fact and fiction of russia's rallies and the election marches take a twist in foreign news coverage we focus news wrongly using footage of the greek riots. future security at stake because russia and nato need to tackle the bottle sticking points that european missile defense and the prevention of libya style military interventions. and. currency crunch time for the euro and it is right up their sleeves and prepared to slug it out to solve the debt crisis once and for all but the bitter pill may be too hard for some to swallow. and

business profitable how to cut production costs are. international comic working in the. international news and comments twenty four hours a day this is out. the news bulletins around the world have been following russia's election rallies for one channel stands out america's fox news has been showing streets ablaze clashes and fire bombs thrown at security offices but with one major problem the images are not from russia they're from greece where the portnoy has been watching. america has its fair share of protests and political dissent to be dealing with instead of keeping an eye on the ball the country's mass media machine has turned to protests in russia and dropped the ball on reporting the facts.

thousands of protesters have gathered in lost value lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his united russia party the only problem is that this video is not from russia fox news channel aired a video of fires and chaos in athens convincing viewers that this mayhem is playing out in moscow the fair and balanced network paid no mind to the greek lettering in the background in case you're wondering it says greek national bank what matters is that this is what moscow protests have looked like it's not surprising whatsoever that at the moment that there would be any kind of protest no matter how small it be in russia against the russian government that it would be greatly exaggerated in media and used by the u.s. government as well as a way to try to somehow push for a change in russia that would be more favorable to u.s. interests journalist and author eva golinger believes mass media is washington's most valuable weapon in encouraging revolt elsewhere under the mantle of spreading

democracy such as the so-called orange revolution in ukraine. or ruse revolution in georgia. perception is created that something is happening in the country that's not right and that the government is somehow responsible and so therefore if that government ends up being removed it somehow is justified that you know the media has played a key role in creating a justification for regime change similar anti-government demonstrators have been reported and other city in russia u.s. leaders have leveled harsh criticism against russia in the aftermath of sunday's parliamentary election and critics say it's free press has worked. to reinforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step with the government tends to take its cues from the government it tends to you know mobilize its resources to showcase what the government says is true even when later it turns out not to be

true as was the case in this a really is c.n.n. report well in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans writing in moscow all over the killing of a fellow supporter the problem is that we showed the wrong pictures only after the error was repeatedly noticed c.n.n. owned up to its mistake to apologize for the era and are grateful to the many russian viewers who have pointed out the sloppiness of it or it is reflecting you know the lack of awareness of the journalists themselves many of them are completely uninformed about the world they have opinions that have no factual basis to him but it doesn't stop them because it's what looks good that matters more than what really is true the truth is that america has its own social economic and political challenges to be dealing with and while washington works on getting its

own house in order powerful mass media outlets can work on getting their facts straight during a port nine hour r.t. new york. where the prime minister insists the russians have the right to protest and express their views as long as they act within the law but they were putin also says he's open to dialogue with the opposition. i think people should have the freedom of expression provided the act according to the law anyone should have the right to demonstrate a lot of people break the law the law enforcers have every right to legally demand the law be upheld some of the demonstrators out there are acting according to a well known scenario and not pursuing selfish political goals the people don't want to reveal what no one wants to see calles we need to talk to the opposition vision how they're see it and be able to use their constitutional right to demonstrate and. put in russia both pro and anti government activists have been marching in key cities on wednesday in the wake of the

parliamentary elections supporters of the majority united russia party gathered to show their loyalty after a rally in central moscow on later in the day the opposition held its own that demonstrations in the capital and simply just workers here to have attracted fewer testers and media stands a riot police were on standby with dozens of people detained karim and sentient hotez representation of edges of voting floor and he's promising more rallies present enveloped has all of all reports of the violations to be thoroughly investigated. while the russian rallies go viral across the mainstream us media there's ongoing trouble on the home front in america stay with r.t. for a first hand reports one hundred these were protesters are arrested in washington san francisco but the latest point. russia's foreign minister is in belgium for the kremlin's latest push for security guarantees from

