riot police have cordoned off the center square of moscow as reports of more weiland are spread. all through our two year disturbing russian and new drugs campaign valves to shock but the producers say it's the only way to stem the country's plague of narcotics. and attempts to draw away from the brink of conflict or under way as russia's foreign minister holds talks with his north korean counterpart in moscow. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's five pm president medvedev is promising that the organizers of the nationalist riots in moscow at the weekend must be prosecuted a rally commemorating a football fan who was killed turned into

a furious brawl right outside the kremlin walls on saturday meanwhile police suspect more violence is on the way let's cross live to you catherine those are of course you can tell us more because really what are police expecting to happen exactly right now. you can see behind me riot police have cordoned off one year square which is in the very heart of the russian capital just steps away from the kremlin earlier we saw police evacuating an underground shopping center which is quite a famous destination for both muscovites and tourists alike that according to police sources we've managed to speak to here is in order to prevent any damage to the stores themselves or the people that may be within them and right now they've cordoned off the entire square they've deployed people standing a few meters away from each other basically encircling my near square and just keeping vigilance at the moment because we have heard rumors that. at six pm moscow

time. another potential clash is expected to happen between. a various football fans and members. of ethnic minorities that do live in the capital because of course the ethnicity issue was touched upon in the original violence that happened on saturday these are reports are of course at the moment just rumors but according and judging by the petty police presence in my new square the local authorities are not prepared to take any rumors lightly and are willing to do everything to prevent a repetition of saturday's events one clashes at a commemorative peace rally actually turned violent with a lot of people injured and many people detained the president has made a personal route to tackle exactly but what exactly did he say. will speaking earlier today the russian president did address the events of saturday's commemorative rally saying that nobody is exempt from the law and those

that have initiated the violence that took place here on this very square on saturday will be brought to justice that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law and that nobody should escape punishment for especially when provoking aggression amidst a relatively peaceful crowd. you don't do most of the recent events in most of the disorder attacks on people should be classified as crimes and the people behind them punished especially dangerous where the action is aimed at fueling hatred and hostility based on racial national or religious differences such actions or threats to the state stability to counteract such actions place cam and must use means allowed by the law. and the legal necessary and sufficient means there shouldn't be any chaos on the streets or in public places. and as we can see

police have taken that message to heart and they are prepared to take any preventative measures to make sure that a repeat of saturday's events is not possible considering that you were after those events on saturday saw how it all played out take us through how those events its response to be peaceful descended into violence. indeed and you so this is of course the very heart of the capital the russian kremlin is just a few steps away it's a very popular destination for tourists specially in the run up to christmas and new year's time where many people come into the city to do their christmas shopping and it's almost hard to imagine that this place could be the scene of such extreme violence which of course it was on saturday when thousands of football fans gathered for a commemorative rally to mark the death of one of their own a football fan you know by the name of you go to city those who was killed last week the football fans were gathered here simply to pay his or pay their respects

to the man and demand a full investigation into his death they were however the crowds were infiltrated by members of various nationalist organizations who provoked aggression sparked aggression started growing up bits of ice empty bottles flares at riot police which were here to guarantee that the rally goes quietly and peacefully of course various scuffles and brawls broke out we saw a lot of people injured they were taken away by ambulances to nearby hospitals to be treated and over sixty people were detained police have released some of them but they are holding to many of those they believe they have enough evidence to charge them with provoking aggression and starting those brawls of course it was quite a sight many people injured of course various fires going up with people destroying store displays destroying christmas trees which were also set up on the square using everything and anything as a weapon we saw park benches. strong various brick barricades that police use to

keep the people off the streets police did do everything in their power to make sure that the fights are broken up very quickly and that no more violence is heard we've heard officers repeatedly asking people to not give in to provocations to stay away from aggression but of course when there are people who are intent on making sure there is a fight there usually will be a fight especially considering that many of those people have been drinking and so it was quite a frightening sight and the police presence here right now does seem to suggest that police are going to do everything in any way to prevent every period of saturday's events all right but rumors are you've course are there to track that situation as you said we're getting reports that violence is expected within the hour. now meanwhile political analyst dimitri bobbitt says nationalists have recently hijacked the football fan community. police probably whole body

