russia's leaders speak out about sunday's parliamentary elections following criticism from both inside and outside the country. dmitri medvedev and vladimir putin call for dialogue but warned 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 we don't find an agreement there is no second chance hero d.-day the french president warns the single currency is doomed if states don't gather under the brussels. and security concerns russia says nato is not ready to seriously work together on european

missile defense and isn't addressing moscow's concerns. midnight here in moscow welcome you're watching r t is kevin zero in with you this hour and president dmitri would better 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 over 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 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 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 they have to be carefully investigated that's what the central election commission is for and 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 we do i believe are disorientated will show what is nothing wrong in this election as 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 law 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 parliamentary system parliamentary vote but that russia would not tolerate outside interference in their domestic

affairs. our partners shakers 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 you 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 what's especially an 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 wednesday 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 those who oppose sunday's parliamentary election vote coming out onto the streets of russia but of course we'll be covering whatever takes place all day doesn't take place on the streets for your cameras

will be out there on our tape we're just seeing what the protests in russia are actually look like so this though is how one american news channel portrayed what's happening very different as you're bad to see. 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 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 rose revolution in georgia. perception is created that something is happening in a 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 rooney a c.n.n. report while 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 riding 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 ara integrate with even many

russian viewers who've 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 purina port nine or artsy new york it's the latest stay of reckoning for the single currency french president sarkozy says a key two day summit in brussels is now the last chances side of the eurozone future 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. in brussels for.

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 burroughs so as well as. 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 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 he did say that if they don't manage to find an agreement among the twenty seven the seventeen year old will have to move forward with the 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 their 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 the cover of what happens tomorrow. thousands who joined the funeral of two policy. militants killed an israeli airstrike the men hit while

driving a car close to a crowded parking goes thursday are accused by israel of planning a terrorist attack let's get the latest now and talk to our poll asli in tel aviv midis for responding hi there paula this isn't the first rocket attack on gaza by israel this week even as it. well the latest information we have is that at least three rockets were fired by palestinian militants in the gaza strip on two southern israel one was a grad missile two because some rockets no reports of injuries although the entire south of israel is in a state of high alert and residents have been warned to remain near a bomb shelters tonight thursday as well as tomorrow friday night it's widely accepted that these rocket attacks were in response to an earlier israeli air force strike in the same type of gaza city now this is the first such strike since the three week rule back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine and according

to palestinian medics who were at the scene two people were killed today bodies burned beyond recognition while they were driving in a car and a number of possibilities were also badly injured we understand that the two people killed were high ranking members of the accept martyrs brigade they were killed by an unmanned israeli drone now there are various factions in the gaza strip that all calling for further retaliation against israel hamas has warned its members to keep a low profile and to quote to remain extremely cautious what are the political ramifications of this man. who was certainly witnessing an increase of tension particularly between israel and the gaza strip and hamas spokesperson has called on egypt to the united nations to put pressure on television he also says that this is the problem of the united states will constantly supplying weapons to israel these weapons being used to quote him against the palestinian people now this. is the first targeted killing that we have witnessed since january two

thousand and ten and even then back in january two thousand and ten that was the first targeted killing in five years if indeed we are witnessing a would turn to israeli policy of using targeted killings which incidentally has been ruled by the israeli supreme court as a legitimate form of self-defense in certain instances but if indeed the witnessing return to this it is part and parcel of what some analysts are saying israel's way of dealing with palestinian militants you need to remember that it wasn't such a long time ago that israel released more than eight thousand palestinian prisoners in response to one israeli soldier gilad shalit and what some people are suggesting is that this is israel's way now of actually dealing with those militants that it was forced to release at the same time of witnessing an increase in tension between israel and egypt particularly the israelis fearing that the sinai peninsula is becoming increasingly unsafe their argument for carrying out this is strike on these two men was that they had intelligence information that they were planning

and intent on as well from the sinai peninsula sister missed relations intentions here in the region. home of these correspondent thank you who takes you cover stories on our website tonight at r.t. dot com americans leaving the country to record numbers head to our web site to find why the so-called while to you seems to be no longer a dream place for over six million citizens. while the guns fall silent in libya after the bloody civil war we have burst again why you know a new country with a new government a definitive future appears so elusive right now. nato is refusing to take moscow security concerns into account it isn't ready for syria's cooperation on a missile shield in europe after talks in brussels both russia and nato admitted no progress would be made foreign minister lavrov said that nato should understand that russia cannot allow alliance radars and missiles. to cover most of its

