they get under way in russia people keys alone make history by becoming the united. but bringing you all the latest election if they did life in the capitol hill. you know the news that shaped the week terror on tension iranian students storm the british embassy in response to fresh sanctions prompting the u.k. to close its mission there and expelled iranian diplomats from london. the un human rights commission a calls for international intervention in syria but russia and

china voted against the resolution saying foreign meddling will only cause more bloodshed. in egypt the main islamist party did merges as the biggest winner in the opening round of the country's first parliamentary election since the revolution. it is a good to have you with us today this is the life for a moscow with me rory sushant from of lot of all stuck to volgograd it's decision day here in russia millions across the country's nine times so having their say to decide the makeup of the lower house of parliament the state.

our voting has finished in the far east of the country but people in the rest of the world's biggest nation are heading to the polls to cost that's the key issue focuses on whether the ruling united russia party will win enough support to remain the decisive parliamentary force but let's get some more details on this now straight to r.t. surface standing by in central moscow with a bit of a focus today but the kremlin behind you we see you there sara after weeks of political campaigning people are now making decisions how is the election process going so far. both the facing continuing today here in the capital and indeed across the country around one hundred ten million people expected to face today the central election committee in russia saying that about a quilter have already turned out to vote no there's no threshold ten out threshold for the elections they'd be valid anyway but millions of people have already cost that no one's being left out even the close minnows the polls in space of both the

i assess have had their chance to have that they would put in contacts with a representative. he was able to see the cost that they pulled the as he said millions of people turning out of course russia has nine times and so in some regions of the far east the poles have place in the face already being counted now the fighting will continue until eight pm local time and that's the last place of a weakling grad which will be nine pm of time which points out the base will be counted on to start the season decision making it will stay with us throughout the day because we're going to be bringing you a special coverage and analysis as the day goes on and as the elections continue the seven political parties battling it out with a. seat in the state in the four hundred fifty thousand seven percent threshold that's the point that the parties need to pause before they get

a proportional representation there is the exception this time with the elections the parties that gain between five and six percent they will get one seat at a party the games between six and seven decide who gets the seats are seen as quite important but the party topic more representation within the state of course is the first time in russia is it russia's recent history that a lawmaker is would be taking power the five years previously it was four years since he said and it's free we have posted but we see a lot of heated debate a lot of heated campaigning and of course now is the chosen very just because all important vote is being avis seen by international monitors that monitors within the country as well now that being said they just violations report to say far from international observers that have the best in mind of violations of forces by the observer so they can be parties. so that the russian engineers is what we do say

seen at today here in the capital. rallies un sanctioned rallies that have been going on which supporting the various parties we've already seen a number of arrests for in the east there is a police presence on the streets headed as we said to the international monitoring keeping a close eye on that watching for violations they've also been a twitter account and a whole life that's the basis of course to have the same report any discrepancies that they have as we get a full watching the seven political parties bustling it out they say it's my colleague that's us and it's be taking a closer look at some of these main political parties. 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 a new constitution was introduced and the upcoming election and the makeup of the six since one thousand nine hundred three. or four hundred fifty seats up for grabs in the duma and the elected deputies will serve for five years well as it stands to stay do must be divided between four political parties. currently has three hundred fifteen seats it's the biggest party in the duma it's followed by the communists with fifty seven seats of the liberal democrats forty seats and a fair russia has thirty eight. but 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 of 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. and the second of the number of seats is the communist party headed by its leader gennady zyuganov the communist saw the biggest opposition force in the country constantly in second place and one of the most prominent deputies in this sector of us of federal he said no below. in physics in two thousand 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. well another old timer of the russian the state duma. he's a leader of the liberal democratic party of russia now it's often called a one a man party he is widely considered to be a show man and his over his 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 that in the last years often turned his words into action on a lighter note since resting trapping i'm excited to read it was elected as a united russia deputy there's been no more pools in the state. now fair russia is headed by he said again and as the name implies its platform is based on the principles of fairness freedom it's only dirty 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 they returned to work despite the four comings 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 fifty seats of the state duma it won't be long now till we find. and we will be bringing you a detailed account of the decision in russia throughout the day the first. is also expected to be released at five pm g.m.t. shortly before that at four o'clock g.m.t. will begin our special live coverage of his correspondents will be reporting from

