these are the images. from the streets of canada. corp. the top story smarty tonight vote counting is almost over in russia's parliamentary election the united russia party is in the lead winning the majority of seats in the lower house but still losing a big share of its previous popular support. moscow downgrades diplomatic ties with qatar after the russian ambassador to the country is assaulted by airport security with claims winston could be linked to moscow's position on syria. and his global players make to decide the future of afghanistan pakistan whose role is key to stability in the region boycotts the event of a nato recent deadly air raid on one of its border posts.

welcome this is r t it's eleven pm monday night here in moscow it's kevin owen with you this hour and our top story the russians have had this say in who they want to see in parliament. and i can tell you almost all ballots counted after sunday's parliamentary election for parties of may to the country's lower house the state duma the ruling united russia party remains by far the largest group that has been dealt a significant setback with a sharp fall in support these people of a report from central moscow. united russia taking the majority of the vote the

communists coming in second and third place i fear russia with the liberal democrats now the rest of the parties that i haven't named there they failed to get the required percent of the vote in order to take a place in the duma united russia currently around forty nine percent of the vote they don't have and passed the all important fifty percent mark that's a psychological barrier to say that half of the country is on side with them now even though they haven't passed the us market due to the seats from the parties that fail to meet the threshold they were distributed between those four parties united russia actually have over fifty percent of the seats or we're hearing from united russia party leadership is that they are willing to form coalitions during this duma will all parties are making accusations of vote rigging intellectual fraud in this poll these range from people voting more than once to the use of invisible ink on some ballot papers we've seen protests and rallies on election day

around the country though they were in cities like moscow and st petersburg we saw the biggest of these these rallies were. they were to kill a political party or another others not just against political parties but also against the election as a whole know during these rallies in st petersburg and moscow what we we saw well several several hundreds of arrests now the international observers who are looking at the election. some have suggested that they were violations when it comes to the fairness of the election other international observers have said that those accusations on particularly well founded the o.e.c.d. has a long record of highly politicized election observations and of making politically inflammatory statements it would be very interesting to ask leo as he when they threw out the draft report on the matter. did it as it usually goes drop

a drop or two before the election even too late because that is the usual practice in other words these this statement that we have now on monday morning may not therefore be based on actual observations by its observers president dmitri medvedev has said that any allegations in all our locations of electoral fraud will be investigated by russian law enforcement and anybody found guilty of infringements will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law a number of rallies are taking place all across moscow monday in reaction to russia's parliamentary election supporters of the ruling united russia party have been praising the way the poll where but rival political groups have been protesting against it about five thousand activists from smaller opposition parties gathered to protest what they see as an unfair election several dozen people were detained as the amount of people gathered was above approved limits and protesters were blamed for blocking traffic in a busy city center. because we get plenty of international perspective on the

election here on r t with united russia having lost the support of ten to twelve million people now some european analysts believe that despite that the party will still be able to ensure stability something russia's foreign partners are looking for in their relations with the country. both of those things have been positive that i was sure that the search for the brother has been pressed or that you were surely she's a little girl who english in the direction of people who believe that there are bridges that everything will stay in russia that is the ability you will be there and we can loconte your for the next five and surf the visitor ledge and see if he has to deal with russia which we know all the pending support of course of the two are on the kind of energy dialogue and she alliance with russia or of the european union without getting more of the pendant on the experts on the importance of gas from outside but service of the recent developments are very interesting her shirt and china or for the e.u.

or as little and some help some assistance in the overcoming of the crisis of the reach of the european union this now it's so we have to take a fresh look at the national economy of the possibility of the essence of the show which russia can offer the european union to solve its all crisis and this will be interesting theme and that is the subject of the best of politic corporation in the couple of months the car well where i help you keep your finger on the pulse of development has kind of continued in the russian parliamentary election you can also track the latest facts figures and analysis on our website dot com. next tonight russia's foreign ministries downgraded relations with cata after an incident in which the russian ambassador to the country was assaulted by border security guards invoicing to leave the country now r.t.