territory let's talk about this now with lauren same krauss's north of physicists joining us from virgin islands thanks ever so much for being with this could see in the program in one of your articles you argue that all the antiballistic missile systems put forward by the u.s. are floor this thing wrong with and they don't work is that the case with the shield in eastern europe as well yeah i mean we don't we cannot defend against the ballistics missiles it just doesn't work that it all of it was you look at all the tests that have gone forward that weapon systems are failed during most of them and none of them have ever been tested against the kind of a kind of whip weapons that a country like let's say russia would use it for ever if they ever wanted to use them because you'd send out decoys at the same time as missiles any sensible rich country would do that and we can't distinguish between decoys and missiles so it's some us for teach it perspective. for missile defense or just use those there may be other political reasons to create such a defense what doesn't work as as as advertised the us was about to say with all

the political ramifications in arguments it is causing why it is made to continue to push the system you're saying that the more work. well you know i of course i'm not a party to those decisions i think there are several reasons one is probably pressure at home to create a shield even if one doesn't exist the idea is that you want to if you if people if you worst thing to look like is that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield as some people say it then why not do it that sort i think the idea is those political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration will use it as weak and it doesn't want to be viewed as weak right now from a strategic perspective going into a national election the other rings and maybe going to economics it may be that that that. was done in the cost these things because of course a response from russia and it's going to cost money and so spending money will cause will cause. to spend money and and that therefore there maybe we could

not decrease on ok lawrence let's hope that's not washington on the line here now let the phone ring i do believe what you might says about richard you've got rid. of washington when he says the shield is a preventing threats from iran and north korea let's cut to the chase and if you invent if the answer is yes if you are building such a shield only put it in the right place no no i mean the first of all there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that can carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you what it would be very difficult to imagine a country of that size aiming a ballistic missile at the united states because it would be like marking the country for annihilation with a big x. because a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from much more sensibly if you were really interested in inflicting damage would be a kind of terrorist act where you somehow put up a nuclear device in a in

a cargo ship or something and couldn't tell where it came from so it's not clear to me that. that it's from a from a clear. spect it where we're different we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't look ok last week we got less than a minute we will i just want to get your thoughts on russia's side of it let's bring the russian side foreign minister lavrov said in brussels at nato wouldn't address moscow's concerns over the missile shield plans let's just take a listen to what he had to say first of all. if we are invited to cooperate would like to be able to discuss these terms but we're told that no discussion is needed because everything has been decided already and when we say that there are things that concern us to give us the same reply over and over again don't worry the shield isn't directed against you we need legal guarantees because inventions however good they are good change but military interests and potential filled with a different manner that it will support what do you think about russia's concerns

another justified well i think that to some extent they're justified in one sense because the system doesn't work it's not true or it's not worth worrying about it but the one time when it would be most effective is if you knew what the enemy was about to launch weapons and you knew they were about to launch weapons when without a care that would only occur if you launch a first strike so the only time such a system might be usable is if you were interested in being aggressive and you were prepared and you knew the enemy was going to lock missiles and so if i were russia that's the concern i'd have that such a system enables you to be more effective in launching a first strike rather than defending against everything else so there's not a completely it's not completely pointless to be worried although at this point as i say the system is and often from this point of view it's just a waste of money and and maybe it's good that the united states waste money on systems that don't work if you're if you're concerned about those kind of things but u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has warned russia against any countermeasures to

us to the u.s. missile shield saying it's not directed against russia do you agree. well i think i don't think it is but i don't know who it's directed against it is knows dziedzic purpose and i think it's just it's just arm wrestling it's just it's just wagging you know showing that we have the power to do it and and there's political reasons but not the teacher points but but i cannot believe that that that it would be directed against russia at this point because it was certainly wouldn't defend against it's russia wanted to attack it is not missiles that no missile defense system is ever going to make a difference so the big worry here of course is that you know with tensions building up some time some compress the wrong button and it could all kick off could have mattered because expand the military presence you think actually lead to conflict at the end of the day i think that's a possibility that i one of my houses i'm chairman of the board of the bulletin of the atomic scientists which is been designed for for sixty years to try to warn of the dangers of nuclear work the only way it will be safe ultimately to make their

weapons is that both countries and primarily the us and russia are the are the main perpetrators and reduce their nuclear weapons. capabilities and until that time is done we'll always have that worry that there could be some accidental conflict it's almost happened several times and and we need really need to realise that nuclear weapons have nose for teaching purpose there really are useless that's from a strategic purpose how can the present oh well thanks for your thoughts really appreciated there in the virgin islands also and physicist lawrence krauss thank you for talking to us it's been a pleasure. programs continue the financial fallout from the eurozone crisis ignores borders of course with the squeeze being felt far beyond europe next on this channel we get expects but inside for what's likely to be a slow drawn out recovery.

