these are the images. from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. and night to cheers but also a few jeers is good even put since presidential victory sinks in with tens of thousands on the street but some go too far forcing the police to step it. president obama says that an attack on syria would be a mistake for after calls for airstrikes by leading u.s. politician john mccain. and nuclear inspectors get the green light to visit the secretive radian military facility while a new round of talks is said to begin with u.n. security council members and germany.

live from moscow to levon pm you're watching r.t. with me kevin though in welcome the top story more than two hundred opposition members detained after a night of election meetings here in moscow of all now been released one of the gathering spiraled out of control and police had to be moving in his legs he wrote jeff ski has more from outside the credit. essentially it wasn't very much different from the mass rallies we've been witnessing for the last three or four months in russia since the parliamentary vote in december only that maybe this rally was not as big as usual with around twenty thousand people attending it but still they were there to protest against the vote to protest against the prime minister directly the opposition leaders were speaking from the stage of looting the third place presidential candidate. who was also there until one moment when people already started dispersing from the square from the bush discuss where one

of the opposition politicians said that he would not leave the square until putin resigns and then several hundred people followed his school and decided to stage a sit in protest in one of the fountain search certainly and no one operating fountain in the central the square there right police urged him to leave because by the time the rally was officially over the time that the authorities sanctioned for this rally has already passed so they urged him to leave but the people refused and then the police had to literally push them off this is square that's when some clashes happened and as a result two hundred fifty. members were detained by the authorities later they were all released around fifteen thousand people were gathered here where i'm standing right now in the national square to congratulate the prime minister with his victory it was not like a political rally at all it's more like a party like a celebration with pop stars singing from the stage and the scenes wish reminded strongly of what happened twenty four hours before that went on sunday when all the

polling stations closed the prime minister the president elect came here himself to thank the crowd for the support it was very emotional about that but certainly there's no time to celebrate now for like even portal for the president elect he has already been having a very hard piece of work five minutes that he's integration will only come on may the seventh until then he'll be continue working as prime minister so this fact has certainly been acknowledged by many were. world leaders who are already congratulated. with their victory in the first round of the election however some of the media still doesn't want to recognize the result of the vote and my colleague. did report from across the atlantic explaining exactly what this is all about now after we won even before the election the american audience were primed to believe that the presidential vote in russia had to be a fraud is this one going to be worth it when the west will call a free and fair election. it seems a highly unlikely there will be

a free and fair election in our sense of the term and that is washes made their choice we knew of the results of russia's presidential election before a single vote was cast the unequivocal view of these international observers is that this was not a genuinely fair democratic contest that meets international standards. let me put victory was confirmed not just by the vote results but even before that by major opinion polls as well the focus of some media on rampant fraud or stolen elections seems to leave out of the equation the vast majority of russian voters would be choose their next president if you look at how western allies look at russian opinion there's a tendency to ignore inconvenient opinion so support for putin is ignored which is genuine i don't know if it's quite as overwhelming as the election result when they put it's this large and sincere i think it's easy for westerners to ignore opinions

like that because they don't really fit in the narrative very easily and there was an unprecedented monitoring of the elections in russia with cameras in all polling stations and almost a million washes volunteers to observe the vote certain violations have been reported they are being investigated the question some ask is why would we didn't try to rig the vote when opinion polls before the elections clearly indicated that he had sixty plus percent support very possible to put him so. in order any of this stuff but there are supporters or people as a long tradition in russian. culture and history of people underlings trying to please people further up the chain of command so it's perfectly plausible that people or local you know magistrates or governors people in charge a specific regions they want to impress people for the blind by demonstrating how strong their support group was in their area so without them excessively of any input from the center people can take decisions on their own that they do in order

to please their bosses unlike the media and the reaction of the white house to the russian alike as was more reserved think congratulated the russian people with their elections and said washington looks forward to working with the president elect and urged the russian government to look into the reports of violations when it comes to the media coverage here it's not just about reporting on certain irregularities which absolutely should be covered but it's when perception is being created the whole vote was a fraud no matter what the majority of russians say any cats the shadow not just on the future president but also on those who voted for him i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.p. three years to the day since moscow and washington hit the symbolic reset button in relations there's still plenty of dividing issues u.s. plays journalist carmen russell says current scheme told me the kremlin's efforts to keep the hawks in check is evoking plenty of anger on capitol hill. russia has become this has become a countervailing force in us hegemony in the world and i think justly so there

