tonight on our team almost all the votes counted in russia's parliamentary election as thousands take to the center of moscow to voice their reaction to the outcome. we're seeing rallies both for and against the ruling party with those who want a hundred people detained joining me from the heart of moscow for more just a few moments. also ahead the biggest threat yet to the euro the entire eurozone faces a ratings downgrade well it proved its leaders prepared to make a last ditch attempt to save the troubled currency at thursday's meeting in brussels the latest on the developing story. and the fukushima fallout tons of

radioactive water leaks from the japanese nuclear plant that was hit by the earthquake in march with fears now the toxic liquid could have spilled over into the pacific ocean. this is r t it's nine pm choose day night here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story with almost all votes tallied up now 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's suffer the significant plunge in popularity meantime thousands of people from all sides both for and against the election results have been gathering in the capital to voice their reactions we got more on that and more in a moment for you but first let's cross live to sarah ferguson following the final stages of the ballot count. let's talk about the first year or so the overall

makeup of the new doom of the lower house of parliament pretty clear now isn't it take us through what we know. the very last of these surveys being counted and the final results expected to be announced in about four days but a pretty clear idea now of what the outcome will be united russia leading that the communist party coming second there russia in the liberal democratic party coming forth now united russia failing to break through that psychological percentage barrier fifty percent and the stadium estates work on a proportional representation so in terms of the outcomes means the united russia looking to hold about two hundred and thirty eight seats now that's seventy seven seat less than they had in two thousand and seven when they won then it means that they don't have that two thirds majority ferk they could put changes in the team or that lead to talks about a coalition coalitions being formed as certainly the united russia are going to

have to work closely with the opposition and be making compromises in the future and now we've heard over sponsors from the u.s. today hillary clinton saying that the elections in russia were not free fair elections now the foreign ministry in russia's responded to that and they said that comments like this are unacceptable and that the u.s. is applying cliches without really trying to understand exactly what's going on and that is for the russian people to determine the future of russia you know what we can say is that the voting results have have we have seen the drop in support of uniting russia and those results i reflected a change amongst what's being seen as a change in face the mood here in the country. parties are first trying to bring this up to date now we're closely monitoring all the voting say moscow is both government supporters and protesters. need to take to the streets is happening now

in fact over a hundred people are being detained as people that sort of it out to all of us in the center of the russian capital paint and i we saw thousands turn out here in moscow on monday tell us a bit more about what happened then and why are we expecting a repeat and i what what's the lowdown now. what we've seen thousands of people here in central moscow protesting both for on the side of united russia the ruling party here and against those who allege that there was. examples of electoral fraud taking place now the protest where i am today and found a square was quite large a little while ago police then it's actually stopped traffic all behind me on this voice you see a busy intersection in the center of town police are then able to split it up into three to four smaller sections all of those have now dispersed except for the one just behind me with look over my left shoulder there is a group of people there both from those supporting united russia and those who are

alleging that there was electoral fraud taking place now those two groups having watched very closely by a large police presence here in fact you do hear a large cheer from either side when one of their opposition has been taken away and detained by police now we're hearing that over one hundred people have been detained so far i see some of them with my own eyes here they were looking at people they were blocking the roads pay when the protest was much larger they were police were coming along and taking those people away placing them on buses and driving them off now. the protests at the protests were happening from both sides the loudest really have been the the pro-government supporters we heard a lot of drums banging a lot of chants of will see a putin putin rosia unmitigated could be a people getty victory in the russian language so both sides have really the presidency has decreased greatly but they're still a small part. still voicing their opinions either for the government or against

what they see as vote rigging that was taking place alleged vote rigging taking place in the parliamentary election on sunday and paint one of these reports on the internet abuzz with rumors of tanks being sent into central moscow you've been on the ground there way of what you've seen at least have you seen any of these. been on the streets of central moscow all day today in fact i live in central moscow and i can tell you i've seen no tanks or soldiers whatsoever but we have seen is a deployment of riot police to the center of town now this is because of the protests that were expected to take place and have taken place across the city now elsewhere from where i am right now there have been several other large pro-government protests one of them taking place right next to the kremlin now it's standard procedure for these rights lease to come into the city to be deployed to the city in these type of situations now let's remember these aren't soldiers these are the same right police the same guys that are deployed as crowd control during

