latest news in the week's top stories russia sees the biggest protests in his recent history as people unhappy with the parliamentary election results the present. investigation into. during last week's poll. a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoes the new treaty tightening fiscal rules for bloc members on the move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the. liberated but desperate for money he's played to the u.n. 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. but into me treatment 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 you know the central school where where over twenty five thousand people came in the first of they came to the revolution new square buzz of the moscow c.b.s. story just were not alone people together they're good that's why then they peacefully proceeded to the boldness square where thousands and 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 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 sounds those are people who gather the jobs of the it is the squares who are gathering up for these are rallies that were saying that if their demands are not smiled so within the next two weeks of value they promise that they will gather again on the two protons further and meanwhile off through the the end of the rally stuff president mitterrand if expressed his own view over of the meetings and the rallies that took place in russia and the moscow particular region 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 those rallies and meanwhile he promised that all the claims of the violations that took place during the

parliamentary elections in russia will be of very carefully investigated meanwhile today on sunday over a two hundred nationalists also gathered up in belonged to a square and they were protesting against immigration but these rallies and those missing also went quite peacefully and the a central fosco the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was not that she believed to the parliamentary elections that took place on the fourth off a december in a rush up war of the free. and her comments and her remarks were not so much behind the a by russia's foreign ministry nor prime minister vladimir putin the prime minister like even to accuse the us state department of mt laying into russia's national policy but also one of the russians a news agency life in using also taint any change of e-mails 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 or by the u.s. state department in one russian city demonstrators took a more playful approach organizing a toy protest and. coming from the space aliens dipping with them. all of which were waving toothpicks protesting against the election results you can log onto website. to see. 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 overexcited report capturing chaos in the streets ablaze the only problem with the footage it wasn't taken here in moscow now it is more important 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. thousands of protesters have gathered in moscow 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 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. enforce 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 roominess c.n.n. report well in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans writing in moscow 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 purina point nine or r.t. new york as you times wrote above escobar says the use of the wrong images by fox wasn't accidental. look you can't take folks 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 wind not faction which is most of them of course c.n.n. basically is a mouse piece of the state department but i don't honestly i eat they would 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 it's what's really happening inside russia and then you have to pay attention to russian media

ok there were some irregularities in the election just like very real averages in any election in european countries in the us in two thousand and four of the e.u.'s in two thousand and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address grievances from arts of the russian population this is the real issue. come to see how the election run is have been developing in russia take it up a picture gallery to see snapshots from the biggest rally in moscow in twenty is not on top of a dot com and head to the. exclusive section. it's already been dubbed europe's great divorce this week britain vetoed france and germany plans to impose a fiscal agreement within the e.u. three countries will take the pact to that national parliaments with all the other e.u. members agreeing to hand brussels absolute control of that budget smarties to syria

brings us this report. the 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 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 girls back past and member states i believe need to do more to fully implement the country specific recommendations so what does that mean for greece for example european leaders have just approved an eight billion euro trash of aid to prevent the country from going bankrupt in exchange greece promised to cut its deficit to five point four percent of its g.d.p. from a projected nine percent this year translation more tax hikes and spending cuts for greeks still reeling from previous 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 and what of sovereignty the whole concept of national

sovereignty has become a very gray zone ones 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 are still here r t brussels international consultant and author adrian you told me earlier that the fiscal union will only produce more cracks within the european union. in this particular instance i would tend to favor the british position here because britain from the very beginning understood and we still have a stand far better than the european colleagues the importance of national sovereignty and the importance of having a sovereign currency the pound certainly has been issued by the bank of england

