russia's leaders speak out about sunday's parliamentary elections following criticism from both inside and outside the country. dmitri medvedev and vladimir putin called for dialogue could have warned foreign powers against meddling in russia's political life i'll have more on this in a few moments time. because she wanted you know if on friday we don't find an agreement is a new second chance d.-day the french president warns the single currency is deemed to states to gather around the brussels. and security concerns russia says nato is not ready to seriously work together on an european

missile defense and isn't addressing moscow's concerns. despite a change of mood in the west with the us and e.u. markets now in the rather russia manages to maintain some of its gains on the r.t.s. my six close up of percent more on this and for it's. a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow president to be the editor of says a thorough investigation into sunday's parliamentary election is needed but called the rallies that followed a sign of democracy it comes as russia's prime minister suggested a dialogue with the opposition while warning foreign powers against interfering in the country's political affairs say more now from the who's in central moscow.

president medvedev has called for calm across russia and said that the new parliament should be allowed to get about the work that it was put in place to do now he did say that the final result of the elections that were held on sunday could be delayed to allow a full investigation into allegations of electoral irregularities to be investigated now on the protesters well president medvedev said the demonstrations are all part of the democratic process however he did stress that protesters must respect the law and a central election commission may decide the final result of the election can be confirmed the now if a some reason it needs more time and has a right to presume publishing them but only based on facts and our election law i believe the questions being asked now about the election results and violations have a right to exist and they have to be carefully investigated that's what the central election commission is for that's what courts are full and there are no other

investigation procedures with regards to the post-election situation there are people who are disappointed when they do i believe are disorientated sure what is nothing wrong in this is there is nothing wrong with the rallies that we have seen because rallies are a sign of democracy president medvedev there echoing earlier words from prime minister vladimir putin he said that the protesters had a constitutional right to demonstrate but that they must stick to the rule of the lord now prime minister putin also said. he was willing to enter into dialogue with the leaders of the opposition for them to try and hammer out their grievances prime minister putin also addressed comments from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton she criticized sunday's parliamentary poll saying it was neither fair nor free now prime minister putin said this her words sent a signal to the opposition to take action and hillary clinton continues to see. say

that she believes that the russian elections that were held on sunday weren't fair now with regard to international observers who were looking at those elections but to me a putin said that they will welcome to look at russia's fallen tree system parliamentary vote but that russia would not tolerate outside interference in their domestic affairs. our partners shake us from time to time so that we don't forget who owns this planet so that we know they have methods of pressure and influence on our country from within we choose to do so when it comes to humanitarian or health issues that's one thing but when foreign money is being invested into internal political affairs that should make us think what's especially on acceptable it's a flow of foreign money into the electoral process it's absolutely unacceptable but on thursday everything is quiet here in moscow on tuesday we did see some small scale protests there were really too often in numbers by the police and journalists

and camera crews who were there now we are expecting over the weekend to see the largest demonstrations to date with both pro-government protesters and those who oppose sunday's parliamentary election vote coming out onto the streets of russia. but as i'll talk to john locke an imprint of democracy in cooperation in paris he joins me live on the line there may have been with our service and now we've heard those harsh words from by the mayor putin accusing the united states of meddling in russia's domestic policies does washington believe it has the right to intervene it certainly does washington has intervened in many elections across eastern europe and the former soviet union over the last twenty years and it's often done so in just a brazen a way as it's doing now and i like prime minister putin and president mention it personally regardless interference is completely unacceptable it's very important to understand that the. reports that was produced on month by the all of the

observers of hugo it. was written as are all such reports before the election took place and it's very important to see it down to make them to and and to they should tell us how much of this report was written before the election was even held i myself have written to them to ask them that question and i have not yet received a reply so do you not think there is any grounds to these are many complaints that we've been hearing about ballot stuffing vote rigging in this will include cetera. i think some of them at all stories but i have asked the o.c. also myself because i was an observer although not part of the o.c. i've asked them to provide the observer forms to show the observer forms to publish them which on which these allegations of ballot stuffing are based because it's very difficult to deal with these allegations unless you know where they come from and who has made them you know they've been magic tales of thin air we don't know