needs to be some kind of you know countervailing force so when you look at issues like iran and you look at issues like syria and russia is. particularly bottom or putin has said. you know has come out against the u.s. roles there you know obviously a lot of a lot of people including like john mccain and others are just not happy about that and that's really kind of what they're focusing on and i think that we're going have to see how it goes forward i m the whole idea of the reset well you know it's hasn't been that hasn't shown to be that that's a promise in the sense that there would be some kind of i don't know who are friendly relations in that simply because anyone who doesn't like what you the u.s. is doing the you know abroad is just automatically on the wrong side of the u.s. government of politicians here and in the media it doesn't fit the narrative. well as you'd expect so well to strong reaction online to rush presidential election in the events that followed we break it down for you on our web site don't

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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars report on r g. president obama has dismissed calls from some senior lawmakers to start bombing syria within the past hour of the red barber said the conflict is much more complicated than libya or were they to wade in with the strikes last year this new

across the developments in washington's artie's got its callous culture over the now i go and violence has been raging in syria for nearly a year now thousands killed was present a bar was reasoning for refusing to get directly involved but what do you have to say. well kavin best basically said we can't resolve every issue by deploying the military we have to look at the consequences there was a suggestion from senator mccain that made a splash is that the u.s. should launch an attack on syria no matter what the u.n. security council thinks about it president obama's with chance basically was that such talk comes from people who don't consider the consequences and here i want to lead into the report by my colleague mary for national who's right there on the ground in syria with the latest. the need for democratic change pushed the syrian people to the streets last march a year on pro-democracy slogans and mostly forgotten and political reforms passed

almost unnoticed wrongly and has really claims a member of the bath party who's almost fifty year rule was ended by the country's newly implemented constitution he believes syria is going through a historic transformation. the countries bill in stagnation for a long time a multi-party system will finally pave the way to competition development and these new syria will be room for all opposition and those who are angry with the course it's a fake. hundred per cent fake talk we do not trust our people that much less. we believe what ever he promises we've tried that too many years ago and too many times and he's never been an artist but not all opposition members are so skeptical some have decided to take a dare and run the parliamentary race ninety days before the elections at least six

new parties appeared and their names reflect society's vital need and the party's aspirations for have democratic entitle thought either national or solidarity the allens our party is just four weeks old its members say the hardest thing will be to persuade people to actually vote but they believe the ice has broken. finally the door that was closed for so many years is open we should use it and activate people's political will. the skeptics main concern is that this noble impulse could not come at their worst time no one in syria will set the table of the regime while killing is still going in the streets and bombing is still going on the city is at supper i could talk for all i'm sorry party believes the reforms could be an important tool in finding a solution to the country's protracted crisis and. i can describe the situation is

painful but we can resolve it together our party is preparing documents for the president and the government and we call on all parties just not dialogue what a military solution in foreign countries interference will only make things worse than we should now and to be an. we should start deciding you know and your constitution is the latest in a package of reforms that also included the lifting of emergency laws and the release of political prisoners that has released these changes could be a double edged sword making the country stronger but also more vulnerable to foreign influence. give our people and their salaries are in dollars reels and. they want to destroy the country we don't want changes we know we can have no changes to happen they have to spoil reformation and we should stand still to resist it but maybe the fears of change at home i just as powerful the syrian parliament has seen many changes in its near century old history this building used

to be home to many political parties but in the last fifty years the political life within these walls hasn't been all the colorful the total dominance of the vast party the democratic changes the uprising brought iran are expected to modify the political landscape here in syria but the same for us from nations are yet to come in people's minds and this is something which will take a lot longer. r t damascus syria to go to chicago and in washington a girly president are also had some to say about brushing aside calls to put more military pressure on the country so what about the perceived threat that iran is building a nuclear weapon grevious up there don't want to say about that. kevin ware's regards to iran president obama said we have a window through which we can resolve the issue peacefully and that he doesn't like the drums of war israeli prime minister netanyahu in washington is pushing very hard for a more affirmative response from president obama on his readiness to go to war with

