but the producers say it's the only way to stem the country's plague of narcotics. i'm bored through still the week on the hoff the good economy new from choice the business news is in twenty minutes. it's six pm in moscow this is artsy coming to you live with me and the sun now way first up president madrid 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 turn into a furious brawl right outside the kremlin walls on saturday meanwhile police suspect more violence is on the way catherine as our ovide joins us now live to give us the latest what exactly are the police expecting to happen. and he said courting to rumors we have heard reports that an amiga meeting was scheduled

between a several football fans a group of football fans and members of so-called ethnic minority desperate they scheduled to meet here in the heart of the russian capital at nine years square just steps away from the kremlin to figure out what exactly who is to blame and if anybody is to blame folks for the death of a football fan last week you go to city that was killed in a mass brawl that took place in the north of the capital many of the sounds believing that. someone of ethnic minority was responsible for his death and that is what essentially led to last week's violence sorry to a to last week's violence here in this very location in one year square where a commemorative rally was taking place police have responded to these rumors of new clashes new potential clashes and basically lockdown the minute square the very heart of the russian capital an underground shopping. center which is

a very popular destination for both muscovites and tourists alike especially in these days coming up to christmas for many people are coming into the city to do their christmas shopping the city the shopping center has been closed down and evacuated we've also heard reports that the underground station that is located at a here in the hold made out metro station has also been closed down have police station underground monitoring for any potential violence and police have also deployed riot police all around the square as you can see behind me they've basically locked down the entire minute square standing a few meters away from each other basically monitoring the situation waiting to see if any violence should drop of course they are on the spot to make sure that nothing happens and a repeat of saturday's violent clashes will not be possible and we understand why we can see the kremlin are just behind you there when the president has made a personal vows to tackle this what do you say. indeed any so

earlier today the russian president dmitry medvedev condemned the clashes that took place on saturday saying that any and all of those responsible for propagating violence specific lee violence that concerns any kind of difference in religion ethnicity or nationality any of those who perpetrate that kind of violence will be caught and brought to justice all of those people are equal in the eyes of the law and no one will go unpunished the president condemned the events that took place in money of square on saturday saying that police need to do everything in their power to counteract and prevent the these clashes from ever happening again. you know a new subject of muscovy of the recent events in libya just attacks on people should be classified as crimes and the people behind them punished especially dangerous where the action is aimed at refuting hatred and will still see. based on

racial national or religious differences such actions are threats to the state stability will get a new deal to counteract such actions place cam and must use any means allowed by the local ice during any legal necessary and sufficient meeting these days because should there be any in the streets or public places. it certainly seems that the police took this address to heart they have deployed hundreds of their officers in one year square monitoring the rumors of new potential clashes between fans and. other people and basically have to walk down the city center just trying to do everything in their power to prevent a repeat of saturday's events but you were there pretty much exactly where you're standing when the violence broke out take us through how events descended into violence in moscow over the weekend. what was originally was scheduled to be a peaceful commemorative rally fans various football fans gathered here to pay

their respects to one of their own a football fan then you go see the defeat was murdered last week in a massive brawl in moscow basically they were here simply to pay their respects and demand a full investigation into the death of one of their own asking that all of those responsible be brought to justice however that rally or several thousand people or standing right here where we are right now in my new year's where we are in full traded by various members of nationalist organizations who started provoking the crowds provoking the police and that is what led to the almost immediate escalation of violence first it was a quiet rally and almost in a matter of seconds bottles flew flares were lit fires were started and various fights and scuffles broke out and if various areas of the crowd of course it's nearly christmas time so the area is well decorated for those decorations also be.

came part of the brawl with christmas trees destroyed decorations lying a riot police we saw people covered in blood being taken by police officers into ambulances those that got caught up in the fray were escorted to nearby ambulances and taken off for medical assistance nearly sixty people over sixty people in fact were detained some of those have already been released the police are holding on to many of those as they believe they had more than enough evidence to charge them with aggravated assault or hooliganism or basically provoking any kind of racial hatred or violence but the the violence that broke out here was very quick almost impossible to stop even though the police were doing everything in their power to quickly localize the fights they did manage to disperse the crowds after awhile but even then because most of the fans most of the people that were here were using the underground to leave there was quite a heavy police presence in the underground as well and we know that there were reports of several clashes between fans and police officers in the underground as

