find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on our. mixed feelings over the election with both supporters and critics of the winning united russia party continuing their rallies three days after russia's parliamentary poll . a moscow response to washington's severe criticism of the vote foreign minister sergei lavrov accuses his counterpart hillary clinton of using a platform of the organization for security and cooperation in europe to score political points at home. plus a last ditch attempt to save the euro and the plan sparks heated debate over whether a proposed change to e.u. treaties will really help cure the ailing eurozone.

helos eleven pm wednesday night here in moscow when i was kevin zero in on our top story tonight at r.t. for the past two days russia's seen dramatically mixed reactions at home and abroad in the aftermath of sunday's parliamentary election both pro and anti government demonstrations have been gathering in the capital for rallies over the results of the parliamentary poll we got the latest from peter all of. well the political reaction to sunday's parliamentary elections which saw united russia take the majority of seats in the state duma has been coming in from both here in russia and elsewhere the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev said the results of sunday's election should be a nolde he called the elections unfair and accuse the government of failing to listen to the people now some of the international observers who were watching the

elections have been critical of the electoral process and that resulted in a stern response from president dmitri medvedev. a 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 right our constitution will go it could constitute he said elsewhere the israeli foreign minister has been speaking about it after talking to his international observers from his country that was sent here to monitor the elections and he said after talking to them he's confident that the elections were free fair and transparent so a mixed bag of reaction from him here in russia and abroad to sunday's parliamentary vote well on wednesday evening we saw a very small number of government protesters filename a square in the center of moscow now there were several people detained there this

is due to the fact that it wasn't an all through eyes meet but they would dwarf the numbers by the mounted police that were there as well as journalists and cameras now earlier on wednesday we saw a rally from pro-government protesters that was in central moscow as well around five thousand people turning out there but nothing really on wednesday compared to the scenes we saw on tuesday night where there were a lot of both pro-government. and those who oppose the electoral the electoral vote the parliamentary vote from sunday know during those protests on tuesday night out to your palm is squared the center of town. we saw over five hundred people detained their noses all building up to what's expected to be the largest demonstration to date on saturday we're hearing on social networking sites that many people expected to turn out well it all in the revolution square which is just

next to the kremlin to demonstrate on saturday of course we're following to get more now on russia's reaction to the american criticism of the election process this time it came from the foreign minister sergei lavrov hillary clinton alyea slammed the russian balance of the meeting of the organization for security cooperation in europe thinking of that side of the story today is a test or a sailor now. 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 i was in the place for such opinions to be expressed so 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 last early as

well which only underlines the critical condition of the. day also made reference to the a protest in moscow comparing that kind of action that. 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 sort of 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 deliberately trying to keep it weak so that it's easier to manipulate those are the words of foreign minister sergey lavrov. opposition leaders in russia of alleged there were regularities in the election but state duma deputy robert schlegel says even if the allegations are true small scale electoral violations

couldn't have influenced the bigger overall result. just to pre-board if we suppose that sitting in moscow to five hundred thousand ballots was stopped for united russia it would mean to seek to the dube that's just ridiculous of course there are some irregularities in some places but it's impossible to falsify twenty to thirty percent of the vote maybe two or three percent it's possible the number of irregularities cannot bring into question the result of the revolution the whole country because the not very big caliphate the final outcome could of course each case will be investigated the hysteria has been surrounding them to the rallies that we've seen on the internet to the media for being supported by leading foreign t.v. channels and proofs before anything happens they will already be selling some of this big shot took some of the very biased approach to reporting abilities what used to it no one has the illusions about media freedom in the west we understand very well that we have their own editorial policies they want to show everything you just want to hurt. you so over here what do you think about this story that so

we're asking on the website tonight to what do you think about these recent protests we've seen over the past couple of days because you can see in this page shot this is what you're telling is about a third of you see there's a warm up for bigger protests after the next spring's presidential election by the same number of exactly the same eyes in this say it's just quote a few dissatisfied people behind the rallies end quote fifth see it as a sign of a developing civil society the rest say it's just politicians lobbying for attention tell us what you think r.t. dot com. in other news an occupy protest camp has been cleared out in san francisco with around one hundred tents being taken down police arrived at the encampments incentive in the central square shortly after one am local time they gave the campus just a few minutes warning to pack up and leave before sweeping in to clear the site seventy people were arrested and some of the protesters belongings were reportedly disposed of there says police face an investigation into claims of excessive force