football matches so this certainly isn't an army presence on the streets of the russian capital what's also one of the other reasons that we've seen the heavy police presence here which we've seen actually since the first of december there has been a very strong police presence here since the first of december in the build up to these elections but today was a special occasion indeed it's the one year anniversary since a football fan was murdered in moscow which led to ultra nationalist very violent riots this time last year so police want to make sure that they have enough people on the ground in order to make sure that any gatherings of people any protests that take place can be done so safely and that no violence can break out ok pedro of a thanks for you some today there were just getting through the news wires as well the latest reports of the number of people overall on both sides are being detained by the police for whatever reason up to two hundred fifty now that's the latest think we've got when you get by the government more information will come back

later peter oliver in central moscow thank you. we talked about the buzz on the internet and political analyst dimitri babich also spoke to us about social media saying it's having a significant influence on the way the public is responding to the modern political process these days. 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 the position radio stations social internet networks they are becoming extremely well i just listened to the speeches some of their 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 also listen to not only speech for example there were some things that they would not say that i would not call decent he's. like we want to have united russia message we hate you i'm not quite sure this is you know i would say this is a good place to be true coming up later this hour our tease business bulletin explores what effect that he may over russia's economy. since devotees are now coming in for a five year term experts tell business tsotsi a long time will allow lawmakers to implement economic reforms more effectively including the privatization program which is expected to come back on track more on this in around ten minutes. ok and the world keep up to speed on developments in russia's parliamentary election on the web site as well of course great resource dot com there you can find all the latest figures and analysis as we get it.

a series of dire warnings are piling up for the euro. first the leading credit rating agency standard and poor's issued a downgrade threat for it was all of its members and now it's put the eurozone bailout fund on review two just hours after french and german leaders pushed for more decisive rescue action and claim there's complete harmony between them but it is test for a similar reports next that may not be the case. the euro zone crisis has been good fodder for cartoonists but it's no laughing matter. for measure 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 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 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 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 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 tests are cilia r.t. brussels load of a new still international consultant and for belgium and pay says the ratings agencies of meddling in an issue that's not their business. there is something basically wrong when their rating agencies should become players in the game i mean you don't ask a referee beautiful it almost starts but if things are the dean says he referees that's what he does this is a way of influencing went 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 a good thing 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 going for help to these banks and asked if they would long to what kind of what kind of a system is that. so it may be a financial rollercoaster for many in europe as it struggles affect said finances but some international investors are making record profits for all its chaos at this time the ethics of making money just one of the subjects scrutinized by max

and stacy in their own unique way in today's kaiser reports. what 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 a nest collateralized j.p. morgan spank their violins which are the basis for jamie diamond christmas bonus. much as they say on our two hours fifteen from now. around forty five tons of radioactive water is reportedly leak from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan the

plant that was badly damaged in march is earthquake and tsunami some of the toxic water could have now found its way into the pacific ocean over the weekend dr robert jacobs is a research associate professor at the regime of peace institute he told us he believes the plant's operator tepco is keeping a lid on just how severe the situation really is we're talking about tepco the company that knew that there were three nuclear meltdown 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 their 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 tempo if it's sandbags that are going to keep

this strontium ninety out of the sea then that's not really very encouraging. just let you know as well in about fifteen minutes tonight on this channel another major toxic threat reporting on got a special report for you exposing the plight of unspoiled amazon rain forest of the indigenous people they were dying out because of the tons of industrial waste done by an oil giant.

