the latest news in the week's top stories russia sees the biggest protests in its recent history as people are unhappy with the parliamentary election results demand a revote the president has now ordered an investigation into all claims of violations during last week's poll. a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoes the new treaty tightening fiscal rules for block members and a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. liberated but desperate for money libyan authorities plea to the u.n. to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months after the end of military conflict.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. present dimitri 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. has the details. this rally took place a no the central for moscow where where over twenty five thousand people came through so they came to the a revolutionary square budget of the moscow city of story to work not alone people together there that's why then they peacefully proceeded to the boldness square where thousands and us all sins of people were gathering around so they were of the

oystein their demands and the number one demand too was so really the recount all the old sounds are basically people that gathered other this square set a onces of the new election so to take up placing russia meanwhile of the essential action can reach the south it will not recount the vote sound those of people who gathered out of the news squares who are gathering up for these a rally is that we're saying that if their demands are not some out so within the next two weeks ago they promise that they will gather again to approach cost rather i mean while off through the the end of the rallies up president mitterrand expressed his own view over all the meetings of the rallies that took place in russia and the mosque group decree he saw that he's quite satisfied with the way everything want especially the peace would be everything wound but he disagrees with that the slogans on the announcements that were made during those 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 blog this where they were protesting against immigration these rally and this missing also went quite peacefully and the a central moscow to the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was not that she believed to the parliamentary elections that took place on the floors off a december in a rush up war. three. and her comments and her remarks were not so much mind the apply in ny that russia's foreign ministry nor prime minister vladimir putin the prime minister like even to accuse us state department of modeling into russia's national policy also one of the russians the news agency life in using any change of emails between the russian and non-governmental organisation was observing the elections and the us state department these

documents represents a different commons over at the top six and especially the financing of the observers or by the u.s. state department. in one russian city demonstrators took a more playful approach organizing a toy protest and you can check that out on our website or to don't come from space aliens to penguins and all of which were waving to. protesting the election results so you can log on to our website or to see more on that. the election rallies in russia certainly didn't fail to catch the attention of the international media america's fox news contributor to the coverage with a somewhat over excited report capturing violent chaos in streets ablaze the only problem with the footage it wasn't taken here 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. the 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. to reinforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step with the government tends to

take its cues from the government it tends to you know mobilize its resources to showcase what the government says is true even when later it turns out not to be true as was the case in this a rooney a c.n.n. report while in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans 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 era and a great many russian viewers who've pointed out to us the sloppiness of it or 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 in a port nine or r.t. new york. times wrote a previous says the use of the wrong images by fox wasn't accidental. look if you take faux news seriously that's a major mistake but i am merican said by people all across the world this basically is a p.r. operation of the republican party really a real faction which is most of them of course c.n.n. basically is a mouse piece of the state department of pentagon and his cia they will now have a release anything that it was not free of proved we instant says 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 four or in the us in stars and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address group it says from parts of the russian population this is the real issue. when you're not going to want to come to see how the election rallies have been developing in russia taking it off picture gallery to see snapshots from the biggest rally in lost in twentieth it's going to come and head to the online exclusive section. it's already being 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 the national parliaments with all the other e.u. members agreeing to hand brussels absolute oversight of their budgets. brings us

now 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 be 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 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 passed and member states i believe need to do more to fully implement the country specific recommendations so what does that mean for greece for example european leaders have just approved an eight billion euro trash of aid to prevent the country from going bankrupt in exchange greece promised to cut its deficit to five point four percent of its g.d.p. from a projected nine percent this year translation more tax hikes and spending cuts for greeks still reeling from previous hysteria measures. if we were to put this you're a package to the electorates of greece of portugal ireland of italy of spain they would all say no and what of sovereignty the whole concept of national

sovereignty 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 with so much at stake there will no doubt be a lookout for the devil and those details does or celia r.t. brussels the greek prime minister lucas papademos expressed his support for a brussels centric e.u. but patrick young of investment firm devi advisors says these struggling members shouldn't trust the e.u. leaders as they are simply creating an illusion of action. everything greek has been devalued for the course of the last year 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 murky 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's changed no one wants to obey the rules and france and germany are trying to dictate it's only rest of europe why they should run their economies and essentially corals of them have their own domestic political difficulties that are causing problems. this is r.t. life here in moscow still ahead for you this hour british m.p. is seeking to review extradition policies with the us. we need to make sure that we are being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case of the boat. over how u.k. lawmakers are demanding a more level playing field when it comes to handing over their citizens to america . what came out of the global conference on afghanistan's future and why the key player in stabilizing the region pakistan boycotted the event. from stories told to come first with libya's civil war over its people are now waiting for the new government to fulfill their promises but the authorities say

