using the old system to then be sold on the black markets this report was led by the human rights investigated and is due to be formally presented to the council on the day in this report's midst of ossie says that mr touch he's connections to organized crime date back well over ten years when his but a new group became the dominant factor within the cost of an liberation army the tate a and this recall was in fact commissions because the form of a chief prosecutor for crimes out the hague akala del ponte tace that the jury 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 morsi is highly critical of the international community fully largely ignoring the actions of the k l a jury because of the war he says that they instead chose she to place a premium on i quote some degree of stability in the region and as

a result mr touchy in those moyle to him have played a dominant role in kaufman politics for the past decades the leaking of this report also coincided with the beginning of the legal proceedings in a pristina court house into an alleged case of organ trafficking that was discovered by the calls from police and in this council of europe before mr monti makes a connection with that case and the alleged good harvesting of the k.l. aid in t.v. channels that and all of this comes as tensions are already running high in place tina barely twenty four hours after the historic elections that the first general elections take place in the region since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight mr ted she's a democratic polity of course a very claimed victory in those elections but allegations of vote rigging have led to the other major policies that super cool for a recount so tensions running high in this heat council of europe reports

causing even more waves to ripple across the over ready troubled region. marco gases from the british serbian alliance for peace says the price tag she might 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 to time that those living human beings who were kept in concentration camps and were systematically cut up and then sewn back up again after organs that we removed from them in a series of episodes till they were finally begging to be murdered rather than continually chopped up and let live in that condition i'm sure that anything that happens to him will be mild compared to what he has drawn 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 expectations this report will be hushed 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 u.s. senate is set to hear debate out a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia the white house says they'll be no christmas break for lawmakers until the pact is ratified or he's got an h.g.v. on has more on the political bargaining on capitol hill. in terms of substance there is nothing that can stop the new start from being ratify 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 so now several republican senators say the votes are there in 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 are dealing 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 nuestro 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 a 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 tile 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 adolescent back to bourbon explains why the treaty significance means 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 new core stability that we've had since the end of the cold war important of 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 and for global national school for the security of the world for republicans in the senate to hold us 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 we 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 coming your way. a russian girl accused of spying whilst working for a british am page has been released on bail i've spoken to her and i'll bring you. the program. and we take you behind the scenes of the upcoming launch battle bring the next international space station crew into orbit. but first wiki leaks

founder julian assange has been granted bail by a british court but will stay behind bars pending an appeal by swedish prosecutors he due to face another hearing in the next two days stockholm wants to extradite a songe in connection with allegations of sexual assault on two women charges he denied sweden's chief prosecutor cancel the previous arrest warrant saying there was no reason to suspect that he'd committed an attack despite mounting financial pressure the wiki leaks site is still online and continues to publish confidential us diplomatic cables journalist option retards he says that it's essential that the information keeps flowing from the site everyone thought that he'd won that they won this bail application like his mother that's the cool example 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 and how ironic that will be but just as in the british school when that he takes so much about injustice around the world i think what's really important though is that the daily. 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 g.-d. it is just ridiculous as a. campaigner sharon award from justice for assad your organization says swedish actions are suspicious and amounted to a form of backdoor extradition to the u.s. . we think visa very very spirit 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 law 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 two keys of the accusers and how to push this through we just think this is about to raise tradition to the u.s. it's just a serious charge. more british justice served on tuesday bail have been granted to the young russian woman arrested in london almost two weeks ago on suspicion of spying twenty five year old party is actually a veteran who's now facing deportation and worked as an assistant to british m.p. mike hancock u.k. says she used her position to gain information on the country's nuclear facilities or his lawyer and that has more. it seemed quite an unexpected decision she seemed to be shocked by the whole process very relieved obviously to be back but she says she's really had no time to even tighter rounds of think about things and think about what the implications are this is not. yet it doesn't seem she has been released but she is and 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 her not to 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 that presence in the u.k. wasn't conducive to the public goods that those were the grounds for 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. quite cool with no legs she's blown she's russian she wears short skirts and high heels according to her colleagues and she certainly dates on the occasions . and so this is perfect 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. you can always find more information on our website r.t. dot com along with the latest news blogs and analysis there's what's online right now. a cold blooded that's getting a warm reception at once a syrian home. shopping bonus you won't forget at one store it was owner goes all out to attract new customers. russia will buy at least one mistral helicopter carrier from france the countries are currently reaching agreement on the price which will be the largest military

deal between russia and a nato country. has the details of the long negotiated transaction. at this point it really does seem that 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 mistrial and may also get the license to produce more on its

