asked that he stole twenty seven billion u.s. dollars worth of oil from the country so here in central moscow outside the home movie queue for today we expecting to hear the verdict on that so i. want to tell you this is probably russia's highest profile trial attracting a lot of attention of course and some tourists say it's a politically motivated one can you tell us more. police many suggest of that so the heart of course the trial did that the reason why he was imprisoned was actually because he was showing his opposition to the government he himself pleads not guilty and he's luers are saying that his guilt has not been proved and he's also recently said that he is if what it takes to prove his point is to serve a life time in jail then he's prepared to die in jail to show that the he clings to what he believes in. the background of the so called you to stay so let's push this

report by my colleague diapers for. once russia's richest men he's now russia's most prominent prisoner serving and eighty attempts for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history in a second case against him the prosecutors are demanding fourteen years in prison for him and his business partner but only because if baggy dated to their first conviction they are charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tonnes of oil bourse twenty seven billion u.s. dollars from a subsidiary company of yukos. you supporters say he didn't break any laws for their cause q was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who used to tell him got. everything he did was within the law it was the blame or the laws that had dissolved loopholes and them the former tycoon rose to great wealth thanks to one of the world's. just non-state oil companies ucas the company grew from the state

selloff in the one nine hundred ninety s. when government assets were being hived off in often shady circumstances it became soon russia's fastest growing oil producer political task for themselves who wasn't connected to the country's economy or the nations world that wasn't part of their charter for the company to work or russia's benefit song would bring in others who started using state property for their own good. but the path to success had a dark side to a political associates well a defunct guilty of a number of murders the most high profile death being that of the mayor of the of two guns and oil town in the year olds in one nine hundred ninety eight he had insisted that hugo's a local taxes in full and was killed for their cause he has always insisted he is innocent of the fraud charges which put him behind bars ever since his arrest in two thousand and three ignoring his past many in the west believe it's

a political case and who there is a victim who's suffering for funding opposition parties and pursuing his own energy policies the russian authorities say you can is purely a victim to the economic crimes of its management if the prosecution has its way because of course he will not be free of guilt twenty seventeen but if he's found not guilty he would walk free in less than a year. r.t. moscow. i'm coming your way or the sour here in our team on employed and i am ok i wanted. to sell my house get rid of my four so it's just been a really a very the most difficult experience i've ever had in my life are to meet some of those hard hit by america's lack of jobs and discover the harsh reality behind the statistics of plots. against him. school and learning to write doesn't know how to

write so. arty tops the latest crew to leave for orbit today don't miss. out there's a storm brewing over caso after a draft report from the council of europe link prime minister. with serious human rights abuses including organ and drug trafficking the paper also claims the international community has ignored suspected war crimes in the region for years the full document will be presented on thursday parties alice had reports. my minister has she was identified in the council of europe report as the head of the major albanian mafia like crime network it's claimed by the report that it's the major dominating presence in all aspects of organized crime in the region including all human and drug trafficking and most shocking of all of the killing of serbs both during and off the one nine hundred ninety nine the cost of in war using the

old system to then be sold on the black markets this report was led by the human rights investigated marci and is due to be formally presented to the council on thursday in this report midst of ossie says that mr touchy is connections to organized crime date back well over ten years when his the need group became the dominant factor within the cost of liberation army the eight and in this report mr marty is highly critical of the international community for largely ignoring the actions of the k l a jury in the cost of the rule 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 of this report also coincided with the beginning of legal proceedings in a pristina court house into an alleged case of organ trafficking that was discovered by the calls from police it's two thousand and eight and in this council

of europe report mr monti makes a connection with that case and the alleged harvesting of the k.l.a. in two thousand and all of this comes as tensions are already running high in pristina 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 tutt she's a democratic polity of course of a flame victory in those elections but allegations of vote rigging have led to the other major parties that seem cool for a recount so tensions running high in this council of europe reports causing even more waves to ripple across the already troubled region. i was here reporting there and marco bassett from the british serbian alliance for peace says any punishment touching touch he might face is nothing compared to what he's done to cost of. his face is to put it mildly

a difficult time but i think the time he faces is nothing compared to time 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 expectation of this report will be patched up as much as it is possible to be because so many 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 from ruinous wars to squander it economy many believe the u.s.

