we go to the grand imperial truly the taj was. close to see don't need to go. run to the kennel was a hotel retreat. rallies get out of control of moscow and st petersburg as demonstrators take to the streets in honor of a football fan who been killed last week over a dozen who were injured in. torture and police brutality the u.s. is taking to human rights clashes with its own promises as we reported the program . ethnic tension looms over the first parliamentary self-proclaimed republic of course of the serb minority says this about this point as long as people live divided from each other.

this is r.t. as one i am here now in moscow my name is kevin owen and our top story dozens taken to hospitals hundreds detained as a result of massive riots that took place in moscow and st petersburg thousands gathered in the two cities to mark the death of a spartak moscow football fan killed in a brawl on monday his catarina out of it was in the city center when the violence broke out she's got the details. anger mismanagement thousands of football fans took their aggression to the streets of the russian capital with a small field 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 family 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 let anything like that happen again so that they or thirty's are not accused if and effectiveness 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 war. the saying questioning was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most of those gathered in a city's minute 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 it's 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 protesters joined those spots at 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 act in as the situation unfolded. the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either st petersburg rally in memory of mississippi to quickly turn 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 football in two different nationalist and 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 spar tak supporters disrupted their teams match in slovakia a new way for cup management is already considering serious punishment for the team

. the next matches can be helped with no audience in the europa league and on thursday i think next day after the match the headquarters of sport that while there are carp and so that it's not accepted fans to behave like that fans claim 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 some call doing nothing to offer tempers these manage to restore order to the streets of the capital and st petersburg but many are still afraid this is again the file. catch your eyes are about r t what's. next tonight the u.s. considers promoting human rights worldwide a priority but some critics say america's own track record is far from blameless

the u.n. has published a report now outlining an extensive list of measures washington should undertake to protect freedom and rights back home but a port miles got 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 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 kidnaps 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 the dawn of a new millennium. we set concrete goals to free our fellow men women and children

from the injustice of extreme poverty u.s. 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 . how the u.s. can improve its human rights record i'll be busy so congo beauty is not just happening there one city one state is that you know where it needs to stop stars and stripes stained with accusations of police brutality racial profiling of minorities.

and islamophobia. 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. artsy new york. knows more on our website. or a story also similar one told him to find that one human rights. issue. on our site how washington is calling for the release of foreign political prisoners. wild. horses as well as other stories too of course. awaiting the. show when we. get all the details facts about the line from us to.

the saudi. official according to russian business 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 but first been finding out many of kosovo's serbs have decided to boycott the poll. 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's a change from the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which divided the country and brutalized a generation this will of 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 read names today was followed by a mind of the continuing ethnic conflicts. national bed i remember the wall being built after a neighbor was shot by as 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 are the first polls since the breakaway province declared independence from serbia in february two thousand and eight belgrade has made it clear that although they went penalize says 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 of a number plates and one with serbian. driving on the rules with 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 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 reading coalition party is a tip to favorites to win power again despite controversies including accusations of collaborating with organized crime groups one issue dominates their campaign is 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 even though it's pure propaganda in their mouth you know you're picking to gratian the goal of the integration isn't likely to be realized until cost of a is able to get its own house in order and address the very serious barriers which is still dividing its

people sappho r.t. because of a. mark of gas which is from the british alliance for p.c. told me that kosovo serbs are struggling to survive and 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 lit 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 trades that the albanians have fed 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 course 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 here in the russian capital hundreds are expected to freeze to death as temperatures plunge to minus thirty in the coming weeks but it's time buying reports next a group of dedicated volunteers are working hard to try to offer a little 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 orthodox 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 travelled 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 like you can with he's only thirty two and he's not allowed to go on a bus but he's going round bugging us. to make way for those in the worst condition this man would never have reached the bus if they hadn't found 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 here for many though it's russia's bureaucracy has prevented them from working big ticket to get 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 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 and the bus is nearly full now the team will let these people sleep air into 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. to national news and brief violence in different parts of afghanistan left more than a dozen in hell of a. fifteen people in

