for and against both supporters and critics of the winning new line to make their voices heard rumblings of the sunday's parliamentary election. and moscow respond to washington the big criticism of the foreign minister sergei lavrov accuses his counterpart hillary clinton of using her platform at the organization for security cooperation in europe political points at a. class on last ditch i'd say you're right when a chance for me to debate over whether it's changed the e.u. treaty has been really help here a link here is

a. very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow a pro-government rallies underway in the russian capital organized by united russia party supporters. opposition march on tuesday ended with a five hundred arrests the protesters angry with the results of sunday's elections complained of alleged that all fraud and clashed with police. well you've got the pro-government rally protesters turning out at the moment in central moscow. a night continued protests where we saw thousands of people taking to the streets both pro-government and opposition protest this now we saw some of those clashes with riot police happening again and

a large number of arrests made last night is around six hundred arrests amongst some well known opposition figures and members of the opposition parties as well not just happening in most a lot so we will see saw protest movements in st petersburg and again arrests made as we said the rallies continuing today you know that pro-government movement voicing their opinions and the post-election debates we see hillary clinton also waiting with her opinion saying that she didn't consider russia's elections free all. those comments with. her he described them as an exceptional. 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. he said that one of the main things that

the opposition protesters have been demonstrating about is what they claim work violations in the electoral system i know there were around seven hundred international observers to the whole process and it was certainly hope that their involvement in the whole process were gay some way to easing concerns and criticisms and president medvedev has said that all the claims and over allegations of violations in the protests are going to be fully investigated or russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has also strong back to washington i have of course is most of the election process hillary clinton hit out of the russian ballot at a meeting of the organization for security cooperation in europe that's all syria has he tells. 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.s.c. simply because that wasn't for him that wasn't the place for such opinions to be

expressed so he did question the intentions of hillary clinton but. 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 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. but it's also made reference to the a protest in moscow comparing that kind of action to. 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.

it is in a messy messy state and that it is weak at this point and he claims that some of the countries 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 missile 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 has not gotten any legally binding guarantees assuring at the. defense systems are not directed towards russia the reaction of russia so far has been to step up its own capabilities so again this is a sticking point it definitely will be discussed on thursday here in brussels. well for another international perspective on the election let's talk live now to get a call from the new democracy party of greece many thanks for joining us here on

r.t. so we've heard as we've been seeing these very strong comments from hillary clinton responding to the protesters saying that she didn't think that the elections in russia here were free or fair how much her right do you think one country has to make judgments like that about another country's internal election process. well i call them. but what is clear is that there was a. clear victory over. the loss of election so there is a strong message by the people because. the sort of the power of good. was. the quite significant but i think there is no doubt the boat through which he has the vast majority of russia. let's look at your country now greece it's why do you go does the group of technocrats who are now in power in greece not follow these huge problems that your country see you know after the global downturn russia

has been one of the few countries to actually get to flying throughout these financially type event times what do you think that tells you about russia's internal workings. i didn't i didn't hear you very clearly when i was repeat the question we were talking i wanted to ask you about the fact that your country has seen huge up peoples during the global downturn and that's russia's out she'd been one of the few countries to actually have remained financially a flight through it all what do you make of that. but i think that russia was better prepared it was so exposed to the world loves the struggle the european economies right most personally for my country greece. is. a must be a strategic ally in our efforts to overcome the crisis. and from the off you point

how do you see russia's relationships in here developing over the next five days. follows my conscious concern of this greece we will soon be in power if the predicts of these are realized in the next elections and we have a strong. clear made it clear that we want to develop relations with russia in the every sector of every possible loss but but also we can't imagine europe without russia russia has a very important role that is a process is a part of europe and must play an important role in future developments case in moscow to called me from the new democracy party of greece many thanks. continuing to follow the repercussions of sunday's elections online our huge channel the latest video of the protests that have been taking place in moscow also live

