on our seats and i know thank you britain wishes the you're all the best and walks out on the e.u. deal aimed at saving the common currency making the grade of a united europe look more of an illusion. german chancellor angela merkel thinks parts of the deal have been a great through while if you can a sharper also says it's unfortunate that not everyone backs it will have more from brussels in a few moments. also israeli missiles rained down on gaza targeting militants but hitting civilians in the most dramatic escalation of violence in weeks. and votes violated russia's central election commission confirms the ruling united

russia party wins sunday's parliamentary poll but admits minor irregularities did take place. hello it's eleven pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin stay you leaders have pushed through new budget rules to save the single currency but the franco german dream of a unified europe has been dealt a severe blow by london marathon overnight talks all the u.k. opt out of a new e.u. treaty which will now have to be agreed between individual nations tesser cities in brussels for us. with the decisions that came out what we're going to see is a two speed europe essentially those who are on board the german push for more fiscal integration stricter rules and harsher punishments more supervision and those who aren't now as it stands there are twenty three yeses maybe including

sweden hungary and the czech republic you have to check with a problem and get back with an answer and a note coming from the u.k. you know that no it's not very surprising because david cameron before getting into the summit had already said that if he doesn't get the guarantees that he needs to protect british interests at the sticking point being the financial transactions tax and labor laws then he's going to use his veto to avoid that sweeping e.u. treaty that's exactly what happens in the u.k. is going it alone now from german chancellor angela merkel's point of view it is a breakthrough a success looking at what germany had wanted to achieve going into the summit and what they're getting out of it yes it would be fair to say that it is a success from their point of view and work also said that. the u.k. is concerned she didn't think david cameron was ever at the table with them to begin with anyway well now the next step is how are they going to go about doing all of this this new agreement among the twenty six e.u. commissioner also had said it would have been less of

a headache if all twenty seven were on board from a legal institutional point of view but he also thinks it's a possibility that there could be an intergovernmental agreement among the twenty six provided that the three maybe become a yes but it will be interesting to see how these leaders will have to go we'll go home and present the plan to their citizens and explain to the people exactly how these plans will affect the ordinary guy on the street bureaucrats here would be would be considering this success they're saying that they're actually very glad at the speed with which this agreement had been reach or this plan had been reached considering that the lisbon treaty took eight years to negotiate so they're thinking and saying that the credibility of the euro has been regained because of this plan on the other have your of skeptics are still voicing out their concerns saying this. this need for speed mean a sacrifice in democratic processes and what will it mean for countries like italy and greece who have already suffered cuts because of plans imposed by the e.u. so question still there and the big question that journalists have been asking

leaders here is does it mean that the euro is saved now and the most conclusive answer we can get at this point is we hope so. there's a sharper skin lation of violence in the middle east with israeli bombs raining down on gaza or at least one palestinian civilian was killed and twenty five wounded most of them women and children tel aviv is stepping up its assault on hamas militants but as paul asli reports the campaign is putting war it is and lives in the firing line right now. this morning friday at least three israeli airstrikes targeted a hamas training camp in the gaza strip now in some of the shrapnel from one of those bombs that hit nearby homes at least one palestinian civilian was killed this follows an israeli airstrike last night thursday in which two high ranking palestinian militants were killed while traveling in a car in a crowded area in gaza city that was the first israeli strike in a concentrated area since the israeli gaza border back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine now the palestinians have responded with

a barrage of rockets there were five because some rockets and grad missiles fired on southern israel the south of israel is in a state of high and the residents have been ordered to remain me of bomb shelters throughout the course of today and this comes as various faction groups in the gaza strip point for increased revenge attacks against israel we also are hearing from hamas that it's ordered its operatives to keep a low profile sort of the this is the most dramatic escalation of violence that we've seen between israel and gaza in civil weeks now with the israelis accusing the gazans the gazans accusing the israelis and the scene does seem to be suited for a return to violence the israeli palestinian peace talks have yet again stored despite international pressure and largely over the issue is really settlement building like we witnessing from tel aviv is an increase in settlement construction so much so that the united states which is israel's closest ally has actually criticized the israeli government for its moves in this direction and now the israelis for

various sides have also by targeting these two high ranking kind of sitting in officials and this is a strike those days resumed what seems to be a policy of targeted killings because certainly there hasn't been any kind of targeted killings since two thousand and ten and this is causing many to say that there's an inconsistency in the israeli policy it was just several weeks ago that israel released more than a thousand palestinians. business and prisoner exchange deal with hamas now we witnessing it once again targeting militants at the same time we're hearing from various human rights groups that they particularly concerned that these raids are again putting civilians in the firing line the relationship in the region is the coming more fluid all of this does set the scene for a real showdown. still ahead on the program for you this hour western media is slow on the uptake liking moscow's political rallies to the arab spring and nato pays no

heed to russian security concerns of the alliance's proposed missile shield gets the latest from political analysts on the situation. is he to. believe. the. russians would be soon which brightened a few more about song from finest impressions so.

