getting the vote over the vote thousands march in moscow and st petersburg the rallies both for and against the outcome of russia's parliamentary elections. and land washington's criticism of. no one should question the choices made by the russian people. in the capital. the russian market slumped on tuesday with both m i six and the r.t.s. losing more than four percent move from the markets and business in about fifteen minutes time. and the treaty instore europe's power play to

change the fabric of the e.u. well battered national leaders get ready for a fight as they prepare for a last chance summit. costing lives in the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. thousands of people marched in cities on tuesday as both government supporters and protesters voiced their reaction to sunday's parliamentary elections in central moscow opposition protesters complained of alleged voting fraud and faced off with supporters of the majority united russia party but it's not our correspondent sara first for more on this sara take us through how the rallies turned out. what we saw clashes again last night between the protest. for a government and opposition rallies held in the sense. that. thousands of

opposition protesters taking to the street a pacing claims that they say is election violations now we saw a number of arrests a move in two hundred arrests and amongst a certain well known opposition figures and members of the opposition party as well that said it wasn't just the most go we still that these rallies spreading see other key cities including safe people but i will say still a number of arrests made and those he said they saw physician placing claims of violations we will say seen waiting in to the post-election debate hillary clinton making statements calling the elections neither free nor fair now most case law and today's comments calling the un except to go saying that applying cliches without trying to understand what's going on here in the country isn't helpful that the u.s. should be looking to any intellectual system first and foremost before come and say oh another election assistance and so heavily criticizing these comments that are

saying it's for the russian people at this to find the feature of russia and of those it was remembering that the election process was a to see by more than seven hundred international observers the response from them over the process was mixed it was certainly hope that their involvement in the elections would go some way to easing these continued transparency concerns that we're seeing. of the mocha told the new duma russia's lower house of parliament is a pretty clear now we're told it look like. salute it with a final vote still being counted so we expect the results in a couple of days it is pretty clear by now what the outcome states be united russia those no surprises are leading second place was the communist party fair russia in third place and the liberal democratic party in full there was it was no surprise that united russia came out ahead it was surprising to see the outcome of the results they failed to. break through that psychological barrier fifty.

representation in the so what that means in terms of. looking to hold around two hundred and thirty eight seventy seven. back in two thousand and seven and there is so public support. by many people why do we have. here in the country. ok thank you sarah first reporting from us. well we're closely following the aftermath of sunday's elections on the protests that have been taking place in the russia's capital as we've heard you tube channel has lined up the latest videos of what's happening also find updates on our web site r.t. dot com while you're there you can tell us what you think about the protests in russia. there's a time between those who say it means nothing it's just a few dissatisfied people just on the third also see it as

a big protest next brings presidential elections twenty percent of you put it down to being the nature of a developing civil society and the rest since politicians lobbying for attention will tell us how you see it go to r.t. dot com and have your say. the russian foreign ministry a short back at the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's call for a full investigation of regularities in the russian elections american filmmaker danny schechter of these washington is in no position to weigh in to moscow on voting fairness considering the harsh treatment of peaceful occupy campaigns in america. well it's going to have an impact when the secretary of state calls for an investigation of an election in russia i mean it's interesting because there were very few calls for an investigation of the elections in america in two thousand and four especially when there was a lot of disputes about what happened in ohio and of course in two thousand over

what happened in florida so no country has a perfect system everybody would rather point that someone else than at themselves you know the new york authorities who in the dark of night closed down occupy wall street justified their actions as necessary the occupations in other cities were closed down by police raids as well as witnesses and many believe in free speech and free samples so what is happening in russia really remains to be seen there hasn't been any investigation there have been charges of abuses but no proof yet. but american corporate occupy protesters are being allowed back into a new orleans park or to getting permission from a federal judge lawmaker has already called for an investigation into claims of police misconduct in dealing with activists and shows no sign of dying down across america with thousands demonstrating at a three months off the first protests in new york and the heavy police presence

isn't being scaled back either as more important reforms. when the very people employed to protect americans. leave thousands with bruised bodies. burned i was. locked behind bars tasting their own blood. the land of the free adopts an entirely new image problem the. world. order from. our youth joined the force. from. the squad. in recent months u.s. police officers have made an enemy. of those citizens using their freedom of speech to protest against corporate greed and corrupt politics today's breed of american law enforcement is dressed in riot gear and armed with heavy weaponry body armor

