innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future. russia holds its breath. election results the ruling united russia party losing its overall majority but still coming out well on top of the latest figures and in-depth analysis coming right out. of. the u.s. spy drone and on the eastern border the use of unmanned american aircraft over the country is being seen as and latest evidence of washington's efforts to destabilize regimes beyond its influence. and cross the atlantic tempers flare again as british m.p.'s fumo for a one sided extradition policy that leaves its citizens. in the american justice

system. and later this hour despite expectations of the contrary the russian markets are losing value in the first hour of trade details in about twenty minutes from the business. this is a twenty four hours a day. yes on the moment of truth for russia's ruling party with almost all the votes counted in the parliamentary election a united russia is to lose the large majority it held in the previous two but it

will still stay the biggest party by far well for that cross live now to r.t. sara firth who's in central moscow with more mr so are still being counted but what's the latest information you have. ninety six percent of the vase now being counted we have an announcement from the election committee that if given the early results of the seats in the demus and this is what they need to look like united russia holding two hundred thirty eight states the communist party ninety two states fair russia sixty four seats and the liberal democratic party fifty six theses of the early results of the davis states from the russian election committee and now of course the seats in the duma work on proportional representation say there is full parties that passed the seven percent threshold needed to get the seats in the duma then the seat in the duma correspond directly to the national

percentage of the vote say at the moment the percentage is standard around fifty percent for united russia twenty percent for the communist party thirteen percent the thera channel eleven percent for the liberal democrat party you can see that united russia have lost their majority that they enjoyed to stay low under fifty percent of the moment compare that to four years ago when they had sixty four percent of the vote and held three hundred and fifteen feet in the g m a they don't need a three hundred to get a majority this time four hundred fifty feet in the chamber in total already there are tools that the forming of a coalition it does affect the processes to make. post the laws in the house already talk to the coalition the head of the communist party has ruled out any chance of the coalition with you know it's a question of party as some of the other parties say perhaps so be a possibility if united russia were willing to make some concessions but it seems that you know to russia to have loss of majority that they enjoyed so long so some

quite big changes there then so why is it that the united russia party seems to have lost so many of its voters as you say any comments from within the ranks. there is a lot of speculation about that loss of public support some people saying that simply people feel that the party had been in power the too long and that has led to political and economic stagnation of the people saying that the reason criticisms around the parties servility to corruption and to survive people with a better quality of life those are some of the contributing factors not present the data to that point mr putin has made reference to the fact that the economic situation in the country indeed in the world ok to have affected pages me but they still feel that united russia going to be able to provide stable development for the country. to see has a fairly well the policy represents almost fifty percent of the population and this

is the result of the tamil printing process the taken into account in the complex make amends you have to form coalitions with other parties over various issues and this is one power limits and democracy is all about you and the leaders of other parties so that they're ready for that. now of cools the whole election process was monitored very very closely seven hundred international monitors and around half a million monitors friend competing parties they were following the whole process yesterday all around the country and now was that has been studied could citizens and serve every post of violations from the competing party of service the international service it said that the election process things go pretty smoothly and we did see rallies in the capital yesterday supporters of the various political greats aver a hundred arrests made and there are going to be calls at the more rallies today of

course the final votes in count is continuing but there have been cool political change we've seen weeks months of political debating and campaigning and certainly this is the change it does seem to be met in the numbers that we're seeing and the divisions in the duma a very different it was same in a different balance of political power as in that new lower house of parliament. ok for now sarah ferguson thank you for that. but we also spoke to prime minister of i think their spokesman the beach mackoff about his views of election results so far he told the start while the financial crisis is taking its toll not to rush a student means the country's foremost political force. this result loz the party to continue its politics to continue its line for the whole country to take a significant portion in creation of the new government and so on and so forth here has to be considered as a victory of the poor and we have to remember that this party was the ruling party

in the country during a very harsh and very tough period during the last four years it was a period with. a crisis on the part of managed to minimize the can sequence of this crisis for the population certainly we could not satisfy everyone in this country and this way obviously it has lost some percentage some percentage but again i repeat it proved to be the leading political power in the country but it's becoming clear as a result building for the picture opposition parties have made some of the biggest gains in years and that according to political science professor langer is bound to influence how the conduct of elections in russia is viewed internationally. election. is an electoral process is simply manipulated. the. studio does you know. it has been expecting progress to the palace of image

