some twenty five thousand protesters go out on the streets of central moscow to contest the outcome of sunday's parliamentary election. less and less people at moscow's biggest rally in some twenty years as it gets colder and darker the protests have gone on without incident i'll join you live in just a moment with more details. on the u.k. about as out of a european deal to save the euro shattering the unity dream and leaving the rest to work out new budget rules on taxes all about for themselves. between a rock and

a hard place israeli rockets a blockade of sanctions are sending gazans to seek a better future even in a war ravaged in libya. global news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow with me showing a twenty five thousand strong opposition rally in moscow is breaking up following a peaceful protest in the heart of the russian capital and the call to arms was issued after sunday's parliamentary election that the opposition claimed was rigged . joins us live with details of the rally appears to be winding up how's it going today. it is indeed on just some several hundred people laughed at moscow's biggest protest in some twenty years it has gone on throughout the day without any kind of

incident it has been very peaceful protesters were calling for that in fact organizers have praised police restraint certainly there's been lots of security here in central moscow but like i said so far everything has gone pretty smoothly i just want to step out of the side and give you a better idea of what's happening you can see people trickling out no more for. flags people just walking through the park slowly making their way home no more music music was playing throughout the day lots of flag waving and so on really just but thousands tens of thousands of people coming out in moscow today to call for free and fair elections ah basically protests started earlier this week on monday and tuesday and then we saw a bit of a low as people prepared for this big protest they didn't get the kind of outcome that they were expecting although it has to be said some of the opposition speakers today claiming there was hundred sobbed out hundred or one hundred fifty thousand people here clearly that's not the case the ministry of internal affairs confirming that some twenty five thousand people came out to call for free and fair elections

all of this they need so that the people making their voices heard making a stand against the government but what's the government been saying. well both president has made event prime minister vladimir putin have encouraged that saying that people should come out and voice their opinions voice their demands this was a sanctions protest there was another gathering at revolution square which is not very far away there wasn't a permit for that most of the protesters who went there slowly and peacefully made their way to this sanctioned protest but some of the harsher comments we heard from the government in particular lady mir putin it were about actually outside comments about the russian elections and russia in general specifically coming from secretary of state hillary clinton which stated that the russian elections were neither free or fair. hootin and many russian officials see that as stepping over a line on and with that said also the central election committee has confirmed that

that the results are fair there were minor violations and they will be investigated now if the election track to worldwide attention and so on if the recent expose documents are anything to go by it was fairly high level attention as well wasn't it. that's true in those documents really. actually focused on the u.s. state department coincidence or not whether or not those comments were made by the secretary of state hillary clinton but there are about an observing commission which is called goalless and emails that were written between the state department and goalless between observers and officials there and you can go on to the side of life news to somehow obtain these goals a single legally and they're actually filing legal action against them but nevertheless anyone who wants to can go on to the site and actually read in english a comment such as how much will we be paid for each and every violation that we find so those i detail is clearly support some of those comments made by prime

minister of lazy mayor putin and again goal was has not denied those claims and the elections have been rather sharp focus in the western media not everything's been quite as it seems has it. it has and we saw pictures on fox news clearly they were athens you saw greek writing in the background palm trees even maybe a bit more entertaining and a little more chaotic but it certainly wasn't moscow you had c.n.n. showing pictures of a rally that took place last december a nationalist ethnic rally which was violent just outside the kremlin they did file a correction but certainly if you watched any of the major western networks this week you didn't exactly get a clear picture of what was happening on the streets of moscow certainly there were tens of thousands on the street all week and it wasn't chaotic this is the first day we're really saw this many people come out to voice their demands but as you know here in central moscow at a square where the main protests have taken place rallies haven't just been confined solely to the russian capital where else they've been happening. but we

saw rallies across the country of course russia the biggest country in the world they began in bloody of all stock out west out east i should say and then across the country and in central russia also in st petersburg thousands came out there we know that there were minor scuffles with. police and some ten were arrested not the case like i said here in moscow where things have gone very smoothly and they have been this has been a peaceful rally and he said what about what about the faces behind the opposition but if you can you tell us a bit more about that. but the opposition really does have many faces it would be hard to go through all of them we saw a lot of different parties here from the communists to yabloko to the national bolsheviks the two that i think we can focus on because they are the most well known are bertie's them so actually has connections to the west he was a former deputy prime minister and he's been in russian politics for years very well known in russia and abroad as well often makes trips to washington and he's