flash bangs tear gas and lethal projectiles. as tens of thousands of americans assemble cops have been accused of craving confrontation not to fusing it. a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent. a word better in who survived two tours in iraq was seriously injured by local police off. syria was using flash grenade canisters against occupy protesters but you know that you know twenty four year old scott olsen is hospitalized with serious head injuries. seattle the oldest victim of the family's turned paramilitary was in eighty four activist temporarily blinded by pepper spray the united states which

bills itself as the pillar of international law and democratic freedoms has consistently placed itself on the world stage as the self-appointed beacon of moral authority he called on the iranian government to abide by the international obligations that it has to respect the rights of its own people instead of respecting the rights of his own. adoptee chose the path of brutal suppression. innocent civilians were imprisoned and in some cases be meanwhile at home as descend in america grows louder many say washington's glass house of hypocrisy has shown beautiful symmetry they want people to be able to have freedom of speech but they don't want that freedom to interfere with them in any way to be in any way disruptive or challenging to them the line that traditionally separated u.s. soldiers from civilian law enforcement has arguably been overeats placed by what's

being dubbed the american militarization of police tock tick tock tick for black nature trapped in the foundation of american principles such as democracy and human rights incidentally the same principles you ask you. all other countries about arena or not arts in new york. on the way free from a dictator but far from prosperity you report on how libyans are trying to piece their lives back together keeping it weapons close to. the eurozone is facing immense pressure to come up with a decisive rescue plan to its worst ever debt crisis summit in brussels later this week is considered the last chance for europe the leaders are expected to pour over the french and german leaders i do here to revise the lisbon treaty the two thousand and nine agreement which we organized how the entire works president sarkozy and chancellor merkel went to tighten euro zone controls the power to

impose cuts on bailed out members greece the epicenter of the crisis has just approved next year's austerity measures. for course for somebody that's too little too late. but it's crisis time for the euro with a vital e.u. leaders summit on friday in brussels which could determine the feet of the single currency there has to be a quick and a solid fix of this instability and political conflict on some kind of a common basis between especially france and germany in the next days or weeks or we're going to see a systemic crisis erupted out of this which would be i think to no one's interest yet more problems with us readings agency standard and poor's downgrade ing six eurozone members states why the markets are now so alarmed is that the market down me also include the use economic powerhouses germany and france there isn't really

kewl to the euro zone's as fiscal union centralizing economic control over sovereign budgets they blame the crisis on a lack of discipline some member states breaking budget rules and running up huge deficits but some critics say this is precisely the wrong approach. to members that become part of the eurozone project very much different from one another and cannot provide a common currency a space that's what has become so obvious under the present situation now they want to resolve the problem by introducing more centralization centralization is the root cause of the problem. up to now on the e.u.'s rescue strategy has been based on passion of the weakest economy. which some see is mainly a band-aid solution and the wrong medicine to me is the ship. to save the euro zone. trying to rearrange

chairs on a sinking ship so the fiscal union cue is no quick fix and also could open up a new minefield as it needs domestic political upheaval across the to revise the lisbon treaty as blocks effective constitution and rule book london has already warned of a veto if its interests are threatened while hostility towards europe grants e.u. citizens suffering austerity measures to deal with banks and reckless governments could mean stiff opposition as well as anger at losing domestic control over national budgets yet another obstacle for france and germany they know they have already lost the battle so we are in a prisoner's dilemma the people have taken the wrong decisions from the very beginning. they don't want to admit to the public that they are wrong and that they have been wrong because if they admit this they would have to step down

right away the fate of the euro has occupied the headlines for most of the year but the failure to stem the mounting difficulties puts friday's summit in a different light the end is nine for good or for bad with most observers saying this crisis is nearing its day of reckoning. r.t. for germany. but if there's one thing that's been repeatedly called for during the drawn out you crisis it's leadership frank from germany's free democratic party its time you need is took full responsibility for their economies more in that next hour here. in the meantime the credit ratings agencies are taking matters into their own hands by threatening most eurozone states with a downgrade. indecision on friday will mean much worse to come and not just in europe the alert means is that there's a fifty fifty chance that a downgrade action will be taken in the next ninety days if there isn't some kind

