the cost of an war whose organs within harvested to be sold on the black a 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 niece of group became the dominant faction within the cost of the 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 report and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has already given this response. to the report prepared by the council of europe has very much where it dresher 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. and the serbian foreign minister has also made a statement in response to the allegations made in the straw of the 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 about it will be surprised except for the fact that now we also have a sort of connection. that poor report makes between this activists and the prime minister what is new 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 the senior k l a officials artie's others who were there reporting on organ trafficking allegations from cause of our well because of our government has denied the claims calling them baseless and defamatory but the report to be published in full on thursday has already caused a widespread expressions of concern and world news editor for the serbian broadcasting corporation eve on that middle ground of which says there's always been double standards over kosovo in every conflict there is a saying one when one man's. terrorist is another man's freedom fighters in every conflict there are people who are not hearing to international norms and geneva conventions so of course one side will say that it was portrayed unfairly now probably way inside will say the same kosovo government has rejected

this report already it's a very very difficult process through which this whole set of allegations has passed for the and i think this latest report is the first international recognition that these crimes may have really happened luckily there is the international criminal court now and these allegations might be interesting to the prosecutor there. live from moscow you're with r.t. coming up for you in the program. that will never be counted why already record high u.s. unemployment numbers could be closer to a more loving figure also. i asked him how he's going to be when you know it's. still seven didn't make phone calls you know they make crazy so it's going to be just just as if he's here discovers a love story at the cosmodrome that's

a scary screw prepares to leave for. a fresh national strike has paralyzed to greece with more rather use again sweeping new austerity measures being held meanwhile a leading credit rating agency has warned it may downgrade spanish bonds citing heavy debt refinancing and banking problems that i speak to have been scopus and athens based journalist and r.t. stress our savior who is in spain for us and hello to you both helen i'll start with you you're in. in the middle of what appears to be tens of thousands of protesters there it's the middle of a twenty four hour national strike organized by trade unions tell us what's happening now where you are. well today strike is the seventh general strike this year following tough reforms needed to receive this one hundred billion euro i.m.f. bailout loan now police have said that there were about fifteen thousand people taking place in the march protesters started fire fires at the finance ministry and

luxury hotels in seems like a mosque where outside the parliament building. the protesters attacked former conservative minister course these evacuees they punched him they kicked him and they were shouting that they were going to beat all of them up i assume they mean the politicians now there are reports in the news there are problems there is rioting going on outside the polytechnic university in central la. there was. reports of violence in athens we're also seeing footage there of certainly violence amid the protests tessa let's turn over to you now spain also braced for strikes now receive some bad financial news give us the details on that if you will. that's right to spain where the largest economies and be a european union has been hearing reports that moody's rating agency may downgrade the country's rating so of course for such a big economy this really has been studying jitters down the in the stock markets

all over the world in how to address these such fears the spanish government did impose a new austerity measures just last week the third of december and included in these new measures are cutbacks in key jobless benefits and that means that about four hundred twenty six euros for people whose unemployment benefits have run out will not be renewed since february this has really hurt the local people they've really protested against this because on that day when it was announced air traffic controllers are staging massive walkout and this has resulted in the closing down of airports in spain so this is just the beginning of the massive protest stage for saturday as they're planning to stage it on saturday the eighteenth is expected to be massive now this is not just a demonstration for the new measures imposed but this is in addition of these new in measures are in addition to the fifteen billion euro a certain measure already passed in may of this year as well as talks that the country will increase the retirement age from sixty five to sixty seven wages of

civil servants have been caught so a lot of discontent certainly in a country that used to provide more than half of the jobs in europe is now dealing with a twenty percent unemployment that's about five million people without jobs there is a lot of discontent and we can expect a big protest on saturday because it would be the first protest through there certainly are as you were saying in the recent walkout that spain's main airports are in effect more than two hundred thousand people stuck at the airports let's go back to heather now in athens two thousand and ten has you know a lot of chaos where you are and in other major cities in europe as well some of what are the people so on happy about. all the people are on happy about the fact that first of all this is not just a financial. i says this is a social crisis we're talking about high unemployment we're talking about a two tiered justice system meaning that we don't see politicians and bankers being persecuted prosecuted excuse me but we see the people being not only prosecuted but

