srijit conducted in order to find illegal immigrants usually we have about seven or eight such raids a month. this time around the federal migration service found just a few people without permission to work in the country one of them is a good man nice twenty two year old man one week one i don't have documents i don't know russian people i'm going to russia thirty years and i don't understand the rules and customs are going to follow as one who doesn't immigrants who were apprehended during the raid but officials say there are millions more undetected in russian city in the us throughout this russia needs foreigners yes it does but only as many as are required for the economy whereabouts people living in that tiny little room right there we are going to go down the corridor into the kitchen and you can see for yourself that the. here are far from cemetery or convenience this

is like a kitchen space something between a bathroom and basically a place where people cook and walk you down the aisle. so why do chinese in many other asian countries continue to flock to russia. although they get paid a lot less than. for the same job still a lot more than they would have. migrant workers or a very. developed economies they do paid job security no one in the country wants to do. has the second largest number of immigrants in the world after the united states and there's plenty of jobs in industries such as construction and retail the flow of migrant workers doesn't show any signs of drying up even if the hours are long in the living conditions a cramped. at our web site has a lot more to offer you whenever you want it here right now at. your

prior to taking your car out of all that snow every morning you don't have to find out about the service. offering to do it for you any time any day. father frost is kicking off a holiday in the kremlin by delivering a century old christmas tree to very center of moscow take a look at dot com and get into the spirit. later this hour we talked. about his views on the israeli palestinian relations. cross to kareena for the latest business update. for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get

a human voice face to face with the news makers. in . brighton if you knew new songs from stupid. stunts on t.v. don't comb. our welcome to business bullets have got to have you with us alitalia has dropped playmakers so horror for a possible five hundred million dollars regional jet order it are these flagship carriers sized delivery delays saying it can't afford to wait for the super jet one

hundred planes despite naming them as the first choice instead alitalia says it's all things who least twenty planes from brazil's. twenty seven billion dollars found in the ground a huge deposit of platinum has been discovered in russia's northwest the success has not come overnight prospectors had been exploring the area of seventeen for seventeen years before finding the five hundred ton field as if the size of the deposit was not enough geologists say the mining process should be easy as most of the precious metal allies. let's have a look at the markets u.s. stocks fluctuate on monday as the technology sector weighs on and they says software high after president barack obama signed an eight hundred fifty eight billion package friday renewing tax cuts for another two years the dow jones industrial average is up eighteen point twenty four points. chevron leaning on the index gaining over a percent. stocks in europe are also off with miners driving them high as b.h.p.

billiton and rio tinto are both up point six percent on the footsie but british airways a new fans that have shed over one percent a snow in northern europe stops flights. here in moscow the r.t.s. has continued the way it ended last week's like the in the red but both main is a barely moving in the afternoon as many investors leave for the holidays. energy stocks are mixed after weak performance on monday morning that says light sweet stays under eighty nine dollars a barrel well kylee is coming under pressure after it revealed the details of its merger with rival person was accompanying subi meat and it says it will be paying a one point four billion dollars to acquire a further twenty percent stake in the farm and noble if it has reversed early gains is to company posted stronger than expected third quarter profits at five hundred sixteen million but it warned of a price squeeze in the coming months. so was pharmaceutical holding novara has

plans to invest half a billion dollars in russia over the next five years the world's number three pharma company will build a growth without some cloud in st petersburg the plant will produce one a half billion generic and provide an proprietary medicines a year margins also plans to double investment and its russian research and development program. that's all we have time for this hour but i'll be back with more and less than fifty minutes from now john with.

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live from moscow and these are the headlines at six thirty pm the worse is dealing with the aftermath of violent protests by the opposition to alexander which the question calls when in the presidential elections hundreds of people were arrested including a number of times candidates claim to vote meanwhile o s c e monitors are demanding answers on the a rabs and ballot regularities. north korea calls artillery drills by the. sound of breathless military application for frank from retaliation despite

previous threats moscow was warned seoul to cancel the war games to avoid further tension. russia is battling with an overflow of the illegal immigrants trying to show no sign of slowing down though they come from poor central asian states they are not doing much better in this country will stand up in poor living conditions and with low paying jobs. now palestinians have called on the e.u. to declare the west bank and the gaza strip an independent state despite the fact there's been no peace deal with israel the move followed a breakdown in negotiations after the jewish state resumed settlement building in september our chief spoke to rabbi andrew baker who believes that no solution to middle east peace is possible if israel is left out of the process.