tonight 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. and moscow responds to washington 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 the new treaties will really help cure the ailing europe so.

welcome this is r t with me kevin oh it's midnight here now in moscow and first this hour for the past two days russia's been seeing dramatically mixed reactions at home and abroad in the aftermath of sunday's parliamentary election both pro and anti-government demonstrations have been gathered in the capital for rallies over the result of the parliamentary poll let's get the latest from artie's 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 there will soon be telling us how to write our constitution going it could constitute he said no elsewhere the israeli foreign minister has been speaking about 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 filenames square in the center of

moscow now there were several people detained there this is due to the fact that it wasn't but all through our eyes meet 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 out. and those who oppose the electoral the electoral vote the parliamentary vote from sunday now during those protests on tuesday night are to your family a square the center of town. we saw over five hundred people detained their noses all building up to what's expected to be the largest head demonstration to date on saturday we're hearing on social networking sites that many people expected to turn

out on revolution square which is just next to the kremlin to demonstrate on saturday party's paper all over well more now on russia's reaction to american criticism of the election process this time from foreign minister sergei lavrov hillary clinton earlier slammed the russian ballad of meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe picking a left side of the story is out he's test. 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 u.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 on the most resilient regrettably some of my colleagues prefer to use this platform to make statements which have nothing to do with the agenda 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 meeting her speech and many other ministers last early as well which only underlines the critical condition of the. day also made reference to be 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 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 have alleged there were irregularities in the election the state duma deputy says

even if the allegations are true small scale electoral violations could live influence the overall bigger result. used to pre-board if we suppose that city in moscow five hundred thousand ballots was stuffed for united russia it would mean two seats in 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 is possible the number of irregularities cannot bring into question the result of the votes in the whole country because a not very big and cannot affect the final outcome but of course each case will be investigated the hysteria that's been surrounding the vote and the rallies that we've seen on the internet and in the media are being supported by leading foreign t.v. channels and produce before anything happens they will already be saying someone is being shot or something like that very biased approach to reporting abilities are used to it that no one has any illusions about media freedom in the west we understand very well that they have their own editorial policies they want to show everything and just want to write. their. stories now tonight in occupy protest

camps being cleared out in san francisco with around one hundred tents being taken down place arrived at the encampment in a central square shortly after one am local time and gave the campus just a few minutes warning to pack up and leave before sweeping in the clear the site seventy people have been arrested and some of the protesters belongings were reportedly disposed of that says police face an investigation in the claims of excessive force being used during the nationwide crackdown on the anti corporate movement is artie's when important. 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 for the.

right. guy throwing the fourth. roy the. dog walker. 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 diffusing it. only with. a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent and was.

a world veteran 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 that it has to respect the rights of its own people instead of respecting the rights of his own. without the chose the path of brutal suppression . innocent civilians were imprisoned in some cases beaten meanwhile at home as

dissent in america grows louder many say why. 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 their freedom to interfere with them in any way to be in any way disruptive to or challenging it's of 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 military zeeshan police town to hot chicks before a black major crowd in the foundation of american principles such as democracy and human rights incidentally the same principles you ask you. all other countries about are enough for you artsy new york. still to come in the program tonight new expectations from a new government as libya gears up to clear the streets of weapons after the bloody

civil war ended we look at the people's hopes now for the future of their new country. russia doesn't want an arms race but is being pushed towards it that's the view of russia's chief of general staff he says the army's been deploying its forces in response to nato missile shield in eastern europe the alliances secretary general meantime has said that nato is ready to continue dialogue with moscow over the plans so far the alliance has refused though to consider a joint shield with moscow or provide guarantees it wouldn't target russia which as some antiwar activists say puts the whole world in danger of renewed nuclear arms race. system won't provide any measure of protection against weapons in iran or north korea that they don't exist yet they might in the future but if they do will be able to defeat this system it's raising questions about what