negotiating with the leaders of the found speak and somehow avoid violence by the u.s. so it was pretty friendly to their own police expected to find some kind of healthy force or someone that that's my impression and i think it was a mistake because there are no hell to force them on the road use in the last few years or so just try to stem the violence they try to leave it to obviously and now the nationalist groups have understood that they would use full flounce as a sort of cannon fodder for their own actions. in other news shock tactics aimed at a limited in drug and alcohol abuse have divided opinion across russia videos of deformed fetuses and children eating feces are just a small part of a controversial online campaign authorities have defended the saying that only harsh reality will discourage youngsters and kick some sense into addicts now you may find some of the images in memory of those this report disturbing.

me to happy motto for she says masha i used to smoke marijuana when i was pregnant with the internet is part of the stomach churning ninety drunken pain of sashing. i was already on heroin then. surprisingly it's the least offensive of the series designed to shock some of them may leave a bad taste in your mouth quite literally like this one for instance. that's why we stop it here. it says that keeping quiet about drug abuse among school kids is like keeping dirt in your mouth the disturb an advert has provoked a huge discussion on the web one just how far we can go in trying to keep youngsters away from drugs that was the word yes it causes a slight nausea impulse but that's what we need it will make those children who now think that it's bad to tell their parents and teachers about dealers in other words

they do not report on dealers let them consider which is better with in their mouths or without food every year more than one hundred thousand people officially dying from overdose and drug related deaths and that doesn't include susannah it's a country. believes people would better opening the scale of the problem rather than concern themselves about the distance see of the adverts if the poor there's nothing else humiliating or contradictory in the sand should we just keep silent about everything why ok let's keep our mouths shut and just live on let twenty year olds die and millions and billions of dollars flooding into drug dealers pockets while we just pretend that everything is perfect in our society. as behind the fact that the end to drug adverts is getting more primitive is another shocking reality the targeting audience is getting younger and younger and the average age when youngsters in russia first try drugs has jumped to thirteen years with the x.

average life expectancy to twenty one. the latter but all of this is aimed at them so it has to be primitive in order to work do you think they don't know that drugs are bad when they just need to have it literally imprinted in their minds the shocking can pain is actually a government initiative a response to the country's need priority in fighting the drug problem. we've always been concentrated on finding drugs and withdrawing them this july we've adopted a new state drug strategy now we need. the focus on decreasing demand rather than trying to cope with the consequences. with the government's recent refocus on preventive measures we can expect more and more projects like this one aimed at literally disgusting the idea of drugs out of youngsters minds and yes it may be unpleasant looking but so are the statistics of drug abuse in the country and if there is a chance no matter how small that this can stop someone from stepping onto the

slippery slope its creators say it's worth the arthritis causing. not to be more scope coming up this hour also for the final frontier became the latest mission to the international space station as the crew prepare to the last stop. but first the crisis on the korean peninsula and pyongyang is disputed nuclear program where at the heart of talks between the russian and north korean foreign ministers they met behind closed doors here in moscow during what is a tense time in the region with more war games from the south and after the north's fatal selling of its neighbors islands the guard was going off has been trying to find out more about the high level meeting. we do know that pyongyang's nuclear program is the most important issue being discussed north korea walked out of the six party talks last year which also include the united states south korea china

japan and russia. also expelled international nuclear monitors from the country and continued with the nuclear tests calling causing a huge wave of condemnation across the world this really worries russia since its borders are right there next to it borders in north korea and the peninsula is a neighboring region for russia and the the recent rise of tensions in on the peninsula is making the situation even worse since last month's north korea launched an attack on the one of south korea's islands shelling it four people were killed at least eighteen others were injured pyongyang said that in fact south korea attacked a northern territory's before that and this was a report by using force so this just shows how unstable the region still is the fact that south korea is increasing cooperation with the united states constantly holding various military drills in the region in fact even after north korea's

attack on that island south korea and the united states held a new set of military exercises south korea's has also recently held the new mall and which is calling for even closer ties with washington and this is definitely an intimidating factor for north korea and such close ties with the united states at this point where this moment may make the attentions even higher so the two foreign ministers are definitely have a lot to talk about here in moscow. but one leading east asia analyst told r.t. that russia has a pivotal role in helping to stabilize the region because its goal is peace and not to exercise political muscle. russia is the only country that does have a stake box no specific interest. which actually is a difference between russia and the european union so russia can actually be

