the nine hundred ninety nine cost of the wall using the old system to then be sold on the black markets this report was led by the human rights investigator dick marci and is due to be formally presented to the council on the day in this report's midst of ossie says that mr touch these connections to organized crime date back well over ten years when his the needs a group became the dominant factor within the cost of an liberation army the k l a and this report was in fact commissions because the full member a chief prosecutor for war crimes out the hague akala del ponte a said that during his or her investigations she was prevented from properly looking into the actions of the senior k l a members and in this report mr marson is one critical of the international community for largely ignoring the actions of the paying the cost of the war he says that they instead chose to place

a premium on i quote some degree of full time stability in the region and as a result mr touchy and those loyal to him have played a dominant role in kaufman politics for the past decades the leaking officer pulled it also coincided with the beginning of a legal proceeding in a place she looked court house into an alleged case of who could trafficking that was discovered by the close of the police in two thousand and eight and in this council a year because mr moxon make the connection with that case and the alleged good how the sting of the k.l.a. aid into the music and all of this comes as tensions are already running high in pristina barely twenty four hours after the historic elections that the first general election to take place in the region since his unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight mr tutt she's a democratic party of course a very plain victory in those elections been allegations of phone tree. rigging

have led to the other major policy there she. was he felt so tensions running high in this leaked council of europe reports causing even more waves to ripple across the already troubled region marco gases from the british serbian alliance for peace says the price toci may pay is nothing compared to the brutal crimes committed he's face is to put it mildly a difficult time but i think the time he faces is nothing compared the time that those living human beings who were kept in concentration camps and were systematically caught up and then sewn back up again after organs had been removed from them in a series of episodes till they will find me begging to be murdered rather than continually chopped up and let live in that condition i'm sure that the anything that happens to him will be mild compared to what he has grown it's a group of the head of the k.l.a. which took over kosovo from serbia were responsible for and i guess that my

expectation of this report will be patched up as much as it is possible to be because so many nato politicians have invested so much interest into this abysmal awful criminal state this banana republic in the heart of europe which has nothing better to do than to traffic in human beings organs drugs and women that's possible for you. in washington the senate is set to hear debate on a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia the white house says they'll be no christmas break for the lawmakers until the pact is ratified for more on the political bargaining on the hill artie's garbage akiane has more. in terms of substance there is nothing that can stop the new start from being routed fight key questions concerns whatever senators had during the course of the past eight months of hearings were all addressed i do think that we have as i mentioned done our homework with regard to the new start treaty and that it is. in

a good situation to ratify it in the slam duck session it has the unanimous support of the country's military many top officials former and present have testified in favor of the treaty now several republican senators say the votes are there and the new start will most likely be ratified by the end of this week it seems the only thing that could be in the way of the ratification are partisan games political bargaining which have nothing to do with the treaty itself and its content speaking of bargaining at some point the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell came out and said republicans won't want any democrat initiatives if they don't extend tax cuts for the rich so you get a sense so the expand the will or bailing culture on capitol hill and the substance of the pretty whether it's good or bad for america has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington to the point when it could become a threat to the u.s. national security a world without buying u.s.

russia arms control treaties is a more dangerous world the obama administration is going out of its way to have the deal ratified the president's arguably major foreign policy chief meant is on the line not only does the start cut nuclear arsenals of both countries by a third it's also seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers russia has cooperated with us on critical issues to our national security like iran sanctions transit to supply our troops in afghanistan working on securing loose nuclear materials and the relationships and trust that are built for. the new start treaty spill over into a whole host of other national security issues that are of vital importance to americans these shoe off trost than america's reputation globally was addressed by the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee every senator has an obligation to question of themselves over the course of these next days are we

a credible partner can other nations rely on us what happens when the president and states to go sure it's a treaty and he comes back here and the rest of the world sees that treaty bogged down not in the substance of the treaty but in the politics of the day and if the treaty does get bogged down this year chances are the new senate which is going to be more republican and obama hosts dial will put off the new start indefinitely maybe for months or even years to get a check on our t. washington d.c. nuclear nonproliferation analyst max bergman explains why the treaty significance means it will be definite it will definitely be approved it confirms that the u.s. russia relationship will remain on track i think the second thing is that it maintains the nuclear stability that we've had some see end of the cold war importantly the start treaty maintains and monitoring and verification measures