updates of the situation are there for you on our twitter feed at all marty underscore calm and of course on our web site where we're asking you what you think about the protests or so far as you see it as a warm up a bigger protest after next brings presidential election almost the same number say the rallies and nothing more than just a few dissatisfied people on the face see it as a sign of a developing civil society and the rest say it's just politicians lobbying for attention to tell us what you think and log on to auntie dot com to have your say. now the u.s. department of justice is to look into claims of excessive force used against anti corporate protesters in america an investigation was called for by a congressman who accused police of violating the occupy demonstrations basic rights and while the new york police department says it only made arrests under unlawful conduct and more important i learned how in some cases actions speak

louder than words. when the very people employed to protect americans. leave thousands with bruised bodies. burned eyes. locked behind bars tasting their own blood. the land of the free adopts an entirely new image probably more. work for you. are you going to work. or. not 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 creating confrontation not defusing it. was. a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent was. a word veteran 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're a twenty four year old scott olsen was hospitalized with serious head injuries. in seattle the oldest victim of the police turned paramilitary was an eighty four year 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 called on the iranian government to abide by the international obligations. but has to respect the rights of its own people instead of respecting the rights of his own people. without the chose the path of brutal suppression. innocent civilians were imprisoned and in some cases beaten meanwhile at home as descend in america grows louder many say washington's glasshouse 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 has separated us soldiers from civilian law enforcement has arguably been overeats placed by what's being dubbed

the american militarization of police time top picks for black nature in the foundation of american principles such as to mock the sea and human rights that leave the same principles to ask you. whether it's about are enough or not artsy new york. still to come in the program new expectations from a new government in libya a good deal to clear the streets of weapons up to the bloody civil war ended we look at the people's hopes for the future in a new country. and time is running out for year as they need us to save the single currency is they prepare for an eleventh hour talks in brussels germany and france are pushing to change e.u. treaties to create a fiscal union and introduce tough a budget rules however the european council president believes they can achieve the

same goals without altering existing treaties which would need lengthy ratifications the. prime minister want he wouldn't sign any new treaty at home the u.k. as well in the european market credit ratings giant standard and poor's has added to the sense of urgency i think threaten to downgrade fifteen years in countries and that they now found danish here and he moved methods told r.t. that brussels is taking the reins they're wrapping nations if that's. the dilemma here is that each time we talk about it leadership from brussels it means that unelected people are to lead to countries unelected people are to tell the voters what to do these governments around that have actually been elected are now under control by the bureaucrats here from a 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 here in brussels the only thing that's on the institutions mind is that they want to make this treaty change with as little influence from the member states as ever possible that's why we have this morning heard this around poit our own elected president claiming that now you can make these changes even without changing the very wording of the treaty could be done by a protocol just think it's a shame to see that greece the greeks invented the democracy now they have been the first country to be put on the red ministration because of this failed dream that was the euro so yes we do need leaders that they are appalled 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 of this been met reed and even of copenhagen at some time when the unavoidable cannot be neglected anymore. leaders are also expected to accelerate the setting up of

a new bailout fund to run parallel with the existing facility the u.s. treasury secretary said he would not be giving extra money to boost the new cash reserves but stressed there is a need for more force to tackle the crisis but says it's going off reports there's a summit becoming too late to save. its crisis time for the euro with a vital e.u. leaders summit in brussels which could determine the feet of the single currency there has to be a quick and 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 the u.s. readings agency standard and poor's down reading the eurozone members state 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 eurozone 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 while centralization is the root cause of the problem. up to know 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.