since sixty ninety four and it definitely would not have been a good idea for britain to cede that sovereignty and what europe is now suffering many of the countries especially the smaller ones is a problem of sovereignty i think that we will probably start seeing. it very soon because of greece were definitely not able to comply would be of the deficit require of a portugal italy spain undoubtedly will also be the same problem definitely i think that people are realizing that the euro is a little bit like a procrustean bed a bed which is one size must fit all in greek mythology pro-car stres had made a bit he said anybody who was shorter than it he would stretch him out breaking bones and sues until he would fit and if he were taller than his fed he would chop your feet and lives to make sure it would fit so in a way i think going back to greek mythology and i think greece is a very case in point where they are trying to impose a one size fits all and we have to understand that in the real world one size does

not fit all. the deal agreed in brussels means greater discipline with sanctions for those e.u. members who break the rules but british m.e.p. godfrey bloom says those who push for the punishment are the ones who violated e.u. agreements in the first place. 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 hole so 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 that water doesn't flow uphill that's the 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 student of 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. here with r.t. still ahead this hour british m.p.'s 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 but look at how you came to make as a 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 of pakistan boycotted the event. the story still to come but 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 are asking the u.n.

to release one hundred fifty billion dollars in frozen assets to pay wages and as a sign 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 rifle chatter at the heralds of the new dawn. there was no exchange of gunfire the situation is ok. this may be deliberately it's very few wanted to break free from the obligations of the old regime on the surface of things that the normal full life in tripoli has been restored a city where many homes didn't have access to face to face the last few months ago already has its fountain running but the new leaf it is still facing the danger of running around in the shallow waters of international politics much of satisfy remain frozen limiting the government's ability to pay salaries and subsidies 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 gadhafi regime a former engineering student he joined to have 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 other country cruising around on a saturday night is good yes. 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 of the gadhafi the new

authorities also have to decrease prices on raise salaries so that only 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 is that the 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 in the first place they were more interested in forming their their economic ties to the american oil companies yet for the moment the future seems bride not

least because it's also very blurred actually got artsy tripoli. we don't forget you can find plenty more stories comments and analysis on our website and see what's in store for you there right now the spice seized the wrong displays the intercepted cia drone plane days after the pentagon admitted that it lost touch with the tech. also driven to despair and then rage mother pulls the trigger on her children before committing suicide in a us food stamp office after being denied assistance. an international conference on stability in afghanistan as proof promised continued

support to kabul after the planned withdrawal of nato troops in twenty fourteen at the meeting in germany the world's powers 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 gathering was boycotted by pakistan which is viewed as a key player in restoring peace in the region as never but refused to send their envoys in protest over a u.s. airstrike in the border area two weeks ago that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers called one of them a columnist of foreign policy in focus magazine thinks washington's role in the region is both reckless and dangerous one. 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 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 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 there than we then we imagine it to be and then it includes really multiple zones some of them world wide. well the cell we also hear from russia 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 shadow for next may in chicago the statement came off the thursday session between the sides failed to resolve the deadlock over a planned allied missile shield in europe moscow's repeatedly asked for legal guarantees that the project won't be aimed against it which the alliance refuses to give prism of it have announced 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 believed that 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. 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's so i think the idea is those 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. well here's a look at some other stories making news around the world at this stage of the day fresh violence has killed at least twelve people in syria's 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 also surrender their weapons syrian president bashar sad recently rejected accusations he ordered the deaths of protesters who would have thought thousand people to be killed in syria since clashes began nine months ago. palestinian protesters

clashed with israeli soldiers as they held a funeral for a fellow demonstrator the deceased victim was killed after being 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 and the west bank has seen frequent demonstrations in its rural areas against jewish settlements and the building of israel's separation barrier which is compromised palestinian farmland. and how about this then video of a petrol tanker exploding near melbourne in australia the driver was offloading fuel when the rig became engulfed in flames and the place sent many scrambling for safety investigators are still trying to determine what sparked the explosion. dramatic pictures there from melbourne australia british m.p. passed a motion to review a controversial extradition treaty with the u.s.

this week in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven it allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen regardless of criminal evidence because artie's i have a 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 called an injustice was a mistake in the first with 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 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 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. 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. so that's the main news for you this hour i'll be back with the headlines we in just a moment stay with us live here on our team. download

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