violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world seen from the streets of canada. a giant corporations rule today. at least twenty five thousand people take to the moscow streets protesting the results of last sunday's parliamentary vote that gave the ruling united russia party the majority of dualist seats the biggest protests in moscow for nearly two decades wrap up without incident with protesters praising police for restraint joining me and he's now in central moscow for more details. dreams of a unified europe in doubt as the u.k. rejects a new deal to save the euro and even the twenty six other member states to settle a plan among themselves. seeking a solution gazans flee war torn palestine seeking better opportunity in libya

despite that country still facing a turbulent future. in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story tens of thousands took to the streets across moscow protesting 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 held across the country the biggest protest russia's seen since the turbulent ninety's artie's correspondent and he said now a has the details from central moscow. 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 to 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 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 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 our 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 he was 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. 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 lou. the 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 he's now a. russia's election results have been sharply 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 poster child thinks slamming russia is america's and politics interests. i was very much surprised to see the recent comments by hillary clinton and these comments. very much out of the framework which was drafted in the preliminary conclusion. parliamentary assembly of all we see in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe which was issued 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 great is that even 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 tools so for me the statement by hillary clinton some of the statements boy by the european union may need to buy other representatives in the west is just a part of the game this is not a world democracy in russia this is not about elections in russia this is about jupitus of this is about making russia a little bit weaker and more in order to make yourself a little bit stronger and this is absolutely unacceptable around r.t. dot com for more insight and analysis on the story here is where you'll also find

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the official. pulled from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. home the idea of a united europe has taken a hit from the u.k. britain's decided against and joining a new e.u. packing to tackling the eurozone debt crisis leaving the other twenty six member states on their own prime minister cameron block the deal saying he was protecting his country's financial interests and sovereignty now instead of a pan-european pad sanctions and budget rules to be agreed upon between individual governments hungary also originally said no to the treaty but has since changed its mind to other states planning to hold a consultations with their national parliaments on the matter of the new plan could

take months to finalize in a referendum may be required in countries like ireland german chancellor angela merkel called the treaty of breakthrough but some remain skeptical that it's a solution to the crisis economics professor aureole claimer a says the deal doesn't address the immediate needs of hard hit countries like greece. is short of a dozen years auster. she just didn't need the euro expecting a european union a part that's really the message i'm getting from this. to stop the smoke detector that's not going along which is the way i think is a sensible position to take. because i don't see the solution. to get out there. and to some it's. going to help europe a great deal to meditate to only three countries to meet the roots that they have

agreed on no it's only mean does that all these countries make adjustments in these for a policy issue to me going to be still having to deal with the problems of greece staying portugal ireland and also into the debt has not been addressed. al-qaeda colombia's far guerillas and now the occupy london movement activists in the british capital angered at a police department document that lists them among the established terrorist networks although authorities later admitted the comparison was a little over the top it left the occupiers question why their peaceful protest is being branded as a crime artie's ivor bennett has more from london. 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 notably 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 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 then you uninvited tenants since the building wasn't in use the activists don't see why they should leave is it fair though to occupy 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 what's going on in the organisation and they've said well look there will likely non-i and 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 on the bennetts london while the occupy camp in the u.k. capital is still standing activists in the u.s. city of boston have seen their tents to dismantle police swept through the square where occupiers were camping taking down tents and making dozens of arrests the city had set a deadline for protesters to leave by midnight thursday but police took no action

till today boston is the latest encampment to be evicted as demonstrators are told they must leave their camps now or face prosecution a three month long occupy movement against corporate greed any equality is already seen thousands of arrests more details on the story available on our website our team. well stay with us plenty more headed your way including 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 plus. a cause for optimism not conflict over election results in the caucuses that threaten to 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 military targeted a hamas training camp located in

a densely populated area israel's apologize for civilian deaths saying palestinian rockets stored next to the camp triggered a large explosion hamas responded by firing a barrage of rockets into southern israel no casualties reported where thousands of palestinians continue fleeing the conflict in their homeland seeking opportunities in other countries as artie's policy reports some even think post-war libya could be a safer haven. here is way gaza's dispersed and unemployed gather thousands who hoping that the war in libya can offer them of a spine's from the haulage ships on the doorstep. we don't have any source of income prisoners are in better conditions than us and that's what people want to run away from here. the queues here are long and full of hope. and i'm happy to do any time you would think 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 and three gazans live in poverty and every year the ministry of labor says another thirty thousand people join the ranks of jobless ever since israel imposed a siege on gaza nearly five years ago the private sector has all but ground to a halt but i'm interested in 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 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 to control the control of the sea control the people in gaza. to drain the freely with the outside israel is the main goal was to be in the zone for the siege in gaza and this israeli government did not deny that 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 restoration. have been held in the cities worldwide

calling for the release of a man who until a few days ago was america's most high profile death row prisoner momi abu jamal was incarcerated thirty years ago for killing a white philadelphia police officer a crime he still denies earlier this week a court reduce the sentence to life in prison without parole his supporters claim the former black panther militant is an innocent political prisoner david lindorff an investigative reporter says the keys proves the shortcomings in the u.s. justice system. 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 defect 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 you don't find rich people on death row in the united states of the of the three thousand six hundred or so people who are on death row i think you'd be hard pressed to find one rich person though it highlights how american justice is really you need to punish the poor and punish minorities and execute them in the cases of. capital punishment cases. stay with us here on r t still to come this hour tis the season to shop. buying trading making selling is the way to make a living to have that you feel good and then i think you are looking for something else the resident asked people in new york if spending money is that important to getting in the holiday spirit. but first a post-election standoff that threatened to explode into violent unrest in the

republic of south a say seems to have been resolved peacefully the outgoing president has stepped down paving the way for a new poll in march artie's marie if an ocean explains. they thought of course who's been governing the caucus republic of south such a full 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 end the political standoff in the region indeed fold in the presidential election here in the very with the situation here has been very tense and very dangerous following the opposition candidate 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 complains to the supreme court of south thirty about violations allegedly committed by all the joy of his team and a late term the court ruled two and not the outcome of the photo and moreover to bar the host so from participating in the next poll should do it for march that was

something alan joyce the former education minister said to me never accepted she declared herself as president elect and submitted to row complaint to the supreme court hundreds of her supporters have taken to the streets of i kept involved two sides been involved in this conflict have started negotiations where russia has played a role over mediator eventually as we can see that as 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 turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three are dead after violent clashes in the democratic republic of congo following the results of presidential elections being disputed in the capital kinshasa protesters blocking roads and from stones at police will disperse them with tear gas tensions came to a peak when opposition leader and cheerfully caving rejected the results of the vote and declared himself president riot police were deployed throughout the

capital to bring the situation under control. a light aircraft has crashed into a school near the philippine capital. after takeoff killing at least thirteen people including two children no classes were being held at the time of the incident firefighters identified two pilots among the dead according to officials the crew declared an emergency after takeoff 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 johnson sirleaf activist bowie and pro-democracy campaigner telecom carmen winners were presented with a medal and diploma prize money of one and a half million dollars will be split between the three. and stargazers have witnessed as spectacular a lunar eclipse the celestial display was clearly visible across parts of asia

saturday night the phenomenon's peak at the phone and speak the moon took on a dramatic red hugh lunar eclipse is happening when the sun and moon are perfectly aligned with the earth in between them the next one due for twenty fourteen finally in this news block with just two weeks till christmas holidays cash registers around the world are ringing to the sound of sales but should shopping be the true spirit of the season laurie harf an istar resident in new york asked 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 our focus if this isn't 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 but you didn't mean 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 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 the technology was available you thought you 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 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 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.

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