the rallies get out of control in moscow and st petersburg is demonstrators take to the streets in honor of a football fan who'd been killed in a brawl last week over a dozen were injured many military. torture poverty and police brutality the u.s. is tainted human rights record clashes with its own promises as we report. and ethnic tension looms over the first parliamentary election for the south for the course of the seven or eight he says this vote is pointless as long as people live divided from each other.

hello this is r t it's midnight here in moscow one is kevin zero in on our top story dozens taken to hospitals hundreds detained as a result of massive riots that took place in moscow and simply to thousands gathered in the two cities to mark the death of a spartak moscow football fan killed in a brawl on monday. of those in the city center with the violence broke out he's got the details. anger mismanagement thousands of football fans took their aggression to the streets of the russian capital with a smoke filled riot transforming quiet central moscow as flares and bottles flew overhead riot police detained instigators of the clashes at what started out as a peaceful commemorative rally know that. some people have reacted very violently to the death of the spartak firm but i do believe that some of their

dissatisfaction is understandable but it is unacceptable when we have aggression with firecrackers that burst into flames and ordinary people suffer will take all the necessary measures not to work and you think like that happen again so that the authorities are not accused if an effective us in handling the killing of your grocery the police have already arrested those responsible for the killing and the arrest others everyone is equal before the law of. the fan in question was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most of those gathered in a city's munyon square simply wanted to pay their respects and demand a full investigation into the death of one of their own but take into account the fact that the suspect in this homicide is from the north caucasus and this story gets an ugly nationalist twist according to officials members of the country's various nationalist movements and not football fans instigated the violence. we saw

that radical protestors joined those fans honoring the dead men and incited mass protests and fighting the police must act tough but within the law and they did everything they had to acting as the situation unfolded. the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either st petersburg rally in memory of mr c. diff quickly turned into a fight between protesters and riot police with many injured and over fifty detained so is this nationalist violence for violence sake or is there a hidden agenda nationalist far right is working very hard to mobilize the book into a different nationalist the new nazi groups doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success the fans whoever are not exactly blameless themselves just a few days ago spartak supporters disrupted their team's match in slovakia a new way for cup management is already considering serious punishment for the team

that matches can help with no audience in the europa league and on for as their think next day after the match head coach of sport that call their car so that it's not excepted fans to behave like that sans clain they want justice for a friend who had been killed but violence is not the answer saturday's clashes prove that both the story and the aggression are not really about football to the instigators however it's all fair game tensions are on the rise you've got to speed up even though there are all doing nothing to offer tempers police managed to restore order to the streets of the capital and seem petersburg but many are still afraid this is the end of the file. catchers are about our team boss. me us considers promoting human rights worldwide a priority but some critics say america's own track record is far from blameless

the u.n. has now published a report outlining an extensive list of measures that washington should undertake to protect freedom and rights back home when a port my report. 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 filling 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 or elsewhere. that's yet another violation the land of liberty is also the land of the incarcerated with the world's largest prison population. 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 free 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. in our 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 by how the u.s. can improve its human rights record with the. p.d. it's not just happening there one city one state is that you know where america needs to stop 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 cowrote maybe american poet ralph waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say. new york if you're interested in this story and i want to know this more about it on our website. also you can find it while human rights activists are pretty sure but another issue. washington is calling for the release of fall of the political prisoners while refusing to free it so lots of interviews that. as well as of the stories too of course. even the way to. get away with the. facts.

of the summer is smiling it's official well that's according to russian physicist making. proof. kosovo is preparing to hold its first parliamentary election since it declared unilateral independence from serbia three years ago the vote comes amid calls for partition by the ethnic minorities and as sarah first been finding out many of kosovo serbs have decided to boycott the poll. begun and her family live in a small serbian enclave in kosovo it's a fairly solitary 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 war with the height of the cost of an war to protect the serbian community behind it from gunfire that would come from the right as it was the albanian populated area and they were named today the solider mind of a continuing ethnic conflicts. national bed i remember the wall being built after a neighbor was shot was 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 and a week turnout would significantly undermine the vote credibility.

