on our team with almost all the votes counted in russia's parliamentary election found was a mistake in the center of moscow to give voice to their feelings about the people both for and against the ruling party of stage massive rallies with around three hundred people already detained. this is standard procedure for the state for interfering in other people's elections brush. washington for quote unacceptable remarks on the parliamentary poll results and says it's not for washington to lecture others on how to build a perfect electoral system as we report this hour. on the biggest threat yet to the euro the entire eurozone faces

a ratings downgrade while its leaders prepared to make a last ditch attempt to save the troubled currency at thursday's meeting in brussels. also fukushima fallout tons of radioactive water leaked from the japanese nuclear plant that was hit by the earthquake in march with fears now that toxic liquid could have spilled into the pacific ocean. this is r.t. it's midnight right now here in moscow it's kevin zero in here with you this hour 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 that the biggest force will be united russia even though it's seven a significant plunge in popularity meantime thousands of people from all sides both for and against the election results have been gathering and making their voices

heard in the capital more on that in just a second but first party sarah first been following the final stages of the ballot count. well the last two days votes being counted in the final results are expected in about four days' time but you have pretty clear what the outcome is going to be united russia of those no surprises out of the front the communist party coming in second or third place with fair russia and fourth will be the liberal democratic party now we saw united russia failing to push past the psychological percentage barrier fifty percent that's proportional representation in the state and in terms of seats that would mean that you know to russia a looking at voting about two hundred and thirty eight feet now that joke in public supposed being seen as a reflecting a why did shift in the political mood among status in the country no hillary clinton waded into the post-election debate saying that the elections were free or fair now russia's foreign ministry has slammed the comments calling them

unacceptable and called on the u.s. to look to is our intellectual system first and foremost saying that they could apply in cliches without trying to understand what's actually happening here in the country though it's worth remembering that there were seven hundred international observers to the election process now their response to the proceedings was mixed there were some claims of violations all of those the russian government has said will be fully investigated when i spoke earlier to asia times correspondent paulo purpose told r.t. the latest remarks from the u.s. state department are exactly what could have been expected. this is standard procedure for the state department no interference in other people's elections sometimes they're actually like in the arab spring sometimes in direct as the case of russia what they should you know they should be looking at the score of the communist party which is almost twenty percent in the elections they should be

worried about that twenty percent of voters are going into the latest election in russia in fact they they want to go back to seventy five years of russian history this is much more important from an american point of view then a fact that the united russia got forty nine percent of the vote so which even party you know western democratic system will love to have as well. both government supporters and protest has been taking to the streets of moscow all day tuesday about three hundred people have been detained painter all of it has the latest from the center of the russian capital. but 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 of the protests that we've seen have been from both sides the loudest really have been the and the pro-government supporters we heard a lot of drums banging a lot of chants of will see a putin putin rosia and need to get a full deity put the victory in the russian language in fact you do hear a large cheer from either side when one of the opposition has been taken away and detained by police who are hearing that over three hundred people were detained here to impound this square in the center of moscow so many of those being taken away with my own eyes most of them going going very quietly some who resisted were being carried off by several riot police who are looking at people who were blocking the roads 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 but

it wasn't just here in moscow that we saw protests in st petersburg on tuesday there was a mole so protests there we're hearing over two hundred people being detained there now this follows on from monday night where over three hundred around three hundred people were detained here in moscow among them two cd of senior think is in the opposition movement now they were charged with disorder offenses and were sentenced to fifteen days of administrative arrest 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 no soldiers whatsoever. what we have seen is a deployment of riot police to the center of town this is because of the protests that were expected to take place and have taken place across the city now it's standard procedure for these right lease to come into the city to be deployed to the city in these type of situations now let's remember these old soldiers these are the same right police the same guys that are deployed as crowd control during

