the gateway to the grand imperial truly. push coromandel you can. see don't need to go. back to the kennel was such a treat. human rights activists way into washington's track record claiming it's people protection policy on board and fails millions of americans suffering the. cost aside before casting their vote so proclaimed republic of course of a second sunday's election but minority serves before hope again. also. talent russia's prime minister lends his voice to children's cancer charities as he leaves an all star chorus in st petersburg.

hello and welcome to our team well live from the heart of the russian capital carriage rides to events across america to mark human rights day were designed to underline the country's perception of itself as a leading light on protecting freedom but some of the country's activists are not convinced that the recent u.n. criticism is leaving washington battling to restore its reputation on rights. takes up the story. what speaks louder. actions or words we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual a promise by the u.s. president and a requirement outlined in the universal declaration of human rights thirty articles outlining basic standards of life inalienable rights for all people. article

three everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person with every drone attack with every. invasion and occupation of a foreign country with every overthrow of a foreign government that the united states happens not to like or happens not to agree with every one of those is a violation of that one article political commentator nima shirazi accuses the us of falling short of a feeling several of the principles it helped create article five no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment with every detainee kidnapped and rendition and. you know tortured in guantanamo or in bog or elsewhere. that's yet another violation here at home the land of liberty is also the land of the incarcerated with the world's largest prison population with. two point three million people

behind bars more than three thousand languish on death row. article twenty five everyone has the right to a standard of living including food clothing housing and medical care at the dawn of the new millennium. we set concrete goals to for our fellow men women and children from the injustice of extreme poverty us figures indicate nearly forty four million americans are living in poverty even more people lack access to affordable health care. and fifteen million are officially unemployed. meanwhile an estimated one million u.s. families are set to lose their homes this year alone as president made it clear that the united states will do our part last month the u.n. human rights commission made clear in two hundred and twenty eight recommendations aha how the u.s. can improve its human rights record i'll be busy. because it's not just happening

there one city one state is that you know where america can be soccer stars and stripes stained with accusations of police brutality racial profiling of minorities . and islamophobia. and robert redford the country most vocal in chastising others for what it sees as human rights abuses is now taking heat for violating a declaration it co-wrote maybe american poet ralph waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say. r.t. new york what america's human rights focus is currently set forth on its own shores calling for china to free the nobel peace prize winner china reacted angrily to the

award being given to a jail dissidents describing it as a political false and an insult to its judicial system even so there was a standing ovation at the right. friday as represented by the chair that's because he's serving an eleven year sentence for subversion. thanks he's also banned things wife from attending the laureate was awarded for his work on human rights it's called reform. the nation is calling for his release raising questions about double standards and he writes. the nobel peace. prize is purely political china is very. the united states is used human rights of the mantle of human rights as a way to deal with is the governments it wants to overthrow that that was certainly the case in the old former soviet union it's been the case in cuba it's the in the case of china today i think the united states wants to overthrow the government of china even while it's doing business with it there's an organic tendency by the

united states to overthrow or try to overthrow every regime that follows an independent power the nobel peace prize is a is a political prize there's only been one chinese person in the history of this prize has ever gotten this award and it happens to be the man who's championing crusading against the existing government in china and he's embraced by all of the western powers that's not an accident that's a political act so the u.s. is using human rights as a political football to demonize those who it wants to overthrow it wants to arrogated to itself the idea that it can be the champion of human rights compiled the list of who are the human rights advocates and who are there are assailants of course the americans just on the basis of being the seven hundred pound gorilla sitting wherever they want to were thinking that they can try to irrigate to themselves this kind of authority but i think most of the world has seen through it right now and in fact sees the united states for what it is you with r.t. and coming up on the program no homes but at least some hope people on the streets

as winter approaches. patrol around the city with these nighttime heroes helping us find out how just. nearly three years after course of a split from serbia the self-proclaimed state is holding its first parliamentary election but the serb minority say they feel like costs among the ethnic albanian dominated population. for three ports they have little hope that their vote bridge the divide. begun and her family live in a small serbian enclave in kosovo it's a fairly solid she existence here largely cut off from the way the albanian community and it'll change from the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which divided the country and brutalized a generation this was pearl at the height of the cause of in war to protect the serbian community behind it from gunfire that would come from the right as it was the albanian populated area and i would names today the solider mind of the

continuing ethnic conflicts. national bed i remember the wall being built after a neighbor was shot by us he worked on the land near the road we still live in fear here it's harder for the children living such a separate existence they begin to think there's just how things are the elections of the first poll since the breakaway province declared independence from serbia in february two thousand and eight belgrade has made it clear that although they went penalized for taking part they do not recognize those organizing the elections in a week turnout would significantly undermine the vote credibility. i'm not going to vote because for us now it's not the time for elections when we don't lead a normal life. began as per the shows of the families two cars one with cars the

