tens of thousands are expected that there were only in central moscow to protest the results of sunday's parliamentary poll. today's rally we're told me from. may prove to be the strongest the destruction is. just a few votes. europe split britain becomes the odd one out rejecting e.u. treaty changes and forcing all the other twenty six members to come up with a step or a debt crisis pact. and a last resort israeli airstrikes in gaza and ever increasing tensions in the region and drive palestinians to seek opportunities in war torn levy.

which aren't you coming to you live from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program up to thirty thousand people are expected in central moscow layer in protest at sunday's parliamentary vote other russian cities throughout the week have seen mass gatherings too while the opposition demonstrations have claims of the results of the election were fraudulent you know across live to our correspondent jake agreed is following the story for us here in moscow so jake a when are we expecting protesters to begin arriving any signs of it yet. well the process is set to kick off in just a few hours you can expect to see them arriving relatively soon just take place a block mass works just about a kilometer behind me to my left so below my squares price that is the sanction now

originally it was destined for profit revolution revolution square just next to the kremlin that was changed owing to capacity concerns fleeces stressed that protesters war between these two areas to get to block by a square they must do so without their restraining otherwise the courts of police they will be breaking the law we have seen quite a heavy police attendance and they will be want monitoring the course of this protest when it comes to the demonstration well it's a make up of the whole political spectrum the left the right opposition parties were represented but really it was focused on the public having their say and making their voices heard that something has already occurred in russia's far east and rather small stock there hundreds of taking to street to demonstrate to call for the release of those detained by police so far and for a free and fair elections now to this protest today take place in just a couple of hours at two pm for those who would be attending

a school children aged between fifteen and eighteen ask as they've been called in for a test today so they won't be on the streets of moscow of moscow for the course of this protest probably savella me opinion is just that people are more than welcome to voice discontent they must do so in accordance with the law he's also warned against foreign meddling in water is a domestic russian affair the president medvedev will try to alleviate some of the concerns of the protesters saying that when it comes to electoral fraud that if any case to be raised will be investigated fully. hard to what so how about the demands of the opposition cell what is a doubt the opposition is demanding. it was quite a while scale movement price. so there is not thing nothing to concrete but there are three main principles here they seem to have agreed on firstly they want the release of all those people detained so far by police also they're calling for

a free and fair election as they propagate at the moment and thirdly they want the head of the electoral commission of president vladimir to offer to be ousted from his post to step down he's been coming under a lot of fire over the course of this week since the election results. and speaking about the results so have heard the official results confirmed and you look at the parliament. yes they've just been deferred yesterday and what we're seeing there is united russia would emerge already two hundred thirty eight seats but not the constitutional authority they would have previously sort of position parties making headway as well congress party ninety two seats russia getting significant sixty four seats as well they were doing much worse than was previously forecast and becoming the third largest faction in the state do feature state duma so when it convenes now this is going to become a problem very most likely for united russia to meet the opposition parties now

hold two hundred fifteen six far more the hundred fifty seats needed to block constitutional reform that may prove a headache for united russia in the future. all right jacob graves thanks very much indeed for bringing us up today. and we're keeping a close eye on developments in the russian capital on our web site so you can go online for the latest some dates and video feed on the post-election protests also at r.t. dot com you'll find analysis of the latest news and scandal as the fall of the election and for all the videos of the demonstrations you can also log on to our you tube channel. news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule today.

