tonight on r t of course all the votes counted in russia's parliamentary election as thousands take to the center of moscow to voice their reaction to the people both for and against the ruling party a stage of massive rallies with over fifty people already detecting. the biggest threat yet to the euro the entire euro zone faces a ratings downgrade now while its leaders prepared to make a last ditch attempt to save the troubled currency at thursday's meeting in brussels. and fukushima of tons of radioactive water leaked from the japanese nuclear plant that was hit by the earthquake in march with fears the toxic liquid could have reached the pacific ocean.

welcome this is r.t. it's eight pm choose day night here in moscow my name is kevin zero in our top story with almost all votes tallied up in russia's parliamentary election four parties are preparing to take their seats in the state duma it's clear the biggest force will be united russia even though it suffered a significant plunge in popularity meantime thousands of people from all sides both for and against the results of the election and i'm gathering in the capital of voice their reactions we've got more on that in a moment but first r.t. sara firth has been following the final stages of the ballot count. the very last day states being counted at the moment the final result i expected in about four days but pretty clear already how the outcome of that's going to be united russia leading followed by the communist party the russians and the liberal democrat party

in force no united russia failing to break free psychological a percentage barrier fifty percent what that means in terms of seats in the damage because it's proportional representation at the moment it looks like they have two hundred and thirty eight seats in the name of that now that will be seventy seven less seats than they won back in two thousand and seven they lost a two thirds full chief majority in the dream of the main other there's already talk to them having to work much more closely with the opposition parties to make compromises that would have the certainly the results reflect what many people are calling a change of political mood among status here in the country who are closely monitoring the situation in moscow was both government supporters and protesters continue taking to the streets around fifty people have been to tell you so far all he's paid all of us in the center of the capital for us tonight. here to be on file mayor square in the center of moscow is seeing. many supporters and of many protestors turning out to foist their opinions now we've actually seen many.

pro-government pro united russia protesters here they've been banging drums and chanting putin the rosia and mitt kid there will get the image get a picture of a russian no this was supposed to be a protest held by the opposition to to the electros old those who were going to voice their opinions against. what they saw as electoral violations that it could to the parliamentary elections now this is the second night really on monday night what we saw was around five thousand perhaps people in moscow and 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 authority 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 who were arrested that have seen no times on the streets of moscow apparently there are no tanks on the streets of moscow what actually happened is we saw police deployed to deal with the large numbers of people who were protected to be coming out the people that have come out to protest. to talk it was talk of that these people were soldiers that they were the army and the tanks were moving in to central moscow know these right place at the same right place to use 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 there square and then descend to right in the heart of moscow next to the kremlin wethers another pro-government protests taking place there is a large right police presence both protests ringed by am. a very strong presence of police forces peter over a correspondent on the streets there and of course we catch up with him for more

little bit later as the evening progresses political analyst dimitri babich told me this social media is having a significant influence on the way the public responding right now to the political process. internet twitter and all these things these are instruments they cannot make people better or 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 well i just listened to the speeches some of this you just heard quite decent of i would agree with them in general i think these people deserve our respect and the ones who come to protect us but. not only speech for example there were some things that

i would not say that i would not call decent you know he said. we want to sound united russia a message we hate. i'm not quite sure this is you know i would say this is a good piece. coming up later this business bulletin explores what effect the new do they have on russia's economy too. since devotees are now coming in for a five year term experts tell business see a longer time will allow lawmakers to implement economic reforms more effectively including the privatization program which is expected to come back on more on this in around ten minutes. and told me keep an eye on the truck we're also keeping you want track the development of russia's parliamentary election on our web site as well r.t. dot com there you can find the latest figures and analysis of. the

series of dire warnings that piling up for the eurozone first the leading credit rating agency standard and poor's issued a down. grave threat for almost all of its members now it's put the eurozone bailout fund on review to all that just hours after french and german leaders pushed for more decisive rescue action and claim there's complete harmony between them but artie's test for a similar reports next may not be the case. 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 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 breached 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 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 with 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. that's well actually it's important that the euro is successful because a lot of our trade depends on it but on the other hand to us if there's a group a 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 tests are still r.t. brussels but haven't used an international consultant and from a belgian m.p.c. says the ratings agencies of meddling in an issue that's not their business. there is something basically wrong when they're rating agencies should become believers in the game i mean you don't ask a referee destroyed for it almost starts but if dean says he referees that's what he does this is a way of influencing went in the eurozone 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 just to read agencies in germany is always profiting from its economic dominance but actually what it is

