getting. thousands of. rallies both for and against the outcome of russia's parliamentary elections. and. choices made by the russian people. treaty instore europe's power players plot to change the fabric of the e.u. while battered national leaders get ready for a fight as they prepare for a last chance summit.

it's twelve noon here in moscow this is r.t. welcome to the program now thousands of people marched in the russian cities on tuesday as both government supporters and protesters voiced their reaction to sunday's parliamentary elections in central moscow opposition protesters complained of an edge to voting fraud and faced off with supporters of the majority united russia party correspondent sarah firth reports. well we saw more of this passes between the police and protesters last night but again there were the opposition rallies and the pro-government rallies going on in the center of moscow thousands of opposition protesters turning out opposing what they claim were violations joining the election but now we saw a number of arrests maybe six hundred detainees at my place so they don't position take is some opposition members of some of the opposition parties as well but know

that have been criticisms and some about will be seen as heavy handed tactics by the riot police detaining a lot of these protesters but we do have to point out it was none sanctioned rally that was happening also and not just in most of it another key cities around must be seen this neighborhood spreading a safety just like to say quite a number of arrests made last night but no way to get into this case the election the fate that we've had for the clinton calling the elections in motion i just read you know fed up those comments had been planned by mosco he called them unacceptable saying that the u.s. should first and foremost be looking to the intellectual system and that is for the russian people to define russian speak show to the conclusion about the sufficiency or insufficiency of the parties is an area of responsibility for the russian authorities not for international we're going to. monitor the quality of elections and violations. but the issue is the country's political system it is none of their

business there will soon be telling us how to write our constitution. there was his foreign ministry all say i think that it was a nice move for the us to simply apply cliches without trying to understand properly what's going on within the country you know the final results expected within a couple of days but it is pretty clear right now what it's going to look like no surprise if the united rushes come out in front of the communist party in second place affair russia taking the place and the liberal democratic policy in full and know what it was in a surprise united russia came out front what was surprising was the think is they fail to break through that psychological percentage baria fifty percent and that means they've lost the two thirds called chicha majority party hers you know it's russia saying that they're getting to be looking to work much more closely with the opposition parties to gauge has to be making compromises to get more of these decisions because certainly that drove the public's the force i've reflected in the

result seen by many as reflecting a wider political shift amongst the mood of voters here in the country both political analysts and i was on the senate on off says sanctions protest is the only legal option to demonstrate against an election that's leaving the ruling party in charge while these also broke the law they should do it. if they want to get their message from that forward to being. too gentle for wants. the set up to go in i would. like to get through the band the programming act there is no me only not while fifty four many call issues with all the policies and a. very few they already have a season. they have mostly the whole constitutional maturity for which years they will need six percent but still have enough leverage to

capitals right now and i think. the gmo. action will be quality and dominated by do not get rough. well we're closely following the aftermath of sunday's elections on the protests that have been taking place in russia's capital or you tube channel has one of the latest videos of what's happening also find updates on our web site of course that's our to talk and while you're there tell us what you think about the protests this hour that if you see it as a bigger protest next spring's presidential election it's not if you are say the rallies are nothing more than dissatisfied people twenty one percent put it down to being the nature of a developing civil society. saying it's going to show is not being pretentious tell us how you see it going to r.t. dot com to have your say so they had to stop. the russian market continue to lose ground after its moved across russian capital on tuesday traders were reaching for

the sell button as they did this snowball into a display of mass just sent more marketing dollars in business in about fifteen minutes. american corporate occupy protesters are being allowed back into a new orleans park for getting permission from a federal judge a lawmaker has already called for an investigation into claims of police misconduct in dealing with activists in the movement shows no signs of dying down across america with thousands demonstrating only three months after the first protests in new york and the heavy police presence isn't being scaled back either has been a point no reports. 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 probably more. work

for them. are you going to work. for them. not just walk. 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 diffusing it was. only. a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent. it was.