shaun thomas has got the details. down graded relations with qatar this comes after an incident in the doha airport on the twenty ninth of november when the ambassador with two of his colleagues were trying to pass through security with a parcel of diplomatic male. is expected to go through without any problems. which is against diplomatic normalcy the security forces tried to take this package away from the diplomats which caused harm to the diplomats the ambassador and two of the people traveling with him now the ambassador is in hospital and is expected to make it back to here and soon as he has recovered from the attack. is not happy with what they believe are. instigating and antagonizing efforts in the arab spring in fact if you go back. the position of the foreign minister here in russia saying. helping to arm the

rebels in libya which is antagonize that situation. in syria long been the position of russia that if there are going to be diplomatic sanctions they have to be across the board to both the government and the rebels so there's been a long tension between russia and qatar the latest development is just furthering those tensions. tension. there's no way that something something like that could not have taken place without the people involved having known exactly what they were doing and it really is an egregious affront to all diplomatic relations so one has to imagine that this is a major diplomatic incident and not one that will be smoothed over very easily one seeds in the recent recent events especially over the last several months as qatar

has become the head the rotational head of the arab league one has seen them taking on a much more prominent role in the region they were instrumental apparently in getting syria. kicked out of the arab league and just as they were instrumental in getting libya kicked out shortly before the arab league decided that humanitarian intervention was in order for libya so it is it seems like. qatar has been coming into its own recently and taking on more of an aggressive stance in general and i think we can see this is an extension of the general policy. coming up on the program spy plane down and we watch turned around troubled relations with the west might take next that the perry intercepted the american drone violating its airspace. bills the what is the business program about that it's time to find out how russia's a mentor election results may affect the country's economy. there the e.u. is two most powerful leaders but the share a single nickname for their recurring attempts to try and hammer out

a eurozone rescue plan between just the pair of them the french and german leaders are pushing for a new e.u. treaty at a meeting in paris so it could lead to the creation of a fiscal union for eurozone states or even the entire european union plans already been described as an intervention in the country's national budgets which would be strictly controlled by brussels but for young of the investment t.v. advisors told me usually this is simply creating an illusion of action. everything has been devalued for the course of the last year and most well democracy as we all know is an engine world and that too just being my. actually yearly devalued over the course of this agreement i mean we are seeing here a curious kind of puts i mean france and germany are basically saying we know best we know how the euro zone should be run and this is what should happen but might be a reasonable idea if their own me here here have actually been exemplary but for

those who look back say a decade we used to have a thing called the stability and growth pact and the stability and growth pact that any person who has a budget deficit of more than three percent of g.d.p. will be strictly strictly told off for what they've done in the eurozone what we find nearly a decade later well we've got you know this physicist turned girl wonder politician markey and her chair while i was sarky running around saying well what we've decided is if you run a thirty percent g.d.p. deficit you're going to find yourself in deep trouble nothing has changed no one wants to obey the rules and france and germany are trying to dictate on the rest of europe how this should run their economies and essentially coral's of them have their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems for young the future of afghanistan's been a stake of a conference in germany with delegates who key countries attending except one crucial one pakistan it's boycotted it in the latest sign of

a deepening crisis in its relations with the us it follows the recent deadly nato air raid on a pakistani border post which killed twenty four of its soldiers and he got a press can offer of course. this is the second such conference being held in the first one happened exactly ten years ago back then the delegates were working on the rebuilding of afghanistan we storing peace in the country building democratic institutions and so on and unfortunately ten years later some of these issues still remain and probably one of the most troubling ones is still security especially in light of the alliance's plans to start pulling its forces out in twenty fourteen it's widely believed that afghanistan on its own can provide security the situation in afghanistan in general is still very complicated the taliban threat drug trafficking very poor living conditions for the locals who are also increasingly tired and often even angered by foreign presence pakistan is