the central election committee as well as major party headquarters bringing you all the reaction and analysis as it comes in. campaign closes. the people prepare to speak. do election eleven. in-depth coverage of has won the hearts and minds of the russian people r.t. . now we're ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this week has seen a dramatic rise in tensions around iran with western nations unleashing more pressure on the islamic state last week britain along with the u.s. and. iran with fresh sanctions as punishment for what they believe to be a covert nuclear program it's fuck outrage among the iranian public and on tuesday angry students stormed the british embassy the u.k. shut down its diplomatic mission in response well twenty four iranian diplomats were also expelled from london it comes as washington is preparing its own

crippling sanctions against iran central bank but political analyst chris bambery believes that provoking tehran will have disastrous consequences. as the subsections against the run and there is talk of some restraint against the run over this you could program we should remember that nationalism runs very deep in people one memories of when for instance britain and america wants to in one thousand nine hundred eighty three to overthrow a democratically elected government which had nationalized british american oil interests and installed the shah of iran and the nationalism is runs very deep and really you know enthusiasm present. many of the mood around against any notion of sanctions against iran or a british or american need to strike against the right. of america and britain between them have enough weapons to destroy the world many times over make sure you call weapons it does not have. in iraq the americans and the bruce do have plans

for eventually military strike is whether or not the kind of and i think those people who are committed to peace. don't want to see you know war should be concerned about this pressure in washington london paris to stop any talk of for the sanctions or any talk of a military strike against iran or from iran to syria now where the arab league has given syria an ultimatum to accept a mission of observers by sunday and the un's high commissioner for human rights as calls for international intervention in the country to protect civilians from president assad's forces she said four thousand people have been killed since the clashes began almost nine months ago however syria's ambassador to the u.n. responded by warning that the solution to the crisis cannot come from abroad a resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention in syria was blocked by russia and china they believe the u.n. continues to ignore reports of atrocities committed by opposition fighters and

think that foreign meddling would only make the situation worse political analyst talk to his question is it just who are the signs that have been imposed are aimed at. these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they are meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic level and on the security level it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions and other to use the decisions of the arab league for their own purposes to put pressure on syria to put pressure not for the syrian regime to stop the killing as they put it but know what they want is to weaken this city and to g.m. and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think they they. so much for for syrian blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people were killed by nato bombings and the come through was devastated that nobody said any

word so i can't actually believe that they're now searching about three thousand syrians when they are not actually. what it about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the blood it's we can't expect the syrian government and the syrian army to end the violence if the other if the gags do not stop the atrocities against the. now quarter past the hour here in moscow you are with still coming your way in the program the neverending story of saving the euro. every week we have been used every week we have new hopes and nothing happens monday's meeting between the german and french leaders offer anything new to ease public discontent more on that ahead. plus a u.s. police continue to crack down on anti corporate protesters some officers are changing sides we meet a veteran

a policeman who explains why he joined the chorus of those unhappy with current economic policies. egypt's state newspaper is reporting islamist parties have taken an overwhelming lead in the opening round of the country's first post revolution parliamentary election the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party reportedly gained forty percent of the vote with the fundamentalist elnora party thought to have claimed around twenty five however the results are not final as most are set to go through to further election rounds over the next two months but as artie's polis reports from cairo many in the streets feel their votes will carry little if any weight. long vote. in the country. the faces of candidates smiled down at one in the street and wanting to be excited to be both.

hold nothing but. iran to do. try to narrow it down. there are tens of thousands like me if my mohammed young unemployed and frustrated they think it doesn't matter who they vote for because the military will still make all the important decisions the problem is you know what are they actually going to produce a parliament that cannot appoint ministers that cannot appoint a 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 ahmed drabble upper testing of what they see as an empty vote offering no democratic mandate there will be you. think you will not go inside your office. and you have to go and we do it.

