places news stories top stories here on out see what started with good intentions ends in nationalist hate played as commemorations in russia for football fans was killed dozens being detained and others injured. exit polls in kosovo first parliamentary election for the two former coalition parties but there's a ballot box boycott by voters who say that. the minority flowbee in kiev is yes they asked me to be shouldn't run sooty to. join me in just a few moments the. europeans frustration mounts the situation fees rise

in south east draw money refusing to pay for politicians mistakes and calling on countries to abandon the euro. also double standards and dirty money american finance giants are accused of cutting off nation's wealth continuing at the same time to accept the racist but the ku klux klan. this is. you know in a very good morning to it's midnight here in moscow and first this hour football fans in moscow and some petersburg turned a commemoration march on saturday into a bloody brawl with police russia's interior minister says the fault lies with nationalist groups for instigating violence as thousands gather to mark the death of a spot moscow supporter. it was in the center of the capital when the fighting broke

out. i. 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 that what started out as a peaceful commemorative around. some people have reacted very violently the spotlight was good and it was i do believe that some of the dissatisfaction is understandable 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 fang question 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 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 list according to officials members of the country's various nationalist movements and are not for profit and instigated the violence. i thought i knew but by the way it was useful that radical protestors joins those spots at fantasy owners of 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 use that dinner as the situation on the floor of the us . the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either petersburg rally in memory of city that 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 or is their head magenta . on. the far right is. working very hard to move

the book into different nationalists and the new nazi groups and they're doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success the fans who are here 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 . that's national scandal help 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 found 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 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 jeff you've

got to speed up even though there are some called doing nothing to pull off tempers police managed to restore order to the streets of the capital and st petersburg but many are still afraid this isn't the end of the violence. catchiness are of a party last. kosovo is bracing for the results of this as parliamentary elections since it broke away from serbia nearly three years ago those enclosed a few hours ago with exit polls putting the formal ruling coalition parties ahead. in the capital prishtina for says that polling day went largely without incident. well polls close in these historic elections and calls have been well we breathing a sigh of relief 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 and the much smaller 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 saw. in the high unemployment they're not free to travel around the territory they saw very poor standard of living and of course there was the cool from belgrade to boycott these elections are supposed to language than used in previous elections of course ethnic divisions and the only problem facing cost of employment is a romp it's here some reports for the tween 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's the traditionally the third party is the alliance for the future of cost of a the a a k but all of those a major policies cover 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. membership but as i mentioned many here consider corruption to be the biggest problem facing costco in recent polls for saying the cost of the have a soft foods a real clean in their faith in public institutions here rating 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 lees are all of the eight k. deny is currently in the hague you ways you can reach trial for war crimes but what does all mean is that said this is the allowed some new of policies to emerge on the scene to make some quite serious inroads in these elections most may simply been dossier 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 any new membership and having said preferred to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives here a little later this morning we'll tell you how wall street. is not afraid to show it off a there find out why the big shots over asians are dishing out bonuses worth of

rugby dollars by the same time with of american relying on charity hand. british police of 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 education allowing fees to rise threefold in england violence flared across the british capital with government property prince charles is coming from demonstrators of fifty people arrested opposition labor m.p. jeremy colvin spoke to us he told us the fees hike alone most certainly put those from less privileged background. 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 really preserve the wealth here 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 will be vested in young people investing in skills we're

investing in knowledge we're investing in our future cut that where's the economic growth of the future where the advances of tomorrow where the writers and the artists and musicians of tomorrow this is causing at the core society those that created this economic mess that we're all the ones who should pay for the 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 hit at the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt quit watching time we need some a more sensible or rational more humane approach to the whole issue we're not getting that from the government in may that's why the students are in the streets that's why the seventy occupations 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. now as the british opposition labor party m.p. jeremy coleman and further west meantime arlen's minimum wage is being cut but so

of 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 they're facing the harshest welfare inductions in the country's history of the banking system collapsed and the pain is not helped by seeing bank is itching to secure a massive bonuses once again which is why european bank regulators that were imposed strict limits on the wards as the years and battles to try to stop these are disintegrating it is hoped the second series of tough tests and favoring will help ease the pressure the leaders and said get back around the table next week to get a firm grip on the. crisis the european parliament member joe hagan says he fears the irish banking industry is already broken beyond repair. the reality for the irish economy and for irish capitalism is that inside or outside of the euro. it faces a disaster because it is so we can no label to develop society but i do predict that the level object now is simply unpayable it is on questionably the case to

there will be a default in the next thirty years so we say why wait for then and subject our people to enormous pain and suffering for nothing but we should refuse to pay the bondholders now immediately that's the key point and then develop a plan to to redevelop our economy what we are making a sacrifice for in fact is international banks and billionaire speculators who are on the financial markets looking to make a quick buck we all of them nothing in terms of the irish people the those speculative debts were encouraged by private bankers in private deals we say you cannot fix this system which is broken beyond repair as it is causing enormous suffering to tens of millions throughout europe the speculators are simply watching their next target which will be portugal or spain now to have got what they want it in ireland. well while some try and keep their heads above water others have

