margetts weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on r.g.p. . the latest news in the week's top stories president medvedev orders and investigation into claims of election violations in last week's parliamentary vote this after tens of thousands take to the streets across russia angry with the outcome of sunday's poll. stepping out britain vetoes a pen european deal to save the euro in a move that many believe is the u.k.'s first step towards exiting the union the. libyan authorities asked the un to release billions of dollars of frozen assets claiming the war torn country doesn't have enough cash to implement necessary before.

it's five am in moscow i match reza bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's headlines here on r t president dmitri medvedev has promised a thorough investigation into all claims of violations during last sunday's parliamentary elections this after more than sixty cities across russia held mass rallies with protesters demanding a revote artie's been a coach you know that has the latest from central moscow. this rally took place you know the central moscow where where over twenty five thousand people came in the first of they came to the a revolutionary square but of the moscow city a story just we're not alone people together they're good that's why than they peacefully proceeded to the boldness square where thousands and thousands of people were gathering and of they were oh boy seeing their demands we you know i'm pretty

well off in life but i'm here i'm not a member of any party but today we've reached the limit but i came here to protect my children and to help my president to make the right choice he cannot be against the country that we are in a very difficult situation right now and it has to be changed was the number one demand was so really the recount all the old sounds are basically people that gathered other this squares of a wanted of the new election so to take up placing russia on meanwhile of the essential action committee sounds it will not recount the votes count those are people who gathered out of the business squares who are gathering up for these are rallies that all 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 with the government and police have to learn a lesson from this protest is one thing going to a three thousand people take to the streets and completely another when you have one hundred thousand people raise their voices they will have to think hard about

it stays a day of truth is an historic moment and everyone understands this i mean wow after the end of the rallies our president mitterrand if expressed his own view over are the meetings of the rallies that took place in russia and the mosque two particular week he saw that he's quite satisfied with the way everything want especially how peacefully everything wound 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 to. plays during the parliamentary elections in russia will be of very carefully investigated meanwhile today on sunday over a two hundred nationalists also gathered at the belongingness square and they were protesting against immigration but these rally and this missing also went quite peacefully in the a center of moscow the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton how sad that she believed to the parliamentary elections that took place on the fourth off

a december in russia were neither free nor family and her comments and her remarks were not so much a client the apply in ny that russia's foreign ministry nor prime minister like human hooten prime minister alleging that of which an accused u.s. state department called madlang into russia's national policy but also one of the russians at a news agency life in use has obtained any change of e-mails between of the russian a non-governmental organisation that was observing the elections and the u.s. state department's these documents up presents a different commons over at the top six and especially the financing of the observers a by the u.s. state department brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition thinks the u.s. criticism is motivated by politicians who want to weaken russia and not seek democracy in the country. hillary clinton in the obama administration's real

intentions is it really their ability to parse the election results and what actually happened in the last days in order to make a sound judgment or was this a rush to judgment in fact was that in fact this scripted in choreographed planned response to whatever happened in russia not because of a concern about whether the elections were fair or not because there may have been improprieties but because the united states is involved in a multi-pronged effort to weaken russia and that is the russian government so it's the height of hypocrisy for this government the united states government to go and lecture other people about their right to protest five thousand people have been arrested one occupy movement after another has been a victim from their camp clearly they've used all kinds of pretext health and safety to this that or the other thing the point is the government using law enforcement agencies is violating people's basic constitutional rights not just in one city or two cities but in scores of cities simultaneously. election rallies in

russia got an enormous attention from global media the u.s. based fox news network contributed to the coverage with a report allegedly capturing violent chaos and streets ablaze the only problem with that footage was it wasn't taken in moscow artie's marina porton has more. 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 in moscow lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real 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 the rules 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 living in russia u.s. leaders have leveled harsh criticism against russia in the aftermath of the more lament reelection and critics say it's free press has worked to. enforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step with the government it 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 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 i do apologize to the ara integrate with even many russian viewers who've pointed out 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 purina point nine zero r.t. new york for more on the rallies you can always log on to our website r t v dot com there you can check out our photo gallery posting the latest snapshots from these biggest demonstrations that russia has seen in more than two decades this is our online exclusive section just a click away. britain's veto of franco german plans to impose

a pen european fiscal agreement caused a fresh rift within the e.u. this week three countries said they'll take their pact to their national parliaments while the other member states agreed to allow brussels to oversee their budgets are his test has 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 and whether david cameron knows it or not what he did was the first step towards the exit door a european marriage has soured britain was dubbed isolated but the rest will give

it another go and those of the helm are determined to make the european dream work 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 pass 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 astaire the measures. if we were to put this

you're a package to the electorates of greece of portugal and officially of spain they would all say no and what of sovereignty the whole concept of national solvent the 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 and 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 in those details yes or celia r.t. brussels and irrational consultant and author adrian sal bushy thinks the fiscal union will only produce more cracks within the e.u. . in this particular instance i would tend to favor the british position here

