crime here in the region including the trafficking of arms people and drugs the most seriously of all is linked to the killing of serbian prisoners both during and after the cost of an war whose organs within harvested to be sold on the black market these allegations are made in a draft council of europe reports led by the human rights investigator dick marty the result of a two year long investigation in that report mr massey says that house in town she's links to organized crime date back to well over ten years from when his the nice a group became the dominant faction within the cost of an liberation army or the k l a the other major point to come out of this report is the level of blame that is heaped on the international community and western powers who lot he chose to ignore the actions of the k.l.a. and to not properly investigate the reaction from the international community has already started to come out to this reporter and the russian foreign minister

sergey lavrov has already given this response says the report prepared by the council of europe has very much worried this document must not stay confidential it's necessary to make it as widely available as possible the screams are very serious and if they're confirmed the equal crimes against humanity. and the serbian foreign minister has also made a statement in response to the allegations made in this draw of a council of europe reports this information is horrifying both russia and serbia have been trying to attract attention to it for some time the report shows what course of really is now and who governs it but many here in cost of a say that the allegations relating to the actions of the k.l.a. that are listed in this report on nothing new nobody will be surprised except for the fact that now we also have a sort of connection. that poor report makes between this at the. the prime

minister what is do you is the official level of blame attached to the international community in this report regarding their lack of action their lack of proper investigation of the actions of senior k l a officials that's all these analysts have been reporting on organ trafficking allegations from a cause of a well cause of ours the government has denied the claims calling them baseless and defamatory but the report to be published in full on thursday has really caused expressions of concern including from moscow for more on this now let's cross live to the world news editor for the subunit broadcasting corporation evolve the middle ground of which joining us live from belgrade thank you for joining us today so western countries have always supported the cause of our government and according to the report they were aware of statues crimes do you think should others be held to account on this as well. well this. issue of so-called yellow house as it's known in serbia or the human trafficking or human parts

trafficking has been in serbian headlines for a long time but it was virtually no one to everywhere else and the for example i was in the bay area last year doing a documentary and i asked virtually every single person that i interviewed be it a politician or a famous analysts about it and each and every one of them responded that although the allegations were. this whole. alleged crime was happening on albanian territory that they were not aware of it before they heard it by a media so it's a very very difficult process. prove which this whole set of allegations has passed throughout the years and i think this latest report is the first international recognition. that these crimes may have really happened so what happens next this

is very difficult to predict now so it would appear that by what you're saying here you are in the group to feel the suspected war crimes committed by members of the cause of the liberation army worry ignored while serbs were painted as evil oppressors is that fair do you think and is the attitude possibly shifting. when you see in every conflict there is a saying one when one man's. terrorist is another man's freedom fighters so in every conflict there are people who are not hearing to international law. geneva conventions so of course one side will say that it was portrayed down fairly now probably mainly inside will say the same kosovo government has rejected this report already so it's it's not extremely important whether it's fair what's important is that the facts finally come out all

right so the facts need to come out as you say but currently this probe is not a criminal investigation what is the likelihood do you think of a criminal case against patchi being launched based on this evidence. well basically when you have this love the. there was no international court that could prosecute these crimes so hague tribunal was set up for that purpose now it's about to expire it's. about to expire but luckily there is the international criminal court now and these allegations might be interesting to the prosecuted there well these allegations may be interesting to the prosecutor there but just days ago claimed a victory in kosovo as first parliamentary vote since the self-proclaimed nation split from serbia what will happen do you think to political reputation now. and

can he even be touched. well in kosovo i don't think it will at this moment significantly damaged his reputation although he was mentioned twenty seven times in as many pages of that report. it will not damage him as i said at this particular point in time maybe but if we consider the case of iran we spent the night one of the other former leaders of the k.l.a. and one of the leaders all. across the little baby and qualities his party didn't do well this during this election and it can be analyzed that this is because the d.n.a. has been accused and put on trial in the hague and that there were allegations linking him to war crimes so. i think that his reputation abroad will be seriously damaged by the report or not talking about this as we.