on the way here are peaceful squatters targeted by police. that there's nearly a million buildings in there in the ukrainian people freeze to death every winter comes with that with we talk to someone to corporate house tours in london about why the law has branded them terrorists. and demonstrating for a cause and why rallies are being held more wise for the release of a man sentenced to life supporters say is nothing but a political prisoner off the u.s. . the final score in brussels was twenty six to one and one of europe's most important political matches for decades britain was the odd one out as all the other e.u. states agreed a new pact designed to stabilize a year at a tam to solve the debt crisis british prime minister veto the chance to change

e.u. treaties over fears his country's national sovereignty and financial sector will be harmed but the rest of the e.u. states will now work towards a path to enforce rigid fiscal budgetary controls and punishment for big spenders the new deal should be ready by march but british pm palmetto things that should set struggling states at a time down to more. i think what will happen is you'll end up with a call your oh i think you'll end up with france germany and the better looks countries maybe. scandinavia but beyond that i think the euro will actually collapse if we were all good europeans what was allowed to happen is for greece and portugal and spain and italy and maybe ireland to fall out altogether devalue their own currencies second president to get their exports moving because that's the only way these countries can prosper outside the prison of the euro merkel is now talking about the treaty being so much but let's be clear if you're going to sign

a treaty you need the twenty seven member states to sign up to it no britain has said that it won't that is a legal problem which we've got ahead of us if it isn't a treaty that means that the countries who are involved in this deal will not have access to the institutions namely the parliaments and the commission we've got a problem we've got a legal wrangle ahead of us it is undoubtedly. anti-corporate argued by movement and layered up in the us three months ago has spread across the globe and the british capital protesters are growing in numbers while claiming commitment to nonviolence by the authorities may not make the same commitment as i would ban it now reports. tense dreadlocks even didgeridoos but all the occupy london protesters really terrorists the city's police force seems to think so it sent a letter to banks and businesses in the financial district warning of the terror threat posed by occupy activists it puts them in the same bracket as al-qaeda well i'd say to anybody who believes it to come come here and have

a look for themselves and see that we are totally peaceful protest is preposterous to say that the backlash of criticisms forced the police to admit its wording was too strong but it stands by its warning to big businesses to remain vigilant issuing this statement we've seen crime linked to protests in recent weeks to be around groups entering office buildings and with that in mind we continue to brief key trusted partners on activity linked to protests and this is the building in question occupies so called bank of ideas activists moved in here nearly three weeks ago it had been empty for months the apparent terrorists now use it for meetings and lectures on how to solve the current crisis they can even count celebrity backers and politicians amongst their guests and a huge number of people want to see a different kind of economic system that's what people here stand for i want to come and lend solidarity to that the u.k. is complicated laws on squatting mean the owners still haven't been able to vic

then you uninvited tenants since the building wasn't in use the activists don't see why they should leave is a fair point private property. is it fair that there's nearly a million buildings empty out there in the u.k. and people freeze to death every winter i would counter that with so far this is the only building processed his have occupied can belong c.b.s. it was empty before it was taken over as the swiss banks the conviction order for this building beefing up security at its main offices just across the street as they fear the protesters could spread both u.b.s. and the financial services authority refused to comment but they clearly heeding police advice security is tight in the money district. a small group of people recently stormed the offices of a mining company during a national strike they claim to be part of the occupy movement those here though deny any links but that hasn't stopped police tarring them with the same brush it's

just unfortunate that some people are actually done that and it's causing police attention and it's going to label us as people will you will get a few bad on. any organisation and they said well look there were like you are known and it's just not true the original occupy camp hopes to keep its protest peaceful a victim anyone using its name as an excuse for violence they might not be al-qaeda but any minority prepared to step the wrong side of the law could play straight into police hands either bennett's london demonstrations have been held in cities worldwide calling for the release of one of america's most famous prisoners. or was incarcerated thirty years ago for killing a white police officer a crime his still denies the convict wasn't death row until this week when a court commuted the sentence to life in prison his supporters claim the former black panther movement member is an innocent political prisoner activist mike farls

says deserves a fair trial which apparently never got. it is like many other cases in the united states a case where. race entered into the prosecution where there are serious questions about the not only the efficacy but the effectiveness and fairness of the trial the elimination of the death penalty in this case is really only one step and i hope it doesn't mean that now he's going to be consigned to a life without parole and everybody's going to walk away and say ok we won because in fact justice has not been served in this case it's on the record now that the judge was biased racially biased it's on the record that the. police corruption in the in the philadelphia police force involved the suborning of perjury and the actual extortion to get witnesses to perjure themselves this trial was corrupt from the beginning and that's why amnesty and human rights watch and so many other