i'm not going to book because for us now it's not the time for elections when we don't lead a normal life. begun as per the shows with the families two cars one with cars of a number plates and one with serbian. driving on the rules with serbian number of police here in course would be to do in truth. it was an accurate warning we visited drainers a town that's been at the heart of many cars of a albanian nationalist movement of filming was interrupted by the police they spotted our serbian fixes number plates we were detained and questioned the four being tailed out of town by locals. also unhappy with our presence there the message was clear serbians and 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. all of the cold 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 power again despite controversies including accusations of collaborating with organized crime groups one issue dominates their 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 it's pure propaganda in their mouth these kind of you know euro atlantic integration the goal of the 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 is people surfing r.t. because of a lack of gas which is from the british alliance for peace he told us at r.t.

that kosovo serbs are struggling to survive a nowhere near becoming a fully fledged part of society. cost of war. today stands as a state a false state based on ethnic cleansing and cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are live they live in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the all trade that the albanians have fled so many serbians to in the past is because nato likes to keep living serbs in kosovo as good publicity but they're there they are there just as a publicity to create the impression that cost of war is a multiethnic society cause or isn't is a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership in kosovo consists of criminals who have morphed into politicians as western intelligence agencies have said themselves so everyone knows

what's going on in kosovo but the idea is to. lie about what's going on cos or to a bigger world audience. with the onset of winter is bitter cold life is bleak for the homeless in the russian capital hundreds are expected to freeze to death as temperatures plunge to minus thirty in the coming weeks but as our teams tom barton reports next a group of dedicated volunteers are working hard to try to offer a helping hand to those in desperate need. that's not right the homeless gather there waiting for salvation but it comes in the form of a bus a bus run by the also docks church charity mercy. i want to wish good health to all crew of this mercy because they always take your. although figures are hard to come by it's estimated there are around a hundred thousand homeless people in moscow this vehicle and its crew travel

around the main railway stations every night trying to help them stave off the worst of the winter's cold just because it's got the problem of 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 even with him he's only thirty two and he's not allowed to go on a bus but he's going around bugging us. to make way for those in the worst condition this man would never have reached the bus if they hadn't found him this is the among 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 here for many though it's russia's bureaucracy has prevented them from working they did it you begin i spent thirty years in many prisons i had no idea whatsoever and once on the streets state help is all too

scarce certainly but those that social services 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. the bus is nearly full now the team will let these people sleep here into the 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 me that more and more tom watson r.t. moscow. international news in brief violence in different parts of afghanistan has left a dozen dead in helmand province fifteen people in a truck died and many were injured when a roadside bomb went off in neighboring kandahar a car bomb blast near police headquarters wounded at least six and in the north

a suicide bomber blew up a stolen car packed with explosives near an army checkpoint more than a dozen were wounded mostly women and children. delegates of the u.n. climate change talks in cancun mexico the greed of measures to tackle climate change they include setting up a green climate fund that will raise one hundred billion dollars to help developing nations cut fuel emissions and cope with the effects of global warming over one hundred ninety countries approve the deal with only bolivia rejecting it saying the move don't go far enough that was over rule. two blasts in central stockholm have killed at least one person and injured another two tonight a car exploded near a busy shopping street in the center of the swedish capital shortly afterwards a second explosion was heard on the same street and a man was found injured on the ground he was later pronounced dead it's still unclear what caused the explosions. the leader of the tories mexican drug cartels been killed in a two day shoot between security forces and gang members authorities have confirmed

that desire moreno was gunned down by police in the west of the country the violence began on wednesday when gang members attacked federal offices and torched cars to block the roads a baby was among the eleven people killed in the fighting. the oldest son of jailed for birth of made off has been found dead in new york on the second anniversary of his father's arrest made off was discovered hanging in his apartment days after he was named the new lawsuit by the liquidators of his father's empire marc and his brother who both worked at the firm under investigation but haven't faced any criminal charges in the massive ponzi scheme that led to their father's jailing girded made off admitted eleven counts of fraud and was sentenced to a maximum one hundred fifty year prison term. or lighter note petersburg played host to a number of celebrities small around the world but the one that stood out was not an actor or a singer it was russia's very own prime minister vladimir putin he even got

