ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie iran has to find a long range missiles as part of its stand a naval drills in the persian gulf the maneuver is common is saber rattling with washington tehran's promise to block the vital well supply route through the strait of hormuz if the west imposes sanctions over iran's alleged nuclear program. reports. day after day we see the degree of tension rising iranian and american warships kind of brushed shoulders earlier as u.s. ships passed the area where terror on is holding a ten day military exercise the u.s. fifth fleet said they crossed the strait of hormuz unhindered and that he was a routine passage iran's right to him to cut off the strait of hormuz which is the major golf oil artery forty percent of world's tanker shipped oil passes through that strait the u.s. said they would not tolerate any disruption of supplies which suggests that if you ran goes through with their threats we might see a scale military showdown there but now based on the statements that we hear washington seems to think that iran is bluffing

watching our entire line from moscow ten am in the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program now two days after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast the search for any survivors has turned desperate dozens are still missing in the freezing waters while the handful of survivors found are now arriving back on land artie's jacob grieves is at the port where they are coming in and he joins us live on the phone to tell us more well jacob tell us what's happening in the port at the moment how the survivors are lived through yesterday. and you know them and so i was talking about and so so much in medical stuff and just being and seeing the psychologist and was told it's all my general well being. so close the fourteenth of which being with the president has done she will missing him that if you've been missing and unaccounted for an increasing number of all these couple of days you know are fifteen but yet to find a little bit but i did on the original not some. majorly off it already i think the source of the problem and really there is a limit to what now finding all o

live from moscow ten am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program two days after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast the search for any survivors has turned desperate dozens are still missing in the freezing waters while the handful of survivors found are now arriving back on land jacob griefs is out the port where they are coming in and he joins us live on the phone to tell us more well jacob tell us what's happening in the port at the moment how the survivors are lived. oh yes do you. really know that when i was talking about since i was so much in medical stuff and just being and seeing the psychologist was dr check on my general wellbeing. the fourteenth of which dealing with the president was that i'm sure i'm not missing him the fact that he's been missing and unaccounted for an increasing number of bodies a couple of days you know i think being but yet to find all of it and i did on the original and i thought. that already thank the source of the problem and really. wanted to win link now finding all of the time part is the better mind but the v

watching aren't we going to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country quote since the faroes announcement follows a two day delay in publishing the outcome and no clear winner is likely was the vast majority of candidates now set to go into a runoff but as artie's polis leader reports even these figures may be put into question. well we're going for the military council representatives will be announced today saturday but this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those even some results were first exposed to be given on the winds gate we also know hearing from the commission that the voter turnout they gave that stood at sixty two percent which suggested that more than eight million people turned out that that figure is under the view off to some questions were raised about irregularities and the way that epicenter of sixty two was actually reached so we might actually hear later today that the voter turnout is significantly lower w

this is already coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now some of the largest yet occupy protests have erupted across america paralyzing its west coast from the blog poor of oakland to the shipping hub of seattle thousands upon thousands of disenchanted occupy movement activists have taken to the streets in defiance of a police crackdown our correspondent. has more from washington d.c. . seattle police used flash bang percussion grenades to disperse protesters who blocked an entrance to a port of seattle facility believes that multiple people have been arrested they did not specify how many of them those protests were part of a national effort to block west's west calls for traffic thousands took to move to guard hordes from california to alaska to disrupt what they described as an economic machine that benefits the wealthiest individuals and corporations and that's pretty much that's been the occupiers message from the very beginning they marched on boards in san diego los angeles old glen portland seattle tacoma and courage in alaska the protesters ca

in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now anything up to fifty thousand people are expected to gather in central moscow on saturday for another protest against the results of russia's problem and reelection earlier this month the mass rally is being organized by various opposition groups who claim the voting was rigged or has a corpus going off joins us live now from moore. the warranty of war so what can we expect from this gathering today. good morning and this rally was also orange for fifty thousand people with the authorities but. on one of these social networks over fifty thousand activists have already confirmed that they were planning to attend a vent the organizers have managed to disappoint gather over one hundred thirty thousand dollars from donations and we're also expecting heavy security there on the spot since this is probably going to be a big mass of people and every everybody hopes that everything will go on in a peaceful manner just like it did on december tenth on bolotnaya square in central moscow that was so far the bi

which aren't you coming to you live from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program up to thirty thousand people are expected in central moscow layer in protest at sunday's parliamentary vote other russian cities throughout the week have seen mass gatherings too while the opposition demonstrations have claims of the results of the election were fraudulent you know across live to our correspondent jake agreed is following the story for us here in moscow so jake a when are we expecting protesters to begin arriving any signs of it yet. well the process is set to kick off in just a few hours you can expect to see them arriving relatively soon just take place a block mass works just about a kilometer behind me to my left so below my squares price that is the sanction now originally it was destined for profit revolution revolution square just next to the kremlin that was changed owing to capacity concerns fleeces stressed that protesters war between these two areas to get to block by a square they must do so without their restraining otherwise the courts of police they will be breaking the law

