joined below to raise the violence the gateway to the grand imperial truly the toast was the toast coromandel you can away with the tomb socialism good to see don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was a job as a retreat. the latest news in the week's top stories here on our team what should have been a day of commemoration for a football that ends in bloody clashes as thousands riot in moscow and st petersburg. and exit polls in kosovo support the parliamentary election suggests the democratic party oppose the vote headed by the current prime minister has a lead that observers say most of the serbian minority boycotted the polls. the minority said the enqueue need to see his face needs to be seen as running susie to build a bridge and you can see joining me on a c base in just a few moments from all. winter of discontent europe bryce's up in protest over

to wish in fees and financial hardship. also this week on life came a giant cut off donations to wiki leaks but continue to accept payments for radical groups saying putting the ku klux by. four am in moscow i mattress are bringing 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 artie's catarina of a 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 over 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. by you but. we saw that radical protesters joined those spots at fans honoring 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 act in as the situation unfolded . the clashes didn't stop with just the capital either st 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 there had an agenda. for the far right is. working very hard to move. 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 thursday i think next day after the match the head coach of sport that there are carbon so that it's not accepted founds to behave like that sans clain they want justice for a friend who had been killed but violence is not the answer saturday's clashes prove that both the story and the aggression are not really about football to the instigators however it's all fair game tensions are on the rise you've got to speed up even though they're rushing all 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 is the be end of the file. catchers are about r t last. exit polls suggest that prime minister hoshyar in touch is democratic party of kosovo is leading in the region's first parliamentary elections but as are to his house he reports many from the serbian minority boycotted the vote. well polls have now closed in these historic elections and cost of ns will be 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 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 see daily persecution here high unemployment they're not free to travel around the territory they suffer very poor standard of living and of course there was the cool from belgrade to boycott these elections are some of 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 issues that have been identified in the main policy's 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 of posse the democratic league of conservation l d k then there is traditionally the third party here the alliance for the future of cost of a the a a k. 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 costco in recent polls showing the cost of have a soft foods are real and to climb in their faith in public institutions here reaching from the judiciary to the parliament and they can do that this itself that was put forward for these elections were to help says a number of key candidates from across the main policies are 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 awaiting

retrial for war crimes but what does all mean is that this is allowed some new of policies to emerge on the scene to make some quite serious inroads in these elections most may simply. 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 you from talk of nato an e.u. membership and having said prefer to focus on the bread and butter issues affecting people's everyday lives here. balkans political expert. says kosovo's ethnic serbs are being treated as second class citizens. you have to bear in mind that about two thirds of. we used to living costs of or prior to need to the bone being themselves in some eleven years ago no longer in kosovo but they have been effectively ethnically cleansed and no provision whatsoever has been made for them

to participate either in these or any previous elections this is of course a major problem for the remaining. population in kosovo because participation in the electoral process can be easily interpreted as an agreement to the conditions that are prevailing in kosovo you know the words legitimizing that process with which the very unhappy with so i expect there will be a very low turnout among speak cause the whole issue of kosovo and many of them see kosovo as a failed state and that is certainly not going to encourage them to come out and participate in the elections analysis for michigan balkans political expert weighing in on kosovo's election. a little later we'll tell you how wall street is on the rebound and how it's not afraid to show it all. find out why the big shot

corporations are dishing out bonuses worth more than one hundred billion dollars millions of americans rely on charity. but first u.k. authorities have released pictures of more than fourteen people wanted for instigating violence during tuition fee protests in london a total of one hundred seventy five people were arrested during the four demonstrations that paralyzed the capital and dozens injured riots erupted after westminster approved a three fold hike in university tuition fees protesters vandalized government property and a car carrying prince charles and his wife camilla came under attack from protesters labor m.p. jeremy corbyn says the fees hype 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 aware of the rights 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 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 sum in your compassion is 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 opposition labor party m.p.

jeremy corrigan further west ireland's minimum wage is being cut but so are the salaries of the nation's leaders to try and soak up some of the anger or the latest set of deficit slashing measures people there face the harshest welfare reductions in the country's history after its banking system all but collapsed but their pains not helped by seeing bankers set to score massive bonuses once again which is why european bank regulators will impose strict limits on rewards as the eurozone battles to keep the euro from disintegrating it's hoped a second series of tough bank tests in february will help ease the pressure leaders are set to get back to the table to get a firmer grip on the continent wide debt crisis next week when european parliament member joe hagan says he fears the irish banking industry is already broken beyond repair. but the reality for the irish economy and for irish capitalism is that inside or outside of the euro. it faces i just because it is so we can label to

develop a society but i do predict that the level of debt now is simply payable it is only questionably the case to there will be a default in the next it years so we say why wait for then i'm subject to 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 a jury develop our economy what we are making a sacrifice for in fact is international banks and billionaire speculators who rule the financial markets looking to make a quick buck we all of them nothing in terms of the irish people those speculative debts were in court by private bankers in private to deal with we say you cannot fix this system it is broken beyond repair you are just causing enormous suffering to tens of millions throughout europe the speculators are simply watching their next target which would be portugal or spain now to that got what they wanted

