latest news in the week's top stories here on our table started with good intentions and nationalist commemorations in russia for a football fan who was killed resulting doesn't. exit polls in kosovo the first parliamentary election for the to form a coalition parties ahead but there's a boycott by voters who say they cost the saw. the minority. ethnic divisions run sooty. it's.

also europeans frustration. fees raw isn't salaries many are refusing to pay for politicians mistakes are calling on countries to abandon the euro. also double standards and american finance. continuing to accept funds for racist groups like the ku klux klan. this is a very good evening my name is kevin o. and it's now just after eleven pm moscow time and first football fans in moscow and some commemoration today into a bloody brawl with police russia's interior minister says the fault lies with nationalist groups for instigating violence as thousands gathered to mark the do.

with of a spotter moscow supported his country out of it was in the center of the capital when the fighting broke out i was anger mismanagement thousands of football fans took their aggression to the streets of the russian capital lismore filled 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 around to know that. 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 great 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. and will arrest others that everyone is equal before the law the founding question the last leader was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most 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 or 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 for profit and instigated the violence. i i i knew but by the way it was useful that radical protestors joins those spots at fantasy owner of the dead and then i went inside to mass protests and fighting the police must act tough but within the law and they did everything they had to use that as the situation to use all of those. the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either petersburg rally in memory of city this quickly turned into a fight between protesters and riot police with many injured and over fifty detained so is this nationalist violence for violence sake. is there

a hidden agenda. the nationalist far right is working very hard to mobilize the book into different nationalist and the new nazi groups and they're doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success the fans who are very are not exactly blameless themselves just a few days ago spar tech supporters disrupted their team's match in slovakia a new way for cup management is already considering serious punishment for the team . and that's leisure scandal hell with no audience in the europa league and on thursday i think next day after the match the head coach of sport that while there are carp and says that it's not accepted fans to behave like that fans claim they want justice for a friend who had been killed but violence is not the answer saturday's clashes prove 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 death you've got to speed up even though they're rushing 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 is the be end to the violence. catching us out of a party last. kosovo is bracing for the results of its first parliamentary election since it broke away from serbia nearly three years ago voting closed a couple of hours ago with exit polls putting the former ruling coalition parties ahead. in the capital prishtina told me that polling day went largely without incident. well polls have closed in these historic elections and cost of ins will be breathing a sigh of relief that for the most part the vote seeing a pall spike incident three that were force of a few very minor disturbances in the north and serbian enclaves of course this is still a region deeply divided along ethnic lines know to be between the majority albanian

community here they make up some ninety percent of the population on the march a small a minority serbian community here the expectation is that some fifty percent of the electorate would have voted in today's elections but the votes majority of them will have been albanians serbs have been divided on the issue many want to vote to make a change but they don't necessarily want to engage in the cause of an electoral system they say they see daily persecution here high unemployment they're not free to travel around the territory they saw very poor standard of living and of course there was the record from belgrade to boycott these elections are soft the language the new used in previous elections of course ethnic divisions and the only problem facing cost of employment is a romp it's here some reports put it up between forty and fifty percent the economy here is one of europe's weakest but many say that institutional corruption is the

biggest problem here and these are all if you could have been identified in the main policies a manifesto the expectation is that the largest party will take the majority of votes here that is a prime minister democratic party of kosovo the p.t.k. followed by its former coalition a posse the democratic league of kosovo. then there is traditionally the third party is the alliance for the future of course of a the. but all of those a major policies have referred to these problems here in the country within the framework of achieving what they perceive to be the ultimate goal of e.u. and. nato membership but as i mentioned many here consider corruption to be the biggest problem facing costello in recent polls are showing the cost of the have suffered a real climb in their faith in public institutions here reaching from the judiciary

to the parliament and the candidate list itself that was put forward for these elections were just helps says a number of key candidates from across the main posses a currently under investigation for a variety of crimes ranging from abuse of office to corruption and most worryingly of all the leader role of the a k how to deny is currently in the hague your way to reach trial for war crimes but what that does all mean is that said this is allowed some new of policies to emerge on the scene to make some quite serious inroads in these elections most may simply. be a meaning self-determination and fed it meaning new spirit both these policies expected to take some votes today and i'm like the bigger traditional policies they've stayed away from talk of nato an e.u. membership and having said preferred to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives here elizabeth a correspondent in pristina up soon tonight one of humanity's biggest killers which