please friends don't talk t.v. dot com. wealthy british style. that's not on the president's prime time. market why not going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. russia's central election commission's announced the final official results of sunday's vote this evening the election determines the makeup of the country's parliament for the next five years now r.t. sarah further explained small. well the central election commission has released its final results and this is what the need team is going to look like united russia will hold two hundred thirty eight seats the communist party ninety two

seats fair russia sixty fools the and the liberal democratic party fifty six seats now the commission also said that the mind of violations during the election process president medvedev had already said that all the claims of violations are going to be fully investigated now of course those claims of fraud and rigging during the election process is books this international debate and we've seen a number of international voices indeed wading into that all given prime minister putin has slammed the u.s. for interfering in russia's internal affairs he will say criticize hillary clinton and the keys to encouraging the opposition for claiming that the votes were rigged before she had any of the official information regarding the election process now those who say vincent controversy surrounding the supposedly independent russian watchdog goal of confidential e-mails that were published by life nice appeared to

shave it a washington sending pavements the information that would discredit the polls one of the males from the u.s. state department praised the association's work and also promised but the support of the organization now the chief executive called us has said that the e-mails were obtained illegally and they want to take that to court but didn't deny the content of these e-mails especially it seems that this very heated play selection debate is going to go on for some time yet in the country. well as you just heard washington was quick to call the russian elections unfair and undemocratic which was to be deeply picked up by the western media some news outlets of even protests that have been taking place russia's arab spring but as of this now reports now the comparison is twenty years too late. dockery our dear sky r. us senator john mccain to each dear vlad the arab spring coming

to a neighborhood near you but is it seems russia's so-called slavic spring came and went twenty years ago. mccain and hillary clinton really would like this to happen and you see it in their relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit the u.s. and of course they're pushing for this but don't think it will happen there we're talking here like protests during the collapse of the soviet union hundreds of thousands were out on the streets people who actually saw. these and they will watch to get. most of the few thousand out on the streets of moscow after these elections move beyond off to either not remember or be unable to compare some of this though it is funny how it worked out the middle class that exists today does so because of the politics of this

government if they rebuilt the country four years ago there was a much smaller middle class if any. a middle class egyptians would dream of its revolution praised as democracy by the west saw the military take over. we have only one demand that the military council and the army go back to their barracks and start protecting the country that they've demonstrated they're incapable of leading the country over the last nine months to here certainly proved twitter and facebook are fierce tools when planning protests some thirty thousand have already signed up for a moscow meet on the weekend but russia should have been amassing to egypt and to rebuild from scratch can take decades tens of thousands of young people are preparing to come out onto the streets and voice discontent and that. means millions want it's a safe bet many of them remember all too well the turbulent ninety's what chaos

means for such a large country and aren't willing to go back and start over and he's now a r t moscow. you get if analysis an opinion about russia's post-election future our website called find out if the harsh statements of the u.s. secretary of state risk poisoning the reset relations with russia also see how one american news channel in six story this one pro-trade antigovernment protests in moscow by showing pictures for a completely different country. and a new f.b.i. definition of rape could make the people who patchy down there or guilty of the crime what you think about it. dot com. mater's refusing to address russia's security concerns on the thorny issue of european missile defense this moscow's conclusion after talks with the alliance in brussels foreign minister sergei lavrov says the u.s. led bloc isn't ready to cooperate on the shield mater's deploying antiballistic

system near the borders with russia which moscow sees as a threat to its national security the alliances rebuffed kremlin requests to guarantee it poses no danger washington claims the shield is aimed at iran and north korea but our team has been hearing from analysts who strongly doubt that. there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you were 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 annihilate with a big x. is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't exist the worst thing to look like is that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield that some people say that why not do that so i think the idea is that 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. around the world in brief indian police arrested six hospital officials on charges of culpable homicide of two a deadly fire killed eighty nine people hospital staff are accused of abandoning patients and fleeing when the blaze broke out these the latest pictures we got through to the r.t. new center most of the victims are said to have died from smoke inhalation he took firefighters five hours to try to bring the situation they were facing there under control the news is that the fire started in the basement were found with materials were being stored as a say awful pictures coming through there from india other headlines around the world a roadside bomb has wounded at least five u.n. peacekeepers in southern lebanon the blast happened in the city of tire with local media claiming a french u.n. patrol was the target there's been several attacks on peacekeepers in lebanon since

the summer including last month's bomb explosion at a hotel used by u.n. staff. police have revealed the gunman who killed an officer in a us university car park on thursday acted alone they think the man whose identity is not been released yet ran from the sea before turning the gun on himself police say they still have no motive behind the cop killing course virginia tech is the site of one of america's worst ever deadly rampages you may recall back in two thousand and seven a student massacred thirty two people to have a gun again on himself. hundreds of activists in pakistan have staged an anti nato rally condemning the u.s. for a reason their strike that left twenty four people dead the protesters also chanted slogans in support of the government's decision to close its afghan border crossing into nato supplies pakistan also recalled some troops coordinating activity with nato forces and international forces on the frontier with neighboring afghanistan