later well for more of what's at stake his outings to our city. russian and nato officials are meeting at a summit here in brussels the first of all they will be reviewing the progress of operations in afghanistan the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen has reiterated the importance of the partnership between russia and nato especially when it comes to standing be flow of narcotics from afghanistan another issue will be discussing. currently there are about five thousand five hundred peacekeeping troops over there and there have been plans to slash the number in half by next year but those plans have been put on hold in light of the current situation very last few months we've seen clashes between costs with police and local serbs and so they will be assessing the situation in kosovo as well as it got to some one of the main points and sticking points in fact between russia and nato are the table is out of the missile defense system this has been going on for some time now both sides stay firm on their ground maintaining their position as nato. alliance to

deploy any of these defense systems will not be directed against russia nor will it undermine russian capabilities however russia has not been satisfied with this in the past russia had proposed russia nato defense system that had been refused that russia had been asking for legally binding guarantees essentially just having those words of assurances on paper to satisfy moscow ever that has not been done and in response russia put in place some military measures and moscow also said that it may be forced to deploy some mortar to weapon systems if its concerns are not taken seriously both by nato and its allies namely the united states permanent. representative to nato of russia. had said that the talks at the summit will be quote rather serious and it's fair to say that we can expect just. well in the absence of a guarantee russia deployed the radar in its western mass territory last month in response to nato as missile defense plans the kremlin stress is a facility he exclaimed of going that is not against the u.s.

that alliance washington seal deals with puns were made in turkey and spain elements of nato system which the white house once already by twenty twenty some observers that i think the planning to field is pushing towards a new arms race. this is done by any measure rejection against. iran or north korea that they don't exist yet they might in the future but if they do they'll be able to do this is raising questions about what the u.s. long term interests are and where we're really headed. and i i think it's a very good thing that russia is do you know harder line unless now i wish you would have done it sooner but better late than damn later. because we certainly if the united states continues to go down the road with trouble the real reasons that russia are concerned about this have to do with the implications for

space the implications for a future arms race that russia does not want to get into. the u.s. survival is about to be determined as european leaders gather for a key summit later on thursday that examine proposals from the french and german leaders which could radically change how the eurozone works strict budget discipline and a common corporation tax for the seventeen single currency members are among the parties toss americal and president sarkozy seeking to advise the two thousand and eleven this been treaty which restructure the way the entire works when there is threatening to veto anything which might damage london's financial sector. is already on watch for further credit downgrades if he does don't decisively next. and to get a firm grip on europe's debt to the summit or manova giving brussels the power to impose austerity on bailed out countries that could deal a further blow to struggling southern europe which is suffering most in the crisis as millions of unemployed people in spain fight over what few jobs there are the

young and talented are heading abroad as political report. it starts off as a simple to abroad for example to peru or argentina or elsewhere but once they get their name the spaniards realize there are a lot more parties for them outside spain and for them latin american and some european countries present a modern day eldorado more than one and a half million spaniards presently reside outside of spain according to the latest statistics a lot of them left in the last couple of years like mary chel a journalist from madrid who moved to argentina two years ago like a moment already then people were losing jobs over my university fans either fired or looking for something or watch their salaries being cut this is she shows that then now more than a year later it's still worse it's more than twenty four percent spain's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the eurozone being a monthly mortgage bill is a challenge for many evictions have become an unfortunate but familiar sight no

wonder many are starting to look for a way out of what seems to be a hopeless situation now people are taking a very bleak view of the medium and long term future and a lot of spaniards all looking at moving abroad and unfortunately for spain they seem to be precisely the kind of people who should be staying very well educated spaniards say under the age of forty or thirty five or so people who speak maybe two or three languages they might have a master's degree or even a doctorate and those kind of people don't see a future for themselves in spain as a naturally if there are no jobs in spain people have to go elsewhere be that you have a latin america in fact this issue asian in spain seems to be so desperate this even those who immigrated here several years ago like miguel indurain as i know also packing their bags and heading back home. the catch twenty two is that spanish citizens also cannot find a job or something of the preference to say nothing of the immigrant workers but i

mean the thing for many years i had a positive migration flow that is more people are coming in now it's negative each family male. their own reasons for leaving but i believe the economic crisis which he has is the main reason. at the recent general elections saw the demise of the leftist socialist party you need to play for the right wing people's party but maybe quantum is to agree no matter who is in charge they will have to follow the thorny path of more mysterious measures in the bright young things desperate for a job to continue to seek opportunities elsewhere it is. madrid. while the struggle to get a head start is also being felt further east from the point later india is a brightest and finest discover they need a foreign fallback as university places dry up.