football matches so this certainly isn't a an army presence on the streets of the russian capital privileged to me to say that social media is having a significant influence on the way the public responds to the modern political process now internet and all these things these are instruments they cannot make people better watch so they just helped organize a radius that can be good or bad really such as the one on one year's no we had last year 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 go on but even more that position radio stations social internet they are becoming extremely well i just listen to the speeches some of the speeches were quite decent i would agree with them in general i think these people deserve all respect to the ones who come to protect their vote but. the speech for

example there were some things that i would say that i would not call decent you know he said like we want to sound united trash and message we hate you i'm not quite sure this is you know i would say this is a good taste. now on our web site r t v dot com we want to hear your opinion on the protests in russia but what do you think it means right now where you think it's going to go well so far most of you think it's a warmup for even bigger protests to come after the presidential election and twenty twelve us me telling us on the screen there forty seven percent around a quarter of you say it's about politicians in lobbying for attention a similar number think it doesn't actually about to anything other than a few dissatisfied people the minority there six percent believe it will be a sign of a developing civil society thanks for your vote still plenty of time to change that but.

in other news tonight a series of dire warnings are piling up for the eurozone first the leading credit rating agency standard and poor's issued a downgrade threat from most all of its members now it's put the eurozone bailout fund under review all that just hours after french and german leaders pushed for more decisive rescue action and claim there was complete harmony between them but as artie's tesa recently reports next that may not quite be the case. the euro zone crisis is going 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 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 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. 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 cilia r.t. brussels bulldog pay from the u.k. independence party told me earlier that the french and german leaders may use the s. and p. downgrade warning to push for fiscal union at a summit with other e.u. leaders just bit later this week. the french and german leaders and the the european political style bushman have a long history of using any crisis any skills as a lever in order to push push through more. political union and i think they probably will try and do that but i would make make the point that this summit of on thursday and friday will be the ninth summit this year each one of this summit

come out with some proposals each one of these proposals tens of been greeted in greeted as it is a friendly way by the market and when it has sunk in how little these these proposals do to actually do anything substantive or material to solve a crisis the markets then plunge straight back i suspect that that is what will happen this time and i say this not in a body in sorrow in sorrow for the peoples of europe who are having to suffer because of the completely misplaced policies of their leaders which seem to be unfortunate continuing. dartmouth m.e.p. speaking to us now it may be a financial roller coaster for many in europe as his struggles to fix his finances but some international investors nonetheless a broken record profits at this time in the chaos the ethics involved in making money or lack of ethics is just one of the subjects scrutinized by max and stacy in their own unique way in the latest kaiser report. every 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 that's how in fact they make money they prop 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 bonds which are the basis for jamie diamond christmas bonus. more than an hour's time around forty five tons of radioactive water is league from japan's stricken fukushima nuclear power plant that was badly damaged of course back in march by that earthquake and tsunami it's thought some of the toxic water may have spilled now into the pacific ocean over the weekend dr robert jacobs

research associate professor of hiroshima peace institute believes the plant 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 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 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 scene and that's not really very encouraging. russia's don't grade a diplomatic relations with qatar after an assault on moscow's envoy to the russian

diplomat was attacked by airport security officials just as russia criticize carter's role in the mounting international pressure on syria as it is going to she can reports next there are suspicions that katter 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 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 it's also support of the military. for 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 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 russia is not for when you work around this syria issue these are and took place on the same day as russia's foreign ministry criticize could hard for supplying weapons to libyan rebels in violation of with when arms embargo the u.s. which has a military base in the country has qatar's backing for its ventures in 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 in its favor the incident at the airport with russian diplomats shows what happens when someone gets in their way i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. also around the world tonight a string of attacks across afghanistan killed dozens of worship this is the mark of muslim festival of assura more than fifty she started in the capital kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up as hundreds of people gathered near religious shrines the attack was the first major sectarian a soul since the taliban from a decade ago and another explosion in northern afghanistan killed for earlier chews day then a third bomb destroyed a motorcade in kandahar that injured three. there are clashes in the greek capital hundreds of protesting students marks the third anniversary of the teenager being fatally shot by police in the thousands of officers were on duty for the rallies

