latest news on the week's top stories the mass protest engulfing russia in the aftermath of the parliamentary elections past woodley despite predictions of violence and allegations of provocation. euro limbs to sea and the other day leaders agree on sanctions politics despite a british veto against any changes that would place it used financial reins firmly in the hands of brussels. also washington's right to extradite people from the u.k. without offering evidence of their guilt leaves british m.p.'s to call for the abolition of the controversial treaty.

that is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with the arena joshie welcome to the program and russia has seen a post-election frenzy this week many of those dissatisfied with the results to advancing their anger on the streets this culminated into the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but despite all of us predictions it passed peacefully artie's a renewed reports. this is probably the biggest rally that russia has seen in the past twenty years according to the police estimates twenty five thousand people have gathered in moscow's below this square to express their protest and what they say were fraudulent elections they do not agree with the preliminary results of the polls which took place last sunday they say that they demand a recount this is one of their major requests again that the rally of course was

held peacefully some people are saying there were around eighty thousand people again we're saying that the police actually 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 those were protests were a lot more exuberant if we may say so there were dozens of people arrested but of course there were fears that this major rally may also result in conversation between the police and the protesters but everybody who was in the protest and have 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 at a rest whatsoever wormy 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 powers 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 took in st petersburg and everywhere again that they demonstration of the discontent were peaceful 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 when they promise to bring more people out on the street the united russia party is firmly in first place there just short of that fifty percent of all the votes with the communists coming in showing second and the united states has already have already expressed their dissatisfaction with the voting first teacher the u.s. secretary. 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 there was an interesting development posture one particular russian website has got this. e-mail exchange between a non-governmental organization goalless who are supposed to monitor the elections they have managed to get a hold off the email exchange between organization and the united states department

of state department which obviously showed there was some sort of monetary exchange going on between the observers of course how that all develops we have yet to see reading those core reporting there from moscow for more go online to r.t. dot com and you'll see anger being showcased in an unconventional way russians couldn't make it to the streets themselves instead let their toys have a say in a crate of twists to the rallies a flash mob of toy figures from wars to hang one's protest of the election results so on to our website to see before. the election rallies have garnered a tantrum worldwide although the facts didn't always match the picture being painted and just its latest wonder america's fox news used videos of violent clashes and streets ablaze to show what was happening in russia and only the food which was wrong are reports. 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 at moscow's lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his russian 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 parliamentary election and critics say its free press has worked to. reinforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step 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 a rooney a c.n.n. report while 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 i do apologize for the era and are grateful to the many russian viewers who have 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. r.t. new york times writer pepe escobar 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 take folks news seriously that's a major mistake but i am merican says by people all across the world this basically is a p.r. operation of the republican party really a real league not perfection which is most of them of course c.n.n. basically is a mouse piece of the state department but i don't in the cia they would never release anything that was not free approved we've instances of american government so don't take these people seriously what we should take seriously it's quotes

really have been inside russia and then you have to pay attention to russian media ok there were some irregularities in the election just like very real averages in the ne election in european countries in the us in two thousand and slower than 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 group it says from barts of the russian population this is the real issue. and so i had in a few minutes libya's dash forecasts and by the revolution carried out the uprising the hopes of a bright future push as leading as new leaders make an international treaty for funds. iran's desperate struggle for survival was struck another blow this week a british b.-o. shattered delicately laid plans to synchronize the 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 act

he says 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 route i think what we saw was the biggest split in the european union in fifteen years 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 and economic growth prospects are still bleak for several countries and while the euro live to see another day leaders will 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 this back on the growth spark passed 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 hysteria measures. if we were to put this you're a package to the electorates of greece of portugal ireland italy spain

they would all say no i really these countries now find themselves these electorates find themselves trapped inside an 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 the has become a very gray zone ones 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 specifics of this new treaty have yet to be drawn up and approved by march two thousand and twelve it's so much at stake there will no doubt be a lookout for the devil and those details does are still here r t brussels