live from moscow eleven am here on marina joshie welcome to the program police in los angeles have cleared one of the last and longest and occupy camps in the u.s. hundreds of officers and riot gear drove protesters out of the park making three hundred arrests in the process following in a fictional order to bring an end to a two month long occupation there i'll respond vanished account has more. nearly three hundred people were arrested in delhi on wednesday but police action against the protesters was not as heavy as what we've seen in other cities like oakland in california or new york in different cities police used tear gas on people rubber bullets sound cannons pepper spray no this time they just performed arrests no injuries as far as we know but still almost three hundred peaceful protesters arrested were people who refused to leave the park surrounding the l.a. city hall which they've been occupying for the last eight weeks some demonstrators climbed into trees to avoid a victim police were using carry pickers to take them off those trees the occupiers in l.a. received an eviction

this is from moscow with me marina joshie russia's demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings that's their reaction to a report by human rights groups which claims dozens were killed in air strikes despite the airlines say its operation was almost flawless while the conflict is over and the man who stood in the way of western style democracy dead atrocities against his loyalists continue now you may find some of the images and report disturbing. this is what it's like to look death in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers a verdict would you work for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts about what's coming next. scenes like these play now with a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been lodgings about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his perceived loyalists in some places the viol

which in our day coming to live from moscow ten am here on marina joshie addressing changes in the country is expected to announce a plan to reform russia's political system in his fourth and final state of the union address internal political issues are predictably anticipated to be the main focus off his speech following the post-election developments our days of work is going off as the details from central moscow. less is going to be the meter to me this fourth and final state of the union address since we do know he's not planning to run for a second term in office and day he is expected to focus on a set of political reforms in the country following the recent parliamentary election and public discontent over its results and to the way it was conducted to december saw various protest rallies held across russia with the biggest one happening on december tenth in moscow and according to the most modest estimates that gathered at least twenty thousand people now the president previously has ordered to investigate all of the accusations into violations to during the elections and we know

it said i am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie it's a big day for voting in the world's biggest country with people deciding on a fresh board of lawmakers for the lower house of parliament. the main interest in the ruling united russia party and whether it retains its overwhelming support among the population as its rivals pledge to offer up tough competition for now let's cross to al gore sponsor for the late as well as you sarah so now it's time for people to have their say on which of the political parties managed to get their message across so how does the proces seem to be going so far. well the ballot costing began at eight am local time across russia's many times in some regions of the far east of russia facing south well under way now russia's election committee has said that an attempt to sort of ease concerns about transparency with the voting they have nearly half a million observers for competing parties and of around seven hundred service international observers against be on hand to ensure the naif violations take place . he said but it's no won

coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program police have torn down the last remaining occupy camp in san francisco arresting fifty five people for illegal logging the towns have been cleared several times but sprung up again when the main occupy encampment in the city was demolished on wednesday to count has more. we've seen a lot of police activity in the last three months against this occupy movement which has been generally a very peaceful movement it doesn't seem to be new saying the more we hear about dozens of arrests every week we've seen the latest surge on surge of arrests on the west coast fifty five people were arrested over the weekend in san francisco they were protesting in front of a federal reserve building cuddled up on the sidewalk a witness said there had been no to hands or structures over night the protesters were rustled out of their sleeping bags with cops outnumbering demonstrators by about two to one of the already side some city a law which prohibits sitting or lying on public sidewalks of certain hours of the day with the protesters argument

this is already coming to you live from moscow nine am here on marina joshie welcome egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country quote since the pharoahs the announcement follows a two day delay in publishing and the result still failed to paint a full picture where the vast majority of candidates now set to go into a runoff artie's falsely or sums up the latest from the polls. the latest we've heard from the electoral commission is that both the turnout was at sixty two percent this means that some eight and a half million egyptians turned out across the ballots and while this figure is high it is still short of the expected seventy percent voter turnout that was earlier predicted not each voter cost three ballots who were for individual candidates and one was for political party as far as individual candidates goes here no candidate has an outright majority which means that many of them will have a runoff mixed week when it came time for the head of the electoral commission to announce how the political parti