also persecuted. we see that. the measures that are being taken are living in poverty and unemployment and they see no light at the end of the tunnel they see no future for themselves they see no future for their children and they really cannot how can i say digest what the leaders are telling them what the officials are telling them it's either this or bankruptcy. about to you strikes and demonstrations of austerity measures have been held in many e.u. countries spain ireland portugal italy among others do you think it's the price for being in the euro zone is it just becoming too high. it certainly seems that way for the people because they're they're seeing the benefits employee benefits caught they're having to deal with having no jobs and these measures they're saying that it's not their fault then why it why is it the ordinary people who have to pay for the fault of what they see as the fault of the banking system of the whole eurozone

area even the u.k. we just saw protests in the u.k. violent ones coming from students because. these will now be passed on to the students rather than the government so they're seeing their painful painful cuts that really hurts them to the core and here what's interesting in spain is that the part of the a certain measure is that the national lottery thirty percent will be sold to the private sector and now this lottery has been around for the last two centuries and for the first time in a very long time they're seeing that it's called el gordo the fact what they're saying that it's not so fat people cannot spend on little things that they need to survive and the last three in scheme is just the way of escaping the problems that even that is having its problems so the year end may be ending but certainly for european countries across the euro zone including the u.k. they're not seeing an end to this economic crisis just yet so this is a very high price definitely for ordinary people having no jobs not enough money to make ends meet certainly a high price all right. helen scopus from athens international radio thank you both

. well messerschmitt remember all over europe of freedom and democracy group says that the eurozone it was doomed to fail because it's impossible to maintain the common currency between such non-home own us members. well it's quite evident now that the year is a 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 four years and there are at least several. years 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 lie which is to admit that the euro is a failed currency. live from moscow this is r.t. 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 right now at r.t. dot com a suspected spy that happens to be a young blonde russian a woman released on bail now in london but banned from her workplace in parliament

plus. 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 others at r.t. dot com. a moscow courthouse delayed its verdict in the second trial of former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky the court announced that the decision will instead be announced in two weeks' time the former c.e.o. is an eight year prison term for tax evasion and money laundering second trial he faces charges over the theft of billions of barrels of oil are found guilty will stay behind bars until two thousand and seventeen but if the court clears up the latest charges he could walk free in less than

a year the forty seven year old made his fortune during the turbulent ninety's through their property state assets which made him russia's richest man. while 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 from the international space station with its new group of explorers a russian and american and an italian parties peter all of them at them head of the mission to discover more of their personal side including one love 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 absence of the show that means i'll be fine and i am. really glad to see that we can 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 to his russian i mean talian there was a lot of things in common and so we decided to to join together in a one thousand year 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 s.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

khandahar 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 help. i will be restricted of course i won't be doing any fully fledged sessions there are a lot of exercises in karate static ones breathing exercises some of them can be done in a confined space and no gravity. nasa's 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 sons. and what it means to go to school and learn to write doesn't know how to write so well we're. 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 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 it 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 wait for its crew. baikonur kazakhstan now people fly into orbit and back every year few months nowadays so r.t. looks back at how it all began you can watch our special report about the first man in space yuri gagarin in just over 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 in. place. well russia or is hosting separate talks with the north and south korean representatives resuming the six party negotiations over tensions on the korean peninsula moscow is one of the most vocal advocates for a peaceful solution to the current crisis on tuesday foreign minister sort of a laugh it off and his north korean counterpart agreed that the turmoil must be

resolved through diplomatic means only john yang also welcomed china's proposal to hold a meeting between the heads of delegation to the six party talks leonid put off a lecturer in korean studies from the university of sydney says the threat is not coming from the north itself but rather from isolation imposed by foreign countries north korea's pursuing the policy of national self-reliance but this policy has nothing to do with isolation at least that this is what north koreans play in north koreans actually invited foreign investors and welcome really an exchange the problem is actually coming from outside north korea is subject to many international sanctions and this ancient been involved in the one nine hundred fifty s. 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

