from. the latest news on the week's top stories here on the mass protests in russia in the aftermath of the parliamentary election. despite predictions of allegations of provocation. the euro to see another day leaders agree. despite a british veto. that would place the e.u. . firmly in the hands of brussels. also washington's a right to extradite people from the u.k. without offering evidence of guilt leads british to call for the abolition of the controversial treaty.

a very warm welcome to you watching the weekly on with me rory. russia has seen a post-election frenzy this week many of those dissatisfied with the results. rather took to the streets with their anger and this culminated into the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but despite predictions it did pass peacefully as. reports. now there really was sick 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 however everything went peacefully those who have gathered at the relief nearest bridge 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 that they will not 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 the hectic week for moscow in particular several of 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 worry is 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 reflections 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 so hillary clinton's remarks were not met kindly neither by the russia's foreign ministry nor by prime minister was and it was it was essentially accused washington of meddling in russia's politics and sponsoring those who are willing to sow discontent in the wake of the elections also an interesting fact for you there one of russia's new source. has obtained information which they have said directly shows the involvement of the united states state department in the election process in those documents see you can 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 the

observers i during the elections so it turns out it looks like some of those who are monitoring the elections and insisting on their independence were in fact being paid by the u.s. state department. they were going to go reporting live from or just go online to r.t. dot com or you'll see being showcased in a rather unconventional way russians who couldn't make it to the streets themselves instead the toys have a say in a creative twist to the rallies a flash mob of a toy figures from the war to penguins protest of the election results i do not want to see you come to see more of that. one of the election rallies have garnered attention to worldwide although the facts didn't always match the picture being painted in just as latest a blunder america's fox news are used to videos of violent clashes on streets of blades to show what was happening in russia only the footage was wrong these were

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 at moscow's lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his 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 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 reinforce. 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 rooney 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 riding 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 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 lek 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 in a porsche nine or artsy new york and i mean time asia times writer pepe escobar says that the use of the wrong images by fox was not accidental but he believes it's not an issue that should destructive tension from the united russia party response to that of the voters' concerns. look if you take folks news seriously that's a major mistake by americans and by people all across the world this basically is a p.r. operation of the republican party really a real we know faction which is most of them of course c.n.n. basically is a mouse piece of the state department but i don't own

a cia they will never release anything that was not free of truth we do instances of american government so don't take these people seriously what we should take seriously 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 in any election in european countries in the u.s. in two thousand and four or in u.s. it's dozen in four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united's russia should do to address griffiths is from but hearts of the russian population this is the real issue watching on t.v. live from moscow are still ahead of you in just a few minutes here libya's dash for cash used by the revolutionary spirit of the uprising the hopes of a bright future pushes libya's new leaders to make an international plea for funding. now a ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the euro's desperate struggle for

survival was struck another blow this week a british veto shattered delicately laid plans to synchronise the finances it all happened at a critical summit in brussels where twenty three out of twenty seven member nations voted to hand brussels absolute oversight of the budgets of all member states. delves into 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 us back on the growth spec parts 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 the 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 italy 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 the 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 specifics of this new treaty have yet to be drawn up and approved by march twenty twelve it's so much at stake there will no doubt be a lookout for the devil in those details desiree silja r.t. brussels. well the greek prime minister put m.r.c. expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. staunch euro crowd himself you believes it's the e.u.'s last chance to correct past wrongs but patrick young an investment firm dva advisors 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 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 that 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 of 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 chair while i was 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 why this should run their economies and essentially 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 the start of sanctions it's intended to discipline any e.u. nation that fails to comply with brussels economic will but a british. blume says it's simply too late for punishment and those who broke the rules for us have actually discovered no way 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 it it's all over it but it's not working the thing is we are now what we're seeing the end game it's over. if the euro had been a horse they would have shot it under professional economists i've been thirty five years of professional economists this isn't about politics is about economics and

i've never known in the history of the world politics beat economics water doesn't flow uphill last 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. sixteen minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching the weekly still to come for you here russia and nato is missile shield still. i think the idea is that political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this is miscreation will use it as weak as the alliance isn't ready to cooperate on missile defense we have analysis on why the block is dead set in its ways. one down by fighting militias that are armed to the teeth libya's new authorities

are striving for cash and they called on the u.n. this week to unfreeze assets worth an estimated one hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars they need to say that if they see any need to pay the wages and rebuild the state institutions on a boy found many libyans wondering just who is going to fund the 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 is 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 and believe it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface it seems that the normal whole life in tripoli has been restored

a city where many homes didn't have access to face to face laffin few months ago already has its fountains up and running but the new leafy is still facing the danger of running in this shallow waters of international politics much of its absence remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and profit if it has already become a major down 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 angie nearing student who 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 wanted 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 country cruising around on a saturday night good. 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 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 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 new earth origins 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 marry it's all become possible for us now. and in national economies i'm not saw. 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 two american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bright not please because it's also very layered actually where you are to see tripoli. well or libya torn apart by revolution but it's still the land of last resort for a desperate few the unemployed of gaza seek shelter the effort to escape the violence on their own doorstep as israeli bombs continue to pound palestinian or.

either on a fifty and the wall street protesters have been arrested in the united states as police sweep through new york square tearing down their turns. out he is coming to you live from the heart of moscow now british m.p. has 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 any u.k. citizen without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply but as artie's author bennett 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 panic 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 a mistake in the first place despite its treaties 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 but 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 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'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

then she will say you think uses some of the arjun is so over the top they left him one is 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 are 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 either bennett r.t. london. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and wednesday's session of the russia nato council brought no progress on 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 legal guarantees that the planned missile defense system won't be aimed against it their opinion warnings of a new arms race if nato nations continue to ignore moscow's concerns washington claims the shield will deter aggression from iran and north korea but lawrence krauss from the 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 annihilate 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. 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 so 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. this has been a big week for afghanistan as delegates from key countries gathered in germany to decide the nation's fate of the conference pledge financial support for the violence ridden country until foreign forces are fully withdrawn by two thousand and twenty four this russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that all foreign troops should be moved out of afghanistan ten years earlier than that as was initially planned but a neighbor pakistan crucial to the region's future boycotted the meeting in protest over an apparent errant u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers despite the former afghan m.p. donald sultanzoy says a couple is optimistic about his diplomatic future. needs russia's

friendship or there's no doubt about that we need to cooperate with each other we live in the same region but at the same time of understand 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 fight 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 wife and events can turn on its on their own

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 be. pinpointed. fingers could be pointed to them too early to really. point your finger specific direction there are so many variables so many factors that i'm sure the next few days will be more clear. it is very nearly half past the hour here in the russian capital you're watching a recap of the week's top stories coming your way in just a moment. twenty

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