from phones to. screen starts on t.v. don't come. oh he's twenty five thousand people take to the streets of moscow protesting the results of last sunday's parliamentary vote that gave the ruling united russia party the majority of seats. the biggest protests in moscow for nearly two decades ramp up without incident with protesters praising police restraint joins me and you now in central moscow for more details. dreams of a unified europe in debt as the u.k. rejects a new e.u. deal to save the euro leaving the other twenty six member states to plan among themselves. and seeking

a solution gazans flee war torn palestine seeking better opportunities in libya this country still facing a turbulent future. two am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story tens of thousands of people took to the streets across moscow to protest the results of sunday's parliamentary election opposition groups and people angered by the outcome of the vote gathered for an authorized demonstration in the russian capital similar rallies were held across the country in the biggest protest seen since the turbulent one nine hundred ninety s. correspondent lisa now a has the latest. 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 one hundred 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 through a 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 that happened 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 from the prime minister that people of course have the right to come out and voice their opinions and make demands if it stays out within the law what we heard in terms of what we heard was a little harder criticism from prime minister of a team or person 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 statements are 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 happen. 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 we 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 endowment for democracy and he was that these protests today he was detained actually earlier this week and another i think it's fair to say up and coming star is alexei love volume and 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 know a lot about his anti-corruption work you don't hear about his speeches about russia is 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 be classified 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 use an artsy. russia's election results have been criticized by washington with prime minister putin asking western powers not to interfere in the country's internal affairs meanwhile the head of the state duma foreign affairs committee konstantin coast a child says slamming russia is in the u.s. political interests. i was very much surprised to see the recent comments by hillary clinton and these comments. very much of the free work which was drafted in the preliminary conclusion. parliamentary assembly we see in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe which was the next day after the elections the conclusions are not fair and they believe that these

conclusions by hillary clinton are not free from the political interests of the united states of america because the united states of america are in the competition with russia on very many important issues and this is going to be fun when you can create additional problems for your interlocutor for your partner at the negotiation table then it may be easier for you to reach your own goals so for me the statement by hillary clinton some of the statements by. the european union by nato by other representatives in the west is just a part of the game this is not a democracy in russia this is not about elections in russia this is about jupitus and this is about making a little bit weaker and in order to make yourself a little bit stronger and this is absolutely unacceptable to live under already dot com for more analysis and insight into the story here's what's also a click away right now because make discovery nasa finds

a planet that could sustain life six hundred light years from earth. and that is out of this world bill eight ferrari is a lamborghini two mercedes collide in what's been called the world's most expensive car crash damage estimated around four million dollars to find out what happened at r.t. dot com. but first the idea of a united europe has taken a hard hit from the u.k. britain's decide. added against joining an easy you pack aimed at tackling the eurozone debt crisis leaving the other twenty six member states on their own prime minister cameron blocked the deal saying he was protecting his country's financial interests and sovereignty now instead of a pan european pact sanctions and budget rules last to be agreed upon between individual governments hungary also originally said no to a new treaty but has since changed its mind to other states planning to hold consultations with their national parliaments on the matter the new plan to take

months to finalize and referenda may be required in countries such as ireland german chancellor angela merkel called the tree a breakthrough but some remain skeptical that assume that it's a solution to the crisis economics professor arielle clamorous says the deal doesn't address the immediate needs of hard hit countries like greece. is short of it does a disaster. she just needs the euro is speaking in a new part that's really the message i'm getting from this. to stop that to. this extent that's true and it's not going a lot for each case in a way i think is a sensible position to take. that because i don't see the disillusion. to get out there. and get some it's. going to help europe the greek you this meditate through each three countries to meet each move

if you don't know i'm sure it will mean just that all these countries that make markets to just let's. switch the policy change do to me we still i have nothing to do with the problems reach the state portugal ireland and also into the that has not been addressed. columbia's four girls and the occupying london movement activists in the british capital anger at a police document that lists of their money a stablish terrorist networks although you authorities later admitted the comparison was over the top level occupiers questioning why their peaceful protest is being branded as a crime artie's ivor better 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 protests 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 once they get guests i think a huge number of people want to see a different kind of economic system that's what people here stand for and i want to

come and learn solidarity to that the u.k. is complicated laws on squatting mean the owners still haven't been able to have big then you uninvited tenants since the building wasn't in use the activists don't see why they should leave is it 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 would have 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 because in police attention. it's going to label us as people will be able to get a few grand on. any organisation and they said well look there will like it they're 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 after bennett's london. while the occupy camp in the u.k. capital remains standing activists in the u.s. city of boston have seen their tents dismantled police swept through the square where the occupiers were capping out taking down tents and arresting dozens of activists the city had set a deadline for protesters to leave midnight thursday but police took no action told

