some twenty five thousand protesters have been out on the streets of central moscow to contest the outcome of sunday's parliamentary election. the biggest protest in moscow for nearly two decades ramp up without incident with protesters praising police for restraint joining me and he's now in central moscow for more details. u.k.'s resounding no to a new pan-european deal cast a shadow over unity dreams leaving the other twenty six member states to plans of saving the euro amongst themselves. and from the frying pan into the fire gassings whose lives have been shattered by israeli rockets siege and sanctions see

a better future even in war torn libya. international news in comments around the clock around the world this is twenty five thousand people have given voice to a peaceful opposition rally in the halls of the russian capital the call to arms was issued after sunday's parliamentary election that the opposition claim was rigged and so now he has the details moscow's biggest protest in some two decades took place without incident very peaceful and in fact protesters are praising police restraint of course there was a lot of security the ministry of interior has put the number at some twenty five thousand people at its highest point throughout the day earlier in the day some protesters did meet at revolution square which was what organizers wanted the original location to be there was no permit for that but a lot of those two. thousands did peacefully make their way to below the maya

square which is where the protests took place and moscow wasn't the only city which saw protests they began out east invited us stopped took place across central russia and in st petersburg as well there thousands came out we do know that there were minor scuffles with police and that there were ten arrests but here in moscow that was certainly not the case very peaceful and it seems a lot of the organizers are very happy with that in terms of these protests they of course began and they're calling for free and fair elections on monday when it was clear what the results were the happen on tuesday as well there were several arrests this of course has been the biggest and from the government what we heard was from the president and from the prime minister that people of course have the right to come out and voice their opinions and make demands if it stays within the law what we heard in terms of what we heard was a little harder criticism from prime minister putin about outside comments about russia's election specifically speaking about secretary of state hillary clinton

and her comments that elections in russia were neither free or fair and some interesting developments have come out which really do back up the prime minister's statements goalless which is an organization that monitored some of this election. e-mails came out from life news and it you can go on to their web site and actually see some of these communications that happened between the u.s. state department and goal is to observe to selection and there you have some of the observers asking how much they would be paid for each violation that they found with that said the central election committee did say that there were minor violations they did up hold the outcome of the vote but did say that they would launch some kind of investigation but you clearly have back and forth between the west and russia about these elections prime minister vladimir putin has made it very clear that he believes that certainly the secretary of state has stepped over a line and you also have the media covering it in very different way. if you saw

fox news showing videos of athens greece which of course has had protests all year long maybe more entertaining certainly painting a better picture of chaos but most certainly not moscow as you can see clearly the greek alphabet and palm trees in those shots you had c.n.n. showing pictures of a nationalist rally which took place a year ago they to be fair did later file a correction on that but a very different picture painted by western media as to what was happening in moscow this week it certainly wasn't chaotic and this was the first day that we saw tens of thousands of people come out onto the streets in terms of the opposition and there was leaders who was organizing these protests well there are a lot of different faces some of them not even connected to political parties but those that are most well known are probably bodies themselves who has been in russian politics for years who is a former deputy prime minister and he openly is known to be supported by washington's national in downman for democracy and he was at these protests today he was detained actually earlier this week and another i think it's fair to say up

and coming star is. he is a blogger very well known here in russia not so much in the west he was detained and will say detained for fifteen days so he didn't come to this rally a lot of his supporters were here what you don't hear a lot about him is about his nationalist line you hear a lot about his anti-corruption work but you don't hear about his speeches about russia's for russia and so on but if you look a bit closer you can see in some of his speeches that he made earlier this week at protests there were some statements that could easily be clear because a fight as hate speech one of his quotes was i will cut their throats so really some of the people that came out today don't necessarily associate themselves with a political party they came out for free and fair elections but a lot of different parties here today and a lot of different faces of opposition reporting from moscow and he's now a. earlier we heard from get hard man god who is a professor of political science at innsbruck university and he says the protests