of action to ameliorate the problems if we saw anything like a fifteen nation downgrade the downgrades of france and germany that are bundled into that as well as austria we would have an event much larger than lehman brothers that would cascade to the global markets that would push it teetering and very vulnerable european monetary union into true crisis as well as sending a very damaging shockwave global economy and global financial markets the e.c.b. the i.m.f. sovereign policymakers and many of european countries believed and conducted themselves as though they had more time than they did while the financial markets screamed out as did critics if you don't have more time you don't have more time and they kind of leisurely look at their watches and tried to do what was good for them domestically politically and acted like they had time that there was every indication did not actually exist. the new libya in the government has vowed to see all the militias out of the capital by the end of the month aaa has been flooded

with former rebels ever since they stormed into a can gadhafi in august so since the dictator is killing libyans are rebuilding their lives but on the boycott reports challenges still lie ahead. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of tripoli now have to get used to a new alarm till the city of two million people has an extensive rooster population and the birds have all but replaced rifle chatter as the heralds of the million dollar. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. while the revolutionary rush has spared hardly any wall in tripoli people here are clearly fatigued by eight months of civil war this may be deliberately it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface it seems that the normal full life in tripoli has been restored the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face the last few months ago already has its

fountain running but the new leaf is still facing the danger of running around this shallow waters of national politics much for its absence remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies it has already become a major part of the revolutionary spirit we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the gadhafi regime a former engineering student who during two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom. at the beginning everything was absolutely peaceful there were no guns we want to freedom and fairness the dictator used gone far against us and we lost money on rebels three months later mohammad is definitely in the driver's seat revels of the country's new heroes popular with women and the public at large if not with a rifle by his side muhammad would be like a twenty seven year old in any other country cruising around on

a saturday night is good yes. and it's not like he was underprivileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square me. their house in the prestigious area of tripoli they say the revolution has brought them along the way to democracy but is yet to translate into concrete benefits we have free education on health care on the gadhafi of course we expected to remain free but it also needs to be improved the new authorities also have to decrease prices and raise salaries so that ordinary people can join all the benefits of the revolution. here exactly how the new government can afford to do so in a country a ruling by war and stripped of much of its budgetary income is every bit as good as the forty two years of got his rule had told libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations and they knew our storage is very high. i have big plans for my life in

a year are sold god willing i want to finish my education get a good job and save enough money to mari it's all become possible for us now. and in national economist i'm not. i think the fact that they were willing to destabilize a regime that had demonstrably one of the highest living standards in north africa goes to show the fact that they were not so interested in what benefited the people as a whole in the first place they were more interested in forming their their economic ties to the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bright not least because it's also very blurred somebody's got heart the chip kelly. well that much more updates and analysis on lot of dot com has some of what to wear covering few there today mission failed american plans to snoop on iran from the skies dashed off a cia spy drone was down attention to bring some top secret information to terror

on the process. also in light of the toxic terror reportedly leaking from the hands you can immediately react to forty five tons of radioactive water that may have seeped into the ocean expert analysis of. a sunni muslim terrorist group in pakistan has admitted responsibility for twin suicide bombings that killed sixty people in afghanistan on tuesday was the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in the country since the nato occupation began ten years ago the victims of lost to a shiite muslims who are marking a major religious holiday the taliban which has condemned the violence claims nato orchestrated the attacks to create an excuse to stay in afghanistan the u.s.

made allowances reducing its troop presence head of a show you put out by twenty fourteen but now it faces a supply crisis in pakistan shut its border to nato. it's killed dozens of its troops last night british pakistani north korea he thinks the airstrike was deliberate but poorly calculated. the knew it was a pakistani trick because they had been given the maps they knew it wasn't a mistake. it bombed it and it's created a complete crisis within the pakistani military and in the concreteness large it's de stabilizing the one institution in bad country which has held it together for good or for bad largely for the but that's the pakistani military what they're trying to do are they trying to instigate a civil war in pakistan prior to direct intervention in zero three and i can't quite believe that because it's not going to be easy so it's equally rash whether

