in-depth coverage of who has won the hearts and minds of the russian people want to . call the cheney election day kerry russia and throughout the country they will be called think that will influence and they join me for the latest information in the heart of the capital. the war of words between iran and the west players office washington and the eview infuriated by terrans on faye's reaction by two threats made bad by choking off oil revenues. the u.n. human rights commissioner calls for an international intervention in syria sanctions continue to pile up on damascus over alleged civilian and uses by forces loyal to president bashar a loss of. an islamist parties claim to have won in egypt's first post revolution

election and frustration in the streets as many believe their voices are not heard . you're watching are you coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh you all come to the program now it's a big day for voting in the world's biggest country with people deciding on a fresh board of lawmakers for the lower house of parliament. following months of heated debates and politicking it's now up to people to have their say and the main intrigue rest in the ruling united russia party and whether it retains its overwhelming support among the population as its rivals pledge to

offer up tough competition let's now cross live to a correspondence era first was god war for us so sarah lection frenzy has now spread all across russia from the pacific to the baltic what's the latest. the day the polling but if it all over russia now all across the ny times and stating oh well underway here in most cases present the date of it his wife has been out to cause that date three thousand three hundred seventy four polling based in moscow allied of course thousands more throughout the country and it's not just russia road russians able to visit the embassies in countries like the dad and thailand they see people turning up to cost the fates that and in the further flung part of russia is self we see helicopters you know you have bills to deliver holding babies to people who wouldn't have otherwise been able to cause any means

necessary to make sure that people do you have a child because that's right and if that fails then you can do what some people have been doing and take a rainy day instead but of course a very important pay day the polls will be closing eight pm and then the very start being counted it's been a tech savvy election we seen a lot of the polling being having also martic ballot counting devices as some people are going to be able to call the day using electronic devices but now the russian election committee said that in a bit to sort of ease concerns about transparency that there are only two million observers from repeating parties at around seven hundred international observers that are going to be monitoring the voting process checking for any relations to cool sudanese and analysis throughout the day we'll be bringing tea to or life blog on all the called full hundred fifty seats in the state duma that are up for grabs

seven political parties battling it out to win the states we were you know until later exactly what the outcome moved a bit in the run up my colleague tests are still it's been taking a closer look feel. and how some of. this right here is the state duma the lower chamber of the russian parliament where laws are adopted and all bills are first reviewed and the term comes from the russian dumont meaning to think it was founded in one thousand nine hundred six but does survive the one nine hundred seventeen revolution however it did bounce back in one thousand nine hundred three women new constitution was introduced and the upcoming election and the makeup of the six duma since one thousand nine hundred three. there are four hundred fifty seats up for grabs in the

duma and the elected deputies will serve for five years well as it stands the stay do must be divided between four political parties. in other words for currently has three hundred fifteen seats is the biggest party in the duma it's followed by the communists with fifty seven seats the liberal democrats forty seats and a fair russia has thirty eight. let's look at those parties in detail now the ruling united russia party has a constitutional majority in the current parliament and is led by prime minister vladimir putin and with the upcoming election of president dmitry medvedev will be at the top of the party's list of candidates for the party's representation in the duma is not only made up of career politicians but celebrities as well such as one of the most decorated gymnasts a two time olympic medalist. former n.h.l. star the salt as well as the first man to walk in space alexei now the party's platform essentially revolves around modernizing the economy uprooting corruption

and add to radicalism however united russia is also often criticized as bureaucratic inefficient and to some extent blamed for political and economic stagnation. the second of the number of seats is the communist party headed by its own challenge leader gennady zyuganov the communist law the biggest opposition force in the country constantly in second place and one of the most prominent deputies in this sector is on us of federal he's a nobel laureate in physics in two thousand and the communist party promises a not for the first nationalization of key industries they're often criticized for sticking to a platform that caters to an elderly constituency that still dreams of returning to the glory days of the soviet union. or another old timer of the russian the state duma. he's a leader of the liberal democratic party of russia and what's often called a one man party he is widely considered to be a show mad at his over as eccentric behavior and sometimes shocking political views

