the gateway to the grand imperial truly the socialist. you can a socialist see don't need to go. run this is the kennel was how to treat. the. twenty nine endured more than one hundred twenty detained after rallies and ball and then dropped into violence in moscow and. poverty and playing these allergies us meeting him in the right brendan rodgers with promises of pointing to britain's. kosovo to go to the polls on sunday for the self-proclaimed republic's first parliamentary elections as the serbian minority struggles for forty.

two am in moscow i'm going to be with you here on r t our top story nearly thirty people have been injured and scores detained in a riot 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 artie's catarina was in the city center when the violence broke out. 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 to 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 they have aggression with firecrackers that burst into flames in ordinary people suffer will take all

the necessary measures and you think like that happen again so that the authorities are not accused if in effect of us in handling the killing of. the police have already arrested those responsible for the killing and the rest others everyone is equal before the war. the fighting 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 the 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 by you but by the way it was we saw that radical protesters joined those spots at fans honoring the dead men and insides of mass protests and fighting thirteen people are known hospital the police must act tough but within the law and they did everything

they had to acting as the situation was reversed nicholas the cautious didn't stop with just the capital either 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 football fans into different nationalists and the new nazi groups and they're doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success this is whoever you are not exactly blameless in selves just a few days ago spar tech supporters disrupted their team's match in slovakia they were three was forced to call the match off anyway for cup management is already considering serious punishment for the team and the next matches can be held with no audience in the future in the europa league and for me it's quiet quiet in our

quite normal and of course part that will be fine and on thursday i think next day after the match head coach of sport that while there are carbon so that it's not accepted fans to behave like that sans clay and they want justice for a friend who had been killed but violence is not the answer saturday's clashes prove them both the story and the aggression are not really about football to the instigators however it's all fair game tensions have been on the rise to the speed of even the better russian called doing nothing to offer tempers police managed to restore order to the streets of the capital and st petersburg but many are still afraid this isn't the end of the violence. catchiness are about r t. the u.s. considers promoting human rights worldwide a priority but some critics say america's own track record is far from blameless un

has published a report outlining an extensive list of measures washington should undertake to protect freedom and rights back home argues marina portnoy has more from new york. which speaks louder. actions or words we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every. 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 of 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 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 kidnaps and rendition and. you know tortured in guantanamo or in bhaag room 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 a new millennium. we set concrete goals to free of 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 . how the u.s. can improve its human rights record i'll be busy he said congo beauty is not just happening there one city one state is that you know what america needs to stop the stars and stripes stained with accusations of police brutality racial profiling of minorities. and islamophobia. robert one of. 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 marina portnoy artsy new york. stay with us here on r t coming up later in the program some help for the homeless says the bitterly cold russian winter sets in. we were told around the city with these nighttime heroes helping moscow's homeless find out how just. but first this sunday kosovo prepares to hold its first parliamentary election since it declared a unilateral independence from serbia three years ago but as r.t. sarah for reports the serbian minority is boycotting the elections claiming they're excluded from the region society and i'm not welcome there. begun and her family

live in a small serbian enclave in kosovo it's a fairly so that 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 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 there were mains 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 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 are 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 with 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. begun 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 cause would be too dangerous. 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 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 to previous reading coalition parties a tip to 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 catch phrase and one the holds nice way with the opposition yeah i think that it's pure propaganda in their mouth these kind of you know your own thinking

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 safai r.t. kosovo. and marco gasser from the british serbia a serbian alliance for peace tells r.t. 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 full 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 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. you can find more on this and all the stories we're covering twenty four hours a day on our web site r t dot com here's what's online for you right now. some go the extra mile for their adrenaline rush to see a russian base jumper take on an antarctic mountain. the sun is smiling down on us according to russian physicist find out what's making it the happiest star you include website r t dot com.

with the onset of the winters bitter cold life is bleak for the homeless in moscow hundreds are expected to freeze to death as temperatures plunge to minus thirty in the coming weeks but as artie's tom barton reports a group of dedicated volunteers are working hard offering a helping hand to those in desperate need. that's night the homeless count them there waiting for salvation but it comes in the form of a bus a bus run by the charity. i want to wish good health tool crew. they always take your. although if 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 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 like you can with 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 this man would never have reached the bus if they hadn't found this year is that 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 to get you to give i spent thirty years in many prisons i had no idea whatsoever and once on the streets state help is known to

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 the nation and 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 air 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe two blasts in central stockholm have killed at least one person injured another two 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 blasts. violence in different parts of afghanistan have left more than a dozen dead in helmand province fifteen people in a truck died and many were injured when a roadside bomb went off in neighboring khandahar a car bomb blast near a police headquarters wounded at least six and in the north a suicide bomber blew up a stolen police car packed with explosives near an army checkpoint more than a dozen were wounded mostly women and children. the elder son of jailed financier bernard made off has been found dead in new york on the second anniversary of his father's arrest marc made up was discovered hanging in his apartment days after what he 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 bernard made off admitted eleven counts of fraud and was sentenced to

a maximum one hundred fifty year prison term. in st petersburg played host to a number of celebrities from around the world but one stood out and was not a singer or actor it was russia's very own prime minister vladimir putin and he even got a standing ovation here's what it was for. the. putin also showed his range of talents by playing the piano although lighthearted it was for a very serious cause helping to raise money for children suffering from cancer among the celebrities taking part of the hollywood actress sharon stone golden couple kurt russell and goldie hawn as well as monica bellucci and vincent purcell rather than raising much needed money for the charity event seems to also help boost the prime minister's image. and it's amazing that he's actually singing in english because he isn't actually speak much english he famously spoke english for the

night and last year for an interview see that but it did 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 from hollywood sharon stone kevin costner. and it was basically for charity events for children with. cancer. and all of a sudden that my chromos was given to him is totally unplanned and he got up and sang blueberry hill putin famously said he doesn't love it he can't sing i call him dogs but just like everybody else he loves doing it it was in tune and also he was he had gestures as well and i think anybody who can all 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've got the story about the dog recently the puppy it's not the first time he's sung either he sang last year he went to the

ministry of defense school for girls and he sang this patriotic song with it with a lovely old russian go and the more he does things like this the more that you know people can connect. washington and moscow are seeking to sign an agreement that would protect the rights of russian children to do. family. of russian children abused by american. people's mind talk to the russian president's. children. if it can ever be restored.

thank you very much for being with us today. to us promise. to 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 . all.

points different. a final comments now a final look. before. we have to on. this agreement but i remember also your promise to freeze did option for united states if the docket wasn't signed by to eleven is it lifted or is it still long no. actually we didn't do it we didn't do it we didn't freeze adoption process was in other 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 the toll this process of the adoption process because we're here. to for all. political and judicial brigade. but.

if we cannot 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 dropped of russian children and to those who are entrusted with their rights to protect their children first of all it's guaranteed is guaranteed is going to. very effective a 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 united 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 sure all the situation with this adopted child in the new family and the second. think. 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 business fusion 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 a family court there which. gives a right for any 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 was all part of the control 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 company because we don't have so many children all countries but question children also have been subject to

legal wrangle 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 too. and control. the foreign contras. so they actually reach. for it is in their congress and in the situation we have to. approach this whole thing. whole chain of different agreements between russia and part of. the european colonization. of america. agreements.

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