openly supported by of the national endowment for democracy he was here today garry kasparov the world's chess champion very well known in the west did not come in from new york from the protest we actually heard some complaints from the opposition about that and then there's probably i think it's fair to say the rising star of the opposition not affiliated with the party alexei not valid and he is a blogger very well known he writes a lot about his movement for anti-corruption here in russia where you don't hear a lot about him is nationalist line he often speaks about russia is for russians and if you listen to some of the speeches that he made at a protest on monday where he was arrested and is being detained for fifteen days so he wasn't here today a lot of his supporters out but what you don't know if you look closer at some of his speeches they do tend to be out excuse me they do tend to be on the line they hate speech is one of his quotes was i will cut their throats but the lot of people here are just coming out to demand free and fair elections not associating

themselves with any specific party all right so i knew somehow where they live in central moscow thank you. updates of the opposition meeting in moscow are available on our website called you can get a minute by minute updates from our crew to various parts of the city plus view all the latest video on our you tube channel. is. the official. from the.

video. and. the palm of your. home. is coming to you live from moscow where all day today we've been covering the demonstrations all of people in central moscow claiming that the recent elections fraudulent well let's get some more details now with a professor of political science at university now joining us live here on the program thank you for coming on and so who gathered at this meeting today what is this opposition in reality we did see flags of neo nazi even some flags of free tibet. well let me first say that it is indeed an event took place order to allow the demonstrators to gather their race their street against fortifications

directions and everything we. did so encouraging and i think it's positive for russia to marshal critics however as we saw that this was not. just one thing. for the united. nations to but it seems to do is no core ideological ground we. have the right wingers you know morning rush and national liberals. liberal to left and liberal social democrats you have everything. and its duration of the opposition has soared far not managed to achieve don't ease it at least the basic consensus to a demonstration for what to ask for and what the authorities are as you say i do say it's been a mixed about twenty coming to the demonstrators in central moscow today but the

opposition slams the or thora to use for the rest of protesters or earlier this week but obviously they haven't been detained for nothing have their. well you see dispersing the legal round it it's always tricky and difficult for police forces usually of course to have a sentence which i never actually compatible with your opinion and it should be addressed to it's not the only. one that is clearly after western the army has not asked his supporters to leave the place where it had started their demonstration and march towards the crimean so actually this was sort of the problem. we have from when you when you mention a sense of a provocation let's let's draw some comparisons here just for a moment we've seen a tough crackdown on occupy wall street protesters in the u.s. there with batons tear gas pepper spray even rubber rubber bullets are the same in

places such as athens i mean compared to about the russian police seem to have engaged in a peaceful demonstration here well as far as you know. the full kitchen. well the issue. is to disperse and installation but what you've. got to make. some media stations particularly let's. treat the russian police is behaving differently if i want to say a result united states just think about stocks you have. used to draw demonstrations in athens and claimed it does it's because of the demonstrations going on in moscow this is. let me say fox news obviously and the occupy wall street demonstrators say well they should push they should walk in so.

probably for the job but did shooting russian demonstrate just a. while indeed indeed we have been showing about. news footage where where they were showing the footage of a quite violent protest in athens or with the title demonstrations in moscow obviously quite misleading there but as you were saying folks should lambast yourself that washington has been highly critical of russia's elections and the crackdown on unsanctioned protests but are they really in a position to criticize when they have their own occupy wall street movement going on. of course with russia and. see. what is going on in the elections and human rights and freedom of assembly is a question for. are we going to release the question why did the us. why did the us president not not protest so strongly against the actual assaults and that's a great charge. is it because the u.s.

has strong economic and choose strategic interests in its region so you see on the one hand it's going to raise questions and ask the manipulation for. example standards. and. usually. it's fair to ask are there any additional criticisms it's. got a professor of political science at innsbruck university thank you. and you still. had a quarter past the hour here in moscow now the dream of a united europe has been given a bloody nose by the u.k. after prime minister david cameron snubbed the other twenty six in your members london opted out of one of the most important political gatherings in the region's recent history aimed at saving the single currency cameron blocked a new deal saying he was protecting his country's financial interests and sovereignty so instead of an all european pact with the treaty to impose sanctions

and harmonize the budget rules will now have to be agreed upon between individual governments are hungry also originally said no to a new treaty for has since changed its mind is now consulting with its parliament i don't see what the states are also doing the same that the new plan is due to be agreed upon by next march but economics professor are you clamorous says it doesn't address the immediate needs of the hard hit countries such as greece and ireland. is short of it does look disaster. who suggest you need the euro in europe in part that's really the message i'm getting from. the you know the stock that that forty per cent that looks as though should lose not going along which you know we're going to get the sensible we're positioned to dilute. it because i don't see the solution. if you don't go third whom only some of.