organizations say justice must be done and say that you've got to start with a fair trial. israeli airstrikes on gaza are continuing ratcheting up tensions in the region even further and killing four people since thursday the most recent happened early saturday morning when the israeli air force struck targets in gaza it's unknown whether there have been any casualties dozens including several children and one infant have been wounded since this wave of strikes began that's one of the major reasons alongside a massive unemployment rate that palestinians are fleeing elsewhere to find work and you lie and authorities policy are explains even a country fresh from a bloody civil war is seen as a land of opportunity. here is where god is desperate and unemployed gather thousands who are hoping that the war in libya can offer them over spite from the hardships of war on their doorstep. we don't have any source of income prisoners are in better conditions in us that's why people want to run away from here. the

queues here are long and full of hope in the last week more than five thousand people signed up for work in libya while on the side of i'm happy to do any type of work that it is make a difference just to get some income so my children can survive. the united nations puts unemployment in gaza at forty five percent two in three gazans live in poverty and every year the ministry of labor says another thirty thousand people join the ranks of jobless ever since israel imposed a siege on gaza nearly five years ago the private sector has all but grinded to a halt with this to the economy and gaza is dependent on israel it's the way israel set it up all the materials we need for industry and construction have to come from israel through the israeli ports and airports we have no direct relationship with the outside world before the palestinian uprising in two thousand tens of thousands of gazans worked in israel they pass through here areas the largest border crossing

between israel and gaza but as you can see now only a handful of people trickle through into day mail out was a painter and would earn about thirty american dollars a day enough for his family to survive on but in the last seven years he can't cross the border and with no work this side his children often go to bed hungry he was one of the first to sign up when a call went out for people interested in going to libya to register i don't care if it's libya or not and i'm ready to go to mars for the sake of getting food for my children i can't give them more than twenty cents a day to survive on can you imagine that hamas is israel promised to lift the blockade on gaza as part of the recent prisoner exchange that freed the captured. israeli soldier but israel says it made no such promise this is to control the control of the sea control the people in gaza. to go to trade freely with. israel is the main goal was to be

a reason for the siege in gaza and this israeli government did not deny israel says the siege is for security reasons and is afraid materials like cement and steel could be used to build weapons and military fortifications policia r.t. on the israel gaza border. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world in a fresh wave of clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters has left twenty four people dead in syria fighting erupted in several major cities are thousands suit took part in demonstrations calling for the end of president assad's regime activists claim children were among those killed violence broke out a day after a major oil pipeline serving the homs region was blown up it is still unclear who was behind the attack and estimated four thousand people have died in the nine month uprising. the indian hospital where a fire killed at least eighty nine people has denied violating safety procedures it's now had its medical license taken away and six officials were arrested staff

members were accused of abandoning patients and fleeing when the blaze broke out each family that lost loved ones in the fire will receive around four thousand dollars. at least three people are dead following violent clashes in the democratic republic of congo after the results of presidential elections were disputed by in the past few months intensified a friday when challenger at the kiddie rejected to the official results and declared himself winner so you're gratian has put opposition strongholds in kinshasa under lockdown with this is reported gunshots in the capital and burning tires sending pillars of black smoke into the air. to the caucuses region now where the outgoing president of south a city out of work is stepping down early his resignation is aimed at ending political deadlock following the recent elections which failed to appoint

a new leader of iran of votes now scheduled for march reason as in the south a city in capital for us. but the situation here in the region has been very tense and complicated in the last few days and how it's been resolved eventually are seen by the opposition as a big victory and by ordinary people here in the region as a big relief following the opposition candidate victory in the presidential runoff held here in the region earlier in the vendor another candidate and that'll be really who was expected to win this vote and who was considered as the key favorite of the presidential vote complained to the supreme court itself to set about violations allegedly committed by all the joy of his team and later the court ruled and not the outcome of the vote and moreover to bar the host so from participating in the next poll should do it for march hundreds of posts a porter's have taken to the streets of the capital to involve protesting against