however. here's. the fiscal union q 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 be 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 prison of eleven 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 i feel your to stem the mounting difficulties puts this 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. is going off r.t. germany. well the new libyan government has set an end of year deadline for former revolutionaries to clear the capital of the all necessary presence of armed militia groups and their weapons of why say the new leaders tripoli will be a lot down the city's been flooded with former rebels ever since they stormed into al scannell gadhafi in august since that it take his death libyans have been starting to rebuild their lives but as osama boy reports many challenges still lie ahead. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of tripoli now have to get

used to a new alarm tone 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 new dawn. 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 deliberate glebe it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface of things that the normal whole life in tripoli has been restored a 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 in this shallow waters of international politics much of 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 angie nearing student who 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 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 rebels of the country's new heroes popular with women and the public at large if not with a rifle by his side mohamed would be like a twenty seven year old in any other country cruising around on a saturday night good. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square meter have. 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 and health care under 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 good of 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 marty it's all become possible for us now and in national economies and not stop being i think the fact that they were willing to

destabilize a regime that had demonstrably one of the highest living standards in in north africa goes to show the fact that they were not so interested in what benefited the people as a whole and 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 and somewhat artsy tripoli. what if we get to visit our website for more stories an in-depth analysis here's a look at what you can find right now at r.t. dot com the so wanted to find them freed is now claims it's found all world siblings six hundred light years away. it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas a huge crowd a sounders of sleighs for skis and snowboards as they get into the seasonal spirit in the u.s. find out more at all dot com. and now some more news from around the globe this hour and

a roadside bomb attack in southern afghanistan has killed nineteen civilians and after a number of others wounded at the blast occurred when a minivan was hit by a bomb in the city of kandahar when this comes just a day after the funeral of fifty nine people killed in the twin suicide bombings of pakistan biggs extremist group claimed responsibility the victims of tuesday's explosions were worshippers marking a major shiite muslim religious holiday the taliban which is condemned the violence claims native orchestrate the attacks to create an excuse to stay in afghanistan. results from the presidential election the democratic republic of congo been delayed by forty eight hours triggering further claims of vote rigging at least eighteen people have reportedly been killed in election related violence thousands have fled the capital and dissipating a bloody backlash if current president joseph kabila is returned to power the

opposition have rejected preliminary results which put out almost fifty percent of the vote. former israeli president moshe katsav has been sent to a high security prison to serve a seven year sentence for rape and other sexual offenses he was found guilty last december of raping a former female employee while serving as a cabinet minister he was also convicted of sexually harassing two other women while he was president have maintained their innocence and accused the court of ignoring crucial evidence. about the headline shortly before that they will get a business update but to me. that as a lone welcome to business artsy markets here in russia are struggling for direction after dropping around four percent the previous session the big event of the week is the e.u. summit on friday investors are speculating whether the eurozone will push for

federalized superstate to deal with its debt crisis meanwhile china warns it's running out of steam and to top it all political tensions here in russia unsettling the domestic market not easy but in the course of it is that the stock exchange force. 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 flat 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 drop in support for the ruling tonight at 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 ten percent but others

say that the drop is merely a reflection of fear by international investors rather than the last ones and of course other factors play him into the volatility that we're seeing on the russian market is of russia's continuing capital flight which could be table five billion dollars this year and of course the situation in europe is not helping matters ratings agencies that emperors has warned that it could make a blanket downgrade all the goods all countries if the point is that you sum it fails to agree on the franco german plan to impose fiscal discipline that cross the currency block 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. why that was monita cos there were posing there from the obvious stock exchange going to there was figures in more detail what's going on right now now after tuesday's steep decline russian markets are moving tween gains and losses of

his and more towards losses this hour my sense is they don't have a set the r.t.s. free quarter of a cent look at the main movers on the my six main losers off and as the shares are due to a declining oil we'll look at that in just a second gas from dow now one third of a percent lukoil more than half of the. one of the a big exceptions of that is first make carly it's up more than one percent company's revenues reached the three point two billion dollars in the first nine months of this year. european stock markets opened high on wednesday still there that's after report in the financial times that european officials are in talks to potentially double the firepower of the eurozone bailout fund the dax is up half a percent this hour and the crude prices are heading down this hour that they're finding it hard to go for resistance levels really a light sweet still at hundred one dollars per barrel we haven't seen it for a long time over two and brant is that one hundred ten and

a half on worries about global demand of the despite the fact that u.s. crude in the trees appear to be falling according to the american petroleum institute by five million barrels. passive an hour headlines are next on our team with alice to save us. down the official. your i phone or i pod touch from the us.