it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program now tension between the u.s. and iran is mounting with the arab nations threatening to block a crucial oil supply route in the hormuz strait the u.s. is santan its own contingent in the region mainly to ensure passage remains free but as our guide she can explains the situation could escalate into an all out war . responding to iran's warning the u.s. said no such disruption would be tolerated and that the u.s. fifth fleet that's based in the gulf would ensure that doesn't happen the strait of hormuz links the golf and the oil producing states of bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates to the indian ocean about forty percent of the world's tanker shipped oil passes through that strait it's a major oil artery potential cut off might cause turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official said that golf nations were ready to offset any loss of iranian crude from the statements here you get a sense that washington things iran is bluffing because there have been th

this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program arab league observers are in syria with the aim of helping to stabilize the conflict torn country they'll have a big job as reports of continuing violence suggest hundreds of people have been killed in just the last few days moscow's hoping the arab league can help stand the bloodshed without the need for outside military interference r.t. sara for us reports. the advanced arab league team is now in damascus they have of course to pave the way for the observer mission that is expected at the end of the month they're going to be looking at the government's promises to implement that peace plan now of course many people here in the country extremely skeptical about whether or not any real change is going to come from that arab league observers mission entering here a big concern is whether they're going to be able to cover enough ground to get to the places where the colds and try to conflict is actually happening now that's been a real problem here in the country also we've been here for the past week actua

today on the russian capital you're watching our marina joshie at a thing up to fifty thousand people are expected to gather in central moscow on saturday for another protest against the results of russia's parliamentary election earlier this month a mass rally is being organized by various opposition groups who claim the voting was rigged artistic work is going off has the details. of this rally was authorized for fifty thousand people although on some of the social networks on the internet over fifty thousand activists aboard confirmed they're planning to attend this event to this point the organizers have managed to gather over one hundred thirty thousand of those dollars from donations to sponsor this rally. lots of people are expected so there's going to be heavy security there as well but authorities say they hope everything will go through peacefully just like they did on the summer tends to on baldness square which is so far the biggest protest rally in russia seen in the last twenty years where at least twenty thousand activists gathered demanding real action and accusing the

what you are they coming to you live from moscow one pm in the russian capital marina joshie with u.s. forces packing up and leaving iraq devastated by almost a decade of war is looking at an uncertain future and that offers a profitable opportunity for the world's most infamous mercenary company blackwater now we branded academy and with an eye on solid new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a buck or to sean thomas reports. as u.s. troops leave iraq and official operations and here in the country this opens the door for private contractors to come in to help rebuild the infrastructure companies construction companies all of those are going to need their own security as well and one of the companies that wants a piece of that. they are trying to come back under a different name known as academy right of course is infamous for the two thousand and seven massacre at the source where known as the resource square massacre where seventeen civilians were killed after this incident the iraqi government suspended their business license to do business in the

eleven am in the russian capital euro ways are marina joshie now two days after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast a search for any survivors has turned desperate dozens are still missing and the freezing waters while seven of the survivors found have now arrived back on land jacob graves joins us now live via broadband from the coastal region nearest to the tragedy occurred while gandee jacob now you've been to the port where the survivors arrive so bring us the atmosphere what's the mood there like. well really i mean one news you can pick out is a sense of relief spare ticket lee among those of course who been caught up in this both the survivors and also family members as well and the emergency crews have been following this story from the very start by no means any jubilation or senate ration and a lot of you tell this a lot of people stores are still with what's on going for these people who lost probably work colleagues and friends on this all rig that capsized and sunk therefore a lot of thought still being given towards them and their ongoing plights now dealing wi

it is not i am of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie our it's a big day for voting in the world's biggest country with people deciding on a fresh board of lawmakers for the lower house of parliament. well the main entry rests in the ruling united russia party and whether it retains its overwhelming support among the population as its rivals pledge to offer up tough competition for more knowledge across to our team sara firth who is here in central moscow following a story for us so sara good morning now the whole country as we know is great by the voting frenzy so what more can you tell us about this. but the ballot costing began of course russia's time zones at eight am local time so already well underway in some of russia's far eastern regions according to russia's election committee says hoffa million observers from competing parties and nearly seven hundred international observers are going to be on hand today to make sure they're in a violations with the emphasis is also on transparency thousands of the polling be sick going to be equipped with automatic

coming to you live from moscow it's eleven am here on marina joshie egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country quote since the pharaohs and the announcement follows a two day delay in publishing the and the result still failed to pay a full picture well the vast majority of candidates now set to go into iran off well it's now crossed to be your who's in egypt is following the story for us there so paula the turnout has been announced but not the results so when can we expect to know more. well we've learned from the military council that the results will be announced today saturday but this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those election results will surface post to be given on the wednesday we are also now hearing from the election commission that the votes are not they gave that stood at sixty two percent which suggested that more than eight million people turned out that that figure is under review off to some questions were raised about irregularities and the way that that percent