a four hundred million euros to splash out on yet another yachts but find the program russian billionaire who ordered this luxury plaything still wasn't time. supporters of wiki leaks declared cyber war against companies they see as obstructing the entry 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 for its founder julian assange has frozen he's been arrested in britain and is awaiting extradition to sweden where he's accused of sex crimes meantime as artie's gun if you can found out of the week of firms that were cut off we can disappear happy though 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 weekly leaks money supply

a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal set 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 for the controversial web site that 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 carotids particularly over national security no court ruling no legal procedures were needed to crackdown 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 face upon the subject but

the general explanation they give 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 nine their master card more had any problems processing donations for say nuku clark's clan a racist movement and his demand 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 to weak elites 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 markers you rule on and to be shown that we're the opposite 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 all the so-called international community. is targeted for having released information knowing what's what you should be doing and then 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 song. 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 germany's they're speaking it those are the weak elites 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 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 one thing is on the surface the u.s. shows it can interpret democrat. values however it wants depending on its games going to check on our team washington d.c. . but ima putin rebuffed the leaked american criticism of russian democracy

meantime saying the arrest of julian assange exposes the west for not following the democratic rules it preaches the russian prime minister's comments came at a media briefing alongside his french counterpart. so you've heard about the informational not renew i'm sorry to wiki leaks did you really think the u.s. diplomatic corps is a chance to challenge the source of information as for mr summers if you're pushing for a look receive push all the way why then could mr solution jail is that democracy if there is a saying about the plot. to get work you will be risking your post to argue with your course of the mulcher. two militants who are suspected of companies have been killed by police in russia's southern republic of dagestan one policeman was wounded in that gunfight two militants barricaded themselves in a house which was then taken by storm by special forces after negotiations failed authorities say one of those killed was the head of a local television who was on the most wanted list he's believed to have taken part

in at least one major attack in two thousand and nine in which four policemen and seven civilian women were killed for his a cracking down on militant groups said russia's south but the human volatile prosecutor said the number ten taxi double issue. for world news in brief this time for you and swedish police have launched a terrorism investigation into saturday's twin bombings in stockholm the first attacks or car explode in the busy area that was packed with christmas shoppers alone there are only a handful of injuries among those killed in the second blast to school for been carrying explosives a warning given prior to the bombings denounced sweden's military presence in afghanistan and a swedish authors controversial part to profit and. later tonight say six american troops have been killed by a suicide car bomber in southern afghanistan the kandahar province insurgents targeted an army checkpoint in the zavvi district the alliance has been stepping up its fighting in the south of the country in recent weeks it's a particularly hostile region with taliban strongholds near the pakistani border. a

suicide bombers blowing up his car outside government offices in the iraqi city of ramadi it's killed seventeen people many more were injured too including children please. reportedly found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot which was safely detonated it comes as the country's prime minister attempts to form a new cabinet to try to end months of political impasse. meg's heavy rains and fierce winds battering the middle east a woman's being killed in lebanon after a tree fell on a car is also being disruption of beirut airport on the storms have also caused the ship to sink of israel's coast as egypt closed its largest mediterranean port lashing rains have ended weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather which led to dozens of forest. we are reporting on russia's attempts to improve its human rights record. reporting that there may be independent monitoring in the country right now but it's just not

enough for russia's human rights commission of find out exactly. if you're feeling a bit chilly in the winter spicing of the cold winter nights a few recipes the cocktail cake a few classic concoctions and. wind chills all the more artsy. christmas is fast approaching but there is little festive cheer for all americans millions are still unemployed and battling debt to the recession but things are definitely more merry on wall street. finding out about the big apple big shots still living at large. next the sculpture thirty

thousand dollars not the first or thirty thousand take to thirty two thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office at fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars to twenty six from you amid the lackluster american economic climate christie's is seeing sunny days this painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of impressionist and modern art sold this year thank you so 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 thank you just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. good afternoon things. are back to indulge in pampering at the la perri spa at the ritz carlton involves wearing decadent hors d'oeuvres i recommend this skin caviar

body cream cream costing more than seven hundred dollars for less than four ounces while the caviar fish shell 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 one hundred fifty thousand. and one tries to fight business at wimpy 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 in a very very busy. business boost and perhaps my bonus is coming from one street where street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million a pair. well percent from last year's record if anyone would know about business it

would 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 ten thousand dollars it's hard not to have a good time when you're surrounded by. beautiful 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 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 a 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 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 us economy. purveyors of all things luxury are. surging while the majority of americans are left wondering when life will finally begin looking as pretty as the painting. artsy. well everyone's. least of all. for. his new yacht we're talking about. this place is. just so cool the clips of these these six feet it's also. because the. exacting standards which needed to be met besides.

twenty jet skis to. fill supposed for the cinema with deco might not be the devil's taste we're told five day so decorated with reptiles and. it's reported the boat even has its own anti-missile shield and i for. one pays you money thrills small said in fifteen minutes tonight on r t kate reveals how a recent punch on the ice has turned into a. russian. before the early monday morning and bring you up to date with a recap of our top stories of the week and i mean thank you for being with us.

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