for example he advocated forcibly retaking alaska from the u.s. and openly expressed his hatred of certain ethnic groups from that is it is often turned his words into action on a lighter note since resting trappin i'm excited to read it was elected as a united russia deputy there's been no more polls in the state. fair russia is headed by he said again and as the name implies its platform is based on the principles of fairness freedom a solitary calling for the proper functioning of a well first. this is the usual working place of the deputy no bells and whistles just a mike and a device with which to vote but not all deputies are interested in the daily debates over bills last year a huge scandal emerge when it came to light that some deputies consistently missed sessions and simply asked their party colleagues to vote in their absence now only after public criticism from the president if they return to work despite the

shortcomings of russia's politicians there are still hopes of the country will be able to put together the kind of polling that it needs to address its people's demands and navigate russia's future so who exactly will be filling these four hundred fifth. decease of the state duma it won't be long now to fight. a campaign closes. the people prepare to speak. to do about election. coverage of has won the hearts and minds of the russian. party. so coming out in today's review of the week's news all ties strained to deliver islamabad pulls out of crucial u.s. backed talks on the future of afghanistan further widening the rift opened by a deadly nato air strike at pakistan's border. and europe holds its breath as

merkel and sarkozy try to brew up a cure for the blocks financial agony while the people protest against a stare. that's been one of the most tense weeks yet in iran's continuing drama as western nations unleash more sanctions greater restrictions and even more rhetoric on the middle east nation it all began with britain's decision to levy fresh measures against iran as punishment for what israel and others believed to be a covert nuclear program it sparked outrage among there were any in public angry students stormed the british embassy in tehran the u.k.'s reaction was to shut down its diplomatic mission along with other e.u. nations and some twenty four rainy and diplomats were expelled from london they returned home as heroes the us hasn't been quiet on the issue either with washington preparing its own crippling sanctions against iran central bank middle east expert and journalists who cancian down believes this is just the start of a much bigger campaign. the west is not engaged in war preparations just against

iran which they have been they've invaded and occupied iran's two neighboring countries that afghanistan on the one side and iraq on the other the west is engaged in a constant project of constant war and domination against all people who resist their domination so iran and syria are definitely on the cards and the conflagration will engulf the whole middle east so this has the potential for growing but that is the agenda right now very clearly they want to regime change all across africa libya was the start and look at the pacific and the asia region the new the new troops new u.s. troops already sent to australia listen to clinton she is saying the critical places for us domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a historic time for the next ten fifteen years where britain and america know they're going down economically and militarily and they know china russia merging so they're really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure that they can

dominate as much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's all it's all you know it's any means necessary i mean whether they do it through sanctions or war or funding opposition movements it's all the same they want complete domination as soon as possible. the un's high commissioner for human rights has called for an international intervention in syria to protect civilians from president assad's forces she sighed the number of protesters and rebel fighters allegedly killed by pro-government forces since the civil conflict began. was also can dand by the un resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention was a blog by russian china they believe the u.n. continues to ignore reports of atrocities committed by opposition fighters and warned that foreign meddling may worsen the situation meanwhile sanctions continue to pile on the massacres but political activists franklin lamb has grave doubts about how effective they can be. i don't think the sanctions are going. to bring down the regime because the regime think screening and show mistake and me

and i think the enough of the population that takes underage as this western interference in terms of the sanctions that they were also resists and i think that history going back to iraq and before teachers the sanctions you know are not really affective in changing the behavior of a regime they're dramatic they're for local consumption i know the u.s. congress is thrilled with these sanctions against syria and against iran but in real political terms i don't see the as the fruit of you know of of those efforts and obviously both sides have got to find another way to defuse these. dangerous situations. and while the west presses harder on arab nations to ease up

on public protests the approach taken to deal with their own demonstrations from london to new york is somewhat different to find brutal cough tactics and a government crackdown the occupy movement shows no signs of slowing down instead it's drawing in new supporters from the most unlikely places. in england major cities were at a virtual standstill as key workers came out on strike against pension cuts unions have called it the largest walkout in a generation. islamic parties have reportedly taken an overwhelming lead in the opening round of egypt's first parliamentary election since mubarak's fall the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party gained forty percent of the vote with a fundamentalist party claiming around twenty five percent however their results aren't final as most parties are set to go through to further election rounds over the next two months but as our t's'pol us leader reports from cairo many in the