this decision and expressing their solidarity with. the two sides been involved in this conflict have started negotiations where russia has played the role of mediator eventually as we can see that as the court has agreed to step down currently the republic is waiting for him to officially pass the presidential powers to prime minister and people on the main square he can volley the two you can see behind me they're still here and they're saying they will not go home until that happens where for national reporting there from south the city well there's a lot more on for you on our website r.t. dot com i dive into history on this day thirty six years ago the inventor of the hydrogen bomb and a courageous fighter for human rights in the soviet union and reseller of one the nobel peace prize. also on why a glance of the red moon star gazers across the world gear up for the last total lunar eclipse and nearest r.t. reports online.

i. think people believed and hope for many years in a 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 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 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 it would not be able to persuade gorbachev and besides peace world could not be relied

upon. he could tell you anything and do something completely different i can forgive myself for being 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 sucks in the kremlin instead of good self at the time. then i don't think we have left days of forest soaries. two decades have passed but the discussion still rages was this applause or a fait accompli. right

if you move from phones to furnish you. don't come. here watching r t and international conference on afghanistan this week lives material support for the troubled country until twenty twenty four but issues like the booming afghan drug trade were a sideline of the meeting our military contributor thinks it's all because the top man in kabul is the wrong man for the job. nobody expected anything much from the bonn conference but it was still a very big surprise in the way that with pakistan presence it turned out to be yet another exercise in wishful thinking and feels good attitude shared by all participants but did leave this issue that really deserved

a closer attention to all participants and especially from the honey because it was the issue of drug production and trafficking in his country but the kind of person elected by the western community at the same conference ten years ago and really the same western edge of two towards again his stand completely unchanged the future for afghanistan remains very bleak until afghan society will put forward the real leader not just a western puppet but a real fighter who has something to offer to die for afghanistan. back riding the biggest day of discount shopping in the u.s. may be over but sales are continuing in the run up to the christmas holidays so our own resident in the big apple lori harvest went to ask people in new york why we're obsessed with buying so much stuff.

there's no doubt we live in a consumerist world are you sick of it this week let's talk about that it's christmas time so i think it's normal. to to buy something you know why is it normal to buy stuff much more stuff just because it's jesus's birthday. good question there's no thanksgiving it's black friday so i think that's sort of a real cultural shift here what does it say about us as a culture that when we're so obsessed with buying stuff. that we need to get a life i think it's because the human nature has a longing for something and they decided to fill it with things instead of a spiritual focus to those things get in the way of our spiritual quest i absolutely believe so because i think distraction is one of the keys to getting humanity off focus it is it's an important anymore so you have it and you feel good

and and that you are looking for something else yet and then you feel bad because you bought something that you didn't mean yeah this is happened way before you were born that's how it is yeah. it was made to train the volume of strange without them onerous. trading making selling is the way to make a living so we're prehistoric caves covered in neon lights with logos plastered all around us they are right now around us the technology was available you thought sure would be i believe in recycling i believe in you know not consumerism but go to your local salvation army exchange what does it say about our culture that we are so disposable. that we are exactly that we're looking at life in a really shallow way how do you think history is going to remember this time and age as consumers i'm going to be a part of that yes no look it's very wasteful because i'm i live in france and my

family very careful with their money my family and. they think twice about buying stuff so i listen to them it does make me more careful but i'm afraid i'm consumed with. god when the time that i've been at times here whether or not your sick of the pressure of our consumerist culture the bottom line is when it comes to buying stuff you don't need maybe it's best to just say. no. and i'll bring a recap of the day's top stories in just a few dollars stay with us. all.

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