that allow both the u.s. and russia to check out what each other is doing in the nuclear arena and it enables progress to continue to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in the world so i think it's a vital treaty it's one of the priorities that the administration has set forth and it's too important for us national security for russian national security of a global national school for the security of the world for republicans in the senate to hold this hostage and i think they won't i think this will be the one piece of legislation that actually gets massive bipartisan support although you know nothing is certain until it's certain and and there's still a ways to go but i think i think i will feel confident that this is actually going to get ratified in the next few days. stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way. a russian girl accused of spying whilst working for a british and paint has been released on bail i've spoken to her and i'll bring you all the details of sharing the program. and we go behind the scenes of the coming

launch that will take the next international space station crew in orbit. but first wiki leaks founder julian assange has been granted bail by a british court but will remain behind bars pending an appeal by swedish prosecutors he's due to face another hearing in the next two days stockholm wants to extradite a sondre connection with allegations of sexual assault on two women charges he denied reagan's chief prosecutor canceled a previous arrest warrant saying there was no reason to suspect that he'd committed an attack despite mounting mounting financial pressure the wiki leaks site is still operating and continues to publish confidential us diplomatic cables journalist afshin rattansi says the most essential thing is that the website contains operator . one thoughts that he'd won the day it won this tale up like a sheep like his mother that's the cool devil if the goods and then it sends out that they've appealed the decision to grant prosecution service here automatically has to act on the swedish authorities decision and now it seems like he's one bail

but he's going to be in jail for forty eight zero is very confusing situation how ironic that will be about justice in the british school when that he thinks so much about injustice around the world i think what's really important though is that the daily leaks information is ruled out and the next week the leaks is supposed to be about the bank of america so we'll hear a lot more about business news from wiki leaks regardless of judea the size is predictable as a. campaigner sharon warred from justice for assad says that swedish actions are suspicious and amount to a form of backdoor extradition to the us. we think visa very very spirits charges we think the allegations are very weak we noticed that the chief swedish prosecutor looked at these original charges and looked at the evidence and said there is no case to answer here for and immediately dropped the case so why is it now lol all of a sudden since the cables have been released and the government is getting more and more the u.s.

state department other governments around the world are getting more and more embarrassed and these cables are getting more and more revelator e why now is the swedish politician decide to take up the case of these accused of the accusers and how to push this through we just think this is a backdoor race tradition to the u.s. it's just a serious charge. and more british justice served on tuesday bello's been granted to the young russian woman arrested in london almost two weeks ago on suspicion of spying twenty five year old katia's out to leave better who's been now facing deportation worked as an assistant to a british m.p. mike hancock the u.k. so she used her position to gather information on the country's nuclear facilities or he's a lawyer and it spoke to her. it seemed quite an unexpected decision as you seem to be shocked by the whole process very relieved obviously to be back but she says she's really had no time to even around to sort of think about things and think about what the implications are this is not over. yet it doesn't seem she has been released but she is very strict bail conditions she told me that she wasn't

able to meet with anybody without the express permission of the home secretary so she wants to meet with anyone give any interviews talk to anybody she has to apply in writing through her lawyers to the home office and then with five days notice and then they will decide whether or not she is allowed to meet with them so really conditions that amounts to house arrest she's also reportedly not allowed to have any contact with her boss mike hancock the member of parliament or indeed anyone that she worked with during her time in parliament she says that she's also going to do her best to comply with the terms of. anybody and she still only this time that i spoke to her at the time before that she's done absolutely nothing wrong she says that she was just doing her job working for mike. and she also said that time that she had no evidence presented really quite difficult for her she and

her lawyers are trying to appeal against something that they they really don't know what they're dealing with. perhaps not straight away because she did sound extremely tired when i. carry on this fight against her deportation. or was detained almost two weeks ago now so she spent two weeks in a detention center some distance from. the original news that we received was that she was to be deported on the basis presence in the u.k. wasn't conducive to the public good with the grounds of her deportation she'd been working inside the houses of parliament. and as a parliamentary assistant to. my kind of member of parliament an area in the south of england for two and a healthy is so she'd been issued with a parliamentary posse to undergo the security checks in order to get hold of that this is a. tool with no legs she's blown she's russian she wears short skirts and high heels according to her colleagues and she certainly does on the occasions. so this

is perfect fodder for tabloid headlines and sure enough they didn't they didn't have a chance. so it remains to be seen what's going to happen in the development of this story but. it is going to stay in this country on bail for at least a short time and then we'll have to see what happens. can always find more of the stories we're covering our website along with all the latest news blogs and analysis here's what's right now on. a cold blooded from siberia that's getting a warm reception at home. and shopping bonus you won't forget one store owner goes all out to attract new customers. russia will buy at least one mistral helicopter carrier from france the countries

