they have course are fighting for third place at thirteen percent along with fare ross artie's peter oliver is monitoring the situation there peter what's happening at the headquarters are the party members reacting to the emerging results and how are they reacting in fact of course. well it's certainly a mood of quiet confidence here at lib dem headquarters i was speaking to representatives of the party earlier on they were saying that they hoped to take a lot of seats from united russia from voters that perhaps voted united russia in the past but now wanted a bit of change were going to the lib dems were looking to grab them in now this is being shown in the the polling that we've seen so far look at the last time in two thousand and seven the last parliamentary election the lib dems picked up around eight percent of the vote picking up forty seats in the state duma now this time we're seeing them around the thirteen percent mark so a five percent increase but then i think they have been hoping hoping that they would have seen more of an increased seems fair russia have taken away some of

projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not as artie's peter oliver reveals. one of the biggest landmarks the resort this year was the fiftieth anniversary of eureka guarin first space flight and just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant to have that first flight by you daryn fifty years ago and he was saying really it changed us as a species we stopped being limited to our own planet we were able to go out and explore further of course a few years after guarin first month set foot on the moon. of mars five hundred project which came to an end this year was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to go in and have a look at it where they were when i'd seen it on television i was thinking wow this is six guys in a shed and then when i actually went to where the the mocked up spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean doing them a bit of a disservice saying that there is a ship in the shed but when you see th

the latest think we've got when you get by the government more information will come back later peter oliver in central moscow thank you. we talked about the buzz on the internet and political analyst dimitri babich also spoke to us about social media saying it's having a significant influence on the way the public is responding to the modern political process these days. internet and all these things these are instruments they cannot make people better or war so they just helped organize a radius they're going to be good really bad really such as the one on one year's no we had last year the one which was prepared by nationalists so i think it's just an instrument and although it is very rude. i would say that this is becoming one of the problems not only the government but even more the position radio stations social internet networks they are becoming extremely well i just listened to the speeches some of their speeches were quite decent and i would agree with them in general i think these people deserve all respect to the ones who come to protect their vote but also listen to not only sp

found guilty of infringements will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law that was artie's peter oliver with the latest from moscow well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa and take it or you to page it's easier dot com slash r.t. america you can also follow me on twitter at liz wahl coming up in a half hour is the big.

tonight -- peter facinelli. chef jamie oliver. national unfriend day. and music from vince gill.and the cletones. and now, your friend and mine, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you. hello there. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for joining us on this momentous night. a night of much unfriendliness. our second annual national unfriend day special. or n.u.d., as we call it for short. before we get to those festivities, i would like to say a little prayer if i could. i would like you to join me. dear internet. please give me the strength to unfriend those who annoy me. the courage to -- not to friend them back tomorrow. and the wisdom to know better the next time i meet someone outside jiffy lube and that person sends me a friend request. amen. all right, as jeff once said, hey, n.u.d., let's party. it's time to get going. [ applause ] we've got an all-star celebrity phone bank who i will introduce in a minute. and the guy who plays chewbacca is also here, he plays it out on hollywood boule

olive garden. there are two in this town, alone. >> that is saudi a arabia. >> and peter, the wounded warrior project for bringing it to the world's attention, the least i can do. last weekend for the auction, you can bid on the web site on the historical document a post are signed by all five living presidents, and we have not seen any our document this with all five signatures together. and if you donate $25 you get a copy of the document which makes a terrific gift and helps our brave military people. we will give you a name of the auction winner on monday. and this week the city of seattle announced to the world it would not allow advertising to say "buy american," to be posted on the buses of the city, the student saying the ads were "too political." this is unbelieve by a violation of freedom of speech and pinheaded. when seattle found out we would highlight this, they reversed this, much like ft. worth at the top of the program and now the ads will run on the buses. are they patriots? no. it never should have happened in the first place you pinheads. that is it tonight. also, we spout off abou

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