so. it's very. international relations. and there's the count and there's his conclusion that's get more perspective on how yesterday's elections might affect the country's future we're now joined live here in studio by your love from the institute of world economy and international relations i thank you for joining us here in the studio and opposition leaders are claiming massive electoral fraud on behalf of the united russia is any truth in that at all you know first of all opposition leaders always tend to explain. some a bit and such as fair trial results with election fraud barred the russian election system that's actually ballot stuff and other major fraud is practically impossible unlike the united states where every state has its own way of counting the rules with electronic or paper ballots in russia what we see now is electronic

data and it's all of preliminary data because of the legal meaning has all of the paper ballots and half a million of people monitoring the election of they represent all parties so each. each location has an army of more neutral actually it's impossible stuff out because everybody is interested in fair counting and what about united russia showing in these elections much down compared to previous elections what's gone wrong why such a swing i don't think something went really wrong for knowledge of russia you know back in twenty or seven united russia and. leader of law. were considered to be the force that actually led russia from. the ninety years and actually pushing effectively for the course of the collapse of the soviet union and economic problems russia experienced in ninety nine inches but now the new

generation of people are common to the those who grown up in the thousands and they have never seen problems they think their. current life and rush oh she's pretty safe almost all street crime supermarkets are full of food and goods that are out of affluent individuals who travel abroad they consider it to be absolutely normal and they have different demands and that's why political spectrum is wide if you look at the other parties there how can they ever compete against united russia given the amount of funding that united russia i think that administrative resource and financial resources is overestimated the value of these resources because our position in russia is highly mobilized it's very important to understand the communist party and the liberal democrats show good results because they can model

eyes there are lecture eight and they make every proposal every they're proposing to come in the vault while proponents of united russia are pretty relaxed come on anyway we're going to have the majority most of the population really supports united russia why do you have to come to vote that's why you see. liberal democrats they make use of every proponents vote while united russia proponents are not so mobilized but nonetheless united russia is bound to try and do something to beef up its support for future elections isn't it is there a danger that they might turn to populist politics rather than taking perhaps strict economic measures that need to be taken in the future. first of all the russian economy isn't that russia has no major foreign and economic develops quite steadily so i can see that most people up which is satisfied with the economic situation people have to understand this global economic crisis and i don't think

you know the trial show will use this kind of rhetorical and actually see if you talk about russian political spectrum populist rhetoric is already being used by opposition so there's no way to play this field for the leading government party ok thank you very much indeed for your insights on the program today thank you. for that we're helping you to keep your finger on the pulse of developments counting continues in the russian parliamentary election and later in the day we expect an announcement of official preliminary results and comment from international observers but you can also track the latest figures on our web site that's r.t. dot com. other news now and iran says its forces shot down an unmanned american spy drone in the east of the country yeah quote it was recovered on the ground largely undamaged

authorities have promised that operations against intruding drones will continue i may not be limited to iranian borders american radio host an independent blogger stephen then says the highly volatile situation in the region has brought the world to the edge of global who fair. a rare is not libya iran is a big country powerful military could affect it weapons is going to weapons they can reach us pieces in the region they can reach israel iran has been very blunt saying if the terrorists but use real buy america it will reach far and it will fire advantage you can attack is really cities he couldn't tell you which piece of news and i'm sure we'll do it we're talking about something very serious we're talking about the possibility of a general war dear i given him a name we're award three. and the author and journalist afshin rattansi believes that the instance is a clear breach of international law. this is an alkie one seventy advanced stealth

reconnaissance drone which what i'm hearing is said they lost it over afghanistan last week others are saying. busily looking at this advanced drone and what a great way of. creating technology transfer this is an incredibly serious event and it's it's against international law the united states yet again breaking international law with these drones 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 to the states after the fall of the u.s. back to barak 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. well meanwhile syria has reportedly agreed to the arab league's plan to open the country's doors to foreign observers it comes amid heavy political pressure on the country high commission likes international intervention the body claims thousands of civilians have been killed. rest syria's last season. prices. professor. says the arab league's position is a long way from greenpeace. the arab league has basically said that if syria doesn't accept this plan then this would pave the way for an international intervention on the way that the arab league paved the way for an international intervention in libya and we know what happened. so i think syria has

