russian billionaire playboy to be called into the presidential race the country's third wealthiest person is running for russia's top job next march. people fled the center of moscow again but this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party and its mass opposition rally staged amid claims the results of the parliamentary vote. for. greece's second a rescue package amid skepticism over the official called the emergency measure against the backdrop of widening cracks. and occupy protesters take their rallies to a new level as they aim to shut down america's west coast ports that's is the first

arrest take place in new york where corporate demonstrations also got the case this monday. international news and comment live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. candidates have been throwing their hats into the ring ahead of russia's upcoming presidential runoff and one of the world's richest men russian businessman has formally announced he's running in the election shadow for next march. has more on the man. is number three on russia's rich list and get kind of a jack of all trades not only does he have a fortune of estimated eighteen billion dollars he's also have a das good old player in fact he owns the new jersey nets basketball team he's an avid skier and while in the french alps he's actually been involved in

a high class prostitution scandal of course french authorities later have cleared him of all charges and extended their apologies which were accepted this is not his first foray into politics he was the leader of the right cause party in russia just earlier this year and he left to that party however due to disagreements with other party members although at the time profit of said that he did so because of the pressure from the kremlin and of course in the upcoming presidential elections will have to run against other candidates who have already said they're willing to run for the presidential elections and that of course is the premise of us were put in and at the head of the fair russia party now michel profit of did not specify what exactly is going to be on the heels election campaign he said everything that he has to say he will state in due time to the announcement that we will run for presidential term has made it into the twitters our worldwide top trends so that is quite an accomplishment already so we have just to wait and see in order to find

out exactly because progress has in store. martin mccauley a russia specialist at the university of london believes pocket of his candidacy has introduced some fresh blood to the springtime race for the country's top job. it makes it more interesting because he's a very good mathematician these are finance he's a businessman he's a sports personality he's internationalist so therefore he's a name that people would recognize and he would bring some. youthful vigor if you like to the proceedings one would expect him to articulate some views from a purely economic point of view we haven't much experience of politics but you can argue about finance you can argue about the way ahead for russia he may in fact attract the new urban class in moscow and st petersburg and you can rebuild places like that for the young professionals the under thirty five and so on they want a voice and they want politicians like you want is the longer the world telling the

world they've been there for forty years there will be blood. for the record for being an excuse which he's not going to correct the course because he's very fearful really going for the wrong young professionals of the people who would like to be like roar of. thousands of people have been gathering again in the center of moscow in reaction to the recent parliamentary vote supporters of the united russia party that won the election of state to rally following a series of mass protests against the results what is ready to question over has been following developments in the heart of the russian capital. several thousands of people who came here. in this where which is writing of the a century all from moscow these were the memories so that united russia party various organisations donahue's groups that support united russia and its leadership prime minister vladimir putin and president dmitry medvedev this really comes after a series of other demonstrations in the center of moscow following while the

monthly elections that took place on the fourth all december the results sport of france the that has been going on for several days now there have been allegations of a lot wrong and violations people have been coming to the streets both in protest and in support of the results the biggest protest so far to place on saturday around twenty five thousand people and that's the number given by the inter ministry gathered in one of the moscow central squares to boys their frustration their number one demand was of the recount of those basically people one says are the new parliamentary elections to take place in russia. and over there and we've got much more on the developments around the part of the tradition in russia on our web site all. over the tell and head to the exclusive section of our web site and check out a picture gallery of russia's biggest rally in two decades it was a fun first time accounts of last week's events as well as reactions and in that analysis also going to you tube channel for all kinds of footage from the

demonstrations. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. and he will street protesters across the west coast are trying to blockade some of america's busiest ports from portland to san diego but while they fight their cause on one side of america on the other riot police a busy arresting demonstrators in new york and he's got a chair and has the latest. most two dozen people were arrested in new york during what looked like a very peaceful demonstration we're also getting reports that members of the occupy