iran addressing the influential pro israel lobby apac on monday after meeting the us president he said we have waited for diplomacy to work we have waited for sanctions to work we cannot afford to wait much longer a very tough statement right there but fresh after the meeting with the israeli prime minister obama says he is ready to restart talks with iran and that there is still a chance for diplomacy to work there's a very high degree of ambiguity to president obama's stance here on the one hand you have president obama saying all options are on the table that he is not bluffing and ready to go or ready to go to war if needed on the other hand members of his administration of repeatedly said a strike on iran would be a bad idea they're talking about the consequences and the fact that they know iran has an even decided to build a nuclear bomb so there is ratcheting up tensions and at the same time trying to calm the drums of war as if it is you know as if the president is walking on

a razor's edge actually during this conference answering questions on iran and syria and he was rather reserved saying on iran i have israel's back but i don't like the drums of war on syria and i basically not every issue can be resolved by waging a war but still he preserved that degree of ambiguity that would allow him to maneuver with his moves in the future ok going to come thank you for bringing us up to date with what's been said here in washington d.c. we're going to focus back in on syria notion let's talk to the president of veterans for peace the a bolger joining us again from washington the very good. program could see a lot of diplomatic efforts has gone into trying to find a solution in syria where more comments tonight president obama saying in the past few minutes that a unilateral attack on syria would be a mistake was trying to achieve by calling for the strikes made all the headlines

isn't it. yes well you know you have to remember the source john mccain also. called for bombing iran several years ago he's he's very very hard and it's really not quite understandable considering that he spent years as a prisoner of war in. vietnam i don't understand his rush to war but i'm glad that the president it's not. to these demands but in the president's already started major political reforms what chances you give them to succeed when there are sanctions on one side may strike talk all the other well i think you know we have to just keep pushing for diplomacy and dialogue and. the syrian government. needs to. needs to think about the welfare of its people and. we applaud he supplied the people's

movement people resisting suppression oppression but. the government you know they need to concentrate on becoming. shall be a little part of the world community and hiding by human rights laws and international law but airstrikes would be. worse and a complete violation of international law and that would just lead to a downward spiral of. military action and violence and killing just goes on and on and doesn't solve anything there are reports that countries such as france the us and qatar is supplying weapons to opposition fighters in syria obviously going to be against fighting fire with fire but have to work talk of the cheap what can be done well i think we have to keep putting the pressure on for

dialogue. we have to make. efforts to get humanitarian aid in. and medicine and things like that but. i just veterans for peace certainly does not support our mean people by alliance is not the way to solve this and if we were to go to condone a military strike. on syria that would be an act of war and it's unconscionable really. we would. get another war of aggression against a country that has not harm to this country more talks about related choose to the u.n. said to be discussing the u.s. proposal cutey council resolution on syria demanding both the government opposition and the bloodshed russia china as we know vetoed the two previous resolutions saying the room balance what are the chances of this succeeding do you think. well i don't know i mean syria. russia and china and you know they're they're looking

out for their interests i i hope that you know these major players the united states and russia and china will all. go out on the side of humanity and human rights and not think about their best interests but think about the good of all humanity. you're president of veterans for peace thank you for your thoughts on the program. five permanent members of the wood security council plus germany have accepted an offer to meet a ran over its nuclear program earlier to run gave the go ahead for you would be clear inspectors to visit a military facility suspected that iran is developing atomic weapons but israel's not backing off from its threat to use force over the issue of this let's talk a bit about this couple of words and he's joining us on the line of the beirut that evening another plan for talks but they tried this package generally last year didn't it all ended in failure then do you think they'll be more of

a success this time round. well obviously this is a very delicate position i think very determined to work on their nuclear for peaceful means and i think nobody can stop them at this point the point here is how the other regional power group of six view. if they don't think it is for military purposes then we have a problem because that's what's happening all along but i think right now i think. the world leader find out that the promise here is better than war and i think rightly so because war is very devastating and would not solve anything despite all of this coming from the israeli and the rhetoric that is coming from the prime minister netanyahu and his defense ministers i think the world is not ready for

