riots if you will that have been organized through the web now more than a thousand people have been detained throughout the city some of them have been armed through different clashes earlier this evening at the mcdonald's which is about three hundred yards behind me on the other side of the european center there were evacuated there for a possible bomb threat and then smoke bombs were sent out and thrown at the police you can actually still smell that acrid smell the smoke bombs in the air at this moment in time now things have calmed down to right now there are no police they have dispersed to other areas of the city very tense in the throughout the evening here. there were reports of some minor clashes in different parts of the city center including metro now that's close to where you are is there any sign of trouble there now. for the moment bill no arms to just in front of park all tourist station earlier on though there was reportedly trouble there groups of fans gathered groups of protesters gathered there clashed

an ambulance was called to the scene it was nowhere near the size of the this there's a clashes that. but there was trouble there and it's thought those people were coming from the care of science site as police moved there they also were reported to have moved to other sites around moscow including smolensko metro station where police were waiting for them and tried to catch use leaving the station and were asking them questions to try and find out if they were going to try and cause trouble there was also reportedly a march up to two hundred people at net sky or another central moscow station and elsewhere in russia today also in the city of simyra on the volga about one hundred people were detained there and in russia's second capital st petersburg sixty people detained there so there has been. reverberations from these disturbances a careful. thanks for that update returns do you know the the running very well

organized to tell us what actually triggered the demonstration in the first place. well bill let me take you back a week in fact after a spark moscow match there was a brawl if you will just a simple brawl in that incident one person you go to was shot and killed allegedly by. now in that incident from the northern caucuses. well where you apologize for that for sure we've just lost our correspondent there sean thomas that's just finally returned back to tom and he's there. just just briefly the atmosphere at the moment doesn't look as if they could be any further violence where you are it seems at the moment bill that the atmosphere has calmed down very much i went and checked out the scene just shortly before the moment apart from the odd police car the situation is very calm police have moved into all

those areas and into kiev skier itself broken up those demonstrations to disarm people and the moment it seems that everything is calm. thanks very much indeed also. told us we can actually now return to just very briefly. we were cut off way through what you're saying just just finish off what you were telling us. no problem we could go there was this clash between this bar brawl if you will which incited ethnic tensions between a support tech moscow fans some people say that a russian nationalists and people from the northern caucasus throughout the week this has escalated beyond the football arena into riots and then there was an incident on saturday as well where there was violence at red square also an organization sent through the web saying people from the northern caucuses unite come armed if you will to this location tonight at six o'clock in the evening it was supposed to be a mass gathering police coming here to prevent that in fact president get of saying he's going to doing everything he can to try and prevent any type of violence

instigated at this site at this time a lot of police came here and basically stopped things before they happen spreading the violence to other parts of the city as well. thanks very much indeed for that update and also both there in central moscow political analyst dmitri babich from the state news agency says the riots will help the government realize the issue of racism has been neglected. i don't think anything really dramatic will happen today because beings know it happen when they're in advance because police prepares itself and russia is still strong enough as a state to prevent an attack which had been in. spontaneously everything may happen and i think the state now on the stance of the problem of racism in the country has been neglected for a long time i think noel i hope now the state officials will realise that they do

need to combat hate in the internet hate in the press we should stop some people from appearing on television and making inflammatory speech is there. unfortunately all these things have become part of the mass culture in the last few years and you can watch live coverage from the square you have the real way station the scene of recent ethnic unrest at our web site on t.v. dot com and other stories are also available there on the web site. other news now the prime minister of kosovo is accused of having been the boss of the matthew ring involved in the trafficking of drugs and human organs and a draft report from the council of europe has been touchy who just recently cemented power in the self-proclaimed independent nation is also accused of being

behind brutal assassinations the western community comes under fire two for allegedly turning a blind eye to the war crimes that has the details. kosovo is reeling from allegations that its prime minister missed the house and she is the head of a major feel like crime network connected to all aspects of organized 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 kamar kit 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 moss he says it doesn't touch easy links to organized crime date back to well over ten years from when his then it's a 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 since 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 there are confirmed the 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 the. nobody will be surprised except for the fact that now we also have a sort of connection. between 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 of. a officials. reporting on organ trafficking allegations from. the. still to come in the program. the final preparations to be made ahead of the latest expedition to the international space station we'll be having