are going to hold your group you'll remember the only three countries. who could do it agreed on no sure. on which country should make much of it just which. future holds she should. be still having to deal with the problems of british mean what you call ireland and also italy. not being addressed. with r.t. and still to come for you in the program all for one many demonstrators around the world call for the release of one of america's most well known prisoners arguing his murder conviction was politically motivated. and a victory for everyone a conflict over election results in the caucuses which threatened to turn bloody is now coming to a peaceful resolution. al-qaeda colombia's far guerillas and the occupy london movement in an attempt to put an end to the months long and

corporate protest london police equated the group to established terrorist networks and although the authorities later admitted the comparison was over the top and left activists questioning while peace and why a peaceful protest is being viewed as a crime bennett 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 it's preposterous to say that the backlash of criticisms force 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 protest 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 that the u.k. is complicated laws on squatting mean the owners still haven't been able to vic their new 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 or counter that with this so far this is

the only building process does have occupied it belong c.b.s. it was empty before it was taken over as the swiss banks a conviction order for this building beefing up security at its main offices just across the street as they fear the protestors could spread to both u.b.s. and the financial services authority refused to comment but they clearly heeding police advice security's 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 actually have done that and it's because in police attention. it's going to label of such as well you would get a few bad on what's going in here and in any organisation and they've said well that they're all like human on main it's just not true that the original occupy camp hopes to keep its protest peaceful addicting 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. twenty past the hour here in moscow demonstrations have been held in cities worldwide calling for the release of a man who until a few days ago was america's most high profile death row prison i. was incarcerated thirty years ago for killing a white police officer as a crime to this day that he still denies this week a court reduced the sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole his supporters claim the form a black panther movement member is an innocent political activist mike farrell south of kabul. almost never received. 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 it's 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 is 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. now i do bear in mind more news available online at our dot com such as a friend in need the latest russian aid convoy leaves for. to go and help the serbian

minority that say they're being discriminated by the local albanian population. and plans to use monkey used to measure radiation levels in other fukushima nuclear power plant although out claiming that helicopters they've been using for the purpose cannot provide accurate data. israeli bombs continue to pound the palestinian land with four people killed over the last few days the latest on rest so an exchange of rockets early saturday morning though no injuries have been reported tensions across the israeli gaza border flared up on thursday dozens including children. it's one of the major reasons are longside a massive unemployment rate that people are fleeing palestine in search of work and a new life as artists policy explains even a country still reeling from a bloody civil war is seen as

a better option. here is where gaza's dispersed and unemployed gather thousands who are hoping that the war in libya can offer them a spice from the hardships of war on the doorstep. we don't have any source of income the prisoners are in better conditions in the us that's why people want to run away from. the queues here are long and full of hope. and of i'm happy to do any type of work there 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 to win three gazans live in poverty and every year the ministry of labor says another thirty thousand people joined the ranks of jobless but ever since israel imposed a siege on gaza nearly five years ago the private sector has all but ground to a halt to the ministry. the economy in 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 each day now. 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 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 i must says israel promise 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 breathe freely with. israel does that mean cause for the siege in gaza and this is why the government denies 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 police here r.t. on the israel gaza border. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow now let's get to some other news from around the world for you this hour time for the world update here at least three people are dead following clashes in the democratic republic of congo this after the results of the presidential elections were disputed in the capital kinshasa protesters blocked roads and threw stones at police to disperse them with tear gas tensions culminated when opposition leader. rejected the results and declared himself

president right lisa been deployed throughout to bring the situation under control . like the airplane crashed into a school near the philippine capital shortly after takeoff killing at least thirteen people including two children though there were no classes being held at the time of the incident firefighters have identified two pilots among the dead according to officials the pilot declared an emergency after taking off from manila but failed to return to the airport before crashing. the stargazers across the world are banking on clear skies currently watch a glimpse of a spectacular lunar eclipse at the phenomenon's peak the mood will take on a dramatic red hue where the celestial phenomenon will most clearly be visible in east asia and australasia lunar eclipse is only happened when the sun and moon are perfectly aligned with the earth in between the next eclipse predicted for two thousand and fourteen. a post-election standoff threatened to

explode into civil war in the republic of south seems to have been resolved peacefully the outgoing president has just stepped down as part of a deal reached to settle the dispute with the opposition now paving the way for a new election in march. explains. 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 our joy of his victory in the presidential runoff held here in the region earlier in the vanguard another candidate and it'll be really who was expected to win this vote and who was considered as the key favorite of the presidential vote complaints to the supreme court of south thirty about violations allegedly committed by alexander was team and you know later the court ruled and now the outcome of the vote and moreover to

bar the herself from participating in the next poll should build for march hundreds of her supporters 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 a role of mediator eventually as we can see that the court has agreed to step down to officially pass the presidential powers to prime minister. and that was the summary for national reporting and i do stay with us here on r.t. and i just a few moments we explore the link between music and violence in our special report before that though a recap about top stories. world

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