being used during the nationwide crackdown on the antique. movement is about is more important. when the very people employed to protect americans. leave thousands with bruised bodies. burned i was. locked behind bars for tasting their own blood. the land of the free adopts an entirely new image problem. with the world works for you so. far you've joined the force. from. the 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 very. sad i know something a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent when i was half. a world 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 knew that 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 an 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 we call upon the iranian government to abide by the international obligations. it 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 be meanwhile at home as dissent 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 disrupt do you know or challenging is 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 town tick tock tick for black nature trapped in the foundation of american principles such as democracy and human rights that leave the same principles you ask you. all other countries about are enough for you parts of new york still to come on this program new expectations from a new government as libya gets to the streets of weapons out of the bloody civil war and then we look at the people's hopes for the future in a new country our cameras and reporters there. before that russia doesn't want an arms race but is being pushed towards it that's the view of russia's chief of general stuff who said the army has become deploying its forces in response to nato missile shield in eastern europe the alliance refused to either build a joint shield with moscow or provide guarantees it wouldn't target russia which

has some untoward activists say puts the whole world in danger of renewed nuclear arms race now. this is them won't provide any measure of protection against weapons in iran or north korea that don't exist yet they might in the future but if they do they'll be able to defeat this system it's raising questions about what the us long term intentions are and where where we may be headed in future and i think it's a very good thing that russia is taking a harder line on this now i wish it would have done it sooner but better late then then later. because it was certainly the united states continues to go down this path that the world has had a great trouble the real reasons that russia are concerned about this have to do with the implications for space and with the implications were future arms raised russia and not want to get into. online tonight at r t dot com was one of the stories i got more background on and these two the search for flight planets is

finally been fruitless nasa claims it's found the world's sibling there it is six hundred light years away there know what it's made of for the do now it's around twenty two degrees c. that think there could be life maybe maybe not online also it's beginning to feel a bit like christmas well certainly as we see in these pictures a huge crowd of scientists have ditched the slaves the skis and snowboards there they go as they get into seasonal spirit in the u.s. nice to see it on our website party dot com. time's running out for eurozone leaders to save the single currency as they prepare for eleventh hour talks in brussels germany and france are pushing to change the treaties to create that fiscal union and introduce tougher budget rules however the european come seoul president believes that they can achieve the very same goals without altering existing treaties which would need lengthy ratification processes and the british prime minister's wall that he wouldn't agree to anything that could damage the u.k.'s role in europe's marketplace meantime credit ratings giants

standard and poor's has added to the sense of urgency for threatening to downgrade fifteen euro zone countries as well as the bailout fund has put a financial analyst telling us that the e.u. countries would chose not to adopt the euro has made exactly the right choice. not only did we do we not use the euro we have a specific opt out which was negotiated quite possibly at some negotiating cost back in mass to act but we have long been warning of the dangers of progressing along economic and monetary union without all the necessary safeguards attached to it and now we're in a situation where thankfully we're out of it but we've been highlighting the dangers for a very long time obviously you have to trade and facilitating the exchange between countries by using the same currency but you also have the political objective and even if the one starts to hit the shores you still have the aspirations for the other fundamentally i suspect over the medium to long term going to be a loss of

a couple of the eurozone countries how that's going to be managed is is anyone's guess and more attention focused on a core group of of eurozone which countries could be saved as it were and the leaders are also expected to accelerate the setting of a new bailout fund to run in parallel with the existing facility the u.s. treasury secretary said he'd not be giving extra money to boost the new cash reserve but stressed the eurozone does need more reforms to tackle the crisis but it's easy got his can offer reports now the summit coming up on thursday and friday it may be too late to save the euro. it's 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 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 u.s. readings agency standard and poor's downgrade eurozone members 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 real and see the huge of the euro zone's ills 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 term in me ill patient. to save the euro zone however it. was trying to arrange shares thinking ship 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 that blocks 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 oh well 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 the people have taken the wrong decisions from the very beginning but. 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 feel you to stem the mounting difficulties puts the 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. also around the world tonight a roadside bomb attack in southern afghanistan killed nineteen civilians left a number of others wounded the blast how many. in the city of kandahar that comes just a day after the funeral of fifty nine shia muslims killed in twin see. side bombings a pakistan based extremist group has claimed responsibility afghan president hamid

