russia's leaders speak out about sunday's parliamentary elections following criticism from both the inside out outside the country dmitri medvedev and vladimir putin called the dialogue would warn foreign powers against meddling in russia's political life i'll have more on this in a few moments time. you know if on friday return point in agreement there is no second chance hero d.-day the french president warns the single currency is doomed if states go gather under the brussels umbrella. and security concerns russia says nato is not ready to seriously work together on european missile defense and

is new dressing moscow's concern. eleven pm thursday night here in moscow my name's kevin owen you're watching r.t. and first this hour president dmitri medvedev 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 opening dialogue with the opposition while warning foreign powers against interfering in the country's political affairs peter all of the reports from 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 results of the elections that were held on sunday can. would 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 some reason you know even more time 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 they have to be carefully investigated that's what the central election commission is for people and that's what we call them there are no other investigation procedures with regards to the post-election situation there are people who are disappointed we do i believe are disorientated sure what is nothing wrong in this and that 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 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 foreign entry system parliamentary . both 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 and that's one thing when foreign money is being invested into internal political affairs that should make us think it's a little much what's especially on acceptable giving 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 it over the weekend to see the largest demonstrations to date with those who oppose sunday's parliamentary election vote coming out onto the streets of russia. over following that as well

for you of course our cameras will be out there to see what's happening or just see what the protests in russia actually look like but this interesting lee is how one american news channel put trade what's happening. 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. the protesters have gathered in moscow lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real 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 roominess 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 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 and to apologize to the era of 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. r.t. new york is the latest reckoning for the single currency french president sarkozy says a key two day summit in brussels is the last chance to decide the euro zone's few chips germany and france are pushing for a new e.u. treaty is to bind the nations into a close knit fiscal union with its own taxes and penalties of these tests are still is in brussels across this story for us. initially there are expectations maybe

they can come up with some sort of a semi solution but right now after the speeches made by cozy of mark merkel and you commissioner byrd also as well as you see the chief drug 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 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 but that 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. however cyclists he 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 the e.c.b. chief druggy he had been expected to give more of the sure 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 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 so it seems a very unclear at the moment expectations are sort of starting to go down because of statements being made. but as for syria reporting for us there are lots pinned on this brussels summit but of this michael moss told me better the hope seeing

things are misguided and nothing's going to be achieved. i mean we have this year a sign it's not illuminated it's dark normally it's supposed to be illuminated so this might be a bad omen for that what we can expect from this e.u. summit every week we have a new emergency with meeting every week we have new hopes every week we have new disappointments and in my opinion this e.u. summit will lead to nothing because i cannot hear anything with which which comes close to a solution the only thing that they are producing there in brussels is just to feed a catastrophe of rescue efforts and this will lead next week more or less to chaos catastrophe and collapse of the whole system possibly because as long as we don't have any solution for this you are a problem and we are short in time at the moment the rules have bad consequences in the coming future i think most of the politicians among this year off family

don't really know what is on sick they behave like first class passengers in a titanic that is already sinking and what politicians say right now ok we have time nothing everything is all right but this ship is sinking and there is no solution to keep it alive. still ahead a few this hour on this channel occupy washington strikes at the heart of the lobbyists have up to seventy five testers arrested in the u.s. capitol in the latest government attempt to break up the corporate movement across america the cameras of their pictures for you gov ball coming up short they also face competition among indian universities forces the country's brightest and youngest to look for a foreign for back. nato's refusing to take moscow security concerns into account and isn't ready for serious cooperation about a missile shield in europe so says russia's foreign minister after a russian nato meeting in brussels after the talks both sides admitted that no

progress. made said nato should understand that russia cannot allow alliance radars and missiles to cover most of its territory and that it needs legal guarantees that the shield isn't directed at it something nato has refused to do the alliance is secretary-general rasmussen has said they did take russia's concerns into account but that's not the impression that moscow is getting that don't go that if we are invited to cooperate 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 they give us the same reply over and over again don't worry the shield isn't directly against you work from the talk of trust we need legal guarantees because inventions however good they are good change the military interest in potential is a totally different manner. but with the absence of

a guarantee russia's now deployed the radar and its western most territory last month in response to nato its missile defense plans it stresses the facility in the exclave of kaliningrad is not aimed at the u.s. led alliance moscow is also deploying missiles along its western border and threatens to pull out from the strategic arms reduction treaty washington sealed deals with poland romania and turkey to host elements of its anti missile system it wanted already by twenty twenty russia's envoy to nato believes moscow is justified in its determination to respond. you have to win yeah you missile shield directly contradicts the founding act gratia nato relations are based on when we signed it fifteen years ago we agreed that no new significant military forces should appear along our borders but the anti missile shield in romania will poland or the relocation of parts of the us navy to the black and baltic sea is of course

a significant increase in military presence we like jokes but this one has gone too far it looks like an anaconda tightening its grip around us and we determined to cut it to pieces. it's long nato is building a leaning tower of pisa next to our border and it's telling us don't worry it's not going to fall on your head but we find it hard to believe we see it leaning over us of course we're going to use some sort of approach to keep it up and that is it you're going to me to or goes in there are going to hear stories you've got lined up for your lines not r.t. dot com americans living in the country in record numbers we've got the story online head to our website to find out why the so-called land of plenty it seems is no longer a dream place for the six million citizens so they also that while the guns fall silent and live a year after the bloody civil war we investigate why the new country with a new government a definitive future appears so elusive. it's