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all designed to keep you closing your smile world as a present. so you leave somebody in there for a. in the stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer two songs would be angel of death and raining blood. always or more coming up here into iraq. charlie poole the floor which is the rock n roll band is fitting for the job we're doing. in the u.s.

more than one hundred ninety corporate all keep our protesters have been arrested in san francisco and washington is the latest effort by authorities to break up the movement which has been digging in across america for nearly three months is going to take you can witness the crackdown in the capital. as far as i could tell there were around four thousand people on the street minutes away from the white house over seventy protesters were arrested in total this wednesday in washington there was a girl in a wheelchair among them police stepped up arrest when protesters mostly young people blocked the road they were dragging them towards the police cars one person got nearly struck by a police force so seventy people arrested this has been the largest number of arrests in washington says the beginning of this occupy movement is was all happening on k. street which is known as the lobbyist street people were protesting what they see as widespread corruption in the government authorities and pretty much cracked down

on this occupy movement against corporate greed and government complicity we've seen little of actions of demonstrators from their occupy locations in california and in new york police used tear gas on people pepper spray ramu volitions sound cannons keep in mind it's been largely a very peaceful movement around five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months across the united states probably any country doing that would be internationally reprimanded for violating human rights but that doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to the united states. more well news for you daryn syria's president denies he ordered the crackdown on protesters that reportedly killed more than four thousand people across the country since march. refuted the claims during a rare interview not an american broadcaster he said he's not in charge of the security forces and gave no commands for violence the un report accuses officials and the military of the intro civilians syria has been hit by sanctions because of

the ongoing violence the latest from its former ally turkey. afghanistan is blaming a pakistan based group for a string of bomb blasts that killed fifty nine people on tuesday president karzai is promising to raise the issue would be palestine leadership to have a tense relationship and pakistan is demanding evidence for the claims the most powerful of the three blasts targeted shia muslims are trying to cobble through the holy day. and the tourists a talent mafia boss has been arrested after being discovered in underground bunker hometown in naples france are being on the run for sixteen years as elliot given multiple life sentences for the kidnap and drug trafficking is being hailed as the end of a savage era since it is a prime example to control over a wide area around naples. india is one of the world's few

growth countries and it's got a bit middle class to match but there's only so much opportunity to go around especially when it comes to getting a top notch schooling for their children for many that means sending them abroad expects. with one point two billion people trying to make it to the top in india can be tough most indians believe that the key to success is getting a good education but with one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world more people than ever can afford a college degree meaning competition for spots at the top universities is fierce there are some schools which are just so you know academically oriented where you know and then extreme cases there's you know there's even suicides if you know the board exams if your results aren't you know a ninety percent plus percent entrance into india's colleges and universities is based solely on the results of a high school students board examinations this year students wouldn't even be

considered for delhi university's commerce program unless they scored at least one hundred percent on their exams in a twist to india's traditional brain drain where india's top talent was looking to the u.s. or europe for better opportunities now india's smartest students are exploring the west as a backup plan if their dreams of getting into an indian institution don't work out so ironic because you know in the u.s. which is sort of like going for. amazing secondary level studies i mean higher level studies is actually our safety as compared to india but it does happen and it's in fact not a possibility it's mollica powell is applying early decision to princeton university in the united states she believes she actually has a better chance of getting into the ivy league american school than she does at being admitted to a prestigious indian one and the u.s. admission process is much more holistic in the admission process it's literally

just one mock and an interview experts in indian college admissions are also seeing the trend of indian students heading abroad out of need rather than desire they say the india needs to focus on a stablish in more higher education programs for. students and even when i was in college sure here in india i think there seem number of colleges with same number of seats available though the drop in the number of colleges and number of seeds has really not kept up with the growth in the population for now pallas focusing on her princeton application in the hope that if things go her way she won't even have to take the dreaded indian board examinations in the spring ideally i see myself in the us i know a lot of people who have been so relieved that they got there early decision and they just sort of slacked off went as far as the boards went and it was really that you know this they got in placing her bets on the west to avoid the competition at

