it's investigated and is due to be formally presented to the council on thursday in this report a mist of ossie says that mr touchy is connections to organized crime date back well over ten years when his the needs a group became the dominant factor within the cost of a liberation army the tate 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 costs of a war and as a result mr touchy in 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 in two thousand and eight and in this council of europe report mr monti makes a connection with that case and the alleged good 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 kosovo claimed victory in those elections but allegations of vote rigging have led to the other major policies that suv call for a recount so tensions running high in this council of europe reports causing even more waves to ripple across the already troubled region. alice hibbard reporting there are marco gaza trama british serbian alliance for peace us any punishment hushing touch he might face is nothing compared to what he's done to cost. he's faces 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 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 at the head of the k.l.a. which took over kosovo from serbia were responsible for and i guess that my expectation is this report will be hushed 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. and coming your way this hour here in r t. why now is the swedish politician decide to take up the case because of the abuses and

how this story. look so what might be behind sweden's appeal for the release of wiki leaks founder julian assange plus. i asked him how he's going to be when you're up in space. so good then make phone calls from the famous crazy it's just just as if he's here party discovers a love story at a cosmic drone as a space crew prepares to leave orbit don't miss it. i'm also court has delayed the delivery of its verdict in the second trial of me one hundred twenty seventh of december it had been due to be handed down on wednesday and the former ucas tycoons already serving eight year prison term for tax evasion fraud and embezzlement and he's also been charged with stealing millions of tons of oil and found guilty will stay behind bars until twenty seventeen if the court clear is how to cost the of the charges of walk free in less than a year the forty seven year old made his fortune jury the total of ninety's through

the privatization of state assets which made him russia's richest man. and of europe is bracing itself for a new wave of strikes and protests workers in greece are planning a nationwide walkout over stereo measures aimed at tackling the debt crisis anger is growing in the eurozone over the currency turmoil so voc is parliamentary speaker recently said there needs to be a plan b. and taste the problem worsens richard solich added the country may have to return to its national currency to protect its economy he says the nations that have been doing fine so far and up in trouble if they help bailouts the are indebted neighbors analysis of the institute of economic and social studies. here. mistake was switching to the euro in the first place. i don't think that the euro was the savior for slovakia i don't think any. scenario would wait us to work if we didn't

join during the eurozone 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 have been in the last years we have to save our old bones 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 ari's barings when we had to foot the bill for our own both 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 the people really don't understand why there should be a richer richer brothers. and here i carcass there from the institute of the comic and social studies in slovakia. the founder of the weekly swap sides julius sounds is 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 that wants a sanj over sex crimes allegations we can lease 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 visa master card and pay pal have banned divinations to it the u.s. hasn't charged the sands with any crimes but is widely behind the campaign against the whistleblower campaign or share award from justice for sars believe sweden is acting as a proxy for washington which badly wants to plug the wiki leaks. we think these are very very spiritual just 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 all of a sudden since the cables have been released and the government is getting more and more 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 a 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 about doris tradition to the us it's just a serious charge. and am a plea from the u.k. and the panel's parties are bad and told r t the case has exposed some major flaws in the european legal system. what i'm here for is to draw attention to the unjust the injustice of the european arrest warrant as such because under european arrest warrant look cool has almost no power to prevent extradition though they try to do is to get him back to sweden on a holding charge so they can try then issued id to the u.s. and of course the european tradition as a warrant is absolutely key to that because it's as i said it's a formality under this procedure to take him back to sweden so it fulfills the purpose it's an ideal tool for them and it illustrates this is the highest profile

case is actually happened under this arrest warrant procedure but it illustrates the injustice of the whole thing not just you know to mr soames with solely british citizens and european union citizens who've been extradited under this proceeding are. you watching our team and you know as keep up to date on our website with all the latest news and other stories here's just some of what's online right now at ardsley dot com i suspect that spotty that happens to be a young boy won russian woman released on bail in london banned from her workplace in parliament plus. get an exclusive inside of the war in afghanistan from a man who was there a military contributor you getting her shopping his blog and plenty of others actually dot com.