russia's downgraded diplomatic relations with qatar after an assault on moscow's envoy to dial up the russian diplomat was attacked by airport security officials just as russia criticized qatar's role in the mounting international pressure on syria artie's garniture can 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 the air 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 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 qatari 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 that it's all of it's all about that sense that you know they're in the front and russia is not fooling anyone around this syria issue these said and took place on the same day as

russia's foreign ministry criticized could tar for supplying weapons to libyan rebels in violation of a u.n. arms embargo the u.s. which has a military base in the country has qatar's full 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. washington times was one of its key allies pakistan have been shaky for some time and now for the plum it still further see the u.s. senate has a pushing for a reassessment the relations with islam about including reducing economic and

military aid to the country in response to pakistan shutting down a vital nato supply route and boycotting an international conference about afghanistan's future is of about it says it's measures were triggered by the recent deadly air strike by the us on the pakistani border post. of the newsmagazine executive intelligence review told the strangulations of the inevitable us policy. 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 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 and the news a brief string of attacks across afghanistan killed dozens of worshipers as they've been for some of the shooter fifty she. was hundreds of people gathered your religious right it was the first major sectarian so since the taliban fell and. other another explosion in northern afghanistan killed for their own shoes day also a third bomb destroyed a motorcade income. heart that injured three. there are clashes reported in the greek capital as hundreds of protesting students mark the third anniversary of a teenager being fatally shot by police in athens thousands of officers were of

standby for the rallies which is said to continue throughout the day as well protesters hold rocks and bottles and fire bombs at police outside parliament the two thousand and eight shooting sparked two weeks of some of the worst rioting the country seat at the time you may recall. belgium's finally got a new government after a record breaking five hundred forty one days of political deadlock socialist leader elio did all pro takes charge as the country's first french speaking prime minister in nearly forty years he takes the wheel of no coalition which will bring in reforms and cuts to patch up belgium struggling economy last government stepped down in a full twenty ten of the failing to resolve internal disputes. it was your. first . but special report mentioned a few minutes ago from amazon rain forest on i very soon tonight's in lightning i can tell you that we've got the business next oh dimitris here.

thanksgiving markets. sharply lower on tuesday the artiest lost almost five percent of my six was down just under four percent with oil trading in the black in europe in the us markets flats analysts believe it's reports of political tensions that are pushing some investors into cash and russia. i'm going to look like general some general uncertainty it was a european situation which i mean 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 you tomorrow will see some from really bad guys then i think russia will be number one in useful and it's hard to see housing market will be able to withstand the pressure. of those closing figures more detail now as you can see there the r.t.s.

down four point seven two percent the my sixty three point nine five percent we have to remember there was a winning streak of more than four consecutive sessions of growth most energy majors are down gazprom as an example down four point two percent financials also under pressure would be to be declining five point four percent and gold did not prove to be a safe haven today political decline of three point four. meanwhile on the commodity markets this hour we are seeing a movement towards positive brant up forty cents lights we down just eight cents at this hour pretty flat looking for direction most of the session in the u.s. stocks are showing pretty much the same picture with the dow jones up zero point four percent the nasdaq could take shares declining by the same amount this is all coming from europe that's off the stand and pause placed fifteen euro zone economies on a watch list for all civil downgrades this has been pushing putting pressure on

european stocks c. is up by just a not a dax declining one point three percent. and russia's my sex and london stock exchange are competing to secure strategic partnership with the kazakhstan board according to the financial times there. to update the trading system and collaborate on other issues the proposals come as a central asian exchange plans to conduct a people's i.p.o. to raise up to half a billion dollars the deal would allow more scope all and then to get in early on kazakhstan's emergence as a natural resources but. also in brief russia's biggest mobile phone retailer euro set is planning to buy one of its rivals out telecom commissar daily says the seventy million dollars deal would help euro set add another five hundred and twenty stores to its chain and that would bring the total number of its outlets to more than five thousand. russian insurance companies seem to be resilient against the global economic downturn research by consultants all of the y.

man shows that most insurers expect their business to have grown thirteen percent this year and up to twenty percent next year they also forecast more consolidation as a result of new capital requirements which would reduce the number of insurance firms by two thirds from five hundred eighty to about two hundred within four years. the headlines are next with kevin to stay with us.

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