friendly. dynamic. so do friends but. my co. twenty five thousand protesters are officially said to have been out on the streets of central moscow to contest the outcome of sunday's parliamentary election but organizers claimed the numbers were. the biggest protest in moscow for nearly two decades ramp up without incident with protesters praising police for restraint join me and he's now in central moscow for more details. the u.k. is presenting no true a new pen european deal shadow overunity dreams of a twenty six member states to poland plans of saving the euro amongst themselves. and from the frying pan into the fire gazans whose lives have been shattered by

israeli rocket siege and sanctions see a better future even in war torn libya the top stories this. international news incoming to around the clock around the world this is. twenty five thousand people have given voice to a peaceful opposition rally in the heart of the russian capital the call to arms was issued after sunday's parliamentary election that the opposition claimed was rigged and 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 some of the opposition

speakers today claiming there was hundreds of hundred or one hundred fifty thousand people here clearly that's not the case 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 thousands did peacefully make their way to below my square which is where the protest took place and moscow wasn't the only city which saw a protest they began out east invited us stopped took place across central russia and in st petersburg as well there 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 vladimir putin about outside comments about russia's election specifically speaking about secretary of state hillary clinton and her comments said 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 onto their web site and actually see some of these communications that happened between the u.s. state department and goal is to observe this election 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 ways 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 he was 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 is 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 an artsy well earlier we heard from the get hard man god who's a professor of political science at university he says the protests are a good sign for russia's political life while u.s. criticism of the country's election smacks of double standards it is indeed encouraging the bench of order to allow the demonstrators. to demonstrate against polish or to. be elections and everything which is actually sleep. and it's only encouraged me and i think it's a positive for russia in march or it takes some media stations particularly let's. treat the russian leaders behave differently if say please your united states what is going on in the. human rights and freedom of assembly is

a question for all. are we going to release the question why did the us. why did the president not not come to us so strongly against election results in azerbaijan . is in because the us has strong economic and choose to teach interests in this region so you see on the one hand it's clear to two great questions and ask anybody manipulation. if your. it's fair to ask are there any additional. well you can come from all the developments on this story check out our you tube channel for the best pictures of the ready. is.

the official anti application your i phone i pod touch from the top story. on the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. on the 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 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 treaty to impose sanctions or harmonize budget rules will now have to be agreed upon between individual governments over also originally said no to a new treaty but has since changed its mind and is now consulting its parliament two of the states are also doing the same the new plan is due to be agreed upon by next march but economics professor claim or says it doesn't address the immediate needs of hard hit countries like greece and. short of it don't 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 goes for. not going along which in a way i think is a sensible position to take. because i don't see the solution. figured out there. and the summit. going to help europe

a group you remember take to reach three countries who need to be root have agreed on not sure needed on each country should make massive adjustments in. policies to to meet we still having to deal with the problems of greece spain portugal ireland and also italy. not being addressed. well still to come the program here in r.t. for one that demonstrates is around the world call for the release of one of america's most well known prisoners are getting his murder conviction was politically. cause for optimism a conflict over election results and the caucuses which threatened to turn bloody seems to have come to a peaceful solution. a story start to come but first al qaeda colombia's fark guerillas and the occupy london movement in an attempt to put an end to the

months long anti corporate protest and the police equated the group to establish terrorist networks and although the authorities later admitted the comparison was over the top and left activists questioning why peaceful protest is being viewed as a crime either but it has this report. 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're 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 i would counter that with this so far this is the only building processed is have occupied they 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 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 and it's going to label us as people will we will get a few bad on it's own unit 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. capitalist ill standing unlike that of their fellow occupiers in the u.s. city of boston who saw their tent city dismantled the smalling police moved into the square about five am local time taking down the tents and making forty six arrests some protesters remove their belongings early very police action would be heavy handed the city had set a deadline for midnight on thursday for the protesters to leave the police took no action until today is the latest in a recent string of addictions 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 as already 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 no injuries have been reported tensions across the israeli gaza border flared up on thursday and dozens including children have been wounded in gaza since the recent wave of strikes began one of the major reasons alongside a massive unemployment rate that people are fleeing palestine in search of work and a new life and as it is part of their 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 and 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 that it does 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 tickle through each day now shall we 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 the control. of the control of the people in gaza. to three the freely with. israel is the me and cause me of the zone for the siege in gaza and this is where the 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 police here r.t. on the israel gaza border. more news available online in addition to what you see here on screen at zero dot com that's a web site you can find out about a finnish journalist who claims he was beaten up by the founder of an extremist website one attempting to record interviews at a conference in finland. and said you plan plans to use wild monkeys to measure radiation levels near the fukushima nuclear plant claiming helicopters they've been using for the purpose called provide accurate data and get the story. the. demonstrations have been held in cities worldwide calling for the release of a man who until a few days ago it 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 well earlier this week a quote reduce the sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole is supporters claim the former black panther movement member is an innocent political

prisoner activist like powell says bush deserves 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 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 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. still ahead for you this 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 president asked people in new york whether it's time to say no to buying things you don't need. a post-election standoff that threatened to explode into a revolution in the republic of south ossetia seems to have been resolved peacefully well going president step down paving the way for a new poll in march. explains a lot of the quarter who's been governing the caucus republic of south center for ten years has and now as his resignation on saturday emphasizing he has made this decision this isn't a step down to avoid violence and to end the political standoff in the region

indeed following the presidential election here in the very by the situation here has been very tense and very dangerous following the opposition candidate our joy of his victory in the presidential runoff and now the candidate and it will 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 of south the city about violations allegedly committed biology of his team and later the court ruled too and now the outcome of the vote and moreover to bar the job or herself from participating in the next fall should yield for march that was something our joy her former education minister saw thirty never accepted she declared herself president elect and submitted to wrong complain 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. well now to some more news from around the world this hour 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 kinshasa protesters blocked roads and threw stones at police who disperse them with tear gas tensions culminated when opposition leader etienne tshisekedi rejected the results and declared himself president police have been deployed throughout to bring the situation under control. a large aircraft has crashed into a school near the philippine capital shortly after takeoff killing at least thirteen people including two children and 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 takeoff from manila but failed to return to the airport before crashing. the two thousand and eleven nobel

peace prize has been presented to three women in the norwegian capital for the non violent struggle for women's rights the prize was awarded jointly to the president of liberia ellen sirleaf activist and pro-democracy campaign a topical common the winners were presented with a medal and a diploma of prize money of one point five million dollars will be split between the three women. star gazers across the world of banking on clear skies as they prepare to catch a glimpse of a spectacular lunar eclipse the phenomenon's pic the moon will take on a dramatic red hugh the celestial display will be most clearly visible in east asia and australasia in the eclipse is only happen when the sun and moon are perfectly aligned with earth in between and the next eclipse is predicted for twenty fourteen . with just two weeks until the christmas holidays tills the world over ringing to the sound of sales but is consumerism running out of control. and

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 you know what does it say about us as a culture that more 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 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 was way to train the volume was true but the fact that the owner was. 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 the true 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 just posable. that we are exactly that we're looking at life in a really shallow way how do you think history is going to remember at this time and

age is consumerism 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 the. god i'm in the time that i've been it's not. 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 that's a bring up to date for the moment it's coming up to twenty seventh in the russian capital be back with today's headlines after this short break stay with us life and must.

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