of demonstrate that it's a nuclear. nuclear program development intention so talking about isolation we can't blame north korea only for this you know which will decision the more external a solution. for a lecture of korean studies from the university of sydney. well from trillion dollar conflicts to a squandered economy many believe the u.s. is going through its darkest time yet the federal reserve's slow economic growth is to blame for ongoing record high joblessness but as artie's christine friends are reports the numbers may in fact be masking an even harsher reality. the numbers by any stretch are staggering we just got in the government's monthly jobs report and 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 steals 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 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 when asked a car it is really hard to take care of margaret she says some days she can't even afford to buy food i want to work i want to to go. what would cause you to be able to. take care of her physically. 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 it is 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. or not us take a look at some of the headlines from around the world this hour two suicide bombings closure have killed at least thirty eight people in southeastern iran the blasts which left fifty injured took place at a mosque in this city. on the border with pakistan officials say the bombings appear to target a group of pilgrims celebrating our shorter religious holiday celebrated by shia muslims security forces detained a third attacker who failed to detonate his device the area is home to

a sunni militant group and it's long been a place of ethnic conflict. facebook founder mark zuckerberg is time magazine's two thousand and ten person of the year that accolade is awarded to a figure in time believes most influence the year's events twenty six year old zuckerberg one of the world's youngest billionaires is described by the magazine as transforming the way we are going online and other contenders included thirty three chilean miners lady gaga and a wiki leaks founder julian assange. and time now for all the business news with daniel. wanting to business moscow's my six exchanges started rouble you won trading as russia and china moved to scrap the dollar in bilateral trade russian boss expects around three million yuan to change hands a day that's about four hundred fifty thousand dollars and my six president told

r.t. who will use the new system it's the cross border traders will going to mean. it's going to be exported product reduces the money in my opinion financially you would not be to be worth considering as far as i heard the plans to raise money and you are and it is going to be ineffective to. call for people to get between you and ruble so i think the demand will come great deal with. direct trade between the yuan and the ruble will help raise the prospects of both currencies to become international reserves but ivanchuk our from merrill lynch believe the dollar will remain dominant. from the point of russia and china i think this is an important step for them locally and probably did help elevate the status of the of the world but only from a regional perspective as you know very well the trading will be a number of a couple of hours during the day and while again i think it's important for this country see regionally i don't think that this will take away from from the shine of the u.s. currency at least over the medium term. on the stock markets now all the major you

pull things off pulling off the moody's warned it may cut spain's credit rating that lenders hard because the top loser on the. over three percent in law on the cross has also gone downhill in the last hour in amman a news that my six result investment banks credit suisse and morgan stanley to value the r.t.s. as it was the merger of moscow's two main bourses. energy stocks have lost ground in the last moments with swinging into the red it comes as u.s. fuel stockpiles grow sending light sweet on the eighty eight dollars a barrel. profit or major tightness of slumped over a third for the first nine months of the year came in at around one billion dollars company blames rising costs export duties and taxes as well as losses from currency exchange. countries operating the caspian oil pipeline from kazakhstan to russia's black sea doubling capacity russia and kazakhstan have signed

a deal to invest five point four billion dollars deliveries to sixty seven million tonnes of oil a year project shareholders including chevron show any say they hope to boost exports staying in the energy sector ross at some has bought australia new raney and produce a mantra for over a billion dollars russia's manufacture of nuclear reactors is expanding in countries like china india and turkey some control forty percent of the world market for you bring in the rich but that's the latest you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business join us next hour for the wall street opening rates.

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was her job as a retreat. it's now five thirty pm here in the russian capital you are with all it see the headlines now because of a as a prime minister is accused of being the boss of a mafia itself in the trafficking of human organs the same dropped a report from the council of europe blames the west but turning up. blind eye to alleged crime by the cons of the liberation. of. europe prepares for new protests against austerity measures with greece already engulfed by strikes and riots public servants say they're being used to pay for the mistakes of corrupt politicians. a

verdict for russia was the most famous prisoner mikhail khodorkovsky on the latest charges of oil has postponed by two weeks with no explanation. for you all with coming to you live from the russian capital and over one hundred fifty people taking part in mass protests following the murder of a football fan last week have been detained in central moscow most of those involved are reported to have come from the caucuses and some of them were armed that's cross live now to our sean thomas who is waiting for us at the scene so sean tell us where you are and exactly what is going on at that location. rory well right now we're at via bugs our which is basically a train station in central moscow and it's a very interesting intense situation or at least an atmosphere if you will nothing has happened in terms of a large scale violence so there haven't been.