games flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. we always do all the votes counted the ruling united russia party is big clear winner in the country's parliamentary elections starting at about thirty percent ahead of its closest rivals but it's all in short of an overall majority after a big drop in via track compared to the last four years ago. also this hour iran's military forces say they have shot down an unmanned u.s. drone in the east of the country according to a state news agency. and in a roundup of the week's top story the one where wide commissioner calls for international intervention in syria but russia and china vote against the resolution saying foreign meddling will only cause more bloodshed.

eight seven am here in moscow you're watching all see in live from the russian capital with me your special russian election coverage and the week's top stories coming your way now. and as i just said we're going straight to our extensive coverage of russia's parliamentary elections here on r.t. well it's all over russia have been counted now in the central election committees publishing all the latest figures now autism or if an ocean is there so how is the political parties chant looking at the moment good morning you know it's seven am here in moscow as you've just sad the counting has been going throughout the night

well busy time for central election committee and it is still on to go you know well russia is the biggest country on earth so it takes time to count all the ballots here in this country but we are progressing quite well here. as we can see on our monitors ninety two percent of the counts have already been completed so far the latest. about that part is well the united russia party is a steel clear leader of these vote. poll toppers as we can see right now forty nine point eight two percent but you have to understand that as the votes have been counted right now at this very moment the figures are changing a constantly changing actually all the time hovering around these fifty percent mark eight twenty years and now we go a little bit more than fifty percent it is right now with less than fifty percent but it is changing changing all the time but it is still far below sixty four

percent the united russia party worn in two thousand and seven well the united russia party is followed by. of course by the communist party with stable result around twenty percent and it's followed by fair russia and. the liberal democrats will. thirteen and twelve percent correspondent well these two these four parties sorry dede passed the seven percent barrier needed to get into the new duma. the three others did not pass this barrier that means that their votes will eventually be divided between those who deeded between those four leading part is that means that eventually these four parties will anyway get some extra votes and what exactly right now even if the united russia doesn't get the majority of the votes it will the venture only most experts say

that the majority of the saints in the parliament and the party obligates free to mention that just did pass the three percent barrier which means it now turns. direct financial support from the federal budget of russia back to euro this national also know there have been hundreds of observers also feedback. a lot of observers and we are from time to time hearing about violations during this year's election but i have to say that has never been confirmed by observers let's not listen to what they say about how the election went but the organizational election could hardly be better. this corresponds to my experience as an observer in russia and in other post soviet republics in organizational terms they're absolutely excellent the ladies it's very often ladies who run the election

commissions are extremely competent there's a very tranquil atmosphere there's rather a festive atmosphere in fact in most polling stations. i just want to add that several hundred international independent observers and five hundred thousand russian observers have been monitoring this is parliamentary election here in russia back to you thank you very much aussies maria live from the from the election committee maria we'll talk to you later. and so far preliminary results show that the brooding tonight of russia is leading the ballot with fifty percent in 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 headquarters for the united russia has got over fifty percent of the vote but it's still 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 the 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're ready for that. and 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 do list 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 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 award for being home to the tons of logic and dmitri medvedev wanted russia. action two thousand the eleven

on forty. and i know we spoke to prime minister vladimir putin spokesperson dmitri bischoff 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 lie and to take a significant part in in creation of the new government and so on and so forth here has to be considered as a victory of the party we have to remember that this party was that ruling party in the country during a very harsh and very tough period during the last four years there was a period where there was. a crisis on the part of managed managed to minimise the consequences of this crisis together with the government certainly with part it could not satisfy everyone in this country and its way. it has lost some percentage

some percentage but again i repeat it proved to be the leading political power in the country. and in spirit university political science professor gary hart among god told us earlier that the loss of votes by ruling party united russia should increase western acceptance of the elections democratic validity. elections. to reshape some of the. elections is an electoral process is simply manipulate it completely and so will the ruling party having lost considerable student does she looks great then it has been expected right western powers so the image of the whole building of course is very important to have an influence international relations and. russian built on. the communist party united russia's main rival is in second place and has almost doubled the number of votes it received in the two thousand and seven elections that according to

preliminary results of course with counting still continuing and our correspondent there in english who is at the party's headquarters with the latest. they're not quite so liberating you wouldn't see any same pain around here but i have to say that they are rather calm and collected they went in 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 hearts and minds that because their numbers are speaking for themselves really they're almost near that twenty percent barrier of course they're they come yes they're hoping to break that barrier by the end of the night but of course we have to wait and to wait for the fiscal results for that to happen now the head of the communist party is going to you know it was a gun it was here earlier this evening and here it 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 are 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. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats. you know these uganda types the achievements of communism from before his time but he's criticized for his ruffled mall with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to we will return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing publishing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stops in passports to the success story second presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r.

