almost all the votes are counted and seats are determined in russia's parliamentary election while thousands of people are they with the outcome of the poll protest in central moscow. meanwhile online blogs are flooded with reports of chunks being deployed to central moscow following the fall of entry elections more than hysteria a few moments time. the biggest threat yet to the euro the entire euro zone faces a ratings downgrade while its leaders prepared to make a last ditch attempt to save the troubled currency and days of meeting in brussels . and strained u.s.

pakistan relations a fresh blow as american senators call for reviewing ties and reducing aid to its key ally in the region. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow now with almost all votes counted in russia's parliamentary election four parties are preparing to take their seats in the state where it's clear the biggest force will be united russia even though it suffered a significant plunge in popularity meanwhile thousands of people took to the streets of the country's biggest cities to voice their reaction to sunday's vote on his piece all of the joins me now live from moscow for more on this peter first of all with the ballot count almost complete what exactly does the demon now look like . but it's only a handful of ballots left to be counted and we get

a pretty clear picture of what we do is going to be looking like united russia. still have the majority of the votes there followed up by the communists the affair russia party come in third and the liberal democrats in fourth place there the four parties that picked up a nuff of the vote to warrant taking a seat in the duma now after the proportional representation seats had been allocated between those four it means that united russia although they didn't get over fifty percent of the vote actually have over fifty percent of the seats in the duma allowing them to push through policies that they want to go through the lower house of parliament in moscow and st petersburg yesterday we saw five rows up to five thousand people is estimated taking to the streets protesting against what they saw were alleged violations in the electoral procedure no arrests were made we're hearing from police around three hundred now they say this was after the

protests which were approved by the police expanded far greater numbers to far greater numbers than it had been allowed to and people were spilling out into the roads blocking traffic and arrests were eventually made. up they have also been reports online this tuesday that tanks have been deployed in the center of moscow was there any substance said today's. but i can tell you this and we are no tanks in the center of moscow water has been going around as an internet rumor and bloggers website is in is not really founded what we have seen though and what's they are being pictures of all the riot police military riot police how thing deployed there to various parts of the city no this is most do to the fact that we have seen many people out on the streets protesting the riot police would be the normal and procedure to deploy them to make sure that these protests are conducted in an orderly fashion though today is also the one year anniversary of the death of

a football fun which for which airs sparked vicious violent. ultra nationalist riots in moscow so those right police have been deployed to make sure that we don't see any repeat of the. violence which we saw last year by the football fun note also because we do have the large group so protesting following the elections as well as deploying the riot police really a measure to make sure that safety and security is maintained right he said many times that day well let's discuss this more now with political analyst here in the studio many thanks for joining us here let's begin with those protests last night many of the protesters have said that they feel angry that they weren't able to fully express their frustrations with the election process do you see the rally being dispersed and many of them being detained what do you make of that so. they

were to reassess and the stand there was allowed really at which a lot of people spoke and they saw it on the internet and it was quite legal and there was the second really when they suddenly moved. you know the area that was supposed to sort of contain you know the action they tried to march towards the center electoral commission and these people part of them were arrested but many have also complained on the internet via twitter and facebook etc about an a.v. use of force on the part of police to break up the rally that's very possible that's very possible i just listened to the speeches. and some of the speeches were quite decent and i would agree with them in general i think these people deserve all respect to the ones who come to protect their vote but. not only speech for example there were some things that i would not say that i would not call decent you know he's. like we want to sound united russia m.s.h.

we hate you i'm not quite sure. this is you know i would say this is a good beast this with like that how big an impact do you think that last night's protest in the speeches that would given what i actually have on the thinking of people around her on this electoral process well i think since you know that russia lost a lot of all this election at least it was at least ten million less than in two thousand and seven i don't think these we will have much of an effect because people already feel like they sent a message so i think these braudis were planned in advance the thought that they would make a big short force if elections were indeed a repeat of what we heard in two thousand and seven well let's talk about the role that social media played in this we just heard from pizza for several hours web rumors circulated about tanks on the streets of moscow these then turned out to be

