the latest news in the week's top stories the mass protest engulfing russia in the aftermath of the parliamentary elections passed smoothly despite predictions of violence and allegations of provocation. that your limbs just you know their day leaders agree on sanctions politics despite a british media against any changes that would place the e.u.'s financial reins firmly in the hands of brussels. also washington's right to extradite people from the u.k. without offering evidence of the or guilt leaves british m.p.'s to call for the abolition of the controversial treaty.

now many in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie russia has seen a post-election frenzy this week many of those dissatisfied with the results two to venting their anger on the streets this culminated into the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but the spy ominous predictions it passed peacefully. cross live to a correspondent in duluth of us more on this so rita tell us more about the week's rallies. well this is this is probably the biggest rally russia has seen in the past twenty years according to the police estimates twenty five thousand people have gathered in most goes this square to express their protest and what they say were fraudulent elections they did not agree with the force that was the.

the preliminary results of the polls which took place last sunday they say that they demand a recount just as one of their major requests again the rally of course was held peacefully sounds some people are saying that there were around eighty thousand people again worse than the police the police usually say there are twenty thousand people have gathered in the center of moscow this comes after a very rather intense week for the opposition forces in russia. there were some protests held earlier in the week on monday and on tuesday now those protests were a lot more exuberant if we may say so there were a dozen people arrested but of course there were fears that this also will be this that this major rally may also result in competition between the police and the protesters but everybody who was in the protest have you know tweeted or written anywhere else on the internet or have expressed their opinions otherwise just at

that the police have acted absolutely in a very nonchalant very civilized manner and arrest one so every word maybe some people have brought in even the white flowers with the white being sort of a chosen color for the protest rallies in moscow and they have given those flowers which they brought with them to the police of course the protests were also held in various other russian cities like a lot of us talk and see petersburg and everywhere again that the demonstration of the discontent were peaceful with no arrests made and of course the protesters are saying if their demands are not heard by the government if the vote is not recounted they will gather again in two weeks time and they promise to bring more people out on the street. well you know as well election results on protests have attracted some comments from beyond the russian mourners what more can you tell us about this. well of course the the results are now saying that the united russia party is firmly in first place there just short of that fifty percent of the fifty

percent of all of votes with the communists coming in strong second and the e.u. the united states has already have already expressed their dissatisfaction with the voting first teacher of the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said that she's worried about the state of democracy in russia of course she remarks were not met very kindly by russia's ministry of foreign affairs special foreign minister has actually ignored a meeting with hillary clinton. earlier this week but. again there was interesting confrontation not know that confrontation rather i should say there was an interesting development after one particular russian website has gotten it has our . e-mail exchange between a non-governmental organization goalless who are supposed to monitor the elections so they have. they have managed to get a hold of the e-mail exchange between that's going to zation and the united states department of state department which obviously showed there was some sort of

monetary exchange going on between the observers and. the state department so that's an interesting development we should see how that how will that proceed but for now all is peaceful and quiet in moscow and we're waiting for the results of the rallies ok rina thanks very much indeed for bringing us up to date or in english there reporting from central moscow and for more on this you can go online to our t. dot com and see anger being showcased in an unconventional way russians who couldn't make it to the streets themselves instead they are toys have a say and a creative twist to the rallies a flash mob of toy figures from dwarfs to penguins protest of the election results log on to our web site r t v dot com to see more. now the election rallies have garnered attention world while though the facts didn't always match the picture being painted in just its latest blunder america's fox news used videos of violent clashes and streets ablaze to show what was happening in russia

only the food which was wrong parties marina has more. america has its fair share of protests and political dissent to be dealing with instead of keeping an eye on the ball the country's mass media machine has turned to protests in russia and dropped the ball on reporting the facts. the protesters have gathered in lost value lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real united russia party the only problem is that this video is not from russia fox news channel aired a video of fires and chaos in athens convincing viewers that this mayhem is playing out in moscow the fair and balanced network paid no mind to the greek lettering in the background in case you're wondering it says greek national bank what matters is that this is what moscow protests have looked like it's not surprising whatsoever

that at the moment that there would be any kind of protest no matter how small it be in russia against the russian government that it would be greatly exaggerated in media and used by the u.s. government as well as a way to try to somehow push for a change in russia that would be more favorable to u.s. interests journalist and author eva golinger believes mass media is washington's most valuable weapon in encouraging revolt elsewhere under the mantle of spreading democracy such as the so-called orange revolution in ukraine. or ruse revolution in georgia. perception is created that something is happening in a country that's not right and that the government is somehow responsible and so therefore if that government ends up being removed it somehow is justified that you know the media has played a key role in creating a justification for regime change similar anti-government demonstrators have been reported and other city in russia u.s. leaders have leveled harsh criticism against russia in the aftermath of the problem

