human and drug trafficking and most shocking are full of the killing of serbs both during and after the nine hundred ninety nine cost of in war using the office into them 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's midst of ossie says that mr touchy is connections to organized crime date back well over ten years when his that a needs group became the dominant factor within the course of an liberation army the k l a 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 a new order 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 massey 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 election to 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 policies 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. reporting over the course of all authorities have denied the claims in a draft report. the document still drew widespread concern the foreign ministers of

russia and serbia commented on it after talks here in moscow. says the report prepared by the council of europe has very much were addressed this document must not stay confidential it's necessary to make it as widely available as possible the screams are very serious and if there are confirmed the equal crimes against humanity i also hope the journalist who first published accounted for the report will be persecuted. because this information is horrifying both russia and serbia had been trying to attract attention to it for some time the report shows what course of our really is now and who governs it with us marco gases from the british serbian alliance for peace says that any punishment touchy might face is nothing compared to what he's done to cause of his 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 cut up and then sewn back up again after organs had been 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 the 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 of 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 then to traffic in human beings organs drugs and women that's possible for you r.t. is coming to you live from the russian capital and coming your way later this hour . ask him how he's going to be when you are up in space.

so you can then make phone calls they make so it's. just as if he's here artie discovers a love story at a cost madrone space group of pairs to leave but. also coming up in just a few moments. to look through yet still the most beautiful poetry in the country has been fixed and decorate this here is that. greece has been gripped by a new wave of protests over the government's a sweeping austerity measures aimed at reducing debt and fulfilling its bailout obligations a general strike spain called after the country's socialist government passed a highly controversial bill which slashes the salaries of public servants helen scopus journalist at athens international radio believes people don't want to pay the price for corrupt politicians fed by the e.u.

. people are demanding that the burden of this financial crisis not be put on their shoulders greece is the only country up to now at least in the eurozone that its financial crisis is not because of the collapse of the banking system but because of the political system the corrupt political system the people that i have talked to feel as if the european union is rewarding politicians corrupt politicians and and bankers and they're punishing the people they feel as if the european union was not able to deal with this crisis on its own be and that's why they called in the i.m.f. the international monetary fund to get involved a lot of people have the sentiment that it's best that they return back to the drachma they feel as if they've lost their sovereignty as a nation they feel as if the government is not making the decisions for the future of their lives and they feel as if they need to be autonomy and start building a better future for themselves or let's get some more insight into europe's crisis

that's now talked to more than messerschmitt a danish m.e.p. and a member of your freedom and democracy group and thank you for joining us so despite being an interview member denmark has kept its national currency now in the wake of the debt crises protests and strikes across the eurozone i i would suppose that the people in your country must be feeling fairly happy they kept up with the crowd. well it's quite evident now that the years of failed currency and of course we'll be having rejected this project three times the referendum is satisfied with regrettably though. federalist parties in my country are still insisting that the danish taxpayers have to contribute to the bailout so that we are even though we are free of the euro we are to pay for the deficits in the countries of europe so it's not only happiness that you see in my country where you bring me to my next point because i know germany is footing a lot of the bill when it comes to these e.u. bailouts now the danish finance minister said recently that stronger eurozone

economies shouldn't help bail out the weaker ones as u.s. . so why shouldn't they support each other though in these difficult times aren't we all part of some european community here while the euro as a construction has created this problem because it has destroyed the southern europeans countries competitiveness and the bailout now is just prolonging and that by creating an even bigger problem because the dept will just grow and grow and we've seen now that the eurozone is reacting very desperately introducing the suggestion on euro bonds of course we need to be solidary going to european union but we also need to be economically realistic and the realism of the euro zone is that it doesn't work it hasn't been working for forty years and there are at least several non harmonious regions within the euro which makes it impossible to maintain a common currency so i think that even the strongest federalist will have to either recognize that we need to have one hundred percent of governance from brussels and the europeans don't want to have to go with the second lie which is to admit that

the euro is a failed currency so you're saying that the eurozone doesn't work the euro is a failed currency you may not be the only person saying this because a top official in slovakia recently said the country might have to go back to its national currency you think that would be a wise move. well i think it's the only chance and the faster the better the thing is also for the sound in european countries that the euro because of the high currency rate has been a huge disadvantage to the competitiveness for instance in greece also an island in spain and portugal the two coming countries through through to ask for money at the at the e.u. fund so it's evident that the euro has holes these problems and therefore we need to find an alternative in the alternative is that when you have different economical policies within the union which are the facts right now then you must have different currencies as well you cannot go with a common currency and don't have the same government the same financial policies and that's the exact approach of this year that the federalists want to use the