home preassure either r t new delhi india. short of the step back twenty years when the world changed forever for millions of people as a soviet union formally came to an end first as the business news with you. thanks kerry a very warm welcome to the program has been a volatile week for the markets here in russia the big event at the end of the week is the hugh summit investors are speculating well the eurozone will push for a federalized superstate to deal with this debt crisis meanwhile china is warning of a slowdown taken collectively economies due to very rude believes there are a few reasons to be optimistic. still the european crisis is signaling on its i don't see a near term solution we have austerity programs almost everywhere except in the top two countries these austerity measures your district a fiscal policies have

a very serious. negative effect on goals and we expect to you or next year to be negative and together with the slow learner in china which is suffering from the exports which are doing not doing so well anymore plus the policy in the housing sector. the overall picture for the world economy is not supposed to stand anymore this is obviously negative for commodity prices and therefore also for for russia. let's have a look at the markets spoiled crosses a climbing this hour as the market trouble days are showing again in the u.s. crude stockpiles and look forward to the other measures by the european central bank to support growth branches not hovering at one hundred ten dollars per barrel while light sweet is that just one hundred one dollars a barrel. european stocks opened high and speculation the european central bank

will announce measures to boost the economy as the region's leaders meet to lay the foundations for a fiscal union and finally here in moscow the markets are high in the often in trade both in my eyes it's something our chance of both gaining more than one percent this hour let's now have a look at some of the individual should move on the my six a slew of russian companies have reported their financial results speak to be gaining two percent the bank has doubled its net profit you're in the thoughts nine months will be here reaching two point three billion dollars telecom is also high it's pushing that profit growth one percent to three hundred thirty million dollars and still make a silver star point seven percent in the black the company's net profit reached one help in dollars in the first nine months over here mark rubenstein from i've seen much ripple says some metal and photons stocks are worth taking a closer look at. today. several stall reporting three q have for us results we expect the strongest margins from several more all the russians still

makers majors to makers so we think that you could fall in the correction in the name we think it's a very good chance that this stock is going to rebound and the other name there will like now and with a significant room for growth is there are your old collie your old collar reported good results yesterday the market i think is not priced in an increase in prices next year but i think that it's very likely that there will be again that we also saw the correction in the name it's the dollar to between five and ten percent over the last couple of weeks and i think this is the name. significantly. in other news internet startups and russia are being promised a leg up from the industry's big players investment firm d.s.t. global and social network contacted have launched a charity project called start fellows aimed at supporting young into printers

chosen startups will then get an unconditional twenty five thousand dollars to get their ideas off the page and on to the web. and francis pleasure or citron is considering setting up a second to plant and russia in partnership with a carmaker already operating in the country first despite the local manufacturing costs being roughly five percent higher than in western europe while the company's chief. says that will have to change when russia joins the world trade organization . industry costs will have to. be reduced to be competitive with. the region like western europe or maybe year it is year to be sure that local projects will be competitive of russian market but only under russian market because the access

for russia to w.q. will offer a. possibility to export cars. that's it from the business team for now you can find more stories online r.t. dot com slash business or join me for another business update must have to minutes . i. i think legions of hope for many years in the soviet

system has faded away in less than twenty four hours as bell of push on the boomers book we acted in a true russian style we didn't know exactly what the future would bring that we don't think about later srini does come together and sign an agreement dissolving the u.s.s.r. for good to get rid of the so called big brother that was always controlling them was the dream of many republics of the world. but when the allies of the people they put it like this i will liberate you from the kremlin oppression no one wants to take the blame. should not be able to persuade gorbachev and besides he's ward could not be relied up on i mean he could tell you anything and do something completely different i can forgive myself you know for me too liberal and in the sand boris yeltsin or i should have that was my mistake. this is the decisive in

strict boris yeltsin that sets in the kremlin and set of good stuff about time. i don't think we have left elevator forest soaries of. decades have passed but the discussion still ages was this applause or a fait accomplis playing. the it's length. morning.