untrue what do you make of that the role that twitter and facebook accept are playing in rallies as these well i think are the internet and all these things these are instruments they cannot make people better or war so they just helped organize a radius they're going to be good really bad really such as the one on one years ago we had last year the one which was prepared by nationalists so i think it's just an instrument and although it is very rude. i would say that this is becoming one of the problems not only the government but even more the position radio stations social internet networks they are becoming extremely rude what do you mean by ruse you know when they've only said your throat this is exactly what they want yes he says i'm a no hamster and i'm going to cut your throat that was part of his speech at this rate so i suppose that the point of it is that it is all regulated isn't it the internet. yesterday's rally in moscow. does actually consist of

well there was. all sorts of people and that's why i think we should respect that really because there were not only representatives of the so-called non-systemic opposition but also some people who admitted that they voted for communist party of russian federation for fair russia you know the social democratic party indeed the problem is that russia has an area you know we have bodies of always your social democratic liberal the problem is that a lot of people do not believe there in your social democrats that they are real. but i'm afraid you have no people with a broad have the same problems how many english people are sure that they have the labor party is indeed social democratic. not mean well i mean that's another debate in itself is that these parliamentary election results united russia as you've been saying has lost a huge number of votes and even the president has

a message is going to have to make deals with other parties in order to make decisions how likely do you think it is that this result will actually affect the way the parliament here in russia in the country that's to run well certainly there will be a lot of changes in the government and the world of changes among the governess because president many beautiful already said yesterday that in the regions where united russia shall we made it which. governance may have to be replaced and i'm not sure we should be capable of that because you have this strange situation if united russia does badly in the region then the government will. so elections do have an effect. they are sort of a test for governance but is it fair. when we talk about electoral violations who's interested in these electoral elections not so much the central government as the governance because if. you read russian gets not enough votes

then you have to resign and the world of your friends would not make it into the walk of parliament or into the house we will see changes began instantly about its many thanks feel thoughts. well coming up later this hour business bulletin exposed what effect the new deal may have on russia's economy. will do whatever is now coming in for a five year term experts still business see this will give lawmakers more time to implement economic reforms including the privatization program which is expected to come back on track. are also helping you keep track on developments in russia's parliamentary election at our website dot com there you can find all the latest funds figures and then alice it's.

now the euro time is almost up also says one of the big three credit rating agencies as it prepares for a massive euro zone debt downgrade sounded unpause announcement shook international markets with investors cutting and running on european holdings especially worrying for them this time is that even germany's seen as the backbone isn't being sped the agency justified its decision by pointing out the blocks consistent failures instead its debts if it is nations where bond interest rates kids but all is not yet lost with leaders gathering in brussels on thursday for what's expected to be their last chance to come up with a definitive solution test all similar houses for. the euro zone crisis has been good fodder for cartoonists but it's no laughing matter. four major rescue packages numerous and popular sturdy measures two years and

hundreds of billions of euros in bailouts later it's still in need of a shot for that elusive big bazooka solution. hopes are high that december ninth e.u. summit will finally be a decisive day for the future german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for a treaty change with a fiscal union as the end goal she wants brussels to have veto powers over national budget plans that breach e.u. limits automatic sanctions for death violators a day of court for repeat offenders. in a word merkel wants to impose discipline french president nicolas sarkozy is generally on the same page but is resisting giving more powers to brussels whoever pays the piper gets to call the june germany pace we've all of you in the euro zone want to keep the single currency you must be prepared for that you must be prepared for giving up your fiscal sovereignty but this german m.e.p.

begs to differ but what is the sovereignty for germany at the moment paying billions and billions of risk there's no sovereignty we are forced to do this because the euro is a reality so basically regaining sovereignty by sharing it on the european level is what the whole operation is about while germany may be for greater fiscal integration it's dead set against the euro bond idea or euro countries sharing debt and idea pushed by the european commission albeit renaming it stability bonds germany won't let the deficit sinners off the hook by taking on their debt. if sarkozy ever got his way he'd like the european central bank to act as a lender of last resort but again merkel said no and what of other e.u. members who don't use the euro the idea of a two tier europe or the euro zone and the rest doesn't sit well with a major economy like the u.k.