who sent who says they saw ballot stuffing we don't know where we don't know which polling station and tell us you itself comes clean and starts be transparent then we cannot give any credibility to these circulations now yesterday are america's thoughts news through sharing streets ablaze violent clashes in five on syrian security officers say they were anti-government protests in russia however we now know that these were actually images from greece and a thousand that he sent in correct pictures and talking about russia is this really does the failure to check the thanks do you think you know i think it's quite deliberate i think and i'm afraid i think it's probably already succeeded you see it only takes a few pictures of demonstrators and a few allegations however unfounded of electoral fraud for the idea to be firmly planted in my mind elect stone and people have got a lot of other things to think about they're not going to go into this and that i'm going to try and go into it or that the russian authorities are and they will simply retain. their memory the sight of the elections was stolen and so yet and so

it'll be but another nail in the in the coffin of of russia's reputation in the west it's coffee which has been built in the west in order to bury russia's reputation and that's what's going on now it's a strategic campaign by the west and by western governments to diligence in my eyes the election that was held on sunday and there were let's turn to the protests that have been taking place across moscow all across russia or over the past few days both for but also against these parliamentary elections slicing electoral for what is this democracy in action as at sea didn't you mean that in himself and said. no i don't think it is i mean obviously a demonstration is democratic but i speaking to you from a bit of an interest to develop in this for the prime minister's office and security i can assure you we have demonstrations nearby particularly every week you know if somebody wants to show those anti-government demonstrations they're very

welcome the fact is that democracy in the full sense of the word involves also the rule of law and that's why these allegations if they are if they can be substantiated should be investigated by the authorities and should be and should ideally lead to criminal prosecutions if they're proved it's not true and straight in the street you're going to get more there have to be criminal prosecutions for electoral fraud if the allegations can be sustained ok john lott and many thanks they sports thank you. still ahead for you this hour occupy washington strikes at the heart of the lobby of. the seventh israel u.s. capitol of the day two governments tend to break up the ante reprint the toss about . now it's just a day of reckoning for the single currency as yours leaders are fed for a key two day summit in brussels a little spine the region's future germany and france are pushing for a new e.u.

treaty to bind the nations into a close knit fiscal union with its own taxes and penalties let's get more now from august has also he's in brussels for us with the situation the dire how much value being pinned on this summit. well initially there are expectations maybe they can come up with some sort of a semi solution but right now after the speeches made by. mark merkel and you commissioner byrd also as well as chief druggy places actually the leaders in ma say there are the expectations sort of went down and markets have been reacting to where the first of all merkel and sarkozy have been using the arguments over this is a make or break day the euro could collapse that if we don't come up with a solution by to morrow evening there is no second chance but on the other hand you can see that they are trying to rally support for their calls for those new treaty changes there are still those who who oppose having to rewrite the treaties and

changing fundamentally the european union. also. a german franco a push for fiscal union should not upset anybody because it is their duty to come up with this joint statement actually the referred to it now as let's go back to what they said before because today they were using grand ideas but leading up to this day they were saying they want more punishment for repeat offenders they want automatic sanctions on countries that don't manage their deficits and they also want centralized power in brussels now that raises the question of whether sovereignty would be given over to brussels national sovereignty now e.u. commissioner burleson had to address that he said in fact it's not about brussels dictatorship he said it is more more of a shared sovereignty european union but then you have countries like the u.k. who are not part of the euro area who are saying well i'm not they're not going to be signing any treaties or agree to any changes if it doesn't protect the interests

of the u.k. whatever cycle as you did say that if they don't manage to find agreement among the twenty seven the seventeen year old will have to move forward with it so it seems a very unclear at the moment expectations are sort of starting to go down because of statements being made and the european central banks have been salvation. yes in fact they were making speeches at the same time simultaneously want to frankfurt and want to now e.c. be drug chief be chief druggy he had been expected to give more of an assurance to the markets but that really didn't happen while he did give some concessions first he said they would enhance access to liquidity to a managed money markets here they put down the key interest rate by twenty five basis points to one percent collateral rules and have saluted longer term lending measures but he said all these measures are temporary one thing though that everyone was looking forward to the markets were expecting is the e.c.b.