are currently agreeing on the price which will be the largest military deal between russia and a nato country. as the details of this long negotiated transaction. at this point it really does seem very this deal is going to be sealed at least that's according to russian officials moscow looks set to bind the mistral produced by france this is a huge. helicopter carrier ship it's also cabled to transport dozens of tanks and other transport vehicles the negotiations on this deal have been continuing for around a year and first washington has concerns on a nato member state selling. to russia you know with the restart of relations between moscow and washington the situation seems to have changed previously the french prime minister who's visited the moscow just recently he said that there are no you know obstacles remaining in this deal and it's incompletion moscow wants to

buy at least one mistral and may also get the license to produce more all of its territory now it's all thought just one mistrial costs around eight hundred million euros dollars although the final price for this deal still hasn't been decided but russian officials say they expect that the final details and the documents will be finalized on this deal before the end of this year. slovakia the most recent country to convert to the euro is having a rethink about whether it should stick but the currency parliamentary speaker richard c. look says they need a plan b. in case after switch back to their old money he added that slovakia needs to shore up its financial defenses if the european debt crisis worsens later in the country's premier he had said that bratislava has never considered dropping out when denied talk about reverting to the former currency but you're right harp is an analyst for the institute of economic and social studies says at the time there was no need to switch to the single currency. i don't think that the euro was the

savior for slovakia i don't think any catastrophic scenario would wait us if we didn't join join the euro zone let's look at the czech republic a very similar country with their own currency and they are doing pretty well today in slovakia many painful structural reforms happened in the last years we had to save our old owned banks in the year two thousand and one and it cost us almost ten percent of g.d.p. so now this like people don't really understand why they should send money to irish banks when we had to foot the bill for our own banks by ourselves there is also an issue that. all the talk about the european solidarity doesn't work in slovakia you have to mention that the slow people are the poorest one in the eurozone so people really don't understand why they should save their rich brothers. turning out of the most stories making headlines across the globe nearly one hundred people have

been injured in the romans tens of thousands of demonstrators protested against prime minister silvio berlusconi winning a parliamentary vote of confidence riot police had to use tear gas to try and stop the angry crowd from clashing with authorities narrowly survived by a margin of three votes in the lower house after securing the necessary backing from the upper chamber critics say the prime minister's support has been weakened after a series of scandals and budget cuts. a fire at a clothing factory near the capital of bangladesh has killed at least twenty five people and injured more than one hundred witnesses say the blaze broke out on the top two floors of the building at lunchtime when most workers were out of the office soldiers from a nearby military district helped in the rescue operation and investigation into the cause of the fire is underway. the next space bound rocket now stands poised for wednesday's blast off russia's soyuz will bring a crew of three a russian an american and italian on the twenty sixth mission up to the international space station or he's peter all of our reports on the rockets journey to its launch site in kazakhstan. hereward baikonur the final preparations underway

ahead of the launch of the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rockets which will carry cosmonaut to me. and astronauts. and katherine coleman up to the international space station for the rocket has received a blessing from a priest from the russian orthodox church in line with tradition here at baikonur that's not the only tradition they have here many many traditions and superstitions if you will to be carried out before the launch one of those traditions as the the astral to visit the museum here and by can also they get to look at what those who have gone before them back from space. museum they also sign a foolish with the picture of the soyuz t.m.a. on it and writes a little message of a memory of what they were about to do with this mission now there's been plenty of former astronauts and cosmonauts say it's a lend their support to the mission crew. for a liable matter what the weather is it doesn't matter what you know it's just

a very robust strong system that can withstand just about anything nature can throw at it and we've seen you know it's been slices the sixty's and it was a rare exception or so every time and some of those who have been up there before say it's those little things that can make life hard when you're up in space i think probably the biggest challenge for me you know i think it sounds kind of trivial but was the lack of variety of the food after you know you know one month it's ok two months is ok and then you know three months you know exactly how many brownies are in the desert have been you know exactly how many heaters are in the meat tray. because it's all the same so that's how it's looking here at the moment in baikonur the cosmonauts and astronauts are currently tucked away so they can catch any sniffles all colds or coughs it's very cold there in baikonur of course if they do get sick they can be pulled from the mission and the whole team of. coleman would be removed from the mission and replaced with the crew so they

desperately trying to make sure that that doesn't happen they're all talked up nice and warm and that's how it looks at the baikonur cosmodrome peter all of a bike and. and up next fast strains trade in energy we're talking about russia's ties with its northern neighbor finland our interview with finnish president tara holland and coming your way after a short break. it was.