the u.s. long term intentions are and where where we may be headed in the 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 and then later. because certainly if the united states continues to go down this path the world is out of the trouble the real reasons that russia are concerned about this you have to do with the implications for space and with the implications for a future arms race that russia does not want to get into. they've got a web site twenty four seventh's running the place for more stories more in-depth analysis all the stories the daily chance to have your say you've got to poll the body from the elections in russia if you want to take part in mobility dot com other stories they developed search for earth like planets is finally borne fruit is nasa claims it's found our world sibling it's a long way away those six hundred light years away but the saying is temperature about twenty two degrees on the surface there could be life maybe maybe not find

out more in line from us and it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas isn't it a huge crowd of scientists have ditched their sleighs friskies and snowboarders they get into the seasonal spirit in the us would want to cheat yourself a bit with that that's at r t v dot com that's what. time is 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 e.u. treaties to create a fiscal union and introduce tougher budget rules however the european it comes president believes that they can achieve the very same goals without altering existing treaties which would need a lot of lengthy ratification the british prime minister to warn that he wouldn't agree to anything which damaged the u.k.'s role in the european market all this credit ratings giant standard and poor's is added to the sense of urgency it's threatening to downgrade fifteen eurozone countries as well as the bailout fund investigative journalist tony gosling told me countries need to return to their own

currencies if they're to escape being ruled by brussels. i think ultimately it's quite clear to me the euro has been a failure and that the individual countries if they want to retain their sovereignty as i believe individual countries do then they're going to have to go back to their original country currencies the drachma to the to the etc and what we're discovering here i think is the playing out of a plot which has been going on for the last fifty years or so across europe which is in order to bring in a political union control from the center an undemocratic fashion of course we know that brussels is very very little democracy involved in brussels which is a kind of european dictatorship and what bothers me is that actually with we're already seeing this with greece and italy now run by goldman sachs effectively dictatorships as for what's going to happen the end of the week it's anyone's guess but i think we'll have another fudge these these big euro summit seem to me rather

like press gangs where you've got a bunch of financial people just trying to bully our political representatives into signing on the dotted line or else. more news from around the world this hour a roadside bomb attack in southern afghanistan killed nineteen civilians a left a number of others wounded the blast happened when a minivan was hit by a bomb in the city of kandahar it comes just a day after the funeral of fifty nine shia muslims killed in twin suicide bombings a pakistan based extremist group 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 has denied all during the killing of the regime protested the show assad added that only a quote crazy person would target is own people he admitted that mistakes had been made but blamed the violence on armed criminal gangs according to u.n. reports now almost four thousand people have been killed since the uprising began ten months ago. egypt's new cabinets been sworn in 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 followed a plan to smuggle several family members of a former libyan leader into the country including one of his sons saadi gadhafi the mexican interior secretary said the plot involved a criminal gang of international dimensions the ring is reportedly been buying up safe houses using falsified names and documents in preparation for the family's arrival sardi's been held in the house arrest in the fleeing libya in september. and staying with libya's story the new government is set deadline for former revolutionaries to clear the capital of militia groups and their weapons which it says no longer needed the city's been flooded with former rebels ever since they stormed in with massed push to oust colonel gaddafi in august well since the

dictator's death libyans have been starting to rebuild their lives but as xander boyko reports many challenges 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 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 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 for the last few months ago already has its fountain running but the new leafy field facing the danger of

running in wrong is shallow waters of national politics much for its absence remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies it has already become a major part of the revolution the respect 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 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 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 good years. and it's not like he was under privileged under 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 long awaited 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 taught libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations in the near storage 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 mari it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies i'm not stopping i think the fact that they were willing to destabilize the regime that that had demonstrably one of the highest living standards in north africa goes to show the fact that they were not so interested in what benefited the people as a whole in the first place they were more interested in forming their their economic ties to the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bride not please because it's also very blurred somewhat gart the tripoli. well looks tonight next as you have sleeves rolled up the sleeves and repair to save the euro at a crunch summit in brussels are to his judgment parliamentarian he thinks strategy you so far is doomed frank schaeffer explains why he thinks bailouts for struggling states will be piled knew that some type of older can only ever lead to disaster.