entry election and critics say it's free press has worked to. course the narrative the media tends to march in lockstep with the government tends to take its cues from the government it tends to you know mobilize its resources to showcase what the government says is true even when later it turns out not to be true as was the case in this erroneous c.n.n. report well in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans writing in moscow all over the killing of a fellow supporter the problem is that we showed the wrong pictures only after the error was repeatedly noticed c.n.n. owned up to its mistake to apologize for the era of grateful to the many russian viewers who've pointed out to us the sloppiness of it or it is reflecting you know the lack of awareness of the journalists themselves many of them are completely

uninformed about the world they have opinions that have no factual basis to him but it doesn't stop them because it's what looks good that matters more than what really is true the truth is that america has its own social economic and political challenges to be dealing with and while washington works on getting its own house in order powerful mass media outlets can work on getting their facts straight marina point nine or r.t. new york. times writer pascoe barr says the use of the wrong images by fox wasn't accidental but he believes it's not an issue that should distract attention from the united russia party as a response to voters' concerns. look if you think folks news seriously that's a major mistake but i am merican said by people all across the world this basically is a p.r. operational to republican party really a real wing nut faction which is most of them of course c.n.n.

basically is a mouse these of the state department but i don't understand why they wouldn't have a reason to sing it was not for you proved we've instances of american government so don't take these people seriously what we should take seriously it's what's really happening inside russia and then you have to pay attention to russian media ok there were some of the regulators in the election just like there you agree with averages in any you know action in european countries in the us in two thousand and slower in the us in two thousand and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address grievances from parts of the russian population this is the real issue and still had in just a few minutes here in r.t. levy is dash for cash infused by the revolutionary spirit of the uprising the hopes of a bright future bush is leaving his new leaders to make an international plea for funds

. for heroes desperate struggle for survival was struck another blow this week a british veto shattered delicately laid plans to synchronize their finances it all happens at a critical summit in brussels where twenty three out of twenty seven member nations voted to hand brussels absolute oversight over the budgets of all member states are just as are salient brings us this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what to really make of it a two speed europe is being formed almost all of the e.u. members have said they will forge ahead with the franco german plan of a new treaty resulting in a fiscal union with a tighter grip on finances there was only one clear no the u.k. decided to go it alone with british prime minister david cameron essentially saying we wish you the best but we're out i think what we saw was the biggest split in the european union in fifteen years and whether david cameron knows it or not what he

did was the first step towards the exit door a european marriage has soured britain was dubbed isolated but the rest will give it another go and those of the helm are determined to make the european dream work . i believe that with what we've achieved move made an important step towards the last and to do it here of the euro. so e.u. leaders have agreed upon a general plan which as expected was no magic solution markets are still on shaky ground growth prospects are still bleak for several countries and while they live to see another day we have to go home and explain to their people why it should and what it would really cost the proper implementation is crucial to get us back on the growth spec path and member states i believe need to do more to fully implement the country specific recommendations so what does that mean for greece for example european leaders have just approved an eight billion euro trash of aid to prevent

the country from going bankrupt in exchange greece promised to cut its deficit to five point four percent of its g.d.p. from a projected nine percent this year translation more tax hikes and spending cuts for greeks still reeling from previous a sturdy measures. if we were to put this you're a package to the electorates of greece of portugal ireland officially of spain they would all say no i really these countries now find themselves these electorates find themselves trapped inside economic prison that is called the euro their democracy has been stripped from them and my fear is that the kind of civil disobedience and civil disorder that you've already seen on the streets of greece will multiply and what of sovereignty the whole concept of national solvent has become a very gray zone once we have each other together by means of a common currency. the great worry at the moment is that we're being asked to make

sacrifices in the context of a plan supposedly for saving the euro keeping greece solvent which is not going to work the specifics of this new treaty have yet to be drawn up and approved by march two thousand and twelve with so much at stake there will no doubt be a lookout for the devil in those details does or celia r.t. brussels the greek pm look as papademos expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. stunt your crab himself he believes it's that use last chance to correct past wrongs but patrick young of investment firm devi advisor says e.u. leaders are simply creating an illusion of action. everything greek has been devalued for the course of the last year or months well democracy as we all know is an instant greek world and that too has been quite clearly devalued over the course of this agreement i mean we are seeing here a curious kind of hooch i mean france and germany are basically saying we know best

