the latest news and the week's top stories from our t.v. commemorations for a murdered football fan turned ugly in russia as dozens are detained and many more injured extreme nationalist are being blamed for. kosovo votes for its first government as an internal tension remains as tough as ever nearly three years after splitting from serbia. with the minority serbian community here is the ethnic divide is too deep to build a bridge if you see joining me now live in just a few moments ago. putting their mouth where their money is as to wish and fee

hikes and away and wage cuts go a step too far for europeans angry at paying for politicians mistakes while calls rise from the mural to go to stop other countries crumbling. also double standards and dirty money american finance giants are accused of cutting off with the week's donations while continuing to accept funds from racist groups like the ku klux klan. seen live from moscow many so now with our weekly look back at the top stories first violent clashes between football fans and riot police arrested in moscow and st petersburg on saturday russian interior minister says the fault lies with nationalist groups for turning a commemoration to a spot attack last cow supporter who had been killed into a bloody brawl that in those are all was in the heart of the capital when the

fighting 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 central moscow this flares and bottles flew overhead last police detained instigators of the clashes at what started out as a peaceful commemorative rally to know that there are some people have reacted very violently the death of the spotlight was good and it was a book i do believe that some of the dissatisfaction is understand it was grim's but it is unacceptable when we have aggression with firecrackers that those into flames and ordinary people who saw the police have already arrested those responsible for the murder of your spirit and will arrest others everyone is equal before the law the fang question 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 protestors joins those spots that fans honoring the dead men and insides of 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 petersburg rally in memory of city 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 have been agenda the nationalist far right is working very hard to mobilize the book into different nationalist the new nazi groups doing a lot of propaganda with

a lot of success the fans who are or 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 . the next matches can be held with no audience in the europa league and on thursday i think next day after the match the head coach of sport that there are carbon so that it's not accepted founds 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 have been on the rise death you've got to speed up even though there are some call 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 is again the violent. catch your eyes are about our team lost. kosovo is holding its first parliamentary poll nearly three years after the self-proclaimed states what for serbia alice hebert is following the vote in the capital pristina. this region does still remain very deeply divided along ethnic lines most notably between the majority albanian community here that makes up some ninety percent of the population and the much smaller minority community here it is expected that some fifty percent of the electorate who turn out to vote today but the vast majority of them will be albanians serbians here feel divided they do want to vote to make a change they say they suffered discrimination high unemployment they're denied freedom of movement and they suffer very living conditions but they don't

necessarily want to engage in the cost of an electoral system here but they do want to make a real change here so what we expect is that those living in the north of kosovo and you still very much look to belgrade on a still connected to by road will not take part in these elections they will heed belgrade to boycott this vote however those living in the southern enclaves in their geographically council from serbia will take part in the votes because they have no choice but to engage in the system here well of course ethnic divisions are not the only issues facing. unemployment here is rampant some put it between forty and fifty percent and then the course there is the issue of thing demick corruption here these are all issues included in the manifesto the major policies here and leading the charge an expected to take the most votes in today's election is a prime minister has been touchy democratic party cost of the p.t.k.

and then followed by the former. coalition partners the democratic league of course of a the l d k and then there's the alliance for the future of. traditionally seen as the third party here but all of these policies talk about addressing these issues within the framework of what they perceive as the ultimate goal which is e.u. and nato membership but really. polls are showing that cost of ins in particular especially compared with others living a throughout the balkans have suffered a drastic loss of faith in all public institutions here from the judiciary to the parliament and that's all been held by the candidate list itself that was put forward for this election a number of days into this while stunting a currently under investigation suspected of a number of crimes ranging from corruption to abuse of office and most warranty of all the lead to all of the a k. how to deny is currently in the hague awaiting trial for war crimes or about how as