wall street media team there have been arrested they were providing a live stream of the protests on the internet so that's new york occupiers of march there in solidarity with their fellow protesters on the west coast where thousands are taking on ford's from california to alaska to disrupt what they describe as an economic machine that benefits the wealthiest individuals and corporations this is being the message of the whole occupy movement which started three months ago the protesters are marching down ports in san diego los angeles portland seattle tacoma . and courage that's in alaska this should give you a sense of the scale of the action there we're getting reports that the protesters have shut down several terminals in portland and l.a. the poured in oakland has also been shut down we're also keeping a close eye on the police reaction there. you know we have begun in san francisco three people so far police officers in riot gear are on the move all cool

and so a lot going on on the west coast right now we might see a lot more arrests coming maybe even a brutal crackdown on protesters with the use of gas and rubber bullets something that we have seen in the past so far authorities have been quite successful in cracking down on these peaceful protesters across the united states dismantling their camps a victim of the demonstrators around five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months and those arrest don't even make it to the headlines anymore they've become something like business as usual dozens of demonstrators get arrested every week just over this weekend fifty five people were arrested in san francisco. reporting there and our correspondent lucy cover of this in new york following the protests across america and updating her twitter account and you see here that she reports that the police are arresting protesters on mass

in new york and also some arrests reported on the west coast in l.a. and san diego follow her twitter updates at the moment at the. international austerity inspectors the so-called troika are in greece to put in place a second lifeline for the debt ridden country athens narrowly avoided default in december after it received a vital cash injection but still remains at risk as cracks are widening in the e.u. after what's considered a major divorce between britain and other members of brussels summit. has more. it's not easy running a business even a small one like this german company which produces isolation materials for gas turbines loans taxes salaries competition it's enough to keep any business man's head busy but many still wonder why rules different when it comes to the big book or in this case the euro. when a business takes a loan and can't paid back it announces its bankruptcy i think

a state which keeps accumulating debt has to do the same it's no different from a company in that sense you don't borrow money if you know you can't pay it back but for some reason often this doesn't seem to be the case for the eurozone so let's take greece for example besides billions of euros which have already been allocated to bail it out even leaders have approved yet another tranche inas to pay off its three hundred sixty billion euro debt preventing it from going and taking others with it many fear the tactic will not work it's all about physics review no matter how strong a material is like this piece of metal with the right amount of pressure it will break. and unfortunately for the euro zone the laws of physics are called universal for a reason meanwhile the pressure is rising the latest e.u. summit in brussels showed the economic crisis is creating cracks in the union

britain walked out of a deal put forward by germany and france to revise the e.u. treaty and create a fiscal union with a tighter grip on finances but analysts to warn the integration may take too long with some countries facing a possible referendum on the deal this year a package will take until march to implement and i think in the meantime the eurozone in particular the mediterranean countries are extremely vulnerable indeed and i do not discount the a breakdown of the markets will overwhelm the whole europa. and that the eurozone countries and the e.u. institutions will find themselves simply not big enough to cope with it meanwhile inspectors from the so-called troika which consists of the european commission the european central bank and the international monetary fund are looking to provide athens with a new one hundred thirty billion euro bailout i would call it the lying circus the bankers who are trying to save their necks who are put on the line with bad

loans to corrupt governments and. waiting and expecting european taxpayers to pay their bills especially the bonus bills sure christmas is big in europe but bailing out the euro for the sake of the banks is becoming one expensive present the dozens of protests that have rocked the e.u. this year are a clear sign of discontent over austerity. and it's highly likely the new set of handouts for greece will be greeted with any fair stiff cheer. of germany. david cameron's firm no to the e.u. fiscal agreement received a mixed reaction at home he's been defending his actions in the house of commons early on monday saying the treaty lacked financial safeguards for the u.k. jungleland the vote the u.k. out of the e.u. campaign supports cameron's decision but has doubts over how the e.u. is going to work with this division in place. i think he was right to stand up to

the germans and engage right to stand up to a little but the bottom line is the facts are we are now more isolated than ever we're still be paying fifty one million pounds a day into the but now we have no influence over it whatsoever clearly the british people do not want fiscal review and clearly david cameron went to brussels trying to stop fiscal union and to stop the current of. the destruction of the banking sector he didn't get what he wanted so he decided to walk out of those discussions and some people say he was a bulldog rather than the political but i think now he has to go even further and asked to give the british people and i'm on the subject we want less integration not more integration and certainly now we've got this fiscal union but the whole question is of course how will this fiscal union work how will these f.-u.