a trustworthy and reliable mediator a neutral broker the interest of russia those concerned in korea is stability to know her there's a situation emerging good marks for a major war to notably not only in both both careers but also china us will have the negative effects on stability in the region and on russia and russia has major preoccupation is a few maintaining peace. ruediger frank there from the east asian institute speaking to us from the. kosovo as prime minister has declared victory in the first part of the mentoring election since the self-proclaimed nation split from serbia the official results are yet to be announced the new government will face a number of challenges including a weak economy extremely high unemployment and democrats sent over maine's deeply

divided along ethnic lines with the majority of its ethnic serbs population boycotting the poll serbia refuses to recognize kosovo's independence we can now discuss the election with iran then you are obvious she's editor serbian broadcasting corporation thanks for being with us live from belgrade this evening has serbia given any assessments of kosovo as part of the mentoring poll the first one of course since it declared unilateral independence from serbia. well so far there hasn't been a single statement by politicians in serbia who are in power and those who are indio position this silence in itself is very significant because it's a statement in itself it is terry ation of the flag to be a does not recognise course of all as the independent state and therefore doesn't have to comment on any election that belgrade previously called on to be boycotted

how high do you think the turnout of kosovo ethnic serbs actually was in the election or did they not turn out at all. well it depends where. actually do live the serbs who live in the north of course who are geographically linked with the rest of the serbia found it as ever very easy to boycott the election because they do not feel as part of an entity called kosovo because of direct geographic ling's on the other people who do live in enclaves scattered in in the central kosovo they did go and they did vote the number is very hard to be known that this stage because both. central electoral commission and local politicians. don't have any final results of course. the main party in kosovo who has

participated in the course of a government which is called the independent liberal party has proclaimed. its victory in kosovo said that it was very satisfied with the number of who voted but it's very difficult to confirm that at this stage the un and the e.u. have been urging serbia and kosovo to engage in negotiations to resolve their disagreements do you this election has any kind of a factor make these talks any more likely. well it's very hard to see any media link between. between belgrade and prishtina and the election is specially at this stage when it's actually not known what the main final result will be because it's known that the polity is

in the lead over its main rival. coalition partners so far but since the two main parties in kosovo have already been in government and there hasn't been any belgrade it's very hard to predict to what will happen next. as you see it has there been any success in integrating ethnic serbs into the population since kosovo declare independence three years ago. well the situation when it comes to reintegration of all ethnic minorities is extremely grim . of the largest minority in kosovo for example there have been the council. leaving these that and which was the town where they were significant minority in the pas also when it comes to roma community.

all reports are indicating that the situation that they're facing is very grim indeed and one cannot to says that any. ethnic minority has a really really integrated into course of a society is included in the mill or out of it from the serbian broadcasting corporation thank you very much for being with us on the line from belgrade thank you. let's take a look at some other world news in brief for you this hour police and crowds have a rest for real thing seventeen year old who took a group of children hostage at a nursery in eastern france all the pupils and teachers involved were released without harm many of those held were let go as police negotiated with the teenager over the phone the rest were freed after authorities and the building local media have described the hostage taker as mentally unstable. a roadside bomb exploded near a school bus in northwestern in the northwestern pakistani city of peshawar killing

the driver and injuring a number of children the device was planted in a bin and went off in a busy area of the city militants in the northwest have frequently attacked schools especially those for girls but usually when children are not seen. an iraqi born swede who also lived in britain is named by police as the man who blew himself up as he tried to set off a bomb in stockholm sweden swedish prosecutors says the twenty eight year old time or a girl walked off have explosives strapped to his body in the backpack it was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in stockholm shortly before the suicide blast if confirmed it would be the first case of a suicide attack in sweden. the next i use rocket set for the international space station has been raised into its launch position ready for blast off on wednesday it will take a crew of three who will not only have science work to do but will also deliver

