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the latest news in the week's top stories here on r t commemorations for murder and football fan turned ugly in russia as dozens are detained and many more injured extreme nationalist are being blamed. kosovo both for its first government as internal tension remains as tough as ever here the three years after splitting from serbia. but the minority. ethnic divide is she to build a bridge if you seem to join me alison was in just a few moments from now. and putting their mouth where their money is as to wish and
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fee hikes and wage cuts go a step too far for europeans angry at paying for politicians mistakes while calls rise for the euro to go to stop other countries crumbling. also double standards and dirty money american finance giants are accused of cutting off wiki leaks donations continuing to accept fun of racist groups like the ku klux klan. or welcome to the weekly here in our team this sunday on the news so now with the latest in a look back at the week's top stories first violent clashes between football fans and riot police are ruptured in moscow and st petersburg on saturday russian interior minister says the fault lies with nationalist groups for turning a commemoration to a spark talk moscow supporter who had been killed into
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a bloody brawl are going to do now is out of i 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 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 moscow fed with 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 the police have already arrested those responsible for the murder of your spirit old and will arrest others everyone is equal before the law the fan in question was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most of those gathered in
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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 by you but. we saw that radical protesters joined those spots at 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 a hidden agenda the nationalist far right is working very hard to move.
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into different nationalists and 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 their carbon so that it's not accepted founds to behave like that sans clane 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 all doing nothing to offer tempers police
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managed to restore order to the streets of the capital and st petersburg but many are still afraid this is again the violence. catch your eyes are about our team boss. in other news this sunday kosovo is holding its first parliamentary poll nearly three years after the self-proclaimed state split from serbia alice hebert is following the vote in the capital pristina. this region does still remain very deep the 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 servian see if divided they do want to vote to make a change they say they suffered discrimination high unemployment they're denied
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freedom of movement and they suffer very conditions but they don't necessarily want to engage in the course of an electoral system here but they do want to make a real change so what we expect is that 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 in clay's and therefore 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 there are 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
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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 course very traditionally seen as the third party here but all of these parties 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 all of his living throughout the balkans have suffered a drastic loss of faith in all public institutions here from the judiciary to the parliament but held by the kind of list itself that was put forward for this election a number of days into this while standing currently under investigation suspected of a number of crimes are ranging from corruption to abuse of office and most warranty of all the lead to all of the. how to deny is currently in the hague awaiting
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trial for war crimes all about how is the meant is that this election has seen the emergence of the new policies here with the potential of making some real inroads most notably. meaning self-determination and fed of meaning new spirit that both expected to take some votes today and these new of policies have shied away from mentioning nato and the membership as a serious goal they've instead really decided to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives here. here with our team live from moscow up soon for you one of humanity's biggest killers could be claiming tens of thousands more lives than doctors think were reports from india new research says malaria infections are being hugely underestimated the details are just ahead. but first british police have launched a major criminal investigation into thursday student protests which were the worst
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seen in the u.k. for over a decade the address came after m.p.'s voted in favor of increasing the cost of university tuition allowing fees to rise threefold in england violence flared across the british capital with government property vandalized and even prince charles a car coming under attack from demonstrators over thirty people were arrested opposition labor m.p. jeremy corbyn says the fees high well 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 new investment for the future will be vested in young people reinvesting in skills we're investing in knowledge we're investing in our future. where is the economic growth of the future where the advantages of two more aware of the rights of the artists and musicians of tomorrow this is causing at the core of society those that
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created this economic mess that we have 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 all 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 sun 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. but there from british opposition labor party m.p. corbin well further west arlen's minimum wage is being cut 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 slashing measures people there face the harsh as welfare reductions in