a look at the personal stories behind because. they'll be blasting. the senate is taking out pretty four on the senate floor later within the next few hours i'll be back with more in just a moment. their story still to come but first the european trade union confederation is holding a day of action across the continent against sweeping new austerity measures a national strike has already paralyzed greece meanwhile a leading credit rating agency is what it may downgrade spanish bonds citing heavy debt refinancing and banking problems in athens based journalist and. who's in spain explain what's caused the. 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 where outside the parliament building. the protesters attacked former conservative minister course these cards evacuees they punched him they kicked him and they were shouting that they're going to be all of them up i assume they mean the politicians now there are reports in the news there are problems there's riots are you going on outside the polytechnic university in central africa so let's turn over to you know spain also braced for strikes now receive some financial news give us the details on that if you are staying with the largest economies in the european union has been hearing reports that moody's rating agency may downgrade the country's ratings of course for such a big economy this really has been set in jitters down the in the stock markets all

over the world how to address these as 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 this has really hurt the local people they've really protested against it 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 saturdays they are planning to stage it on saturday the eighteenth is expected to be massive 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 cut so. a lot of discontent certainly in a country that used to provide more than half of the jobs in europe it's now dealing with a twenty percent unemployment that's about five million people without jobs here is

a lot of discontent and we can expect a big protest on saturday the first of all this is not just a financial crisis 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. 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 of what the leaders are telling them what the officials are telling them it's either this or bankruptcy 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 are saying

that it's not their fault and why why is it the ordinary people who have to pay for the fault of what they see as a fault of the banking system of the whole eurozone area in 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. my colleague talking to silly and also helen scopus the u.s. senate is set to debate the ratification of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington the document known as starter faces obstacles from republican senators who are threatening to delay its approval or he's going to church can joins me now live in garner best case scenario how quickly could the senate ratify start after the debates start today. well bill we've heard the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry as you said say the plan they plan on taking out the start for debate

within the next few hours we have the head of the senate majority harry reid saying they will get the star done in this congressional session even if it means working until christmas or maybe even beyond the holidays that acquits are really racing against the clock here to pass through a number of priorities there are other domestic issues on the agenda of the senate and some republicans are bringing up this lack of time argument to put off the ratification i even heard one senators say they would take up the start for debating this session but would put off the vote until next year but one can barely understand why this uncertainty considering this tremendous support that the new start has received over the last eight months of meticulous series the country's military top officials former president the president they all said it's a win win treaty and yet it could be bogged down and not in its substance but in politics of the day behind the scenes bargaining on capitol hill which has nothing

to do with the content of the treaty and as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry asks in his statement we will begin a fair robust he says he says we will begin a fair robust debate or will say will some will we be good i'm sorry a fair robust debate or will some ops to employ procedural tactics that have no substantive basis in an effort to stall the rail and delayed the ratification and he also says this isn't a question of time this is a question of priorities a question of will power not capacity this treaty is a national security imperative and now is the time to act well let's talk about the gun and let's talk about the political issue here which you were talking about a little earlier the republican senate is they are the ones who are threatening to delay the approval of the start treaty to tell us what is the main issue then the republicans have with this treaty. well you know bill some republicans

favorite argument against ratifying the start in this congressional session is is this you know the the old treaty expired almost a year ago and nothing terrible happened we're not in cold war anymore so the treaty can wait that's basically what they're saying president obama and a whole lot of other people have been really going out of their way to explain the significance of the treaty the new start is not just about reducing nuclear arsenals of both countries by a third and sort of showing an example of nonproliferation to the world which in itself is a very is very important but it's also seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers and obama made it clear there further cooperation plans with russia could really go south without these key trading places stressed how important russia's assistance is in of ghana's then have crucial russia's cooperation was on the rand another aspect of the u.s. russian reset the president has been calling for republican senators to step away for a man moment from this overwhelming desire to undermine his presidency and do what

he and a host of other top national security experts believe is right for their country and with the new senate in office in january the desire to undermine obama is going to get even bigger there are going to be more republicans in congress so their recruits are really trying very hard to push it through this session and it is hard surprisingly hard for a deal like the start treaty which which seems to be a win win for everyone bill got a lawyer from washington thanks very much indeed that's our correspondent going to check. the three persons bridge crew is making final preparations for a five month voyage into will be which bloss off in less than an hour from now the soyuz rocket is set to make its way to the international space station with this new group of explorers a russian an american and italian and all of these peter all of them met them ahead of the mission to discover more of the personal side including one love 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