well the world looks like the situation at the moment is far from that but consider nazar about will continue to monitor the situation in central moscow for now thanks for about. meanwhile political analyst dmitri bobbitt says nationalists have recently hijacked the football fan community. police probably hold that by negotiating with their leaders over the founds they can somehow avoid violence by the u.s. so we'll speak defriended with their own police expected to find some kind of healthy forces among them that's my impression and i think it was a mistake because there are no houses for system on the road has been the last few years there so just try to stem the violence they try to leave it there but all that is needed now are the nationalist groups have understood that they would use full flounce as a sort of cannon for them for their own actions. live from moscow you're with r t

coming up all set for the final frontier that's out with the latest mission to the international space station as the crew prepare to blast off from baikonur. but first the crisis on the green peninsula in pyongyang is disputed nuclear program where at the heart of talks between the russian the 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 shelling of its neighbors islands europe is going on 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 united states south korea china japan and russia pyongyang also expelled international nuclear monitors from the country and

continued with the nuclear tests calling causing off a huge wave of condemnation across the world this really worries russia since 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 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 northern territory's before that and this was their reply 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 hélène the new

model 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 tensions even higher so the two foreign ministers definitely have a lot to talk about here in moscow. well alexander of our own self who has the green department at the institute of oriental studies is here now with me in the studio tell us tensions on the peninsula reach the peak of course after the november selling of south korean islands by the north once russia's role in preventing conflicts from escalating into war. russia as usual tried to preserve the peace and security of the korean peninsula and as a main tool to reach a. goal is negotiations to start to start the negotiation process as soon as

possible and two days or negotiation between russian foreign minister and d.p. foreign minister in moscow is going to station of this approach we need to start talks negotiations diplomatic process as soon as possible to stall the two programs that is go away from the race but it seems some officials think differently in fact a former american intelligence director dennis blair told the media he believes south korea will take military action against the north do you think so will really push it back far unfortunately became the rudeness of the two difference approach to deal with the gratian of situation according to an insurer moscow invades and. talks seoul washington first of all speaking is that this is good now it's not the proper time for the talk and conduct of the military exercises which are exercises

and. disease. like nobody here would give a ground to except the. boy or. statement is unfortunately graded and of course he's very informed people. which is clear or at least the washington and seoul has another agenda and another line of behavior didn't resist scryer. i'm going pretty sure there's a drug to use first of all a military force means an exercise military exercise once and those wars are now north korea's nuclear program was also at the core of minutes of ministers meeting gang expressed its readiness to engage in six party talks but now the south and the u.s. are turning these backs with what you called military exercises how possible are the negotiations at this point. what we can speak from the clues of course

just no six party talks. have nor chance to read you in because the prospect of her but of course important. i think is a movement towards the six party talks receptions it's really important and reshoot going to continue this work on the eve of course is. the process over the preparation of six but the talks will sort of positive just not where it's interrupted but it's very important to reduce your six party talks. but you need to first rule or a negotiation process in general right alexander variants of the head of the green department at the institute of oriental studies here in moscow thank you very much for your analysis and a little welcome. and we're here of course twenty four seven for you but there's also more news and analysis online at r.t. dot com here's what you're watching on our new look web site right now same leader

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harsh reality will discourage youngsters and kick some sense into attics you may find some of the images in memory of the national report disturbing. need to have the motto for it to morrow she says masha i used to smoke marijuana when i was pregnant with the big internet ad is part of the stomach joining a drunken paleness sashing sashenka thing i was already on heroin then which is surprisingly it's the least offensive side 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's as if 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 when just how far we can go in trying to keep youngsters away from drugs that was about the queen 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 daily this or that then consider which is better with in their mouths or without. every year more than one hundred thousand people officially dying for sure from drug related deaths and that doesn't kill its use size take countries to. scale of the problem rather than concern themselves of all to distant sea of the earth's natural if that poor that's what i. should we just keep silent about everything well like a let's keep our mouths shut and just live on with my twenty year old us dollar and millions and billions of dollars flowing into drug dealers pockets while we just pretend that everything will affect in our society both of. us as behind the fact that the anti drug advert is getting more primitive is another shocking reality the