russia is hosting separate talks with north and south korean representatives and six party talks and the tension in the korean peninsula could be closer to resuming after pyongyang welcomed china's proposal to hold a meeting of hads of the delegations russia is one of the most vocal advocates for a peaceful solution to the current crisis on tuesday foreign minister sergey lavrov . his north korean counterpart agreed that the turmoil must be resolved through diplomatic means only then you petrov elector in korean studies from the university of sydney says the threat is not coming from north korea itself but from isolation imposed by foreign countries. north korea's pursuing the policy of missional so reliance but this policy has nothing to do with isolation at least that this is what north koreans play in north koreans fictionally invoice for investors and

welcome trade and exchange the problem is actually coming from outside north korea is subject to many international sanctions and this is been involved in one nine hundred eighty s. when the korean war was going on but nobody moved so i think that it's actually isolation in bones in rio by many countries particularly in the recent years and more demonstrate that it's a nuclear. program development convention so talking about isolation we blame north korea only for this unilateral decision but the more external a solution then if the travelex of korean studies from the university of sydney there. and now let's go back to one of our top stories the verdict for russia's former richest man who had a costly will not be announced until the twenty seventh of december and earlier it

was expected to be delivered in our wednesday well we can now cross live over spawn a diaper who has the latest for us and tell us more of the story. that has a court given any explanation for its decision. no not really decision was due to be delivered by the judge this morning at ten am moscow time but when the journalists arrived to the door of the court of the courthouse there was a note posted to the door saying the reading of the verdict is postponed until the twenty seventh of december the spokeswoman for the courthouse hasn't given any further details of why that has happened. now what prison term is holocaust you facing if he is found guilty. what prison term is he facing is how to cross the facing if he is found guilty. well mikhail khodorkovsky is currently serving an eight year term for the biggest fraud in the country's

history if he's found guilty then he would. stay in prison until twenty seven teams the prosecutors have demanded fourteen years in prison which running concurrently with his current term would mean that he would stay in prison until two thousand and seventeen if because of that of course the stone not guilty then he would walk free in less than a year next october october two thousand and eleven. well this case there has been attracting a lot of attention controversy as it's a very high profile case what more can you tell us about it. well indeed this is probably will loudest case in russia's recent history and this is the second case against me colker that of course he and his partner blood on live video they're charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of oil worth

twenty seven. billion u.s. dollars which that was allegedly stolen from a ucas subsidiary you can. company used to be one of the world's leading non-state oil producers and because of that of course he made his wealth as a c.e.o. of the ucas company it was it how it was privatized in the mid ninety's in one of those in the mid ninety's in one of those shady deals of. privatization and because of that a corpse keep is indeed believed by many to have stolen billions and billions of rubles but there are those who say that because of that of course he has been jailed for political motives all the time because he has been maintaining his innocence but at the same time. this second case.

confirms the stance that the authorities have been taking that he's been in prison serving his term purely for economic crimes or there are things for much and even bring us the latest as well as a background on the case started pouring there. and of the latest phase crew is set to head for they haven't slater today a russian american an italian will board a soyuz rocket and blast off to the international space station before their avid journey peer all over him at the intrepid explorers and discover a life story. when it comes to space travel clinical accuracy and pinpoint engineering of the norm that these on science his main concerns she's the wife of european space agency astronauts on this poorly and watches the soyuz rockets to their husband safety depends on absolute the sure that things will be fine and i am . really glad to see that we can let's all take them to international space station

a family with space exploration running through their veins the couple met while paolo was training near moscow there 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 some years ago and we figured out that nevertheless i will culture were fairly different she was russian i mean talian there was a lot of things in common and so we decided to to join together in a continual life today we have a daughter a year and a half old daughter and we're 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. all the italian will spend the next six months on board the i assess but paolo will be able to stay in touch with sasha and their young daughter through phone calls and video links and just because he's working in space doesn't mean every day life back home on earth comes to a halt i asked him how it's going to be when you're up in space eastern time so i'm

going to make phone calls and i'll pay my credit card so it's going to be just just as if he's here standing at one meets in ninety two when it's bully will be the tallest man ever to fly in a soyuz rocket so told in fact that a special seat had to be made for him. the mission commander is cosmonaut dimitri khandahar chair of it would 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 help. or be restricted of course i won't be doing any fully fledged search and there are a lot of exercise and karate started once breathing exercises some of them can be done in a confined space gravity. now says katherine 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 tiger and what it means to go to school and learn to write doesn't know how to write so what we're trying to. taking 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 play 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 track 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 waits for its crew peacher all over r t baikonur kazakhstan well with people flying into orbit and back every few months now our team looks at how it all began what our special report about the first man in space and just our

ten minutes time. 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 whole 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 secrets these sealed barrels still hold. keurig are any. place on our team. also take a look at some other stories from around the world here on r t twenty seven