could be claiming many more lives than doctors think we report from india a new research who says malaria is claiming tens of thousands of lives and recorded details just ahead and. 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 employees 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 value guys having prince charles's come under attack from demonstrators over thirty people were arrested opposition labor m.p. jeremy corbett told us the fees hike will almost certainly. put those from less privileged backgrounds at a disadvantage. what we're seeing 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 bring we'll have a less well educated less skilled less qualified population i see education as an

investment for the future will be vested in young people investing in skills were investing in the knowledge we're investing in our future caught that where is the economic growth of the future where the advances of tomorrow where the writers and the artists and musicians of tomorrow this is cutting at the core of society those that created this economic mess that we are the ones who should pay for it to transaction tax or wealth tax a tax on the very wealthiest people in our society would help to close the gap there is no need to basically hit the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt in quick march in time we need some a more sensible all rational more humane approach to the holy see we're not getting that from the government in may that's why the students are in the streets that's why the sound the arc of patients 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 kolb and 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 of the latest set of deficit slashing measures people have faced the harshest welfare reductions in the country's history after its banking system all but collapsed and the pain is not helped by seeing bankers inching to secure a bus in bonuses once again which is why european banking regulators are to impose strict limits on rewards as the eurozone battles to stop the euro disintegrate like they did so the second series of tough bank tests in february will help ease the pressure eally deserve to get back round the table to get a firmer grip on the continent wide debt crisis next week but some. bowman from the adam smith institute told us that despite all the efforts the euro's days could be numbered. it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the euro zone a major a culture that white crisis i think it is probably because of the government debt but i think the bailout in ireland has failed to bond markets to irish bond yields

still extremely high i would see in portugal and spain picking up words as well so i think we're probably going to see quite a difficult year for the world it's not the end of the euro's over the next couple of months i think we need to see it start looking to the future looking at how countries can return to their seats 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 creating a situation where they have a currency that's suitable for their own economies rather than for france and germany which is really what the hours of project is all about force there are some bowman from the adam smith institute talking to r.t. in a few minutes our close up team goes deep down to explore the mystical magic that lies underground in central russia. because the ice kid is a ball of many legends as well as be example of the beauty of the forces of nature they create would be the only thing you need for the region this is that if there is to see. but shortly before the supporters of wiki leaks declared cyber war

against companies they see as obstructing the anti secrecy website master card visa and pay pal all came under attack when they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks and after the swiss bank account holder of its founder julian assange was frozen he's been extra arrested in britain and is awaiting extradition to sweden where he's accused of sex crimes meantime has got a chance you can found out the firms that are cut off wiki leaks appear happy to allow outspoken hate groups though 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 weekly 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 online whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massive card and be so are no longer accepting cash donations with

a controversial website the. threat of this impact on national security and 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 us is purely a money driven society it's not the government has certain parag it is particularly over national security no court ruling no legal procedures were needed to crack down on the radio going ization later pay-pal backtracked on its statement it had acted upon a government's request mastercard and visa were most the basic on the subject but the general explanation they give for not accepting 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 nine there master card more.

problems processing donations for say no coup clark's clan a racist movement and his two man a history of extreme violence with the 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. 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 space as americans this is not what we believe in our country we believe it's a country that respects the markers are going to be shown that we're the opposition is not easy but us politicians do not shy away from flashing their democratic values when rooting for chinese fighter for freedoms he won the nobel peace prize

so there you see the governor of west over the so-called international community. is targeted for having released information. what what you should be doing and you have got 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 price to julian of songe. 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 the same way or the british newspaper the guardian or germany's 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 a place where 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 weak elites one thing is on the surface the u.s. shows it can interpret democratic values however it wants depending on its gains ganesh check on our team washington d.c. . malaria could be killing tens of thousands more people in india than health officials think new research suggesting there's an alarming number of unrecorded deaths and outies care i'm seeing reports next that's raising questions as to whether the world health organization is massively underestimating global malaria death rates. ne india's 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 h. i.v. . malaria has spread everywhere in the around religion no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away for people like counsel dying at this hospital in but not many patients believe they have looked at a psychic infection from down to kind of a soft thank you how do you very high temperature and i think i have now larry and i've come to the doctor for treatment because many people in my neighborhood have malaria and a new study has found that malaria kills more than thirteen dimes the number of people currently estimated by the world health organization since many millennia deaths occurred at home and he moved lydia's they don't get recorded so research just visited families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as the 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 eight if 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 houses and then more for the teens it disputes the study saying verbal autopsy responders could mistake muti is commonly known 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 for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so i've been puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not three thousand miles away in another here most medical stuff and indeed 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 and the