are a good sign for russia's political life while u.s. criticism of the country's elections smacks of double standards. it is indeed encouraging that the event took place order to allow the demonstrators to grab at their race there to demonstrate against polish fortifications. elections everything we're peacefully brought. into police that are designed to encourage change and i think it's a positive for our society to marshal or it takes some media stations particularly let's. treat the russian police is behavior very differently for want to say please the united states what is going on in the. human rights and freedom of assembly is a question for always sing in english or are we going to raise the question why did the u.s. state in court why did the us president not not protest so strongly against election results in azerbaijan for interest is in because the u.s. has strong economic and choose strategic interests in this region so you see on the

one hand it's here to to garner greater questions and really manipulation sort. of why double standards it was government so well i would go. if you're right it was about it's fair to ask are there any additional. criticism. well log on to r.t. dot com for all the developments on this story and of course you can check out our you tube channel for the best pictures of the reading. it's.

down the official r.t.l. placation your i phone the i pod. from the i.q. drops to. life on the. video on demand. my old car. now in the palm of your. party dot com. the dream of united europe has been given a bloody nose by the u.k. after prime minister david cameron snubbed the other twenty six e.u. members london opted out at 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 europe pact the treaty to impose sanctions and harmonized budget rules will now have to be agreed upon between individual governments hungary also originally said no to a new treaty but

a since changed his mind and is now consulting its part of it to other states are also doing the same the new plan is due to be agreed upon by next march but economics professor author claimers says it doesn't address the immediate needs of hard hit countries like greece and ireland. it's short of it does look disaster. it's just you need the euro in europe in part that's really the message i'm getting from. the start that that's what really looks as though should lose not going along which in a way i think is the sensible position to take. because i don't see the solution. to get out there. and the summit. going to hold europe a group you folks are only three countries to meet these groups have agreed on no i'm sure it will only mean that on each country should make much of it just much.

always used to tell me we still are going to deal with the problems of greece birth spain portugal ireland and also italy. not being addressed r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come in the program all for one demonstrators around the world call for the release of one of america's most well known prisoners are getting 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. and stories to come the first al qaeda colombia's far guerillas and the occupy london movement in an attempt to put an end to the month and he corporate protests london police equated the group to establish terrorist networks and although the authorities later admitted the comparison was over the top left activists questioning why peaceful protest is being viewed as

a crime either but it 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 he 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 have big 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 i would counter that with this so far this is the only building processed is have occupied it 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 to 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 actually have done that and it's causing police attention. it's going to label it as well you will get a few bad apples 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 the original occupy camp hopes to keep its protest peaceful evicting 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 r.t.

london. well the camp in the u.k. capital is still standing unlike that of the occupiers in the u.s. city of boston who saw their tent city dismantled this morning police moved into the square about five am local time taking down the tents and making dozens of arrests some protesters remove their belongings early fearing police action would be heavy handed the city had set a deadline for midnight on thursday for the protesters to leave but police took no action until today boston is the latest in a recent string of evictions throughout the u.s. as demonstrators are told they must leave their camps now or face prosecution the three month long nationwide movement against corporate excess has already seen thousands of arrests. israeli bombs continue to pound palestinian land with four people killed over the last few days the latest on rest saw an exchange of rockets early saturday morning though no injuries have been reported tensions across the israeli gaza border flared up on thursday and dozens

including children. in gaza since the strikes began is one of the major reasons alongside a massive unemployment rate the people fleeing palestine in search of work and a new life and the saudis policy are explains even a country still reeling from a bloody civil war is seen as a better option. here is where gaza's desperate and unemployed gather thousands who are hoping that the war in libya can offer them over spite from the hardships of war on the doorstep. we don't have any source of income 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 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 two in three gazans live in poverty and every year the ministry of labor says another thirty thousand people joined the

ranks of jobless ever since israel imposed a siege on gaza nearly five years ago the private sector has all but ground to a halt. 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 each day nail 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 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 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 breathe freely with. israel does that mean goal was to be a result of 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 paullus here r.t. on the israel gaza border. more. he's available for you online in addition to what you see him on screen all available to you don't call me finish janice claims he was beaten up by the founder of an extremist website one attempting to record