work can they use the instruments of the i would say probably not and i call we have a situation where we the british will turn up for negotiations the other twenty six if indeed there are twenty six who decide ever then the day before and just before we leave the room as i mr cameron come we have another check for fifty one million pounds a day august and he is going to work. john gaunt there and on our web site artie dot com are interested in your opinion and what can be done to save these struggling eurozone so far most think the monetary union should simply be dissolved but about fourteen percent say the eurozone should expel the weakest members and we can see that i think that a single currency requires a single government a minority view support sanctions imposed financial discipline what's your view log on to r.t. you don't have your say you could see from. u.s. troops in iraq and handed over the large cult so military base to iraqi forces ahead of the december thirty first withdrawal president barack obama has met with

iraqi president nuri al maliki in washington to discuss the next phase of their country's relationship brownback a director of the antiwar answer coalition told me earlier that iraq is a much different place now than it was before the us invaded only remember the last nine years in iraq as one of the great crimes great tragedies of modern times iraq was at peace with the united states to threaten the united states it had no weapons of mass destruction it was not connected to september eleventh it was the victim of a premeditated aggression by the united states and britain more than hundreds of thousands of iraqis have died five million were made into refugees two million internally two million externally the country was shredded formerly united country was divided along ethnic sectarian lines and now the united states is leaving its not paying reparations for its crimes those who committed these this grievous assault this or this war of aggression are going around on book tours making lots

of money. remember you can find more stories comments and analysis on our website that have a look and see what's there at the moment ground control to the another russian satellite source to the stars communications between space travelers and. these times of austerity it seems christmas is being taken back to basics in hungary scantily clad son to be bringing some festive cheer to the streets couldn't find out what they're running for on a website party. in syria violence intensifies as clashes between government forces and army defectors spread this sunday twenty three people have reportedly been killed in battles in the south of the country

a new fights have erupted in the northwest but as the number of victims grows one source reporting the atrocities comes under scrutiny while there are definite questions on the credibility of the syrian human rights of serve a tory particularly when it comes to the number of victims that they allege are victims of the government atrocities and many a time anyone who dies in syria they claim that these are victims of the syrian government's atrocities you could say we haven't met several different function factions here working here the united states and france and turkey and certain members of the league of arab states that of course are working very strongly to push for an allied government and syria government that would do its wishing as a government that they be more akin to the jordanian government more i came to what was in egypt prior to his downfall so i government that that was knocked out and not support resistance against israel a government that would work towards a peace agreement with israel a government that would open up its economies fully for the united states. let's

take a look at other stories making news around the world at this stage of the day in our world update armed militants in pakistan have ambushed a convoy of nato bound tankers before setting it ablaze islamabad recently decided to block nato supply routes to afghanistan after a strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers last month the blockade could continue for weeks until new rules are established with washington meanwhile u.s. forces of left pakistan's shamsi base after being told to go as a result of the deadly strike. israel has approved the construction of forty homes in a farm near bethlehem plans for the new neighborhood were approved by israel's defense minister but the settlement watchdog peace now said the project show israel's intention to claim the region in any future agreement with the palestinians israel has come under criticism since a government decision last month to speed up construction in response to palestine joining unesco. well palestinian m.p. must have a told r.t.

that the ongoing construction of settlements is the reason there could be no talks between palestine and israel is a preview of what's ahead next down. it's not difficult to go to negotiations it's impossible. as long as allowed to continue to build settlements as long as the government is the government we have there would be no negotiations it's not just. that i hate monger that is really a problem with the creation of the new settlement block is that it is killing the very last opportunity of two states of which means they can never dream of something called the edge of the state that is the price that israel is paying. a famine themed credit card is hitting the u.s. markets just in time for holiday shopping but it relates to one of the most painful episodes in ukraine's history when a famine across the soviet union claimed three million ukrainian lives alone and as