they will rise by washington or whether it was a local decision i don't know well who did it didn't do the united states any fate but it's more world news now and to the border between israel and the gaza strip or an israeli airstrike has hit a group of militants even one person dead and several injured gaza officials say the fighting erupted on tuesday israeli troops into a buffer zone east of gaza city palestinian militants engaged in a gun battle which was followed by israeli aircraft flying and missiles then israel's military claims it was targeting insurgents squads who were prepared to fire rockets in the south of the country. prime minister whose country was in a surge of civil war says an interim government will be formed wednesday there's been a week of clashes between the military and anti regime protesters resulting in the deaths of more than thirty people in the city of tires trouble began ten months ago

with opposition backed protests to force presence are they to quit he's now signed a deal to handover power to the vice president. and egypt's new prime minister says the ruling army will grant him extra powers as he works to appoint his new cabinet. guns a very pointed and you finance minister on tuesday is expected to reveal a new material minister later on wednesday the new powers come after critics accuse the military of not giving the last time that enough authority. now a little later we remember twenty years ago this month when the world changed forever for millions of people a super union formally came to an end to get up to date with business news first his new. hello time for business update and russian stock some the ruble ended choose day session shopper low of the archie has lost over four and

a half percent and the mice it's was down almost four percent despite flat markets in europe and high current price reports of political tension in russia push to invest into cash traders we know we talked to say that if russia makes its way to the headlines the market could see a freefall. if you see some some really bad. rhetorical russia will be number one in useful and the rhetorical increase and it's hard to see housing market will be able to withstand the pressure situation going down but they can imagine that there will be a lot of course but it depends very much on what price will be paid for this coming down because this way. look at those figures energy majors and banking stocks were among the key losers gas from more strong most five percent and the to be six percent is trading in moscow will pick off in about one hours time we'll bring you the details and asian shares are on the rise on wednesday following overnight gains

on wall street the sentiment is supported by a recent report by financial times saying more rescue funding may be a bailable to help troubled members exporters are on the rise in japan with sony adding five percent meanwhile resource and property shares are gaining in hong kong now the union progression of china is up more than two percent. and crude prices are stuck between gains and losses around the previous day's closing level as investors of say are staying on the sidelines ahead of the summit of european leaders on friday members of the meeting are expected to discuss plans for tighter fiscal regulations and treaty changes a lot so it is not trading at over one hundred one dollars a barrel while the brundtland over that one hundred ten dollars. and finally the privatization program in russia could get off to a rapid start next year the boss of the country's biggest lender their banks will be ready to go to the market as soon as the global financial situation stabilizes

here my graph is also upbeat about the bank's prospects and twenty twelve saying it will be difficult for the sector but his firm will out before the market. so she would sit in you can image that however the world economy develops the next year will not be very easy for us we call our business plan moderately optimistic so according to a talk critical for growth about twenty four percent that's better than the market which we expect to grow to around twenty percent although we also are ready for a more pessimistic scenario where the situation in europe worsens and the oil price falls to between sixty and seventy dollars per barrel that's a good that's all we have time for now europe today but you can always find more stories online that sargent dot com slash business.

i. think the emergence of hope for many years in the soviet system has faded away in less than twenty four hours as bell of their scale pushes up almost below we acted in a true russian style we didn't know exactly what the future would bring that to think about later srini does come together and sign an agreement dissolving the u.s.s.r. for good jobs to get rid of the so called big brother that was always controlling them was the dream of many republics where. but in the eyes of the people they put it like this i will liberate you from the kremlin oppression no one wants to take

the blame. should not be able to persuade gorbachev and besides he's more. could not be relied up on the name he can tell you anything and do something completely different mission for numerous no go for me too liberal and in the same boris yeltsin where i should have that was my mistake. this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sucks in the kremlin and sort of cool itself at the time. then i don't think we'd have left elevator forest soaries of. two decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this applause or a fait accomplis. the close up team has been on the black sea coast for future developments depends on

the good way for. the articles area first place to many fights champions and the most ambitious koku. some has ruined the lives of many innocent families across the region. where the oldest city in russia is found clocking in more than five thousand years. close to dhaka stand russia close up on r.t. . good. news.