the gateway to the grand imperial truly the. socialist. run this is the kennel was the. retreat. more than one hundred arrests and dozens injured after rallies in memory of a football banner taken over by ultranationalist. torture of poverty and police brutality some critics say the u.s. is tainted human rights record with its promises. and kosovo heads to the polls on sunday for the self-proclaimed republic's first parliamentary elections as the serbian minority struggles for a while. it's

six am in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story nearly thirty people have been injured and scores detained in riots in moscow and st petersburg thousands gathered in the two cities to mark the death of a spartak moscow football fan who was killed in a brawl on monday authorities say russian ultra nationalist groups hijacked the peaceful gatherings. was in moscow city center when the violence broke out. anger mismanagement thousands of football fans took their aggression to the streets of the russian capital in a small field riot transforming quiet since moscow has flares and bottles flew overhead last police detained instigators of the clashes at what started out as a peaceful commemorative ramp to know that got. some people have reacted very violently to the death of the spartacus rather than i do believe that some of their dissatisfaction is understandable but it is unacceptable that you have aggression

with far gregor's that burst into flames and ordinary people suffer it is the world take all the necessary measures not to let anything like that happen again so i got to your thirty's are nothing but i think to us that handling of the killing of course is good and he believes have already arrested those responsible or to join up well as others everyone is for two more. the sat in question needlessly beautiful shot dead last week during a mass broad notes of those gathered in the city's minute square simply wanted to pay their respects and demand a phone destination into the death of one of their own to take into account the fact that the suspect in this homicide is from the north caucasus and the story it's an ugly nationalist bust according to officials members of the country's various nationalist movements and not football fans instigated the violence by the youth but by the way it was the sort of radical protestors joins those about it living on of the dead and then i like an insight into mass protests i'm thinking of

thirteen people enough of hostility to the police much that is going off the face of it in the lower graph and they did everything they could which is acting as if that's what i just was really in the minute that bush the cautious didn't stop with just the capital either you see petersburg rally in memory of the city that quickly turned into a fight between protesters and riot police with many injured and over fifty detailing and so is this nationalist violence for violence say or is there a hidden agenda. nationalist far right is working very hard to move. into different nationalist and the new nazi groups and they're doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success this is one of the i'm not exactly doing this insults just a few days ago spartak supporters disrupted their teams match and so much they went three was first of all the match erased management is already considering serious punishment for the team the next matches can be held with no audience

in the future in the europa league and for me it's quiet quiet now are quite normal and of course the part that will be fine and on thursday i think next day after the match head coach of sport that will their carbon so that it's not accepted found to behave like that fans claim they want justice for a friend who had been killed the violence is not the answer saturday's clashes prove them both the story and you crash and are not really about football the instigators however it's all fair game. tensions have been on the rise just you've got to speed up even the little 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. cashew nuts are about r t s. 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 outlining an extensive list of measures washington should take to protect freedom and rights back home artie's marina porton i reports. what speaks louder. actions or words we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual up. promised 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 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 cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment with every detainee kidnapped 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 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 by how the u.s. can improve its human rights record of movie being memphis being because he is not just happening there one city one state is that america needs to stop stars and stripes stained with accusations of police brutality racial profiling of minorities . and

islamophobia. and robert. the country most vocal in chastising others for what it sees as human rights abuses is now taking heat for violating a declaration it cowrote maybe american poet ralph waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say. are new york. remember you can hear more on this and all the stories we're covering twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's what's also online. going the extra mile for that rubble in iraq see a russian base jumper they got in antarctica. but. the sun may be smiling down at least according to russian physicist find out what's making it the happiest star on our new and improved website r t dot com.

this sunday kosovo prepares to hold its first parliamentary election since it declared unilateral independence from serbia three years ago but as r.t. sarraf earth reports the serbian minority there is boycotting the elections claiming there are unwelcome and being excluded from the region society. and family live in a small serbian enclave in cost of a it's a fairly so that she existence when she comes home from the white albanian community and this will change when the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which divided the country and its generation this was the height of the cost of the wall to protect the serbian community behind it from gunfire that would come from the right to the albanian populated area and it remains today so they don't mind

the continuing ethnic conflict. national bet so 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 that'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 this is a day when penalise says he taking part they do not recognize those organizing the election and a week turnout could significantly undermine the fates credibility. because. i'm not going to vote because for us now it's not the time for. our normal life. began his brother the family's two cars one with cars of a number plates and one with serbian. puppets driving on the roots with serbian

number plates here in cause would be too dangerous. it was an accurate morning we visited drainage a town that's been at the heart of many kosovo albanian nationalist movements of filming was interrupted by the place they spotted us 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 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 powers. we don't have just as functioning because it's very controlled just in order for themselves to have free hands to do whatever they want the previous reading