a truck died and many more injured when a roadside bomb went off there and in neighboring kandahar a car bomb blast near police headquarters wounded at least six also in the north a suicide bomber blew up a stolen police car packed with explosives near an army checkpoint more than a dozen wounded mostly women and children. delegates to you and climate change talks in cancun mexico of agreed on 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 but that was a rule. to block in central stockholm were killed at least one person tonight and injured another two car exploded near a busy shopping street in the center of the swedish capital shortly afterwards a second explosion was heard in the same street and a man was found injured on the ground he was later pronounced dead it's still unclear what caused those explosions. the oldest of the jail found seabird made

offspring 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 in a new lawsuit by the liquidators of his father's empire marc and his brother who both worked at the firm were under investigation but hadn't faced any criminal charges in the massive ponzi scheme that led to their father's jailing but had made off admitted eleven counts of fraud and was sentenced to a maximum one hundred fifty year prison term. or on a lighter note some papers played host to a number of celebrities from all over the world but the one that stood out was not an actor nor a singer it was russia's very own prime minister vladimir putin did even got a standing ovation and this is what it was for. the. you know showed his range of talents by playing the piano as we see here although

in a sense of fun it was very serious cause helping to raise money for children suffering from cancer among the celebrities taking part will hollywood actress sharon stone of the golden couple russell and goldie hawn with monica bellucci had been filmed with a little raising much needed money for charity the event seems also to have helped boost the prime minister's image. it's amazing that he's actually singing in english because he isn't actually speak much english he famously spoke english for the. last year for an interview see them but you know when it comes to an english it's very rare we get to see him speak let alone saying it was for charity events in st petersburg in the spectacular ice palace. and everyone there was from hollywood sharon stone kevin costner just a big star show and it was busy for a charity event for children with. cancer. and all the sudden their michaelmas was given to him is totally unplanned and he got up in and sang for you help famously

said that he doesn't love you he can't sing he called dance but just like everybody else it was in tune and also he was he had pretty gestures as well and i think anybody who can say you know to do it in a room full of absolute you know 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 time the song either he started last year he went to the ministry of defense school for girls and he sang this patriotic song with a lovely picture of russian girl and the more he just things like this the more that you know people can connect. correspondent our top story this hour dozens of football fans have been detained after clashes with police just next to the kremlin here in moscow make memorization watch marking the death and turned

into these are some of the moments most would have rushed the last fifteen. or and. with the moment that was for the for the. the it. was. you want to. go washington and moscow seeking the sun an agreement that would protect the rights of russian children adopted by american families no recent cases of russian children abused by american adoptive parents still fresh in people's minds next to the russian president's children's rights. and asks if trust can ever be restored.

thank you very much for being with us today since they are case to us promised to

ensure the anti governmental agreement on 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. less the russian came into the united states of america is all a priority i can say is that now all discussed. all. points different points in this agreement and we hear a final document now finally of course the next step is sending is the command to the federal authorities and after that we are rated to understand this agreement but i remember also you promised to freeze did option for united states if the docket wasn't signed by to really love and is it lifted or is it still on no. actually we didn't do it we didn't do it we didn't freeze that. was united states

of america because this is a long judicial procedure but in fact in fact we greased the number of. such cases in our courts first of all. and we are not ready to freeze this process of the adoption process because we're here. for. political and judicial brigade. but. if we kin that finds agreement. about the situation about. adoption we. used to. this agreement this finally signed and finalized what would that mean for that up to russian children and those who are entrusted with their rights to protect their children first of all it's guaranteed is going to is going to use. very

effective legal instrument. to control this is the result the children in the new family overseas and the united states of america when they adopt a child comes to the states of america and becomes a citizen of the united states of america this child is continuing to be as a citizen of the russian federation until eighteen years old and we have a right to support his child 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 in the 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 views this season will be recognized in that is this of america it's very 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. give to us i mean. 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 there was a parent 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 wrangling 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. action which foreign countries have for it is done in their countries and in this

situation we have to initiate initiate. a process of. the whole chain of different agreements between russia and our partners with the european counters and resume united states of america. agreements about recognition of decisions both counters. 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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