getting vocal over the vote. margin in moscow and st petersburg with rallies for understands the outcome of russia in elementary election. in most cases slammed washington's criticism of the day saying no one should question the choices made by the russian people. in the russian capital for the latest inflation. tree you see in the store or europe's a power players want to change the fabric of the new while battered did get ready for a fine today prepare for a chance on. a

very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow with me alice habit. of people marched in the key russian cities on tuesday as both government supporters and protesters voice their reaction to sunday's parliamentary election in central moscow opposition protesters complained of alleged to voting fraud and faced off with supporters of the majority united russia party our correspondent sarah first reports. we saw another night where thousands of protesters take to the streets pro-government protesters and opposition protestors and the clashes with the police the opposition voiced concerns of what they call violations in the election system i know is still a large number of arrests made around six hundred amongst a well known opposition figures including members of the opposition parties some

criticisms over what some people are seen as having handed tactics by the riot they say it was an unsanctioned rally held last night and not just in most areas to other key cities being hit with these social movements as well st petersburg also saying protest action and a number of arrests that as well for wading into the post-election debate with hillary clinton he said the elections in russia were neither free nor those callers were heavily criticized by moscow the foreign ministry calling them unacceptable and saying that the u.s. should look first and foremost to electoral system and that simply applying cliches without trying to understand the situation in the country isn't useful and that is to the russian people to define russia's feature support to the conclusion about the sufficiency or insufficiency of parties is an area of responsibility for the russian authorities not for international organizations if they monitor the quality

of elections and violations that's one thing but the issue of the country's political system is none of their business they will soon be telling us how to write our constitution the president of it is also said that all the claims and allegations of violations and forward are going to be fully investigated with the very last of the votes are still being counted in the final results are expected in a couple of days but it's pretty clear what the final outcome is going to be there were no surprises that united russia came out in the latest communist party coming second at the. russia and the liberal democratic policy for now they said no surprises the united russia with us but that was a surprise that they failed to break through that psychological percentage barrier fifty percent of those the two thirds close to change the majority it already does talk about the compromises that again to have to be made in the future of the united russia and the opposition parties as well certainly that drop in public

support and the protest movements with seeing over the last couple of days have been seen as why do a fraction of the shift in political mood among status here in the country all russian foreign minister has also reacted to washington's criticism of the election he's on his way to brussels for a russian nato summit aussies to sell said it is their forces so of course leave it to her now tessa the kremlin has already said the election is the russian people's business and they one else has wanted. to this. well first of all of the words that he added were in response to hillary clinton's words calling the elections in russia neither free nor fair and she also expressed her concerns about the results as she called for a full investigation into the matter now a foreign minister sergey lavrov had said that by using the always seen as a platform to express those grievances referring to the russian elections was a disrespect to the o. a c.

simply because that wasn't for him the place for such opinions to be expressed that he did question the intentions of hillary clinton. but on the most resilient regrettably some of my colleagues prefer to use this platform to make statements which have nothing to do with. this was exactly the case with hillary clinton who apparently came here for the sole purpose of scoring points with voters in america she left after making her speech and many other ministers left early as well which only underlines the critical condition of the. people to see because it's going well actually also made reference to the a protest in moscow comparing that kind of action appear with the o.e.c.d. is not a place for rallies like the places in moscow where people came out to voice their grievances and then walk away he also said that if the us would have problems with the results of the russian elections they should have gone straight to the kremlin

so that they would be able to settle it bilaterally instead of bringing it on to an international level another thing he pointed out is the state of the west to see that it is in a messy messy state and that it is weak at this point and he claims that some of the countries are deliberately trying to keep it weak so that it's easier to manipulate those are the words of foreign minister sergey lavrov and again he is on his way to brussels for a meeting with a nato russia nato meeting and of course the sticking point that has been going on for a long time is the issue of the missile defense system the european miss. well defense system which is of course a facilitated by the u.s. the nato shield that russia has not been satisfied with the response so far russia still has not gotten any legally binding guarantees assuring at the. defense systems are not directed towards russia and the reaction of russia so far has been to step up its own capabilities and also has warned that it may be forced to launch quote a modern weapon systems in europe if the u.s.

does not take its concerns seriously also especially since the two countries have the start treaty. to reduce nuclear arsenal so this is sort of of an agreement between the two countries so again this is a sticking point that definitely will be discussed here in brussels thanks. for us live from brussels. of course we are closely following the aftermath of sunday's elections and the protests that have been there taking place in russia's capital our you tube channel has lined up the latest videos all of what's happening but also find updates on our website on r.t. dot com and while there tell us what you think about the protests here in russia. this hour so far almost a third of you see it all as a wal-mart a bigger protest after next brings presidential election slightly fewer of us into the rallies and nothing more than just the dissatisfied people twenty one percent

