about ten minutes past the hour here in moscow russia is the sixth state duma the lower house of parliament has held its first session after a heated debate so to get out of this can from the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker it comes as protests continue against the election some two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging let's cross live now it was. over and over for more details on this hello to both of you starting with you first or so we know the name of the new speaker and now tell us how with the elected we believe there were some some fiery debate in the process it was very intense rhodri heated debates and raised voices could be heard before the voting and with two hundred eighty five voices for and eighty eight against a new new speaker of the state duma has been chosen that is as you said united russia's candidate. well the government to stop the advance shuffle advance last week when mr not wishin until recently kremlin chief of staff stepped down and said that he will go to dumont and united russia put forward his candidacy for opposition parties ho

a very warm welcome to this is a lie from moscow russia's prime minister is encouraging the opposition to exercise their constitutional right to rally he says he's in russia have been the scene of mass gatherings for the past few days with all positions claiming that the election results were falsified. is a cost of elements for us let's cross over to him lifestyle peta ross says elections have been an issue not just here with russia have they but all across the world and now we have these new statements a coming from the russian prime minister. heard from prime minister vladimir putin on thursday he was saying that the opposition do have the constitutional right to demonstrate and to protest against what they see. as infringements in the electoral procedure involving sunday's parliamentary elections he did say though that those demonstrations must remain within the law now the prime minister also expressed a willingness to sit down and talk with the leaders of the opposition to see if they can hammer out their grievances. divide you do d. sorry but i think people should have the freed

moscow. russia's political priorities were set straight by the country's leaders this week after several rallies against the parliamentary election results prime minister vladimir putin proposed to make the presidential ballot in march more transparent in his annual live q. and a session with the public printed and dismissed allegations of fraud are in the vote but said the web cameras will be installed at all polling stations next year president medvedev the ruling in ited russia party to move with the times and bring in fresh faces say people have grown tired of the old system he also warned the u.s. on its missile defense shield in europe which moscow says poses a threat to its security since washington still give written assurances that it's not aimed at russia moscow the radar system of its own and its western most territory one of those means that we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think whatever fri

very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow russia's prime minister is encouraging the opposition is their constitutional right to rally key cities in russia has been the scene of mass gatherings for the past few days with positions claiming that the election results were falsified peter all of his across developments for us that to him like now these are russia's elections has been an issue not just here in russia but across the wall all these new statements coming in from the russian prime minister adding to the excitement. but what we're hearing from a lot of me a prudent is he's told the opposition protesters those who oppose the results of sunday's parliamentary elections which saw united russia take the majority of seats in the duma he's told those protesters that they. do have the rights to assemble the right to demonstrate but that they must respect the law of russia while they're doing so now he also hinted that he could be open to discussion with the opposite those opposed to his ruling united russia party saying that he would be willing to talk with the opposition to tr

live from the russian capital this is our top stories now at half past the hour here in moscow russia. jumps into the presidential race get on. the running for russia's top job next march the country's third wealthiest person into the political stage earlier this year when he headed up the right course political party only to quit over disagreements with other party members. the center of moscow again but this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party that follows mass opposition rallies amid claims the results of the parliamentary vote were rigged. rescue package amid skepticism over the efficiency of the emergency measure that's also has cracks within the e.u. widen with britain earlier vetoing the german plans to create a common fiscal. occupy protesters take their rallies to a new level as they shut down of america's west coast ports from san diego to anchorage demonstration. new york where our correspondent reports that police have already started mass arrests. but with another update in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime israeli airstrikes on gaz

the news in the week's top stories this is our life in moscow russia sees the biggest protests in recent history as people unhappy with the parliamentary election result the reproach has. ordered an investigation into violations during last week's poll . a fresh rift with britain vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules. a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. of agree to have control of their budgets. liberated desperate for money live in authorities. billions of the country's assets still frozen months off the end of the military conflict and says the country's government struggles with paying salaries and providing subsidies. to that with more news for in the meantime we have a story of profits for you profits that put before hundreds of lives part of a special report on the oil companies destroying the indigenous population and the nature of the. next. why do you believe the locals were affected by cancer when it's letters. hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador is. we have analysis results that show