they're struggling for cash and they're asking the u.n. to release one hundred fifty billion dollars of frozen assets to pay wages and as xander boyko 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 colbert replaced a rifle charter as the heralds of the million dollar. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. this may be deliberate. 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 to the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face or laugh and few months ago already has its fountains up and running but the new leaf it is still facing the danger of running in the shallow waters of international politics much for its absence remain

frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and up 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 and nearing student he 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 underprivileged under gadhafi regime he certainly leaves 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 all the gadhafi the new authorities also have to decrease prices and raise salaries so that ordinary people can join all the benefits of the revolution. yeah 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 everybody's guess the forty two years of going to france rule had a totally b. and c. to rely on government for just about everything. i have big plans for my life in a year or solve god willing i want to finish my education get a good job and save enough money to marty it's all become possible for us now and in national economies i'm not stopping i think the fact that they were willing to destabilize 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 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 breivik not please because it's also very layered actually way to artsy tripoli. whatever get you can find plenty more stories comments and analysis on our website let's see what's in store for you now should you log on spies see iran displays intercepted cia drone plane days after the pentagon admitted that it lost touch with the high tech aircraft also. driven to despair and it raged lover pulls the trigger on her children before committing suicide in the us food stamp office after being denied assistance.

an international conference on stability in afghanistan has promised continued support to kabul after the plan would draw all of nato troops in twenty fourteen at the meeting in germany the world pledged to provide financial assistance to the afghan government up until twenty twenty four when it's hoped the country will be economically self-sufficient the government was boycotted by pakistan which is viewed as a key player in restoring peace in the region is not about refused to send the envoys in protest over a u.s. airstrike in the border area two weeks ago killed twenty four pakistani soldiers could have been a columnist at foreign policy in focus magazine thinks washington's role in the region is both reckless and dangerous. 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 agreed that they would crash or the united states not to leave troops in afghanistan and i find it very difficult to imagine it is 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 worldwide. well in about ten minutes from now we also hear from russia's spokesperson on afghanistan about his views on the country's future that's in our

special interview. russia says it may withdraw from a meeting with nato should rule for next may in chicago the statement came after thursday's session between the sides failed to resolve the deadlock over a planned missile shield in europe moscow has repeatedly asked for legal guarantees that the project will not be aimed against which the alliance refuses to give present event of announce a number of military measures to protect russia's national security the u.s. claims the shield is meant to 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 country for annihilate with a big x.

because 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 you could build a shield that some people say that why not do 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 for us to teach it perspective going into a national election. time now to check out some other stories making news around the world in this world update fresh violence has killed at least twelve people in syria as clashes between activists and military forces continue many of the deaths were in homs where dark clouds of smoke filled the air during the violence the syrian government has given protesters in the region until monday night to stop demonstrations and surrender their weapons syrian president bashar al assad recently rejected accusations he ordered the deaths of protesters now estimated people are being killed in syria since clashes began.

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 saturday the army's use of gas canisters has come in for strong criticism in recent years the west bank has seen frequent demonstrations in its rural areas against jewish settlements in the building of israel's separation barrier which is compromised palestinian farm and. check out this video of a petrol tanker exploding near melbourne in australia the driver was off loading fuel when the rig became engulfed in flames the blaze sent many scrambling for safety investigators are still trying to determine what sparked the explosion dramatic pictures there from australia british m.p.'s passed a motion to review a controversial extradition treaty with the u.s.

this week drawn in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven that allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen regardless of criminal evidence but as artie's of the bennett 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 call an injustice was a mistake in the first place this ministry 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 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 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 if so

then fall. 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 gagne 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 nails the chance to deliver either bennett r.t. london. well i'll be back to recap our top stories for you in just a few minutes from now all thanks for being with us this is our t. live here in moscow.

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