put it down to being the nature of the developing civil society and the rest of us saying it's politicians lobbying for attention well tell us how you see it all do you log on to r.t. dot com to have your say on this issue also still ahead for you this hour. the russian markets are flat today after yesterday's negative reaction was market analysis and business in about fifteen minutes. now the euro zone 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 e.u. leaders are expected to poor over the french and german leaders ideas to revise the lisbon treaty the two thousand and nine agreement which reorganized how the entire works president sarkozy and chancellor merkel want titled euro zone controls and the power to impose cuts on bailed out members greece at the epicenter of the

crisis has just approved the next two years also there are three measures bass's of cannot support the song it's too little too late. 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. the 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 interests 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 two economic powerhouses germany and france there isn't real and see the huge of 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 project 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 no the use rescue strategy has been based on patching up the weakest economy with bailouts which some say is merely a band-aid solution and the wrong medicine for a terminally ill patient. to save the eurozone however. trying to rearrange the

chairs on a sinking ship the fiscal union queue 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 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 prison a dilemma that 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. and if there's one thing that's been repeatedly called food during the draw now you're a crisis of leadership frank scheffler from germany's free democratic party says this tiny leaders took full responsibility for their economies and more on that in about twenty minutes time here on our. well let's get a view now from inside the euro zone and talk to danish m.p. morten messerschmidt who's in brussels for us this diminishment meant that for joining us here on r.t. germany and france are looking towards a rebound treaty by next march but britain's threatening to veto anything that might jeopardize its economy so will merkel and sarkozy realistically have enough

support from the other states concerned. well here in brussels the only thing that's on the institution's mind is that they want to make this treaty change with little influence from the member states or several possible what they fear the most of course is that they have to change the treaty a way that gives up serenity and thereby. find themselves in referenda around member countries they will for all measure they will void to have any referendum or contact with the general population what so ever and that's what the what the work is about these days that's why we have this morning heard this around poit our elected president claiming that now you could make these changes even without changing the very wording of the treaty could be done by a protocol now on paper the title fiscal controls a burden and paris won't seem sensible enough how can that actually work though among such historically diverse nations it won't work that's the point here the

very cause for the for the catastrophic economies in the south of europe is the euro and mean we have these countries which are now fixed in a currency with a rate which is not accepted into their economy put it to their level of. for competitiveness and therefore these countries are suffering under the years of the euro and you have it doesn't matter how much power more power you give to brussels or to pirlo to paris you will never solve this problem as long as these currencies . these countries are within a currency that doesn't fit their economy that doesn't fit their society so the only solution here is actually to set these countries free to make them real nationalize their currency policy to get them in a position where they can devalue aid and they are by respect their economy any attempt got us of how much money regardless of how much power russell is using

spending or claiming this will not solve the problem because the cause for the problem is the euro now as well as the difference in history and say see you know make stages. lack of care he's the leadership is also often blamed for dragging out this year a debt crisis but i can centralizing get more power in brussels help tackle that as . well depends on which sort of leadership we're talking about i'm a fundamental democrat and i think that most europeans would like to define themselves as such but the dilemma here is that each time we talk about leadership from brussels it means that unelected people actually lead to countries unelected people to tell the voters what to do these governments around that have actually been elected are now under control by the bureaucrats here from the bust process and if that's what we mean by having more leadership i will certainly refrain from that i would certainly say let's go the other way round we have now in europe governments that were elected that have been put under administration by the

bureaucrats in brussels that not democracy that's not leadership that's a failure of democracy that's the downfall of the european idea yes i think it's a shame to see that greece the greeks invented the democracy now they have been the first country to be put under administration because of this failed dream that was the euro so yes. we do need leaders that bear a bold enough to say the obvious that the euro has failed but that's certainly not going to be the leaders of brussels that's going to be the leaders of the member states of athens. this been met reed and even of copenhagen at some time when on avoidable cannot be neglected anymore when you mention greece in portugal there and that's talk more about them part of the plans would include being able to force a cut already bailed out state so where does that leave the like greece portugal and ireland in in orchestrating their own recovery. where the problem is that the various analysis years wrong i mean the problem for the southern european countries

is not the debt level the debt level is the mere symptom of the problem because the problem is that the in a currency that doesn't fit their economy and when you have of a famed currency that's too strong or too expensive for you or for your economy you can't export your goods and you kind of i don't know you can produce more work and you can't create growth so the deficit level is actually only the symptom of the problem here and even though we might cut fifty percent some times and we've done it once they can do it twice and third in the future as well regardless of how many times they will do that it won't solve the problem because the problem is the euro the debt is only the symptom of this illness and came as a message missed i'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there danish and hear what message talking to us live from brussels many thanks. many more updates and analysis on line few at r.t. dot com of course anytime you like here's just some of what we're covering few there at the moment mission failed american attempts to bring on a round from the skies a downed starter a cia spy drone with down potentially delivering some top secret information to

