these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. russia waved the verdict of its people with the ruling united russia policy appearing to be clear winners in the country's parliamentary elections as counting continues but so far falling short of an overall majority after a big drop in its tracks and of course the latest results and analysis as the country decides. also the sound of iran's new the chief the also say they have shot down an unmanned you as a drone in the east of the country according to a state news agency. and also in a roundup of the week's top headlines big one human rights commission of course for international investigation and into bench and see red but russia and china vote against the resolution saying foreign meddling will only cause more bloodshed.

well a very warm welcome for all of this is she with me to leisure thanks for joining us . and let's go straight to our extensive coverage of russia's parliamentary elections here on r.g.p. and votes all over russia being counted now and the central election committee is publishing all the latest figures live for us and. is there kind of here over to you so what are the latest figures y.c. oh you know as of now more than seventy percent of the votes have been counted and

here are the results the ruling united russia party is number one with forty nine point nine percent of the vote that's a slight decrease from the previous hour but still that's the support of more than five million russian voters the communists are in second with just slightly short of twenty percent coming next is fair russia with a little less than thirteen percent number four is the liberal democratic party which has one of around twelve percent well according to the polls we are the parties haven't broken the seven percent threshold needed and among the outsiders are the three outsiders are right cause and patrick russia. more. so they were still being counted when the stand about was the observer saying about how the election went all in all the year they have been indeed a lot of observers watching these parliamentary elections in russia some half

a million observers from russia and seven hundred observers from international organizations and from what we've heard from the observers we've spoken to here at the central election committee mosco and from what we've read about the back of the service elsewhere is that generally the election has been very transparent and in fact if there's a quote from for example many. column and. the harm of romney braced on palm mentally praise the parliamentary elections in russia which she described as a big holiday and he was she was also by britain's nick griffin from the european parliament who expressed surprise that actually russia's parliamentary elections are more transparent than that in the u.k. but russia uses a party list proportional representation system in the duma elections four hundred fifty seats are at stake and if a party breaks the barrier of seven percent threshold that means it gets the number of seats proportionate to the number of votes one now to be eligible for any suit

you have to take at least seven percent though there is one exception this year if a party gets between five and six percent it secures one mandate one seat in the lower house of the russian parliament and if it gets from six to seven percent it gets two seats and starting from the next elections in five years' time deputies will have to pass the threshold of only five percent of course this is aimed at widening the representation of different political forces in the russian state duma also these time around the lower house is being elected for the first time for a five year term previously deputies were elected only for four years and so again you live for these our only four parties have provided and secured seats in the state duma but of course figures might change seriously we're watching the latest here at the headquarters of the central election committee mosco but as of now

that's all we have right. with our country many thanks indeed for that on day one. and so far preliminary results show that the ruling united russia party leading the ballot with fifty percent and what appears to be a significant drop in popularity and short of a parliamentary majority and our correspondent daniel bushell is at the party's key h. for us. but you know to roger has got over fifty percent of the vote but it's still not the two thirds majority required to get laws through russia's parliament on its own so people here party officials are disappointed that down not just because the vote is much lower than they saw in the elections four years ago but also because it's lower than many of the predictions for this election and nevertheless this surprise is seen as another confirmation that the elections have been transparent and fair. has spoken of the voting ended here muted the party will have to govern

in coalition he said that the economic crisis the world economic situation has made some people's lives difficult more difficult and that has reflected itself in some of the anger that we've seen coming into the polls have said that he warned russia does not does not need to rest it needs a powerful ruling party which is able to govern russia effectively we can now listen to exactly what he had to say but the person has to form fairly well the party represents almost fifty percent of the population and this is the result of a democratic process but taking into account the militant planks makeup of the parliament and how to form coalitions with other parties of the various issues and this is what power means and democracies all abound and the leaders of other parties said that they are ready for that which and then we have a clip showing some of the party's agenda as well as a little bit of the criticism that united russia has faced coming into this election which i think we can watch now. as russians pick for parliament who are

the main contenders in the race for a dual six party leader vladimir putin he swapped seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight and may do so again in twenty twelve after midday proposed putin for the presidency current campaign slogan future is dos priorities modernization growing inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs criticized as a monolith that's too slow to react to social change the order for being home to the tons of blood to be uprooted and dmitri medvedev united russia. action two thousand the level on forty and earlier we spoke to prime ministers alleging that putin spokes person to me trip is called and he told us the united russia party is satisfied with the result even though its popularity has dropped as soon as the