we know how the euro zone should be run and this is what should happen but might be a reasonable idea if their own behavior had actually been exemplary but for those who look back say a decade we used to have a thing called the stability and growth pact and the stability and growth pact said any person who has a budget deficit of more than three percent of g.d.p. will be strictly strictly told off for what they've done in the euro so what do we find nearly a decade later well we've got you know this physicist turned girl wonder politician markey and her chihuahua sarky running around saying well what we've decided is if you run a thirty percent g.d.p. deficit you're going to find yourself in deep trouble nothing has changed no one wants to obey the rules and france and germany are trying to dictate on the rest of europe how this should run their economies and essentially coral's of them have

their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems and one of the details of the proposed changes to e.u. treaties is sanctions intended to discipline an e.u. nation and fails to comply with brussels economic well but british m.p. godfrey bloom says it's simply too late for punishment that those who broke the rules first have gotten away scot free. the first people to break the rules i think was in two thousand and three with the french and the germans by breaking the maastricht treaty sixty percent of g.d.p. rule so they've been breaking the rules everybody's be breaking the rules they continue to break the rules so the whole thing is a complete shambles and they tried to sell it so it's all over it but it's not working the thing is we are now witnessing the end game. if the euro had been a hole so they would have shot it on the professional economists i've been thirty five years of professional economists this isn't about politics this is be about economics and i've never known it in the history of the world politics bt economics

water doesn't flow uphill that's the moment short of it forget my politics it doesn't really matter the long and short of it is this project is doomed to failure it was always tuned to failure and moreover i would have the people responsible i would have the rain and i would have a fiscal crimes tribunal i would like to see some of these people sent to prison. and coming out for you russian nato's missile shield stalemate. i think the idea is that political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration will use it as weak. moscow says the alliance isn't ready to cooperate on missile defense we've got analysis on why the block is dad sat in its way. worn down by finding militias that are armed to the teeth libya's new authorities are striving for cash they call them the u.n. this week to unfreeze assets worth an estimated one hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars to pay wages and rebuild state institutions are jesus on

a boy found many libyans wondering who's going to fund their future. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of tripoli now have to get used to a new alarm to the city of two million people has an extensive rooster population and the birds have all but replaced rifle chatter as the herald's of the new dollar . there is no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. while the revolutionary rush has spared hardly any will in tripoli people here are clearly for teeth by eight months of civil war this may be the leader it could lead to its very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface it seems that the normal full life in tripoli has been restored the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face the last few months ago already has its fountain running but then you leave you feel facing the danger of running in wrong

this shallow waters of national politics much for its absence remain frozen between the government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies it has already become a major part of the revolution the respect we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the gadhafi regime a former engineering student who joined two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom. at the beginning everything was absolutely peaceful there were no guns we want to the friends of the journalists put them dictator used gone far against the most money on rebels three months later mohammad is definitely in the driver's seat revels of the country's new heroes popular with women and the public at large if not with a rifle by his side muhammad would be like a twenty seven year old in any other country cruising around on a saturday night but good because. it's not like he was underprivileged under

gadhafi regime he simply leaves in a three hundred square meter. house in the prestigious area of tripoli they say the revolution has brought them along the way to democracy but is yet to translate into concrete benefits we had free education on health care on the gadhafi of course we expected to remain free but it also needs to be improved the new authorities also have to decrease prices on raise salaries so that ordinary people can join all the benefits of the revolution. here exactly how the new government can afford to do so in a country a ruling by war and stripped of much of its budgetary income is everybody's guess the forty two years of going to his rule had told libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations in the new york authorities is very high. i have big plans for my life in a year are sold god willing i want to finish my education get a good job and save enough money to marty and it's all become possible for us now.

and in the national economies i'm not so. i think the fact that they were willing to destabilize a regime that had demonstrably one of the highest living standards in in north africa goes to show the fact that they were not so interested in what benefited the people as a whole in the first place they were more interested in forming their their economic ties to the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bride not least because it's also very blurred actually we've got our team tripoli libya may have been torn apart by revolution but it's still a last last resort for a desperate few a coward and unemployed of gaza seek shelter there in an effort to escape the violence on their own doorstep as israeli bombs pound the palestinian land. and around fifty anti wall street protesters have been arrested in the u.s. as police we through and new york square are tearing down their intense.