territory and now it's all thought to 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 be your own maybe rethinking whether it should stick with the currency parliamentary speaker richard soulik says they need a plan b. in case they have to switch back to their old money he added that slovakia needs to shore up its financial defenses if the european debt crisis worsens later their country's premier said that brought us lava has never considered dropping the euro and there night talk about reverting to the former currency but there i carve is an adolescent 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 scenario would. work if we didn't join join the euro zone let's look at the czech republic they are very similar country with their own currency and they are doing pretty well today in slovakia many painful structural reforms that 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 obvious banks when we had to foot the bill for our own bags by ourselves there is also an issue that. all the talk about the european solidarity doesn't work in slovakia we have to mention that the slow people are the poorest in the eurozone so people really don't understand why they should save their rich brothers. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe nearly one hundred people have been injured in rome is 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 anger you crowd from clashing with authorities berlusconi 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. 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 of the top two floors of a building at lunchtime when most workers were out of the office soldiers from a nearby military district helped in a rescue operation and investigation into the cause is under way. the next space bound rocket now stands poised for wednesday's blast off russia's soyuz will bring a crew of three one russian and american intaglio into the twenty sixth mission to the international space station peter all of our reports on the rockets journey through 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 many many traditions and superstitions if you will to be carried out before the launch one of those traditions as the astronauts and cosmonauts visit because not museum here would buy could also they get to look at what those who have gone before them they brought back from space. museum they also sign a ford with the picture of the soyuz t.m.a. on it and rice 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. liable to 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 in nature and

you know it's been slices the sixty's and it was a rare exception or service 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 it was the lack of variety of the food after you know you know one month it's ok two months it's ok and you know three months you know exactly how many brownies are in the desert we have been you know exactly how many heaters are in the meat. because it's all the same so that's how it's looking here at the moment in baikonur the coast minolta astronauts are currently tucked away so they can catch any sniffles so cold so it's very cold. 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. coming up next fast trains trade in energy we talked about russia's ties with its northern neighbor film would our interview with the finnish president hollande i'm coming your way after a short break. it was. thanks. thanks. thanks.

thanks. thanks. president hello and thank you very much for being with that today so you've just stepped off a high speed train line between house thinking and st petersburg how do you think this connection will change the alliance between the two cities i really impact these people we are closer to each other of course the many so good now. the country which is the most popular among the e.u. countries to give the recess but i think that that's just one point but now the point is that it has to be very popular already now to be said for that matter that's of the feeling but now we think also that perhaps we need to be certain you will also i will see pieces from finland reapplied because mr peters book and or the fide culture of russia well 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 a lot of trade between finland and russia so we would hope of course that russia could be and i'm sure we will be a member of the deputy because ben 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 to. reuse them without any control because. if you think the whole planet the whole planet we we have really we need to put resources in and see so we sort of think well you

know for the next generation seven and try to be as effective as possible the second thing is of course that the price of danger might be higher will be certainly higher in the future so it's better already now to when to be effective we have to see also the resources and i have to notice that. all around the world also those countries which are the classical resources over energy have been interested to work with us to make new ideas how to get to a nearby energy sun 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. experience but finland and 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 french are it's very sensitive i think that there are three different aspects one nice for us not so or arctic i mean they're both big see the region which will be of course covered with ice or snow in the future we hope but then 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 to me that is proposed to european security what do you think are the strong points of this particular treaty the strong point 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 recently made a video proposal to see the common european our security is well come to an

ambiguous opinion you're quite used have already discussed school for both us and now late this they're always see even meeting in mass but not all sold told us that it's not already there at the european core predicated by those of the same to a cac thirty interest either of. these ideas in the beginning of the interview 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's 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 support the ex so that the call me soon and then the end unanimous decision where. your country is used is basically when the person has now become regular very practical very

pragmatic that all of these conditions what's are needed in order to take would be such a way to make it beautiful 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 is the obesity the. why we still used to be first i hope that it should be so so perfect metrics so practical and no not at all to meit's waiting walk you in there so and we hope to serve you ask would ask what present helen with thank you for this interview thank you very much especially for thank you thank. you thank you. thank you you. thank.

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a draft report from the council of europe claims that for the last decade kosovo's prime minister has been behind a mafia like structure responsible for organ trafficking weapons and drug smuggling the kosovo government says the allegations are an attempt to discredit the liberation army. no christmas cheer for u.s. lawmakers to a new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia ratified democrats are pushing for republicans to agree to the nuclear pact before they lose the majority needed to pass it in the senate. and the wiki leaks founder granted bail by a british court but his supporters fear the u.s. may be trying to get him in their custody sweden wants to extradite giuliana sondra connection with allegations of sexual assault charges he denies. coming out max kaiser and stacy herbert explore how the wiki leaks revelations are affecting the world of big business kaiser report coming up next.

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