party gets a majority in the parliament and as soon as the this result allows the party to continue its politics to continue its line to take a significant part in creation of a new government for here has to be considered as a victory of the party we have to remember that this party was a ruling party in the country during a very harsh and very tough period during the last four years there was a period. of a crisis on the part of managed managed to minimise the consequences of this crisis together with the government certainly with part it cannot satisfy everyone in this country and that's why visit has lost some percentage some percentage but again i repeat it proved to be the leading political power in the country. the communist party united russia's main rival is in second place and has almost doubled the number of was it received in the two thousand and seven elections that's according

to preliminary results of course with counting still continuing and our correspondent at the party's headquarters with the latest there not quite so liberating you wouldn't see any simpy around here but i have to say that they are rather calm and collected they would in a way into this election promising increase in russian promising to better russian military to strengthen russia's position on the world the arena to resurrect the russian village and basically increase russia's influence in the world political arena and it looks like those promises have actually found have actually found some sort of response among the voters the hearts and minds that because their numbers are speaking for themselves really they're almost near that twenty percent barrier of course there are the communists are hoping to break that barrier by the end of the night but of course we have to wait and to wait for the fish the results for that to happen now the head of the communist party even though you know it was a gun it was here earlier this evening and he was rather adamant mostly talking

about the violations which the observers from the communist party have allegedly observed at the polling stations they talked about various forms of violations they even said that some of the communist observers or at the at the observers from the communist party were beaten up at the polling stations they didn't specify where exactly that happened not what is the communist party all about these days let's have a look at this but. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but his criticized for his rebel small with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to when we return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing pushing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stamps in passports. success story second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r.

criticized for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners the discontented industrial working class brought for its red flags with the hammer and sickle of the communist party of the russian federation to my lecture two thousand eleven on r.t. . over one hundred people have been arrested in moscow as political organizations both pro-government and opposition try to stage rallies on election day overseas drake aggrieved has been monitoring events in the city center for us. but as you said actually these opposition protests that we saw what lies on the ground that's right in nature throughout the course of the day there will be more individuals than say parties of movements as such the less the less front were detained it's just behind me outside of the credibility of miners square a few that numbers to tell you by police this is a police tactic we've seen used throughout the whole day where one number of them

are linking arms across the with over there and making sure really having them in funneling these protesters towards the area they want them mainly metro station this is after nine o'clock or nine o'clock or so it's the end of the day or science is not allowing for electioneering protests to take place but here it is then that because the poll stations have no close around russia. jake agrees reporting there from central moscow and let's now get some perspective from gary hart mine god who is a professor of political science at innsbruck university mr my god thank you so much for joining us now so what do you think the prospect of a coalition russia's parliament with the united russia's influence curbed compared to two thousand and seven means for the countries for in time will anything change . well first of all i do not expect it's rush or the united russia or that we need a coalition solely to be a lot of the informal coalition if they need one it will be only

a coalition on on various issues and several parties represented in. the numbers tell us at the moment you're close to fifty percent of the world's even need all cheery slightly less see. how an absolute majority in the state don't even. want to find a percent of the awards are lost on parties did not manage to exceed just a are so percent threshold even slightly less well as to fifty percent might be sufficient so i don't think that they need a coalition in parliament if any of the other party support clothes she. why don't you knighted russia's political priorities is to give the country a more prominent voice in international affairs and we've seen moscow for example has blocked a u.n. resolution that would have seen foreign intervention into syria so how can russia

counterbalance western dominance. of this whole it's very helpful if the emissions russia in the west changes and i think it is you can extend the election . to reshape some of the russian election system the electoral process is simply manipulate it completely. with the ruling party having lost a considerable today does he looks more democratic than it has been expected by the western powers so the image. dealing with course is very important to have an influence international relations. russian built on doubts. russia's voting system spreads the number of seats in proportion to the numbers of votes one with no individual candidates running for seats in the region what are the advantages and disadvantages of that. well first of all if you have

a list. system based on party that. is the community is just one for every independent who wants to live in the elections until the elections in two thousand and seven russia and the system there is still a chance for. the seed districts on the other hand if you use a part of this system that's russia does with rather high threshold of seventy percent on the one hand clearly presentation to all clinical forces in society but on the other hand you prevent the parliament from becoming too fragmented while in the early ninety's and in the second duma of the russian federation. we have a lot of not a lot of parties. you presented in parliament because the national was too old now it is it's at seven percent you have a clear instrument

