almost all the votes counted and seeds determined in russia's parliamentary election while thousands of people on how he would be outcome of the poll protests in central moscow. enjoy a made a few moments from a seat of one of those protests amid old line rumors the troops and tanks of being deployed to moscow. the biggest threat yet to the euro the entire year is in faces a rating downgrade on its leaders prepared to make a last ditch attempt to save the troubled currency at thursday's meeting in brussels. and fukushima tons of radioactive water leaking from the japanese

nuclear plant that was hit by the earthquake in march with t. is toxic liquid may have reached the pacific ocean. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with almost all votes counted in russia's parliamentary election a four parties are preparing to take their seats in the state it's clear the biggest force will be united russia even though it suffered a significant plunge in popularity meanwhile thousands of people are now gathering in the capital to voice their reaction to sunday's vote. joins me live now from a central moscow as their first of all over the final official results when the makeup of the new lower house of parliament is pretty clear as they what exactly

does it look like yes or the very last days being counted at the labor in the final results expected in about four days but pretty clear already how the out of the that's going to be united russia leading followed by the communist party the russian and the little devil. posse in full no united russia failing to break free that's psychological a percentage barrier at fifty percent what that means in terms of seats in the team it because it's proportional representation so at the moment it looks like they have two hundred and thirty eight seats in the game of that now that will be seventy seven less seats than they won back in two thousand and seven they lost a two thirds police chief national security in the team and that will mean that there's already talk to them having to work much more closely with the opposition parties and make compromises that would have a certainly the results with what many people are calling a change of political means among status here in the country. ok sara many thanks.

sara furthur reporting from central moscow for us but of course we are closely monitoring the situation on the streets of moscow as people continue taking to the streets and. joins me live now from the spot the feature we saw thousands almost scary streets on monday tell us more about what happened and all we expecting a repeat performance tonight a similar volume of protesters turning out. well here to be in fallujah square in the center of moscow to see. many supporters and many protesters turning out to voice their opinions no we've actually seen many. pro-government pro united russia protesters here they've been banging drums and chanting putin the rosia and midyear they've put together the image get a victory in russian no this was supposed to be a protest held by the opposition to. the elect. who were going to

voice their opinions against. what they saw as electoral violations that occurred during the parliamentary elections there are a large number of those opposed to. to the current. to the. the vote that was cast on on sunday but they are being drowned out somewhat of the moment by the pro-government supporters in the past few minutes actually has and talking to you right now there appears to be a large group of people being being arrested by police over to the left of me there are a section who are a large section of people who are. who have come out to voice their grievances i asked what they see is a well an election it was in conducted fairly now the police are currently moving in over there right now but we have seen a majority of people here have been voicing a pro government pro united russia opinion now this is.

the second night really on monday night what we saw was around five thousand perhaps people in moscow in st petersburg protesting against the grievances that they saw in the election on sunday now that resulted in around three hundred arrests that was a unofficial protest once the amount of people i was sanctioned by the authorities and by the police of the police force now wants those protests exceeded the limits that they said was safe and it's not spilling out on to the roads around three hundred people were arrested the same thing something to he top it sounds like again on the streets of moscow we've been talking all day peter about the role that social media has played in these protests and the internet has been abuzz hasn't it with remains of tearing down the streets of moscow as have you actually seen any. well no they have seen no tanks on the streets of moscow apparently there are no tanks on the streets of moscow what actually happened is we saw riot police deployed to deal with the large numbers of people who were expected to be coming

out the people that have come out to protest here. to talk it was talk of that these people were soldiers that they were the army and the tanks were moving in the central moscow no these right police are the same riot police that are used to use the crowd control. at football matches so they've been brought in to try and keep the peace here both here where i am to you and found their square and then descend to right in the halls of mosco next to the kremlin weathers another pro government protests taking place there is a large riot police presence both protests ringed by a very strong presence all of them of police forces we have seen will have seen some photos of apparently water cannon off somewhere in the area but there's certainly no tanks being deployed here i tape he said many times for that piece for all of that reporting for us live on the streets of central moscow. well

political analysts think about it shut told that social media is having a significant influence on the way the public responds to the political process. 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 year's no 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 that position radio stations social internet networks they are becoming extremely rude people i just listened to the speeches some of the speeches were quite decent i would agree with them in general i think these people deserve our respect and the ones who come to protect their votes but i also listen to not only speech for example there were some things that i would not say that i would not call decent you know he said like we want to

sound united russia a message we hate you i'm not quite sure this is you know i would say this is a good piece. coming up later this hour is a business bulletin explores want to thank you do you may have on the russian economy. since devotees are now coming in for a five year term experts told business i'd see a longer time will allow lawmakers to implement economic reforms more effectively including the privatization program which is expected to come back on track more in this in around ten minutes. all or all to helping you keep track on developments in russia parliamentary election and how website r.t. dot com where you can find all the natives facts figures and analysis.