w.h.o. knowledge the scale of the problem only then can they upgrade their disease control strategies and resources to fight malaria affectively in all its forms seeing. two militants in a suspected to come plus have been killed by police in russia southern republican dogs stung one policeman was wounded during the game five militants barricaded themselves in a house which was then taken by storm by special forces off negotiations failed authorities say one of those killed was the head of the local tethering it was the most things on the most wanted list he's been to taking part in these one major attack in two thousand and nine which food police and seven civilian military authorities are cracking down on militant groups in russia south but the region remains volatile prosecutors say the number of terror attacks there a double the sheer. turning now to some of the day's other main world news stories to bring up to date with swedish police have launched

a terrorism investigation into saturday's twin bombings in stockholm the first attacks or car explosion a busy area that was packed to christmas shoppers will vote only a handful of injuries one man was killed in the second blast he still has been carrying explosives a warning given prior to the bombings denounced sweden's military presence in afghanistan and the swedish authors perversion cartoons of the prophet mohammed. nato says six american troops have been killed by a suicide car bomber in southern afghanistan as kandahar province insurgents targeted an army checkpoint in the zali district the alliance has been stepping up its fight in the south of the country in recent weeks it's a particularly hostile region with taliban strongholds near the pakistani border. the suicide bombers blowing up his car outside government offices in the iraqi city of ramadi it's killed up to seventeen people many more were injured including children police 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. bad weather next heavy rain and fierce winds battering the middle east one woman's been killed in lebanon after a tree fell on a car there's also the destruction of beirut airport the storms also caused the ship to sink of israel's coast in egypt is closed its largest but it's raining in port lashing rains have ended weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather which has led to dozens of forest fire. next to go as far east as europe gets as we go around russia city of perth artie's peter oliver takes in nature's beauty beneath the ural mountains and doubles with the devil but only of course in the name of allah. the perm region is full of myths and legends and there are plenty of places for visitors to the area to get up close

and personal with them the congo the ice caves are a few hours drive away from the city of perm and provide visitors with some or inspiring views. normally cave ices grow at certain heights but this particular case has them right near its mouth you can't come across this phenomenon anywhere else in the world. it's the uniqueness that has led to a string of stories becoming attached to the five kilometer long cave system of. the most ancient tale is about the legendary the man you're mark who conquered siberia he lost his way and had to spend the winter in this cave each period gives rise to its own myth one modern me that's played out for visitors to the cave concerns the white spelling ologist someone who studies character it said that he found breaking his leg while exploring with a colleague his partner ran off leaving him to his fate and now the white spelling

ologist wanders the cave networks searching for the traitors. there's also a number of underground lakes within the caves these two have legends attached to them the water dripping into one lake legend has it is the tears of a beautiful young woman tricked into marrying a cave spirit giving to it being known as the make teens. the congo i say full of myth legend as well as the perfect example of the beauty that the forces of nature can create but they aren't the only thing that's unique to the perm region of visitors to this area. out in the rugged countryside the traditional way of life but the indigenous call me people continues to make us a welcome to regale them with legends from their past from some towns. around an extraordinary artist. these devils are here just for

decoration i started carving devils i believe in evil forces in these a village who are singing a song they've been here since one thousand nine hundred eight. been has been working with wood since you're a small boy drawing his inspiration from local mythology he hung his skills working the land. was spent thirty five years working at the servian foam on tractors an excavator but up to the right kind of logs and. this is a huge going from the legends he threw among goals and. as with any artist events in his life reflect on his work. i started carving them in the one nine hundred ninety s. when life was really tough journey perestroika they all turned out angry looking that was i was angry at life at that time. yes sure journey into the freezing darkness of the caves visit the vampires of the komi be careful your visit to the

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