because britain from the very beginning of them stood 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 see 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 the europe's elites very soon because greece were definitely not able to comply with the deficit requirements 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 stories had made a bit he said anybody who was shorter than it he would stretch them out breaking bones and sues until he would fit and if he were taller than his bed he would chop

our feet and lives to make sure it would fit so in a way i think going back to greek mythology and i think it really says 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. analysts say the deal agreed in brussels implies stricter rules and sanctions for those e.u. members who break the guidelines but british m.e.p. godfrey bloom says it's those who are pushing for tougher controls that 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 say to leverage but it's not working the thing is we are now what we're seeing the end game. if the euro had been a hole so they would have shot it on the professional economists i've been thirty

five years of professional economists this isn't about politics this is be about economics and i've never done it in the history of the world politics p.t. economics doesn't flow uphill that's a 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 the rain and i would have a fiscal crimes tribe you knew him i would like to see some of these people sent to prison stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour the u.k. seeks to review an extradition along with the u.s. . we need to make sure that we all be equal and we all be. to all citizens and that is not the case of the day we take a little while and he's are demanding better protection for british citizens plus. we find out what came out of an international conference of afghanistan's future and why the key player in stabilizing the region pakistan boycotted the event.

but first with libya's civil war now behind it the people are calling on the government to implement reforms and raise salaries by the authorities say they are struggling for cash and asking the u.n. to release billions of dollars worth of frozen assets artie's oksana boyko has more . 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 as 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 it seems that the normal full life in tripoli has been restored the city where many homes didn't have access to face to face lab in few months ago already has its fountain running but the new leaf it is still facing the

danger of running round the 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 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 who during 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 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 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 the 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. i have big plans for my life in a year or so old 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 the regime that 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 for the moment the future seems bride not least because it's also very blurred i suddenly got a hearty chip kelly don't forget you can find plenty more stories comments and analysis a click away at our t. dot com live for you right now you can see a painful touchdown first on u.s. football back more than it does in oklahoma state supporters were injured when people jumped from the stands and landed on their fellow fans while rushing the field plots. desecrated on earth the u.s. military accused of dumping the ashes of cremated soldiers in a suburban landfill full details on the.

conference on stability in afghanistan's promise continued support to kabul after the planned withdrawal of nato troops in two thousand and fourteen at the meeting in germany world leaders pledged to provide financial assistance to the afghan government up through twenty four twenty four when it's hoped the country will be economically self-sustaining gathering though it was boycotted by pakistan which is viewed as a key player in restoring peace to the region is all about refused to send envoys in protest over a u.s. airstrike two weeks ago which killed twenty four pakistani soldiers it also continues to block nato supplies to afghanistan and the u.s. has been forced to vacate an air base used to launch drone attacks in qana howard in a polish that foreign policy in focus magazine is. critical of his role in the region . 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 do with draw other 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 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 that position i think this i think this chess board is much broader than we did then we imagine it to be and then it includes really multiple zones some of

them worldwide russia could boycott its summit with nato in may if the two sides don't agree on a european missile defense system the statement came after a meeting on thursday failed to resolve the deadlock over the issue washington claims that shield is aimed at iran and north korea american verbal promises failed to ease the kremlin's deep concerns over its potential threat to its nuclear deterrent president medvedev announced a number of military measures aimed at protecting russia's national security lawrence krauss from arizona state university says countries shouldn't appear to have weak defensive capabilities. there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a deadly 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 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 we could build a shield as some people say it then why not do that so i think the idea is that political pressures at home if they don't continue to push that weight is that mr a shouldn't use 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 take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe fresh clashes have erupted between government forces and defectors in syria as latest reports suggest at least eight hundred people have been killed across the country unrest in the cities of homes and hamas and in the northern illegal province are said to be the worst in the nine month long rebellion the u.n. estimates so far four thousand people killed since protests started with at least a thousand losses on the side of the military and security forces. palestinian

protesters clashing with israeli soldiers as they held a funeral for a fellow demonstrator the deceased victim had been killed after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired by israeli troops saturday the army's used of the gas canisters has come in for a strong criticism recently the west bank has seen frequent demonstrations in its rural areas against jewish settlements and building the israel building of israel's separation barrier which has compromised palestinian farmland. and dramatic video of a tanker truck full of petrol exploding near melbourne australia the driver was loading fuel when the rig became engulfed in flames the blaze sent many scrambling for safety investigators still trying to determine the cause of the blast. finally in this news block the u.k. parliament set to vote on an extradition treaty between london and washington drawn up in the aftermath of the nine eleven attacks it allows the us to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen regardless of criminal evidence as our desire for better reports m.p.'s are

certain that better protection for british citizens is necessary. 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 christmas treaty 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 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 gandhi was the slightest 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 now's the chance to deliver either bennett r.t. london be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us here on r.t. .

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