. down to the official r.t. application to your i phone or i pad. from the. lights on the. video on demand. is my old girls. now in the palm of your. on the dot com. in washington up to seventy anti corporate occupy protesters were arrested

when police dispersed a mass rally close to the front of the white house since the latest effort by authorities to break up the movement which is now spread across america over the past three months it is going to teach you can witness the crackdown for itself in the u.s. capitol. 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 of grass that this is been 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 lobbyist street people were protesting what they see as widespread corruption in the government authorities there pretty much cracked down on this occupy movement against corporate greed and government complicity

which seems brutal of a actions of demonstrators on their occupy locations in california and in new york police used tear gas on people pepper spray rubber bullets sound and 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 we take you through some world news known story developing tonight two people including a police officer have been shot dead virginia tech university whose exchange of fire between the suspect in the policeman during a routine traffic stop university used to warn students and staff to remain inside thirty two people were killed in twenty five virginia tech in two thousand and seven when a student went on a shooting rampage before killing himself. radio state t.v.

broadcast the first images of an advanced u.s. spy drone last week was grounded by an arabian military cyber attack as it flew over the country's airspace the report said the drone is high is equipped with highly advanced surveillance data gathering and ready. system's machine known as the sentinel is the first to be lost by america. thousands during the funeral of two palestinian militants killed in an israeli airstrike the men were hit while driving a car close to a crowded parking. explosion set a car in light of five by standards israel frequently targets vehicles carrying suspected insurgents fueling the conflict with the hamas government in gaza. syrian activists say there's been an explosion at an all pipeline in the besieged city of homs no casualties have been reported but state run news said it was a bomb planted by a terrorist group the explosion is the latest event in the violent uprisings that shaken the country of the past ten months. in india when the world's few growth

countries right now a top notch education is a must about an exploding middle class population with stiff competition for students trying to get into the country's leading universities as a result many are looking abroad now to pursue their academic aspirations priests read reports. 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 soley 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 but it does happen and it's in fact not a possibility it's a 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. students and even when i was in college sure in india 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'd like to 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've got it placing her bets on the west to avoid the competition at home preassure either r t new delhi india if you moved tonight's the cause

report reveals the massive amount of cash stolen by reveal shortly after tonight's business was to retreat next. thanks kevin powergrid operator has taken the first step to a full listing on the london stock exchange. for better reports trading in the russian firms global to post under way. m.r.s. k. holding just became the latest russian company to list on the london stock exchange it was 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 depository 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 in 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 important is for current international investors to make more reliable and the more attractive attractiveness for them to realize their shares in the trail shares here norman m. or s.k. 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 footsie 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. look at the markets fairing a vis our oil is in the red pretty deep light sweet is below one hundred even below ninety nine dollars per barrel brant is standing at one hundred and eight exactly is take a look at the stocks to understand why this is all happening stocks also one half percent vote for the dow jones and the nasdaq that's despite the jobless claims coming in at the lowest level in nine months e.c.b. chief mario draghi says the banks hands are tied bond buying power. limited and a car go ahead with monetary financing therefore this pessimism coming from investors and them selling off stocks really what's happening in europe is shaping markets around the world with the european central bank cutting its key lending rate by twenty five basis points to one percent this widely expected move follows a quarter point cut in november fully on doing rate hikes in the earlier this year

the world bank of england decided to leave rates and stimulus measures are unchanged and this is the closing picture over in russia unlike the european or u.s. markets we have seen some growth because we saw a lot of selling in the previous two sessions the r.t.s. my six managed to keep half a percent gain by the close of first day session whether we're looking at the market movers this is all based on financial results coming in for the first quarter roselli point two percent its net profit rose one percent to three hundred thirty million dollars in the first quarter steelmakers server style is down point three percent the company's never profit reached one and a half billion dollars the first nine months of the year and the t.v. is gaining point two percent russia's second largest bank it has doubled net profit during the first nine months a year reaching two point three billion dollars more and that the bank has benefited from a record performance of its retail sector as well as corporate investment operations the company's chief financial officer herbert most reflects on the results at

a time when the western banks stepped out from russia significantly we are taking the market share next year we take a much more cautious stance we are thinking of much more debt long grow longer of will be at around twenty percent. at the same time we remain pretty constructive on the profit forecast we think will generate a profit of at least the same magnitude that that this year. international monetary fund has cut its forecast for russia's economic expansion due to uncertainty about the eurozone crisis now expects gross domestic product to grow for 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 here 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. you can also start to affect the oil price you know additions to. having financial sector effects and. lowering on all exports so the russian economy. has serious risks from the extreme side. and so from the business team for today we will resume our coverage of latest business news in russia at eight twenty am moscow time so do join us if you can.

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