euro to mainstream europe so that they will have one faction one tax one government and everything has to be counted so if i may just jump in here for a moment if i may just jump in here you're saying that it's the euro that created this crisis but surely it would be irresponsible economic policy that surely to blame here for the euro emphasized this i mean. further to the fact that the currency rate of the euro makes it impossible for the sound european countries to to export their products and thereby makes it impossible for them to get rid of their unemployment rates which are exploding these days so the only solution for these countries is to get out of the euro to get them to get back their national currencies and evaluate the value and i am running out of time here but very briefly we've seen the violent clashes today in greece that we've seen over the months in athens and other countries like spain and portugal as well what needs to be done to appease this anger should we say the blame lies at the top or should the middle man keep on footing the bill here i think we basically need to be need to be frank we need to say that if europe should have

a common currency we need to have everything governed by brussels the europeans don't want that and therefore a common currency is not realistic we need to get even the economical policies back into the real world and not have been flying around in some serial growth. all right morton danish m.e.p. live for us in strasburg thank you. for the verdict in the second trial of. won't be announced until the twenty seventh of december the court was to deliver its conclusion in the second trial of the former you cost tycoon earlier today artie's diary a pushover has more. we're right here in front of the court has where the reading of the verdict was due to storage at ten am moscow time this morning however when the journalists turned out they found a note on the door saying that the reading of the verdict has been postponed until the same time ten am on the twenty seventh of december the spokeswoman for the

courthouse couldn't give any more details she confirmed the postponement but didn't couldn't explain as to why this happened we have heard that of course he is currently serving an eight years term to the biggest tax fraud in the country's history this is the second case against the health of that post he and his partner blood will live with if they are charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of world worth twenty seven billion u.s. dollars you can see is one of russia's loudest pieces in russia's recent history we will have that of course you once russia's richest men made his fortune as a c.e.o. of you could company the company that he used to run and that used to be one of the world's leading non-state boyle companies the company's assets were acquired in one of those awful sheedy deals of mead ninety's when during the privatization period

when big companies were often sold by the state for a fraction of what they were worth we have heard that of course he ever since his arrest in two thousand and three on fraud charges maintained his innocence the public opinion has always been divided there are those who believe that he suffered for his political ambitions and there are others who believe that billions indeed worse stolen and therefore the punishment is just however the russian authorities have always maintained that you could became victim to the economic crimes of its management that was a diary a pushover porting for now russia is hosting separate talks with north and south. korean representatives six party talks on the tension in the korean peninsula could be closer to resuming this after pyongyang a welcome to china's proposal to hold a meeting of heads of the delegations russia is one of the most a vocal advocates for a peaceful solution to the current crisis on tuesday foreign minister sergei lavrov and his north korean counterpart agreed that turmoil must be resolved through

diplomatic means only learned it better off in korean studies from the university of sydney says the threat isn't coming from north korea itself but from isolation imposed by foreign countries. north korea's pursuing the policy of missional self-reliance but this policy has nothing to do with isolation at least that this is what north koreans north koreans pick she invites for investors and. really an exchange the problem is actually coming from outside really is subject to many international sanctions and this is been in nineteen when the korean war was going on but nobody moved so i think that it's actually isolation imposed and more real by many countries particularly in the recent years now more demonstrate that it's

a nuclear. nuclear program development convention so talking about isolation we can blame north really only for the you know which will decision the more external a solution. let's listen in for a lecture of korean studies from the university of sydney where you are with r.t. coming to live from moscow and you can always keep up to date on our website with all the latest news and other stories and here is just some of what's online waiting for you right now is. a suspected spy that happens to be a young russian woman is released on bail in london but banned from parliament plus . you can get an exclusive insight into the war in afghanistan from a man who was there our military contributor. plenty of others are.

the latest space crew is set to head for the heavens later today a russian american and italian it will border soyuz rocket blast off to the international space station before their epic journey artie's peter all of the intrepid explorers and discovered a love story. when it comes to space travel clinical accuracy and pinpoint engineering of the norm that these on sasha's main concerns she's the wife of european space agency astronauts on this pauli and watches the soyuz rockets to their husband safety depends on after the show that things will be fine and i am. really glad to see that we can let them take it that international space station a family with space exploration running through their veins the couple met while paolo was training near moscow and 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

years ago and we figured out that nevertheless i will culture were fairly different his russian i am italian but there was a lot of things in common and so we decided to. join together and continue our 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 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 standing at one meets in ninety two when isp only will be the tallest man ever to fly in a soyuz rocket so told in fact that a special seat 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 exercises and grow out the static once breathing exercises some of them can be done in a confined space gravity. now says care. when 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 the one who needs to go to school and learn to write doesn't know how to write so well we're trying to space. 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. baikonur kazakhstan. with people flying into orbit and back every few months now see back at how it all began you can watch our special report about the first man in space that's later today. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever in outer space. to slowly jr one of the best known persons in the world. his thoughts were focused on flight