now a series of dial wall. things are piling up for the euro zone first the leading credit rating agency standard and poor's issued a downgrade threat for most all of its members now it's but the same bailout fund on review all the hours after french and german leaders pushed for more decisive rescue action and claimed there's a complete harmony between them but as he says are silly reports that may not be the case. the euro zone crisis is going to good fodder for a cartoonist 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 the elusive big the super solution. hopes are high that december

ninth e.u. summit will finally be a decisive day for the euro's 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 debt violators a date 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 card safe 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 dad. 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 the euro is successful because a lot of outrage depends on it but on the other hand to us if there's a group

a central group which are in the or 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 onload of a new thing is a national consultant and former belgian m.p. says the ratings agencies are meddling in an issue that's not. there is something basically wrong when the rating agencies should become players in the game i mean you don't ask a referee before the field almost starts but if things are that dean says he referees that's what he does this is a way of influencing what in the euro zone countries are going to try to decide on friday i mean this is an additional correct way of doing things it is up to governments to decide what their policies is going to be not to rating agencies and

germany is always profiting from its economic dominance but actually what it is doing is telling other countries you should do as we do voting laws are put in the constitution is there are limits on budget deficits and so on now this is totally unacceptable from a democratic point of view and also it misplaces the problem the problem is not the government's overspending that is a problem yes the problem is that we we the people gave so much money to the banks and now we are applying and going for how to these banks and asked if they would long to what kind of what kind of a system is that it may be a financial rollercoaster for many in europe as it struggles to fix its finances but some international investors are more or profits from the chaos yet except making money is just one of the subject scrutinized by max and stacey in iran that

report coming up in about twenty minutes. bank breaks the law they change 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 globe's financial orifices and they root out all the detritus that they find there as collateral for five hundred trillion dollars worth of anus collateralize j.p. morgan strength or bonds which are the basis for jamie diamond's christmas bonus. now around forty five tons of radioactive water has reportedly leaked from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan that was badly damaged in march is that quake and

tsunami some of the toxic water to may have found its way into the pacific ocean over the weekend dr robert jacobs research associate professor at the peace in st vinnies the plant operator tepco is keeping a lid on just how severe the situation is. 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 the credibility of tepco is not at a very high level and unfortunately there are only source of information about what's happening at the plants and the secondly there's a crack in the building where the water is being filtered sandbagging the crack in the wall 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 sandbags that are going to keep this strontium ninety out of the scene and that's not really very encouraging. today to toxic threat off special

report explains the plight of unspoiled amazon rain forest and that's most people who are dying because of tons of industrial waste dumped by an oil times.

has it downgraded diplomatic relations with qatar after an assault on most days and boy today how the russian diplomat was attacked by airport security officials just as russia criticized in the mounting international pressure on syria as a counterpoise there are suspicions that qatar believes it can get away with such actions because of its support from the u.s. . a small country with gigantic ambitions qatar with a population of less than two million people embarks on an aggressive plan to shape their war old playing in tune with washington's policies in the region could target gain diplomatic weight it never had before they could tyreese feel as if they've got enormous backing and that they've become sort of larger than life as

a factor in the politics of the region they're currently the chairman of the arab league and they've used that position to press for the most aggressive kind of action against syria could target became the first gulf nation to close its embassy in syria in july qatar is also reportedly funneling syrian rebels with weapons as it did in libya. the country's cheerleading rolling revolutions in the middle east and north africa has earned qatar cheers and applause in the west or is not only supported diplomatically but it's also support of the military. and we're very proud the partnership between our two countries is a model everyone's beginning to notice casa the u.s. went from once branding the qatar funded al-jazeera a terrorist channel to openly praising al-jazeera al-jazeera has played