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the country's history after its banking system all but collapsed the brains not helped by seeing bankers it's going to stick your massive bonuses once again which is why european bank regulators are to impose strict limits on the board as the eurozone battles to stop the euro disintegrating it's talk a second series of tough bank tests everywhere it 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 business consultant christophe or still says the countries who are struggling the most need to leave the euro zone. the way we have handled that cannot continue nobody has the kind of funds to cover double mismanagement of politics and banks to see clearly so for that reason it is very clear that one nation cannot afford the euro anymore there must be a complete resettlement off the debts and that cannot be within the euro that means
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greece and others who feel right now should leave the euro it is very clear and reinstate their own currency and try to stable themselves to see apart from the euro zone. supporters of wiki leaks declared cyber war against companies they see as obstructing the anti-secrecy website master card visa and pay powell 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 as going to cannes found out the firms that have cut off we are 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 we kill leaks money supply a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state
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department had written to the company claiming the online whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massa card and b. so 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 progressives particularly over national security no court ruling no legal procedures were needed to crackdown on the media organization later pay-pal backtracked on its statement it had acted upon the government's request massa card and visa were most of a sieve on the subject but the general explanation they gave for not accepting
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donation payments for we kill it says that the site quoting courage is promotes facilitates or instruct others to engage in illegal activity but on the other hand neither master card more said i have any problems processing donations for say nuku clark's clan a racist movement and his two nanny 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. and 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
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a country that respects the markers you rule on going to be shown that we're the opposite it is not easy but u.s. 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 juliana songe i mean she has freedom of speech will surely. be a rational explanation for giving it to wiki leaks others can't help asking if u.s. officials are so down and we kill leaks why aren't they after the new york times in
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the same way or the british newspaper the guardian or germany is there speaking those are the weak elix partner papers one other incredible thing about the prosecution is that so many people are falsely reporting that we can 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 spiegel. or the guardian or you swear 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 we kill leaks one thing is on the surface the u.s. shows it can interpret them. credit values however he wants depending on its gains ganesh check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . well among some of the most recent week in weeks was a secret nato agreement to launch a u.s. led defense of the baltic states against russia moscow's to demand that plan gets
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dropped russian officials believe the leaks contradict a warming of relations to clare that last month's nato russell summit in lisbon at the time both sides proclaimed a strategic partnership and talked of a joint european missile shield russia's foreign minister called on nato to comment on the revelation saying they put a question mark over the alliances real intentions. so the situation would you suggest planning of military action to repel for example a russian attack on the baltic states we paid special attention to that it means on one hand nato was talking with us about partnership and on the other is taking decisions to protect itself against us. there is a question about when nato be sincere when it's openly talking with us about partnership when it's secretly deciding amongst itself some quite different things . a little later we tell you how wall street is on the rebound and who's not afraid
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to show it off find out why the big shot corporations are dishing out bonuses worth over one hundred billion dollars well millions of americans rely on charity handouts. to militant and to militants on a suspected accomplice have been killed by police in russia southern republic of thank you stung one policeman was wounded during the gunfight militants barricaded themselves in a house which was taken then by storm 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 he is believed to have taken part at least in one major attack in two thousand and nine in which four police men and seven civilian women were killed authorities are cracking down on militant groups in russia south but the region remains volatile prosecutors say the number of terror attacks there has doubled this year. turning now to some of today's other
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made world news nato says six army troops are killed in southern afghanistan their nationalities are not yet known the alliance has stepped up its fighting in the comps out of the country in recent weeks it's a particularly hostile region with taliban strongholds in both the kandahar and helmand province says. so it is police have launched a terrorism investigation into saturday's twin bombings in stockholm the first attacks are car exploding a busy shopping area packed with christmas shoppers although there were only a handful of injuries one man was killed in the second blast he's thought to have been carrying explosives a warning given prior to the bombings to announce sweden's military presence presence in afghanistan and a swedish authors controversal cartoons of the prophet muhammad. a 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
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reportedly found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot which was safely detonated the attack comes as the country's prime minister attempts to form a new cabinet to try and end months of political impasse. now malaria could be killing tens of thousands more people in india than health officials think new research suggests there's no alarm a number of unrecorded deaths and his car and seeing reports it's raising questions as to whether the world health organization is massively underestimating global malaria death rates. in india as eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it still takes more lives i mean dhea than each i've seen . malaria has spread everywhere near our village no medical teams come to help us and hospitals a far away poor people like us a dying at this hospital and but not many patients believe they have the parasite to confection down a few kind of a south and i have