astronaut power on this poorly and watches the soyuz rockets for their husbands safety depends on absolutely sure that things will be fine and that i am. really glad to see that we will take them to international space station 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 instructor i met my wife in star city actually during training some some years ago and we figured out that nevertheless our 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 that went in your life today we have a daughter a year and a half old daughter and we are very happy paolo 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 and just because he's working in space doesn't mean every day life back home on earth comes to a halt i ask him how it's going to be when you're up in space instant and sam couldn't make phone calls and now pay my credit card so it's going to be just just as if he's here standing at one meter ninety two witness bawly 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 will be this russian's 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 . 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 could be done in a confined space and no 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. needs to go to school and learn to write he doesn't know how to write so what we're doing is. 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 before we get the latest businesses that have a quick look at some other headlines from around the world two suicide bomb explosions are killed at least thirty eight people in southeastern iran the blast which left fifty injured took place at a mosque in the city on the border with pakistan officials say the bombings appeared to target a group of pilgrims commemorating a sure it's a religious holiday celebrated by shia muslims security forces detained a third attacker who failed to detonate his device the area is home to an armed 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 the accolade is awarded to the figure time believes most influence the year's events twenty six year olds are one of the world's youngest billionaires is described by the magazine as transforming

the way we live our lives are the contenders include the thirty three chilean miners maybe we could expand a song. that's recycling of chickens is causing shock throughout russia as a video of a poultry farm in russia's kind of screeching has appeared on the internet over one million birds of already being killed well over three million await the same thing the management of the meat supply has blamed the treatment on financial problems arguing there were no funds to feed the animals for food it revealed the chicks were simply thrown out into the cold to die while others were drowned in barrels. who brings up to date for the moment here on our t. i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in a couple minutes from now next we have the business news with daniel. welcome to business moscow's my six exchange started ruble you won trading as

russia and china moved to screw up the dollar in bilateral trade the russian boss expects around three million yuan to change hands a day that's about four hundred fifty thousand dollars the most six president told r.t. who will use the new system to cross border trade is going to mean. it's going to be exporters and. reduces them in my opinion financially you would know that we could be worth considering as far as raise money in you i mean this could be an effective tool. for people to get between you and ruble so i think the demand will come greater with direct trade between the yuan and ruble will help raise the prospects of both currencies to become international reserves but ivanchuk or 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. of the checked stock markets off the topsy turvy day for stock markets the my six had a late spurt to close in the. investment banks credit suisse and morgan stanley to value the r.t.s. ahead of a potential merger of moscow's two main bourses. energy stocks most of the ground from almost a percent a rise in u.s. fuel stockpiles pushed light sweet on the eighty eight dollars a barrel. the news was a signal just as it could buy a controlling stake in bank of moscow which is the country's fifth largest in the first half of next year the deal will become. thirteenth purchase in the last years . of russian dogs through production rose six point seven percent in november

beating for costs but the economy ministry has cut its for your expectations for g.d.p. growth from four to three point eight percent that's despite saying it now thinks the average price will be higher than previously thought at seventy seven dollars fifty cents. that's the latest you can find more stories on our web site that's already dot com slash business.

they live not only next to the border of the gaza strip and egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day the children and guerrillas are coming back to desiccation by instruct you know that

and their strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up. killed in action. you need to produce actually encourage paramilitary collaboration. so. they knew about these activities they knew they were happening. to paramilitary groups and yet. usaid continued to.

top stories this hour. as police attempt to prevent the protest leak to the. reports of the. prime minister's accuse of having been the boss of a mafia ring which dealt in the trafficking of. report from the council of europe the west for turning a blind eye to alleged crimes by the liberation. of europe prepares for new protests against. its. being used to pay for the mistakes of corrupt politicians. with in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we're talking about russia success in winning the right to host the well football cup and

twenty eighteen and what. our interview with the chief executive behind russia. is coming up next. let me say thank you very much for your time congratulations also on winning the right to host the two thousand and eighteen world cup just tell me what do you think was the key facts in helping russia to get over the finishing line and win the right to host the world cup well honestly there were there was many. pled to factors i think among the key ones are the government support that we had all the way including the support of the chairman of our government but the reputed technical excellence that were promised a fee for by two thousand and seventeen trust the international sports community has for country it for its leadership. we would.