he's telling. me. the latest news on the week's top stories on. russia sees the biggest protests in recent history as people unhappy with a parliamentary election result demand a report president has now ordered an investigation into all claims of violations during last week's poll. a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoed the new treaty tightening fiscal rules in a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. liberated and but desperate for money libyan authorities pleaded to the u.n. to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months off to the end of

the military conflict that. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly on t.v. with me. president dmitri medvedev has promised that all claims of violations during last week's parliamentary election will be investigated this comes after a post-election frenzy culminated in the biggest opposition rally in russia's recent history. of our joins us live with more details on. so hectic week following the election tell us more about what's been going on here in moscow. well the rally that to go place on saturday was a really us you saw the culmination of the whole postelection frenzy thoughts within us seeing for the last just seven days and of this rally to placing us the

central school where where over twenty five thousand people came the first of they came to the revolution new square but of the moscow city a story just we're not alone people together there that's why the end of a peacefully proceeded to the boldness square where thousands of us also as of people were gathering and of they were of voicing their demands and the number one demand was so really the recount all of the old sounds are basically people that gathered other this square so a wanted of the new elections to take up placing russia meanwhile of the central election every committee said it will and not a recount of the votes and those are the people who gathered out of the to the squares who are gathering up for these a rally is that we're saying that if there are demands are not smiled so within the next two weeks of ballot they promise that they will gather again to protons further and meanwhile off through the the end of

the rallies up president mitterrand expressed his own view over of the meetings of the rallies that took place in russia and in moscow particulary he saw that he's quite satisfied with the way everything want especially how peacefully everything went but he disagrees with the slogans on the announcements that were made during this rallies and meanwhile he promised that all the claims of the violations that took place during the parliamentary elections in russia will be a very carefully investigated meanwhile today on sunday over a two hundred nationalist also gathered at the bill last miss where they were protesting against immigration but these rallies and those missing also went quite peacefully in the a center of moscow now. but you know other than on the domestic front so there's been exchange of comment so on the elections between washington and moscow what more can you tell us about that. rice that was in the. opinions and views

and they specially of the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton house not that she believed to the parliamentary elections that took place on the fourth offer december in russia were neither free nor family and her comments and her remarks were not match client the a by russia's foreign ministry nor prime minister why do men who've been. accused of basically accused washington mantling into russia's national policy also one of the russians the news agency life in using has obtained information they have sounds actually shows the involvement of. the department into the election process of the documents c.e.o. which this news agency has obtained those documents he represents an exchange of emails between of the russian a non-governmental organisation that was observing the elections and the u.s.

state department these documents represents a different commons over at the top six and especially the financing of the observers a by the u.s. state department all right here's somebody in a question of a live in central moscow thank you. well i mean time in one russian city demonstrators took a more playful approach are organizing a toy protest you can check it out on our top come of course our website have a look here from dwarfs and space aliens to penguins and dinosaurs all of which were waving the toothpick banners protesting the election results get onto our website www dot com you can see plenty. all the election rallies and russia certainly didn't fail to catch the attention of the international media america's fox news contributed to the coverage with a somewhat over excited reporter capturing violent chaos on streets ablaze the only problem with the footage was that it wasn't taken in moscow. explains.

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 a. 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 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 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 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 that the use of the wrong images by fox was not accidental. look if you think 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 of pentagon to cia the world may have a release anything that was not rude we 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 leader ok there were some irregularities in the election just like very real errors as he lay any election in european countries in the us in two thousand and four in the e.u.'s in stars and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address griffiths is from parts of the russian population this is the real issue. and you can log on to r.t. dot com to see how the election rallies have been developing in russia take a look at our picture gallery to see snapshots from the biggest rally in moscow in about twenty years i log on to r.t. dot com head over to the online exclusive section. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow it's already been dubbed europe's great divorce this week britain vetoed franco german plans to impose a fiscal agreement within the e.u.

three countries will take the pact to their national parliaments with all the other e.u. members agreeing to hand brussels absolute oversight of their budgets. as this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what to really make of it a two speed europe is being formed almost all of the e.u. members have said they will forge ahead with the franco german plan of a new treaty resulting in a fiscal union with a tighter grip on finances there was only one clear no the u.k. decided to go it alone with british prime minister david cameron essentially saying we wish you the best but we're out i think what we saw was the biggest split in the european union in fifteen years 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 so e.u. leaders have agreed upon a general plan which as expected was no magic solution markets are still on shaky ground 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 spec. 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 susteren adventures. 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 and what of sovereignty the whole concept of national solvent the has become a very gray zone once we have bond 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. the greek prime minister. meantime expressed his support for a brussels centric view but patrick young of investment firm devi advisers says the struggling members shouldn't trust the e.u.

