tonight an r t the russian prime minister is grilled by the people is an annual public q. and a as he defends the right to protest legally and vows to work closely with the opposition in the future. prime minister putin says that he wants to see cameras and schooled in polling stations in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud joins me in a few moments more on this plus all the key points from vladimir putin's four and a half hour question and answer session. also stop fighting stop talking the message of a russian draft resolution on syria to the u.n. security council appealing for both the country's leadership and the opposition to search for a diplomatic solution. to moscow says all of the eurozone can solve its own

problems but it will help deal with the blocks that crisis is president medvedev meets top technocrat sim process. stronger ties and ironing out differences when it comes to the energy sector between russia and the join me for more details on that very shortly. it's midnight here in moscow a very warm welcome for me kevin owen here with r.t. tonight our top story from the recent parliamentary election to russia's foreign policy vladimir putin has tackled all range of questions from the public including a number of tough topics to the prime minister's annual televised q. and a where the nation lost a record four and a half hours later all over this and the. prime minister vladimir putin addressed the protesters who were unhappy with what they claim was electoral fraud taking place during the parliamentary elections earlier this month now he said that they.

heard the rights the constitutional right to protest but they must remain within the law now following those elections we saw videos posted online allegedly showing electoral fraud taking place now those videos went viral online were all over the internet speaking about the web as a medium litany of putin said that the internet due to its nature could not be limited and said that even if it could be it wasn't the role of government to do so he did say that technology should become a biggest part of the electoral process saying that web cams should be placed in polling booths to make sure that everybody can see exactly what happens there but it. is breaking a very nuanced communication commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety finals and of these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening at every station it will rule out any allegations of fraud with the can get it that way yes well

looking ahead to the presidential elections which mr putin will stand in next year he laid out his manifesto saying that he wanted to to modernize russia's economy and to grow and develop democracy in the country and he also had some words for one of his contenders in the. presidential race. saying that he was a worthy and a a strong contender but stopping short of saying that he would give us the procrit of his support of course not a mere putin will be running against him going for that president george the president in march of next year you know one final point on the elections he did say that if the love got to be a putin saw that the people were not on side with him in the next election that he would remove himself from office that he would step down voluntarily if it looked like the people weren't on the side of the world and forward a half hours when you're asking all the people in russia to put their questions to

one of the men at the top as well. you're going to get some great questions usually on earth some germs are safe for the half hours this time the longest that the prime minister has spoken for an address these questions this time out was no different what we what we heard was mr putin feeling a question about a ballot that had been spoiled during the parliamentary elections earlier this month the ballot came from london and the whoever heard filled out ballots in all mis filled it in as it were had left a rather choice message for the pm on their ballot paper using some colorful language let's hear what he said. he didn't run in the parliamentary election their name wasn't on the party list and yet everyone seems to hold you responsible for the result as well that's normal news out of last magazine published a photo of a ballot had an obscene message addressed to you want it i would not want to voice it right now but why not go ahead. hooten why don't you the rest is on broadcast

about would you think of decided to use an exhibit. here as i've seen a search i found it very amusing and i was even pleased because there's nothing new in your certitude i saw plenty of dirt thrown my way when i was president but i did not doubt myself then nor do i doubt my actions as far as i know the message or not but it was written in london and we knew very well why some russians live there and why they don't want to come back up with me but you know they're obscene message to me simply tells me how much they want to talk about fashion but they can't while i'm in with another you know i'm not mad at them i'm actually grateful that they came and voters just like an ostomy well the prime minister was taking questions on foreign policy regarding the united states. and said that russia wanted to improve their relationship with america and work together with the u.s. however it was the united states which really didn't want to take their relationship any further that they don't want didn't want to deal with sovereign

nations like russia that they had their own type. the partner they wanted to work with were going to you know they made up their mind on afghanistan and what did they discuss the mission with their own eyes in advance they carried out their strike and we started pulling in other forces saying whoever is not with us is against us we'd like to be allies with the united states but what i see now is not the ship sometimes i think america doesn't need allies it needs service in the west slowly well staying stateside prime minister putin also hired some comments for us senator john mccain john mccain had said this to me as putin would go the same way as colonel gadhafi you know this prompted a response from the prime minister saying that well perhaps john mccain it should spend too much time in the prisoner of war camp during the vietnam war and this had affected his mind elsewhere vladimir putin also spoke about mikhail khodorkovsky the jailed billionaire he's saying later he would consider