british m.p. . has called for a radio she ation of what they see as a biased extradition treaty with the u.s. this week agreed in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven it allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply but as artie's advent of reports from london patience is running low. all take and no give that's the growing feeling in britain's parliament against america's controversial extradition treaty it was signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven tannic and makes it far easier for the u.s. to take people from the u.k. from the other way around now forty five m.p.'s from the three main parties have crossed the political divide and joined forces they finally forced a debate and parliamentary vote and what they called an injustice was

a mistake in the first person in history i think it was a mistake it's not a level playing field even with a partner like america we need to make sure that we of being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case of the moment britain must present evidence for any extradition but america doesn't need to a long awaited independent inquiry recently ruled this relationship was balanced but the numbers suggest otherwise one hundred twenty three people have been surrendered to america under the treaty since two thousand and four only fifty four have gone the other way america's ambassador to the u.k. is branded these figures myths and in accuracies where they were figures he's embassy refused to reveal he's even accused m.p.'s of willfully distorting the facts in the run up to this crunch vote in parliament that could shift the balance but m.p.'s aren't backing down joining a battle some have fought since the treaty was signed i think you know the seeing

how many injustices have been caused because of it it was meant to be for terrorists offenses it wasn't meant to be for the kenya things they're using no janice's is gary mckinnon a mainstay on america's extradition wish list he was arrested ten years ago after hacking into pentagon files he says he was merely searching for u.f.o.'s gary has asperger's syndrome and according to his mother. should be tried in the u.k. on medical grounds but america's not giving up on one of their most wanted it is so vengeful. you think it was a summit in washington is so over the top they left him on his internet for three and a half years after the arrest if gary was the slightest threat that wouldn't have been done but it's very much i think he embarrassed them and because of that they were very angry at him there nine cases currently fighting extradition to america

richard o'dwyer is the latest he's wanted on copyright charges for creating a search engine for pirated content it's not even considered a crime in the u.k. but at the moment that doesn't matter the u.s. can still get them. the coalition government promised to change this while in opposition there was their chance to deliver on the bennett r t london. for wednesday's session of the russian nato council broad no progress in resolving the deadlock over a planned allied missile shield in europe moscow says the u.s. led block isn't ready to cooperate on the issue russia has repeatedly asked for a legal hearing teased out a planned missile the fan system won't be aimed against that there have been warnings of a new arms race of nato nations continue to ignore moscow's concerns washington claims the shield will deter aggression from iran and north korea but lawrence krauss from arizona state university says it's only needed for political reasons. there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear

weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you would be very difficult to imagine a country of that size aiming a ballistic missile at the united states because it would be like marking the country for an oily yet is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't exist the worst thing to look like. is that you're weak on defense so if people say we can build a shield as some people say then why not do it that's so i think the idea is that political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration would be views as weak and it doesn't want to be viewed as weak right now from a strategic perspective going into a national election. now this has been a big week for of ghana stan as delegates from key countries gathered in germany to decide the nation's fate the conference pledged financial support for the violence ridden country until foreign forces are fully was drawn by twenty twenty four

russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said all foreign troops should be moved out of afghanistan ten years earlier than that as was initially planned but neighbor pakistan crucial to the reasons future boycotted the meeting in protest and apparently errant u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers spied that former afghan m.p. daoud sultanzoy says kumble is optimistic about its diplomatic future. understanding needs russia's friendship but there's no doubt about that we need to cooperate with each other we live in the same region but at the same time up on the stand is also in a predatory neighborhood. some of the problems that we are facing will affect russia in the short term and in the long term the terrorism extremism and drugs these are all problems that are. threatening both nations so i hope that that instead of that we have to we can sit down and find

a cooperation of environment and framework with which russia can play a better role russia is a major country in the region and russia should be more active and constructive way in afghanistan needs that partnership with russia as well because of the conference and of course the regional game that is being played in this country one can see a regional touch in this situation by trying to explain to the international community that this region has its own life and events can turn on its on their own the kids here and international conferences could mean very little that's one way of looking at it but on the other hand also there are many rogue elements within the country also that can. can be pinpointed there are fingers could be pointed to them but it's too early to really. point your finger to a specific direction there are so many variables so many factors and i'm sure the

next few days a lot will be more clear on that brings us up to date here on our t.v. and another look at the top stories of the week is coming your way shortly.