a key and leading role but qatar has come under increasing criticism from russia for its aggressive involvement in the affairs of other countries in the region last week a daughter airport the russian ambassador to qatar with two other russian embassy officials were physically assaulted by qatari customs and security officers when they made an attempt to confiscate the russian's diplomatic bag because of the incident moscow has downgraded formal relations with qatar but get a sense that anything that they do to really stick a finger. in the eye of russia or any of the other bric countries will be applauded in certain circles in the west and rewarded so yeah i think that it's all of it's all about that sense that you know they're in the front and that russia is not falling alone around this syria issue these said and took place on the same day as russia's foreign ministry criticize qatar for supplying weapons to libyan rebels in

violation of a un arms embargo the us which has a military base in the country has qataris backing for its ventures in the region with syria now in play washington is betting high on doha qatar has been put forward as the arab face on this bullying operation tiny qatar empowered by the u.s. is now playing big striving to shape the turbulent region and its favor the incident at the airport with russian diplomats shows what happens when someone gets in their way i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. an hour roundup of the news from around the world this hour and a string of attacks across down a stand killed dozens of worshipers as they mark them as the best of assura more than fifty shiites died in the capital kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up as hundreds of people gathered near a religious shrine the attack was the first major sectarian assault since the

taliban fell a decade ago another explosion in northern afghanistan killed four early on tuesday a third bomb destroyed a motorcade in kandahar injuring three. there are clashes in the greek capital as hundreds of protesting students mob of third anniversary of a teenager being fatally shot by police in athens thousands of officers want to see for the rallies which is set to continue throughout the day demonstrators hold rocks and bottles and fire bombs the police outside parliament the two thousand and eight shooting sports two weeks of some of the worst rioting in the country had seen at that time. finally has a new government after a record breaking five hundred forty one days of political deadlock socialist leader. takes it challenges the country's first french speaking prime minister is nearly forty years he takes the will of the new coalition which will have to bring

in reforms and cuts to patch up belgium the struggling economy the last government step down in april twenty ten after failing to resolve internal disturbing. i care about with an update of our headlines very shortly but before about to get a business update with dmitri. to the program the new russian parliament has been chosen but many of the challenges remain the same a number of these are long term projects such as building infrastructure or privatization due to changes in the constitution this duma will be setting for five years rather than four hours from business new europe thinks that this extra time will help get things up. 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 is 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 rail transport you know all these things is very obvious what needs to be done and in that sense having a government that's in power a little bit longer which can concentrate in the job and this is probably a positive thing. now the new parliament now for many in russia waiting for the privatization program to come back on track for capital says the government has done a good job so far carriage of investors to inject cash into state and companies. the government for several years has been making an effort to improve transparency to improve governance 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 you know almost two billion rubles goes from as dividend yield of almost five percent. tax on its own share of intelligence an ok competitive price and

cetera so the government is actually taking 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 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 we keep an eye on. the markets and very interesting situation in russia we've seen a massive sell off with the. down four point seven percent my six losing almost a four percent now with oil trading pretty much in the black all session long panda europe has been if i look at that in a second analysts believe it's reports of political tensions that are pushing some investors into cash in russia we're seeing a sea of red all across the shot with gazprom down more than four percent financials no exception down five point four percent gold is not even safe haven down three point four percent for

a second look at what's happening on the commodities markets this hour so the world is pretty flat light sweet two was gaining just two hours ago around fifteen cents now down twenty six cents looking really for direction as is brant up just ten cents this hour in the u.s. trading has also begun on a flat mix now belgium's up just point one percent nasdaq down point one percent this is all because of the uncertainty in europe where standard and poor's has placed fifteen euro zone i call. he's on a watch list for a possible downgrade and therefore foresees also hollywood that says point nine percent down still narrower than in morning trading. has been a rough day in the markets and the markets are down substantially across the quote across the globe. basically start off weak because of some in the markets and in the outlook for for the deadline on friday in the obvious risk of

a euro currency collapse for example metal mining stocks are down for the day we're down for the year roses down five percent in one case down five percent some of those stocks are down slightly less than that but the sentiment was negative for the day. was robert manson from bank rushes my success on the london stock exchange are competing to secure a strategic partnership with the kazakhstan bourse according to the financial times they're offering to update the cards are trading system and collaborate on other issues they proposed as a central asian exchange plans to conduct a people's i.p.o. to raise up to half a billion dollars in a deal would allow moscow or london to get in on kazakhstan's emergence as a natural resources hotspot. right for more business news you can always log onto a website or come forward slash business or you can join me i'll be here in fifty five minutes time with an update the headlines are next on r.t.

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