it starts on t.v. dot com. the latest news on the week's top stories on the mass protests in golfing russia in the aftermath of the parliamentary election do smoothly despite predictions of violence and validations of provocation. the euro limps to see another day leaders agree on sanctions politics despite a british veto 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 guilt leads british m.p.'s to call for the abolition of the controversial treaty.

with the week's top headlines you're watching live from moscow with me rule received russia has seen a post-election frenzy this week many of those dissatisfied with the results took to venting their anger on the streets this culminated into the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but despite on its 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 great have proceeded over to the block this square which is right

nearby really essentially next door to the kremlin where again tens of thousands of people have gathered and voice double the demand and the primary demand among those was a recount of the votes now in the central electoral committee has already said that they will launch 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 worst of 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 study that she believes the relection is 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 a day of russia's foreign ministry nor by prime minister wasn't which 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. but he's going to go reporting right there what i do bear in mind you can always get more on that online at www dot com or you'll see a being showcased in a rather an unconventional way russians who couldn't make it to the streets themselves instead let their toys have a say in a rather creative twist to the rallies a flash mob of toy figures from dwarves to penguins protest of the election results i do log on to our website. to see more. of what the election rallies have garnered 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 violent clashes on streets ablaze to show what was happening in russia only the footage was

wrong it 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 at moscow's lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his reunited 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 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 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 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 ara and a great 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 pepe escobar says the use of the wrong images by fox was not accidental but he does believe that it's not an issue that should destruct attention away from the united russia party as a response to the concerns of. look if you take folks 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 we are not 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 will never release anything that was not free of truth we've 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 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 grids is from but art some of the russian population this is the real issue now at ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital still ahead for you in just a few minutes libya's dash for cash used by the revolutionary spirit of the uprising the hopes of a bright future pushes in libya's new leaders to make an international plea for funding. the euro's desperate struggle for survival was struck

another blow this week a british veto shattered delicately laid plans to synchronise the e.u.'s finances it all happened at a critical summit in brussels where twenty three of twenty seven member nations voted to hand brussels absolute oversight over the budgets of all member states. 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 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 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 spare 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 tranche 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 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 in those details does or celia r.t. brussels now the greek prime minister look as puppet imus expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. staunch year across himself he believes it's the e.u.'s last chance to correct past wrongs but patrick young of investment firm devi advisors says e.u. leaders are simply creating an illusion of action. everything greek has been devalued for the course of the last year and 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 not just might be a reasonable idea if their own behavior had actually been exemplary but for those who look as i 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 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 they should run their economies and essentially coral's of them have

their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems one of the details of the proposed changes to e.u. treaties is that of sanctions intended to discipline any e.u. nation that fails to comply with brussels economic will but british i mean pete godfrey bloom 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 people 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's a pall 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 hole so they would have shot it under professional economists i've been thirty five years of professional economists this isn't about politics this is a bit about economics and i've never known in the history of the world politics

beat economics that 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 tuned to failure and moreover i would have the people responsible i would have them arraigned i would have a fiscal crimes tribe you knew him i would like to see some of these people sent to prison. which in the weekly here on r.t. coming up for you shortly russia and nato as 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 as we moscow says the alliance isn't ready to cooperate on missile got analysis on why the market is dead set in its warnings. worn down by fighting militias that are armed to the teeth libya's new war thora he's a striving for cash they called on the u.n. this week to unfreeze assets worth an estimated one hundred and fifty billion u.s.

dollars to pay wages and rebuild state institutions on a boy found many libyans now wondering who's going to fund the future. after months of waking up to gunfire residents of tripoli now have to get used to a new alarm tone 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 dawn. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. while the revolutionary russia has spared me any wall in tripoli people here are clearly fatigued by eight months of civil war this may be deliberately 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 life in few months ago

already has its fountains up and running but the new leaf is still facing the danger of running in wrong this shallow waters of national politics much for its absence remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies 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 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 want to freedom and fairness 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 mohamed would be like a twenty seven year old in any other country cruising around on

a saturday night is good. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves in a three hundred square me. 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 new york authorities 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 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 and in the first place they were more interested in forming their their economic ties to two american oil companies yet to the moment the future seems bride not please because it's also very layered and certainly carthy tripoli. libya may have been torn apart by a revolution but it's still a lot of last resort for a desperate few other unemployed of gaza seek shelter there in an effort to escape the violence on their own doorstep as it's already bombs continue to pound palestinian life. either on

a fifty and the wall street protesters have been arrested in the u.s. as police sweep through new york square tearing down their tents. this is the weekly here on the part of champagne is 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 and allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply but as aussies i've about 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 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 at 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 terrorise the fences 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 is so then she will say you think it was a some of the widen it is so over the top they left him one is internet three and

a half years after the arrest if guy 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. just turning up twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital 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 bloc isn't ready to cooperate on the issue and russia has repeatedly asked for

legal guarantees that the planned missile defense system won't be aimed against it everyone 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 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 their 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 that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield as some people say then why not do it that so 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 and it doesn't want to be viewed as weak right now from a strategic perspective going into a national election. you're watching on t.v. now this has been a big week for afghanistan as delegates from key countries gathered in germany to decide the nation's fate at the conference the u.k. pledged financial support for the violence ridden country until u.s. forces are fully withdrawn this may happen decade after the first deadline as washington prepares to stay beyond two thousand and fourteen other russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said all foreign troops should be moved out as was initially planned but neighboring pakistan crucial to the region's future of the meeting in protest and apparently errant u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers despite that former afghan m.p. . says couple is optimistic about his diplomatic future. afghanistan needs russia's friendship are 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 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 by the on the other hand also there are many rogue elements with a. can be pinpointed. fingers can be pointed to them too early to really. point your finger. and there are so many variables so many factors that i'm sure the next few days will be more clear. in watching us live from the heart of. top stories with me will receive a coming your way in just a few minutes.

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