a catastrophe this point because any war that it will be ignited in the persian gulf is going to be devastating for everybody in the world and so with that in mind while you may be having a change of mindset here letting people into it what is a military base we've been me. i think the reason if we have a war right now started nobody would know. but i think that's part of the war of the day the first day of the war it's going to cost the world economy over one trillion dollars you have the oil market was shot down and the persian gulf if i'm reading analysis from the israeli and from the american what are the target is going to be head on both sides we're looking at very devastating economic impact on both sides i think that israeli will pay very heavily economically because

there's all these missiles that's going to help israel and the world market and the oil market is going to stop from the street or harmless and probably will reach two hundred to one hundred fifty dollars and we know when the oil goes what's going to happen to the economy of the world we have the arab embargo and seventy three when the price of oil tripled in less than a few months mirka went into inflation of recession form seventy three to eighty six i think this is will be more devastating i'm actually preparing an economic studies for that impact of the new war based on their information that coming from the israeli and american and the first number and the first day it's going to be more than thirty one dollars for the world economy and probably close. for the israelis were a little bit tight a time i hear time predictions are got much more question though always seeing. it in. a more open frame of mind tonight letting these inspectors into parchin is they

say they're going to do a half obviously i think they're ready and wanted in their interest to corporate with the international community and actually to open its side because they are doing and said all along they have nothing to hide but there are determined to carry on with their nuclear power. abiding by. a nuclear treaty and you think other than that i think will not work but i think it's a good start for the european and for their iranian the star that dialogue because we need the plumber see more war we had enough for war and lead to devastating consequences politically and is coming our way and i thank you for your thoughts on the program of beirut there. ok let's check out the business today a volatile day all in a downward direction major greek banks as well joining the bailout program but it

would leave for the markets we've got for us to retreat well kevin not really not as far as i can see the dow and the nasdaq are still falling around one and a half percent but indeed we have heard news that six major greek banks have agreed to participate in the blonde swap deal which is a to relieve financial thirty's as the deadline for a deal is looming and that's to cut one hundred thirty nine billion dollars off the country's national debt let's take a look at how the u.s. markets are fairing this hour really not much of a change there is still down around one and a half percent is you can see there now pressuring the dow our financial stocks like goldman sachs morgan stanley they are down after goldman's reversed reported a loss of two thousand level in asia and that's the first loss since two thousand and eight and trying to say here now in europe the markets are of course closed to we're going to have to wait for tomorrow's session in order to see any kind of

reaction to that greek good development but the close was deep in the red as you can see there down almost two percent. stocks like barclays losing five and a half percent oppose the mining stocks also down six percent in russia of course no exception are from the presidential elections is so all about correction. now the r.t.s. down lower than seventeen hundred points a psychologically important mark and analysts say this could mean the beginning actually of a complete downward bearish trend rather than just a technical correction which has been long in the making on its own now moving the my six we can learn pretty much everything actually financial stocks also taking a beating in russia was burbank declining four point eight percent mining in line with the global trade also down m.k. five point four percent there and energy shares are of course also down as not much support has been seen on the commodities market secular world prices this hour

they're still falling one and a half dollars a barrel as you can see there and this in turn has not been providing any support to the russian currency the ruble which was shedding around twenty nine kopeks or just under one percent versus the greenback and a little bit versus the euro while the euro was declining versus the dollar today now what's on everybody's mind right now that the presidential elections are over what comes next well fish ratings agency is anxious to see some changes to budget policy in russia says that it may cut russia's long term credit rating if the new government fails to reduce government spending now according to fear the promise is that loading of putin made during his electoral campaign could amounts to around one hundred sixty billion dollars worth of reform and also question crease the pace of the country's economic growth around seven percent

a year when you get into the ocean from a of cases is skeptical. so far it doesn't look real unfortunately or with. all structural freshly calling in mostly resource oriented export resource around the country we are not capable to grow faster than four percent a year here for four four and a half percent a year and. it's impossible some deceleration we can see this narration even in the polls until level two thousand and thirteen so if we want to roll seven percent a year in real terms we need change just so and that's exactly what's not clear. and that's the business news for today join my colleague money in a cause that will be here at eight twenty am or roundish moscow time of course for your wednesday business update.

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