a very important country in the region is the key port of washington or at least it used to be it's also right there next to afghanistan and it's not taking part in this conference after an attack by the allied forces on its military post on the pakistani afghani border it's suspended the transit of supplies for the airlines through its territory this puts washington in a really difficult position since it will have to look for other partners in the region. because cut off let's talk to cohen hallinan a columnist of foreign policy in focus magazine mr allen good evening is this boycott of the conference on afghanistan aside you think that pakistan is not ready to cut ties with the u.s. for good or is this a spot that could blow over i don't think this one is going to blow or should quickly and i don't think it's really reliant on pakistan i think first of all the attack itself it's hard to see that as an accident because of the way that it took

place and then the response of washington afterwards i think what's happened is that the united states has made some decisions about its strategy in the region. both in central asia and in the south in south asia that essentially is going to cut pakistan out of the formula and i don't think united states cares very much what's going to happen after withdraws its troops in two thousand and fourteen and i think they would rather not withdraw their troops which is the nub of the problem because just on november second russia china iran and pakistan had a meeting in istanbul which they all agree that they would pressure the united states not to leave troops in afghanistan and i find it very difficult to imagine if this fallout in relations between pakistan and the united states is not somehow tried to that position i think this i think this chessboard is much broader than

we then we imagine it to be and that it includes really multiple zones some of them worldwide short of those pakistan being in a nuclear state it's a bit of the be on the side of the u.s. isn't it. well it has been but you know it's always been it's always basically saw the relationship the united states as being in its interests i'm not sure it's ccs relationship with the united states in its interests any more particularly since united states is doing stuff that are definitely not in pakistan's interests and again this attack was not a standard mistake it was like somebody dropped an errant bomb or something they actually fired on to concrete forts the taleban don't have concrete forts the there were two separate attacks that there's too much going on here and we don't know exactly what happened but is just if the pakistanis think this wasn't a mistake it's hard to see in any other way what i'm so utterly atone for america

winning hearts and minds of the. oh i don't see that it's gone by the board a long time ago the hearts and minds campaign was essentially abandoned about a year and a half ago and it became really nighttime raids to a degree the taleban and thinking of a way to get troops out of there and it's not there's no campaign to win hearts and minds and so here it did come twenty fourteen what's going to happen in the region then. well i think what's going to happen is that you're going to see a kind of an interesting informal alliance between pakistan and india and pakistan iran or china and russia on what's going to happen in central asia and you're going to see it come to a competitive relationship with india the united states and afghanistan and whatever kind of inroads the u.s.

can make into central asia into the stands i think what happens in the long run is very much up programs but i think people should keep their eyes on the broader subject here which is that the united states is trying to confront china in the next over the next few decades and central asia is one of the places but it's not the only place south asia is also a major area of conflict as is east asia as well disturbing picture you're painting there called howling columnist the foreign policy in focus magazine thanks very on the line give us your thoughts. thanks. its forces to shut down an unmanned american spy drone in the east of the country on sunday the largely undamaged cross now reported to be in the possession of the rainy and military let's talk about that and the broader situation around the islamic republic now we're joined from jordan by a nickel or nasser germicide very experience covering the region thank you for being on the line with us run claims this american man drone intruded on to its

territory nato said it could be just a surveillance aircraft that went out of control afghanistan do you think it was an unfortunate accident or a well planned mission. good evening to you this. surely is an escalation who is of war the war on the u.s. war on iran is coming for sure but it's not even. this is a grave escalation to the brink of war two and two vitally the heartland of iran. near qom near nuclear. project near military concentration bases this is a grave escalation but no war is imminent military war economic war is ongoing for years now on. diplomatic war political war

media war and iran is ongoing for he says but military war a military operation has to wait for several factors actually. maybe the first and most important factor you have to get anti israel against any. collective iranian syria hezbollah a massive retaliation these get on these are not guaranteed so far. second factor. crisis in their in iraq and the united states united sist cannot afford to finance a third war they are withdrawing from iraq after eighty years now in. joe biden us vice-president declined to declare victory in during his

late last visit to buy the debt. that means. after eleven years they are not going they are not ready financially militarily to to launch a war on iran very soon so as you said fact the current. yes said factor maybe before you launch a war on iran militarily you have to neutralize syria first when you neutralize and this is the battle which is raging now they are trying to neutralize syria because syria has the short and medium range missiles they have they can. flash they can they are nearer to israel they should be neutralized this because iranian long range missile may