coalition parties a tip just favorites to win parikh again despite controversies including. collaborating with organized crime groups. dominates the campaign the main the main point and the main goal is integration within european union it's a familiar catchphrase and wonder holds nace way with the opposition i think it's pure propaganda in their mouth you know you're taking to greece and to bolivia you integration isn't likely to be realized until the cost of a stable to get its own house in order and i trust this very serious barrier is which is still dividing people surf that. marco gas from the british serbian alliance for peace tells r.t. that kosovo serbs are struggling to get by and are nowhere near becoming a fully integrated part of society. cost of or. today stands as a stay

a full state based on ethnic cleansing and cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are literally living in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the all good in trade 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 across what is a multiethnic society isn't is a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership of course was consist of criminals who have moved 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 better 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 as artie's tom barton reports a group of dedicated volunteers working hard to offer a helping hand to those in the most desperate need. 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 all i want to wish you good health to all of this most of us 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 fake and its crew travel around the main railway stations every night trying to help them stave off the worst of the going to scold just because there's risk of 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 three is that you push back when we reach one of moscow's

biggest stations the team have to turn away any hope that you can move though you know he's only thirty two and he's not allowed to go about us but he's going round bugging us did you say enough to make way for those in the worst condition this man would never have reached the bus the family 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 those choices each of these people has a tragic tale of how they ended up in many though it's russia's bureaucracy that is preventing them from working they did it to give but i spent thirty years in many prisons i have no idea whatsoever of our. own streets state help has been scams so thoroughly but the old couple social services just don't have 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 age gender faith

nationality or citizenship and he's almost on the buses nearly full now the team will let these people sleep or 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 cities trying stations but as the winter gets colder they're going to come to need it more and more tom watson r.t. . turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe two blasts in central stockholm have killed at least one person injured two others sweden's foreign minister says there are a failed terrorist attack minutes before the explosion was even she received threats against the country the messages referred to swedish troops serving in afghanistan in part from depictions of the prophet muhammad. violence in different parts of afghanistan has 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 kandahar 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 here an army checkpoint more than a dozen were wounded mostly women and children. and the older son of a jailed financier bernard made off has been found dead in new york on the second anniversary of his father's arrest mark 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 forum or 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 to eleven counts of fraud and was sentenced to a maximum hundred fifty year prison term. st petersburg has played host to a number of celebrities from all across the world but one has recently stood out and it wasn't an actor singer it was russia's own prime minister vladimir putin

even got a standing ovation and here was his performance. also showed his range of talents by playing the piano the light hearted this was a very serious part helping raise money for children suffering from cancer among the celebrities taking power where actress sharon golden couple russell and all the hard as brothers radhika balloon from vincent the cell other men are raising much needed money for a charity event seems 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 any of you see them but you know when it comes to p.c. and english it's very rare we get to see him speak let alone saying it was for a charity event in the spectacular ice palace. and everyone there was from

hollywood sharon stone kevin costner would do a big star show and it was based for a charity event for children with. cancer. and all the sudden there my chromos was given to him totally unplanned and he got up an insanity plea for your help putin famously said he doesn't love you he can't sing he called dogs but just like everybody else it was in and also he was he had pretty gestures as well that i think anybody who can say you know to do it in a room full of absolute or 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 started last year he went to the ministry of defense school for girls and he sang this patriotic song with a lovely picture old russian go and the more he just 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 adopted by foreign families with recent cases of russian children neglected by american adoptive parents still fresh in people's minds r.t. talks to the russian president children's rights. restored.

thank you very much for being with us today. to us promise to. protecting the rights of children and i believe. in washington yesterday what's going on there is a protection of. the rights of all adoptive children who lives in russia. and that's if there's a for murder. i can say is that. all. all . points different in music remember. we hear the final comments now from the local.

authorities. and after that we are rated to understand this agreement but i remember also your promise to freeze did option for united states if the docket wasn't signed by to relapse and is it lifted or is it still long you know. actually we didn't do it we didn't do it we didn't freeze that option. was in other states of america because this is a long judicial procedure but in fact in fact we preserved 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 that up to russian children and to those who are interested with their rights to protect their children first of all it's guaranteed is going to is going to. very effective a legal instrument. to control this is the result of 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 a very american this child is continuing to be 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. it's

a new family and the second thing is. recognition of. russia for durations of course 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. will be recognized in that is this of american security importance what is 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 or

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 result 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 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 contras. so they can reach for and condorcet for it is done in their congress and the situation we're here to initiate initiate. a process all through. the whole chain of different agreements between russia and our part of. a european colonization to states of america. agreements about recognition of court decisions both gone through. the support. in family cases and in civil cases in the. contras far less the whole thank you very much for this interview thank you for the

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