interviews at a conference in finland. plans to use wild monkeys to measure radiation levels near the focus she let nuclear power plant claiming helicopters they've been using for the purpose cannot provide accurate data and get the story full not one don't call . 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 prisoner. was incarcerated thirty years ago for killing a white police officer a crime he still denies when earlier this week a cult reduce the sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole his supporters claim the former black panther movement member is an innocent political prisoner activist mike farrell says that average amount is a fair trial which he 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 it's really only one step and i hope it doesn't mean that 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 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. you've got to start with a fair trial. well still ahead for you this i haven't r.t. can the world overcome the consumerist obsession. buying trading making selling

is the way to make a living you have better you feel good and then and then you are looking for something else. the resident asked people in new york whether it's time to say no to buying things you don't need. but first post-election standoff that threatened to explode into a revolution in the republic of self seems to be resolved peacefully the outgoing president stepped down a short while ago paving the way for a new poll in march explains. a lot of the quarter has been governing the caucus republic of south asia for ten years has an announced his resignation on saturday emphasizing he has made this decision this isn't a step down to avoid violence and to and the political standoff here in the region indeed following the presidential election here in the firm but the situation here has been very tense and very dangerous 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 relieved following the opposition candidate was victory in the presidential runoff and now the candidate anatoly bill who was expected to win this vote and who was considered as the key favorite of the presidential vote complained to the supreme court of south to set about violations allegedly committed biology of his team and later the court ruled too and now the outcome of the photo and moreover to bar or herself from participating in the next call should yield for march that was something our joy her former education minister saw thirty never accepted she declared herself president elect and submitted her wrong complaint to the supreme court hundreds of her supporters have taken to the streets of the capital to involve 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 people have spent days on this main square in are still here but they've been protesting in the last few days now they are celebrating fair victory and now to some more news from around the world this hour in world updates at least three people are dead following violent clashes in the democratic republic of congo after the results of presidential elections were disputed in the capital protesters blocked roads and threw stones at police who disperse them with two. gass tensions culminated when the opposition leader at the end security rejected the results and declared himself president police have been deployed throughout to bring the situation under control . light aircraft has crashed into a school near the philippine capital shortly after takeoff killing at least thirteen people including two children there were no classes being held at the time of the incident fighters 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. two thousand and eleven nobel peace prize has been presented to three women in the norwegian capital for their non violent struggle for women's rights a prize was awarded jointly to the president of liberia and insulates activist. and pro-democracy campaign called carmen the winners were presented with a medal and the prize money of one point five million dollars will be split between the three women. and also the world cup t.v. star gazers across the world are banking on clear skies as they prepare to catch a glimpse of a spectacular lunar eclipse at the phenomenon's pick the moon will take on a dramatic red hugh the celestial phenomenon will be most clearly visible in east asia and australasia in eclipse as only happens when the sun and moon are perfectly aligned with earth in-between the next eclipse is predicted for twenty.

with just two weeks until the christmas holidays. tools the world over a ringing to the sound of sales but is consumerism running out of control in its own resident in new york asks if what we're buying is really what we need. 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 so much more stuff just because it's jesus's birthday. good question there's no thanksgiving it's black friday so i think that 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've 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 the your are looking for something else yet and then you feel bad because you bought something that you didn't need yeah this is happened way before you were born that's how it is yeah times with additional money was made it was made to train just the value was true but the fact that onerous. buying 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 but the technology was available 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 and we're looking at life in a really shallow way how do you think history is going to remember at 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 are very careful with their money my family in law 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 not i've been it's i was 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. well an easy way to avoid the shops in this festive period is to get skates on which is precisely what the most go out team has been doing.

hello and welcome on this week's program we'll be taking a look at various activities you can enjoy over the festive period that's right christmas is just a few weeks away and there's a real much you can spear in moscow over the new year period i would bet it starts off with good old ice skating here on roads. and john martin andrews in just a few minutes from now here on. the after look at our top stories coming up very shortly stay with us live here in moscow.

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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 that was always controlling them was the dream of many republics work. 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 these words could not be relied upon. he could tell you anything and do something completely different question for you must show up for me to liberal and then sam boris yeltsin before 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.