a pardon for of course if he was to if he were to admit his guilt and if this was of course if let me a putin became president in that election in march all of this coming in well a mammoth session from the prime minister four and a half hours how long you spoke for the thing is previous record by around five minutes. peter all of our correspondents in moscow russia's put forward a draft resolution on syria to the u.n. security council calling on both sides the country's leadership on the opposition to hold violence and start political reform moscow believes the previous western backed mandate which russia and china vetoed in october was one sided and could have open the door to military action like in libya the new document voices support for the arab league's initiative for a political settlement becomes a syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers were killed in recent clashes by army defectors the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died now since the nine month long unrest

with damascus blaming armed gangs for the violence political analyst chris bambery told me syrians want change but also to avoid military intervention. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria are not in the syrian national council or body which is based both in terms of save the country i have to say that many of those. regime did not feel. the need for foreign intervention or indeed for the north grateful what is happening in syria now is that what is a popular revolution how the forces are moving in to try and take that all for and use it for its own ends in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is both in the country and save the country is no seeing if it would sever ties with iraq severed ties to hamas and hizbollah it would treat russia as a special relationship that will be so very very good by the way and it would strengthen ties with saudi arabia and other gulf states and with america and france

now it would seem to me an agenda to be joyous the years of people in paris. in washington and in soda and saudi arabia and i think there is a developing difference here between for the people who have been organizing the peaceful demonstrations the uprising if you like inside syria on the ground in many of the forces there the people in the grown by and watch are opposing as i understand it foreign intervention people have been organizing the demonstrations have not come up with the demand for western intervention this is coming i think that extraneous to the movement and i think it's something which should be a pause and indeed those forces are of a pause here and indeed they have said they are against a violent overthrow of the regime they want to see it toppled by peaceful means and i think that's to be applauded in that situation they don't want syria to go down the road of civil war. the eurozone still faces a bleak outlook for the prospect of a winter recession in spite of the efforts of politicians to come up with solutions

at a summit in brussels president. russia's help along with closer energy ties so moscow is hopeful of seeing the e.u. overcome its troubles artie's tests are a seller's across the latest. problem has been on the top the agenda and russia russia's role possibly in trying to help the eurozone nations now one of the ideas put forth is russia contributing a certain amount to the international monetary fund now the amount has not been specified by a president medvedev although there have been talk that it's in the vicinity of around ten billion dollars and you know there is the option also the contributing to the f.s.f. or even russia would prefer to contribute to the international monetary fund and again both sides reiterate the importance of this partnership russia in particular because the e.u. comprises about more than half of the foreign trade between the two countries and it's a foreign reserves are also a euro so it does see its interest in trying to support the country in the countries in overcoming the crisis that are in right now both sides did admit to

and reiterate the ties between the two countries saying praising the success particularly of the north stream project and they say baby could be will expect continued continued exchanges especially in the energy sector although they did mention that there are difficulties as well particularly in relation to the third energy package which is a legislation of the e.u. that requires the separation of the transportation delivery and sale of gas which does become a point of contention because one of russia's russia's biggest company gazprom is in charge of all those all those processes and it would it would definitely impact the way they operate in terms of gas a live reason the e.u. although the e.u. said well they're willing to talk about and continue negotiations on how to add more flexibility so that they would take into consideration of russia's interests now another thing relation to creative business is of course the accession of russia to the w t o this will provide more liberalization definitely lower import tariffs for russia certainly the e.u.

will play a very big role considering that seventy point five percent of investment in russia is coming from the e.u. so a lot of business and trade talks happening here in brussels between the two sides . more news analysis on our website r.t. dot com few stories online for you now as a rand becomes the target of a series of bombings and assassinations we invite you to read the views of one expert who believes the so-called rogue state could just be the latest victim of the world's real axis of evil intercity more about that it's online from us tonight also moscow accuses the e.u. of overstepping its powers by blocking a russian humanitarian aid that was taking food and supplies to kosovo serbs are stories rumbling on if you want to keep abreast of the keep up to date with the latest with a place to do that r.t. dot com. the second round of parliamentary election is over in egypt with right wing muslim groups looking to boost their lead in the polls in the first round two islamic parties won close to seventy percent of the vote casting

doubt over the country's much vaunted switch to a democratic future let's explore further now the reverse again from how one university he's joining us from cairo professor very good evening thank you for being on the program and taking the time out to be with us here live on r.t. these polls have been dubbed the first democratic election since the ousting of president mubarak but with reports of irregularities in the voting process how democratic do you really think. that what or what. i was saying thank you for being on the program how democratic do you think these recent elections were. yes let let me let me tell you about the election about about. the spear of the election that election it's the fairest as the paris democratic what you call a democratic election and that is that is good and. it seems that's exactly not