grudgingly accepted pulls terms but that does not necessarily mean that the crisis in syria will be resolved i think the recipe for the solution is going to create a bigger problem because it's going to encourage more and more. and it's going to cause more violence within syria it's going to give the impression that the syrian regime has caved. under the pressure of the arab league which is in fact pressure from nato the arab league it's not about resolutions it's simply wants to topple the syrian regime and replace it with a pro-american regime was told to come in the program transition of opportunity the loss of pakistan's fast threatens to choke supplies for u.s. troops in afghanistan even russia is the next best partner experts say that could be the perfect diplomatic bargaining chip for moscow. now dozens of

a british m.p.'s across the political divide have united in london and a stage in the debate today on what they see as a one sided extradition treaty with the u.s. join up in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven that allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen without proof of any crime and britain is about to comply as ati's either bennett reports patience is wearing thin. all take and no give that's the growing feeling in britain's parliament against america's controversial extradition treaty it was signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven panic and makes it far easier for the u.s. to take people from the u.k. than the other way around now forty five m.p.'s from the three main parties have crossed the political divide and joined forces they finally forced a debate and parliamentary vote on what they called an injustice was a mistake in the first place despite history i think it was a mistake it's not

a level playing field even with a partner like america we need to make sure that we of being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case at the moment britain must present evidence for any extradition but america doesn't need to a long awaited independent inquiry recently ruled this relationship was balanced but the numbers suggest otherwise one hundred twenty three people have been surrendered to america under the treaty since two thousand and four only fifty four have gone the other way america's ambassador to the u.k. has branded these figures myths and in accuracies but they were figures he's embassy refused to reveal he's even accused m.p.'s of willfully distorting the facts in the run up to this crunch vote in parliament that could shift the balance but m.p.'s aren't backing down joining a battle some fought since the treaty was signed i think you know the scene how

many injustices have been caused because of it it was meant to be for terrorism fences it wasn't meant to be for the kenya things they're using no janice's is gary mckinnon a mainstay on america's extradition wish list he was arrested ten years ago after hacking into pentagon files he says he was merely searching for u.f.o.'s gary has asperger's syndrome and according to his mum. should be tried in the u.k. on medical grounds but america's not giving up on one of their most wanted is some vengeful. you think uses some of the arjun is so over the top they left him one is internet three and a half years after the arrest if gary was the slightest threat that wouldn't have been done but it's very much i think he embarrassed them and because of that they were very angry at him there are nine cases currently fighting extradition to america richard o'dwyer is the latest he's wanted on copyright charges for creating

a search engine for pirated content it's not even considered a crime in the u.k. but at the moment that doesn't matter the us can still get. a coalition government promise to change this while in opposition now's the chance to deliver either bennett r.t. london. well or fresh updates videos and comments are always just a click away on our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at what you can check out there right now celebration madness goalposts torn down and crowds trampled as thousands of fans burst onto the playing field at a stadium. in the world war two alert more than six decades after it ended forty five thousand residents are evacuated from a german city experts work to defuse two world war two bombs massive one point eight tons are explosive and a small american one. recent deadly air attack on pakistan has put the

u.s. mission in afghanistan in danger with supplies cut off washington may soon have to turn to other transit states to keep its military effort going among them is russia and the saudis going to chicken reports this could mean some well timed diplomatic leverage for moscow. supplies are would keep a war running nato actions have put all operations in afghanistan in danger after attacks that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers islamic bought cut off one of the alliances major supply routes to again is saying. i would like to extend my most sincere condolences. to pakistan washington's condolences were not enough to repeated incursions by the u.s. military in pakistan really left no choice and also the humiliation that the pakistani military faced in front of its own soldiers and the pakistani people left no choice before the government this time but to cut off the supply line good