a talent to prevent it british enough to do most of course makes it easier to we majority use what a government what do you. do. my god professor of political science at university mr my god thank you so much indeed for your time it will. so far seventy percent of the votes have been counted in russia's parliamentary election now for him and the results show that the ruling united russia is leading with fifty percent down from that sixty four percent share they won in the last election so years ago and short of a parliamentary majority so stay with me for the most in-depth coverage all day paul with all the latest developments figures and analysis.

to the news this hour iranian forces say they've shot down an american unmanned drone in the east of the country the craft he used for spying was recovered on the ground large and damaged also on journalist afshin rattansi says the u.s. has broken international law by sending the drone to you ron. there's an r.q. one seventy advanced stealth reconnaissance drone which what i'm hearing is they lost it over afghanistan last week others are saying iranians must be busily looking at this drone and what a great way of. creating technology transfer this is an incredibly serious event and it's of course against international law the united states yet again breaking international law with these dreams it's interesting that even some neo conservatives criticizing obama saying well we're talking about nuclear facilities

iran is thinking about a much bigger game and this is really about influence within the region egypt is a big loss in states after the fall of the u.s. back to where barak from the atlantic to be indian oceans and of course even greece backing some oil sanctions against syria against iran this is a case of the western media feeding loads of people the idea that these countries are isolated when in fact the world is now changing. syria has reportedly accepted the arab league's plan to send a mission of foreign observers into the country this comes in the wake of sustained for impression damascus with the u.n. high commissioner for human rights calling for international intervention and 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 can't come from abroad a resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention in syria was

blocked by russia and china and they believe the u.n. continues to ignore reports of atrocities committed by opposition fighters and saying that foreign meddling would only make the situation was and political analyst dr gossip questions just the sanctions that have been imposed are aimed at . these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they're 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 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 no what they want is to weaken the syrian regime and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think that they.

so much 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 anyone so i can't actually believe that there are. about three thousand syrians when they are not actually what is about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the bodies we can't expect the syrian government and the syrian army to end the violence if the other if the gangs do not stop atrocities against the syrian armed forces. egypt's state newspaper is reporting is the most parties have taken an overwhelming lead in the opening round of the country's first post revolution parliamentary election the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party reportedly gained forty percent of the vote where the fundamentalist al-noor party thought to have claimed around twenty five percent however the results sound final as most part is

a step to go through to further election rounds over the next two months but as our reports from cairo and many in the streets filled our virtual carry little weight. long vote stained fingers and wait for it to turn out a sign of political interest in a country where decades of dictatorship has left little appetite. for the power of the ballot the face of the candidate smile down if one for most of the street corner and wanting to persons are excited to be voting in a real election. say maybe hold nothing but false. iran to get better just trying. to mean you down with. there are tens of thousands like mr 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 but 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 top here square the center of the revolution and in front of the parliament building youth movement leaders like dravot are protesting what they see as an intern vote offering no democratic mandate who will be here. to make sure you will not go inside your office we have to stop you and you have to go and we do. two more rounds of voting still need to take place but a 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 reported the country's only female candidate for the presidency is not surprised. monitoring the

election just took the lead to their mistakes and their fraud we have 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 in egypt if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans to you with your expected to do what it wants which leaves little room for the people to get what they want sitting the stage for to hear turmoil course they are to see. police have arrested more than a dozen occupy protesters in the u.s. city of portland the latest in the crime down the movement across the country please bond overnight stay at the parks what turns have been set up but so actually it's refused to go demonstrators accuse officers of using violence against a peaceful ronnie pushing people to the ground with cranes a teenager was hit with

a boston ration of foreigners a wave of police words to dismantle occupy headquarters across the u.s. in the past three weeks but as aussies merino pornography is the movement's message is beginning to resonate even with those whose job it is to control me. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. and police crackdown 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 w.-s. face dire consequences by going public 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 . what would they do once they're fired or 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 sad. it's close to dictatorship when you exclude the media. as with dictators 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 us 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 but most of our 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 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 stopped marina port r.t. new york. station for all the latest figures and developments on the parliamentary elections at the top of the next hour but first up about what the headlines.

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