going as many people. as many revolutions are in maywood would like to see because we see with see more and more fundamentalists are winning but they are not winning games fairly and squarely about they are winning. and using using some extra curriculum activities of extracurricular means to win when booted from it. very sorry to say that about. we have we have we have to say that the the the yes the when they were but their majority is not is not. the it should not be. should not be aware of what it will mean by day because it should not be that that prefer so what will be the consequences for the of not. what will be the consequences if an

islamist party does get into parliament for your country. it's about the you know that the parliament. if. the muslim brotherhood and we're with when we. did by then they will control the parliament they surely would control the parliament but i'm very sure i'm very sorry to tell you will now would be the they are not winning school will it merely be that again the mouth and and the big because now we are united states and europe wants to wants wants muslim brotherhood and wants of the therapy wants the celebrate to win. and an overwhelming majority. of. them because it seems that exactly united states and europe are breviary something

against iran and the only only. only only it's only muslims that if it would be able to counter. the indian here and leave. and other in other words another will that the indian. period is somehow going to get. into war because what you call a rigged election reality pure and simple prefer sir thank you for your thoughts we're watching the outcome very closely here this side and covering it with your help of course a professor of political science is it helen university thank you. pakistan's reportedly considering imposing attacks on u.s. and nato supply is going to afghanistan through its territory you may recall last month after across the board a nato air strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers or relations between

washington and islamabad new low after that incident let's talk about that which advice in senior fellow and director of the center for political will. tree analyses the hudson institute the u.s. things being on the program the pakistani foreign minister says that the country will fight the war on terror on its own terms and conditions is that what this report it really all about you think. well put it into context but we've had several of these friendly fire incidents and. it's difficult for pakistani leaders now that it's at them as a democracy rather than a military government to not respond to popular antagonism pot that are still at the towards the incidents and so what they've done this time as opposed to previous occasions is shut down both supply or doors keeping them close. the bonn conference on as we're covering afghanistan they've announced that they're reviewing their entire set of relations with nato in the u.s.

and so in that context this time it's coming up and from nato as point of view this might not be that bad i mean the worst scenario is that those supply lines don't open at all and that would put nato i mean nato as you know it's been bringing some supplies through russia brings by air and so on to afghanistan pakistan these pirates are still very important and so they just at the pay of bad that might work i mean that's basically what our relationship was has become very transactional but of course the poor the pakistani officials the u.s. forces knew they were opening fire on pakistani forces and even apologized but. why would the u.s. and nato knowingly target their allies and get themselves into this squabble of the first place best for size so i consider this friendly fire ax and there's no reason why any nato would do this deliberately so. right i just i mean

you know we know from these kind of conflicts the confusion that arises i mean the americans have killed a number of british soldiers in iraq and so on these these incidents happen all the time we even killed one of our more famous football players in in one of the incidents earlier which has been called a bit of a scandal that there was covered up so friendly fire killed a lot of people americans and made a fall and they may have members and pakistanis now we obviously want to avoid this and so thinking about how did they have a better mechanism for engaging in rules of engagement along the border makes a lot of sense but of course the problem is that the insurgents the taliban. is fighting afghanistan they also have bases and operations in pakistan so they that border doesn't mean anything to them it's pretty much the same common pat ethnic pashtun crime. ok mistake here the pakistani people on the set the country wouldn't tolerate any more attacks like this recent one we're talking about. how could nato

. same sort of mistake won't happen again. i can't i think actually we're going to receive an increase in the future because what the military is telling us the offensive in the past here in afghanistan has worked fairly well in the south it eliminating the taliban it's not work very well at the east because of these pakistani in the fourth they're getting within pakistan in terms of logistics so now either nato plans to spend next year focusing this operation and trying to seal that border and that's i think that increased the likelihood of these kind of friendly fire incidents does that mean less drones more boots on the grown. that's possible they serve different purposes the drones are made thickly used to fight in international terrorists al qaida and so on. you can

use them for the afghan taliban they're not really use for that purpose or use the the fighting with the taliban it's pretty much by soldiers on the ground backed up by extensive air support because that's the nato coalition advantage sometimes the air strike score arrived as they happened on november twenty sixth or i think she thought from the hudson institute in washington d.c. thank you. and you run the world. french quarter next president jacques chirac guilty of diverting funds and abusing public confidence the charges date back to his term as mayor of paris he was convicted of pay go to salaries to former party members for municipal jobs didn't exist the french politicians repeatedly denied the charges she was in court to hear the verdict because of poor health he's been given a two year suspended sentence. the american flag has been lowered in baghdad in a ceremony marking the war's end in iraq and the withdrawal of u.s. troops a small contingent of u.s. soldiers remains in baghdad for now but they'll soon leave after the ceremony