. actually it's important that the euro is successful because a lot of outrage depends on it but on the other have to us if there is a group of central group which are in the euro as another group which is not who makes up the rules which control the single market it appears that any plan agreed upon will have to have germany's backing all merkel dismissed the idea of germany dominating europe as absurd although that's how it's increasingly being perceived for better or for worse. r.t. brussels now may be a financial rollercoaster for many in europe as it struggles to fix its finances but some international best is on making record profits from the chaos the ethics of making money is just one of the subjects discussed by max and stacy in the kaiser report coming up later today. if the bank breaks the law they changed the law if the government is failing to do what they were elected to do they change the

definition of what it is they're supposed to be doing or they change the statistics that they are reporting to somehow reflect them in a better light because this is how in fact they make money they probe the financial orifices and they root out of the detritus that they find there as call lateral for five hundred trillion dollars worth of collateralized j.p. morgan sprinkler bonds which are the basis for jamie diamond christmas bonus. now around forty five tons of radioactive water has reportedly leaked out of the fukushima nuclear plant in japan that was badly damaged in march quake and tsunami some of the toxic water may have found its way into the pacific ocean cheering the weekend let's bring the story into closer for you. live now by dr robert jacobs research associate professor at the. dr jacobs many thanks for being with us here

and ask you now in the wake of this latest leak the plant operator tepco has announced it will take weeks to assess the exact damage it's also said it's using sandbags to prevent any further leaks so does this actually imply do you think that the situation is much worse than the company says it is. well there's a few pieces of this the first is that we're talking about tepco tepco is the company that knew that there were three nuclear meltdowns within two or three days of the tsunami and took three months to speak about it publicly and admitted publicly even though it was known so the credibility of tepco is not at a very high level and unfortunately there are only a source of information about what's happening at the plants and secondly there's a crack in the building where the water is being filtered filtering out cesium but not filtering out strontium ninety. sandbagging the crack in the wall is is the

kind of remedial step that just indicates the scale of the difficulty of responding to these problems by tempo if it's a sand bags that are going to keep this strontium ninety out of the sea then that's not really very encouraging but strontium ninety is also a very dangerous dangerous radionuclide it has a half life of twenty nine years so it will remain toxic to us for well over one hundred years it mimics counts him so it tends to be taken up by the bones where it's very dangerous as it enters the sea and there's been a significant amount of it that's entered the sea as it enters the sea it will work its way into sea weed which will then work its way further on up the food chain so as long as strontium ninety remains a radioactive threat it will simply move through the ecosystem and its ability to enter into the food supply and into the marine environment is very significant well despite these new complications they'll price of plants to suck down a plot by the middle of this month to see that happening. i think that that is also

incredibly illusory what we're going to be told before the end of the year is that the plant is in cold shutdown culture down as a term for when normally operating nuclear reactor is brought into is brought offline and the heat is reduced we don't have nuclear rods inside a nuclear reactor core what we have is korea and we have the nuclear fuel has melted and is now pooled at the bottom of the reactor so it's not really possible to cold shutdown it in a controllable manner so what they can do is simply try to bring the temperature down to a level where they believe that it will no longer form a threat of melting through that containment of the reactor but that's far from coal shut down this fuel will remain hot for quite a long time and it will continue to need to be there with their own need to be an effort to contain it with inside this containment structure this could take ten years this could take twenty years it could take decades to really bring it to

a point where it is not a threat to the ecosystem so calling it a cold shutdown is essentially a publicity moves and now we have a poets of radioactive substances being found in infant know how it's rice crops and other things how dangerous are these findings. well unfortunately we can't say that exactly and we're all in the midst of a very very dangerous experiment in which there is radionuclides entering into the population through food sources some people will claim that low level exposures to radiation are not dangerous however all through the history of the nuclear industry it's been clear that all exposures should be avoided so the entry of these radionuclides into the food supply and into the population is something that none of us yet know exactly what the consequences will be and so it's not a good thing this is not the kind of experiment that that gets good for people and

certainly to claim that it won't pose a threat is is as dangerous as claiming that it will pose a dying dramatic threat so this is to be avoided at all costs so the fact that it is entering into the food supply is very worrisome and how it will turn out will well unfortunately find out in a few decades tapa taken from such as i say professor of my patience to many thanks thank you. they said today a toxic threat alfresco report exposes the plight of unspoiled amazon rain forest and dismiss people who are dying because of tons of industrial waste dumped by oil giant.