today boston's been the latest in cameroon to vacate those demonstrators are told they must leave their camps now work face prosecution three month long occupy movement against corporate greed and inequality has already seen thousands of arrests more details of the story available on our team dot com. well stay with us here on our t.v. still to come all for one demonstrators around the world call for the release of one of america's most well known prisoners arguing his murder conviction was racially motivated bad and. cause for optimism a conflict over election results in the caucuses that right into turn bloody seems to have come to a peaceful resolution. but turning first to the middle east three palestinians have been killed including two suspected militants after a series of israeli missile attacks on gaza city at least fifteen other civilians were wounded in the attack the jewish state's targeted a militant training camp located in a densely populated area israel has apologized for the civilian deaths saying that

palestinian rockets stored next to the cap triggered a large explosion hamas responded by firing a barrage of rockets into southern israel no casualties on their record meanwhile thousands of palestinians continue fleeing the conflict in their homeland seeking opportunities in other countries artie's policy or explains some even think post-war libya is looking like a safer hate. here is way gaza's dispersed and unemployed gather thousands who hoping that the war in libya can offer them a response 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 what people want to run away from here. the queues here are long and full of hope. i'm happy to do any type of work that it is making a difference just to get some income so my children can survive. the united nations puts on employment 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 join the ranks of jobless ever since israel imposed a siege on gaza and eighty five years ago the pointed stick to it has all but ground to a halt on the ground there has to be the economy and. it 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. today the freely with. israel is the main goal was to be in the zone 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 police here r.t. on the israel gaza border. 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 in philadelphia a crime he still denies earlier this week a court reduce the sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole his supporters claim the former black panther militant is an innocent political prisoner david lindorff an investigative reporter thinks the u.s. justice system is unfair to the poor. first of all he clearly had a trial that was a sham there were this documented clear evidence that a lot of the prosecution witnesses were perjuring themselves and the other thing is that he has almost no way to get out of jail now short of a new witness coming forward because of the way our system blocks appeals by by people who are in these situations well it really highlights the fact that you know

first of all most of the people on death row in the united states are black and all of them are poor or you know find rich people on death row the united states of the three thousand six hundred or so people who are on death row i think you'd be hard pressed find one rich person though it highlights how american justice is really skewed to punish the poor and punish minorities and execute them in the cases of. punishment cases. still ahead this hour can the world overcome the consumerist obsession. trading making selling is the way to make a living to have it make you feel good and then i think you are looking for something else the resident as people on the streets of new york whether it's time to say no to buying things you don't need. but first the post-election standoff that threatened to explode into violent unrest in the republic of south s.a.t.'s seems to be resolved peacefully the outgoing president stepped down paving the way

for a new poll in march artie's more if an ocean has more. they thought a quarter has been governing the caucus republic of south senator for ten years has 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 in the region indeed following the presidential election here in the very with the situation here has been very tense and very dangerous following the opposition candidate al gore was victory in the presidential runoff and now the 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 biology of his team and a later the court ruled too and now the outcome of the fur coat and moreover to bar the joy of a host so from participating in the next poll should jolt for march that was something our joy of

a former education minister sol said to never accept it she declared herself the president elect and submit a toll road complaint to the supreme court hundreds of her supporters have taken to the streets of the capital to involve two sides been involved in this conflict have started negotiations where russia has played a role over mediator eventually as we can see that the court has agreed to step down to officially pass the presidential powers to prime minister it's been very tough and difficult but eventually as we can see it's been resolved peacefully. here now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people are dead after violent clashes in the democratic republic of congo following the results of presidential elections being disputed in the capital kinshasa protesters block the roads and threw stones at police who despite who responded with tear gas tensions calm unaided when the opposition leader at the kiddie rejected the results declared himself president riot police have been deployed throughout kinshasa to bring the situation under control. a light aircraft has

crashed into a school near the philippine capital shortly after takeoff killing at least thirteen people including two children there are no classes being held at the time of the incident fire fires have identified two pilots among the dead according to officials the crew declared an emergency after taking off from manila but failed to return to the airport before crashing. the twenty eleven nobel peace prize has been presented to three women in the norwegian capital for their nonviolent struggle for women's rights the prize was awarded jointly to the president of liberia ellen sirleaf activists labor and the pro-democracy ten pain or tell a call carmen the winners were presented with a medal and a diploma the prize many over one point five million dollars will be split between the three women. stargazers have witnessed a spectacular lunar eclipse the celestial display was most clearly visible apart across various parts of asia saturday night the phenomenon's peak the moon took on

a dramatic raid hue lunar eclipses only happen when the sun and moon are perfectly aligned with the earth between the next time it's due to happen is twenty fourteen well with only two weeks until christmas holidays the tills the world over are ringing to the sound of sales but is consumerism running out of control artie's laurie harshness our own resident in new york asked if we're buying what we really 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 then and the you are looking for something else yes and then you feel bad because you bought something but you didn't me 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 the volume was traced with thought the matter was. boring 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 you betcha

it 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 to how i am 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. your god when the time not 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.

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