number plates and one with serbian. driving on the rules with serbian number of police here in course would be to doing truth. it was an accurate warning we visited drainers a town that's been at the heart of many kosovo albanian nationalist movements of filming was interrupted by the police they spotted our serbian fixes number plates we were detained and questioned before being tailed out of town by locals. also unhappy with our presence there the message was clear serbians not welcome here it was also a stark insight into the divisions of power and fractured governance that remains in kosovo we don't have checks and balances between. political powers here we don't have just is functioning because it's the size they control just in order for themselves to have free hands to do whatever they want the previous ruling

coalition parties a tip to the favorites to win perry again despite controversies including accusations of collaborating with organized crime groups one issue dominates the campaign the main the main point and the main goal is integration within european union it's a familiar catchphrase and one that holds an ace way with the opposition yeah i think that it's pure propaganda in their mouth kind of you know atlantic integration the goal of e.u. integration isn't likely to be realized until the cost of a is able to get its own house in order and address the very serious barriers which is still dividing its people surfing r.t. because of a. freezing grip of the russian winter sets in life from moscow's home this is becoming increasingly precarious with temperatures plunging the risk of death is rising making services a group of volunteers all the more vital tom barton attempts to bring help to the

needy. that's night the homeless gather there waiting for salvation but it comes in the form of a bus a bus run by the orthodox church charity mercy their boys better zero zero zero one zero ish good health to all crew of this mercy bus they always take care of us although it is a hard to come by it's estimated there are around a hundred thousand homeless people in moscow this faithful and its crew traveled around the main railway stations every night trying to help them stave off the worst of the winters cold we follow their patrol while they get medical attention and take leave tablets and will gavin see the doctor in the morning. help to keep the weakest warm. put him on the move and try to help some of moscow's most helpless residents just because it's going to them will i do this work because i

can't help but do it i just can't live my life peacefully when someone else is freezing to death in the streets. when we reach one of moscow's biggest stations the team has to turn away many hopefuls if you can with them he's only thirty two and he's not allowed to go on a bus but he's going around bugging us to say to make way for those in the worst condition and remove the cheap alcohol that does such damage to. this man would never have reached the bus if they hadn't found. one hundred this is them all the homeless people we come across we can only choose thirty or thirty five of the most needy ones at most and each time i'm afraid of making this choice each of these people has a tragic tale of how they ended up there for many though it's russia's nightmarish bureaucracy has prevented them from working they did it to begin i spent thirty years in many prisons i had no idea whatsoever. and once on the streets state help

is all too scams certainly but the social. was is just don't have the budgets and so they only deal with muscovites our organization is public and lives off donations that's why we help everybody who needs us irrespective of their age gender faith nationality or citizenship i think the notion of the bus is nearly full no the team will let these people sleep here until morning then give them a hot meal and a shower but then there's no other place for them except back on the streets night after night this bus and its crew provides a lifeline for the homeless people around the city's train stations but as the winter gets colder they're going to come to need it more and more tom watson r.t. moscow. now to some other international news for you this hour the u.n. summit is struggling to reach a deal on crucial measures aimed at tackling climate change on the final day of the conference a draw proposal suggests making deep cuts in carbon emissions to contain the global

warming no more than two degrees celsius for the countries but some delegates say it will be hard to reach a concrete was of divisions between nations about how to make. a roadside bomb blast in southern afghanistan has killed fifteen civilians and it's the children are among the dead their truck was carrying them to a nearby bazaar when it hit a homemade device it happened in helmand province which is one of the country's most volatile regions and when nato troops are struggling against taliban insurgents. the suspected leader of a mexican drug cartel is among eleven dead following two days of fierce clashes between security forces and gang members going to fishel saying. named craziest one was gunned down in a shootout with police in the west of the country violence began on wednesday gang members who police. want to secure

a. baby was also killed in the attacks. iranian television has broadcast a film in which a woman said to be stoned to death apparently reenacts the murder of her husband in the movie shot in home. gives a detailed account of the doctor's role in the murder he was convicted of adultery in the crime punishable by spain on the grounds that it sharia law is a sentence that is drawn worldwide condemnation and there to an international campaign against it. but it's plenty more to come this hour and just ahead for you hitting the high notes. more than the men who came to the stage singing in english skills on the mic in

front of the stone study the audience. as you watch this tape i can only imagine the fear and the despair that you face for this is being recorded for viewing only after the disappearance of god's people from the earth. well it's a clash of cultures it's a clash of civilizations. enjoy the blessings of liberty. really christianity. actually respects the rights. of.

your moment one of the time and exclaim. god bless you. u.s. defense secretary has praised the afghan president on his muted response to criticism against him fielding the latest wiki leaks cables robert gates met with one hundred tons to visiting several american military bases in the country he also said he's convinced a washington strategy in afghanistan is working well to contribute to says america's actions that have little to do with political reality. despite their goals trini its efforts in mud and treasure the united states has failed to control the situation in afghanistan during the obama surprise visit deliberately and not he

failed to meet with honey because i will symbolically it says a lot about american all nato control of afghanistan after the nine plus years of american led occupation of that contrie because of the as commander in chief failed to connect personally we've kind of got as i after this embarrassing week a leak revelations he dispatched robert gates to meet with time you've got his eye so he could conduct damage assessment and to minimize the political collateral damage which resulted from the way to leaks have been files and robert gates has successfully accomplished his mission to males better than anybody else that despite the best efforts by american ambassadors and generals it still doesn't matter for washington decision makers far as afghan strategy review is concerned