. 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. your regard. and that's coming up a little bit later here on r.t. today now we're coming to you live from moscow let's check out some other headlines from around the world this hour and thirty eight people have been sixty wounded in a suicide blast at the mosque in southeastern iran and local officials stated that a second the suicide bomber was arrested before he could detonate his explosive vest it comes a day before a major religious holiday for muslims unlike most of iran. where the attack happened at the largest sunni community and has long been a hot spot ethnic conflict. twenty seven suspected asylum seekers have been killed

after the boat smashed apart on rocks near an australian island forty two survivors have been plucked from the water the wooden vessel carrying dozens of people was thought to have been heading to christmas island which does house a detention center rescuers are now coming the area. well its job may be simple to bring a little sparkle to moscow's long dark winter but getting it to do that is not so easy especially when it's over thirty meters tall needs chopping down and transporting to the kremlin for russia's new year's celebrations he got his following the events. and russia at this new year and not christmas when families gathered together and give each other presents under russian winter festivities as the fur treated has the central place and there's no surgery to those more important than the one that's been cut down the day this one will go to the main square and the kremlin will represent the trees for the whole of the country.

there's a commission that travels around forestry districts and selects the tree the pine tree they select is issued a passport stating its height weight to be its trunk and the forestry district where it grows the trees they tended to for several years with people monitoring its growth and feeding it to the cutting down of the tree is a real ritual in itself as it was being cut down a little surrounded by these fairy tales traditional russian characters which mark the with the festivities but actually one thing to do sort of those different what you usually see is the presence of some modern space age characters and i think you'll be seeing a lot more just next year next year is the fiftieth anniversary of your guards journey into space and the people who are organizing this they wanted to mark out those well i don't be a lot more sort of rationed as i say coming next year many people are wondering does saying if it's so beautiful isn't it a bit of a pity because the forestry officials are rich showing us they're saying it's so what you're it would have had to be cut down anyway over the next few years so no

great loss there. you go abroad and reporting the targeting to the world of business arenas here. big news today that's right to be my success started direct rule you are trading that's massive news why is this it is massive well mainly it's to reduce the use of the door and trade between the two countries the russian wars expects about three million us to change hands per day that's about four hundred fifty thousand dollars and our correspondent in a courtship of i was at the my xix for the opening ceremony and this leave the volumes i expected to be quite small just to give you some example today after the first hour of trading here at moscow my six stock exchange only twenty nine deals were done amounting to some eight hundred thousand dollars but still this is an important stop as this market will be the first one to go for a direct trading is between russia and china and also it fulls 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 being done in dualist so this move will simply fight straight relations quite significantly and as many analysts here point out it also sounds a signal the doula and the rule of do all this an international reserve currency has to be diminished. and the president of my six ribbit i'm going to go on explains to r t who is who he expects to make most use of the new ruble yuan trading platform. the market just wants me to seek out the market will work how convenient it is. we deduce what market makers are doing in providing

a client base will will come in the first of its big travers'. probably reduce or some of them in my opinion financial institutions would know that we could be was considering as far as i heard before i was to raise money new on them it was probably a couple of more people who are thinking about this could be an effective tool for the fall for people to get between you and google so i think the demand will come greater with. let's look at the markets european stocks a snap a seven day rally on wednesday after moody's investor service warned it may downgrade the country's credit rating london's footsies losing point three percent the dax is shedding over point seven percent of its decision over spain's banking stocks on the downturn barclays slips two and a half percent in london bank down one point six percent in frankfurt and russia's r.t.s. m i six have trading higher noon but energy and banking stocks are mostly lower cross telecom is the top loser on the minds it's with shares down around three

quarters of a percent to sharing point four percent oil is up nearly a percent. well some of them has acquired australian uranium produce a mantra for more than one billion dollars russia's nuclear holding company is expanding its interest to supply reactors it's building in countries such as china and india and turkey currently controls forty percent of the global uranium enrichment market. countries operating the caspian oil pipeline from kazakhstan to the russian black sea to the russian black sea port doubling the capacity of the project russian kazakhstan have signed a deal to invest five point four billion dollars to boost deliveries to sixty seven million tons of oil annually this will secure export capacity for the growing production in the caspian region the project shareholders include chevron shell and any. that's all i have for you this hour joining us at twenty past the hour for

more business news here in. to. touch her is that so much ally people at hearing of all their little. difference they have a dream the development relief and education for alien minors act is languishing in the u.s. senate is this bill common sense. in

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it's now a half past the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. headlines now a report linking cause of i was prime minister to assassination. during the one nine hundred ninety s. war. troubled region. said to be officially released on those they also claims the international community has ignored suspected war crimes in the province for years. the announcement of the verdict in the second trial of russia's most famous prisoner. told the end of the month before my tycoon faces more time behind bars found guilty of massive oil. and here we go again

a fresh wave of protests sweeps across europe thousands of people are taking to the streets of greeks and opposition to unprecedented austerity measures. coming up peter lavelle it's about the relative merits all of the so-called dream act in the u.s. does it promote immigration sanity or reward a lot of cross talk is next. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle they have a dream the development relief and education for alien minors act is languishing in the u.s. senate legislation most americans agree with is this bill commonsense immigration policy or is it a sham rewarding those who break the law.