a word that are in who survived two tours in iraq was seriously injured by local police officers using flash grenades canisters against occupy protesters but you know what you know twenty four year old scott olsen was hospitalized with serious head injuries. in seattle the oldest victim of the police 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 for. dom's has consistently placed itself on the world stage as the self-appointed beacon of moral authority we call upon the iranian government to abide by the international obligations that has to respect the rights of its own people instead of respecting the rights of his own people. the chose the path of brutal suppression. innocent

civilians were imprisoned and in some cases beaten meanwhile at home as dissent 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 disrupt the world challenging to them the line that traditionally separated us soldiers from civilian law enforcement has arguably been overeats least by what's being dubbed the american militarization of police tock tick tock tick for black nature in the foundation of american principles such as democracy and human rights incidentally the same principles you as you. all other countries about. arts in new york. on the way on the program free from a dictator but far from prosperity the report on how libyans are trying to piece

their lives back together. when it's close to hand. 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 the euro the leaders are expected to pour over the french and german the design to revise this been treaty two thousand and nine agreement. as to how the time works since i could see and chancellor merkel want to tighten views and controls the power to impose. members greece meanwhile of the epicenter of the crisis has just approved next year's austerity measures. course for summer it'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 ratings agency standard and poor's downgrade ing six euro zone member states why the markets are now so alarmed is that the market down me also include the economic powerhouses germany and france there isn't really see the kewl to the euro zone's as fiscal union centralizing economic control over sovereign budgets they blame the crisis on a lack of discipline with some member states breaking budget rules and running up huge deficits but some critics say this is precisely the wrong approach. the members that have become part of the eurozone projects are very much different

from one another and cannot provide a common homogenous currency 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 and the e.u.'s rescue strategy has been based on patching up the weakest economy would bail out which some say is merely a band-aid solution and the wrong medicine for a term ill patient. trying to rearrange chairs thinking the fiscal union cue is no quick fix and also could open up a new minefield as it needs domestic political approval across the e.u. to revise the lisbon treaty the block's effective constitution and rule book london has already warned of a veto if its interests are threatened while hostility towards europe e.u.

citizens suffering austerity measures to bail out 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 read 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. there's one thing that spain repeatedly called for during the drawn

out crisis its leadership. from germany's free democratic party says it's time either leaders took full responsibility for their economies more and that in the less than twenty minutes time penalty. any time they credit ratings agencies are taking matters into their own hands by threatening most us and states with a downgrade. indecision on friday will need much worse to come and not just in europe. the alert means is that there is 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 and would push a teetering and very vulnerable european monetary union into true crisis as well as sending very damaging shock waves to the global economy and global financial

markets the e.c.b. the i.m.f. sovereign policymakers in many of the 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 looked 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. for the new libyan government has vowed to see all of this is out of the capital by the end of the month tripoli has been flooded with former rebels ever since they stormed into colonel gadhafi in august since they take this killing the billions of rebuilding their lives but has a son a boy who 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 will in tripoli people here are clearly for teeth 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 then you leave the field facing the danger of running in wrong the shallow waters of national politics much for its assets 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 joined 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 preserve unfairness but then 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 on the gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square meter. 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 had free education on health care on the gadhafi of course we

expected to remain free but it also needs to be improved and 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 everybody's guess the forty two years of get his rule had told libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations in the new york the region 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 marty and it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies i'm not be 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 there their economic ties to the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bride not least because it's also very blurred somebody's got artsy tripoli for more updates and analysis online at r.t. dot com has some of what we're covering for you that day mission failed american attempts to snoop on iran from the skies of dashed after a cia spy drone was down to delivering some good information to tehran in the process. also online the toxic terror reportedly taken from japan's stricken nuclear reactor forty five tons of radioactive water have seeped into the ocean we have expert analysis. dr.

a sunni muslim terrorist group in pakistan has admitted responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that killed sixty people in afghanistan on tuesday is the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in the country since the native occupation began ten years ago the victims of the blast were shiite muslims who are marking a major religious holiday the taliban which has condemned the violence claims that nato orchestrated the attacks to create an excuse to stay in afghanistan less than allowances reducing its troop presence the head of the shuttle's pull out by twenty fourteen right now it faces a supply crisis neighboring pakistan shut its border to nato allies killed dozens of its troops last night or british pakistani author tara county thinks the airstrike was deliberate but poorly calculated. he knew it was a pakistani trick but also because they had been given the maps been knew it wasn't a mistake. it bombed it and it created

a complete crisis within the pakistani military and in the concreteness largest dees stabilising the one you should member country which has held it together for good or for bad. for the back that's the pakistani military what they're trying to do to try to instigate a civil war in pakistan are trying to direct intervention or not and i can't quite believe that because it's not going to be easy. it's. whether they will rise by washington or whether it was a local decision i don't know well whoever did it didn't do the united states only failed. more world news for you this hour into the border between israel and the gaza strip where israeli air strike has hit a group of militants leaving one person dead and several injured ganser official say the fighting erupted on tuesday after israeli troops moved into