which is set to continue throughout the day demonstrators hill rocks bottles and fire bombs at police outside parliament the two thousand and eight shooting spoke to weeks of some of the worst rioting the country's seen at that time. belgium finally as a new government after a record breaking five hundred forty one days of political deadlock socialist leader earlier developer takes charge as the country's first french speaking prime minister in nearly forty years he takes the will of a new coalition which will have to bring in food and cuts to patcher belgium struggling economy the last government stepped out in april twenty ten after failing to resolve in terms of speed. twenty minutes past midnight moscow time up next we'll hear from a former top syrian diplomat who shares his thoughts with us about the recent changes and the region's future prospects as he sees it.

with me i have mr adnan a former syrian ambassador to the united kingdom and sweden and also a former deputy secretary general of the arab league he's a political analyst and arab thinker so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. i thank you. t.v. station too much democracy too soon is that what we're witnessing in the arab world and does it mean chaos for countries like egypt it is too soon to say there is much

democracy there is democracy but because democratic. slogans put before the elections do not mean that necessarily there when there is going to be practiced democracy so i would say we have to wait and see and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warns that the arab spring will turn into an anti american anti israeli anti democratic tsunami does the arab spring really challenge the american and israeli standing in the region or in the country does it actually promote their interests first of all netanyahu statement and the statements made by other israeli leadership. here are very subject like the religion it from the very narrow interest of history. they are objecting to the subject so he and they are concerned mainly over how much someone there or

a concession by the regime is because of. the light of this they make their judgment was ninety percent at least in favor of history what is your sense of what is happening here in egypt how do you predict events will unfold oh i think we have you have to remember always that egypt is very important country it's huge country with with knowledge in country and these things economically speaking of course the. areas of strength in the areas of weakness what is more important now is to build really democratic society. far from the infamous or any enemy whether this is the military element or religious anyone or any image from outside and i'm for i am afraid that all these elements are

effecting factor in the future politics in egypt your president bashar assad is promising democratic elections next year but do you think the west is putting pressure on him because they want to derail those elections absolutely this is now it's an established fact we have started the process of democracy calling on all parties to join dialogue in in finalizing the laws the constitution decrees on election on parties it up but to a strange for everybody in the region to hear miss is going to going on record and calling on certain position groups to go for dialogue what about iran do you think nato and israel have the military and economic capabilities to strike you when i do think that they have the capability but if the question is do they have

the community of winning the war i doubt it very much because israel will be very very heavy price. the countries in the region. will suffer because of such kind of stupid adventure when one looks at the strong anti raney and statements that are being made by both the united states and israel all we see an iraqi scenario in relation to iran where is almost a pre-war before the actual war look i agree with you that they are the same store guns but iraq iran is not iraq iran is much much stronger military and they have many many cards to play i think the americans do that very well do you think the turkish american alliance will continue because if one looks at turkish society it is changing and one does see more islamists coming to the fore no i think for the time being the leadership in turkey is quite fulfilling their

own obligations as they call it. they need to be there can be said to. be the bilateral agreements which exist between turkey and america and it is so so far they are doing this how long this will go i believe that the people in turkey. lighted people. joy to be. thinking deeply real not accept that for long and i remind you that that was not easy when the ruling party now came to power in two thousand and two they could not did it in their. to challenge the public opinion so they didn't involved in the in the iraqi war didn't allow you know they had the bases that you can base to be used and that was very correct decision but at that

time the ruling party was still coming to power he was unsure of his ability and strength. but now i'm sure that these policies are different i've known online thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. i think. thanks.

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thank . the culture is the same of jackie and go for you know the tournaments of yourselves were totally different thirty year old to stay in germany and france agree in principle at least that fiscal union in the euro zone is the only way to.