to act more decisively in this euro zone crisis basically to act as sort of a lender of last resort although that is not in the mandate so basically the e.c.b. act through the i.m.f. and of lending to your own nation but again he just missed that idea so the markets started reacting to that they're not going to see the e.c.b. acting decisively and this is what merkel wanted actually she didn't want the e.c.b. to have that kind of sweeping role because if the e.c.v. does that it will essentially be saving the nations like italy and greece were in dire position of right now and basically just not being not imposing the discipline that merkel wants so very unclear at the moment whether they're actually come up with something binding by tomorrow night as the many things that are so used to s.l.c. reporting for us live from brussels. nato is refusing to take more security concerns into account and isn't ready for a serious corporation on a missile shield in europe so says russia's foreign minister after russian nato

meeting in brussels when all of the talks rose sighs admitted that no progress has been made lavrov said nato should understand that russia cannot show allies radars and missiles to be able to cover most of its territory and that needs legal guarantees the issue is directed at is something need to refuses to do so we're very general anders fogh rasmussen said the alliance did take russia's concerns into account but that's not the impression moscow is getting. if we were invited to call great would like to be able to discuss the terms but we're told that no discussion is needed because everything has been decided already and we don't need to worry and when we say that there are things that can surface they give us the same reply over and over again so don't worry if the shield isn't directly against you but apart from the talk of trust we need legal guernsey's because insentient however good they are could change but military interests in potential is

a totally different matter. with the absence. of deployed a radar in its western. in response to nato missile defense plans the kremlin stresses the facility. is not aimed at the u.s. led alliance it's also deploying missiles along its western borders and threatens to pull out from the strategic arms reduction treaty. deals with poland and romania and turkey to host elements of the system which it wants ready by twenty twenty. i think to get a visit our website for more stories on in-depth analysis live thing that we're covering so what's online can right now it dot com americans and leaving the country. at a website to find out why the so-called land of plenty is a long dream place break the six million citizen. also online peace becomes a full throated. investigate why in

a new country with. a definite appears and. cross to the united states. to seventy anti-corporate occupy protesters were arrested when police dispersed a mass rally close to the front of the white house it's the latest effort to break up the movement which is spread across america over the past three months. you can witness the crackdown in the u.s. 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 and 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 overestimate this is be the largest number of

arrests in washington says the beginning of this occupy movement this was all happening on k. street which is known as the lobby is street people were protesting what they see as widespread corruption in the government authorities are pretty much cracked down on this occupy movement against corporate greed and government complicity which seems brutal of actions of demonstrators from their occupy locations in california and in new york police used tear gas on people pepper spray rubber bullets 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 irrationally reprimanded for violating human rights but that doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to the united states. is going to tell some more news from this time in the general the u.s. citizen for two and a home years for insulting the country's royal family the man translated excerpts

from a move while graffiti of the king posted links on line the fifty five year old twenty one american was arrested in may when he visited the country to seek medical treatment last flight is one hundred twelve pascha he was then charged on the time strict rules against insulting the mom. an israeli air strike team suspected palestinian to be planning a terrorist attack along the egyptian and the men were hit while suddenly a call close to a crowd of. explosions that caught fire and wounded several bystanders israel frequently targets they. sell to. syrian activists say there's been an explosion at an oil pipeline near the besieged city of homs no casualties have been reported state run news that it was a bomb planted by a terrorist group the explosion is the latest event of a violent uprising that of shaken the country over the past ten it's. u.s.