streets feel their votes will carry little weight in their troubled country. vote. and a record. of political influence in a country. where the power of the ballot the faces of candidates smiled on the one for the most you the street corner and one egypt since all excited to be voting in the real nixon miles say maybe hold nothing but false. iran to boot drive. down. if you want to be in the polls and if my muhammad. and frustrated think it doesn't want to vote for because so many decisions the problem is you know what or that she's going to produce a parliament to appoint ministers that come with a point. government. whose constitution whatever it turns out to be is going to be

guarded by the army many in egypt say they will continue to camp out on talking square the center of the revolution and in front of the parliament building youth movement leaders like achmet drabble opportunist and what they see as an empty vote offering no democratic mandate will be you. know you will not go inside your office. and you have to go and we do. two more rounds of voting still need to take place but the strong showing of the muslim brotherhood leaves little doubt that the islamist parties will have a significant majority in parliament for what it's worth although claims of a record sixty two percent turnout is already being questioned after a series of irregularities were reported the country's only female candidate for the presidency is not surprised even with. monitoring election just took their mistakes and. we had

a long way for democracy but the west has been quick to praise the election as an important step towards change although the americans are beginning to say well no the army must go back to barracks deep down they'll be perfectly happy to keep the army where it is illegal if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans to you are spirit spectra to do what it wants which means little move for the people to get what they want setting the stage for more to hear turmoil r.t. . europe is looking forward to another meeting between the german and french leader for this monday it could push the eurozone towards fiscal union a possible cure offered by and on merkel this week for the financial agony gripping the continent belgium and greece saw massive strikes as people fought against new measures to bring the current financial roller coaster to hold european central bank has been pumping money into the blocks financial institutions to compensate

for investors pulling out of their funds earlier the e.u. monetary affairs chief warned the euro zone has no more than ten days to contain the crisis though the german chancellor insists that the recovery process will take years but you can i coul us michael ross says europe has to act much more quickly to revive the single currency. we in fact don't have for years we have only days in order to solve this crisis and with the words of angela merkel we can see that the crisis is not sort of every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have a new every week we have new hopes and nothing happens so this is the prognosis of forecasts also for the next week and under the market soon as no two euro bonds this means nothing no to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that the common currency cannot work with a common bond market so all because of the fact that germany is not permitted to

pull out of the euro under the americans we don't want euro bonds and with our bureau bones the euro won't work. this week the u.k. saw massive strikes as two million public sector workers took to the streets across the country's major cities over pension cuts unions have called it the nation's biggest walkout in a generation in london over two thirds of schools were closed while hospitals provided only emergency care anger was sparked by a steady cause which mean people have to work longer but get a smaller pension the prime minister says the measures will drag the country away from the slippery slope to recession but the opposition claims it will have the reverse effect we spoke earlier to alex kenny executive member of the national union of teachers who told us more about what stirred up the people's rage. certainly people we didn't play for the crisis we didn't pay for the banking crisis and they bailed out the goings on now working people. to places.

we have an unprecedented thirty three unions taking action money of whom have never taken strike and we will see today just how strongly people feel about. it and in a few minutes we reported on a novel way to demonstrate a group of ukrainian women for europe with a series of protests burying their anger by burying their bodies. the occupy crackdown in the us continues as cops shut down yet another camp this time in the city of portland. events in the shop walks are now closed you may freely. to the north and the west. you know you show. up. police in riot gear and made a number of arrests but officers refused to specify how many people were detained

this is the second time in less than a month that police have dismantled the occupy movement headquarters in portland protesters now vowed to establish a new camp a task made harder by new legislation. banning overnight stays and public parks as art has more in a park now reports the movement's mass interest beginning to resonate even with those whose job it is to silence or. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. and police crackdowns against the democratic movement have become something of the norm not so normal is seeing one side endorse the other. retired philadelphia police captain bray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city the twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from

a new york cop nobody to talk to make sure this one individual said that i had the testicles of an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting o.w.m. face dire consequences by going public call a tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent has that fear and police officers also they cannot risk they have children they have one what would they do once so far there are no jobs available the nighttime raid on zuccotti park and subsequent arrest of dozens of journalists covering the story are among many reasons captain lewis says he temporarily transplanted to manhattan that's close to dictatorship when you exclude the media. that's what the papers around the world know and that is very scary brutal scare tactics such as pepper spray the tongs and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camps throughout the u.s.