congratulated moscow. russia's that it would not a legally apply wto rules with its dealings with america. >> some good news for france. ratings agencies have been on a downgrade spree, but fitch says france will keep its aaa status for the time being, but they did downgrade the outlook from stable to negative. the agencies as france remains a wealthy endeavors side economy and it has taken measures to improve its finances. there has been speculation that france was about to lose its top rating, which would jack up the level of the eurozone's debt crisis. figures unveiled in ireland show the country's economy is in worse shape than feared. the central statistics office says the economy shrank by 1.9% in the third quarter, a much bigger drop than forecast. it is the worst quarterly results in the eurozone. ireland is midway through a seven-year deficit-fighting program that has continued to fight economic growth to meet its targets. economists say ireland is unlikely to meet the government's modest target of 1% gdp

nearly ten minutes past the hour now here in moscow russia's sixth state duma the lower house of parliament has just held its first session after heated debate a surrogate notice can from the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging parties that you could regret over and the have been following the events. it was a very intense first session of the state do my heated debates and raised voices for sit at the voting the voting for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight voices for and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate so given that each can a government shop full advance last week when mr gay and i wish can until recently kremlin chief of staff stepped down for a duma seat united russia put forward his candidacy as the new speaker but opposition parties disagreed and they have their own preferences their mandates however were not enough to hold way to united russia in the vote apart from that opposition will

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 coun

and security concerns russia says nato is not ready to seriously work together on european missile defense and isn't addressing moscow's concern. in business tsotsi russia's largest power grid company scale start to trade in global both receipts on the london stock exchange more of the same twenty. nine pm thursday night here in moscow welcome kevin owen and first this hour on r t president dmitri medvedev says a thorough investigation into sunday's parliamentary election is needed but called the rallies that followed the sign of democracy it comes as russia's prime minister suggested opening dialogue with the opposition while warning foreign powers against interfering in the country's political affairs and similar of marty's peter all over in central moscow president medvedev has called for calm across russia and said that the new parliament should be allowed. to get about the work that it was put in place to do now he did say that the final result of the elections that were held on sunday could be delayed to allow a full investigation into allegations of electoral irregularities to be investigated now on the proteste

and so less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow russia markets closed lower on wednesday the r.t.s. lost almost one percent of my six finished point two percent in the red. it's been a bad year for moscow drivers the capital suffered can. a lot of traffic jams year round not to mention the notorious midsummer and we can't stand still to this it also says public transport transport is the solution and is open ninety five kilometers of bus lanes are now plans to introduce contraflow systems on seven highways and build three million parking spaces in the city the deputy mariner of blames the deteriorating traffic on three hundred thousand new cars that have moscow roads annually and at this time of the year situation is even worse as people drive and from the regions to go shopping. what more than a million calls into mosco from the region every single day and then not just from the moscow region that coming from all over russia before the new year holidays the amount of cars increases by no less than forty percent must go is in gridlock at this time of the year five years a

is directly involved in syria is expected to be one of the key issues dominating these talks in moscow russia and egypt both strongly criticized the violence in the country and stand against any foreign military intervention egypt is a be prudent regional also when it comes to the middle east middle east peace process that's expected to be discussed here as well but the situation in egypt itself is still quite complicated with the ongoing violent protests and the country being in the middle of parliamentary elections with several islamic story and parties aiming for power like the muslim brotherhood for example and after the first round of evolved combined these bodies have managed to gather around seventy percent of the votes and the second round is expected shortly since it's planned that the new column it will start working. by the end of january so lots of issues are on the table here in moscow who will be watching this meeting and of course we'll report on all the developments as soon as that happens. ok an hour ago piskun of live from moscow thank you. well the ongoing situation in syri

this is aussie line from moscow russia is defending its dropped un resolution on syria while the u.s. and its allies want the text changed but moscow is confident it's drawn up a balanced approach to solving the crisis well the dark and then all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for the violence to stop while ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions the u.s. wants the blame for the bloodshed but on the mass chaos it also won't acknowledge that the opposition is armed despite a need to have ami defectives claiming to be fighting to bring down the regime more than five pounds and seventy of the thought to have been killed in syria since march asia times columnist pepe escobar think the west is looking to soften up the country before making its name what's interesting is what the u.s. and nato countries consider and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they're getting weapons smuggled from the middle east to the borders in turkey i mean jordan as well this has been already proved then abou