target to know what is his getting younger and younger the average age when youngsters in russia first try drugs has jumped to thirteen years with the addicks everett's life expectancy just twenty one. this is aimed at them so it has to be primitive in order to work here do you think they don't know what drugs when they just need to have it literally every printed in their minds the shocking contain is actually a government initiative a response to the country's new priority in fighting the drug problem but as a report on the concepts we've always been concentrated on finding drugs and withdrawing them this july we've adopted a new state drug strategy now we need to 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 refn ocean r.t. more scope. some other international stories for you this hour police in front of the rest or real to the seventeen year old who took a group of children hostage at a nursery in eastern france all the pupils have teacher and teachers involved will released without harm many of those held were let go is believed negotiated with the teenager over the phone and the rest were freed after authorities and through the building local media have described the hostage taker as mentally unstable. a roadside bomb exploded near a school bus to the northwestern pakistani city of peshawar killing a 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 at the scene. and 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 the swedish prosecutor says the twenty eight year old time or abdul wahabi had explosives strapped to his body and in fact was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in stockholm certainly before the suicide blast if confirmed it would be the first case of a suicide attack in sweden. kosovo's prime minister has declared victory in the first parliamentary 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 week of call me extremely high unemployment and demick corruption kosovo remains deeply divided along ethnic lines with the majority of its ethnic sort of

population boycotting the poll serbia refuses to recognize kosovo's independence and even the mill around the vigil news editor in belgrade says ethnic serbs living in the north of kosovo closer to serbia were more inclined to boycott. them by the. single statement by politicians in serbia who are in power and those who are in the opposition this silence in itself is very significant because it's a statement in itself it is. the does not recognize course of all as independent state and therefore doesn't have to comment on any election that belgrade previously called on to be boycotted the serbs who live in the north of course who are geographically linked with the rest of the serbia founded 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 hand people who do live in enclaves scattered in in the central kosovo they did go and they did the independent liberal party has proclaimed. its victory in kosovo said that it was very satisfied with the number of who voted. that was ivana miller out of it a news editor in belgrade. now the next i use rocket site for the international space station has been raised into its launch position ready for blastoff this wednesday and will take a crew of three will not only have science work to do but will also deliver some seasonal gifts to those currently in orbit argues peter all over reports from the launch site in kazakhstan. the rocket itself arrives in baikonur in three different

parts and the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate every screw every pulse has to be checked and then recheck to make sure that it's correct now those putting putting in the work on the ground to make sure that's all good and safe know that they have in their hands 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 the 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 a republican or it's always fun 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 man crew they'll be going up in soyuz t.m.a. twenty consist of cosmonaut to me to become the last year of an astronauts pollen s. polly 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 he'll be removing one of the experiments that's on the whole of the i assess it also 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 baikonur of the latest business news is coming your way in just a few moments stay with us. for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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it's a business all prices have shot up after opec left production quotas changed at the weekend light sweet crude is over a percent higher today at eighty nine dollars fifteen the early winter and renewed optimism over a global financial upturn a boost in the markets goldman sachs predicts by roy. averaging one hundred dollars a barrel next year and rising further in twenty twelve bagatelle a pair of presidents of russian energy giant luko says that too optimistic. i think that the current price is already fair and comfortable for those producers and consumers the beauty of our analysts agree with experts is that the price next year will be at around the same level. that is eighty or ninety dollars companies looking forward to this part. of the quick look at the markets now nasdaq and the dow have opened up point two of a percent after the people's bank of china kept interest rates unchanged wall

street is now within reach of the two thousand and eight highs but general electric is down after a one point three billion dollars bid for british listed all services well stream. here it's being driven higher by miners and friends and the other top to gain is in london over three percent as the price of copper sold to record highs. russia is also in the black on the back of that strong price but they shed a little from morning highs. energy is the standout sector growth and gas from the hydro all driving games is the top blue chip today up over two percent on both main bourses that's awful but russia's biggest lender said profits this year could top two hundred billion rubles considerably more the bank official told. it's a western chief equity strategist that sums up the key factors driving the market forward. we had good news out of both china and the us on friday and that's still having an impact on the market today also looking at the world price we're moving

up towards the eighty nine level a barrel so that is also supportive and looking at the performances that we've seen today banks and industrials are leading we've seen a slight correction in metals which has been one of the best performing sectors this year but nevertheless it's banks that have taken a key role does today russia central bank says it may raise interest rates in the first quarter of next year economists believe are tied to monetary policy is inevitable as the focus shifts to fighting rising prices since with inflation very very the finance industry or the central bank it's likely from macquarie kind of a prospective to increase their level of eight point five percent being sent in for the actual interest rate of the banks to commercial sector march and it includes some. respects. from the french to believe transsexual course at the level of central bank interest rates. that's the latest this hour there are more

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christians. he's flintstones on t.v. don't come. this is our t.v. live from moscow at six thirty pm these are the headlines riot police are back in central moscow amid fears of fresh football sam violet's president in advance of his value two years any legal means to punish the perpetrators of the weekend clashes saying nationalist and racists slogans were heard that were heard during the riots are the greatest concern. of disturbing russian anti drugs campaign is setting out to shock the producers say it's the only way to stem the country's play

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