join the those who are. the gateway to the grand imperial truly. you can a let's close the show. publicly and run this in the kennel was toto as a treat. the latest news in the week's top stories here on r t what should have been a day of commemoration of pro football bloody clashes as thousands why in moscow and st petersburg. exit polls in kosovo as poor as parliamentary elections suggest the democratic party of kosovo headed by the current prime minister has the lead but observers say most of the serbian minority boycotted the vote. c.t.'s say yes new divisions run sooty to fill the seats. in just a few minutes from. a winter of discontent europe rises up in protest over to

financial hardship. and also the speed of light came in giant cut off the nation's two wiki leaks but he accepted payments for radical groups such as the ku klux klan . bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t football fans in moscow and st petersburg turned a march to commemorate a spartak moscow supporter into a riot on saturday russia's interior minister says nationalists incited the violence archy's catarina as are reports. 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 fan 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 police have already arrested those responsible for the murder of your spirit of and will arrest others everyone is equal before the law the sangh 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 this story gets an ugly nationalist twist according to officials members of the country's various nationalist movements and not football fans instigated the violence.

and. we saw that radical protesters joined those spartak fans on or in the dead men and incited mass protests and fighting the police must act tough but within the law and they did everything they had to acting as the situation unfolded. the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either st 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 mobilize. into different nationalist new nazi groups doing a lot of propaganda with a lot of success the fans who over 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 . the next matches can be held with no audience in the europa league and on through as their think next day after the match head coach of sport that their carbon so 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 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 to the speed that even though there are some call doing nothing to the law 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. cashiers are of

a party last. exit polls are just that prime minister hussian tach in the democratic party of kosovo is leading in the region's first parliamentary elections but his art his hours have been reports many from the serbian minority decided to boycott the vote. well polls have now closed in these historic elections and cost we breathing a sigh of relief that for the most part the vote seeing a pulse by incident free 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 no 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 daily persecution here high unemployment they're not free to travel around the territory they suffer very poor will 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 overall employment is a romp it's here some reports put it up between forty and fifty percent of 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 that 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 how touchy is democratic party of kosovo the p.t.k. followed by its former coalition a posse the democratic leader of kosovo l d k then there is traditionally the third

party he is the alliance for the future of cost of a the a a case put 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. . membership but as i mentioned many here consider corruption to be the biggest problem facing recent polls are saying the cost of the have a cell foods are real and it's a claim in their faith in public institutions here eight hundred fold the fishery to the parliament and they can do that this itself that was put forward for these elections were just helps says a number of key candidates from across the main policies a county under investigation for a variety of crimes ranging from abuse of office to corruption and most worryingly of these are all the aka how to deny is currently in the hague always a retrial for war crimes but what does all mean is that said this is the allowed

some new of policies to emerge on the sea to make some quite serious inroads in these elections most may simply. meaning self-determination and fit meaning new spirit both these policies expected to take some votes today and i'm like the bigger traditional policies they've stayed away you from two good names who need your membership and having said to start to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives. stay with us here as we continue wrapping up the week's news coming up one of humanity's biggest killers which could be claiming many more lives than doctors think. the report from india research which says malaria is claiming tens of thousands more lives than are reported details coming up. but first authorities in the u.k. have released the pictures of fourteen people wanted for instigating violence during the tuition fee protests in london a total of one hundred seventy five people were arrested during the four

demonstrations that paralyzed the capital and left dozens injured riots erupted after westminster approved a three fold hike in university tuition fees protesters vandalized government property and even a car carrying prince charles and his wife the military under attack from protesters. labor m.p. jeremy corbett says the fees hike will impact the less privileged families. 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. where is the economic growth of the future where the advantages of to more and where the right is in 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 hit the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt it's. 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 same when your capacious 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 commentary from british labor m.p. jeremy corp. further west ireland'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 harshest welfare reductions in the country's history after the banking system all but their pain is not helped by seeing bankers just for massive bonuses once again which is why

european bank regulators will impose strict limits on rewards as the eurozone to keep the euro from disintegrating it's hoped a second series of tests and temporary will help ease the pressure you leaders are set to get back to the table to get a firmer grip on the continent wide debt. crisis next week but sam bowman from the adam smith institute says despite all efforts euro's days. it wouldn't take a genius to see that there is a crisis approaching the. continent wide crisis i think it is probably because of the government debt but i think the bailout in ireland has failed to markets. it is still extremely high and we're seeing portugal and spain creeping up words as well so i think we're probably going to see quite a difficult year for the it's not the end of the eurozone in the coming months i think we need to 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. where they have

a currency that's suitable for their own economies rather than for france and germany which is really what the eurozone project was all about commentary from sam bowman at the adam smith institute in a few minutes our close up team goes down deep to explore the mystical magic that lies underground in central russia. to ice his full of legend as well as the perfect example of the beauty of the forces of nature can create but the the only thing you need to. see. but first the founder of the whistleblower website wiki leaks says the pentagon is planning his prosecution in a documentary aired in sweden julian assange says he's disappointed with how swedish justice has been abused by thirty nine year old is in british custody after stockholm issued an arrest warrant in connection with a rape allegations that assad family denies earlier in the week supporters of the website that has published hundreds of thousands of classified u.s. wires staged