oakland california resembles something of an urban war zone this fall leaving a war vet in critical condition and the eyes of an. eighty four year old burning from tear gas oakland police officer fred chavez is the only octave cop who's gone on record with his support but totally agree with occupy wall street even to understand what i can broker i am a part of the ninety nine percent for the most part people are peaceful and i want to see change many believe the biggest change could calm when or if u.s. law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it despite his arrest captain lewis is back at zuccotti park showing unwavering support for the occupy movement standing roughly ten or fifteen feet away from him a group of new york city police officers yes they're here securing the area but some are beginning to show little interest for the first time i had an officer

break ranks yesterday the barricade line a white officer named officer murray introduced himself and he started this with your question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave that you said hey this is still america and until supervisor order orders me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope to get mainstream america involved the players involved realizing that world of corporate america and america has got to be stop marina port r.t. new york. and you can follow this in out of stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a brief look at what's online for you right now be aware of exploding our polls the i phone really is the hottest touchscreen on the market there have been two cases of spontaneous mobile phone combustion reported within a week. plus antigravity dancing tom break down stars battle it out and i in a national contest being held in moscow we've got the video on our t.

dot com. pakistan has ruled out taking part in the u.s. backed conference on the future of afghanistan next week. the decision was just one of islamabad reactions to a recent nato air strike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers the air raid brought already tan's relations between the u.s. and pakistan to a new low nato supply routes through pakistan were shot off an islamic bot official said washington must make a man and win back the people's trust political scientists thanks the pakistani people will actually benefit from divorcing the country from american support and interests. because the pakistanis receive a significant amount of. cash from the us standees have a lot to lose to the us subsidy of pakistan unchecked enabled the pakistanis to increase their own military spending quite substantially and also subsidizes that

the security services that the secrets of security services and intelligence services an essentially run much of the country the us aid war for some reason. this practice any people would probably feel more secure sense the pakistani military has been engaged in training insurgents in washington and zero stinnett causing an enormous number of civilian casualties painting a public protest message on their a naked bodies has become the trademark for one ukrainian group of activists having made headlines at home for several years with their extravagant and revealing demonstrations they are now set to expose their grievances across europe are just met with the ladies who are far from shy about making their point. oh yes. on a chilly morning in key of hof naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans this is how the feminine movement celebrated the resignation of

silvio berlusconi several days prior to that the very same ladies were in rome voicing their support to the anti berlusconi protest even do it i mean we had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here in kiev and we are really happy his political career has finished this inhibition interrupted the last couple somebody who came to the terran embassy not only to celebrate but to say that he needs to go on trial for his sexual crimes. for more than a week the ukrainian topless protesters had been making themselves heard across europe on a dedicated road trip to draw attention to the sexual exploitation of women in room one of their activists made a revealing protest against injustice towards women in the catholic church in the vatican right in front of the pope.

was before that they hit paris storming former i.m.f. banker dominique strauss kahn his residence. and women from italy came to us in switzerland and said we know that you're coming to rome and will be staging a protest again berlusconi and the pope thank you they said for sharing our problems there while draw free rallies in ukraine have been making international headlines for several years now from protesting against the alarming rate of prostitution especially with the upcoming who are twenty twelve full book tournament to exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield dealing with the new could be worse or they were understood the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me impotent but where would dubai. the desired effect that's why not only ukraine needs us but europe as well who are planning to take over the world and that should be the story of what we see how well you were received in europe remember your colorful actions in ukraine where

are you planning to expand now but those are desired to you more that he didn't go he received lots of letters telling us to continue fighting against religious unjust us towards especially in the muslim states and that's where we want to develop your friends we are even ready to go to iran or any other islamic state to stage our topless protests but knowing all the risks ivan tale for us. they started out as a few enthusiastic complainer is now they're told to scrawl just messages go really global. in ukraine alone they have tens of thousands of supporters the family network has been set up in europe and now stretches as far as the united states still they say they've got a lot of demons to fight at home let's see russia ski altie because you from kiev ukraine. and just a few minutes and in-depth talk on how u.s. pakistani relations will shape up after the latest deadly incident but first we've

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