doing is telling other countries you should do as we do with looting laws or 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 help to these banks and asked if they would learn to what kind of what kind of a system is there but it may be a financial rollercoaster for many in europe right now as it struggles to fix its finances some international investors are making record profits from the chaos amid all the ethics of making money is just one of the subjects scrutinized by max and stacy in their own unique way that's coming up in the latest edition of kaiser report here on this channel a bit later. what 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 going or they change the statistics that they are reporting to somehow reflect them in a better light because that's our fact they make money they propped the globs financial orifices and they root out of the detritus that they find there as collateral for five hundred trillion dollars worth of collateralized. more against bank their bonds which are the basis for jamie diamond christmas bonus. the round forty five tons of radioactive water has reportedly leaked from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan that was badly damaged in march is earthquake and tsunami some of the toxic water may have now found its way into the pacific ocean over the weekend dr robert jacobs a research associate professor at the hiroshima peace institute believes 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 in admitted publicly the credibility of tepco is not 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 descale of the difficulty of responding to these problems by tepco if it is sandbags that are going to keep this strontium ninety out of the sea then that's not really very encouraging. later on today as well in the program another major toxic threat we got a special report lined up for you exposing the plight of unspoiled amazon rain forest and they did you know people who are dying out there because of tons of

industrial waste is a big story that waste been dumped there by all giant. russia's

downgraded diplomatic relations with qatar after an assault told moscow's envoy to the russian diplomat was attacked by airport security officials just as russia criticized cartels role in the mounting international pressure on syria as a he's got to come reports next there are suspicions that qatar believes they 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 tart 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 is also support of military. partnership between our two countries is a model everyone's beginning to notice 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 qatar a customs and security officers when they made an attempt to confiscate the russians 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 it's all of it's all about that sense that you know they're in the front and that russia is not fall in line around this syria issue these student took place on the same day as russia's foreign ministry criticised could tar for supplying weapons to levy and rebels in violation of a un arms embargo the us which has a military base in the country has qataris backing for its ventures into the region with syria now in play washington is betting high on 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 r.t. washington's ties with one of its key allies pakistan have been shaky for some time now and the threatening the problem still further senior u.s. senators are pushing for a reassessment of relations with islam about including reducing economic and military aid to the country comes in response to pakistan shutting down a vital nato supply route boycotting an international conference about afghanistan's future is up about it says its own measures were triggered by a recent deadly air strike by the us on the pakistani border post jeffrey steinberg of the news magazine executive intelligence review told

a strained relations on the inevitable result of u.s. policies in the region. 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 emerge. opium production heroin production all kinds of criminalization we supported the rise of islamic fundamentalism i remember in the one nine hundred eighty s. and early ninety's the mujahideen were called freedom fighters now they're called islamic extremists so we really kind of. policies that have contributed mightily to the weakening and destruction of pakistan and now we turn around and act as if we're the victims in the offended parties when it blows up in our face also around the world tonight

a string of attacks across afghanistan killed dozens of worshipers is there a muslim festival of ritual more than fifty she died in the capitol. hundreds of people gathered just ryan it was the first major sectarian assault since the taliban fell a decade ago another explosion in northern afghanistan kill four earlier on tuesday and a third bomb destroyed a motorcade in kandahar they did you three. were clashes recapitalise hundreds of protesting students marked the third anniversary of it teenager being fatally shot by police and thousands of officers were on duty for the rallies which is set to continue throughout the day demonstrators held rocks bottles and fire bombs and police outside parliament the two thousand and eight shootings two weeks of some of the worst rioting in the country same time. belgium finally has a new government after a record breaking five hundred forty one days of political deadlock socialist