some seasonal gifts to those currently in orbit peter all of our reports from the launch site. the rocket itself arrives in by you could all in three different bullets in the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate it's every screw every both has to be checked and then rechecked to make sure that it's correct those putting putting in the work on the ground to make sure that that's all good and safe know that they have in their home. the safety of those going up into space preparations take a long time it can take from five days to two weeks to unload all the separate parts of the rocket and assemble them after the rocket is assembled it has to undergo a series of tests every team looks through some part of the rocket the engine the electronics now so used him a rocket widely regarded as the best way the most safe way and the most reliable way of getting people into space and plenty of people coming gathering here most some of them former astronauts former cosmonauts coming to see the rocket being

loaded into place and they still get that old tangle of knowing what it was like of launching from here if i can or it's always fun to to see a vehicle getting ready to launch whether it be a shuttle or a soyuz and if it does take you back to them the opportunity that i had which was to be able to actually step onto it and it's amazing experience now the three month crew they'll be going up in soyuz t.m.a. twenty consist of cosmonaut to me to take on the last year of an astronauts paolo nespoli and caroline coleman for me to be counteractive is the commander of the mission it's his first time in space and he'll be carrying out two spacewalks while he's out there to be removing one of the experiments that's on the whole of the i assess it also be attaching another two to collect information from up in space to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the cosmos peter all of a bike you know there's a new car on the way which could help reenergize russel's motor market and this

time if no gas guzzler is the country's first hybrid vehicle and designers hope it'll make eco friendly and driving more affordable surfer takes a look. rush is entering the hybrid calm ok this is one of the first hybrid cars see you in the bill we've been hearing today from the construction team some of the team behind the project we know that this car runs on a combined gas and electric engine and we've been hearing about some of the new technologies that have also being nice and it's an incredibly exciting project now one of the founders of the project mikhail prokhorov spoke today and introduced the cars and he was saying that this is really about breaking stereotypes one of these being that russia can produce a good car. if. you know that. you can see the three different types they go keep

a hatchback and a minivan and we can take a look inside because we've heard a lot about what is actually going to the consumers as well as saving money on the car they're actually going to be reasonably cheap to buy so they'll go and sell for around ten thousand dollars and inside the car you can see there's quite a lot of space there's a lot materials to the used inside some of the similar things used in the space industry and also to consumers oh it's going to be able to drive these on the roads of moscow russia for a while so that they'll be going on self-hate so they around midway through twenty twelve so that's when people will be able to get in. well you're up to date now from the news desk let's check in at the business desk daniel burke joins us now very corporate colors i might add and he has news that wall street fat for a rise. in new york.

we. knew optimism over a global economic upturn of boosting the market. goldman sachs predicts the oil price will rise mid term averaging one hundred dollars a barrel next year and rising further in twenty twelve. pair of presidents of russian energy giant lukoil says that's too optimistic. i think that the current price is already fair and comfortable for both producers and consumers our analysts agree with opec experts that the oil price next year will be at around the same level as this year that is eighty or ninety dollars are companies looking forward

to this price. for the equities they're up here in russia on the back of that strong got oil price the r.t.s. is gaining a percent and a half and the mind six is trading around point eight of a percent higher this hour energy is the standout sector rose next gazprom and rose hydro are all driving gains but sperm bank is the top blue chip today it's up over two percent on both main forces. that russia's biggest lender said profits this year could top two hundred billion rubles considerably more than sperm banks official forecast. and european stocks have kicked off the week in the black miners are driving that as metals prices growth xstrata put on one percent more than three percent on the footsie. now russia central bank says it may raise interest rates in the first quarter of next year economists believe a tighter monetary policy is inevitable as the focus shifts to fighting rise in prices. since with her for inflation. to finance interest rate or the

central bank it's likely from my current kind of a prospect of to increase of the level of eight point five percent bring something back in for the truly interest rates of the banks to come ashore. and it includes some more. from the difference to be the transaction. at the level of central bank interest rates. that's the latest join us for the opening bell on wall street.

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on our. wealthy british soil it's time to. find. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. it's five thirty pm in moscow these are the headlines from our team riot police are back in central moscow amid fears of fresh football fans piling present need vegas valley to use any legal means to punish the perpetrators of the weekend's clashes

saying nationalists embrace the slogans heard during the clash.