the latest news and the week's top stories the mass protests in golfing russia in the aftermath of the parliamentary election passed mobley despised predictions of violence and all the geishas of provocation. they you were lengths to see another day leaders agree on sanctions politics despite a british veto against any changes that would place a financial reins star away 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.

this is are to live from moscow with me wearing a joshua welcome russian has seen a post-election frenzy this week and many of those dissatisfied with the results took to vannes in their anger on the streets and this culminated into the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but despite ominous predictions it passed peacefully our desire in english who has more. no there really was took place in the center of moscow on saturday has gathered more than twenty five thousand people that's according to the police estimate it began of the revolutionary square and there was a prevention about that particular gathering because most because it is thirty have not allowed for people to gather there so people were worried that some skirmishes may break out the poem or everything went peacefully those who have gathered at the evolutionary spray have proceeded over to the below this square which is right nearby really essentially next door to the kremlin where again tens of thousands of

people have gathered and voiced some of the demands and the primary demand among those was a recount of the votes now in the central electoral committee has already said they were a lot recount the votes and those who were protesting during the rally yesterday have said that if their demands are not met they will meet again in two weeks time to protest some more and of course also you have to remember that some of the nationalist parties have also said that they will gather today for every rally and the same place that is in the square now we have to stay put and observe how events transpired from there on after this is a hectic week for moscow in particular several a protest rallies were also held at the beginning of the weekend those protests rallies have seen dozens of people being arrested and their worst the worst that this may be repeated during the rally on saturday however none of that has happened concerning the reaction from the west to russia's elections u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton has a stat that she believes the elections in russia are neither free nor fair again you have to remember that united russia party has come out a winner in those elections with just under fifty percent of votes hillary clinton's remarks were not met kindly neither by the russian foreign ministry nor by prime minister wasn't which it was essentially accused washington of meddling in russia's politics and sponsoring those for willing to sow discontent in the wake of the elections also an interesting facts for you there one of russia's new source. has obtained information which they have said do reckless shows the involvement of united states state department in the election process in those documents could basically see the exchange of emails between the russian non-governmental organization which was monitoring the elections and the us state department and they were discussing the tactics and the financing of the observers during the

elections so it turns out it looks like some of those who were monitoring the elections and insisting on their independence were in fact being paid by the u.s. state department reading those who are reporting there for us and for more on the subject you can go online to r.t. dot com you'll see anger being showcased in an unconventional way russians who couldn't make it to the streets themselves instead lead their toys have a say so in a creative twist to the rallies a flash mob of toy figures from the wars to penguins protest of the election results some of on to our website r.t. dot com to see more. the lashon rallies have garner attention worldwide although the facts didn't always match the picture being painted in just its latest blunder america's fox news used videos of the violent clashes and streets a blaze to show what was happening in russia only the food which was wrong art is more important i 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 in moscow 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 the rules revolution in georgia. perception is created that something is happening in the 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 it's free press has worked to. enforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step with the government it 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 roni is 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 and to apologize to the era and a great many russian viewers who've pointed out 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 during a port nine 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 i think fox news seriously that's a major mistake but i am american says by people all across the world this basically is a p.r. operation of the republican party really a real wing nut faction which is most of them of course c.n.n. basically is a mouse piece of the state department of pentagon and a cia they would never really is anything that was not free of grooved 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 irregularities in the election just like very real averages elaine you know action in european countries in the us in two thousand and slower than in 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 so i had for you here in our team just a few minutes lidia's dash forecasts and by the revolutionary spirit of the uprising the hopes of a bright future pushes levy as new leaders to make an international point for funds . they heroes a desperate struggle for survival was struck another blow this week

a british veto shattered delicately laid plans to synchronize their finances and it all happened at a critical summit in brussels where twenty three out of twenty seven member nations voted to hand process absolute oversight over the budgets of all member states are just as are selling and brings us this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what you 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 at 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 past 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 astaire the measures. if we were to put this you're a package to the electorates of greece of portugal and this really of spain they would all say no i really these countries now find themselves these electorates find themselves trapped inside the economic prison that is currently 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 the 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 in those details does or celia r.t. brussels. the greek pm look as have the most expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. stance your kratom self he believes it's the e.u. is a 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 at most 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 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 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 they should run their economies under sensually coral's of them have their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems. now one of the

details of the proposed changes to the treaties is sanctions intended to discipline any e.u. nation that fails to comply with brussels economic well but british bloom says it's simply too late for punishment and bad 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 safe 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 be about economics and i've never known it in the history of the world politics beat economics but 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 student of failure and moreover i would have the people responsible i would have been reined i would have a fiscal crimes tribunal i would like to see some of these people sent to prison and coming out for you russia nato is 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 we. moscow says the wind isn't ready to cooperate on missile the fans and we've got analysis of why the block is dad sat in its way. worn down by fighting militias that are armed to the teeth levy is 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 using sound boy found manually meehan's 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 till the city of two million people has an extensive rooster population and the birds have all but replaced rifle chatter as the heralds 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 believed or 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 the new leaf it is still facing the danger of running in wrong this shallow waters of national politics much of saffron remain frozen limiting the

government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies it has already become a major down part of the revolution the risk 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 during 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. put them the dictator used gone far against 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 mohamed would be like a twenty seven year old in any army country cruising around on a saturday night is good yes. and it's not like he was underprivileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square meter how. 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 and they knew our storage 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 mari it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies until it stopped being 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 yet for the moment the future seems bride not please because it's also very blurred some of what you are to tripoli. may have been torn apart by a revolution but it's still a land of last resort for a desperate few a coward and unemployed of gaza seek shelter they are 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 sweep through a new york square tearing down their tans. british

m.p.'s called for a renegotiation 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 an e.u. cases and without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply but as our panel 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

by m.p.'s aren't backing down joining a battle some have fought since the treaty was signed i think you know the scene 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 ken things they use and 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 one of their most wanted is so vengeful. you think uses some of the large and it is so over the top they left him one who's internet 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 are nine cases currently fighting extradition to

america richard wise the latest he's wanted on copyright charges for creating a search engine the pirated content it's not even considered a crime in the case but at the moment it doesn't matter the us can still get. the coalition government promise to change this while in opposition there was 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 blog isn't ready to cooperate on the issue russia has repeatedly asked for real guarantees that the planned missile defense system won't be aimed against it there have been warnings of a new arms race of nato nations continue to ignore moscow's concerns washington claims the show will deter aggression from iran and north korea by lawrence krauss from arizona state university says it's only needed for political reasons. there is no

threat right now neither country has a list of missiles that can carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and 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 their country for annihilation with a big x. is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from and we're using a defense that doesn't exist against what i'm 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 all i think the idea is those 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. and this has been a big week for afghanistan 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 withdrawn 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 by a neighbor pakistan crucial to the region's future a boycott of the meeting in protest at an apparently errant u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers a spy the former afghan m.p. down sultanzoy says kumble is optimistic about his 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 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 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. 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. the weekend sports action still way to this hour here in r t out in just a few moments i'll recap top stories for you. to

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