they meant is that this election has seen the emergence of the new policies here with the potential of making some real inroads most notably the meaning self-determination and fed of meaning new spirit that both expected to take some votes today and these new a policy said shall i do away from mentioning nato and e.u. membership as a serious goal they've instead really decided to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives here. marco from the british serbian alliance for peace told r.t. that ethnic serbs have become the outcast in kosovo. 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 organ 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 cross what 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 of kosovo consists 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. well we have more for you this hour here on our table we asked if it was scored for russia it's not the little heart of the country promo video bid and his football playing dream house but that champ the host of the twenty eight world cup. but first british police have launched a major criminal investigation into thursday student protests which were the worst

seen in the u.k. for over a decade the unrest came after m.p.'s voted in favor of increasing the cost of university tuition allowed the fees to rise threefold in england violence flared across the british capital the government promptly banned on weist and even prince charles's car coming under attack from demonstrators over thirty people were arrested opposition labor m.p. jeremy corbyn says the fees hike will almost certainly put those from less privileged backgrounds at a disadvantage. what we see is the end of access to higher education for people of average and below average incomes it's going to be the preserve of the wealthier in the future the trend will be we'll have a less well educated less skilled less qualified population i see education as an investment for the future we're investing in young people reinvesting in skills we're investing in knowledge we're investing in our future that's where is the economic growth of the future where the advantages of to more aware of the rights

of the artists and musicians of tomorrow this is causing at the core of society those that created this economic mess that we're in are the ones who should pay for it's a transaction tax a wealth tax a tax on the very wealthiest people in our society would help to close the gap there is no need to basically the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt in march in time we need a more sensible more rational more humane approach to the whole issue we're not getting that from the government at the moment that's why the students are on the streets that's why the sound in your comparisons and crucially that's why so many others trade unions and people work in the public sector and people are worried about their services are also joining the students in the demonstration. that was british opposition labor party m.p. jeremy corbyn well further west our loans minimum wage is being caught but so are the salaries of the country's leaders to try and soak up some of the anger over the latest set of deficit sloshing measures people there face the harshest welfare

reduction in the country's history. system all but collapsed the pain is not how by seeing bankers itching to secure massive bonuses once again which is why european bank regulators are to impose strict limits on rewards as the eurozone vattel to stop the euro disintegrating it's hoped a second series of tough bank tests in february will help ease the pressure leaders are set to get back around the table to get a firmer grip on the continent wide debt crisis next week but sam bauman from the adam institute adam smith institute says despite efforts the euro's days could be numbered. it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the arizona major call to that white crisis i think it is probably because of the government debt but i think the bailout in ireland has failed to markets that the old is still extremely high i would see in portugal and spain creeping up words as well so i think we're probably going to see quite

a difficult year for the eurozone if not the end of the eurozone in the coming months i think we need to see it start looking to the future looking at how countries can return to their own currencies turn to a way that they're able to get their way out of these kind of high or low interest kind of bubbles that the euro was created here and get into a position where they have a currency that suitable for their own economies rather than for france and germany which is really what the r.'s are project was all about. that was sam bauman from the adam smith institute. take a musical turn shortly with bravo formants from a kremlin kroner. will be the lead. prime minister putin take to the mike find out why a little later in. supporters of wiki leaks declared cyber war against companies they see as obstructing the anti-secrecy website mastercard visa and pay powell all came under attack after

they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks and as the swiss bank account of its founder julian assange was frozen has been arrested in britain and is awaiting extradition to sweden where he's accused of sex crimes meanwhile can found out the firms that have cut off we can link appeared happy to allow outspoken hate groups among their clients. the u.s. government has presented no charges against julian a song but that hasn't stopped government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off weiqi leaks money supply a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state department had written to the company claiming the all my whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massa cardin viso are no longer accepting cash donations for the controversial website it's the threat of this has some impact on national security and when you say that in the united

states everybody. you know what's their parents and they do what they're told. and so i think that it's a misconception in some cases that people think that the u.s. is purely a money driven society it's not the government has certain parag particularly over national security no court ruling no legal procedures were needed to crackdown on the radio going ization later pay-pal backtracked on that statement it had acted upon the government's request massa card and visa were most the face of on the subject but the general explanation they gave for not accepting donation payments for we kill it says that the site quoting courage is promote facilitates or instruct others to engage in illegal activity but on the other hand neither master card more have any problems processing donations for say nuku clarke's clan racist movement and his two mandate