today i'm talking to. the managing partner of fusion asset management based in london we are talking as ratings agencies increasingly look at downgrading the debt rating for the entire city of the eurozone including financially healthy countries like germany mr lecky thanks for talking to us today now this is a crucial time for the euro zone old europe is pushing for more fiscal unity and meanwhile the u.k. is backing away from it what's the solution do you think i think for the united

kingdom an interesting game because really if you see a whole economy develop here when your progeny went down so many projects in change from twenty five percent to ten percent of the same time financial sector grew from five percent to ten percent g.d.p. so now we're on american footing so it's not only about europe but it's about overall contamination of financial system how much economic logic is there in throwing everything at preserving the economic logic. but the question here is. is it the same europe same country is which were accepted for political reasons and at the time of cheap credit then. of control was not so. or it's better to have smaller or smaller call up or for real euro countries with a stronger economy and stronger. so it's probably less

a question if greece is going to stay in the euro them. because if we talk about digital. and i one hundred billion the fed treaty very bored three hundred billion of government. but also book two hundred plus billion of it one of our financial institutions them because four hundred fifty billion or five hundred billion of deposits on the verbal i'm sure it's if the result of util and visibly gave out all in euros so you i when you put a structure or it will for the banking system one thing system will bring recession in the country but also in the whole euro because then you have one point seven trillion the euro or four call them for more we truly immediately the chain of events across not only italy where inflation unemployment is highlighted but it also really mediately the biggest similar effects in the european countries let's move on and talk more generally about the financial crisis people are blaming the

bankers they're still doing it's what you have most often on the news when people talk about the financial crisis do you think it had any effect on the way that bank operates there are several that is that if. there is an increase in the required capital then that is obviously all the question of easy money control. of conflict of interests and they all different angles of the question. in terms of how banks are great at banks definitely better late than never and you need to look at profitability about forty percent of income of banks coming from non interest related activities which are services which is basically investment banking so now if you start pushing relational and the degree to believe this things and trying to split investment money from corporate side clearly a lot of seen that tj's regionally in the structure will disappear so just cutting integrating will kill that part of services which will drive down the ability of months if you. do increase capability then that will drive it but if it's ability

of banks in the long then you start to believe in bonuses what's happening it's a very calm but a different history for what banks did they cut the bonuses big way greaves governments because this is what they needed to banks so now when people say year we're not getting my bones they are actually getting to them sell it which means that fixed costs in banks increased enormously so now we need to cut people actually where are we now in terms of getting out of financial trouble it's a very long process. if we. see post-war that was what down and how it was deal to visit to korea. plus years it's twenty years it's a very slow process that is a huge amount of the. united kingdom is probably. the country in terms of total public and state that which is now i think around four hundred fifty percent of g.d.p.

there is no easy way we all consume two border is that we need to take it back so there are different ways to pay back but neither of them are going to be pleasant and the one of the lines of force people call financial repression which means it's a negative real interest rates so inflation nominal interest rates are low it's a couple interest rates government born from top of one to pension funds if you have to invest them highly rated and highly rated as your government then you need to give money to the government but then you have a. government effectively using this money to pay back that and then that will bring it closer relationship between the government and banks closer to go away from grow closer to the site every stage in the financial crisis is bigger scale. considerably more difficult to get out. thank you very much.

i. think people who believed in trade for many years in a soviet system has faded away in less than twenty four hours as bell of this kind of push up coupled with below we acted in a true russian style we didn't know exactly what the future would bring that to think about later three leaders 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 but. in the eyes of the people they put it like this i will liberate you from the kremlin oppression no one wants to take the blame but we would not be able to persuade gorbachev and besides he's word could not be relied upon. he could tell you anything and do something completely different

question for you 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 instead of good stuff about time. again i don't think we have left television forest soaries. decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this a plot or a fait accompli.