karzai has vowed to confront the pakistani government over the bombing. in an interview with the us t.v. network a.b.c. syria's president ordering the killing of anti regime protesters were sheryll assad added that only a quote crazy person would target his own people he admitted that mistakes had been made could blame the violence on armed criminal gangs according to un reports almost four thousand people have been killed since the uprising began ten months ago. egypt's new cabinet spring small and with a key post of interior minister going to the capital's x. police chief it comes after nearly two weeks of delays reportedly caused by problems in finding a suitable candidate for the role the cabinet replaces an interim administration which resigned in the wake of deadly clashes between security officers and protesters last month. mexican authorities say they foiled a plan to smuggle several family members of the former libyan leader into the country including one of his sons saadi gaddafi the mexican interior secretary said

the plot involved a criminal gang of international dimensions the ring had reportedly been buying up safe houses using falsified names and documents in preparation for the family's arrival studied been held under house arrest in the jail since fleeing that we're in september. and staying in libya the new government set an end of year deadline now for former revolutionaries to clear the capital of armed militia groups and their weapons which it says are no longer needed the city has been flooded with former rebels ever since they stormed in with a massed push to oust colonel gaddafi in august since the dictator's death libyans have been trying to start to rebuild their lives as. reports know many challenges that 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 over to replace rifles chatter as they 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 deliberate could leave its very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface of things that the normal life in tripoli has been restored a 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 leaf it is still facing the danger of running in wrong this 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 front lines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the get out here regime

a former engineering 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 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. and it's not like he was underprivileged under gadhafi regime he simply 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 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 in the new york the region is very high is that 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 the national economies i'm not so. 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 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 bride not least because it's also very blurred and somewhat artsy tripoli. away if you very shortly a currency on the critical list we look at whether the euro was just too big to fail speak story before that that we got business into being true now. well welcome to business and see the construction of an oil link between the black sea and the igi and is on the verge of falling apart that's after bulgaria decided to leave the joint project with russia and greeks the one point three billion dollars pipeline is intended to transport russian and caspian oil bypassing turkey's crowded boss first and dardanelles channels and thus saving shipping costs though garia says the project will not work under the current agreement will now have to pay eight point two million dollars to its partners in costs russia's

pipeline operator transnet says construction could still go ahead but will require new negotiations. coming to the markets and european stock markets open higher on one slip but ended on a negative notes despite a report the financial times that said european officials are in talks to potentially double the firepower of the euro zone bailout fund investors often now sitting on the sidelines so after tuesday's steep decline russian markets descended deeper into the red on wednesday with the r.t.s. losing one point two percent on unfavorable external and internal factors we look at the main movers energy shares were down among them luke oil and gas from fairing bit better than the markets first lies a producer who are all kali was gaining for out most of the session but ended down the company's revenues reached three point two billion dollars in the first nine months of the year mark rubenstein from i've seen measurable graphs of the day. today's a mixed day and they're furious as for that yes there were stores significant correction in the market and which was caused partly by their increase of the

political risks as you see very general westerners and the other part was of profit taking which followed a very strong performance during the previous week so today again we tried to go higher this morning and then the sellers came in they were basically sort of a going flat today but i think there is a significant chance that the market could move for the reminder of this week on the expectations of their successful european union summit that is starting tomorrow. the privatization program in russia could get off to a rapid start next year the boss of the country's biggest lenders burbank says it will be ready to go to the market as soon as the global financial situation stabilizes herman graph is also a bit about the bags prospects and twenty twelve saying it will be difficult for the sector as a whole but his firm will outperform the market so we should good wishes it 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 it's not critical for you should grow to about twenty 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. and investors and high tech shares could get tax benefits and russia and you could have a ministry has prepared a draft bill to exempt them from income tax the benefits will apply to long term investors buying into small or medium sized russian firms which are valued no more than three hundred twenty million dollars tax holidays are part of the government's plan to spur investment into innovative companies. so for now the headlines are next on r.t. to stay with us. up

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