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a very high temperature and i think i have malaria i've come to the doctor for treatment because many people in my neighborhood have malaria a new study has found that malaria kills more than thirteen dimes the number of people caught in the estimated by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and you would larry as they don't get recorded so research as was did families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as autopsy we estimated that something like four percent of the deaths between one life and sixty nine years of age were due to malaria and if you multiply that percentage by the national number of deaths at those ages you get two hundred thousand deaths before age seventy in india it's a staggering number especially compared to the world health organization's estimate of just fifteen thousand then more fatalities it disputes the study saying the
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response could mistake when it is commonly shown symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever however the w.h.o. accepts the use of verbal autopsy poor as to mating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so bit puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not three thousand miles away in another year most medical stuff i mean good hospitals agreed the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. for. as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government down the true knowledge the scale of the problem only then can the upgrade their disease control strategies and resources to quite malaria effectively in all its forms god and seeing. let's see what you're watching out the new look r.t. dot com we're reporting on russian attempts to improve its human rights record there may be independent monitoring in the country now but it's not enough and
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human rights commissioner find out what else he has to say online. was icing up the cold winter nights with our cocktail from a few classic concoctions to those with which packs a punch to keep the chills out details and tips. dot com. christmas is fast approaching but there's little festive cheer for all americans millions are still unemployed and battling debt after the recession but things are definitely more merry on wall street are more important i as been finding out about the big apple big shots who are still living at large. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars now the first floor thirty thousand to thirty two
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thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office at fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand votes nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars to twenty six from you amid the lackluster american economic climate kristi's is seeing sunny days and that's painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of impressionist and modern art sold this year. since two thousand and eight we've seen an increasing return of confidence to the art market new york has once again become one of christie's selling sites sixty five thousand dollars what you like you would like to think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. after you think you. are back to indulge in pampering at the law at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this skin caviar body cream
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cream costing more than seven hundred dollars for less than four ounces while the caviar facial costs more than three hundred we do have a very very very large corporate following so corporations will come in and get their employees coming at a time when corporate america is banking record breaking profits with fifty thousand. from choice to. business at wembley jewelers has spiked but only those making top dollar can afford pieces with price tags that exceed the average annual income of three u.s. households combined expecting a very very busy talking to more. business boosted perhaps by bonuses coming from one street this street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four mil. and apparently the percent from last year's record haul if anyone would know about business it would
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be we always want to make everyone happy here here at rick's cabaret happiness comes bearing lots of skin and beauty but it doesn't come free for an evening six seven eight thousand dollars three thousand dollars it's hard not to have a good time when you're surrounded by nearly no uniform of you women who've seen a boom in business as wall street has rebounded and these guys are getting much deserved bonuses and they want to celebrate bonuses and hearty and have a great time particularly pretty for financier's working for america's biggest investment banks where employee pay is expected to average how often million dollars or more no such promise is here on main street were fifteen million americans are officially unemployed and u.s. poverty levels have reached a fifty year high forty four million people ironically that figure marks new york city's most expensive residential sale this year
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a seven floor fifth avenue mansion purchased for forty four million this as more than two million homes have been swallowed up by foreclosure in two thousand and ten still. in this so-called rebounding u.s. economy. purveyors of all things luxury are in fact surging while the majority of americans are left wondering when life will finally begin looking as pretty as the painting. r.t. new york. but latest addition to the kremlin canales now have a name made buffy. that's what prime minister clinton's new ball gary and sheep dogs now called after a nationwide competition of thousands of suggestions were sent in for the dog was given to vladimir putin by his bug kerry and counterpart during a trip to sofia last month the winning name was chosen by a five year old boy from moscow for as if they found got any body. other dog
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labrador conny is getting on well with the newcomer said to be growing up quickly. but a few minutes from now are two explores the emerging ultra right wing religious movement in the u.s. before then i'll recap the week's top stories and today's headlines they were.
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