because what really drives that american policymakers behind the scene has nothing to do we have the political realities reach at the end of the day we will be just another extension of the junior bush afghan policy to do more of the same and to pray and hope for the better whether it's in afghanistan pakistan or elsewhere. you can catch military contributors blog online called there's also well more of the day's news and analysis on our new look website corporate america a spot in the land of luxury reporting of wall street and wallets splashing out of impressionist auto company zero zero zero millions of americans lose their loved ones. and why spending hours in moscow's notorious traffic is not

necessarily a waste of time and motorists learning new skills one stuck in germs details. well he's used to taking to the stage but it's speeches rather than songs that are normally his speciality not this time there putin made his audience sit up and take note is he sending to charity fundraiser. around the. yes hitting the high notes in english hootie and the star studded sing along sharon stone and they're all different you are a bunch of celebrities gallants and petersburg for a concert to raise money. for charities question mr. reivers as you showed your skills on the piano or. you have it charlotte's hand out to bring us all the latest business news.

hello welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me charlayne is folly russian businessman alexander liberty if it's confirmed he's planning to sell around four percent of our float shares the deal is estimated to be worth up to one hundred ten million dollars as lucrative sells the forty four million shares in russia's national air carrier the shares are to be sold to a private placement organized by u.b.s. analysts believe the main reason for the sailors who generate finally to split projects troubled national reserve bank which is in capital outflows off to a number of state inspections. russian prime minister vladimir putin has met his finnish counterpart in st petersburg economic issues were on the agenda as russia is still the prime trade partner for finland traipse recovered close to its pre-crisis level of eleven billion dollars during the first nine months of two

thousand and ten there's always a quarter on the good both sides of sales several agreements including a ship building venture which would help russia embrace state of the ship manufacturing technologies. have a look at the markets down here in russia markets ended mixed on friday with the r.t.s. gaining and the six pointing downwards growth nichols the biggest winner of the r.c.s. up over one point five percent bucking the trend there was lukoil that shared with six percent telecom a real snuff finish one point seven percent higher and aeroflot shares of jobless point three percent on news of the stakes. the russian markets began the week strongly after last one is rally on the back of the successful world cup bid but slowed by midway mainly due to profit taking john herself from citibank russia recaps this week. the mice exchange for the most part this week is flat because i think the incredible enthusiasm we saw last friday last friday is trading

after the after russia won the world cup bid for twenty eight team a lot of died out throughout the week this profit taking cetera so the only real one of the main events this week was with x five finally announcing the acquisition of paper that acquisition looked to be done a pretty much. your average market valuations it doesn't look like they got into a bidding war with wal-mart that was good for x five but as a whole the market was basically flat on the weak to the u.s. now regulate is a phrase in the us there's an unnamed investors it was shares in russian jew screw down just before pepsi co and i'll take a bit one of music's west bank account to buy four hundred thousand american depository receipts which are a proxy for bimbo down shares in the new york stock exchange it's illegal in most developed markets to use inside information to profit from moves in share prices last july were shared option a law against insider trading they regulate to still working out how to enforce it . as a.d.r.

jumped twenty eight percent in new york last week would have earned the unnamed investors a profit of about two point seven million dollars. but if you look at what seems to happen according to the news it is a pearl action in peril or criminal prosecution confiscation of this it's in the air by reducing the proof which means that no the purchase of the securities has to prove that here truly had good reason except when so little to do what he did. lukoil is planning to sell one point five billion dollars of convertible bonds due in two thousand and fifteen if the russian oil giant's first sale of such debt and with a decade and secured bonds will have a coupon of two point five three percent will be convertible interlude. listed in london a spokesman for the company declined to comment on the reason for the sale. demand for world oil will be higher than expected next year will stay high and to two thousand and fifteen that's according to the international energy agency brant

crude trades over ninety one dollars this week ahead of the opec meeting on saturday but analysts are split on the longer term outlook for the oil price touch and poor covert reports. in contrast with many traders russia's finance minister. has a green prediction for oil prices sixty dollars per barrel within three years among those who agree with him feature rating agency says it's a fair price justified by fundamentals and stripped off speculation it is our view that a lot of producing countries are quite comfortable with the level of between sixty to seventy because it helps them balance their budgets but i also think the price of between sixty to seventy companies can actually conduct and carry out some of the higher cost of projects for instance that oil sands in canada believes the current level reflects the supply demand balance however as

a result threat to that long term equilibrium which suggests if china is middle class follows american patterns and moves to the suburbs the number of cars could skyrocket as well as need for gasoline in five years chinese demand could grow to the limit and a half million barrels a day from the car and nine the international energy agency project global oil demand could exceed the pre-crisis peak of two thousand and seven already next year and with average eighty eight point eight million barrels a day analysts suggest ok may come under pressure to increase supplies in the new year at present member states accepting about five and a half million barrels a day off the market that's yemen but it could have a business are to. measure up to it for this hour but you always find wall stories on our website slash business.

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