a buffer zone east of gaza city palestinian militants and gauge them in a gun battle which was followed by israeli aircraft firing a missile at them israel's military claims it was targeting insurgents squads preparing to fire rockets into the south of the country. yemen's prime minister whose country is on the verge of civil war says an interim government formed on wednesday there's been a week of clashes between the military and to review the testers resulting in the deaths of more than thirty people in the city. ten months ago opposition backed protest to force presence and they to quit he's now signed a deal to one day of power to the vice president. egypt's new prime minister says the ruling army who will grant him extra powers as he works to appoint his new cabinet. appointed a new finance minister on tuesday is expected to reveal a new interior minister later on wednesday but the new powers come after critics

accuse the military of not giving the last cabinet enough authority. will shortly we evaluate the potential risks that the euro zone's debt crisis is posing on the rest of the world the latest business update with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the program after a bright start on russian stock trading floor stock exchanges here in moscow all losing ground both our chance and my six extending chooses losses caused by reports of street protests in moscow this is our cheese marina koester explains what's driving the market sentiment. that's what it's on the side of why it all happened and that is because investors were mainly concerned after the political fallout from sunday's parliamentary elections saw a drop in supports in the early united the russian hearts and mouth markets the russian markets that stunned that their losses even further after

a lot of your beaten so that you could rush up with the government if we won the presidential elections in march investors were mainly concerned about the impact of the substantial political upheaval on major state owned companies at the same time and the swedes spoken to say that if tension continues with could see the russian markets drop by as much as the tam percent whereas other analysts was hoping to say that the drop was merely a reflection of the year by international investors rather than russian ones all the factors playing into all of that is of course process continues to happen so why put it this year could raise maybe five billion dollars and of course the situation in europe is more helping matters gratings agency standard and poor's has warned that it could make a blanket downgrade all of us on countries if by this east summit fails to agree on the frankel german plan to impose a fiscal discipline across the currency along so you know we have an election

jitters the capital flight and the e.u. that crisis all of course played into the volatility that we're seeing on the russian markets. let's have a look at those figures as we've been reporting up to get today's top both myself and the r.t.s. continue with losses both are flat to negative a tenth of a cent that's not a look at some of the individual share moves in the minds that's new coil is leading the decline on the index shedding under one percent gas prong is a bit behind the percent in the red i'm very fond gas is higher voting point four percent the solid. foundation all on the rise the nikkei gained one point seven percent science is one and a half a cent toy this. sentiment was supported by speculation european leaders will step up efforts to fight the debt crisis at the e.u. summit kicking off on thursday august fifteenth euro nations face the threat of rating down the greats and moving out to europe european stock markets opened high on wednesday after reports in the financial times that european officials are in

talks to potentially double the five hours of the eurozone bailout fund you can see that the fruits and the debts opposed to significant. gains point eight and one point four percent respectively moving on current prices are slightly high as investors are staying on the sidelines ahead of the summit of european leaders members of the meeting are expected to discuss plans for a time to fiscal regulations and creative changes not to just call for trading at one hundred one dollars a barrel while the brand is hovering at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. the privatization program in russia could get off to a rapid start next year the boss of the country's biggest lender spare bank says it will be ready to go to the market as soon as the global financial situation stabilizes henry graff is also upbeat about the bank's prospects in twenty twelve saying it will be difficult for the sector but his farm will outperform the market

. 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 top credit growth about twenty percent that's been on the market which we expect to grow to around twenty percent we also ready for a more pessimistic scenario where the situation in europe worsens and the price falls to between sixty and seventy dollars per barrel. and investors and high tech shares could get tax benefits and russia's economic ministry has prepared to drop bill to exempt them from income tax the benefits will apply to long term investors financial small and medium sized russian farms which are valid no greater than three hundred twenty million dollars tax holidays are part of the government's plan to spur investment into innovative companies. and a new social networks on the way in russia and it's looking to snap up photo fans

users of the seven million dollar pin me dot ru website will be able to ship picture galleries with friends it's like a blog but based more on images and is better focused on the russian language market the owners hope the farm will be worth one hundred million dollars and for here it's been me it is so similar to america's interest which a launched last year it's already has about three million users and is now worth up to two hundred million dollars. ok or up to date you can always find more stories on our website or to dot com slash business or join me for another business update in less than fifteen minutes here on r.t. .

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