leader elio did oprah takes charge as the country's first french speaking prime minister in nearly forty years it takes the wheel of a new coalition which will have to bring in reforms and cuts to patch up belgium struggling economy the last government step down in april twenty ten after failing to resolve internal disputes. fast. day two of egypt's runoff elections have revealed tension between the two is the miss parties that dominated the vote the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party and the salafist nor party jostled each other outside several polling stations is the muslim brotherhood took forty percent of the vote in the first poll last week for a new huge turnout but far fewer people cast their ballots second time around final actual results want to know until after a third and final run off early in january r.t. spoke to former diplomat from the arab world and told us of his concerns for the country right now is a quick preview of what's coming up in about ten minutes tonight. egypt is very important country. can't do you with with knowledge in all these things

you're going to be speaking of course the you know areas of strength in the areas of weakness what is more important now is to be really democratic society. far from the influence of any indian whether this is the military a limb in order. or any image from outside and. all these elements if. factor in the future politics in egypt. more than for a madman or man shortly tonight in about ten minutes or so in twenty five minutes we got sport two cakes got the latest on tonight's crunch champions league game in portugal were but history could be made by a russian side she says more. than likely but let's get the latest business now with dimitri.

thank you kevin hello and welcome to business our t.v. markets in russia have ended sharply lower the r.t.s. lost more than four and a half percent my six was down almost four percent now with oil trading in the black and europe and the us flat and this believe it's reports of political tensions that are pushing some investors into cash in russia. i'm going to look like general some general uncertainty it was a european situation the chinese but later became quite evident that it is all due to specific russian fact the only fact is obviously political uncertainty well first the market doesn't like any political person's seconds of muslims the market doesn't like political tensions the result of which could be kind of more concessions and power to the left leaning parties so you can imagine it will not be good for business or for companies in particular to morrow we'll see some really bad guys then i think russia will be number one in news for all and it's hard to

see how the market will be able to withstand the pressure. now let's take a look at those figures unlike in europe markets in russia really suffered today the r.t.s. down four point seven percent m i six almost four percent but this is also not only due to the political factors the technical correction after we've had almost four or five consecutive sessions of growth cycle about what was happening on the my six energy shares are worth down gazprom four point two percent lower while wall was actually positive for most of the session the t.v. one of the worst hit stocks of five point four percent in the red and gold was an even safe haven with police call declining three point four percent on a sea of red promotional with a short stake a look at the commodities markets and still trading at this hour it has gone down and now light sweet sixty one cents in the red brant is one hundred and nine and

a half pretty much a similar situation in the u.s. and it's all due to one same reason that germans up zero point two percent you see there is looking the other way it's because standard and poor's has decided to review around fifteen years and economies they're putting on the watch list for a possible downgrade and therefore we seeing this negative reaction on the dax is down one percent a foot see her. is up point two percent so really vesta sitting on the sidelines in your. brushes my sex and the london stock exchange are competing to secure a strategic partnership with the cousin stan boss according to the financial times they are offering to update the trading system and collaborate on other issues the proposals come as a central asian exchange of plans to conduct the people's i.p.o. to raise up to half a billion dollars now a deal would allow moscow or london to get in early on kazakstan submergence as

a natural resources hotspot. also in brief russia's biggest mobile phone retailer euro service planning to buy one of its main rivals that's out telecom. daily says the seventy million dollars deal would help the euro set at five hundred and twenty stores to exchange total number of outlets with then top five thousand. russia's insurance companies seem to be resilient against the global economic downturn research by consultants all over why man shows that most insurers expect their business to have grown thirteen percent this year and up to twenty percent next year and also forecast more consolidation as a result of new capital requirements reducing the number of insurance firms from more than five hundred eighty to about two hundred within four years. and the global gambling industry is seeing robust growth despite economic uncertainties

it's said to rocket by more than one percent annually for the next four years pricewaterhouse coopers predicts high roller market revenues to grow from last year's one hundred eighteen billion dollars two hundred eighty three billion in twenty fifty was expect the asia pacific to outrun the revenue of the biggest gambling market the united states in just two years russia though is mostly set aside from the industry it's because of the strict legislation which came in a few years ago. so for now business news our website l.t. to come forward slash business. fifty five going to sign.

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