suspected asylum seekers have the killed after they were both smashed apart on the rocks near in this trail you know island forty two survivors have been plucked from the water the wooden vessel carrying dozens of people started have been heading to christmas island which houses the tension center rescuers are combing the area. at least one hundred people have been injured and forty detained in rome as tens of thousands turn out in anger at climate winning a problem and for a confidence vote protesters set fire to cars as riot police used tear gas they're only survived by three votes in the lower house after securing this necessary backing from the upper chamber the premier has recently face a string of accusations including corruption parties with underage girls and mafia links. leading to this event whose hunger strike. plight of prisoners in cuba has been given the european prize freedom of thought guillermo farinas will not however be collecting the award in person as authorities granted

him permission to leave the island the psychologist and journalist spent more than eleven years in prison himself and famously once a hunger strike for one hundred thirty four days. for her and us wars to a squandered economy many believe the u.s. is going through its darkest time yet at despite obama's best efforts on employment statistics have been on a relentless rise since two thousand and eight but as christine reports the numbers may bad 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 no changes 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 my life he now stays with friends like a college degree good it's 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 worst in 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 car it is really hard to take care of margaret she says some days she can't even afford to buy food i want. so we're going to go to the movie cars give a good story to be able to. take care of her if you will. 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. green is here with the latest business news so we hear that of my six to start a direct robel you want trading today that's right tell us why well it's been big news since morning and mainly that's done to reduce the use of the dollar and bilateral trade now the russian boars expects about three million u.s. to change hands per day that's about four hundred fifty thousand dollars our correspondent in a coaching about was f m i six for the opening. anish leave the volume expected to be quite small just to give you sound example today after the first hour of trading here at moscow my six stock exchange only twenty nine deals were down amounting to some eight hundred thousand dollars but still this is an important stop as this

market will be the first one to offer a direct trading between russia and china and also it falls the governmental strategy to broome old ruble to become one of the international reserve currencies meanwhile it is also an important move for to worry the development over bilateral trade relations between russia and china now russia is the world's the biggest energy exporter and china is the biggest energy consumer but still all the transactions are not being done in dawlish so this move will simply fly trade relations quite significantly and as many analysts here point out it also sounds a signal the doula and the role of dollar as an international reserve currency has to be diminished. a look at the russian markets in a moment but let's switch to let's go to asia where japan's nikkei stock average close like in the red by report showed a week of growth for the country's manufacturing sector the hang sanctioned almost

two percent energy stocks were lower due to a drop in energy prices and the culprit in the u.s. dollar spain leads european stock markets lower wednesday after moody's investor service warned it may be downgrade the country's credit rating others could see as losing a quarter of a percent this hour and the dax the shedding over half a percent banking stocks are on the downturn barclays slips two and a half percent in london and daughter bank down one point six percent in frankfurt and here in russia the r.t.s. in the light of the trading lower at noon on the back of a global markets down to zero dollars swaying triggered by the federal reserve to expand the quantitative easing program and a g.m. banking stocks are taking the biggest losses p.t.b. rosner and. they're about losing the most just under a percent of the look or there's a monkey gainers in the mines it's up twenty two percent gas pump is sitting less than five percent. question the oil major attack near has reported

a thirty five percent decline in profit for the process nine months of the year the next total came a came in at around one billion dollars the company blames wising cost pushed by expertise in texas as well as losses from khan's exchange. and that's all i have for you this hour join me at twenty past the hour for more business update or not.

they live not only next to the border of the gulf of egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they're responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they're ready to take any risk.

to come back here with c.n.n. here's a look at the top stories a draft report linking costs of us prime minister with a sad. nation and organ trafficking during the ninety's war s. fueling tension in the region the paper said to be officially released on thursday also claims the international community has ignored suspect the boer crimes in the province for years. be announcement of the verdict in the second trial of russia's most famous prisoner in the health care cost it's been postponed until the end of the month the former tyco faces more time behind bars if found guilty of the massive oil theft. and here we go again a fresh wave of protests we've across europe people are taking to the streets of

greece in opposition to your stereo measures and you're looking at live pictures as the demonstrations gain pace on the continent so stay with us for the way us on this developing story here in our team. and axtell we take a look at the life of the first ever man in space your garden our special report. most twenty seven nineteen sixty. drone of aircraft in the skies over moscow region . rescuers look for a training jet did it disappeared from radar screens. as soon as they spotted the crash site it was clear nobody could have survived. the aircraft was piloted by flight instructor blood unicity organ in judy good got it the first ever made.