live from moscow russia urging nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is a seven month long bombing campaign while the claims of filed by rights groups contradict his assertion that twenty six thousands of its airstrikes did not cause any civilian casualties and the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is dead and gone former rebels continue to take that anger out on supporters of the toppled regime and you may find some of the images in the exam a boy his report to. the this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of man the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind a camera delivers a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts about what's coming next. and it seems like these where you know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been longines about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment

ahead with a robust missile shield program in europe without taking into consideration russia's concerns gives moscow the right to use any leverage it has to be heard by its partner but even the mere possibility that russia could cut off the northern supply route threatens the viability of all western operations in afghanistan nato risks leaving almost one hundred forty thousand of its troops in afghanistan without vital supplies if diplomacy doesn't win the day with pakistan it's about people there being fed up with russia it's about their national security if washington does not seriously address the concerns of its partners even the best partnerships can fade i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . just had she got a special report sniper tried the plight of a virgin forest region in the amazon were all giants illegally dumped huge amounts of toxic waste were interesting a thirty minutes coming up for you over you stay with us for that software business right now with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the program and as we've been reporting on the channel sunday's election has

nearly ten minutes past the hour here in moscow russia's president to me treatment yet as ordered a probe into all allegations of fraud during the parliamentary election just a week ago thousands of opposition protesters. cross russia held rallies over the claims calling for a complete rerun of the poll but in a caution about reports. president dmitry me days of issued a direct order to carefully investigate all claims of violations using the parliamentary elections of the pulses on of facebook that he was quite satisfied with the way the rally ones especially how peaceful and well are being nice to the word he also said that according to the constitution every russian citizen has to be a freedom of gathering and also be a right to express their own opinions he does sound that he disagrees with these slogans and this statements that were made during these meetings but again he promised dad's all claim so finally says during the elections will be counted for the investigators meanwhile of the allegations over the of voted for all its drew thousands of people into the streets of moscow and

you can still hear fireworks exploding in champagne glasses it clinking here in moscow russia marks the arrival of the new year and at this moment britain and ireland are welcoming two thousand and twelve as you can see live pictures right there from london fireworks over the big i it's floating in the air magnificent sight as they bring in twenty twelve there in london and those celebrations happening all around the world this year as we welcome two thousand and twelve.

you can still hear fireworks exploding in champagne glasses here in moscow russia marks the arrival of the new year and at this moment britain and ireland are welcoming two thousand and twelve as you can see live pictures right there from london fireworks over the. next loading in the air magnificent sight as they bring in london and those celebrations happening all around the world this year as we welcome two thousand and twelve. and broadcasting live right here from the heart of the russian capital moscow this is our thomas wish you a happy and prosperous new year ahead from the heart of the russian capital where the party is in full swing and while moscow still has fireworks soaring across the city's skies over half the world has already rung in two thousand and twelve two thousand and twelve first arrived some fourteen hours ago now and in a new location this year it was at the independent state of samoa in the south pacific. first time ever it used to be the last in line but switched time zones in order to get closer to new zealand this week it's friday completely even the previou

russia the ruling party. what do we know now about the lists of cool reactions toward stirring on a moscow both here in russia and internationally. well we heard on wednesday for mikhail gorbachev the former soviet leader and he said that the sunday's vote should be a no holds that he criticized called the elections unfair and said accuse the government of not listening to the people of russia now hillary clinton the u.s. secretary of state was speaking at the organization for security and cooperation in europe meeting and she also criticized sunday's electoral electoral outcome the vote that took place there for the parliamentary elections and this resulted in a stern response from moscow saying basically mind your own business. a conclusion about the sufficiency or insufficiency of parties is an area of responsibility for the russian authorities not for international organizations and if they monitor the quality of elections and violations that's one thing but the issue of the country's political system is none of their business they will soon be telling us how to write our constitution what it could consti