leaders they 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 to 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 coral's of them have their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems. now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you are with are still ahead for you in the program british m.p.'s are seeking to review extradition policies with the united states. we need to make sure that we being equal. to all citizens and that is not the case but we look at how we're. demanding a more level playing field when it comes to handing over their citizens to america . and what came out of the global conference on afghanistan's future and why the

key player in stabilizing the region. boycotted the event. with libya's civil war now over its people are waiting for the new government to fulfill their promises but the authorities say they are struggling for cash and are asking the u.n. to release one hundred fifty billion dollars of frozen assets to pay wages as on a boycott reports many libyans wonder just who will provide for 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 a rifle chatter as the heralds of the million dollar. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. this may be deliberate could leave 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 the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face for laughin few months ago already has its fountain running but the new leaf it is still facing the danger of running in the 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 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 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 goodness. and it's not like he was under privileged under gadhafi

regime his family lives in a three hundred square meter house in the prestigious area of tripoli they say the revolution has brought them along the way to democracy but is yet to translate into concrete benefits we have free education on health care road to get off the new authorities also have to decrease prices and raise salaries so that ordinary people can join all the benefits of the revolution. yes 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 taught libyans to rely on government for just about everything. 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 stopped being i think the fact that they were willing

to destabilize a 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 the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bright not please because it's also very layered actually wake up hearty tripoli. now don't forget you can find out plenty more stories our comments and analysis are on our website that's a look and see what's in store for you that right now. see iran it displays the intercepted cia drone plane a days after the pentagon admitted that it lost touch with the high tech crowd. also driven to despair and enraged mother pulls the trigger on her children before committing suicide in the us food stamp office after being denied assistance.

now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow international conference on stability in afghanistan has promised continued support to kabul after the planned withdrawal of nato troops in two thousand and fourteen the meeting in germany the world powers a pledge to provide financial assistance to the afghan government up until two thousand and twenty four that's when it's hoped the country will be economically self-sufficient the gathering was boycotted by pakistan which are viewed as a key player in restoring peace in the region islamabad refused to send their envoys in protest over a u.s. strike in the border area two weeks ago that killed a twenty four pakistani soldiers. on a columnist at a foreign policy and for. with marketing bad things washington's role in the region

is both reckless and dangerous and the attack itself it's hard to see that as an accident because of the way that it took place and then the response of washington afterwards i think what's happened is that the united states has made some decisions about its strategy in the region both in central asia and the in the south in south asia that essentially is going to cut pakistan out of the formula and i don't think united states cure is very much what's going to happen after withdraws its troops in two thousand and fourteen and i think they would rather not withdraw their troops which is the nub of the problem because just on november second russia china iran and pakistan had a meeting in istanbul which they all agree that they would pressure the united states not to leave troops in afghanistan and i find it very difficult to imagine if this fallout in relations between pakistan and the united states is not somehow

try to their position i think this i think this chess board is much broader than we then we imagine it to be and it includes really multiple zones some of them world wide and a next hour here on the we also hear from russia's spokes person on afghanistan about his views on the future of the country that's coming your way in our special report. russia says it may withdraw from a meeting with nato sharjah will the next may in chicago the statement came off the thursday's session between the sides fail to resolve the debt over a planned allied missile shield in europe moscow has repeatedly asked for legal guarantees that the project won't be aimed against that which the alliance refuses to give president medvedev and i will state number of a military measures to protect russia's national security the u.s. claimed the shield is meant to deter aggression from iraq. on 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 can 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. is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't exist the worst thing to look like is that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield as some people say then why not do it that so i think the idea is there's political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that way this administration will give use as weak and it doesn't want to be viewed as weak right now from a strategic perspective going into a national election. all right a quick pause in the weekly here on r.t. to do the world update some other headlines from around the world this hour fresh

violence has killed at least twelve people in syria as clashes between activists and military forces continue many of the deaths were in on where dark clouds of smoke filled the air during the violence syrian president bashar al assad recently rejected accusations that he ordered the deaths of protesters an estimated four thousand people have been killed in syria since clashes began some nine. listing in protesters clashed with israeli soldiers as they held a funeral for a fellow demonstrator the deceased victim was killed after he'd been hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired by israeli troops on sunday the army's use of gas canisters has come in for a strong criticism in recent years the west bank has seen frequent demonstrations in its rule areas against jewish settlements and the building of israel's separation barrier which has compromised palestinian farms. and i have a look at this video of a a petrol tanker exploding in melbourne australia the driver was offloading fuel

when the rig became engulfed in flames the place and many scrambling for safety investigators are still trying to determine what exactly sparked the explosion. pretty strong piece of passed a motion to review a controversial extradition treaty with the u.s. this week a drawn in on the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven it allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. students and regardless of criminal evidence but as artie's i've had many reports from london britain's patience is wearing thin. 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 us 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 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 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 people say you think you are some of the widen it is so over the top they left him one is entering it three and a half years after the arrest. if guiding was this latest threat that wouldn't have been done 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 there was their chance to deliver either bennett r.t. london. nearly seven thirty on sunday evening here in moscow i will be back with a recap of the week's top stories in just a moment. all.

i completely agent hope for many years in the soviet system has faded away in less than twenty four hours as bella vista a push up coupled with book we acted in a true russian style we didn't know exactly what the future would bring that would to think about later three leaders come together and sign an agreement dissolving the u.s.s.r. for good as well to get rid of the so called big brother that was always controlling them was the dream of many republics work. but when the owners of the people they put it like this i will liberate you from the kremlin oppression no one wants to take the blame because we would not be able to persuade gorbachev and besides she's ward could not be relied up on funny he could tell you anything and do something completely different mission for you might show you up for me too liberal and.