special envoy to north korea has met with the recount of all odds to resume stalled six policy denuclearization talks the two sides reportedly agreed that pyongyang should abandon its uranium enrichment program and allow inspectors to verify it was solomon process this expanded talks last held in two thousand and eight involved china japan and russia the relations between the two koreas worsened last year following two deadly waterways adams. now in india one of the world's few growth countries a top notch education is a must but an exploding middle class population means stiff competition for students trying to get into the country's leading universities as a result many looking approved to pursue their academic aspirations that report. with the 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 or 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 you know the barrier 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 molecule 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 in 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 but even when i was in college sure here in india that i think there seem number of colleges would seem 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 when as far as the boards went and it was a relief that you know this they've got it placing her bets on the west to avoid the competition at home preassure either r t new delhi india. next to me to bring those from the world to take it away. and then welcome to the program. in the first step to a full listing on the london stock exchange. reports as the trading in the russian

firms global topos receipts is underway. m.r. s.k. holding just became the latest russian company to list on the london stock exchange has a ceremony here with a countdown to the moment trading began on this first day is shares are being listed as g.d.r. as global depositary receipts each one representing two hundred of the company's shares to begin with though this is just a technical listing so no actual money will be made here instead the whole point of this is to boost the liquidity of the company stock so to raise awareness of the company in the city here and to increase investment as the company c.f.o. explains where here or are direct. new investors to widen the base for international investors to make the conditions are important is for current international mess things to make more reliable and the more direct attractiveness for them to realize their shares in the trail shares here in the m.r.i. scan holding is the largest electricity distributor in russia with over two million

kilometers of power cables but its performance this year hasn't been strong due to the current market conditions its shares are down fifty percent this year so listing here in london one of the global financial capitals is obviously an attempt to boost that already several of the russian companies listed here some even big enough to break into the c. one hundred the mining companies poly metal everyone's for example recently started listing as premium companies and today m r s k holding although it's just a technical listing it's taken the first step towards a full listing here. in the markets this hour we start with oil and take a look at that very sudden change of mood light sweet down one dollar sixty two cents brant one dollar forty three cents now why is this happening a second look at the stock market's done the stand u.s. stocks opened lower despite jobless claims coming in at below its level in nine months so what's the reason it's the easy ways chief mario draghi saying the bank's hands are tied never can't go ahead with monetary financing which is having gloom.

moods of investors the secular good europe are specifically european central bank cut its sixteen lending rate by twenty five basis points to one percent it is widely expected more problems a quarter point cut in advance for this folly of doing rate hikes live earlier this year so also a change of mood after druggies speech the footsie down a quarter of a percent the dax one half percent meanwhile bank of england has decided to leave rates and stimulus changed here in russia the markets were trading in positive territory from was pretty much all day long and managed to maintain some of those gains the odd years of my six half percent at the close look at the main movers on the my so this is mainly driven by corporate results ross telecom peers up a point two percent third quarter net profit rose one percent of three hundred thirty million dollars steelmaker severstal end of the day down point three percent

the company's net profit reached one hundred billion dollars in the first nine months of this year and b.c.b. is also up just point two percent russia's second largest bank has doubled net profit during the first nine months of the year reaching two point three billion dollars more and that now the bank has benefited from a record performance of its retail sector as well as corporate investment operations company's chief financial officer but most reflects on the results. at the time when the western banks stepped out from russia significantly we're actually taking the market share for next year we take a much more cautious stance we are thinking of much more debt long growth the longer off will be at around twenty percent. at the same time we remain pretty constructive on the profit forecast with think will generate a profit of at least the same magnitude that that this year. the international monetary fund has cut its forecast for russia's economic expansion due to uncertainty about the eurozone crisis now expects the g.d.p.

to grow free and a half percent next year compared to an earlier forecast of four percent the i.m.f. warns about a further slowdown in expansion if things get worse and the. russian economy is facing risks from the external side the euro area crisis is a serious risk it's already having effects on russia and we think growth will. be in the best circumstances not be higher than three point five percent next year but if we use it this crisis worsens. it can also start affecting the oil price you know additions to. having financial sector effects and. lowering on oil exports so the russian economy. has serious risks from the extreme side. france's persian researcher and is considering setting up a second plant in russia in partnership with a comic already operating in the country that's despite local manufacturing costs

being roughly five percent higher than in western europe the company's rep did year old also says that will have to change once russia joins the world trade organization. industry costs will have to. be reduced to be competitive with this. region like western europe maybe year it is year to be shoes that are looking for a good will be competitive owns a russian market but only on the russian market because the excess of russian good will you offer. possibility to exports cars stay with us here for the headlines with this.

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