the greek pm locus poverty most expressed his support for a brussels centric. self he believes it's the e.u. is the last chance to correct past wrongs but patrick young of an investment firm devi advisor says e.u. leaders are simply creating an illusion of action. everything in 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 could change 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 not just 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 eurozone 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 paris say 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 corals of them have their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems one of the details of the proposed changes to treaties is sanctions intended to discipline any nation that fails to comply with brussels economic well but british and p. got three balloon says it's simply too late for punishment and 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're trying to strap sell a tape all over it but it's not working the thing is we are now what we're seeing 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 beat about the economics and i've never known in the history of the world politics beat economics but water doesn't flow uphill as long and 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 doomed to failure and moreover i would have the people responsible i would have them arraigned i would have a fiscal crimes tribunals i would like to see some of these people sent to prison

coming out for you russian natives missile shield stalemate. i think the idea is those political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration will use it as we moscow says the alliance isn't ready to cooperate on missile defense and we've got analysis of why a lot of his debts that it's way. down by five being malicious that are armed to the teeth libya's new authorities are striving for cash they called on the u.n. this week to freeze assets worth an estimated one hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars to pay wages and rebuild state institutions are jesus not a boy found many libyans wondering who is going to fund their future. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of tripoli now have to get used to a new alarm until the city of two million people has an extensive rooster population and the birds have all but replaced rifle chatter at the heralds of the

million dollar. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. while the revolutionary russia has spared hardly any wall in tripoli people here are clearly fatigued by eight months of civil war this may be deliberate in glebe it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface it seems that the normal life in tripoli has been restored a city where many homes didn't have access to face to face laughin few months ago already has its fountain running but the new leaf it is still facing the danger of running in wrong in the shallow waters of international politics much for its absence remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and profit it has already become a major part of the revolutionary spirit we first met muhammad in august on the frontlines of bani walid one of the final strongholds of the get out here regime

a former and nearing student he joined two of his brothers in what he says was a win or die fight for freedom because at the beginning everything was absolutely peaceful there were no guns we want to freedom and fairness but then the dictator used gone far against us and we lost 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 goodness. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square. their 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 have 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 and 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 every bit as good as the forty two years of get his rule had told libyans to rely on government for just about everything and the level of expectations in the storage is very high. i have big plans for my life in a year or so god willing i want to finish my education get a good job and save enough money to mari it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies i'm not stopping i think the fact that they were willing to destabilize the regime that had demonstrably one of the highest living standards 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 here for the moment the future seems breivik not please because it's also very layered actually where you are t. tripoli libya may have been torn apart by revolution but it's still a land of last resort for a desperate few. unemployed of gaba seeks shelter they are in an effort to skate the violence on their own doorstep as israeli bombs pound the palestinian land. at around fifty anti wall street protesters have been arrested in the u.s. as police sweep through a new york square tearing down their tans. british m.p.'s 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 allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply but as our band 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. than 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 on what they called an injustice was it a mistake in the first place despite 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. has 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 seeing how many injustices have been caused because of it it was meant to be for terrorise fences 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 is so vengeful. you think uses some of bin ladin is so over the top they left him on his internet for three and a half years after the arrest if gandhi 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 were 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 us can still get their man the coalition government promised to change this while in opposition now is their chance to deliver on the bennett r t london wednesday session of the russian nato council

broad no progress on resolving the deadlock over a planned allied missile shield in europe moscow says the us led bloc isn't ready to cooperate on the issue russia has repeatedly asked for a legal guarantees that the planned missile the plan system won't be aimed against it there have been warnings of a new arms race if nato nations continue to ignore moscow's concerns washington claims the shield will deter gresham 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 what it 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 annihilation with a big x. as 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 the. we're weak on defense so if people say we can build a shield as some people say that why not do it that's so i think the idea is those political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration would use it 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 sitting as delegates from key countries gathered in germany to decide the nation's fate the conference pledged financial support for into violence ridden country until foreign forces are fully was drawn by twenty twenty four russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and all foreign troops should be moved out of dentist in ten years earlier than that as was initially planned but neighbor pakistan corozal to the region seem to have boycotted the meeting in protest at an apparently u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers despite asked former afghan including daoud sultanzoy says kabul is optimistic about its diplomatic future.

afghanistan 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 cooperate 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 it's on their own heads here an 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. fingers can be pointed to them but it's too early to really. point your fingers 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. here dinner will be here in just a few minutes with the sports news including the latest from the biathlon world cup for that now a recap of our top stories. all .

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