relations between the u.s. and pakistan as unstable as ever in order to keep the war in afghanistan running nato relies more on its other major supply route coming from the north. here it is the northern distribution network you see all these blue lines and here is the route that pakistan shut down now the northern supply network was started when russia agreed to provide this territory and air space for transit if not only thought supplies to nato troops in afghanistan it proved to be a very reliable route more reliable than pakistan now it accounts for half of nato as non-lethal supplies on trucks railroads and by air supplies travel through russian territory from europe and from russia's far east all the way to afghanistan and the lions on this route is set to expand in the last three years russia's cooperation on of ganesan as being key to nato operations there. i sit down with

professor michael lee hoss who stressed he was speaking in a personal capacity the u.s. has a very tenuous kind of placement. in afghanistan and it is highly vulnerable it's highly vulnerable. to pakistanis but it's more vulnerable to russia if i mean if russia were to withdraw its permission for us to use its relevance we would be in a very difficult position in afghanistan the northern supply now work could now be in danger because of a failure in diplomacy moscow says because washington turned down all of its proposals on the missile defense issue russia might have to resort to other arguments including its cooperation with nato on afghanistan. their processes which are critically important for russia which are about russia's national security one of them is nato expansion into russian borders and the fact that washington goes

ahead with a robust missile shield program in europe without taking into consideration russia's concerns gives moscow the right to use any leverage it has to be heard by its partner but even the mere possibility that russia could cut off the northern supply route threatens the viability of all western operations in afghanistan nato risks leaving almost one hundred forty thousand of its troops in afghanistan without vital supplies if diplomacy doesn't win the day with pakistan it's about people there being fed up with russia it's about their national security if washington does not seriously address the concerns of its partners even the best partnerships can fade i'm going to check our reporting from washington our take. on the back of the headlines short of a fastest time for business news with natasha. it's twenty four minutes past eleven here in moscow you're watching business r.t. if the euro were based on the strength of the greek economy it would be worth less

than one dollar according to the single currency is more than thirty percent overvalued when measured against greece's financial health by contrast burbank's says the euro is undervalued by about five percent for germany and france given them a competitive advantage analysts say to resolve the situation and two levels the playing field it would be easier to allow inflation and france and germany rather than a decent wage increase. it's now time to take a look at the markets oil is trading higher and speculation that tensions in the middle east will permit supplies iran says oil could reach two hundred fifty dollars a barrel if it sees more pressure on its nuclear program and other boost is coming from europe where the new italian prime minister mario monti plans to spend thirty billion euro on a sweeping austerity package. asian shares are higher japan's nikkei is adding about two thirds of

a percent to building on last week's have to games the index is now trading above its twenty five day moving average which they see as a good technical sign but in hong kong the hang seng has slipped and to read over the past hour trading fly to negative. the russian markets opened a lower but have managed to bounce back in the first hour of trade the r.t.s. is now putting on about a quarter percent to my sex's up less than half percent this hour. and let's take a look at some individual shares on the my six all majors are on the rise supported by stronger of crude oil gaining roughly point six percent gal's brome is also all the company has. analyzed its acquisition of belorussia gas pipeline operator bell trans gaz and banking stocks falls off this bear bank is gaining around a quarter percent this hour. looking ahead to the trading week experts see two major events the first is the european central bank's meeting on thursday followed

by the e.u. summit on friday the two should provide a clear picture of how the block is coping with the debt crisis if you're a cop czar of our fison capital says he expects the market in russia to remain positive in the first half of the week with a focus on the energy sector oil gas sector since oil price is quite high it's around one hundred ten on the back of the. news about iran although once. arrives back on the market and it's what we see market we think that high beta names like metals and mining sector like electrical duty said to would be better in every markets would be slightly positive to this year's a meeting he said after such a significant rally there will be some retracement. not that big but more or less that would be that would be positive. and russia is the largest country in the world and is home to the biggest railway system but the lack of high speed trains

means the railroad is no alternative to flying speaking in france they had overshot the railways lies in where you conan's has invited foreign railway giants to help change the situation. we're going to hold the tender in building the country's first high speed rail road next year it's an absolutely new project for russia we foresee a lot of problems and that's why we're interested in cooperating with companies who know how to build and manage high speed rail ways what we offer opportunities which are not found anywhere in the world we plan to build thousands of kilometers of high speed routes. and that's it from the business team this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes talking about.