claim victory and cause of our recent parliamentary elections let's talk about motives here do you think it's significant that the draft report was published after the elections. well it's very difficult to say that because if i was cynical i might have said that the draft was published just before christmas holidays so it wouldn't attract much attention that's the other way to look at it you can look at that. both ways but it is significant that it has been published it doesn't back to when of course the timing can indicate that this was a way all. the international community putting pressure on the course of a government to be more willing to sit down and talk to the government in belgrade but. i think at this stage. it's purely

speculative purely speculative but let's talk more about the possible motives here the timing of this because of the reports being linked we have choose days hearing into the case of seven men suspected of taking part in an organ trafficking ring do you think there's a possible link here. you mean between the report and the trial that's right well there are bits of the report the bits that i've seen that mentioned human trafficking trafficking of parts of human bodies and of course there is a link but to be on is. was aware and is aware of the extent of the organized crime in the balkans and in kosovo and serbia and police has been very very active incorporating interpol on all these cases so basically this inefficiency of this report is that many of the things that.

interpol was aware about are now public right environment a lot of the richer the world news editor for the serbian broadcasting corporation like bahrain thank you. well you all with artie it's good to have your company today coming up for you in the program. that will never counted why already record high u.s. unemployment numbers could be closer to a more alarming figure also. show the true yeah still the most old factory in the country has been fixed and that great that there is this. fresh national strike has paralyzed greece with more rallies against sweeping new austerity measures now being held the government's plans to reduce the debt in order to meet the conditions set by an international bailout the unions triggered a twenty four hour general strike in reaction to newly approved labor reforms and

pay cuts to public servants in scope as a journalist at athens international radio believes people don't want to pay the price for corrupt politicians said 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 this 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. i mean time and water and messerschmidt member of the europe of freedom and democracy group says the eurozone was doomed to fail because it's impossible to maintain the common currency between such a harmonious member. well it's quite evident now that the years of failed currency and of course the danes having rejected this project three times and referenda is satisfied with doing serve 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 these other countries for europe so it's not only happiness that you see in my country 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

thereby creating an even bigger problem because the dept will just grow and grow and we see now that the eurozone is reacting very desperately introducing the suggestion on europe. of course we need to be solidarity in the 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 for 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 since the europeans don't want to have to go with the second line which is to admit that the euro is a failed currency basically needs 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 having it flying around in some cereal. just not only quarter past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and you can always keep up to date on our website with all the latest news and other stores and here's just some of what's online for you waiting for you at r.t. dot com right now a suspected spy that happens to be a young russian woman now released on bail in london but banned from her workplace in parliament plus. get an exclusive inside into the war in afghanistan from a man with an intimate knowledge of the country our military contributor. his blog and plenty of other stuff r.t. dot com. a moscow court has delayed its vote in the second trial of former oil tycoon

mikhail khodorkovsky the court announced that the decision will instead be announced in two weeks' time before c.e.o. is serving an eight year prison term for tax evasion and money laundering in the second trial he faces charges over the theft of billions of barrels of oil if found guilty will stay behind bars until two thousand and seventeen if the court clears. his charges he could walk free in less than a year the forty seven year old made his fortune during the turbulent ninety's through the privatization of state assets which made him russia's richest man. what a three person space crew are making last preparations for a five month voyage into orbit later today the soyuz rocket is set to blast off to the international space station with its new group of explorers a russian american and italian peter all of them ahead of the mission to discover more of their personal side including one life story. when it comes to space travel

clinical accuracy and pinpoint engineering of the norm that these his main concerns she's the wife of european space agency astronauts on this pauli and watches the soyuz rockets for their husbands safety depends on. the show that means i'll be fine and 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 sasha was a nurse at the space center and her father is a constant source 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 to his russian i mean talian there was a lot of things in common and so we decided to to join together and i wanted your life today we have a daughter a year and i have four daughters and they 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.s.a.'s 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 qanbar chair of it would be this russians first journey into space a very serious and focused individual 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 we. all be restricted of course i won't be doing any fully fledged search and there are a lot of exercises and karate started 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. everyone needs to go to school and learn the right doesn't know how to write so well we're going 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 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 waits for its crew. baikonur kazakhstan.