to more rounds of voting still need to take place but the strong showing of the muslim brotherhood leaves little doubt that the islamic 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 ported the country's only female candidate for the presidency is not surprised. monitoring the election just the corollary to their mistakes and their fraud we had no 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 egypt if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans do you are spew expected to do what

it wants which leaves little room for the people to get what they want sitting the stage for more to hear turmoil r.t. . and paula continues to monitor the situation in egypt you can follow her updates on twitter we can take a look at some of the comments right now in one of our latest tweets she reports on the words circulating around we are that those who attacked female journalists were planted by the regime to make protesters look bad you can follow paula's personal feed for more updates and inside so we can just read the retreats that underscore calm. we're watching the weekly live from moscow on monday europe could move closer to what's been described as a budgetary intervention in the running of the e.u. member states german and french leaders are to thrash out a deal on creating a fiscal union of eurozone countries it would mean the financial policies of e.u. nations would have to be approved by brussels and penalties for countries which

break the rules this week belgium and greece so massive strikes as people expressed anger at the painful austerity measures brought in to control debt but economic analyst michael ross believes the european leaders are just creating a facade of action because the problems are here to stay. every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have a news every week we have new hopes and every wreak and nothing happens so this is the prognosis the forecast also for the e.u. summit next week and going under markel soon is no two euro bonds this means nothing else then no to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that two common currency cannot work without a common bond market in europe we are twenty seven different countries with different cultures and different ways of living and of course they don't want to be ruled by brussels and nobody wants those also the germans don't want it and this is

the real problem we have with this common currency it is not backed by the several governments if you want to have a common currency who have to have one. single rulership in europe for example but nobody wants it so we are in a contradiction we're on the cool to suck so i don't know how you will solve this problem now for twenty pm here in moscow this is a police in riot gear have arrested more than a dozen by protesters shouting down their count now in the u.s. city of portland police. have been set up but some activists refused to go demonstrators accuse officers of using tough tactics against a peaceful rally pushing people to the ground a teenage protester claims i want to hit him in the face with a riot stick police action came as part of a wave to dismantle occupy headquarters across the u.s. in the past few weeks as. ports the movement's message is beginning to resonate

even with those whose job it is to control. 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 spoke to me 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. ass face dire consequences by going public. in their job being disciplined being

fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent here are police officers also they cannot risk they have children. what would they do once you're fired there are no jobs available and 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 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 like i totally agree with occupy wall street even to

understand what i can broker i am a part of the ninety nine percent but most poor 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 on the wavering 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 at the barricade line a white officer named officer murray and introduced himself and if you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said this is still america and until a supervisor ordered ordered 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 corporate america has got to be stop marina port r.t. new york. and don't forget you can find more on that story online if i let's have a look now at what's also in store at r.t. dot com for example sizzling smartphones the other hottest touch screen may indeed be apple's i phone two of them have gone up in smoke just this week alone. and a break dance battle top stars clash in an international contest being held right here in the russian capital do you check out the bending footage in full at r.t. dot com. now twenty five minutes past the hour let's check out some other news from the past week here on r.t. pakistan is boycotting an international conference on the future of afghanistan due to take place in germany next week it's the latest sign of a deepening crisis in relations between washington and islamabad this following the

most recent deadly nato air raid on a pakistani border post earlier pakistan shut down a vital alliance supply route to afghanistan in response to the helicopter strike that killed twenty four foot soldiers the incident described by a top pakistani officer as quote a deliberate act of aggression triggered anti american protests all across the country and some experts predict the troubled relations will get worse as the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan draws closer. i think that both the united states and pakistan have this very strange relationship that they need each other and that probably before it absolutely ruptures there will be some concessions but you know the the united states it's planning to leave by two thousand and fourteen all its troops there what will be left behind pakistan is determined to have a force in kabul that actually pakistan wants to support it in other words

for similar to the taliban that it's pressure to debate. this it's quite opposed to anything that the west wants so i think that the next two years are going to be fascinating when you've got two wholly different dynamics unfolding there. in about a five minutes time i will talk to pakistan's former head of intelligence on the latest blow to u.s. pakistani relations.

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