a history of extreme violence with goals of racial segregation and white supremacy and yet it takes seconds to make a donation to the klan a number of senators including the chairman of the homeland security committee joe lieberman were quick to pat those companies on the back for cutting off cash to weiqi leaks but americans cracked down on. the organization that appears to be fighting for transparency and freedom of speech leaves many asking what happens to american values of freedom of expression these are very difficult things for us to face as americans this is not what we believe in our country we believe it's a country that respects the marker a lot are going to be shown that we're the opposite it is not easy but us politicians do not shy away from flashing their democratic values when rooting for a chinese fighter for freedoms he won the nobel peace prize so there you see the governor standards of western and all the so-called international community. is

targeted for having released information knowing what's what you should be doing and then you have a case where the same people will be pushing for a candidate which is a dissident within the people's republic of china so they are playing double standards with that regard some even suggest why not give the prize to julian a song which is freedom of speech will surely. be a rational explanation for giving it's to wiki leaks others can't help asking if u.s. officials are so down and we kill leaks why are they after the new york times in the same way or the british newspaper the guardian or german is they're speaking those are the we kill its partner papers one other incredible thing about the prosecution is that so many people are falsely reporting that wiki leaks has dumped two hundred fifty thousand documents that's not true at all they only were putting

stuff up on their web page when you go to the new york times or der spiegel. or the guardian or i use we're putting up. so what could possibly be the legal rationale for going after we can leaks and not going after the new york times there are a lot of unanswered questions about weiqi leaks one thing is on the surface the u.s. shows it can interpret democrat. values however depending on its game ganesh check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . tensions remain high on the korean peninsula after seoul washington and tokyo held negotiations excluding yang from peace talks earlier in the week in the week both japan and south korea have also carried out joint military drills with the u.s. in the area the exercises prompted pound yang to accuse seoul of provocation vowing to turn the island near the border with the north into military fortresses the situation remains fragile after the two neighbors exchanged fire late last month

the attack killed two south korean marines and two civilians american antiwar campaigner sara flounders that was the u.s. and the liberally working to push the peninsula over the edge. stuff only a provocation and intended provocation as are the past military maneuvers both last july and again in november the united states government may really be orchestrating a confrontation we should never forget the gulf of tonkin incident as it was called that led to the vietnam war the united states is no longer in the position it was sixty years ago when it was the great power in the region it is today an empire in serious decline and decay and attempting to do too military many aircraft carriers what it no longer has a productive capacity to do it really is an attempt to get out of the economic crisis globally with more military expenditures and more military confrontations

and it's a great danger for the people of the whole globe. two militants on a suspected accomplice have been killed by police in russia's southern republican douglas stone one policeman was wounded during the gunfight militants barricaded themselves in a house which was then taken stormed by special forces after negotiations failed authorities say one of those killed was the head of a local terror ring who was on the most wanted list is believed to have taken part at least in one major attack in two thousand and nine in which four policemen and seven civilian women were killed authorities are cracking down on militant groups in russia south for the region remains volatile prosecutors say the number of terror attacks there has doubled this year. turning now to some of today's other main world news stories nato says foreign troops killed in southern afghanistan their nationalities are not yet known be alliance has stepped up its fighting in

the south of the country in recent weeks is a particularly hostile region with taliban strongholds in both the kandahar and helmand province is. swedish police have launched a terrorism investigation into saturday's twin bombings in stockholm the first attack saw a car explode in the biggest shopping area packed with christmas shoppers although there were only a handful of injuries one man was killed in the second blotched he's thought to have been carrying explosives a warning given prior to the bombings to announce we didn't military presence in afghanistan and a swedish alters controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad. the suicide bomber has blown up his car outside government offices in the iraqi city of ramadi killing up to seventeen people many more were injured including children police reportedly found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot which was safely to native the attack comes as the country's prime minister attempts to form a new cabinet trying to end months of political impasse. but see now what you're