tehran in the process. also online the toxic terror records of the leaking from japan's stricken nuclear reactor forty five tons of radioactive water may have seen into the ocean we have eggs but this is that all to dot com. to libya now in the new government that has valves to see all armed militias out of the capital by the end of the month tripoli has been flooded with former rebels ever since they stormed into of it colonel gadhafi in august so that it takes his killing at libyans of rebuilding their lives but as the exam the boy king reports challenges still lie ahead. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of

tripoli now have to get used to a new alarm until the city of two million people has an extensive rooster population and the birds have all but three place to rifle chatter as the herald's of the million dollar. there is 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 deliberate and believe it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface it seems that the normal life in tripoli has been restored to the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face life in few months ago already has its fountains up and running but the new leafy is still facing the danger of running in the shallow waters of international politics much of sadness remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and up if it has already

become a major down part of the revolutionary spirit we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the get out here regime a former angie nearing student he joined two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom because at the beginning everything was absolutely peaceful there were no guns we want to freedom and fairness put them the dictator used going 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 country cruising around on a saturday night goodness. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square. i mean 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 get his rule had told libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations in the new york authorities is very high. i have big plans for my life in a year or so god willing i want to finish my education get a good job and save enough money to marry it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies i'm not sorry. 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 do american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bright not least because it's also very blurred so we go artsy tripoli. ok here's the news just an hour from afghanistan a roadside bomb attack in the cell has killed twelve civilians and left six others wounded the explosion occurred when a minivan was hit by a bomb in the town of kandahar well this comes in a day after a sunni muslim terror group in pakistan admitted double suicide bombings that killed sixty people in the country on that day were the victims of tuesday's class was shiite muslims who were 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. led alliance is reducing its troop presence ahead of a scheduled pullout by twenty fourteen right now it faces a supply crisis neighboring pakistan border to nato after the alliance killed dozens of its troops last month british pakistani author terry thinks the air strike was to liberate a poorly calculated. the in you know it was a caucus on the trip course because they had been given the maps knew it wasn't a mistake. it bombed it and it created a complete crisis within the pakistani military and that kind of creates lot to do you stabilizing the one institution member concrete which has held it together for good or for bad. 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 i'm not sure i can quite

believe that it's not going to be easy to. be clear i share it with locals all cries by washington or whether it was a local decision i don't know well whoever did it didn't do the united states only phrase but it's. more world news now one to the border between israel and the gaza strip where an israeli airstrike has hit a group of militants leaving one person dead and several injured as were fierce fighting erupted on tuesday after israeli troops moved into a buffer zone east of gaza city palestinian militants in gauge them in a gun battle which was followed by israeli aircraft firing a missile them israel's military claims it was targeting insurgents scorns who were preparing to fire rockets into the south of the country. yemen's prime minister whose country's on the verge of civil war says the interim government will. stay

there been there we have clashed as between the military and anti regime protesters resulting in the deaths of more than thirty people in the city of tire as trouble began ten months ago with position back protests and it forced the president laid to quit he's now signed a deal to have all the power to the vice president. to us to head for you how your government debts reverberating around the world economies we discussed the risks and a possible way hours after we've had the business update with you via. phone do very well welcome to the program the russian markets are trading flat this hour after falling the most in two weeks on tuesday analysts say reports of street protests in moscow pushed investors into cash. is that the r.t.l. stock exchange. it's been a roller coaster ride today markets kicked off the trading session higher then they

made a u. turn slipping back into the red and now as you mentioned markets are flats now it's important to mention of why this is all happening at all sort of after sunday's parliamentary election when we saw a trough in support for the woman who lied to the russia party and the markets extended their losses even further after prime minister vladimir putin said he would push up the government if we won the presidential elections in march now investors are mainly concerned over the impact any substantial political upheaval could have on major state owned companies or analysts we spoke with to say that if tension continues pushing markets could drop by as much as a ten percent but others say that the drop is merely a reflection of fear by international investors rather than the boston ones and of course other factors play him into the volatility that was seen on the russian market is of russia's continuing capital flight which it could take five billion dollars this year and of course is

a choice and in europe is not helping matters ratings agencies that emperors has warned that it could make a blanket downgrade all the euro zone countries if a point is e.u. summit fails to agree on the franco german plan to impose fiscal discipline that forced the currency blog so we have capital flight election jitters and of course the e.u. debt crisis all playing into the volatility that we're seeing on the russian markets. so look at those figures off to choose a steep decline the russian market saw moving between gains and losses says we've just reported that my six on the r.t.s. have now slipped into red let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the might since gas form is the top to climb the hands shutting one percent coral is lower about the same nor nickel is higher at any point five percent. european stock markets open high on wednesday after. fourteen the financial times that european officials are in talks to

potentially double the five power of the eurozone bailout fund. and finally current prices a mix as investors a staying on the sidelines ahead of the summit of european leaders the flights wages currently trading at over one hundred one dollars per barrel while brant is hovering at one hundred ten dollars per barrel. that's all we have time for now you are up to date you can find more stories online r.t.u. dot com slash business that's the web site.

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