expanding foreign comic as home which will be the start of beef things in russia the majority of our sales currently come from moscow and st petersburg but word spending our retail network to the far corners of russia and you know how large this country is consumer is when russia needs experiencing great big growth and seems to be thriving and this is actually pretty crowded to speed ahead of the new year celebrations in the country but whether or not the only suppression still guarantees that the russian buyers a radiant future at the moment consumers see or seem to be worship their brands you've got that international law on their money r c. ok gemma let's talk about russian consumption alex i like to go to you first you're in the food and beverage sector how is the house consumption patterns in russia how it's changed as it affecting your sector i mean they drinking more eating more wealth either your rights in good times or bad times people have to eat and in russia they have to drink as well and this year the industries go is doing very well we're growing at. high single digit or low double digit i'm talking ab

ahead with a robust missile shield program in europe without taking into consideration russia's concerns gives moscow the refuse any leverage it has to be heard by its partner but even the mere possibility that russia could cut off the northern supply route threatens the viability of all western operations in afghanistan nato risks leaving almost one hundred forty thousand of its troops in afghanistan without vital supplies if diplomacy doesn't win the day with pakistan it's about people there being fed up with russia it's about their national security if washington does not seriously address the concerns of its partners even the best partnerships can fade i'm going to check our reporting from washington our take. we're doing forget our website is the place to go for many more stories that will find a few rights and now a stadium full of thousands of sports fans in the us wrong some of the pitch to celebrate fiction could end up trampling crowds tearing down. the world war two more than six decades and did find out about the forty five thousand people evacuated from the german city as a as words defu

so live from central moscow thank you but more now on russia's official reaction to american criticism of the election process this time from the foreign minister sergei lavrov hillary clinton earlier slammed the russian meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. got the details. said that by using the always seen as a platform to express those grievances referring to the russian elections was a disrespect to the o. a c. simply because that wasn't for him that wasn't the place for such opinions to be expressed so he did question the intentions of hillary clinton but on the most resilient regrettably some of my colleagues prefer to use this platform to make statements which have nothing to do with this was exactly the case with hillary clinton who apparently came here for the sole purpose of scoring points with voters in america she left after making her speech and many other ministers last early as well which only underlines the critical condition of the she. also made reference to the a protest in moscow comparing that kind of action at. the o.e.c.d. is not a

mater's refusing to address russia's security concerns on the thorny issue of european missile defense this moscow's conclusion after talks with the alliance in brussels foreign minister sergei lavrov says the u.s. led bloc isn't ready to cooperate on the shield mater's deploying antiballistic system near the borders with russia which moscow sees as a threat to its national security the alliances rebuffed kremlin requests to guarantee it poses no danger washington claims the shield is aimed at iran and north korea but our team has been hearing from analysts who strongly doubt that. there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you were it would be very difficult to imagine a country of that size aiming a ballistic missile at the united states because it would be like marking the country for annihilate with a big x. is a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't ex

country's mass media machine has turned to protests in russia and dropped the ball on reporting the facts. the protesters have gathered in moscow lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real united russia party the only problem is that this video is not from russia fox news channel aired a video of fires and chaos in athens convincing viewers that this mayhem is playing out in moscow the fair and balanced network paid no mind to the greek lettering in the background in case you're wondering it says greek national bank what matters is that this is what moscow protests have looked like it's not surprising whatsoever that at the moment that there would be any kind of protest no matter how small it be in russia against the russian government that it would be greatly exaggerated in media and used by the u.s. government as well as a way to try to somehow push for a change in russia that would be more favorable to u.s. interests journalist and author eva golinger believes mass media is washington's most valuable weapon in encouraging revolt elsewhere under the mantle of spreading democracy such as the so-called orang

ahead with a robust missile shield program in europe without taking into consideration russia's concerns gives moscow to refuse any leverage it has to be heard by its partner but even the mere possibility that russia could cut off the northern supply route threatens the viability of all western operations in afghanistan nato risks leaving almost one hundred forty thousand of its troops in afghanistan without vital supplies if diplomacy doesn't win the day with pakistan it's about people there being fed up with russia it's about their national security if washington does not seriously address the concerns of its partners even the best partnerships can fade i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . british m.p.'s are staging a debate seeking the urgent renegotiation of what they see is a biased extradition treaty with the u.s. and great in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven it allows washington to demand the extradition of any u.k. citizen without evidence of any crime and britain is bound to comply results of a bennett reports next from london patience is running low. all take and no g