watching at the new look r t v dot com we're reporting on russia's attempts to improve its human rights record there may be monitoring in the country now but it's not enough for russia's human rights commissioner find out what else he has to say online. plus pricing up the cold winter nights with our cocktail king from a few classic concoctions to those with pack a punch to keep the chills out the details and tips are r t v dot com. russia's prime minister swapped politics for performance this week it turns out to putin has a soft spot for singing the blues. the

pm show man side also includes tickling the ivory but despite the standing ovation whom isn't planning to swap statesmanship for the stage it was all part of a charity event in st petersburg to help raise money for children with cancer star studded audience included hollywood actors sharon stone russell i'm going to have. well russell scored the ultimate goal of course to host the twenty eight thousand world cop and many wondered who could be behind the success with some say it's from russia the young star of the winning promo who made feet for hearts melt in moscow's favor. met the boy behind the bit. i was a big guy. and when russia won its world cup bait so showing the deed woke up as something of a celebrity sasha was the star of one of russia's videos produced to sway the fifa

committees fades their way full juggling across the country sasha finds himself on a football pitch at a key moment the changes was there you hear it was italy time was ten seconds left to play and russia was so she steps out. of the was so who isa shall owe more to the point who are. still no one i am i tell me he has met them so who sasha then sasha is just a caption the maybe they chose the name because it rhymes with russia fashion russia there wasn't much in the way of casting to become the joint face of russia the director wanted yon identical twin food buller's and there's not many of them or rather was because they called out dad and told him they needed twins because i

was a match time it meant that while one of us went the other one could sleep and this is how we wept. was it took four weeks to make and a lot of work but the boy's father and habits of player and his son's first coach says it was worth it for us on the happiest father on earth no joke russia won them all had boys played a role too i'm so proud of them. he'll be even prouder if his kids now just young full backs playing for a moscow football club ever take to the pitch in the colors of russia's national team i use the world for the world where if one day it happens and i'll say it again in ten years they'll play for free just for the pride of appearing in the shirts of the national team in. video presentation nine year old saussure was showing dreaming of scoring the we didn't go in the world cup final to win mark seemed relieved that dream could come true at least in twenty eighteen during the

tournament here in russia for two seventeen year olds regional the most. folk people of course are worried about staying afloat financially right now to shake off the biting economic crisis so there's little sympathy for the mega rich or harvest also known as the resident asked people in new york if it's time for the wealthy to fork out more for the last fortunate. should the rich pay more in taxes this week let's talk about that one percent of the population of this country makes more than all the rest of us combined and i think they should be helping the rest of us alone do you think that's a form of penalizing them for their success no not at all if you don't have rich people you don't have poor people so you think that everyone should be taxed faintly and we should have

a flat tax like most countries in europe the tax burden is ridiculous for everyone not just the rich and i think we should not have class warfare we need to do something about the deficit and because there's no reason to give them a break they paid many less taxes in the used to under clinton and that wasn't tough times if you were one of the top one percent would you feel the same way apps yes i believe i would warren buffett doesn't he's at the top of the top so why do lot of people say it's a way of punishing them for their success because they listen to fox news we should come up with something is fair and equitable for everybody i don't know there was necessarily have to ask people to pay more just because they make more but perhaps the structure could be made more fair for everybody so that it's more equitable across the board that's what i would like to see do you think that we could ever create a structure that would satisfy everyone know what kind of car would be your dream car. limburg you me or. if you had a lamborghini how would you feel driving it past someone that's homeless i pick

them up and go for. the you wouldn't feel too bad about it that soon get over it i think but. do you think we in this country value money and seek to be rich more than people in other countries way too much is being rich something that you aspire to i aspire to be happy so if for me having money at least the happiness sure for. doesn't that no it's not a goal of mine do you think that people in this country focus on being rich more than other places that yeah i'm sure i think it's just part of our culture whether or not you believe the rich should pay more in taxes the bottom line is that before you formulate your opinion you might want to consider all of those out there who are truly less fortunate than yourself. the rules on foreigners adopting russian kids are soon to be changed as we discover in just a few minutes that's after a recap of our headlines coming up. in just

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