it is now just right now it's running twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. and from a trillion dollar conflicts to a squandered economy many believe the u.s. is going through its darkest time yet the federal reserve says slow economic growth is to blame for ongoing record high jobless figures but as christina for sol reports the numbers may in fact be mosque being an even harsher reality. 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 of 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 worse than the figures that show. 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 our daughter she says some days she can't even afford to buy food i want to work i want to go to college get a good story to be able to. take care of her myself if you were. 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 in 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. on a slightly lighter note new year is approaching so it's time to choose the tree that will take its place in central moscow in the kremlin's cathedral square. went to the festive ceremony to see the cutting down of the giant for a tree which will stand proudly in the capitol. and russia does new year and not christmas when families gathered together and give each other presents and in the russian winter festivities it is deferred tree that has the central place and there is no third tree to those more important than the one that's being cut down here today this one will go to the main square and the kremlin it will represent the trees for the whole of the country 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 marked the winter festivities snow many people are wondering they're saying if it's

so beautiful isn't it a bit of a pity because the down forestry officials are rich showing us they're saying it's so much your it would have had to be come down anyway over the next two years so no great loss there now that they've been cut down the fir tree will go on a little odd to see three towns near moscow and each town it'll be greeted by more people will be celebrating its presence they'll be more festivities as well eventually arriving in the kremlin there it will be decorated by thousands of christmas lights and hundreds of christmas decorations and will stay there for the next month. just a few moments daniels here with the business news. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. to

business moscow's my six exchange started trading as russia and china moved to scrap the dollar in bilateral trade the russian boars expects about three million yuan to change hands a day that's about four hundred fifty thousand dollars six president told r.t. who will use the new system. of trade is going to mean. it's going to be explored and probably reduces them in my opinion famous with you it would not be to be worth considering. it's going to be ineffective. for people to get between you and ruble so i think the demand will come gradually.

and h.s.b.c. says the move is a first step for the yuan to become an international reserve currency. it's a bit premature to talk about you on being every new reserve currency but. obviously some movement into that direction is seen in the market in the next step would be perhaps to have that currency is an instrument of investment this is something that cheney's going to build there are some selective deals that happen already now. on the stock markets now for the first time in a week shares fell across the board of the moody's want to cut spain's credit rating that's hit financials among the hardest but your bank is the top loser on the barclays has now hit over three percent in london but russia was bucking the trend this hour with the my six exhaust investment banks credit suisse morgan

stanley to value the ts as it buys a merger of moscow's two million balls is stocks have stabilized off the crude fell one percent to one hundred eighty eight dollars a barrel it comes as america reports rising gasoline imbed trees telecom is the top loser on them i say shares down around three quarters of a percent. point four percent blue color is nearly opposite. of slump thirty five percent for the first nine months of the year came in at around one billion dollars the company blames rising costs pushed by higher export duties taxes as well as losses from currency exchange. now some has bought australian uranium producer mantra for more than one billion dollars russia's nuclear holding is expanding its interest to supply reactors it's building in countries such as china india and turkey currently control forty percent of the global uranium enrichment market. staying with energy countries operating the

caspian oil pipeline from kazakhstan to the russian black sea ports are doubling the capacity of the project russian kazakstan have signed a deal to invest five point four billion dollars to boost deliveries to sixty seven million tons of oil a year this will secure export capacity for the growing production in the caspian region the project shareholders include chevron shell and any. that's the business for this so you can find more stories in our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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was a hotel as a treat. this is all your headlines not because of those a prime minister is accused of having being the boss of a mafia ring which dealt in the trafficking of human organs the same draft report from the council of your. blames the west for turning a blind eye to alleged crimes by the cons of a liberation army. greece is paralyzed by another national strike and a fresh protests over pay cuts public servants say that money is being used to pay for the mistakes of corrupt politicians. a verdict for russia's most famous prisoner. on the latest charges of oil theft is perspiring by two weeks with no

explanation. we're talking about russia's success in winning the precious right to host the world of football cup in two thousand and eighteen and what now lies ahead our interview with the chief executive behind russia's world cup bid. is coming up right now do stay with us. thank you very much for your time congratulations also on winning the right to host the two thousand and eighteen world cup can you just tell me what do you think was the key factor in helping russia to get over that finishing line and win the right to host the world cup well honestly there were many. factors i think among the key ones or the government support that we had all the way the support of the chairman of our government but the reports and technical excellence that were promised a fee for by two thousand and seventeen. trust the.