it island. remember you can find more on this in everything we're covering at r.t. dot com including this rapping for peace. and. killing the human life hold me for me consumed with find out about the middle eastern musicians who are reinventing the protest song bots. are going the extra mile for about adrenaline rush to see a russian base jumper take on him and. all that and more online at our team. founder of whistleblower website wiki leaks believes the pentagon is planning his prosecution in a documentary aired in sweden julian assad says he's disappointed with swedish

justice and how it's been abused the thirty nine year old is in british custody after stockholm issued an arrest warrant connected with rape allegations that assad firmly deny earlier in the week supporters of his website that has published hundreds of thousands of classified u.s. wire staged a cyber war on financial giants mastercard visa and pay pal came under attack when they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks. meanwhile as artie's guy found out the firms are happily accepting payments for hate groups. 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 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 payments and they do what they're told. and so i think that it's a misconception in some cases that people think that the u.s. is purely a money driven society it's not the government has certain parag 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 that statement it had acted upon the government's request master card and visa where 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 promote facilitates or instruct others to engage in illegal activity but on the other hand

nine their master card more said i have any problems processing donations for say nuku clark's clan a racist movement and his to take what is the history of extreme violence with the goals of rachel thank you again 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 a country we believe it's a country that respects the markers you rule on going to be shown where the accuracy 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 goddess now the son of weston of the so-called international community. is targeted for having released information knowing what's what you should be doing and you have a case where the same people will be pushing for a candidate which is a dissident within the people's republic of china so they are playing double standards with that regard some even suggest why not give the prize to julian a song 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 sold down and we kill leaks why are they after the new york times in the same way. they are the british newspaper the guardian or germany's they're speaking at it those are the weekend ex-partners 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 either the new york times or der spiegel. or the guardian or by us were putting up. so what could possibly be the legal rationale for going after we can leaks and not going after the new york times there are a lot of unanswered questions about weiqi leaks one thing is on the surface the us shows it can interpret democratic values however he wants depending on its gains ganesh check on our t. washington d.c. . among some of the most recent awaking leaks was a secret nato agreement to launch a u.s. led defense of the baltic states against russia russian officials believe the links contradict war warming of relations declared a last month's nato russia summit in lisbon at the same time both sides proclaim the strategic partnership and talk of

a joint european missile defense shield russia's foreign minister called on nato to comment on the revelations saying they put a question mark over the alliance's true intentions. so this issue would you believe 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 nation it was talking with us about partnership and on the other who's taking decisions to protect itself against us. there is a question about we need to be seen see it when it's openly talking with us about partnership when it's secretly deciding amongst itself some quite different things . to militants in a suspected accomplice have been killed by police in russia's southern republic of dagestan one policeman was wounded during the gunfight millikan's militants barricaded themselves in a house which special forces stormed after negotiations failed authorities say one of the dead was the head of a local terrorist who was on the most wanted list he believed to have taken part in

at least one major attack in two thousand and nine that left four policemen and seven civilians women dead authorities are cracking down on militant groups in russia south of the region remains volatile prosecutors say the number of terror attacks there this year has doubled. 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 weans military presence in afghanistan and a swedish author's controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad. nato says six u.s. troops have been killed by a suicide car bomber in the southern afghan khandahar province insurgents targeted an army checkpoint in the 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 close to the pakistani border. and his suicide bomber blew up his car outside government offices in the iraqi city of ramadi killing up to seventeen people many more were injured including children police reportedly found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot that they 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. and a powerful snowstorm is had america's midwest closing major highways and canceling more than a thousand flights at least two people died as a result of the severe weather the snow also caused the roof of the minnesota metrodome stadium to collapse forecasters say the blizzard is now heading towards the areas surrounding the surrounding areas including the chicago. christmas is fast approaching but there is little festive cheer for all americans millions are

still unemployed and battling dead after the recession but things are definitely looking more merry on wall street parties marina poor and i've been finding out about the big apple's big shots who are still living at large. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars now in the first floor thirty thousand to thirty two 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 christie'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 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 think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful

. after you think these 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 crain 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. the. system 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 and expecting a very very busy car to get more. business boosted perhaps my bonus is coming from

a one street less street the symbol of the finance industry the financial collapse and record breaking compensation one hundred forty four million a pair. only about four percent from last year's record haul 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 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 where 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 the early stages in this so-called rebounding us 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 marina port naya r.t. new york. everybody's left counting their pennies at least of the least of all russian billionaire who's got four hundred million euros to spare for his new yacht

this is. his latest what you think called the eclipse and it is the sixth ship and his lead is also a year late because the german ship builders had some very exacting standards that needed to be met besides to have a power. twenty jet ski used to swimming pools and hot the ship also boasts a dance floor in a cinema decor might not be to everyone's taste though all five decks are decorated with a reptile skin and a real for it's reported that the boat even has its own anti-missile shield and mini submarine lifeboat. james bond your heart out will all be back with a wrap up of our headlines after a short break stay with us. to

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