the skies over the european economy continuing to darken how real is the threat of the collapse of the euro zone to try to find an answer to this and some other questions now joined by and then we're off the german parliament from the free democratic party frank schaeffer of mr scheffer thank you very much for joining me

and first of all how would you agree that the efforts by merkel and sarkozy to save the eurozone and are heading in the right direction now i know it's a project that's been designed by those at the top of the european union needs the steps that would bolster the market economy and that would be adjusted so that it could fit into the market economy according to the rules of the market economy if you decide to take on the risks you have to bear the responsibility for these risks the projects that are enforced from the top will not be able to operate under such conditions such projects should work from the bottom up but. your view across and their allies in national governments want to see more fiscal control over national governments more control over their budgets also how much central the the european union meeting or. the european union does not need more centralization excessive centralization has actually been the key problem and the reason that we

are facing the current crisis the euro has been a project of the planning economy developed and been forced from the top the members that have become part of the eurozone project 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 the economy speaks for itself the capital flight is enormous and some analysts say that the situation resembles that in the us before. the crash of brothers how real is the threat of a collapse of yours are now. the threat of a complete collapse of the eurozone is a means that is used by the european states and the banks to blackmail european taxpayers if this pressure is not resisted then the so-called rescue umbrella will have to be extended over and over but every umbrella has its limits of course if greece had announced to default on its glance it would have also had negative

consequences for the other european states but no country in the european union will be able to go on without tough reforms issuing european bonds means that those countries in a stronger economic position have to pay for the trouble was is this the correct price to solve the problem. you know i don't consider this to be a reasonable way to solve the problem i'd like to emphasize once again risks and responsibilities should be indivisible and no additional loans or additional investments can solve the problem but it's not possible to repaint old debts while making more new debts the crucial moment here is for every country to do their own homework we see more and more countries trying to hide from solving their own problems under the umbrella of a bailout measure all these bailout measures only add fuel to the flames and only make the situation in europe worse such countries as greece portugal and possibly

even ireland will not be able to emerge victorious from the current crisis they won't be able to recover the only measure that can help is cutting heavily on state expenditure and other measures are only an attempt to delay the disaster with time of time is a luxury we don't. have proposed about feeling banks should not receive any go out at all what what could be the consequences of. the collapse of the euro zone one look at the carving in general i think. it has its repercussions no doubt but let me say again that piling new debts on top of old ones will only make matters worse and ultimately lead to the euro zone's collapse i don't think the beer is only going to survive in its current form it will very likely have to change so. if we look at the way the commies are currently developing we can see that they are going in a very different ways greece's economy is shrinking it has shrunk by five percent

on the other hand germany and the member of the other countries are growing albeit at a slow rate. is only going to grow what we need a mechanism for quick and organized secession from the euro zone to enable countries like greece to pull out of the sort out their economy and then your worst debts to cut government spending and improve their economic standing it's very hard for me to predict how the situation like develop even more so the consequences of those developments finally help saving the european union has become some sort of. european elite. yeah that's like i've already said saving the euro is a project imposed from the top down based on overrating the notion of a european unity after all europe is not merely the seventeen states that formed the eurozone it's not even the twenty seven member states of the european union in fact europe comprises some fifteen nations and by the way that includes russia which is also part of europe with that in mind i believe it was the elites

headquartered in brussels that promoted this project from the top aiming to drive europe into a new form of centralism and i think it's wrong in my mind europe's advantage is exactly it's inclusiveness and its diversity in forms of different cultures languages mentalities and the people it comprises and imposing uniformity and looks like a mistake to me this notion probably stems from the so-called brussels centralism mindset which has been put in practice by the french it's very dangerous and completely unnecessary. for thank you very much for your time thank you. most of the tricks it's technology innovation all the moves developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. thanks. lou is. just simply. just so.

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