a standing ovation why you might ask what it was for this. league. now you know putin also showed his range of talent spite you're playing the piano too but although very light hearted all this was a very serious cause helping to raise money for children suffering from cancer among the celebrities taking part with hollywood actress sharon stone also golden couple kurt russell and goldie hawn as well as monica bellucci and prince castro but other than raising much needed money for charity this event signature of also helped improve the prime minister is it me. i think anybody who can or can't saying you know to do it in a room full of absolute famous people like that should be commendable and also it's great for his reputation we got the story about the dog recently the puppy. it's

not the first of the song either he sang last year he went to the ministry in school for girls to sign this patriotic song with a lovely. russian girl and the more he says things like this the more that you know people can connect with the leader you know see him not as this stranger in this political power powerful position but actually as a normal russian guy who enjoys music. and the famous story is that he allegedly hired an out of balance you want to get him for twenty thousand pounds from london by freedom of the kremlin called them and the the manager of this at this time said this is the kremlin we want you so i think he's a music fan and also it's it's you know showing that he loves western culture. correspondent this is r.t. from moscow our top story this hour dozens of football fans have been detained after clashes with police just next to the kremlin here in moscow earlier today a commemoration march marking the death of fun turned into

a business and the key moments now what's been happening in the russian capital over the past. i were the one to the moment i was at the feet for the. washington of moscow seeking to sign an agreement that would protect the rights of russian children adopted by american families with recent cases of russian children abused by american adoptive parents still fresh in people's minds next talks to the russian president for children's rights. and asks if trust could ever be restored.

thank you very much for being with us today since day our case to you as promised to ensure the antigovernment protecting the rights of adoptive children and i believe this round of talks wrapped up in washington yesterday what's going on there. is a protection of. the rights of all adoptive children. not

just those of america is all a priority i can say is a. all discussed. all. points different points in this agreement and we hear a final document now finally of course the next step is sending to the federal authorities and. we are ready to understand this agreement but i remember also your promise to freeze did for united states if it wasn't signed by two eleven is it lifted or is it still on no. we didn't do it we didn't do it we didn't freeze the. united states of america because this is a law. judicial procedure but in fact we.

have such cases in our courts first of all. and we are not ready to freeze this process in the adoption process because we're here. for all. political and judicial. but. if we. kin that finds agreement. about the situation about overseas adoption we can freeze this process this agreement this finally signed and finalized what would that mean for the adoptive russian children and to those who are entrusted with their rights to protect their children first of all it's guaranteed is going to is going to and we have a very effective a legal instrument. to control this is the result of the children in the new

family overseas in the united states of america when they adopt a child comes to the united states of america and becomes a citizen of the united states of america this child is continuing to be a citizen of the russian federation until eighteen years old and we have a right to support with chad like a citizen of the russian federation and we have. a right to sue or for all the situation with this adopted child in the new family and the second thing is. recognition of. russia for durations court decisions is united states of america because during this new agreement it wouldn't be necessary to. have a decision in the united states of america court just enough to have a decision of the russian federation court and business fusion will be recognized

in that is this of america it's really important what's the position of our states in general on adoption of russian nationals by foreign parents i mean position is we. have to be patient we have to. recognize our obligations. which our state law. gives to us i mean or a special. article in the family court which. gives a right for the overseas adoptive families to adopt the russian child if this child cannot find the family inside the country more than say one hundred thousand children orphans results are little control so it was all part of the support and the situation we're here to initiate

a different process inside the country to stimulate our citizen to adopt russian children and to stay these children inside the camp because we don't have so many children all countries but question children also have been subject to legal wrangle so as to say and so-called tug of love cases in several countries how do you how do you make sure that the rights of these children are protected it's a very difficult question because we don't have a right to. control. the foreign countries. actually which foreign countries are for it is done in their countries and in this situation we're here to initiate. a process of.

whole chain of different agreements between russia and our partners with the european council is resuming united states of america. agreements about recognition of decisions both gantries. the support. in family cases and in civil cases in our country is far less the whole thank you very much for this interview thank you for the attention.

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