a cyber war on financial giants master card visa and pay pal all came under attack when they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks meanwhile is artie's guide to discover the firms are still accepting payments to. the u.s. government has presented no charges against julie. in 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 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 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 master card and visa were most of a sieve 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 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 racist movement and his. 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 space as americans this is not what we believe in our country we believe it's a country that respects the markers you log in to be shown that where the opposite is not used 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 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 prize to julian a song this year is 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 german 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 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 by us 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 we kill leaks one thing is on the surface the u.s. shows it can interpret democratic values however it wants depending on its gains ganesh. second r t washington d.c. two militants and a suspected accomplice have been killed by police in russia's southern republic of dagestan one policeman was wounded during the gunfight militants barricaded themselves in a house which special forces stormed after negotiations failed authorities say one of those killed was the head of a local terrorist 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 that left four policemen and seven civilian women dead thirty's or cracking down on militant groups in russia's south but the region remains volatile prosecutors say the number of terror attacks there has a double this year. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe swedish police have launched

a terror investigation into saturday's twin bombings in stockholm the first attack saw a car explode in a busy 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 denounce sweden's military presence in afghanistan and a swedish offer was controversial cartoon depictions of the prophet muhammad. nato says six american troops have been killed by a suicide car bomber in the southern afghan province of kandahar insurgents targeted an army checkpoint in the zari 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. a suicide bomber has blown up his car outside government offices in the iraqi city of ramadi killing up to seventeen people many were injured including children police reportedly found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot that was safely detonate the cunt the attack comes after the

country's prime minister attempts to form a new cabinet to try and end months of political impasse. a powerful snowstorm is hit america's midwest closing major highways and canceling over one thousand flights at least two people have died as a result of the severe weather the snow also causes the roof of a stadium in minnesota to collapse forecasters say the blizzard is now heading to the surrounding areas including chicago. malaria could be killing tens of thousands more people in india than health officials think new research and research suggests there's an alarming number of unrecorded deaths as artie's charan singh reports it's raising questions as to whether the world health organization may be massively underestimating the nobleman malaria death rates. in india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it's dudek small knives i mean dhea than each i.v.

. malaria has spread everywhere near our village no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away poor people like us a dying at this hospital and what not many patients believe they have the parasite to infection. and then for so i think i have a 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 a new study has found that malaria kills more than thirty mm dime's the number of people caught in the estimated by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and in lydia's they don't get recorded so researchers was did families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as topsy we estimated that something like four percent of the deaths between one and sixty nine years of age were due to malaria and if you multiply that percentage by the national number of deaths and those you get two hundred

thousand deaths before age seventy in india it's a staggering number is specially compared the world health organization's estimate of just fifteen thousand then more fatalities it disputes the studies saying the responders could mistake when it is commonly shown symptoms it is true that you can confused with other causes of fever however the w.h.o. . except the use of verbal autopsy for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not three guys miles away in another most medical staff in india hospitals the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. figure as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government than the. knowledge the scale of the problem only then can they upgrade their disease

control strategies and resources to fight malaria effectively in all its forms and seeing r.d. . we go as far east as europe gets next as we guide you around russia city of param peter overtakes in nature's beauty beneath. dabbles with the devil but only in the name of art. 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 ice caves are a few hours drive away from the city of perm and provide visitors with some or inspiring views but. normally cave ices grow at certain heights but this particular case has them right near its mouth you can 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 at the minute 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 caves said that he fell 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 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 lake of tears the congo i see here is the fall of myth and legend as well as being a 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 to see. out in the rugged countryside the traditional way of life of the indigenous cami people continues making to welcome visitors and regale them with legends from their past through song and dance was. here a rather extraordinary artist thrives. these devils are here just for decoration i started carving devils as i believe in evil forces and these a village dude's singing a song they've been here since one thousand eight hundred eight. you go to utah been has been working with wood since he was a small boy drawing his inspiration from local mythology he hung his skills working the land. i spent thirty five years working at the soviet farm on tractors and excavators i looked for the right kind of logs and brought them home this is

a huge guy from the perm legends he threw all the mongols and tartars out as with any artist events in his life are reflected in 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 as i was angry at life at that time. where the you journey into the freezing darkness of the congo was it the vampire's of the komi be careful your visit to the poem region doesn't result in you being the subject of future minutes. peter oliver r.t. perm region. the latest addition to the prime minister's canales now has a name. this is buffy that's what vladimir putin's new bulgarian sheep dogs now called after a nationwide competition thousands of suggestions were sent in for the poppy who was given to putin by his bald garion counterpart during a trip to sofia last month the winning name was chosen by a five year old boy from moscow who got

a chance to meet buffy putin says his other dog a labrador named tawny is getting on well with a newcomer who said to be growing up very quickly. and here is what you're clicking on right now on the new and improved. singing a song for peace. we told me. find out about the middle eastern musicians who are reinventing the protests. and some go the extra mile for their adrenaline rush to see a russian base jumper take on an antarctic mountain it's all online at r.t. dot com. stay with us we'll be back with the headlines after this short break.

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