now washington's times with one of its key allies pakistan have been shaky for some time and now threatened to plummet still seeing a u.s. senators are pushing for a reassessment of relations without slam about including reducing economic and military aid to the country without saying response to pakistan shutting down a dark room they take supply route i'm boycotting an international conference on afghanistan. isn't about intense as it so even measures were tricked by

a recent deadly and strike by the us on the pakistani border pace jeffrey steinberg magazine executive intelligence review says strained relations are the inevitable result of u.s. policy for the printer what you've got to really go back and look at a longer period of time where the united states used and abused pakistan during the long period of the afghan war we basically facilitated the emergence of opium production heroin production all. kinds of criminalization we supported the rise of islamic fundamentalism i remember in the nineteen eighties and early ninety's that mujahideen were called freedom fighters now they're called islamic extremists so we really kind of. policies that contributed mightily to the weakening and destruction of pakistan and now we turn

around and for the victims in the offended parties when it blows up in our face time now for a quick look at what else is making news around the world and we start in afghanistan where a string of attacks across the country killed dozens of worshipers as they mark the muslim festival of assura more than fifty shiites died in the capital kabul when a suicide bomber blew hundreds of people gathered near a religious shrine another explosion in northern afghanistan. today and a bomb destroyed a motor kandahar drive through. runoff elections in egypt have ignited rivalry between two islamist groups in the country the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice policy and the salafist noor party just all the other outside several polling stations these limits muslim brotherhood claimed forty percent of the vote after the first poll last week following

a huge turnout but fewer people cast the second time around. with a recap our top stories right after the base of things with me. thanks allison new russian parliament has been chosen but many of the challenges remain the same number of these are long term projects such as building infrastructure or privatization now due to changes in the constitution this duma will set for five years rather than for us from business new europe thinks the extra time will help get things. all of the problems that russia faces have to do with long term planning and massive amounts of reform rebuilding restructuring investment what have you and this sense it's not like a western democracy. given that what needs to be done is actually pretty obvious i mean you need to invest in the education system you need to invest into

infrastructure to power to rail transport you know all these things it's very obvious what needs to be done and in that sense having a government that's in a little bit longer which can concentrate in the job and hence is probably a positive thing. where the new parliament now for many in russia waiting for the privatization program to get back on track bruce from capital says the government has done a good job so far encouraging investors to inject cash into state and kept. the government for several years has been making an effort to improve transparency and to improve governance on companies but now you're actually seeing the fruits of that effort so last last week when gazprom announced its dividends were higher than expected of you know almost two hundred billion rubles gas from as dividend yield of almost five percent that's higher than exxon and chevron. and petrol etc so the government is actually taking you know very dramatic steps to pay you to be

a minority shareholder and then you see increasing transparency in dividend payouts from a host of other state owned companies so you know the general story is that the government's efforts to improve corporate governance among state owned companies are now rewarding you substantially as a minority shareholder so that's you know that we keep an eye on. so you look at the markets the crews are regaining some of the ground that are lost in the day is that you're treated versus the dollar light sweet is currently up just thirty five cents brant is up almost half a dollar at one hundred ten dollars twenty five cents european markets are withstanding the pressure the way. in the day after sun and poor's placed fifteen years own economies on a watch list for possible downgrade the foot see this is up point one percent the dax is down point seven percent second it was going on in russia and losses here are widening very much the r.t.s.

down now three percent my sixty two and a half percent this is apparently as investors i prefer to cash out not only of a very good positive streak of the gains but also as a political tension of past appears to be accumulating in moscow energy shares are down gas from down three percent financials are also losing and police call is no exception and gold is no safe haven today. russia's my sex and london stock exchange are competing to secure a strategic partnership with kazakhstan's main bourse according to the financial times they're offering to update the trading system and collaborate on other issues pose all comers these central asian exchange plans to conduct the people's i.p.o. dres up to hoffer billion dollars a deal would allow moscow all london to get in early on as it stands emergence as the natural resources hot spot. while business news coming up next hour in around

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