her. thanks. thanks. thanks thanks. president hollande thank you very much for being with that's today so you've just stepped off a high speed train line between helsinki and st petersburg how do you think this connection will change the alliance between the two cities i think the impact these people will come closer to each other of course the many so good now will. the country which is the most popular among the e.u. countries to give the recess but don't think that that's just one point they're now the point is that it has to be very popular already now to be said for that matter that's of the feeling of but now we think that perhaps we can you will still i will always keep the sense from feeling that we have played better mr peters book and or the fight culture of aggression what russia's w t o membership should accelerate

business with the neighbors what do you think are some of the benefits for the finnish economy so we know because we have worked up to date between. finland russia so we would hope of course that russia could be and i'm sure we will be a member. because then certain issues will go away from our table and so it's it's more clear to work under the same big us in the circumstances we are keeping the fingers that everything will happen very soon you've emphasized environmentalists conversation and energy efficiency as the key platform for cooperation between russia and finland why i think so that given the other countries huge energy sources it's no idea do. you use them without any control because. if you think the whole planet the hope when it we we have really we need to put resources in and see so we sort of thing quarterly

now for the next generation seven and try to be as effective as possible the second thing is of course that the price of the engine might be higher will be certainly higher in the future so it's better already now to will be effective we have to see also the nearby energy resources and i notice that. all around the world also those countries which of the classical resources over energy have been interested to work with us to make new ideas how to get to a nearby energy sun and wind sea and whatever you might mention and that's also something what we know well so-called clean tech or the new energy green technology and we're interested to share our experiences but then london russia have well developed strategists in the arctic and present inventive has

a strong platform for cooperation with norway now in your vision were what is your country's sustainable strategy in the arctic. it's extremely important because also the nature and nature in the in the very north east are very sort of char it's very sensitive i think there's the two different aspects one nice for us not so or arctic i mean they're both exceed a region which will be of course covered with ice or snow in the future we hope but then the very north very north where you have already good cooperation with no great hero present invades of wish to revive the spirit of helsinki and you have mentioned images proposed to european security what do you think are the strong points of this particular trait the standpoint is that europe used to be a very long time divided divided politically it was the cold war time. i know we all know that that's not cool we would like to see the united europe but it's intimidating. to see the common european security is welcome and i

am bigger opinion your current us have already discussed all the both us and now. this there always c.e. meeting in the past but not all sold told us that it's not already there i think you have people who are predicated by those of the simply a cacs very seriously though. these ideas in a beginning early into you have mentioned finland being popular with issuing visas and yes it does issue over one million visitors to russians every year and plus there is high speed training connecting our two baltic cities could finland be the first country to offer a visit free regime to russian citizens under certain circumstances so i think that the aggressors really were already involved in european union be suppose he thinks so that the call me soon and then the end unanimous decision for. your country at least its basic when the person has now become very practical very pragmatic that

all of these conditions what's are needed in order to take the research away would make is beautifully done so we take them practically and directions take it practically it means that step by step we don't say anymore if we say what if there be such a leader. why we still use the reserves i hope that it should be so so perfect methinks so practical and no not at all two months waiting work you would know so and we hope to serve you ask would ask well present helen with thank you for this interview thank you very much especially for thank you thank you. thank you thank you. thank you you. thank.

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draft report from the council of europe claims that for the last a decade kosovo's prime minister has been behind a mafia like structure responsible for organ trapping trafficking weapons and drug smuggling the kosovo government says the allegations are an attempt to discredit the liberation army and no christmas cheer for u.s. lawmakers until a new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia gets ratified democrats are pushing for the republicans to agree to the nuclear power before they lose the majority in the senate twenty eleven if the treaty if it would reduce the nuclear arsenals of both nations by a third. and the founder of wiki leaks is bailed by a british court but his supporters fear the u.s. is trying to get its hands on him sweden wants to extradite a son in connection with the allegations of sexual assault charges that he did it. up next part one of our special report on the lives of four men working under extreme pressure in

a smuggling hotspot. before i was a worker in a tunnel. then i dug my own tunnel. i took my tunnel at the start of a blockade when the embargo was imposed on gas and when the hamas seized power.