the u.s. strike sparked a crisis in already relations between washington and islamabad. anti corporate occupy protesters in boston to be given the marching orders although the police are yet to respond protest is a ruptured in the celebration at midnight after police said they wouldn't immediately remove them from their encampment officers gave no indication of when the eviction would now take place elsewhere police interrupted a mass destruction in washington d.c. arresting seventy they're. part of a three month long fight against corporate excess which is already see thousands of arrests but many are still determined to stick it out however hard it gets they say . the occupy movement are facing not only pepper spray but things like the l. rad sound cannon the long range acoustic device which can blast your cranium with one hundred forty decibels shaking your skull so hard even earplugs won't stop it

this weapon has been tested on palestinians in the occupied west bank by the israeli army so civilians in the us are now up against basically military style policing what's behind it is a mentality among our police forces our local police that views common civilians protesters as common criminals. complete change of pace now looking ahead to a program to come for you on a course hurtling through december and with the festive period rapidly approaching it's time to get all skates on on this channel later than the moscow teams feeling pretty slick about it all to list take a look. on this week's program we're taking

a look at various activities you can enjoy over the festive period that's right christmas is just a few weeks away a little real much. over the new year period and we're better to start off here. after saw envy anyone who could do that i did try it once there was a flurry in a blur of arms and legs and there was a big crash and it was me but a great place to be moscow in the winter time and not come across a ready for new year particularly pleased by the way and this one i lived on red square across new years so you can to join us for that ok now back to the present in a few minutes crosstalk debates the past and the future of the arab league that's coming up short if you're after the business too in just a minute from now. download

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and well welcome to business tsotsi there was an east west divide on the markets on friday in europe and the u.s. equities were up and that's off the e.u. summit which saw a majority of the bloc commit themselves to types of fiscal rules to save the europe but here in russia the markets nosedive that also seems to be for political reasons we'll look at them in just a second first let's look at the numbers europe is up twenty three members of the e.u. agreed to form a new fiscal compact to rein in their deficits and there's also been the offer of more support for most and that the nations would seize up twenty percent of the clothes. and there was a sell off on the odd c.s. and the my sex that out of more than four percent at the cause if we look at the main movers on the my six you'll see that oil majors would out amid cheaper crude both gross net than luke or losing four and a half percent the most liquid stock this burbank was also down four percent. net profit almost doubled during the first eleven months of the year reaching nine and

a half billion dollars to russian accounting standards here's michael stein from a bank. the week was characterized by heavy volatility which culminated in the market selling off sharply today despite the market optic in european asset prices investors in russia however are quite concerned about the ticking up of uncertainty in particular uncertainty tied to the outcome tomorrow's protests in moscow in addition there are some investors which are concerned about the reaction that. western critics may have to the publicized the official election result so there's clearly a lot of uncertainty out there and that's being a discounted in asset prices right now two thousand level hasn't been the best year in terms of mergers and acquisitions in russia with the values of fall below those seen during the peak in two thousand and seven but global bank is predict that could pick up next year with consolidation at home and firms looking for bargains

abroad. one would be in market consolidation so for example in the banking sector where you have thirteen fourteen hundred banks there is a need to consolidate in order to have both the required capital given some larger regulatory trend such as movement to basel two and hopefully basel three as well is the need to have sufficient liquidity to grow the balance sheet to in market consolidation for some of the old economy sectors will continue second we expect to see outward investment by russian companies and shareholders into europe and the united states taking advantage of the situation in those markets to become more global in nature. brief now ukraine says it's making the russian ruble the reserve currency as of next year the country's national banks announcement cements growing ties with moscow on tuesday ukraine signed a deal to pay in rubles for russian gas. to russia may no longer be able to buy

do you whole at the border shops are not able to meet new rules on keeping it in warehouses due to tight control of the ports this could be a big hit for duty free stores as revenues from drinks make up to forty percent of their sales. and a joint venture between china's thunder sky and russia's nano technology corp has launched the world's biggest lithium battery plot in siberia the four hundred million dollar project will provide power units for electric cars buses and on the green technologies expected to take up to a fifteen percent share of the world's battery market by twenty fifty that's all from the business team for now coming up next on our see the headlights.

culture is that so much given to each musician by the mark of an old organisation finding a new mission this is how the arab league is being described by some particularly when it comes to syria others are not so appreciative.

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for the job we were doing. thirty people believed and hoped for many years in the soviet system has faded away in less than twenty four hours. we acted in a true russian style we didn't know exactly what the future would bring that were to think about later three leaders come together and sign an agreement dissolving the u.s.s.r. for good or 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 she's bored could

not be relied upon. he could tell you anything and do something completely different function for you for being too liberal and in the sand boris yeltsin. that was my mistake. this is the decisive in strict boris yeltsin that sets in the kremlin instead of time. then i don't think we have left of asia forest soaries of the. two decades has passed but the discussion still rages was this a plus or a fait accompli. the unskilled.