criticized for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and a discontented industrial working class. for its red flag with the hammer and sickle the communist party of the russian federation do i lecture two thousand to eleven on our t.v. . over one hundred people have been arrested in moscow as political organizations both pro-government and opposition tried to stage rallies on election day and also he's very good greaves has been monitoring events in the city center for us but as you said actually these opposition protests have been somewhat lost on the ground this radical nature throughout the course of the day it will be more individuals than say. movements are such no less the less drugs were detained but just behind me outside of the credibility of man is square a few of the numbers to tell you by the police this is a police tactic we've seen used throughout the whole day number of them are linking

across a with. a make you surely have either been funneling these protesters towards the area that 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 geared for electioneering protests to take place but here it is because the poll stations have no close around russia. parties jake agrees reporting that from central moscow and there are four hundred and fifty eight seats so the state duma at the stadium at stake with parties needing to win more than seven percent of votes to get representation in proportion to their share of the ballot but parties which get five or six percent will also get one or two seats in parliament respectively but marching in the caylee specialist in russia from the university of london says this will have a positive influence on the law making process. it would be a big good thing if there were some of the smaller parties more independent minded

people because they good to create a different view for. the you know to grow sure because it's a green party it will contain the people who are in power the people who want to be in power. and the people who work for the government and so on and those in the economy who depend on government contracts and so on outside that need they are those who are not dependent on the government. to dictate the views and all of this can be put into the mix to develop. russia which is going forward. so more than ninety percent of the votes have been counted in russia's parliamentary election so far preliminary results show that the ruling united russia is leading with around fifty percent down from the sixty four percent share they won in the last election four years ago and short of constitutional majority so stay with us here for the most in-depth coverage of the poll with all the latest developments figures and analysis.

and to other news now rainy and force a live shot down an american unmanned drone in the east of the country the aircraft used for spying was recovered on the ground large and damaged american radio host an independent blogger stephen lund says it's part of america's long running campaign against everyone. these drones patrol you were supporters reconnaissance spying we've been doing it in america for some time if you do we need to in many other countries you've been spying on iran for a long time person some eight hundred seventy s. america estero brother you know on a war with. basically wanting to change the regime to make it subservient to you which interest in revenues that he is that is the khorasan

notion that it believes it is the right to lose all sovereignty to run its will be able to conduct its over thirty years it doesn't have to give sort of washington in washington disagrees with do you realize the conflict and or from china to stop shall return simply leaves that the incident as a clear breach international. 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 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 drones it's interesting that even some neo conservatives are 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 me and region egypt is a big loss to the united states after the fall of the u.s. back to day to barak so from the atlantic to the 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. and 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 foreign pressure on damascus with the un's high commissioner for human rights calling for international intervention to set four thousand people have been killed the clashes began almost nine months ago however syria's ambassador to the yuan responded by warning that the solution to the crisis can't come from abroad every

solution 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 was political analyst dr said question should 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 lap and it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions 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 no they what they want is to weaken the syrian regime 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 anyone so i can't actually believe that they're now so about three thousand syrians when they are not actually what 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. police have arrested more than a dozen occupy protesters in the u.s. city of portland the latest in the crackdown on the movement across the country please find the night they at parks what has been said time but actually it's refused to go demonstrators accuse officers of using violence against a peaceful rally people took a ground but claims a teenager was hit with

a baton operation follows a wave of police work to dismantle occupy had quarters across the u.s. in the past few weeks but it also is very important i report the movements message is beginning to resonate even with those whose job is to control that. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. oh yes. 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 talk 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.m. 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 they have one what would they do once you're fired 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. 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 for the most part people are peaceful and i want to see changed. many believe the biggest change could come 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 mower and introduced himself and he started asking if

you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave that you 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 police involved realizing that world of corporate america and america has got to be stopped marina porton r.t. new york. new government has finally adopted a package of emergency all stars he measures aimed at saving the euro from collapse the crunch decision comes on the eve of monday's meeting of the german and french leaders to discuss close a fiscal union within the e.u. as a long term fix for the blokes deepening financial troubles because of the growing pressure on you to make finances the new austerity package was agreed a day early and is hoped to chop twenty billion euro from the country's debt stricken budget until the end of twenty fourteen days so vincy have sounded sober and boring costs rocketing with the size of its economy meaning that it's

spiralling difficulties could sing the euro but economic analyst michael rose believes european leaders are just creating a facade of because the problems i had to stay. every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have a news every week we have new hopes and nothing happens so this is the prognosis the forecast also for the summit next week and when angela merkel says no to euro bonds this means nothing else than to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that do common currency cannot work with a common bond market in europe we are twenty different countries with different cultures and different ways of living and of course we don't want to be ruled by brussels and nobody wants us all to the germans on one day 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 you have to have one single rulership in europe brussels for example but nobody wants it so we are in a contradiction we are called the sec so i don't know how you will solve this problem. and in other news this week pakistan is boycotting an international conference on the future of afghanistan due to take place in germany next week is the latest sign of a deepening crisis in relations between washington and islamabad following the most recent deadly nato air raid on a pakistan border post there pakistan shut down a vital ally supplier into afghanistan in response to the helicopter strike let's go twenty four bit soldiers the incident described by a top pakistani officer as a deliberate act of aggression triggered anti-american protests across the country and some experts predict with a troubled relations we'll get was the draw for 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 is 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 is pressure to invest this is 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. that's how the news live this hour of back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments stay with us.

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