is going through its darkest time yet and despite obama's best efforts i'm point statistics have been on a relentless rise since two thousand and eight but it's christian phrase our reports the numbers may in fact be masking the truth. the numbers by any stretch are staggering we just got in the government's monthly jobs report it really was a disappointment on all counts hope for some holiday cheer at the end of this long tough year but instead the unemployment rate last month rose to nine point eight percent nine point eight percent is the unemployment rate our various hourly earnings you know changing by some estimates that rate which translates to fifteen million people is actually closer to twenty percent or thirty million people without a job the bureau of labor statistics conducts a survey of households to calculate the rate and considers people unemployed if they don't have a job have actively look for work in the prior four weeks and are currently

available for work people exact smith who we met at the unemployment services office he was using the computers there to try to find a job to sell my house get rid of my car so it's just been a really very the most difficult experience i've ever had in my life he now stays with friends like a college degree good eats good skills good experience but no income since his unemployment benefits have run out i don't know how many others there are like me but there may be quite a few so it's probably a lot worse to me the figures are true. among those not counted college graduates who can't find their first job those who haven't sent out a resume in more than four weeks and those who simply would never be surveyed because they don't have a landline or a permanent residence that includes washington d.c. resident monica who did not want to give her last name out of work for several

months she so far been in eligible for unemployment benefits and has not yet looked for a new job she and her young daughter aliya live in a friend's basement amassed a car it is really hard to take care of margaret she says some days she can't even afford to buy food out. one of the we're i want to go to college to get a good story to be able to. take care of her with. in the city where the laws of the land are made a closer look at those left behind just one of many heads that have not and most likely will not be counted the unemployment line it is an image that came to embody the great depression the time when franklin delano roosevelt took office as president of the united states so here at his memorial it is a permanent reminder of that time in history but it is a history that for many americans is starting to repeat itself reporting in washington christine for. our team. and staying with us peter lavelle's latest

fiery dition of cross talk turns to immigration a word there is immigration there's anger. where there are large concentrations of immigrants it has been a net gain for these states ok when i do believe you're going to learn is to say but as a body why argue against that how do you pass beyond doubt and this is interesting i know you are well versed in them bob how to react to that sounds pretty convincing if any of that is valid maybe some of it is and i could certainly give you a laundry list as long as my arm out the net loss. on me with illegal immigration. and i don't know where brother doing us a lot of issues on this although you are. the founder of the wiki leaks website julian assange just staying behind bars in

britain for at least two more days despite a court order to release him on bail the ruling has been appealed by sweden the country the once it's over sex crimes allegations we can leaks has published hundreds of thousands of confidential u.s. documents causing an outcry in washington the website has faced repeated attempts to bring it offline and companies such as master card pay pal banta nations to it the u.s. hasn't charged the sanj with any crime why we believe the hind the campaign against the whistleblower campaign or share award from justice for songe believes sweetness acting as a proxy for washington which badly wants to plug the wiki leaks. we think these a very very spear is charges we think the allegations of 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 drop the case so why is it now all of a sudden since the cables have been released and the government is getting more and

more as the us 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. take up the case of the soup used all the excuses and how to push this through we just think this is about it or extradition to the u.s. it's just a serious charge. and you can always keep up to date on our website with all the latest news and other stories here's just some what's online right now at our top. i suspect that's by that happens to be a young blonde russian woman is released on bail in london but banned from her work place in parliament lots. to get an exclusive insight into the war in afghanistan from a man i was there our military contributor he again kershaw his blog and plenty of others at our two dogs.

the latest space crew is said to have four they have in slater today a russian american and an italian will board a saudi is rocket and blast off to the international space station before their epic journey appear all over him at the intrepid explorers and discovered a love story. when it comes to space travel clinical accuracy and pinpoint engineering of the norm but these main concerns she's the wife of european space agency astronauts on this poorly and watches the soyuz rockets to their husbands safety depends on. the show that. i am. really glad to see that we all take it that international space station a family with space exploration running through their veins the couple met while paolo was training near moscow sasheer was

a nurse at the space center and her father is a constant instructor i met my wife in star city actually during training some years ago and we figured out that nevertheless our culture were fairly different to his russian i mean italian there was a lot of things in common and so we decided to to join together in that wanting your life today we have a daughter a year and i have four daughters and we are very happy follow married his russian bride while she was visiting him in houston a spur of the moment decision after the couple realized that they couldn't stand being apart from one another. the italian will spend the next six months on board the i assess what paolo will be able to stay in touch with their young daughter through phone calls and video links standing at one meeting ninety two we will be the tallest man ever to fly in a soyuz rocket so tall in fact that a special seat to be made for him the mission commander is cosmonaut dimitri qanbar chair of it will be this russians first journey into space very serious and focused

individuals he plans to use any downtime on board the i assess to train for his black belt in karate not an easy task without gravity to help. all be restricted of course i won't be doing any fully fledged search engines there are a lot of exercises and grow out they started once breathing exercises can be done in a confined space gravity. says catherine coleman makes up the crew this will be her third trip into space and this time should be bringing along a passenger as a reminder of home a son's cuddly tighen everyone needs to go to school and learn to write doesn't know how to write so well we're going to space. taking a good look tokens into orbit is one of many traditions associated with launches from baikonur strange that even in the most high tech of environments that the human belief in fate they such a major part moving at

a snail's pace so as not to cause any damage to the spacecraft the fully constructed rocket moves its way towards the launch site and even at this stage there are traditions and superstitions at baikonur the placing of koreans on the truck in front of the train is supposed to bring good look to the mission on the launch pad and ready to go the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rockets now wait for its crew. baikonur kazakhstan alfie will flying into orbit a bag every few months now or looks at how it all began what our special report about the first man in space yuri gagarin just over an hour stand here on r.t. . chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. and became the first ever man in outer space. hero of the