be much more dangerous to israel than it was then where the iraqi missiles during this. were really are pretty short of tunnels one of the question is really want to get in you've highlighted a what you think is the the medium to long term plan how my pan out short what reaction are we likely to see from iran iran's i was already replied said there would be a crushing response what could the response be if anything. i think you are you are seeing their situation very. dangerous but in iranians maybe patient form out there they don't have any. interest in. going to war. i don't i don't expect a military retaliation by iran but it was a grave escalation it was

a grave violation of iranian airspace. ok well for you making a point is much appreciated thanks for being with us nicholas nasser there live from jordan. all right let me bring you up today or more news headlines around the world in brief barricades have been set up by pro-democracy protesters in syria blocking a roadway leading to turkey to say the piles of gravel and burning the dead grier to show their opposition to the deploy the state security forces in the region it comes as damascus agreed to an arab league request to allow observers into the country as part of a peace plan that's been a key demand you might recall which the league's repeatedly been pushing for. wiki leaks founder julian assange has won the right to have his case against extradition to sweden by the u.k. supreme court he lost a high court battle last month to hold his removal for questioning over alleged sex offenses which sanj says his case is politically motivated in this link with the

release of thousands of classified u.s. diplomatic cables the whistleblower now has a fortnight in which to formally lodge an appeal meeting his stay in britain is stretching to twenty twelve. this must be one of most expensive car crashes in history surely take a look at these pictures from japan a fourteen crumpled super cars including ferrari's the sadie's even a lumber gainey strewn across a busy highway it amounts to millions of dollars worth of damage happened after a group of enthusiasm went for a ride. didn't turn out well witnesses say the car's reaching speeds close to one hundred miles an hour when the crash ten drivers were hospitalized for their injuries not serious. in just a few minutes it's crosstalk paid lavelle is guess debate what the future holds for russia's parliament after sunday's election it's business now though with nuclear. hello and a very warm welcome to the program and as we have been hearing sunday's election

has shifted the balance of power in the russian parliament united russia will still be the biggest party but with a much reduced majority in there most from government as of medicine says this could have a positive impact on russia's investment climate. if you have a. constitutional majority not only change the laws you can also change the constitution then you have to rely on one person's will and i think no not having a constitutional majority is good it gives the first checks and balances good news on the other hand we avoid the situation of the ninety's in the ninety's present and lost his elections in the december of ninety three when he could no longer control parliament now the united russia still is a majority it still could pass the laws that are needed but i think this is the last chance and i think they must understand within five years if they do not satisfy the intelligentsia the people they need to mobilize the country that will be a challenge therefore i'm hopeful that putin to do point will be aggressive and his

reformist as a putin in this first term. let's have a look at the markets now or oil is trading lower reversing early gains as the financial times reported the standard and poor's will put france and germany on credit watch negative. u.s. stocks on the rise the financials among the top performers on europe's moves to fight the crisis well to go into europe here the markets were high as the italian government agreed to a new package of budgetary measures and the french and german leaders are set to meet later this week for debt crisis talks and finally the markets in russia finished monday's trading session in the quiet both in mice it's on the archie has gained about point eight percent at the close of play let's have a look at some of the individual share in the my six most oil majors were on the rise supported by strong of crude oil to gained one point three percent finished higher more than half a percent the company has finalized a position of fellow russian gas pipeline offering to help trans dallas nickel rose

two percent from furnace capital looks at some of the highlights of today's price. i think the one that was most unexpected for us was that no it was down about three and a half percent and nobody is really you know a play on the oil price and the factory worker has upwards. and i know tech was down substantially was surprising for us. i think another thing that's interesting you know just to keep in mind is in the banking system in russia you know the banking system is actually quite well insulated from the european crisis and today you see a good performance from the two big banks spring can be tb and i think that's driven by the fact that people realize you know russia and europe are kind of separate and not really there's no contagion into russia from europe. and finally in economic news the sauza sector in russia is growing at the fastest space for five months h.s.b.c. is purchasing managers index came in at fifty four point eight in the phonebook

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