america claims to have left behind a stable country but many worry the military pullout will provoke eve of war terrorist attacks now over ten thousand iraqis have been killed since the american led invasion nine years ago. a new kind of holes killed over one hundred in the west in the state of west bank goal in india many low income workers for a little choose day after drinking this liquor that was laced with methanol that's a chemical commonly used in antifreeze because with hundreds more in hospital many fear the death toll will rise seven people have been arrested in connection with the manufacturer distribution of the liquor. it's midnight twenty four now and turbulence in the arab world algeria has remained relatively quiet next on the program we talked to the country's foreign minister who says the arrest of money its neighbors is a major concern still stay with us for the. minister

for the arab countries have been swept up by what has been called the arab spring and what is european or russia's position in relation to dance in syria in the arab world as a whole. our opinion is based on mutual trust between our two countries on common vision concerning events in the world and on mutual respect for the principles of each of the sides first of all i'm talking about the principles of

noninterference in the internal affairs of third countries the principle of long term cooperation and the right of states to change the order within their own territories but not within the territory of other countries i believe russia's stance is serious and well thought out it's identical to the stance taken by algeria we're proud to share similar views but especially in relation to the arab spring. some experts say that old jiri didn't welcome the arab revolutions that it's taking episode which is closer to the other arab regimes. algeria didn't welcome those revolutions that went beyond the borders of the countries. they began we didn't export the algerian revolution and we don't seek to spread the principles of the algerian revolution where over to other nations it's an issue that depends on the will of the people and we respect that if the people aspire to change their own government or change their own countries order we'll take that desire seriously this is our stance for example towards tunisia and then

god willing to watch libya. both russia and algeria are concerned over the or moments that have gone missing in libya it's feared they could end up in the hands of terrorist groups is there any kind of card peroration in which we rush in algeria on this. this is a very serious issue which of course has been a concern for algeria but primarily this must be a concern for libya and for the new libyan government very aware of the threat and have applied much effort to avoid them however this is not only a libyan issue anymore it's spread beyond libya and now threatens the whole region countries that have access to the scene should be on high alert their security and stability can be ensured through negotiations and regular contact between algeria and libya and between algeria and other parties russia as the other party is interested in the issues resolution and has the opportunity and the tools to address the challenges in this region actually this is something we really need

we're trying to take control of channels for weapons trafficking and a currently developing new means of doing this. you know that could have his regime has been toppled what will relations be like between algeria and libya. today our bilateral relations are almost being normalized we'll cooperate with the libyan people in all areas especially where we've had a positive experience for example in national reconciliation we're proud of the efforts taken by libyan brothers to reach national reconciliation and we're proud that they regard it as a priority issue. earlier you said that the people. you have a right to change the order in their country to change the existing regime you are well aware that these changes have been brought about by islamist movements in america or tunisia and even in a libya where this moment is the grounds that we feel. think of the rise in strengthening of islam is movements in north africa that. islam is parties and

movements were in opposition to the regimes that existed in neighboring countries have now been toppled as the fall of the regimes allowed these parties and movements to enter the political arena it's a new phenomenon and we welcome it because it reflects a strengthening of democracy it shows that all political forces who aspire to build a new future are prepared to take up that responsibility however when taking these new steps the parties in movements need to stick to the rules of the game and show respect for them if they abide by the rules then they are as eligible as anybody else ultimately the people cast their votes for those who believe that they will make them happy and cheery is a part of a ministerial taskforce on libya working on resolving the syrian crisis and the media use the arab initiative to resolve the syrian crisis that it must be given the maximum chance do you think the arab league was too weak to act at times and

that they're not giving damascus in a chance to meet the demands of other arab countries. as a member of this task force i can tell you that all of its members and all member states of the arab league are eager to see syria cooperate this doesn't mean there needs to be outside interference because syria is an arab country a member of the arab league so we don't see that the league acted as an outside force towards syria that opinion is shared by all the arab nations but there are concerns as well we see human rights violations in syria and if the authorities there full responsibility for those violations such negligence is unacceptable this is not the position of just one state we all agree here we cannot accept what's happening in syria. it's brand new trisha's and this is product on the price of healthy eating. we need

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