soviet union one of the best known persons in the world. all his thoughts were focused on flights to could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life. what happened in those few seconds. and what sequence these sealed barrels still hold. keurig are in. place when our team. and slovakia the most recent country to convert to the euro is having a rethink about whether it should stick with it the country's parliament says there are needs to be a plan b. in case of european currency crisis worsens richard solich added that slovakia may have to return to its national currency to protect its economy countries that have been doing fine so far and having trouble they help bail out their indebted neighbors analysis at the institute of the konami social studies you are

a carpet says slovakia had no need to switch to the you were in the first place. i don't think that the europe was the savior for slovakia i don't think the scenario would. work 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 that in the last years we had to save our old owned banks in the year two thousand and one and it goes 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 smaller people are the poorest in the eurozone so people really don't understand why they should leave their richer richer brothers. let's

now take a look at some other headlines from around the world at least one hundred people have been endure down forty detained in the romas tens of thousands turned out in anger at prime minister berlusconi winning a parliamentary confidence vote protesters set fire to cars as riot police used tear gas their only survived by three votes in the lower house after securing the necessary backing from. the premier has recently faced a string evacuations including corruption which parties with underage girls feelings. leading this event strike highlighted the plight of political prisoners in cuba has been given the european prize for freedom of thought. this will not however be collecting your ward in person as authorities have not granted him permission to leave the island the psychologist and journalist spent more than eleven years in prison himself and famously went a hunger strike for one hundred thirty four days. what we're up to date now

and we'll bring you to the world of business next with criminal count in just a few moments. hungry for the food we've got to eat first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in hotels. only toto keep a promise it is congress moto nice twist never told. no but. rather soon to say yes slovyansk on in soldiers historical. culture in the city. schools most men do as a good job until close to strength or less to tropicana her job.

to business good to have you with us prices in russia next year may go up faster than expected the central bank is concerned the poor harvest will push up the cost of food and therefore inflation above the official target up six percent as if to prove the point the price of buckwheat that staple of the russian died has jumped thirty percent in the last week. selling in the shops at one hundred roubles per kilogram which is roughly the same as for something. and let's look at the markets now asia stocks are trading in the red on wednesday the nikkei is zero point sixteen percent lower weight by a report showing weak look for the country's manufacturing sector banks saying is shedding point seven percent energy stocks are lower due to a drop in energy prices and a recovery in the us dollar petro china is around two and a half percent lower in hong kong. and russian markets ended tuesday's trading session in the blot them isaacs had a late surge to go back over six hundred points although analysts predict

a topsy turvy week live next finished higher on both courses while we're all snapped and look all put in the red that shares down around eight percent. spirit bank has been one of the main drivers of the market this week following use its profit this year could be stronger than expected it's also announced its intention to list global depository receipts in london receiving a grant or from u.b.s. believes the russian banking sector offers excellent prospects for investors. who think that the banking sector offers the most appealing growth prospects with the banking sector is really unique as it offers very high growth visibility in the short term and in the medium term in the short term earnings growth will be driven by the recovery in lending growth rates stabilizing stabilizing margins and also declining provisions and potentially our provision right backs in the medium term the story of the russian banking sector is the story of

a sector that is under penetrated as far as lending growth are concerned and the side that remains. which gives or petunia to your industry leaders such as bt b. for example two of our two actors as the sector consolidate of. the three wise men started the tradition but while the only bought one present each it seems this year russians will be buying them for the multitude spending this holiday season is expected to be up ten percent on last year according to citibank returning confidence in the russian economy means people feel they have more cash to splash last year pastries were the most popular items apparently this year see the return of the teddy bears and other topics. that's your business and i join me at twenty past the hour from one.

this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military according to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas will come back to desiccation by instructs young couldn't you know and they're strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the

army and then dressed in military fatigues. to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet u.s. aid continued to flow. to the wealthy british style it's just not time to. time. margetts. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the.

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow a look at the top stories the announcement of the verdict and the second trial of russia's most famous prisoner has been postponed until the end of the month former tycoon faces more time behind bars if found guilty of mass or. a draft or of linking possible prime minister with assassination or in traffic during the ninety's war is fueling tension in the region the paper said to be released on thursday also claims the international community has ignored suspected war crimes in the province for years. and the new group is ready to head to the international space station a russian american an italian billboard is so use rocket blast into orbit later on

wednesday. when next an r t we're talking about russia's success and winning the precious right to host the world football cup and twenty eighteen and what now lies ahead our interview with the chief executive behind russia's world cup bid. is coming right up. for you very much for your time congratulations also on winning the right to host the two thousand and eighteen world cup you just told me what do you think was the key factor in helping russia to get over the finish line and win the right to host the world cup. factors among the key ones or the government support that we have all the way. to support the chairman of our government budget and technical excellence that were promised a fee for by two thousand and seventeen. trust the.