a legacy of reports there are many in kiev who view the move as u.s. banks attempting to cash in on tragedy. almost a decades on ukraine still mourns those who died in the 1930's famine in the u.s.s.r. known here as the whole of the more and it's a rare example where political forces more used to in fighting put aside their differences to unite in common cause now the ukrainian diaspora in the united states is joining in remembrance in a rather peculiar fashion the application for the whole of the. credit card. will be able to allow the south occasion. any one of our branches the catastrophic nine hundred thirty two nine hundred thirty three famine claimed at least three million lives in ukraine alone with several more million british ng across what is now central russia and kazakstan some one key of insist it was an act of genocide

directed against ukrainians most school says it was caused by criminal agricultural policies of stalin's government but those behind the credit card project claim they're driven by remembrance motives only putting all the story debates aside you know what it's another good mechanism to have all of them or remember thanks to the political elite and civil organizations it is well known in ukraine. besides there are only a few living witnesses left and they're already over eighteen years old. however it's not only about the intangible one percent of each purchase made with the holder more card will be allocated to a special charity fund ukraine's main monuments commemorating the 1930's famine was built in two thousand and eight amid recession and millions of us dollars were used from the state budget people behind the hole the more credit card project say that the money they raise may be used to build more monuments and memorials this apparently benign initiative however was met with an avalanche of criticism in

ukraine and that's not only because there are practically no survivors left who could be helped with the money raised this political analyst says buying groceries with. the famine inspired card is a blasphemy if the idea is completely immoral it's an attempt to popularize a great tragedy and use it for commercial needs i can only think of a proven tragedy the holocaust but the jews are not putting on a credit card in fact such an attempt was made by a u.s. company in two thousand and nine the blue card but it had no direct reference to the holocaust and it's not so popular across the atlantic where the whole of the more card will be more successful can be seen when it hits the market in late december just in time for christmas shopping. party reporting from kiev in ukraine crosstalk coming up in less than ten minutes from now here in r.t. this time featuring debate on the goals and prospects of the c.i.s.

it's a union the former soviet republics but now it's the business news with kareena stay with us for that. welcome to our business update the russian economic ministry believes there's a risk the price of oil could collapse next year if the eurozone crisis deepens this would have a profound impact on the country's economy l.-a value of a currency artie's business. well the ruble is currently thirty one to the dollar pessimistic traders or is there no will have you believe there's a twin risk in twenty twelve of the ruble weakening to dangerous unseen harley's first you have the political instability with reports that up the whole four million people come out onto the streets of moscow to protest the recent alleged fraud in the parliamentary elections second you have the leaked report from russia's economic ministry that there's a growing group the oil price will fall from the current hundred dollars a barrel to eighty or even sixty dollars in the wake of the eurozone crisis today

the o.e.c.d. warned that russia's for too dependent on oil revenues so low oil prices will be disastrous but the high school of economics here in moscow has calculated all that could push the ruble four to five against the dollar if we have a look at the historic ruble exchange rate this century will never actually go above thirty seven to thirty six point two in two thousand and nine so reports like this of forty five to the dollar have investors worried because he brings with it we currencies bring with it things like inflation another nasties that traders don't like we mostly the presidential aide. has been highly critical of these claims he says the high school of economics has an anti government boyers and he thinks that oil prices and the exchange rate will remain stable. look at the markets now european stock markets closed lower the fourth to last one point eight percent for the dax and over three and a quarter percent in the red bank for the declines shares of voice banking group

dropped seven percent in london in frankfurt commerzbank ally and six. in russia they are test markets closed over three and a quarter of the sap lower let's have a look at some individual share most of my precious biggest lenders the bear bank have reversed from running against the finish in the red at the quality gas produced in our technology four percent and that's despite news the company plans to invest nineteen billion dollars in oil and gas bill. action by twenty points and thank you b.p. shares finished in the red as well did better than its peers that's despite reports to us independent board members have quit the company. accounting is rarely glamorous but it is important to make russian business more transparent all as a companies will be obliged to report their results according to international standards by two thousand and fifteen that will force around a third of all russian firms to switch from reporting only local standards which

are often ignored if they are considered reliable it changes hope to prove the investment climate and make it easier for companies to attract find. a. repeating in international financial standards is a film that's accepted worldwide so when you listen company which provides results in these standards it's free to move around the globe and be transparent understandable and predictable. that's it for me but you can find what stories by simply logging to our website r.t. dot com.

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